The BBC speaks to people around the world who will be affected if Donald Trump shuts the US's main overseas aid agency.

Is there any evidence that having a female leader actually changes a country? Do women make better politicians - or is it all based on stereotypes?

Women make up less than 7% of world leaders, and last year in 2024 the number of women in parliament globally fell. However, Mexico, Namibia and North Macedonia all elected their first female presidents, and as more women get elected to the top jobs, there’s an ongoing debate about whether female leaders do things differently to men.

Laura Garcia from BBC Mundo breaks down some common misconceptions about women in power with a game of true or false.

We also hear from Professor Rosie Campbell from the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at King’s College London, about why it’s so hard to draw conclusions about the effects of female lawmakers.

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Ed Butler travels to Kantamanto market in Accra, Ghana.

15 million used garments arrive in Ghana every week from all over the world - most ends up at Kantamanto but a lot can't be sold because it's in poor condition. That ends up as landfill.

Just weeks after Ed’s visit, a disastrous fire raised it to the ground, so he’s been back in touch with some of the vendors he spoke to as they try and get the market, and their livelihoods, up and running again.

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Rome's decision to release Osama Almasri Najim drew condemnation from Italian opposition parties, NGOs and the ICC.

There is a good chance that inside your device is some metal dug up in a mine controlled by rebels.

Willy Mignon is remembered as a "fighter" who pioneering a whole new dance style.

As M23 rebels entered Goma and the city was plunged into chaos, female prisoners were attacked, the UN says.

The fire is said to have broken out in a nearby house and spread to the school while the children were asleep.

The hopping game of langa, played for generations in parts of West Africa, demands endurance in seeking to find a place on the global stage.

The insurance magnate was a close friend of Nelson Mandela, who he housed after the statesman's divorce in 1992.

The Mauritian prime minister had said the renegotiated deal linked payments to inflation.

The centrepiece will be the winning sculpture in an Oxford Zimbabwe Arts Partnership competition.

The African nation exports its cashews in raw form, but processing them would be more lucrative.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is under fire. It is the world’s biggest donor and spends billions of dollars a year, funding programmes around the world, like fighting malaria in Bangladesh, clearing unexploded landmines in Cambodia and Laos and providing medical supplies in Sudan.

But President Trump says it is run by “radical lunatics” and he and billionaire Elon Musk, who’s got the job of trying to slash American government spending, want to shut it down. They have paused almost all international spending for 90 days and issued “stop work” orders to their staff. BBC journalist Nathalia Jimenez tells us what USAID does - and why the Trump administration wants to close it.

A large proportion of USAID funding goes towards healthcare and HIV medication in sub-Saharan Africa. Makuochi Okafor, the BBC’s Africa Health correspondent tells us what impact closing USAID could have in this region.

Anselm Gibbs, a BBC reporter based in Trinidad and Tobago, tells us about programmes USAID funds in the Caribbean. And Hilde Deman from Search for Common Ground, an international NGO that uses USAID funding in countries affected by violent conflict, talks about the impact to their work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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John Smyth moved to South Africa from Zimbabwe where he abused young people at Christian camps he ran.

President Trump, who Elon Musk advises, has threatened to cut funding over South Africa's land policy.

The men attacked the 67-year-old female victim after one of their wives had a dream about her.

Fyfe Robertson reported from Libya on a British woman who looked after the royal Cyrenaican bees for the King.

There is currently no approved vaccine for the highly contagious and deadly Sudan strain of Ebola.

Sudanese refugees based in Birmingham tell the BBC how they are supporting each other.