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China is looking to introduce a ban on smoking indoors in public from 2017. An estimated 2.3tn cigarettes are consumed there every year. The government faces a big challenge as tobacco is deeply ingrained in Chinese society. BBC News went to meet a group of friends who are unapologetic smokers.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Jaroslaw Kaczynski is widely seen as the power behind Poland’s centre-right government Poles have marked the 1981 imposition of martial law with marches, and thousands used the occasion to protest against the conservative government. Dozens of activists died when Poland’s last communist leader Gen Jaruzelski …