A new electronic music project with a difference is teaching respect and tolerance in South Africa. Put down your smartphones – an old past-time is making a come-back in a big way –and it might just help you score a date! We hear from revelers in Cologne about how they feel about going out in public following several attacks in Germany. And, we meet some of Africa’s potential future young leaders.

This week on Pulse we are on shifting ground where we meet French university students helping refugees integrate into society and get ready to be charmed by a street opera singer in Los Angeles.

In pulse this week, we’ll hear about health vloggers in the UK, meet a young Cameroonian lady using theatre to create awareness about maternal health care and find out how Germany is coping with an increasing number of STIs (sexually transmitted infections).

We talk changes - changing your life, changing others’ lives – for the better. We meet a group of students in Cape Town broadcasting their very own radio show. Make your taste buds water as we head to a food workshop with a difference. And, find out why gender reassignment surgeries are big business in India. Plus, Ethiopia runs into trouble with 69 million unusable condoms.

This week on Pulse: Why Syrian refugees are turning to Shakespeare, how to realize a dream based entirely on cardboard, and meet the Honduran artist who seeks out danger.

More than a million refugees arrived in Germany last year but finding a place for them to sleep has been a challenge. Two student entrepreneurs in Berlin say they've designed a product that could offer a solution.

Today on Pulse - we will make your taste buds water as we head to a special café in Turkey which is helping change people’s attitudes towards disability. Learn the dos and don’ts of how to eat. Plus, a coffee cart with a difference in Australia is changing the lives of people who are homeless. All that and more coming up on this jam-packed edition of Pulse with host Jessie Wingard.

When photography first emerged as a medium people thought photographers were magicians. Today, with the advent of camera phones almost anyone can be a photographer One young woman still understands the magic of taking pictures. At 15, she turned her obsession with the camera into a wildly successful career.

A play that explores the story of mothers who lost their children to ISIS has received rave reviews. It examines the allure of the so-called Islamic State for some disenfranchised young European Muslims. Now, it's now being staged again - this time at select secondary schools in some of the UK's poorest neighborhoods.

From rising stars to dying starts, we find out what drives people to do the things they do.