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Blanca Del Rio
Katya Adler meets a Mexican widow joining the police on one of the world's most dangerous beats.

A view of the office block
Andrew Harding visits the Johannesburg building that once housed Nelson Mandela's law firm and finds that long-stalled plans to turn it into a centre for black lawyers say a lot about the pace of change in modern South Africa.

French waiter with tray
The idea of service is taken very seriously in France where any feeling of subservience is strongly resisted, as Emma Jane Kirby discovered.

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