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Life Changes: looking at how we respond to change
Steve Titherington
Senior Commissioning Editor, BBC World Service
Steve Titherington, Commissioning Editor for BBC World Service English, talks about the new season, Life Changes.
Solar-powered classrooms and a smart wheelchair - Click reports on how Bangladesh tech is transforming lives
Afroza Neela and Faisal Titumir
BBC News Bangla
Have you heard about Sputnique – a portable, solar-powered multimedia classroom? The super-mobile kit allows Bangladeshi teachers to hold classes anywhere, particularly after natural disasters like flooding or cyclones.
Beyond Fake News: why the World Service is putting a spotlight on distortion and manipulation
Marie Helly
Assistant Editor, Beyond Fake News
What is fake news? What’s real? What’s distortion? Should we use the term fake news at all? These were the questions we grappled with putting together the Beyond Fake News season. The term is being weaponised, becoming contentious and even toxic.
The world’s first blind war correspondent and football commentator? BBC News Arabic supporting journalists with disabilities
Haidar Albaseer
BBC AimHigh scheme freelance journalist, Baghdad
Journalists with disabilities from around the Arab world recently completed three weeks of training in London as part of BBC Arabic’s AimHigh scheme.
Why we broadcast what Jamal Khashoggi told us three days before he disappeared
Jo Floto
Editor, The World Tonight, Newshour
Some people have questioned the decision by Newshour and The World Tonight to broadcast the words of Jamal Khashoggi recorded shortly before the formal start of an interview. So I'd like to explain how we arrived at that decision.
App around the world with BBC Learning English
Paul Scott
Editor, BBC Learning English
Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. There are seven continents, and BBC Learning English has audiences in six of them - perhaps, by the end of reading this blog post, all seven.
1 year anniversary for Indian languages
Ankur Jain / Ashish Dikshit / Atul Sangar and Ram Mohan
Editors, BBC News Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu
Many people treated the news of the BBC’s plan to launch four new language services in India as a rumour.
'If Europe's ports are underwater, Brexit may seem less important': we're expanding climate change coverage
Jo Floto
Editor, The World Tonight, Newshour
From 3 October The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4 and Newshour on BBC World Service will be covering climate change every week.
North and South: a year of BBC News Korean
Su-Min Hwang
News Editor, BBC News Korean
If your view of the world were shaped by the North Korean newspapers - they are available online, and I look at them every day - Kim Jong-un would certainly be at its centre.
A year of three new BBC services for Ethiopia and Eritrea
Rachael Akidi Okwir
Head of East Africa, BBC World Service
Rachael Akidi, BBC World Service Head of East Africa, celebrates first anniversary of the launch of three new UK-government-funded language services for Ethiopia and Eritrea, and looks at what the future holds.
