BBC World Service - Assignment

Digging up the Dead in Russia

Russia's volunteer diggers who search for the remains of soldiers 70 years after WW2

Legislators in Belgium consider extending the right to die to terminally ill children

What does the popularity of controversial comedian Dieudonné tell us about France today?

Hungary's laws risk criminalising homelessness. Can you legislate social problems?

A profile of Gulnara Karimova, the popstar daughter of Uzbekistan's ruthless leader

What has happened to the millions of dollars of aid sent to Syria?

Will mining harm the environment - or lead the country to independence?

On the road with one of Brazil's anti-slavery hit squads

Are the trials of alleged war criminals from the conflict of 1971 politically motivated?

The Texan women fighting 'revenge porn' sites after their naked pictures went online