BBC World Service - Assignment

Albania's Munitions Mountain

Neal Razzell travels to Albania, where they're getting rid of an explosive legacy

The port city of Takoradi is being transformed by Ghana's new oil industry

In this edition of Assignment - the story of John Butt, the hippy turned Islamic scholar

Nina Robinson reports from Detroit on how the media is covering crime there

Has Europe's mainstream politics quietly veered to the right?

Assignment investigates the growing influence of populist parties in Northern Europe

Linda Pressly travels to Kerala to examine the silent revolution in palliative care

Why is there a crisis in India's microcredit industry? Assignment investigates

A snapshot of Iraq as seen through the prism of its main airport

For many teenagers bullying is no longer confined to the playground - it happens online