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Afghanistan's Saur Revolution: 40th Anniversary

Memories of revolution; street cricket in India; Benin mangrove forests; Belgrade's disappearing statue; Venezuelan banknotes; Moscow landfill hazards. With David Amanor

Forty years ago the Afghan Communist party overthrew President Mohammad Daoud. Abdullah Shadan from 91热爆 Afghan Service was a journalist at the state broadcaster at the time, and watched events unfold.

Indian Street Cricket
This month 91热爆 Tamil staged a tournament to celebrate the street cricketers of Tamil Nadu. Finalists came together to fight it out in Chennai, umpired by cricket fan Vivek Anand of 91热爆 Tamil with commentary by Parag Phatak of 91热爆 Marathi.

Small head, big outcry: Belgrade's statue problem
A bronze bust of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin caused outrage and ridicule in Belgrade. The tiny head on a huge plinth was invisible from street level, and swiftly disappeared, as Jelena Maksimovic of 91热爆 Serbian explains.

Bolivar handbags
91热爆 Mundo's Boris Miranda returned from Colombia's border with Venezuela with an interesting souvenir: a handbag made from Venezuelan bolivares. It seems it's more profitable to make handicrafts from bolivares than to spend them.

Benin's mangrove voodoo
Conservationists have called on a voodoo deity to help protect mangrove forests in Benin, where voodoo is an official state religion. 91热爆 Afrique's Franck Noudofinin explains why the protection of the nightwatchman deity Zangbeto is so effective.

Moscow's controversial landfill sites
91热爆 Russian's Nataliya Zotova has been reporting from a huge landfill site at Volokolamsk near Moscow, which local people say is making them ill. She describes the physical effects of being near the tip, and encounters a football playing turkey on its perimeter.

Image: Afghan communist supporters in Kabul 1979
Credit: S.SOBOLEV/AFP/Getty Images

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