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07/08/2009
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
08/08/2009
Uncertainty over Java militant death, and in a global recession, can football carry on?
09/08/2009
The power struggle within the Taliban in Pakistan and controversial reality TV in India.
Leadership crises for three militant groups around the world
10/08/2009
The trials of being a woman MP in Afghanistan. Plus, what is a 'lady' in the 21st century?
11/08/2009
Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to 18 months house arrest. Plus how to turn nettles into pants.
14/08/2009
16/08/2009
Has the U.S. got it right on Burma? And Usain Bolt sets a new world record.
15/08/2009
A US Senator says he's bringing John Yettaw back from Burma. And the legacy of Woodstock.
A bomb in a protected area of Kabul ahead of elections and what's the legacy of Woodstock?
13/08/2009
17/08/2009
Russian warning of Islamic militancy in North Caucusus. And the greatest jazz record ever.
An American jailed for visiting Aung San Suu Kyi is freed and parmesan for loans in Italy.
12/08/2009
Is the key to change in Burma engagement or isolation? Plus new sports for the Olympics.
Industrial poisoning in China and why hundreds of gay men have been killed in Iraq.
18/08/2009
成人快手 investigation on Afghanistan election fraud. And new research on zombies vs humans.
19/08/2009
We talk to a former Talib leader, a warlord and women activists as Afghans prepare to vote
20/08/2009
The man convicted of bombing Pan Am flight 103 is freed and Afghans go to the polls.
The Lockerbie bomber is released. Compassion or a travesty of justice?
21/08/2009
23/08/2009
Scotland's first minister weighs into the Lockerbie row. And we ask: why is Africa poor?
Has the Lockerbie bomber release damaged US-Scottish relations? And a new comic-book hero.
24/08/2009
Kenyan census sparks row over 'tribalism' and Scotland debates Lockerbie bomber's release.