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Correspondents' stories: Jeremy Bowen on the effect in Egypt of the upcoming trials of senior figures from the Muslim Brotherhood; you could write the history of the South Pacific as a succession of arrivals of powerful, foreign vessels in palm-fringed lagoons, according to John Pickford in Tonga; the Sudanese capital Khartoum 'changed forever' after the recent riots in the capital - that is what James Copnall has been hearing in Khartoum; Linda Pressly has been to the Spanish city of Melilla, on the north coast of Morocco, to meet the so-called 'mule women' and find out why they are prepared to shoulder such heavy loads; and Russians have never been famous for their smiles, but Jamie Coomarasamy is wondering if times have changed and they are now no longer trying to keep a straight face!

The programme is produced by Tony Grant.