BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

Making their mark: the individuals behind the headlines

Stories of the people making their mark on the world around them

Baldy, One Leg or Big Bottom, what Somali nickname would you choose?

Horse-drawn buggies in Amish country and an epic train journey from Volgograd to Ashgabat

Protest, power and populism on the streets of Cairo and Caracas

A migrant, Beirut video shop owner and a London pub landlady are proud of their business

Catalan opinions on independence; a visit to a Somali psychiatric hospital

Stories of domestic dramas and the stuff of everyday life from around the world

What Ukraine's Russians fear from Maidan; Mexico captures its most wanted drug lord

Interviewing a convicted murderer; A student's journey from Kandahar to Canada.

Two sides of the Syrian prison system; the urban hyenas of Addis Ababa.