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Pascale Harter introduces stories of strong bonds and beliefs from writers around the world.

Mary Harper reports on how the loss of entrepreneur and friend Mohamed Mahamoud Sheikh Ali has had a long lasting effect on the dangerous Somali capital of Mogadishu.

After eight crisis-filled years for Greece, Athens is set to reclaim control and exit its third bailout. Theopi Skarlatos meets the cleaning ladies who mean business and have fought hard for their jobs in times of austerity.

Pope Francis is preparing to attend the World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland. It will be the first time a papal has visited the country since Pope John Paul II in 1979 - and a very different one too - as Vincent Woods discovers.

And Alexa Dvorson takes a look back at the events of 20 August 1968, when the ‘Prague Spring’ was in full swing. She hears how a number of Warsaw Pact countries - under Soviet direction - invaded Czechoslovakia.

PHOTO: Scared children run past the front-line where fighting continues in Somali capital as government soldiers exchange gun fire with their colleagues at kilometer five in Mogadishu, Somalia (CREDIT: MOHAMED DAHIR/AFP/GettyImages)