Indias pandemic politics
The pandemic\u2019s impact on politics is being picked over in India after a disappointment for the BJP in West Bengal's state election. Mark Tully was born in India in 1935 and reported from across the subcontinent for the BBC for many years - working as the chief of its Delhi bureau for some of that time. He still lives in the city and has recently been shielding at home \u2013 and sent us this long view of how Narendra Modi\u2019s government has dealt with this emergency.
After a sluggish start \u2013 and some concerns about public reluctance - Germany\u2019s vaccination campaign is gathering pace. The government has agreed to lift some restrictions for vaccinated people. But the new social divide between the vaxxed and the un-vaxxed is sparking some awkward new emotions \u2014 and some new German words to describe them. Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin.
During the last twenty years, a new generation of Afghan girls have grown up aspiring to work outside the home \u2013 some even daring to start up their own businesses. But the past year has been tough for them, and there are fears of what increased Taliban influence may mean for their enterprises. Charlie Faulkner met one young woman wondering how long she can stay afloat.
The Galapagos Islands off Ecuador are a showcase of marine life in all its variety - but the country's fishing fleets are fuming over plans to extend the limits of environmental protection zones. Dan Collyns examines the delicate balance between saving the fishing industry and protecting the planet.
And in the week that France commemorated one of its greatest sons \u2013 Napoleon Bonaparte, who died 200 years ago - Julia Buckley gleans some personal insights into the man behind the myth in an unexpectedly intimate museum of his belongings in the Dordogne.