5 facts you need to know about childbirth in sub-Saharan Africa
Women in sub-Saharan Africa have a 1 in 39 chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth, compared to 1 in 3,700 in developed countries
Communicating climate change
How can climate change be made easier to understand, to help people act on it?
5 facts you didn't know about Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Every fifth person in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee - the highest concentration of refugees per capita in the world. An equivalent influx to the UK would be 14 million refugees. Here are 5 facts you didn't know about Syrian refugees
2013 Year in pictures
Here is our choice of the 50 best pictures of 2013, covering the big events of the year, from the military takeover in Egypt to operations to stabilise countries in central Africa, taking in the plight of the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar, the worsening civil war in Syria, and natural disasters from earthquakes in southwest China to Typhoon Haiyan which devastated the central Philippines.
Efficient cookstoves
Efficient cookstoves, which use less wood or charcoal, offer a big range of benefits, from curbing respiratory diseases and cutting women's labour to reducing climate-changing carbon emissions