Featuring news on issues around the world. Yalda Hakim visits Romania, which has one of the largest Roma populations in the EU, to find out why they are one ... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. Even in 21st-century India, life for single women can be tough. Rupa Jha speaks to single women across the country... read more
Djibouti is the only country in Africa with a US military base. From here, war on terror is being waged against Al Shabab in Somalia and Al Qaeda in Yemen. F... read more
The BBC's international development correspondent, Mark Doyle, returns to Rwanda to piece together the remarkable story of an unsung hero, Captain Mbaye Diagne. read more
Two religious leaders, from opposing sides in war-torn Central African Republic, are risking their lives by travelling the country together to try to stop th... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has just turned 90 and is showing no sign of stepping aside. Our World jo... read more
Steve Hewlett has gained exclusive access to the People's Liberation Army's officer training programme, as China's vast military machine re-invents itself.
Two years ago the body of a young man was found in a West London Street. He had no identity papers and no-one had reported him missing. Police were unable to... read more
Olly Lambert meets some of the residents of an abandoned skyscraper in the heart of the capital of Venezuela, who have created a secure environment away from... read more
The Awa are believed to be one of the most endangered tribes on the planet. Loggers and farmers have invaded their land in the Amazon, and their traditional ... read more
Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province is home to many of the country's minority Shia population.
Many there have long complained of marginalisation at the hands o... read more
Emissions of carbon dioxide are not just warming the world; they are also turning the oceans more acidic. The United States' Secretary of State, John Kerry, ... read more
As a new law ensuring legal recognition for second, third or even fourth wives, in polygamous marriages, comes into force in Kenya, Yalda Hakim travels to a ... read more
Navin Singh Khadka travels to remote villages around the Mount Everest to talk to families and community leaders trying to resolve the growing tensions withi... read more
The number of people killed by Nigeria's Boko Haram militants rises on an almost daily basis. Thousands have died in a conflict almost unseen by the outside ... read more
The British Government has told its citizens not to go to Syria. The country has been in a state of civil war for more than three years, more than 150 thousa... read more
ISIS,'the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant', stunned the world last month by capturing Mosul, Iraq's second city.
For Our World, Yalda Hakim has returne... read more
Will Grant meets one woman and her dedicated team in Arizona, who attempt to identify the bodies of migrants found in the desert, and return them to their fa... read more
Vladimir Putin may have angered the international community by snatching Crimea from Ukraine, but opinion polls show that nearly 80 per cent of Russians appr... read more
Fierce fighting in northern Iraq continues daily between the Islamic State, IS rebel army, Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and the Iraqi national army. For... read more
Bolivia's Cerro Rico mountain was once said to contain enough silver to build a bridge between South America and Spain. Catharina Moh reports on its collapsi... read more
"Assembled in China" but designed in California, Japan or Europe: that's been the story of China for the past 30 years. But now China is pouring billions int... read more
Tim Whewell is one of the only western journalists to recently gain access to Tobruk, a once sleepy town now caught between terror and denial. He meets polit... read more
Tanya Beckett travels across Eastern Europe to meet some of the architects of the revolutions and people whose lives were changed forever by the events of 19... read more
Is the Middle East's newest country a territory called Rojava? Out of the chaos of Syria's civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged a radical, egalitar... read more
Chris Rogers reveals the hidden shame of Guatemala's hospital for the mentally ill where it is alleged that patients suffer regular abuse at the hands of tho... read more
Our World's Yalda Hakim has been granted rare access to Pakistan's largest women's jail. The women she meets there give an insight into the place of women in... read more