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Following the death of Fidel Castro we explore the future of US-Cuban relations. We hear from Jose Azel, a Cuban exile in Florida who's now a scholar with the Institute for Cuban American Studies at the University of Miami. We also get the views of James Williams, president of a political action committee in Washington DC called the Engage Cuba Coalition and Dr Emily Morris, a Cuba specialist at University College London.

Throughout the programme we're joined by Parag Khanna, author of Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilisation - he's in Singapore. Alison van Diggelen, host of freshdialogues.com also joins us from Silicon Valley.

Who owns Norfolk Island? The question involves the governments of Britain, Australia and the people who actually live there. Political tensions have been rising and now the United Nations might get involved as an arbitrator. We get analysis from Mark Willacy of ABC News.

A new study of the Great Barrier Reef has found that two thirds of the coral along one long section has died after a rise in water temperatures earlier this year. The bleaching was worst on the north of the reef - and it's left some sites almost completely barren. We hear from the 主播大秀's Hywel Griffith who followed scientists from James Cook University.

Jonathan Evans, a Blackhawk pilot has flown rescue missions all over the world. He's now CEO of Skyward, a drone-management startup on the banks of the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. He tells us why the area's tech sector is thriving.

We cast the net a little wider to draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world and we cross to Kolkata to hear from the 主播大秀's Rahul Tandon.

One of the top-selling business and self-help books of the late 1980s was called Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway. It sold by the million and was translated into multiple languages. Fear in our professional lives is something many people battle - at least according to our regular commentator, Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times.

Picture description: Cuban President Fidel Castro waves a Cuban flag during a demonstration outside the U.S. Interest Section June 21, 2004 in Havana, Cuba.
Picture credit: Jorge Rey/Getty Images