Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
World Service,·5864 episodes
Youth unemployment; India proposes a Blackberry ban; and a new rare star spotted from Iowa
19 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Iraq withdrawal challenged; Pakistan's call for aid and keeping track of sharks
Sri Lanka's war inquiry begins; Pakistan needs aid and Zimbabwe sells legal diamonds again
18 Aug 2010,·55 mins
UN says it needs half-a-billon dollars for Pakistan, the threat of famine in West Africa
China's landslide kills 700; the UN calls for aid for Pakistan, and what's net neutrality?
17 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Pakistan aid, Guantanamo trial and whaling in Iceland.
Naomi Campbell contradicted in court; Germany shuts the 9/11 mosque and Moscow suffocates.
16 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Mia Farrow testifies at Charles Taylor war crimes trial, and Rwanda goes to the polls.
Flood water surges down Indus river, and how one photo of an Afghan woman caused a stir.
15 Aug 2010,·50 mins
Rwanda goes to the polls; losing your beauty to the Taliban, and extreme sauna.
15 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Christian aid group executive on losing friends in Afghanistan, and floods reach Sindh.
14 Aug 2010,·50 mins
Pakistan floods, Colombia's presidency and Blackberry security concerns
14 Aug 2010,·55 mins
"Where is the world?" ask Pakistani villagers devastated by the monsoon floods.
13 Aug 2010,·55 mins
12 million Pakistanis affected by the floods, should the President have visited the UK?
Naomi Campbell testifies at the trial of Liberia's former president and Churchill's UFOs.
12 Aug 2010,·55 mins
US terror charges; Russian ban on wheat exports; and Naomi Campbell at Taylor trial.
Oil in the Gulf of Mexico; celebrity politicians, and talking about rape in Egypt.
11 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Has the oil from BP's oil spill gone; Kenya goes to the polls, and Wyclef for president?
Pakistan floods, Karachi violence, West Papua rights; eating insects to save the planet
10 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Mosque near Ground Zero; Israeli and Lebanese troops killed, and Anne Rice on religion
More than a dozen people have been killed during violent protests in Kashmir
09 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Troops to leave Iraq; Israel joins UN investigation, and Dubai cracks down on Blackberry.
Israel to deport hundreds of illegal immigrant families. And Dutch troops quit Afghanistan
08 Aug 2010,·50 mins
The death toll in Pakistan floods rises and should interns be paid for the work they do?
08 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Pakistan hit by floods, and the Chinese policemen forced to eat western food.
07 Aug 2010,·50 mins
Devastating floods in Pakistan and why are some women late blooming lesbians?
07 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Old opponents, the King of Saudi Arabia and the President of Syria are meeting today
06 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Obama calls education perhaps "the economic issue of our time", we hear the teachers side
05 Aug 2010,·55 mins
Pakistan answers charges of "looking both ways" on terror, and world's oldest Tweeter dies