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The Fifth Floor: Taking Journalism to New Heights

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Aliya Nazki on a mule  going up a steep incline to Breswana village in the Himalayas

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Taking Journalism to New Heights

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BBC Urdu saddle up to get the story at the top of a mountain.

Himalayan mission in Kashmir; coffin homes in Hong Kong; Durban's gqom music scene; Nigeria's campus cults; and life after the flood in Mexico.

BBC Urdu's Aliya Nazki and Suhail Haleem talk us through their reporting trip up a mountain in Indian-administered Kashmir - to visit the remarkable Haji Public School.  The only way up was on foot or on horseback.  So they saddled up, and tried not to look down...

Coffin apartments in Hong Kong 
How much living space do you really need? Somewhere to cook, space to lounge - even room to stand?   In Hong Kong, rental prices are forcing people into the tiniest of apartments, known as "coffin" homes. The BBC's Juliana Liu has visited some.  

Youth Culture:  Gqom Durban House
As part of a new series on youth culture, we're off to a unique South African house music scene. Out of the Durban townships, a new form of dance music called gqom has emerged. Vumani Mkhize of BBC Africa is from Durban and knows the scene.

Nigerian Mafia 
Italian police are facing a growing criminal threat in Sicily.  Not the Mafia, but Nigerian gangs, who are muscling in on Mafia territory. Many of the gangs have their origins in 'campus cults' in Nigeria - secret university societies. BBC Africa's Chris Ewokor explains.

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Life after the flood  
The Mexican village of San Marcos was abandoned in 2009 after the construction of a nearby dam left parts of it underwater.  But some houses survived, and three families chose to stay on among the ruins.  Juan Paullier of BBC Mundo has been to meet them.

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