Reading The Sky: 21st Century Astrology
A Sri Lankan astrologer was recently arrested for wrongly predicting the death of his president during January. In many cultures, the advice of an astrologer is a crucial part of everyday life, and of...
17 Feb 201740min
Iran's Kurdish Smugglers
Jiyar Gol recently met the Iranian Kurdish strongmen who haul dozens of tyres on their backs over the border from Iraqi Kurdistan. It's a story that went out on BBC Persian, and had a big impact in I...
10 Feb 201740min
Translating President Trump
The new president of the United States has set a challenge to interpreters and translators. His off the cuff, informal style sometimes makes it hard to convey his exact meaning in other languages - ev...
3 Feb 201740min
Tips on Surviving Chinese New Year
How to survive Chinese New Year It's Chinese New Year, with millions on the move to be with their families. But some young Chinese say they're fed up with what awaits them when they finally get home...
27 Jan 201739min
Hanging On To The Keys
As the Obamas leave the White House to make way for the Trumps, we hear about some less smooth handovers of official residences. Venezuelan Patricia Sulbaran of BBC Mundo, Sammy Darko in Ghana and BB...
20 Jan 201739min
Farewell to Rafsanjani
This week's funeral of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani drew an estimated 2.5 million mourners. Rana Rahimpour of BBC Persian shares her memories of Rafsanjani, and explains why one o...
13 Jan 201740min
Tracking Turkey's Mysterious Murders
Russian assassins strike in Turkey; shaping perfect eyebrows in Afghanistan; life along militarised walls; handball in the Arab World, family feud thrilling Indian politics.Photo Credit: OZAN KOSE-AF...
6 Jan 201740min
Watching the World
Wars, revolutions, chubby squirrels and jihadi hairstyles. All in a day's work for the multilingual journalists of BBC Monitoring, with David Amanor.Image: TV news monitors with stories from around t...
30 Des 201640min
