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The Fifth Floor: Who is Nicaragua's First Lady?

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Rosario Murillo, Nicaragua's First Lady

05/08/2016 GMT

Who is Nicaragua's First Lady?

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Former revolutionary, poet, and called by some the Witch. Meet Rosario Murillo.

President Daniel Ortega has nominated his wife as his running partner in November's election.  David Amanor finds out more about Rosario Murillo's colourful background.

She's a former revolutionary, a poet, and some Nicaraguans call her La Chamuca, the Witch.  President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua has just named his wife Rosario Murillo as his running mate and candidate for vice-president in November's elections. The BBC's Arturo Wallace, who's from Nicaragua, introduces us to a powerful and colourful first lady. 

Harry Potter and the Secrets of the Fifth Floor
As Harry Potter fans in London queue for the new stage show about J.K. Rowling's boy wizard, the Fifth Floor uncovers the secrets of his magical powers in other languages. Revelations about the Hindi Harry, Poudlard - the French Hogwarts - and quidditch in Ukrainian.

Inside Khost
Khost is a four hour road journey from Kabul, but it's a world away for many Afghans.  The city has played host to a string of militant forces like Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the Haqqani network.  Reminders of those times remain, but things have been changing in Khost.  BBC Afghan journalist Haseeb Amman discovered a modern city in the grip of a construction boom, and at odds with his expectations.

Do the Olympics still matter?
It's time for the Olympics. This year with the world's greatest sporting show being dogged by scandal and controversy, do the games still matter? The Fifth Floor took the microphone out to find out what the Olympics mean to the language services and their audiences.

The Book of Khartoum
A new short story collection called The Book of Khartoum: A City in Short Fiction paints a warm but complicated portrait of the Sudanese capital and its writers. We explore Sudanese fiction past and present, and Khartoum's place in it, with BBC Arabic's Mohanad Hashim and one of the writers from the collection, Ahmad al-Malik. 

And Fifi Haroon shares some of the wilder stories from the world wide web.

Rosario Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua.
Credit: Rafael Trobat/AFP/Getty Images.

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