Fat Bear Week is a week-long contest that takes place every year. It's based around bears in Katmai National Park, which is in far southwestern Alaska. Members of the public are basically voting on who the fattest bear is and then that bear wins.
Our correspondent reports from
eastern Congo, where a three-decade-long conflict has killed thousands, and forced more than five million people from their homes--with no end in sight. Researchers are searching for better
analgesics: ones that reduce pain without the risk of addiction or corollary physiological damage. And a contest in southern Alaska to select the internet’s favourite
fat bear.