The value of the food each Briton throws away each day is more than the sum half the world's population has to live on each day.

Step Three to Remaking the World

How are people in Galle, Sri Lanka, picking up the pieces following the disaster in December? Mark Perera finds out.

Pamela Jenner writes from Kanniyakumari in southern India

IT WAS only three days before the tsunami struck that Vijitha Yapa decided to give a day off to his staff of eight at his bookshop in Galle, though for the last 10 years they had worked on Boxing Day.

It took a shipwreck to turn John Graham into a giraffe. David Allen talks to an adventurer, peacemaker and risk-taker extraordinaire.

Stan Hazell meets a nonagenarian whose latest book is a surprise hit in Britain's prisons.

John Paul II could capture anyone, and millions, not only by what he said but also by the way he was able to listen.

Europe will not find the way forward by avoiding conflict, but by transforming it, maintains Brian Walker.

Walking along the slave routes of West Africa helped Kojo Jantuah to discover his identity-and his destiny.

She had come to the BBFP programme to condemn the Israelis for killing her father.

Kadi Fakondo's job involves overseeing complaints from the public, community relations, and discipline and internal investigations.

THE SWEEPERS of India are at the centre of a revolutionary initiative by the Indian Government to upgrade their status.

Melville Carson tells Paul Williams about his'great escape' from guilt and bitterness.

For many the war years were enough adventure to last a lifetime.

Ann Rignall meets Pete and June Pemberton, who have fostered 360 children over the past 40 years.

Reasons for Hope conference in Liverpool, UK, focussed on healing history, the power of honest dialogue, and how the skills of asylum seekers and refugees could be used for the benefit of all.

Matching the valiant attempts of the locals to learn English, growing numbers of foreign nationals are coming to Beijing to study Mandarin.