BBC World Service - The Fifth Floor

Prayers, Pilgrims and Power

The place of the Imam Reza shrine in Iranian hearts, and the power and wealth it creates

Zubair Ahmed revisits Kashmir's Hindu Pandits who fled their homeland over 20 years ago

How Syria's Kurdish women are taking the lead in public life

India's Jats want more privileges. So who are they, and how does the caste system work?

How the 'morality police' affect daily life in Iran

Abdinoor Aden of BBC Nairobi on the upsurge of gambling in Kenya

The BBC's Muhammad Hussein describes the violence and hardship his family is enduring

Presenter Bidhya Chapagain shares the hut, food and floor of earthquake survivors

A country coming to terms with last week's Islamist attack in Ouagadougou

Gunfire, fear and lockdown: life in Bujumbura