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Screengrabs from amateur videos showing Hindu participants in riots in Delhi that started on February 23, 2020.

Who are India’s RSS, the Hindu nationalists accused of inciting violence towards Muslims?
In amateur videos taken by demonstrators on 25 February, riot police protect the future construction site of the detention centre.

'A giant prison for migrants': Lesbos residents fight the construction of a new detention centre
From performing the traditional lion dance in their living rooms to imitating fireworks, Chinese people are finding inventive ways to beat the boredom of quarantine.

Balcony concerts and living-room vacations: how Chinese people are beating quarantine boredom
This video shows Chinese police officers using a fishing net to stop a man apparently running a fever.

Did Chinese police really use a fishing net to arrest a man with a high fever?
A video circulated widely on social media shows several young men dragging a manatee down the street in Nigeria. This aquatic mammal is an endangered species. (screengrabs)

Nigerians outraged by video of young men dragging a manatee down the street
Screengrabs of a video posted on social media in Cameroon that shows a man being deported from Turkey wrapped in plastic film. The woman on the right is wearing the uniform of a Turkish Airlines flight attendant.

‘They wrapped me up like a package’: A Cameroonian’s harrowing deportation from Turkey
Kosso wood cut into cants, or squared-off logs, being loaded onto trucks. Our Observer works for a Chinese company that buys wood from the Malian company Générale Industrie du Bois.

Legal loopholes allow endangered rosewood to be exported from Mali to China

Screengrabs of some of Adham Al Sayed’s videos, which show daily life in Wuhan under quarantine.

Meet the Lebanese student who decided to stay in Wuhan despite Covid-19
In Iran, petrol theft has increased since a price hike. Screen captures of videos shared online since December 2019.

In Iran, petrol prices are so high that people have resorted to stealing it
These photos, posted by Médard Koudébi, the president of the NGO Bénin Diaspora Assistance, show unhygienic conditions at a slaughterhouse in Cotonou.

Butchers call out ‘appalling’ conditions at Benin’s main slaughterhouse
Screengrabs of a video that was shared widely on Twitter.

Did police kill a woman escaping a COVID-19 quarantine in China?
An officer in the Afghan army based in the south of the country sent us this photo, explaining that what you see in the photo is the ration for five people.

‘We haven't eaten for days’: Afghan soldiers suffer amid widespread corruption

One fast-food restaurant in Afghanistan recently made a buzz by employing a robot as a waiter. Source: @IsmailHotak1

Afghanistan has its first robotic waiter – but is that a good thing?
On the left, the artist Ekaterina Nenasheva shows an example of this type of make-up and on the right, a member of the collective poses in front of a CCTV camera.

Russian artists wear anti-facial recognition make-up… and get arrested

Screengrabs of Snapchat stories filmed in Sadraynla Square on February 5, 2020.

How Iraq’s 'blue hat' militiamen went from protecting to killing protesters
A Chinese shopkeeper and citizen journalist known as Fangbin was detained Feb. 1, 2020 by police and interrogated after he posted videos on his YouTube channel showing hospitals crowded with patients infected with the coronavirus..

'Go get a warrant!': Wuhan shopkeeper defies police over coronavirus videos
People circulated this video on social media, claiming it shows a doctor, ill with coronavirus, collapsing in a hospital in Wuhan. It turns out that’s not the real story.

Did a doctor in China really collapse during surgery because he had contracted coronavirus?
Screengrabs of photos posted on Twitter.

Hong Kong residents join massive queues for masks as fears of coronavirus spread
Screengrabs from a video that has been widely shared by social media users claiming that it shows the market in Wuhan, China that is thought to be the epicentre of the coronavirus.

Are there really dogs, snakes, rats and bats for sale at the Wuhan market where coronavirus originated?
The Instagram account @coronavirusdaily posted the video, claiming that it was filmed in a market in Wuhan but the video was subsequently taken down.

The bat section in the Wuhan market? Nope, this video was filmed in Indonesia

Screengrab from a video viewed more than 4 million times on Twitter.

Bat soup in China? This video of a bat in broth was filmed in the Pacific
Screengrab from a video viewed thousands of times on YouTube.

A Filipino couple eating bat soup in Wuhan? Nope, YouTubers in Palau
Screengrabs from videos circulating on social networks in late January 2020 with captions saying bat soup is eaten in China and could be a source of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Is bat soup a delicacy in China? We debunk a rumour on the origin of the coronavirus
Screengrab from a video from Guinea showing police officers apparently using a woman as a human shield.

Video shows police in Guinea using a woman as a human shield

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