As the war in eastern Ukraine continues, in the frontline town of Marinka, a new bakery has opened which brings some comfort and sustenance to war weary locals.
Lele Tao is an internet superstar in China's $3 billion 'live streaming' industry. With more than a million fans, she can earn thousands of dollars a day.
Hundreds of industrial towns across Russia face extinction. Once the pride of the Soviet Union, many have now been abandoned and millions have lost jobs and homes after the collapse of their local industry. The government now has a plan to save at least some of Russia's dying towns.
More than 2,000 children were taken to France from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion between the 1960s and early 1980s, as part of a French government plan to repopulate rural areas. Promising a better life and an education.
Gangs are still a fact of life in Compton but homicide and gun violence have fallen significantly because of fewer turf wars over drugs, better policing and a proactive Mayor. Though, years of extreme gang violence have taken their toll.
Ksenia Sobchak is challenging Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency. But some say she's a fake candidate, running a no-hope race to boost the Kremlin's democratic credentials.
Collaborating with Israel can mean prison or death in Gaza. So why do it? Murad Batal Shishani travels to Israel, and Gaza, to unravel a complex web of desperation and exploitation.
Basra, is in the grip of a crystal meth epidemic. Yalda Hakim has gained access to Basra's police SWAT team, and the prison where dealers and addicts are all kept in the same cell. Reporting on the tough approach to drug related crime.
Mexico's murder rate reached a record high in 2017, with close to 30,000 dying in drug related violence. The coastal city of Acapulco is particularly dangerous, in the grip of vicious turf wars between gangs over control of the drug trade.
Our World's award-wining film, Women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries old practice called 'Trokosi', where girls are forced to 'pay' for sins of family members.
Every week hundreds of Syrians, given asylum in Germany, are returning home. They risk arrest as they're smuggled from the EU into Turkey, en-route to Syria.
The independence vote in the north-eastern region of Catalonia shook Spain's democracy to the core. BBC correspondent Niall O'Gallagher, who reported on the referendum, has gone back to ask what happens next.
Tens of thousands of children in Pakistan are legally employed as domestic servants. They cook and clean for their employers - and are vulnerable to exploitation and physical abuse.
When a fire at a children's home in Guatemala killed dozens of teenage girls, it exposed a terrifying culture of abuse. Linda Pressly investigates how the tragedy, has revealed a child protection crisis of epic proportions.
The BBC has uncovered an 'arsenal' of media weapons being used in the war of words in the Gulf. Will people in the region ever know the truth in an age of fake news.
Tsymbaliuk, a former Orthodox priest, is the unlikely starting point for the extraordinary tale of how the Ukrainian security service says it faked a murder in order to stop a murder.
A highly respected Norwegian child psychiatrist was convicted of downloading thousands of images of child porn. Tim Whewell goes to Norway to discover why child protection in one of the world's wealthiest countries appears to be in crisis.
Gabriel Gatehouse visited Sweden on the eve of 2018's election, in which an anti-immigrant party, with its roots in the neo-Nazi movement, threatened to upset politics-as-usual.
Two years ago, Colombia's FARC guerrilla group laid down their weapons. Frank Gardner has travelled across the country to assess how the peace is holding.
Outside the Philippines, President Duterte is best known for his violent 'war on drugs', but critics say he is attacking the very institutions designed to keep his power in check.
Already in 2018, across the US, at least 136 people with a disability are known to have been killed by police officers, according to a database maintained by the Washington Post and analysis of local media reports.
In the US, suicide rates have increased by nearly a third, and there's one group causing this spike - middle aged white men. India Rakusen reports for Our World.
For decades Australians and New Zealanders have had the right to live and work in each other's country - but those rights have now been curtailed by Australia. .
In Ukraine, a new independent Orthodox church is set to reject 350 years of spiritual domination by Russia. Four years into a war against Russian-backed rebels many Ukrainians want to sever ties with their closest neighbour.
In the wake of the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Our World can reveal allegations that close associates of the Prince have been involved in torture and murder in the past.
In 2015 there was widespread unrest in the African country of Burundi when the country's president ran for a third term. A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence of government-sponsored torture and killings designed to silence dissent.