Another major global UN conference - this time on cities - has taken place in Istanbul.

The people of a former red light area have run the pimps and drug dealers out of town. Now they have launched a plan to regenerate their district. Mary Lean investigates.

Yusuf Al-Azhari spent six years in solitary confinement as a political prisoner. Now he is helping to bring Somalia's warlords together. Michael Smith tells his story:

French journalist Bernard Margueritte has reported on East Europe from Poland for over 20 years.

Anthony Duigan from Johannesburg gives his impressions of a conference that aimed to bring healing in South Africa.

Enlightened management seem to have taken on board that people operate best when they are given responsibility. Even when this is not given them, workers sometimes grasp the initiative. This is one conclusion to be drawn from a conference organized recently by the British-shop floor paper The Industrial Pioneer.

Kenneth Noble takes a look at former great Christian athletes as the Olympic Games will celebrate their 100th anniversary