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Today, a journalist murdered, but this was a year ago, Daphne Caruana Galicia killed in Malta, were on the island with the morners refusing to allow her memory to be erased.

A gold rush, but not much glamour because it's in Kaliningradrad and it's a digital gold rush with makeshift mines

set up in search of Bitcoin.

In the Indian Port of Chennai we stumble across the largest if recently established expatriate

group there, but where are they from? And what can a night at the opera tell us about the

fate of Angela Merkel.

It's almost a year since Robert Magabe was ejected from power in Zimbabwe, a country he'd

led since independence in 1980.

After decades of economic pain and political repression, many Zimbabweans hoped for a new deal

and a brighter future under a new government, and yet a general election this summer returned Zarnu P.F to power the party he once

led.

So what has really changed and are things getting better?

Andrew Harding has been looking for clues.

Harare is putting on its annual extravaganza, a purple haze of jackaranda blossoms like gaudy

confetti clogging the city's tree-lined avenues.

It is quite a spectacle.

And this year, apparently it's also a sign that good things are about to happen in Zimbabwe.

That's according to the country's new president, Emerson

Manangagua, who recently described how, with Robert Mugabe no longer in charge,

Zimbabwe is poised to blossom spring-like into a stable democratic prosperous nation.

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