Twenty years ago Hong Kong was handed over from Britain to China, bringing an end to more than a century and a half of colonial rule.
The BBC has been meeting some of those who were born in the year of the handover.

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Akshansh Gupta, 32, has just completed his doctorate from India’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in brain and computer interface. Mr Gupta has cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that severely limits his movements and speech capability. He cannot walk, operate his own wheelchair or even feed himself. India has more than 25 million disabled people but the country severely lacks proper infrastructure to support them.
“I feel that if you are determined, you can achieve anything. But you have to take the first step, until you do that, you can’t expect the world to support you,” he told the BBC.
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Clashes have broken out between groups of masked men and police in Spanish cities, after hundreds of thousands of people took part in Spain’s first general strike for 14 years, called by the country’s main unions over housing and the high cost of living.

Some 120,000 people joined a demonstration in the capital Madrid and more than 50,000 turned out in Barcelona, where footage showed masked men setting fire to rubbish bins and smashing shop windows as police fired tear gas. Transport and other public services across Spain faced serious disruption.

Spaniards are due to vote in parliamentary elections on 29 November. The head of the big UGT labour union, Pepe Álvarez, said the strike was a success with “massive” participation, while Unai Sordo of the CC OO union said turnout was “very significant.”

Earlier in the day there was major disruption in the capital, Madrid. The interior ministry said dozens of people were arrested a Spanish reports said estate agencies had seen attacks on their offices.

Rental prices in the capital have risen in recent years. The monthly cost of an average-sized apartment in Madrid is an nearly half the average gross salary.

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called snap elections last month after parliament failed to approve his plan for housing reform, and has publicly supported the right to strike over the issue.

The conservative People’s Party (PP), by contrast, has accused the government of attempting to weaponise the strike for electoral gain. Its leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo has described the unions as “mafia” and “trash”.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Nick Beake.

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On 1 February, 2021 General Min Aung Hlaing launched his coup against the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar.

Today, in the first sitting in five years, he’s been elected by the new parliament to be the new president.

But, with the new parliament made up of mostly loyalists and armed forces, questions remain over whether his appointment will be more of the same, with hope for change gone.

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