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Iran’s holy city of Mashhad is an important pilgrimage destination for Shia Muslims. But it was recently in the news for something quite different. Sex tourism. Sara Irani of BBC Monitoring has been following the story. The Bengali kitchen divide Bengalis are united by a love of good food, but divided over who cooks it. West Bengalis love poppy seeds and sugar, East Bengalis dried fish and chilli. BBC Bangla journalists Manoshi Barua from India's West Bengal state, and Masud Khan from Bangladesh, shed light on the Bengali kitchen divide. Radio messages for prisoners Around 6,000 Palestinians are currently detained in Israeli jails, and one of the ways they get news from home is through Palestinian radio. Tala Halawa of BBC Monitoring is based in Ramallah and has been listening in. Brazil's lost museum Brazil's National Museum in Rio de Janeiro burned down last week, with most of its collection destroyed. We conjure up some of what's been lost through the memories of Brazilians Fernando Duarte, Luis Barrucho and Silvia Salek. Return to Raqqa The Syrian city of Raqqa was the de facto capital of so-called Islamic State. It suffered massive destruction when it was recaptured last October, but despite this some families are returning to their ruined homes. Nader Ibrahim of BBC Arabic followed one of them. My Home Town: Istanbul We take a trip home with BBC Turkish journalist Öykü Altuntaş to the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, where east meets west. Image: the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Musa Reza, Iran Credit: rasoul ali /Getty Images
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