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Pascale Harter introduces some of the most striking stories shared by our correspondents in 2018.

They risked everything to make it to Europe but failed to so. Colin Freeman meets some of the migrants who have given up on their dreams of a European paradise and accepted the UN's help to return home.

Lyse Doucet explores the storied souks of Aleppo to see how the Syrian city is taking tentative steps back towards normality.

Rana Rahimpour explains what the taste of toothpaste in Tehran has to do with US sanctions on Iran.

And in Costa Rica, Benjamin Zand discovers that while the lure of paradise may be strong, it's always so difficult to find.

Photo: Returnees alight from a chartered aircraft that brought home 150 migrants from Libya at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, on December 5, 2017. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)