William is a teacher originally from Adamawa state in north-east Nigeria. He sent BBC Outside Source this message about the plight of his relatives and friends displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency. 

Boko Haram crisis: "So many people have nothing to go back to"

Zakir Hussain, the renowned master of the Indian drums, the tabla, explaining on Newshour about how the two different folk traditions, Indian and Celtic, come together.

Zakir Hussain: Mixing Indian and Celtic folk music

John Nash, the Nobel prize-winning US mathematician whose life inspired the film "A Beautiful Mind" - has died in a car accident. Fellow game theorist Professor Olivier Gossner of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris remembers 'a genius'.


'Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash remembered

Meet Bushra, a young woman in Sanaa who teaches girls to ride a bike. "It feels like freedom; nothing can stop us"  Bashra tells Ben James.  

Let's Ride a Bike .., in Yemen

Ex-France and Man Utd player Louis Saha talks to Outside Source - the game should be about hard work and passion, not this

Louis Saha says players are scared to talk about Fifa

Surprising as it may seem, some young women prefer their men to be less than completely hunky.  A bit of flab is a good thing, apparently.  But with so many people unhealthily overweight, how understanding should we be?  Rob Broomby tries to chart a course between promoting health and and not humiliating fat people. 

Dadbods

From July 1 the Canadian government is scrapping tampon tax. Campaigner Jill Piebiak speaks to Jackie Leonard. 

Tampon Tax

The arrest of Fifa officials and allegations of bribery to secure tournaments has focused attention on South Africa’s 2010 World Cup. Prof Eamonn Molloy tells the BBC's Nkem Ifejika that "mega-projects" like this rarely benefit host nations.

South Africa's World Cup loses its shine

Poor weather has forced the solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse, to make unscheduled stop in Japan en route from China to Hawaii. Spokesman Connor Lennon explains.

Solar Impulse plane forced to land in Japan

British musician Jonathan Goddard is rapping about Latin to primary schoolchildren as part of a programme to raise their expectations and learning outcomes across the board.

Rapper's delight is Latin

There's been a wave of attacks on mobile communications facilities in parts of Indian-ruled Kashmir.  Grenades have been thrown at one mobile tower, and two people have died in attacks elsewhere. BBC Urdu's Riaz Masoon reports from Srinagar. 

Militant attacks cripple Kashmir mobile network

Sylvester in Accra, Ghana, got in touch with BBC Outside Source to say the floods have destroyed everything in my house. I had to run for my life. People are dying.


"You can't believe the amount of water in my room"

More than 90 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra. Kwabena is a businessman in Accra amd sent BBC Outside Source this message via WhatsApp.

"Our leaders have failed us, Accra is a dead city"

The US Senate put new restrictions on spy agencies' powers to monitor US citizens.  The move was led by the Republican Rand Paul -- perhaps the unlikeliest of political bedfellows for the whistle-blower Edward Snowden, the man who revealed how governments were collecting communications data in industrial quantities.  Has the mood changed since the dark days in the wake of the 9/11 attacks when governments gave themselves many new powers?  Kate Andrews of Republicans Overseas in the UK in discussion with Emily Buchanan on BBC World Service's The World This Week.

US spy agencies have their wings clipped

Caitlyn Jenner revealed her new image in the most spectacular of ways.  But most trans people have much more trouble than her.  Emily Buchanan of BBC World Service's The World This Week found out more from Bernard and Terri Reed -- a couple who have spent many years helping transgender people.

Caitlyn Jenner

The British foreign secretary Philip Hammond tells Newshour that UK will continue to support Qatar as the country selected to host the 2022 World Cup.

British minister backs Qatar for World Cup

The world's first prosthetic leg, capable of sensation, has been unveiled  in Austria. AFP reporter Nina Lamparski has the story.

Unveiled: artificial leg that can feel

James Last was wildly popular in some places, but met deep disdain in others.  Nick Higham ponders the ambiguous appeal of music that some people find really awful.

The joy of cheesy music

G7 leaders said they wanted to stop using fossil fuels by 2100. It looks like a brave pledge. But futurologist Ian Pearson says solar and other power sources mean it's going to be easy to fulfil. 

A world without oil

South African journalist Jean Jacques Cornish explains why it's highly unlikely Omar al-Bashir will appear in court anytime soon.

Will South Africa hand Sudan's Omar al-Bashir over to the ICC?

BBC Arabic's Rihab Khatab and Dubai journalist James Bishop on the $68k swearing fine

Don't swear on WhatsApp in UAE

The Burmese pro-democracy leader won world-wide respect for her courage and resilience during her long imprisonment by the military government in Myanmar. But she's disappointed some people who think she should be more vocal in defence of other victims of oppression.  A radio essay by Jill McGivering, who's been following her career for decades.   

Aung San Suu Kyi and the disappointments of practical politics

The Indian government is very keen on World Yoga Day on Sunday, and has been encouraging government employees and others to take part.  Some people aren't so keen -- especially Muslims who are worried that they are being asked to follow a Hindu religious tradition. Tinku Ray in Delhi talks Emily Buchanan of BBC World Service's The World This Week through some of the contortions the government has had to adopt.

World Yoga Day in India

Researcher Jessica Hartel of Aarhus University in Denmark spoke to Newsday.


Ugandan chimps losing limbs to snares

John Heffernan, who recently played J Robert Oppenheimer on the London stage, delivers one of the scientist's famous speeches to Owen Bennett Jones. July 16 marked the 70th anniversary of the first atomic bomb detonation.

(Photo by Keith Keith Pattison for the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Oppenheimer: "Life is nothing if not a constant re-evaluation"

Dr. Adil Sultan, a Pakistani nuclear expert, on why Pakistan had to pursue nuclear weapons. 

Listen to the full edition of Newshour Extra here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02wq7nr

Pakistan "had no choice" but to build a nuclear weapon

Hans Blix, the veteran weapons inspector, talks to Owen Bennett Jones about the state of nuclear proliferation today.

Hear more on the full edition of Newshour Extra: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02wq7nr

Hans Blix: people have "tended to forget" about nuclear weapons

Professor Sharon Lewin  tells The Newsroom about new hope for HIV sufferers after a French teenager is in remission twelve years after she stopped taking drugs. 

HIV Remission July20

Irish women are live-tweeting Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Enda Kenny their menstrual cycles to highlight the country's restrictive abortion laws.

Irish women tweet periods to Enda Kenny

Richard Upshall lives in Dubai and was inside the hotel when the fire took hold. He told the BBC Newsroom what happened.

BBC interview with eyewitness inside Dubai fire building

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