The struggle of a teenage girl to continue pursuing her successful Chinese martial arts training despite the concerns of her family and traditional Muslim community.
In El Salvador, home of the bloodiest gang violence in the world, we follow one man's gruesome struggle to bring dignity and closure to the families of the victims.
An examination of the skin whitening trend in South Africa where the illegal products, despite being linked to causing skin cancer, have nonetheless become hugely popular with celebrities and the general community.
She survived months as a sex slave and escaped to Australia as a refugee. Aminata Conteh-Biger can't change the past but now she's ready to help the future of her homeland, which has become the world's most dangerous place to give birth.
After a radioactive disaster destroys your hometown, when is the right time to return? We meet residents of Fukushima grappling with a choice; return and rebuild their broken community, or stay away.
It's believed 5 million children in India have genius IQs but are never discovered. We follow two children from the slums who are as smart as Neil Armstrong fighting to achieve their dreams.
Following the rejection of his healthcare plan, Donald Trump is licking his wounds after failing to deliver on his first big promise - to fix America's healthcare system.
Go inside one of the world's most infamous prisons, where 80 per cent of inmates are locked up without a conviction, in conditions described as 'sub-human'.
In part 1 of a special Europe investigation, Dateline looks at why French voters are shifting to the right and what hope the National Front party gives them of a new France.
In part 2 of our far right special in Europe, Dateline goes to Vienna to meet a secretive group of young hipsters, whose headline-grabbing stunts are appealing to a new breed of far right nationalists.
Laws that reward orthodox Russian values under the rule of Vladmir Putin. Dateline looks into the benefits that a family with 18 children have received.
A year into its fledgling democracy, many in Burma fear the political freedoms and peace Aung San Suu Kyi brought the the country are already under attack.
The Brexit vote has driven a wedge between migrants and British-born citizens. In a small town that voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU, one Brexit voter is trying to bring these communities together.
When parents go to prison who takes care of their children? Part 1 of this story goes inside a unique orphanage in China, sheltering the kids of murderers and domestic violence victims and abusers.
When parents are in jail they don't stop loving their children. In part 2 we look at how kids adapt to life at the orphanage when parents are locked away, and how their relationships are impacted by separation.
In the slums of Delhi, a group of impoverished Indian children are making their voices heard and their stories told; by publishing their own newspaper, which is now being read from London to the USA.
How children in the Philippines are being sold by their parents to sexual predators from Western countries. A covert team of investigators tries to expose this horrifying trend.
Dateline explores a crisis next door to Hollywood's rich and famous - tens of thousands of homeless men, women and children. One man is fighting to help with his unique solution but authorities want to shut him down.
Food vendors have been a constant presence in Bangkok - but thousands of them are now being chased off the streets thanks to a move by Thailand's military government to 'clean up' the country.
This week we meet the French farmer rebelling against authorities to help refugees find a better life in Europe. Is he a good Samaritan helping those is desperate need or a dangerous people smuggler?
Can extremists be rehabilitated? In Denmark, a controversial new program is trying to change the minds of radicalised young people, by supporting rather than outcasting them - but does it work?
After 5 years of drought, California has finally had a deluge of rain. But with much of the state's water supply being sent to LA, people in drought-affected areas feel they've been left high and dry.
Why are so many Syrian refugees dying of treatable diseases? We hear shocking stories from Lebanon's refugee camps where more than a million Syrians live with little or no healthcare.
Dateline meets the first all-women car racing team in the Middle East, as they swerve through the cities of the West Bank and break down cultural barriers.
What is the secret to living large in old age? This week Dateline meets a squad of octogenarian Japanese cheerleaders and a famous TV writer challenging assumptions about people in their 90s.
As Australia decides which way to vote on same-sex marriage, we visit Ireland, where it was legalised by public vote two years ago. What lessons we can learn from their experience?
American Samoa has one of the highest obesity rates in the world and almost one third of the population has diabetes. This week we investigate this epidemic, and ask how it got so bad?
China's live streaming craze is creating a new kind of celebrity and challenging censored media. We go to China to meet these unlikely stars and ask; why are people watching?
As the Trump administration pulls America out of international meetings on climate change, we visit communities who are already feeling its effects, and being forced to leave their homes.
Could you live and work with the dead? Dateline travels to the Philippines to meet the unique communities who live in cemeteries and care for its dead.
As Trump pushes forward with his Mexican wall, Dateline meets those still desperate to cross the border and chase the American dream. But what awaits them, if they make it through alive?
The city of Mosul is adjusting to life after I.S. rule. This week Dateline meets people trying to revive the city, its culture and its monuments, in a place that's faced so much devastation.
Canada and Australia share a dark secret: in recent decades thousands of Indigenous women have been murdered or gone missing. What can Australia learn from Canada's attempts to address the problem?