BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

Liberia and Italy: the Days of the Dead

Sprucing up family vaults in Monrovia; the great names of Rome's Non-Catholic cemetery

Rebel fighters grow weary around Latakia; classical concert-goers thrill in Berdsk

Encounters with hardline "pro-Russians" in Slaviansk and the con artists of Montmartre

The riddles of modern China, and invented traditions in India

Are we in the last days of South Africa's mining industry?

Car horns, national anthems and calypso - a cacophony of stories from BBC correspondents

Fashion meets indigenous arts in the Amazon rainforest; separatism wanes in Quebec

Why many Germans are so ambivalent about Russia, and how Syrian refugees adjust to NYC

Hamas is now at odds with Egypt's government; and what does Viktor Orban want?

Meeting people who jump the fence into the EU; the MH370 affair and Malay-China relations