The battle for Florida’s Latino voters

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Florida makes or breaks the US presidential election, and Spanish language ads have been bombarding Latino voters. BBC Monitoring journalist in Miami Luis Fajardo analyses the tactics and tunes being used by both Republicans and Democrats to swing the state. Egypt’s septuagenarian record breaking footballer Ezzeldin Bahader recently entered the record books as the world’s oldest professional footballer aged 74. BBC Arabic sports reporter Marwa Helmy has followed the inspiring story. A trip to a Russian banya Yulia James of BBC Russian shares her love of the famous Russian bath house, the banya: a place to warm up, cool down and relax with friends. Nigeria's anti-SARS protests Citizen protests against Nigeria’s Special Anti Robbery Squad or SARS turned violent this week, when protesters at a toll gate in the Lekke Island suburb of Lagos found themselves under fire. BBC Pidgin reporter Damilola Banjo has been covering the story since the beginning, and was there when the shooting took place. Making a board game political A new board game is about to hit the East Asian market. It’s called United Front: Fight Back Against China, and pits players representing Mongolia, Taiwan and Hong Kong against invading forces from China. Politically sensitive to say the least, as Lam Cho Wai of BBC Chinese explains. Image: Poll worker at a ballot drop box in Miami Beach, Florida Credit: EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI/AFP