BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

Egypt and South Sudan

Is Egypt returning to military rule? And is South Sudan sliding back into civil war?

Female hopes and fears for the future in Kabul; the fear of homosexuality in Russia

Correspondents brave the pitfalls of travel, from Burma to Vietnam, Greenland to Israel

Istanbul's gas-mask sales a measure of public unrest; fun and games in Dominican baseball

How a holy man's dream sparked a giant dig; the true grit of Montevideo's football fans

Rugged lives of the PKK's women fighters; the decadent luxury of Rome at Hadrian's Villa

Is Sochi's security dragnet catching the right people? Plus, branding bulls in Andalucia

Why the Turkish city of Gaziantep is the new Casablanca. And shepherds in Romania today

Disputed territory from Chernobyl to Somalia, and the South China Sea to the Amazon basin

In the US Hell has frozen over, and coming up with a new national anthem for Switzerland.