BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

The French Edition: Patriotic Pants and Computer Hackers

In France, a degree course in computer hacking and an innovative underwear maker

Tales from a Cambodian circus, southwest Alaska, Polynesian sea ships and a Cape Town taxi

Mexico's migrants risking life and limb getting to the US and Popes Francis and John XXIII

Mines threaten salmon fishing in Alaska and Polynesian seafarers revive ancient skills

Innovative packaging for diarrhoea treatment in Zambia - and racial divisions in Cape Town

A father bereaved after clashes in Egypt and Singapore's competitive state school system

A circus in Phnom Penh and a Washington Nationals game in DC give lessons in character

The pick of recent stories from Vietnam, Ecuador, Calabria, France and Georgia

Bulgaria's hi-tech social activists and the cycling mania in Kenya sparked by Chris Froome

The politics of mining in Ecuador & the ill-gotten gains of a former Mexican police chief.