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Mount Everest in Nepal draws hundreds of climbers every year keen to scale the world's highest peak. But the effort comes at a high price, both in lives lost, and the cost to the environment. BBC Nepali’s Surendra Phuyal reports on the campaign to clean up the rubbish left behind by the climbers on Nepal's holy mountain. Image: queuing to reach the peak of Everest Credit: AFP PHOTO/PROJECT POSSIBL...

Indonesia's Leuser rainforest in Sumatra is a unique ecosystem where elephants, orangutan, tigers and rhinos still live together. But this biodiverse forest is now threatened by development, as BBC Indonesia's Mehulika Sitepu found out. Photo: Sumatran orangutan Copyright: BBC

Aa'rar Kissa, or Our Story, is a radio drama made specifically for the Rohingya refugees now living in Bangladesh, having fled their homes in Myanmar. The radio drama was created by the BBC Media Action's local director, Riad Arfin. Image: Rohingya Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh Credit: NurPhoto/Contributor/Getty Images

BBC Africa’s Mohanad Hashim shares his impressions of a Sudan without President Omar al-Bashir, and the historic protests which toppled him from power. Image: Sudanese protesters gather to break their fast during Ramadan, outside the army headquarters in Khartoum Credit: Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images

Namak Knoshnaw spent a year making the BBC Arabic documentary Iraq: A State of Mind. It follows the stories of three people dealing with the psychological impact of half a century of war, invasion, sectarian violence and occupation by the so-called Islamic State. Namak grew up in Iraq, and it is a story close to his heart. (Photo: Karim Wasfi playing his cello in Baghdad. Credit: Sabah Arar/AFP/Ge...

Ayeshea Perera is based in the BBC's Delhi office, but flew home to Sri Lanka immediately after Easter Sunday's bomb attacks. She shares her experiences of reporting from Colombo and Negombo, and her memories of civil war the bombings have triggered. Image: St Anthony's Church, Colombo Credit: EPA

New fashions and passions are reported daily on the language services, so we’ve brought together some of our favourites: freediving in Colombia, Sufi fusion music in Pakistan, dreadlocks in Nigeria, and a new kind of tourism in South Korea. With Beatriz de la Pava of BBC Mundo, Julie Yoonnyung Lee of BBC Korean, Princess Abumere from BBC Lagos, and Farah Karim from BBC Africa, whose Global Beats p...

Large scale protests in Algeria forced President Bouteflika to stand down last week. BBC Arabic's Marwa Nasser visited Algiers to meet the protesters demanding change, bringing back memories of her own country's 2011 protests in Tahrir Square. Image: People carry a national flag during a protest to push for the removal of the current political structure, in Algiers Credit: REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina

Thousands of women and children associated with foreign IS fighters are now in limbo following the defeat of the ‘caliphate’. Tse Yin Lee and Matilda Welin are part of a BBC Monitoring team who have been researching why these women joined IS and what happens to them now. Image: wives and members of IS under the supervision of a female fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces Credit: BULENT KILIC/...

Auliya Atrafi of BBC Afghan has been reporting from the northern city of Hull, which was his home for 12 years after he arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2000. The city voted overwhelmingly to leave the European Union in the 2016 referendum, and Auliya wanted to assess the impact of the vote. Image: Auliya Atrafi in Hull Credit: BBC

BBC Somali journalist Qalib Barud reports on Somalia for a living. His family left in the early 1990s when civil war erupted, and he'd never visited Mogadishu, so when the opportunity came to spend three months reporting in the capital, he jumped at the chance. Image: Somali children playing on the beach in Mogadishu. Credit: MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB/AFP/Getty Images

BBC Urdu’s Humaira Kanwal has reported on the Kohistan video case for many years, and was helped by the man pursuing justice, Afzal Kohistani. In 2012 a video emerged showing five young women from Kohistan singing and clapping with two young men, behaviour forbidden is this region. The men were Afzal's brothers and although they escaped, three other brothers were killed in the name of honour. Afza...

Not everyone has a saint in the family, but very soon BBC Arabic’s Eli Melki might. His ancestor Leonard Melki grew up in Lebanon and became a Capuchin monk. But the First World War fanned fears of Christians collaborating with Turkey’s enemies, and in 1915 many thousands were killed, including Leonard. Eli retraced his final journey. Image: Leonard Melki Credit: leonardmelki.org

The so-called Rojava revolution brought radical social change in the Kurdish regions of northern Syria: equality and representation regardless of religion, ethnicity or gender. It was their armies which battled so-called Islamic State. But with IS largely defeated, US forces poised to pull out of Syria, and Turkey opposed to this political entity, Roj Ranjbar of BBC Monitoring and Jiyar Gol of BBC...

The British film The Favourite bagged ten nominations for this year's Oscars. David Amanor asked Ahmed Zaki of BBC Arabic, Yana Litvinova of BBC Russian and Ibrat Safo of BBC Uzbek what interest a costume drama about an 18th century queen holds for their audiences. Image: Olivia Colman Credit: Searchlight Pictures

Aamir Peerzada is a journalist for BBC Indian languages. He grew up in Indian-administered Kashmir, during insurgency of the 1990s, and the violence reached his family. It was this tragic event which compelled him to become a journalist. Image: Aamir Peerzada, video journalist today Copyright: Aamir Peerzada

There used to be a tea-house or chaikhana on every corner in Afghanistan. Today they're being displaced by coffee houses, but Auliya Atrafi of BBC Pashto has a soft spot for the traditional tea-house, where people chat and watch the world go by. Image: Afghan man drinking tea in a tea-house in Herat Credit: Aref Karimi/AFP/GettyImages

It’s been seven weeks since protests began in Sudan. Many have died, over a thousand have been detained, and what started with a rise in the price of bread has spiralled into demands that President Omar al-Bashir step down. BBC Arabic’s Omar El-Tayeb Ahmed is Sudanese, and has been following the news. Image: Sudanese anti-government protesters in Omdurman Credit: Contributor/AFP/Getty Images

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro took office at the beginning of the year with a promise to bring military values to a country weary of political corruption scandals. Nearly a third of his cabinet are from the armed forces, all graduates from the Agulhas Negras Military Academy that Bolsonaro also attended. BBC Brasil’s Julia Carniero took a tour. Image: President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil Credit:...

The Americans plan to pull out of Syria but they are continuing the fight against so-called Islamic State from a newly-built base just inside the Iraqi border. Nafiseh Kohnavard of BBC Persian gained rare access and tells us about her experiences living alongside the troops. Image: Nafiseh Kohnavard reporting from Iraq Credit: BBC

A visa-free travel agreement between Iran and Serbia meant to boost tourism has been used by thousands of Iranians trying to enter the European Union. BBC Persian's Rana Rahimpour teamed up with BBC Serbian’s Stefan Veselinovic to hear the stories of Iranians in the Serbian capital Belgrade. Image: Iranian migrant walking down Belgrade street, Serbia. Credit: OLIVER BUNIC/AFP/Getty Images

There are only around 4000 snow leopards left in the mountains of Central and South Asia. Yulia James of BBC Russian has been to the Altai region of Siberia in search of these elusive animals. Image: Snow Leopard Credit: Antagain/Getty Images

Skripal, Khashoggi, and North Korea talks: Olga Ivshina of BBC Russian, Öykü Altuntaş of BBC Turkish and Hwang Su Min, editor of BBC Korean, share their experiences of covering big news stories, as well as the smaller ones that simply raised a smile. Social media and the news Social media plays an ever greater role in journalism, so how do you manage it? Hanan Razek of BBC Arabic, Bidhaan Dahir of...

What’s happening to the Taj Mahal, India’s most famous building? The beautiful white marble is becoming darker, cracks are appearing, and the foundations are weakening. Salman Ravi of BBC Hindi has been investigating the causes of its decline. Image: Taj Mahal in Agra, India Copyright: Jeff Overs/BBC

There have been protests in Cameroon’s two English-speaking regions, where people say they are marginalised by the French-speaking majority. There have been violent clashes between rebels and government forces, with civilians caught between. BBC Africa's Peter Tah is based in Bamenda, and has found the story on his doorstep. Image: a soldier from the Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR) in Cameroon...