Carnival: A history of Brazil in samba

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It's been carnival time in Brazil. Julia Carneiro joined the festivities and profiled the Mangueira samba school as they told the unofficial history of Brazil in samba. Monica Marcias Monica Marcias is the daughter of Equatorial Guinea's first president; she has African and Spanish roots but spent most of her childhood in North Korea. She spoke to Myungjin Seo of BBC Korean about her memories, all in perfect Korean. 'Yugoslav' Basketball in the UAE There's an unlikely basketball team in Dubai. Serbs, Bosnians and Croats from the former Yugoslavia, which fractured during a bloody war in the 1990s, today play together under the name 'Yugoslavia'. BBC Serbian's Slobodan Maričić explains basketball and the Balkans. Killed for his faith: searching for a martyred ancestor Not everyone has a saint in the family, but BBC Arabic’s Eli Melki soon might. His ancestor Leonard Melki was a Capuchin monk in Turkey, and among the hundreds of thousands killed as the onset of the First World War fanned the flames of religious persecution in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Eli retraced his journey. Thailand’s unconventional election candidates Elections in the Kingdom of Thailand are coming up, and although it seems likely the current military leader, and Prime Minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, will return to power that doesn’t mean it’s been a boring campaign for BBC Thai, as Issariya Praithongyaem explains. Image: A Mangueira performer Credit: Raphael Dias/Getty Images