Risk Level: High

Pascale Harter introduces stories of personal risk, daily challenges and digital discontent from around the world.

Secunder Kermani reports from Pakistan on how - and why - a talented journalism student who was accused of blasphemy ended up beaten to death in public on a university campus. Some of the other students and staff accused of taking part in the killing are unrepentant.

Polina Ivanova has tales from "Moscow's molars", the Soviet-era apartment blocks which housed so many and saw so much in the city since the 1950s - but which are increasingly marked for demolition as part of a grand 'regeneration' plan. Many residents are suspicious - and have even been moved to protest for the first time in their lives.

Shaimaa Khalil takes a deep breath - and a long wait - in order to cross the Gambia river on a notably overloaded ferry route which is the only way for many people to reach the Gambian capital Banjul.

and Dave Lee joins the twitching (and often queue-bound) crowds at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles to see what's new in the world of gaming - and finds surprisingly little that's truly original, despite the industry's crushing economic clout.

Photo: A student's glasses lie on the ground amid the debris at the scene of a mob killing at the Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, Pakistan. (c) BBC