蜜芽传媒

Pascale Harter introduces the pick of the last week's insight, wit and analysis from correspondents. In this edition:

MIKE THOMSON meets the Malian Army's special forces, tasked with crushing rebellion and Islamists in the country's north;

PAUL MOSS scratches his head at the challenges of calculating economic data in Argentina;

BOB DORAN finds out why too much lobster is definitely NOT a good thing for the coast of Maine, USA;

DAVID WILLEY remembers an extraordinary reporting trip to Mao's China in 1965: "the most exciting time of my life";

and DANY MITZMAN must use her wiles to escape the hordes of Italian holidaymakers on the sands of the Riviera Romagnola.