BBC World Service - Assignment

Yasser Arafat's compound

Visiting Yasser Arafat's former compound following its destruction by Israeli forces

Independence Day celebrations in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital

Reporting on life in Syria, a country supposedly stuck in the medieval past

A series of Al Qaeda executions of non-Saudi nationals have left many nervous and in fear

How Paris Town Hall is being taken to court to expose government corruption

A report on the US supermarket giant Walmart, one of the world's biggest companies

What sort of country is Uzbekistan and how does the presence of the US affect life here?

Is there a solution to the problem of kidnapping?

Driving through the northern town of Saravena, Colombia

A report from Patna, Bihar on the upcoming Indian general elections