Tributes Paid to Chinese Nobel Prize Peace Laureate

Liu Xiaobo, who had been serving an 11-year prison term for "subversion", died in a hospital aged 61.

From Occupy Wall Street to death fighting near Raqqa in Syria. We hear about the short life of 28 year old Robert Grodt.

We visit the northern Kenyan town which has been transformed by the opening of a multi million dollar highway.

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