India

This woman was promised a husband in India. Instead, she was forced to work there as a prostitute. She later escaped back to her village in Bangladesh. Human trafficking affects millions of people each year. Find out what the United Nations has been trying to do about it.

In an era of globalization, languages are disappearing by the hundreds, wiped out by English, Chinese and Spanish. Of the 6,909 known languages, about half will disappear in this century. Koro, with only 800 or so speakers, may be no exception.

India's growing middle class is being targeted in a campaign to bring more of the country's golfers to Ireland. Arjun Atwal's win in the US last weekend has focused attention on a market that is potentially one of the biggest in the world.

This is not the Pakistan of disastrous floods or Taliban terror. In one episode of her new reality TV show, Komal Rizvi attends a party in Karachi, where illegal alcohol flows freely and the beautiful people chat in English rather than Urdu.

Tony and Maureen Wheeler met in London's Regent's Park and married a year later. With an old car, a few pounds in their pockets and a sense of adventure, they then set off on the trip of a lifetime. When it ended, Lonely Planet was born.

You're in Delhi and would like to spend an afternoon at the Taj Mahal. No problem. You can be in Agra in an hour thanks to Greaves, a specialist travel company, which has invested in a Super King Air B200 plane. This is how the rich travel.

Their credit cards are maxed out, but Ross wants money — now! Ross is actually Roshan; he's one of those young Indian graduates who spend their working days on the phone trying to get back the cash spent by Americans during the boom.

Shah Rukh Khan says his latest film focuses on "the relationship between the Western world and Islam and how that has changed over the past few years." It is about "the journey of one family and how it changes because of 9/11", the Bollywood star says.

David Headley has a Pakistani wife, who lives with their children in Chicago. He also has an American girlfriend in New York. And he's an Islamic fundamentalist suspected of involvement in last November's attacks on Mumbai that left 170 people dead.