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Forty years ago the Afghan Communist party overthrew President Mohammad Daoud. Abdullah Shadan from 大象传媒 Afghan Service was a journalist at the state broadcaster at the time, and watched events unfold.

Indian Street Cricket
This month 大象传媒 Tamil staged a tournament to celebrate the street cricketers of Tamil Nadu. Finalists came together to fight it out in Chennai, umpired by cricket fan Vivek Anand of 大象传媒 Tamil with commentary by Parag Phatak of 大象传媒 Marathi.

Small head, big outcry: Belgrade's statue problem
A bronze bust of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin caused outrage and ridicule in Belgrade. The tiny head on a huge plinth was invisible from street level, and swiftly disappeared, as Jelena Maksimovic of 大象传媒 Serbian explains.

Bolivar handbags
大象传媒 Mundo's Boris Miranda returned from Colombia's border with Venezuela with an interesting souvenir: a handbag made from Venezuelan bolivares. It seems it's more profitable to make handicrafts from bolivares than to spend them.

Benin's mangrove voodoo
Conservationists have called on a voodoo deity to help protect mangrove forests in Benin, where voodoo is an official state religion. 大象传媒 Afrique's Franck Noudofinin explains why the protection of the nightwatchman deity Zangbeto is so effective.

Moscow's controversial landfill sites
大象传媒 Russian's Nataliya Zotova has been reporting from a huge landfill site at Volokolamsk near Moscow, which local people say is making them ill. She describes the physical effects of being near the tip, and encounters a football playing turkey on its perimeter.

Image: Afghan communist supporters in Kabul 1979
Credit: S.SOBOLEV/AFP/Getty Images