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It鈥檚 Martyrs鈥� Day in Myanmar and the country鈥檚 founding father, Aung San, is being honoured. His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi now leads the government, but with her reputation in tatters for her failure to condemn the excesses of the armed forces. Nick Beake reflects on the contradictions.

50 years after the first man walked on the moon, India has been celebrating the successful launch of its own lunar mission. Rajini Vaidyanathan joins a group of schoolchildren basking in the glow of national pride.

Thousands have been killed in the Philippines in President Duterte's 鈥渨ar on drugs.鈥� He鈥檚 also got a reputation for a sense of humour that鈥檚 not to everyone鈥檚 taste. Howard Johnson wonders whether his jokes have conditioned people in the Philippines to accept atrocities.

Greece has a new prime minister after elections earlier this month. He鈥檚 promised to end the country鈥檚 brain drain, to persuade the hundreds of thousands of people who鈥檝e left in recent years to come home. Jessica Bateman asks if that鈥檚 what they鈥檒l want to do.

And, Vincent Dowd hears how technology is making shipping safer as he takes a boat trip out to the Fastnet Rock off the coast of Ireland, with its lighthouse, 鈥渁 great cathedral tethered to the ocean.鈥�