This week we head to the French island of Corsica to investigate an almost invisible pollution choking the Mediterranean Sea. Up to 250 billion fragments of plastic are believed to be swarming just below the water's surface.
Is a Tweet a private message or a public posting? If it's the latter, social media users could face huge fines if they break the 8 pm embargo law on predicting the French election results this Sunday. Next, a year after 63 refugees from Africa died in a stranded boat off the Libyan coast, four survivors are accusing the French army of having abandoned them. Finally, an exhibit of Doisneau's iconic photographs offers a glimpse into the capital's past.
Despite an outstanding seafaring heritage and the second-largest area of territorial waters in the world, France no longer rules the waves. With fishing quotas, foreign competition and rising fuel costs, can the decline of the French maritime sector - which provides 400,000 jobs - be halted?
First, in Brazil, judges live in fear of reprisals and are demanding better police protection. Next, starved of cash, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says his whistleblowing website may be weeks away from collapse. Finally, Mississippi’s ecosystem is in the grip of a foreign invasion, as Asian carp devour everything in their paths.
This week we head to Brittany, the heartland of French pig farming and an agricultural powerhouse. But are the region's farmers responsible for the toxic green algae mounting along the coast?
Dammed if you do...and dammed if you don't. This week we're taking you to Laos where fishermen on the Mekong river now want to become farmers as concrete constructions leave rivers running dry. Then, we take you north and into the Arctic circle, where energy needs are threatening the Sami population.
A Chinese boat that was fishing illegally in South Korean waters capsized on Saturday after it collided with a coast guard ship, killing one fisherman and leaving another two missing, South Korean officials say.
In Senegal, fish are becoming scarce. Industrial-scale fishing has drained the country's fish stocks. Faced with this shortage, Senegalese fishermen have embarked on a practice both illegal and highly dangerous: underwater fishing. Our reporters went to meet the fishermen who risk their lives with every dive.
Japan on Monday released the 14 crew members of a Chinese fishing vessel seized last week after a maritime clash near a disputed island chain in the East China Sea but has kept its captain in custody. Japan claims the trawler was fishing illegally.
The European Union has warned Iceland that a quarrel over fishing rights in the north-east Atlantic will hinder the country's chances of becoming a member state. Iceland is accused of endangering mackerel after hugely increasing its yearly quota.
