The programme features a presenter linking a number of BBC news reports from the past week or highlighting a topic or a series of reports and in some cases conducting interviews with correspondents present at the time the events took place.
The presenter was dropped in 2023 with text acting as the link between the reports and the programme returned to the UK feed.
Lyse Doucet presented a special edition in December 2013 marking three years since the start of the Arab uprisings and reports assessing the impact of the protests across the region.
Another edition was presented by Komla Dumor looking back at the life of Nelson Mandela.
Clive Myrie presented an edition in April 2015 looking at Europes Migration crisis.