BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

China, the USA and Chile

Justin Rowlatt sees Vegas and Macau bet on success; Gideon Long's on Robinson Crusoe isle.

Paul Mason on regions' cash woe in Valencia; Tom Burridge on a political funeral in Madrid

Damian Grammaticas: can China's One Child policy last? Martin Buckley sees Belgrade remade

With dispatches from Gabriel Gatehouse in Kenya's Tana Delta and Steve Rosenberg in Grozny

Pascale Harter with insight and wit from Syria, Spain, Japan, Mexico, the USA and Hungary.

Andrew Harding is near the Marikana mine; Judith Kampfner's at a New York polling station

Personal stories from the BBC's Jennifer Pak in Kuala Lumpur and Will Grant in Mexico City

Mariko Oi on why adult adoption is big in Japan; Nick Thorpe on Hungarian healthcare.

Kevin Connolly on history lessons for meddlers in Syria; Kieran Cooke on summer festivals.

Pascale Harter with recent stories and insights from correspondents around the world.