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16/10/2013
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Guest editor: Google's Susan Wojcicki
Getting girls into tech; India's science powerhouse; House accepts Senate deal.
17/10/2013
Guest editor: French journalist Anne Sinclair
US shutdown rattles China; France's over-crowded prisons; a Polish war-time heroine
Guest Editor: Pakistani lawyer Asma Jahangir
Justice in Pakistan; Sufi music; Nairobi attack suspect named
18/10/2013
Justice in Pakistan; Sufi music; Turkey Israel spy row, Biggie Smalls New York Road
Guest Editor: UNDP chief & former New Zealand PM Helen Clark
Quotas for women in politics; pregnant Syrians targeted; Titanic violin auctioned .
Helen Clark Edits Newshour
Guest editor Helen Clark asks should there be quotas for women in politics?
Australia fires state of emergency
New South Wales fires worsen; Death row scholarship; Is feminism universal?
Australia's wildfire emergency
Australia battles wildfires; death row man endows scholarship; feminism discussed.
Australia Fights to Stop Bushfires Merging
Australian fire disaster worsens; France angry at US spying; Afghanistan's females poets.
Australian fire disaster worsens; France angry at US spying; Afghanistan's females poets
21/10/2013 (2000 GMT)
Brazil's controversial oil auction; sexual violence in DR Congo; Greenspan on US shutdown
West Calls on Syria's Moderate Opposition to Unite
Syria talks in London; Facebook allows beheading videos; Libya's reluctant arms dealer
22/10/2013 (2000 GMT)
How the Syria conflict affects US-Saudi ties? Questions over US drone strike; silent meal
Australian bushfires under control
Is climate change to blame for bushfire severity?; Chinese newspaper plea to government
23/10/2013
Spying on Merkel
USA Merkel spying allegations, Detroit bankruptcy, and saving Iran’s cheetahs
24/10/2013 (1300 GMT)
Dhaka factory victims still wait for compensation; Aung San Suu Kyi on democracy in Burma
24/10/2013
Merkel unimpressed by Obama's reassurance over phone-bugging
Merkel unmoved by US spying assurance; Football match prayers; Sculptor Anthony Caro dies
Norway rejects chemical weapons refusal
US asked Norway to help destroy Syrian chemical weapons; EU anti-bugging plan; #100women
Norway chemical weapons refusal
Roma girl's DNA match
Roma girl parents traced; Lorenzo's Oil creator dies; artwork that can suck up pollution
Iran border deaths
Iran Sunni group claims border attack; Chinese journalist 'confession'; Becksistentialism
Anger in Germany
Claims that US tapped German Chancellor’s phone ‘for years’, Saudi women driving
Tension in Bangladesh
Several dead in Bangladesh clashes; Explosions in Iraq; Kenya Westgate aftermath.
Lou Reed dies
Velvet Underground's frontman dies at 71, Iraq rocked by car bombs, Georgia votes