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• One woman's 56-year fight to free her innocent brother from death sentence

  Hideko Hakamata spent decades fighting to save her brother: the world's longest-serving death row inmate.

• Ros Atkins On... Four reasons why the relationship between the UK and China is strained

  The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at how relations between the UK and China became so strained.

• Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service

  It's another sign the industry is moving away from owning games - some fear that means gamers having to "shell out more."

• The Indian family that built a business empire in Hawaii from scratch

  From businesses to philanthropy, the Watumull family is inextricably linked with Hawaiian history.

• Malaysia approves new search for missing flight MH370

  The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people vanished 10 years ago in one of aviation's greatest mysteries.

• Don't underestimate North Korean troops in Russia, ex-soldiers tell BBC

  Army defectors say units sent to fight against Ukraine will have high morale but won't be battle hardened.

• Soldier-spies in Myanmar help pro-democracy rebels make crucial gains

  Leaked intelligence from military spies is helping turn the civil war in the resistance’s favour, BBC finds.

• 'I bought my son's death': Families mourn victims of migrant shipwreck

  BBC Urdu spoke to grieving families who paid agents hefty sums to send their children to Europe.

• UK minister named in Bangladesh corruption probe

  Tulip Siddiq is alleged to have helped her aunt, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, embezzle up to £4bn.

• At least 100 North Koreans dead in Ukraine war, says South

  Some 1,000 have been injured and senior officers are among the casualties, an MP says, quoting officials.

• Man admits running secret Chinese 'police station' in NYC

  The site in Manhattan was used to help China identify pro-democracy activists, prosecutors say.

• YouTuber Yung Filly pleads guilty to reckless driving in Australia

  The rapper was caught speeding in Perth while out on bail over a separate sexual assault case.

• Father of teen who died in Laos poisonings: She was full of life

  Shaun Bowles tells the BBC his daughter was having "so much fun" before drinking tainted alcohol.

• Could this be what our home on Moon or Mars might look like?

  India tested its first analog space mission in the Himalayan mountains of Ladakh.

• Decoding India's 'One Nation, One Election' plan

  India's federal government is seeking to bring a controversial bill for holding federal and state assembly elections together.