BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent

Russia and Spain

Is Sochi's security dragnet catching the right people? Plus, branding bulls in Andalucia

Why the Turkish city of Gaziantep is the new Casablanca. And shepherds in Romania today

Disputed territory from Chernobyl to Somalia, and the South China Sea to the Amazon basin

In the US Hell has frozen over, and coming up with a new national anthem for Switzerland.

Brickmakers' rights abused in Indian kilns, and Britain's battle with coastal erosion

Ice-skating Somalis playing bandy in Sweden, and the politics of Lebanese basketball

Why there's conflict in South Sudan, and the bloody history of an Italian mountain path.

Worries over safety plans for the Chernobyl site; tracking jaguars through Mayan jungles

Correspondents consider the stories which might evolve - or play out again - during 2014

Hunting for wolves in the Scandinavian forest and taxis on the empty streets of Naypyidaw