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A debate about law and order in Afghanistan is fuelled by video pictures of a couple being stoned to death; Quentin Somerville considers the implications.

Kevin Connolly wonders whether modern Lebanon has something to learn from its Phoenician past.

In rural India, Madeleine Morris visits a village where the dream that small loans could transform the prospects of the poor has turned into a nightmare.

President Lukashenko of Belarus has been described as Europe's last dictator, but James Coomarasamy spent a day with the Belarussians who suggest he's misunderstood.

And David Goldblatt pays tribute to the remarkable local woman who taught him how to be streetwise in Senegal.