Celebrations for Mardi Gras in New Orleans became a breeding ground for a killer virus as large crowds gathered for this annual tradition. Music would abruptly end and thousands in the state of Louisiana would lose their lives.
From civil war to the pandemic, 2020 was a deadly year for the Syrian province of Idlib. Doctors, Mohammed al-Sharif and Zeina H. were on the front-line of the humanitarian crisis.
Kenya has a real version of the spy James Bond, and her name is Jane. Detective Jane Mugo is the country's most famous and controversial private investigator. She says she's solved hundreds of crimes, but some say she writes her own rules.
Human rights activist Azimjan Askarov was imprisoned in Kyrgyzstan in 2010 for a crime he says he did not commit. His wife Khadicha has campaigned tirelessly for his release.
Over the last few years, Moroccan migrants who are trying to reach the EU have become YouTube celebrities by blogging about the journey online. Our World travels to meet them.
The Amazon is the largest tropical rain forest and one of the most bio-diverse places on earth. But now chunks of it are being sold off online - on social media. Joao Fellet reports.
BBC Europe Editor Katya Adler explores what went wrong at the Austrian resort of Ischgl at the start of the global pandemic and asks what lessons can be learned.
James Clayton meets the investors who made a fortune trading from their bedrooms, the tech supremos who were watching on astonished and the hedge fund giants nursing their losses.
Late last year, a conflict that had lain almost dormant for more than 25 years flared up again. Jonah Fisher gains rare access inside the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh.
In Bosnia Herzegovina the healthcare system only allows giving birth in hospitals. Our World follows Dr Amira Cerimagic as she prepares to deliver her baby at home in secret.
More than 700 people have been killed by the Myanmar military since they seized power at the beginning of February. Our World follows a brother and sister now fighting for their future
BBC goes undercover to expose an ineffective and corrupt pension system in Nigeria, which leaves some elderly people sick and penniless, yet grants some politicians outrageous retirement packages.
Afghanistan is in the grip of a new and sinister campaign of violence, in which young professionals - often women - are being deliberately singled out, targeted and murdered.
Six years ago, Amsha escaped from captivity in northern Iraq. Like many Yazidi women, she had been held by IS militants. Today, she is risking her life to clear her homeland of unexploded mines.
In 2019-20, Australia suffered its most intense bushfire season on record. Eighteen months on, Nick Lazaredes travels to some of the areas hardest hit.
How did one London street make it through the last year? Filmed from the start of the first lockdown, this intimate portrait shows how the residents coped with the pandemic.
Kidnappers have seized more than a thousand students and staff from schools in a series of raids across northern Nigeria. The wave of abductions has had devastating consequences.
James Clayton travels to Kansas to discover how cutting edge science has identified a woman who was killed 30 years ago and is helping law enforcement in their hunt for the killer.
Nine-year-old Rodwell Nkomazana was attacked by a hyena earlier this year while sleeping outside his church in Zimbabwe. He suffered life-threatening injuries.
The police who have the task of controlling migration across the English Channel and the migrants who are determined to outsmart them chat to Lucy Williamson.
Not for the first time in its history, Lebanon finds itself facing a crisis, with a collapsing currency, severe shortages of basic goods and a fragmented political system.
A company believes it can help tackle America's growing gun crime problem by alerting police the moment shots are fired. Its technology, however, has become increasingly controversial.
When New York City was hit by hurricane Ida, 13 people died - the majority trapped in basement homes. As climate change makes extreme weather events more likely, how will New York City cope?
In May this year, the unmarked graves of 215 children were found in the grounds of an old Indian residential school in Canada. It is thought more than 100,000 indigenous children suffered abuse in the government and church run schools.
Barbados becomes the world's newest republic as it removes the Queen as the country's head of state. British-Barbadian Daniel Henry visits the island to investigate the differing reactions to this change.
