Inside the Hong Kong protests

Hundreds of thousands of protesters have been demonstrating against a proposed law that would allow extradition to China for certain crimes. Things came to a head on Wednesday outside the Legislative Council: pepper spray, rubber bullets and teargas were used against protesters throwing all manner of missiles, including umbrellas. Martin Yip of BBC Chinese was there.

An Aztec recipe for happiness
BBC Mundo’s Ana Pais has been looking into Aztec attitudes towards achieving happiness from five hundred years ago, and finding remarkable similarities with our beliefs today.

The Russian journalist who became the story
Within the space of a few days, Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov found himself arrested on drug charges - and then released. His lawyers claimed that the drugs were planted. BBC Russian’s Svetlana Reiter has worked with him, and explains what’s been going on.

Sri Lankan love across the divide
BBC Sinhala's Suneth Perera's Crossing Divides piece celebrates an unusual love story between a former Tamil Tiger and a Sinhalese Civil Defence Force recruit.

Iran’s child brides
Why do so many marriages in Iran involve child brides? Taraneh Stone of BBC Monitoring tells us about the pressures on young girls and their families to agree to marriages with much older men.

Image: workers outside Wan Chai Police station, Hong Kong protesting the extreme violence by the police, June 2019
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