BBC News Correspondents

It is more than 20 years since revolution and reform swept through Central and Eastern Europe. First in Poland and Hungary, then the wall that divided Germany for so many years came tumbling down, and on Christmas Day 1989 Nicolae Ceausescu's long running regime fell in Romania.

It was far from a peaceful coup, with many killed in the fight for freedom, and though there are of course conflicting views on the events that led to Ceausescu's execution, what is undeniable is that the changes in Europe that year created the map we know today. In Romania, as with many of the former eastern bloc countries, a new generation have since emerged with no memory of the communist country and oppression of that time.

Photographer Dana Popa was born in Romania in 1977 and so fairly...

Photographer Lee Karen Stow has worked in more than 60 countries as both a journalist and later as a photographer, often dipping in out of people's lives as assignments dictated. Yet five years ago she began work on a two-week project that has now become a permanent fixture in her life.

Stow was born in Hull, the home of William Wilberforce - a leading voice against slavery, and in 2007 the city commemorated the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in a big way. Despite her extensive travels, Stow had never been to Freetown in Sierra Leone, a city twinned with her hometown, and this sparked an idea to instigate a visual conversation through photography around this issue.

Despite the town twinning, it seems that for many residents of Hull their knowledge of the country...

Photography can be an ideal tool to give a voice to those who need it most, people on the margins of society, or who have little access to mass modes of communication. Yet often the pictures are taken by outsiders. What if the subjects took their own photographs and used the camera as a means of self-expression. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

Today this is nothing new and accepted wisdom. Yet about 10 years ago, when the charity PhotoVoice was formed by Anna Blackman and Tiffany Fairey, this was not the case. Photography was primarily still film-based and thus costly, and their move was seen as a bold one to harness the power of storytellers in this way.

I first encountered the charity in 2003 when Tiffany introduced me to a young refugee from Angola, Tatiana Correia,...

More than 20 monarchs gather to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, with protests over the inclusion of the controversial heads of Bahrain and Swaziland.

No 10 rejects suggestions of a rift between David Cameron and Francois Hollande ahead of their first talks at the G8 summit in the US.

David Beckham lights a cauldron in Cornwall after the flame touches down, ready for the start of the London 2012 torch relay.

Coastguard officers recover a man's body from the sea during the search for a missing Dorset fishing vessel.