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19/10/2014
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Comet Siding Spring speeds past Mars
Rare comet comes close to Mars; the hunt for an Ebola vaccine; memories of Studio 54
20/10/2014
American Fighting in Syria
Retired US soldier fighting IS; Nigeria 'Ebola free'; 'Virtual autopsy' on Tutankhamun
Turkey U-turn on Syria
Turkey allows Iraqi Kurds into Syria; Thai lese-majeste allegation; football fan refund.
21/10/2014
Pistorius sentenced to 5 years
Pistorius given five years in jail; acid attacks in Isfahan; Baghdad's firefighters
Pistorius sentencing
ANC Women's League dismayed; Canada hit by Islamist violence; a letter from Liberia
22/10/2014
Reversing extremism
De-radicalising extremists; Ben Bradlee; Can cheerful street signs transform a town?
Ottawa attacks
Shooter and victim confirmed dead in Canada's capital; inside Kobane; China petitioners.
23/10/2014
Ottawa shooter was converted muslim
Is attack linked to Canada's Mid-East policy?; heaviest fighting in Kobane for 2 weeks.
More Boko Haram abductions
Boko Haram seizes more girls; Soros on Russia's threat; Taylor Swift's 8" of static.
Ebola vaccine development
New Ebola vaccine trial; EU Climate deal; Her Majesty tweets
Ebola in New York
Congress discusses Ebola; How Putin feels about the US; Gehry on modern architecture.
25/10/2014 (1200 GMT)
An Iranian woman hanged for the killing of a man; Ebola diagnostic; Picasso museum
Ebola quarantines in US
US orders mandatory Ebola quarantines; Egypt Sinai unrest; Jack Bruce dies
Ukraine elections
Ukraine votes in snap elections; US envoy in Guinea amid Ebola; healing power of music
Ukraine parliamentary elections
Pro-West parties win Ukraine elections; Dylan Thomas centenary; Mexico's missing teachers
HRW: Nigeria failing abducted girls
HRW: Nigeria failing abducted girls; special report from Kentucky; Hungary's internet tax
Ban Ki-moon criticises Ebola 鈥渟tigma鈥
Ebola health workers should not be 'stigmatised'; How can you tell a real Caravaggio?
Islamic State crisis
Turkish PM rejects Kobane criticism; Tunisia's new vision; singer, songwriter Will Oldham
UK opposes migrant rescue missions
Britain refuses to fund migrant rescue flotilla; Czechs honour Britain's Schindler
Iraqi peshmerga fighters head to Kobane
Peshmerga convoys to Syria; America's hardest place to live; Lena Dunham on her new book
WHO 鈥 Spread of Ebola in Liberia slowing
Ebola appears to be slowing in Liberia; Boko Haram seize town of Mubi 鈥 ceasefire over?
Burkina Faso parliament set ablaze
Burkina Faso unrest; Al-Aqsa Mosque closure; Rumble in the Jungle anniversary
Army takes power in Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso government dissolved; tensions over Temple Mount; Orson Welles' last film
Burkina Faso's President Resigns
Burkina Faso unrest; UN report on foreign jihadists; Donetsk airport cyborgs
President stands down in Burkina Faso
President forced out by mass demonstrations, spaceship crashes, political assassinations