Aung San Suu Kyi

The BBC's Fergal Keane has been talking to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi about the election in Myanmar.

More than 750,000 people have sought asylum in Germany this year, and Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany will change as a result. The BBC's Jenny Hill reports from the town of Oberhausen in north west Germany on the changes already happening.

In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he was lost at sea and no one heard from him for 438 days. Newsday reported on his story when he washed ashore on the Marshall Islands, stick thin and ridden with illnesses but - amazingly - alive. One journalist has develed into his story, and has written a book about the incredible experience, '438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival At Sea'. Newsday's Tom Hagler spoke to the journliast, Jonathan Franklin

(Photo: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)