A mining boom in Inner Mongolia led to a large-scale house building programme, but in Ordos the houses stand empty, a sign that China's housing bubble may have burst, says Peter Day.
Visiting the Indonesian island of Ternate, Simon Worrall finds a clove tree with an extraordinary history.
Sharon Bernardi lost all seven of her children to a rare genetic disease. She hopes medical research will avoid others suffering too.
BBC correspondent John Sudworth describes how he was suddenly affected by the condition Bell's palsy, which causes paralysis on one side of the face.
Why did the Church of Scotland spend millions on a luxury hotel on the Sea of Galilee - and why doesn't it market it more actively?
BBC correspondent John Sudworth's story about the day he woke up with half his face paralysed triggered a big response from our readers - many wrote in to share their stories of living with Bell's palsy.
Africa has a particularly high rate of cancers caused by infection. The good news is, they are - in theory - preventable.
Condemned as a "dead language" by Unesco, Manx, the native language of the Isle of Man is staging a renaissance.
North America's Hutterites believe that living communally and separately from what they refer to as "the world" will secure them a place in heaven.
Israel is in the grip of a locust invasion, but some people are taking a novel approach to pest control - eating them.
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