Correspondents Report

Just a few months ago 80 people were killed and 231 injured in twin suicide bombings at a demonstration in Kabul. Graphic television footage from the blast sites showed bodies lying on a bloodied road. As the injured overwhelmed the city's hospitals, IS militants claimed responsibility. Eventually many of those injured would become the patients of Alberto Cairo. He's a world expert on artificial limbs and rehabilitation. Originally from Italy, Alberto has spent more than 25 years working at the International Committee of the Red Cross's orthopaedic rehabilitation centre in Kabul providing some of Afghanistan's most vulnerable people with artificial limbs, mobility devices and physical rehabilitation.

The Kenyan capital Nairobi is the only capital anywhere in the world with a National Park inside city limits. But the aesthetics of the park are about to change to accommodate a flagship national infrastructure project.

Our PNG correspondent Eric Tlozek would be the first to tell you that his appointment to Port Moresby catapulted him into one of the sharpest learning curves possible. Quite a few of the ABC's correspondents have cut their teeth in PNG. But it's quite a challenge.

The number of Syrian refugees arriving in Australia has increased in recent weeks as families who received visas under the government's new protection program begin to arrive.

China is set to launch a nationwide crackdown on the Church. The Communist Party has just enacted much tougher laws that criminalise Christians if they don't pledge loyalty to the state. The Chinese President Xi Jinping has warned that all religions now have to become 'Chinese' and the new laws will attempt to bring churchgoers and their leaders under party control. China correspondent Matthew Carney visited those in the firing line: the underground churches.

This past week we were treated to the first of three US election campaign debates. Watching Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump go head to head was revealing for many, some say even brutal. Our North America correspondent Michael Vincent was ringside.

China was a topic which came up numerous times in last week's US presidential debate. Here's our China correspondent Bill Birtles from Beijing with his take on how the Chinese saw the debate.

It seems like all the ABC's Indonesia correspondents have at some stage been caught up in the frenzy of an Australian in serious trouble in Bali. Several weeks ago, our Indonesia correspondent Samantha Hawley covered the arrest of Byron Bay woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor. Here's her behind the scenes look at what it's been like to cover the murder case.

For 122 years, the Tower Bridge has spanned the Thames in London. It's a bridge that's not only functional but beautiful. It's a river crossing and a tourist attraction. So deciding to close it for three months for major repairs was not a decision taken lightly, as Europe correspondent Lisa Millar discovered.

This weekend in Washington DC the National Museum of African American History and Culture will open its doors for the first time amid a great deal of anticipation. Thirteen years in the making, the hulking bronze building sits on the National Mall right next to the iconic Washington Monument and it's now home to a staggering 36,000 items from to the bible of a rebellious slave to the boxing gloves of Muhammad Ali.