Sudan: Bread, Doctors and Teargas

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It’s been seven weeks since protests began in Sudan. Many have died, over a thousand have been detained, and what started with a rise in the price of bread has spiralled into demands that President Omar al-Bashir step down. BBC Arabic’s Omar El-Tayeb Ahmed is Sudanese, and has been following the news. The dying art of Indian cabaret A new film 'Cabaret' celebrates an era of Bollywood films when the cabaret sequence was still an integral part of the film, and the dancers and choreographers household names. BBC India's Vandana Dhand is a huge fan. Bringing calm to Bangkok's foreign women prisoners Thailand's biggest women's prison is home to more than 400 foreign prisoners, mostly serving long sentences for drugs offences. Many now attend cognitive transformation therapy classes to help them cope. BBC Thai’s Nanchanok Wongsamuth sat in on one. Ghana’s home-made guns Ghana has a growing trade in illegal guns, with an estimated 200,000 weapons produced every year. They’re made by skilled blacksmiths in remote parts of the country, and they contribute to armed robberies and organised crime. BBC Africa’s Sulley Lansah has been investigating. My Home Town: Shahrisabz Rustam Qobil from BBC Uzbek takes us to his hometown in southern Uzbekistan. Road safety in Bangladesh Six months ago the capital Dhaka was brought to a standstill by mass protests about road safety after two teenagers were killed by a bus. Rocky Shahnewaj of BBC Bangla has been finding out whether the protesters’ demands have been met. Image: Sudanese anti-government protesters in Omdurman Credit: Contributor/AFP/Getty Images