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The first funerals of the victims of human trafficking were conducted in Vietnam this week. 39 people died in the back of a lorry trailer discovered in Grays, Essex. The victims were initially thought to be Chinese, but BBC Vietnamese journalists Giang Nguyen and Khue Luu Binh were among the team who confirmed they were Vietnamese and pieced together their stories. Image: Candles for the Vietnames...

The Nicoya peninsula is a “blue zone”, where people live much longer than average. The BBC's Rafael Rojas joined an inspiring group of people aged 100 plus to find out the secrets of their longevity. Image: Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica. Credit: Gerhard/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Block Six of Afghanistan’s Pul-e-Charkhi prison is where the Taliban prisoners are held. BBC Afghan’s Zuhal Ahad was part of the team given rare access to their cells to see how they live, and discover what views they now hold.

The Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan is one of Sikhism's holiest sites, but since Partition between India and Pakistan in 1947, Indian Sikhs have been unable to visit. This weekend an historic arrangement will allow Indian Sikh pilgrims to visit the Shrine visa-free. Umer Draz Nangiana of BBC Urdu has been covering the story.

BBC News Arabic’s undercover investigation, Silicon Valley’s Online Slave Market, exposes the mainstream app users in Kuwait breaking local and international laws on modern slavery by trading domestic staff, including a 16-year-old girl from Guinea in West Africa. Picture: Domestic workers for sale on an online app. Credit: BBC

The governments of Chile and Lebanon are this week reeling under the impact of massive protests. Both were triggered by apparently small events, but tapped into long-standing public grievances. Fernanda Paul of BBC Mundo and Carine Torbey of BBC Arabic compare events in their countries. Picture: Demonstrators in Santiago, Chile Credit: Claudio Santana/Getty Images

Healthcare can be hard to come by for Kenya's Maasai, Samburu and Turkana nomadic peoples. So camels have been enlisted to bring a mobile clinic to them. BBC Africa’s Christine Njeri joined them. Picture: Christine Njeri with resting camels. Credit: BBC

BBC Arabic’s Nawal Al-Maghafi takes us undercover at two of Iraq’s holiest sites to reveal how some clerics are sexually exploiting children and young women. They’re using a controversial religious practice called 'pleasure marriage', illegal under Iraqi law, to supply women for sex. Photo: BBC Arabic's Nawal Al-Maghafi in Baghdad Credit: BBC

As India marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, the BBC’s Gaggan Saberwhal takes us to the places where he lived and stayed on two visits to London, first as a law student and later as a political leader. Picture: Mahatma Gandhi outside 10 Downing Street in 1931 Credit: Getty Images Archival

David Amanor visits BBC Russian in Moscow, where a team of journalists investigate, report, and entertain Russian-speaking audiences. Their stories take us from Siberia to the Caucasus, and from protests to 1990s poetry. David also gets a personal tour of Moscow and the places that mean most to Muscovites. Picture: David Amanor and Oleg Boldyrev in Red Square Credit: BBC

During Belgian colonial rule in what is today Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 20,000 mixed race children were removed from their families. Prudent Nsengiyumva of BBC Great Lakes went to Belgium to meet Luc Van Damme and Josline Droogmans, both separated from their mothers as children. Image: Luc Van Damme (R) shows Prudent Nsengiyumva (L) childhood photos Credit: BBC

BBC Arabic's investigations unit has pieced together the story of a so-called "double tap" airstrike on a market in Syria's Idlib province in which 39 people were killed. Nader Ibrahim explains how they put the story together, when it's too dangerous to go there, and Russian air force authorities deny it ever happened. Picture: Emergency workers in rubble of bombed Maarat al-Nurman market, Idlib P...

Last week, protesters in Hong Kong organised screenings of a Netflix documentary about Ukraine's Maidan Square protests called ‘Winter on Fire’. Jeff Li and Fan Wang of BBC Chinese met some protesters moved to see their own situation mirrored in past events in Ukraine. And for Diana Kuryshko of BBC Ukrainian, events in Hong Kong brought back memories of 2014. Image: Masked Hong Kong protester agai...

Ugandan rap star turned politician, Bobi Wine, recently announced that he was officially going to run for the presidency. He is a source of controversy and admiration, and Catherine Byaruhanga of BBC Africa has been to meet him. Image: Bobi Wine Credit: ISAAC KASAMANI/AFP/Getty Images

It's been a year since mediation began to end violent clashes in the Somali region of Ethiopia that pitted Oromo people against ethnic Somalis. Bashkas Jugsoda’ay of BBC Somali and Habtamu Tibebu of BBC Afaan Oromo have been to the regional capital Jijiga to speak to people affected by the fighting and witness a peace meeting between the two communities.

El Morro was conceived as the Venice of Venezuela, a place of canals and luxury yachts on the Caribbean Sea. But even here the economic and political crisis is evident, as BBC Mundo’s Guillermo Olmo discovered. Picture: Luxury yacht in El Morro, Venezuela Credit: G. D. OLMO/BBC

The BBC Africa film “Murder Town” explores South Africa's Cape Town, both a popular tourist destination, and one of the most divided and violent cities in the world. Journalist Vauldi Carelse went to the site of one brutal mass killing in the Blikkiesdorp neighbourhood to tell the stories of the people living and dying there. Picture: a mother overlooking Cape Town. Credit: BBC

It's a year since the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo began. More than 1,800 people have died, with the latest cases in Goma, a large city and important transport hub. It's an area BBC Africa's Gaius Kowene knows well. Image: Congolese health worker administers Ebola vaccine Credit: REUTERS/Olivia Acland

A report this month looked at the impact of working in a warmer planet. India got a particular mention, and Indian languages journalist Anant Prakash decided to see what this meant on the ground. He went to Uttar Pradesh to meet the brick makers enduring temperatures of up to 124°C. Image: Indian brick kiln worker Credit: BBC

When BBC Mundo's Jaime Gonzalez began to suspect that his merchant ancestors traded not only in goods but also in slaves, he set off on an investigation that took him to Spain and Chile. He made a documentary about what he found. Image: BBC Mundo's Jaime Gonzalez against montage of historic slavery images Credit: BBC

A small bust of Tutankhamun has been sold in London this week for £4.7 million. The sale was challenged by the Egyptian government, which claims the sculpture was removed illegally from the country. Reda El Mawy of BBC Arabic has been gripped by the story. (Picture: Tutankhamum bust auctioned at Christie's, London. Credit: AFP PHOTO/CHRISTIE'S AUCTION HOUSE)

In Pakistan, attempts to eradicate polio stalled when the vaccination programme became tangled in international politics, religious decrees and social media scare stories. Vaccination workers have been attacked and even killed. BBC Urdu’s Shumaila Jaffery met vaccination workers, parents, and clerics for a BBC World Service series, "Vaccines: A Crisis of Trust". (Image: Doctor vaccinates child aga...

Join David Amanor in the BBC’s Nairobi bureau, home to six different language services. Find out what people's names can tell us: David Wafula’s surname tells us he was born in the rainy season, Bashkas Jugsodaay’s name contains a World War II story, and Cyuzozo Samba is called ‘last born’, although he has two younger siblings! Plus stories close to our colleagues' hearts: twins, wigs and camels w...

It’s 10 years since Sri Lanka’s civil war ended. The war pitted the country's two main ethnic groups, Tamils and Sinhalese, against each other, and divisions remain. But BBC Sinhala journalist Suneth Perera marked the anniversary with an unusual love story between former enemies: Gauri Malar, a former Tamil Tiger child soldier, and Roshan Jayathilake, a Sinhalese Civil Defence Force recruit. Image...

In 2014, so-called Islamic State attacked the Yazidi religious group in northern Iraq, killing hundreds of men and capturing around 6,000 women and children. The women were used as sex slaves and although many are now free it’s emerged that the price of returning home is giving up the children fathered by their IS captors. BBC Persian journalist Nafiseh Kohnivard spent a year investigating the sto...