Rising Tensions in Northern Iraq

Iraqi forces have launched a major operation in the Kurdish-held province of Kirkuk amid growing tension between the two sides.

Somalia's president has declared three days of mourning to honour the victims of Saturday's huge bomb explosion in the capital, Mogadishu.

Mohsin Hamid, one of six writers shortlisted for the Man Booker prize for fiction talks about his novel EXIT WEST which looks at one of the most urgent topics in the modern world -- migration.