The battle over Nagorno-Karabakh

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As fighting flares again over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, we ask why it's so hard to resolve this conflict, and why a chunk of Armenian-controlled territory came to be inside Azerbaijan in the first place. BBC Russian editor Famil Ismailov is originally from Azerbaijan, and has followed this story for decades. Pot plants and plant influencers in Indonesia Houseplants have become a trend among urban Indonesians keen to ease the boredom of lockdown. There’s an industry of plant “influencers” and experts to feed the fascination, shared by BBC Indonesian’s Astudestra Ajengrastri. The fund-raising campaigns to free captured IS families Stories are emerging of donation campaigns by so-called Islamic State and Al Qaeda aimed at freeing the wives and children of IS fighters from detention camps in Syria. Abdirahim Saeed of BBC Monitoring tells us what he’s discovered from jihadist social media groups, which are raising funds to smuggle the women out. Water tensions on the Nile Ethiopia’s project to create the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile has fuelled political tensions with Egypt and Sudan. But it’s not just politicians who are affected. Reem Fatthelbab of BBC Arabic spoke to an Ethiopian living in Cairo, and an Egyptian based in Ethiopia, about their concerns. Brazil meets Ghana Sonny Nkansa, a Fifth Floor listener with roots in Ghana, explains why the latest in our My Home Town series - from Feira de Santana in Brazil's Bahia state - took him straight home to his small village in Ghana's Volta region. Picture: Elderly woman in Nagorno Karabakh Credit: European Photopress Agency