An Egyptian take on Algeria's protests

Large scale protests in Algeria forced President Bouteflika to stand down last week. BBC Arabic's Marwa Nasser visited Algiers to meet the protesters demanding change, bringing back memories of her own country's 2011 protests in Tahrir Square.

Turkey's election tantrum?
BBC Monitoring journalist Ilgin Karlidag shares the story of a village headman who apparently destroyed the children's playground he built just days before the elections, after he lost the vote.

Guatemala journey
Patricia Sulbaran of BBC Mundo has visited a remote village in Guatemala to meet the family of a child migrant who travelled to the United States with his father then fell ill and died. What drives families to risk everything to get to the US?

A Nigerian homecoming
Celestina Olulode of BBC Africa recently made her first trip to Nigeria to report on the elections. She welcomed the chance to explore her father's homeland and was moved by what she found.

BBC Bangla goes to Seoul
Shahnewaj Rocky of BBC Bangla has been working in South Korea for the past month. Having swapped Dhaka for Seoul, he shares his impressions of everything from robots cleaning airports to his newfound love of Korean food.

MHT: St Petersburg
Yulia James of BBC Russian takes us to her home town of St Petersburg for an ice cream in a city where the summer sun doesn't set.

Image: People carry a national flag during a protest to push for the removal of the current political structure, in Algiers
Credit: REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina