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A Tale of Two Cities: Singapore and Melbourne

Does Singapore have a 'compassion deficit'? End of the road for Melbourne's laneways?

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France and Sri Lanka

The National Front move into the mainstream; playing rugby in Sri Lanka

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Weekend Edition: Satisfaction!

Thoughts from around the world on what people want and whether it really makes them happy

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El Salvador and Tunisia

El Salvador's lone forensic scientist and Tunisia's creative explosion

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Venezuela and the UAE

On the barricades of San Cristobal; changing face of Bedouin life

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Ukraine: past and present

A job offer from the President of Crimea; Ukrainian independence, in 1991 and today.

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Business and elections in Afghanistan, and Goa’s trashmobs

Business in Afghanistan and Goa’s trashmobs – dispatches from ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondents

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Cyprus and Lebanon

Returning to post-bailout Cyprus and a temporary escape from Damascus

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Touring Central Asia

From Afghanistan to Kazakhstan, we hear the latest stories and insights from the 'stans'

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Trans-Dniester, and San Francisco’s Most Famous Bookshop

A story from Trans-Dniester, and a visit to the famous independent bookshop City Lights

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A special live edition from W1: Freedom's Paths

Gabriel Gatehouse, Jeremy Bowen, Audrey Brown and Shaimaa Khalil on freedom's path

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Ukraine and Bangladesh

Fighting corruption in Kiev; army and local tribes at odds in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

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A hero in Rwanda; a nuclear dilemma in France

How one man saved hundreds from the 1994 genocide; why atomic waste's buried in Champagne

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Afghanistan and Romania

Tension spikes in Kabul before the election; two men's private revolt against Ceausescu

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What’s Left Behind?

Stories about the people, places and things left behind, from ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondents.

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Mexico's Migrants and Uruguay's 'First Couple'

The town that depends on people crossing into the US; growing up gay in a dictatorship

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The Voynich Manuscript

The mystery of the never-deciphered Voynich Manuscript - who could have written it?

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Central African Republic and Qatar

The Central African Republic's farmers v cowboys conflict, and Qatar's first bus service.

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India Special

India: the contrast between rich and poor in Gujarat, and between old and new in Assam

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Weekend Edition: Misfits

Global stories of those who stand out from the crowd - for good reasons and bad

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India and Morocco

Why Kolkata wants to be more like London, and the dying art of storytelling in Marrakech.

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Migrants in Melilla, misgivings in Malaysia

Meeting people who jump the fence into the EU; the MH370 affair and Malay-China relations

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Gaza's New Challenges and Hungary's Prime Minister

Hamas is now at odds with Egypt's government; and what does Viktor Orban want?

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Germany, Russia, Syria and the USA

Why many Germans are so ambivalent about Russia, and how Syrian refugees adjust to NYC

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Brazil and Canada

Fashion meets indigenous arts in the Amazon rainforest; separatism wanes in Quebec

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A Joyful Noise

Car horns, national anthems and calypso - a cacophony of stories from ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondents

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South Africa: end of the mine?

Are we in the last days of South Africa's mining industry?

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Reporting on India and China

The riddles of modern China, and invented traditions in India

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Ukraine and France

Encounters with hardline "pro-Russians" in Slaviansk and the con artists of Montmartre

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Syria and Siberia

Rebel fighters grow weary around Latakia; classical concert-goers thrill in Berdsk

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