BBC World Service - Assignment

Hunting the Taliban

In Pakistan’s port city Karachi, police are fighting a desperate war against the Taliban

Islam Karimov Jr, the Uzbek president’s grandson on the feud that's torn his family apart

The Iranian gay and lesbian people forced to flee or face pressure to change their gender

The stories of survivors who lived as child labourers in Switzerland

Survivors of forced labour in Ireland are demanding answers from the church and the state

Is Libya becoming a failed state, three years after the fall of Col Gaddafi?

The rise of Islamic extremism in Kosovo, one of Europe's most pro-American states

What does the Hot Dog tell us about Denmark?

Will a three-day ‘lock down’ be effective in the fight to contain Ebola in Sierra Leone?

Teaching heads of the household family planning and pre-natal care