As Ethiopia slowly emerges from a devastating civil war, an unexpected revolution is taking shape on the streets of Addis Ababa, the capital. Every Saturday, a group of young women gathers at the city's only skatepark, transforming it into a space of ...


Covering an area of around 50,000 square kilometres, the Ennedi Plateau in northeastern Chad is a dreamscape of sand and bizarre rock formations, chiselled out of the ground by water and wind. It is also home to rare animals such as the West African ...


The world's oldest trees are producing some of the most luxurious tea High on a mountain in China, Indigenous tea growers are using ancient techniques to create a premium tea that has never been more popular. In a high-elevation forest on Jingmai ...


The University of Ferrara's anechoic chamber is perhaps the quietest place in the world. Derived from Greek, the word anechoic literally means 'free of echo'. Entering the chamber is an almost mystical experience: sound doesn't reverberate and those who ...


The roughly 150 metre wide swathe cuts through the deep and dense green of the ancient jungle, appearing like an open wound. The otherwise tranquil, steamy jungle - the second largest on the American continent - now reverberates to the sound of ...


Ms Hatsu Miyagi recently reached her 100th birthday. She's sat in an old wicker armchair that's softened with two cushions, one on top of the other. The house is simple, the walls are made of wood and a fan gently disturbs her white hair from time to ...


For almost two years, the civil war in Sudan has been raging across the huge African country - from Khartoum and Omdurman, the twin capital cities on the Nile, to El Fasher in the eastern Darfur region and along the border with South Sudan. In the ...


The Gargano peninsula, often called the 'spur on the boot' of Italy, is as black as the forest that dominates it. It is Italy's heart of darkness. This limestone promontory that juts out of Italy's southeastern coast looks like an island overlooking ...


A mesmerising natural phenomenon, long unknown to science, has been discovered by Hungarian ornithologists in Angola. In an area named 'Falcopolis' (Falcon City), hundreds of thousands of red-footed falcons gather annually before beginning their ...


Mammals were non existent in New Zealand until the arrival of humans. They brought with them a deadly cargo of invasive species resulting in the extinction of nearly half of all the country's bird species, including some of the only flightless ...


A former Democratic stronghold but now closely aligned with the second Trump administration, Big Tech remains the secular sanctuary of a visionary world devoted to innovation. Tourist flock to America's east coast to, amongst other things, visit and take...


In Narva, located in the far northeastern corner of the European Union, the Ukrainian flag flies upside down. "It's the flag of our city. It has nothing to do with Ukraine" explains Katri Rain, Narva's mayor, sitting in the wood-panelled conference room ...


Our sense of smell is often seen as less important than sight and hearing but its power to evoke a past experience and trigger strong emotional responses is equal, if not stronger, than the other senses; and that's before considering the absolutely vital...


Every year, millions of Latin Americans set out for the United States, driven by the hope of a better future. Migration, both legal and illegal, has become a central issue in U.S. politics and President Trump's harsh rhetoric, promising tougher ...


According to the Indian political psychologist Ashis Nandy "Cricket is an Indian game discovered accidentally by the British." The International Cricket Council (ICC) agrees, highlighting in a 2018 survey that more than 90% of the billion fans of the ...


The Brooklyn Skate Moms are a group of women who meet at the skate park between taking their kids to school and going to work. What started as an occasional distraction during the pandemic has evolved into a tight-knit community that goes far beyond the ...


Mumbai, India's commercial capital, is a seething whirlpool of human activity that is bursting at the seams, struggling to sustain its 21 million inhabitants. Yet people continue to migrate from the countryside to this hub of activity on the Arabian Sea ...


China is a country of superlatives, and its railway network is no exception: it has the fastest, the longest, the highest and the most indebted national railway system in the world. It is a source of national pride as well as a propaganda tool, ...


Each year tens of thousands of tourists visit the Zambian town of Livingstone to see the famous Victoria Falls and view the area's abundant wildlife. For many, seeing an African savannah elephant is the highlight of their trip. Yet in Livingstone's ...


The Puszta, a grassy plain in eastern Hungary, is rapidly changing. It is the last European steppe, populated by wild horses and grazing cattle, and one of the world's richest habitats in biodiversity. Loved by poets for its 'rough honesty', it is ...


Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Facing years of conflict and humanitarian crisis, local midwives are struggling to save lives. With poverty and food shortages at record levels since the Taliban takeover in August...


Blood-splattered faces and lacerated backs, every type of flesh wound inflicted with barbed wire and random auto parts. All this accompanied by screaming crowds, beer, smoke, sweat and adrenaline. Lucha Libre Extrema is not for the fainthearted and ...


Cheerleading has long been associated with American high school movies and glittery sideline entertainment, but it has a rich history. Cheerleading began in the US in the late 19th century, growing out of the civil war and finding a place among the ...


Every three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the north-east in remote grasslands, three other astronauts fall ...


Thirty-six hours 'screentime' a week is the average for French teenagers. It's the equivalent of the time spent working in a full-time job each week. And adults who, on average, consult their smartphones every six minutes, are hardly setting a better ...


Few places on earth are currently as strategically sensitive as the Taiwan Strait, a 180 km wide body of water separating the island nation of Taiwan and its huge and increasingly bellicose neighbour, China. A small archipelago of some 36 islands, ...


At the end of the 1940s more than a million inhabitants lived in the Hungarian Farmlands. Even between 1945 and 1948 as many as 80 thousand new ranch houses were put up by those settling down in the prairie, wishing to be closer to their lands and ...


Whether real or fake, relics of saints are powerful objects of worship. A sacred version of the 'grand tour' consists of a busy itinerary, visiting innumerable Christian relics of saints that are kept in Rome and all over the Italian entire ...


One of the world's most dangerous volcanos is situated in the heart of Italy, near Naples. Yet it is not just Mount Vesuvius which, famously covered the city of Pompeii in deadly layers of lava and volcanic ash in 79 AD, but the potentially catastrophic ...


The world's most valuable marble has been quarried in Carrara for two thousand years. But is it still sustainable? Fifteen centuries ago the Gallic poet Namazianus described the Apuan Alps, the source of the world's most prized marble as 'dives ...


A series of droughts in the Amazon basin, especially affecting the Amazon, Negro, and Solimoes rivers, are drastically lowering water levels and disrupting local transport and the lives of communities dependent on the rivers for their livelihood. Some of...


With images taken along various sections of the almost 2,000 mile long border between Mexico and the United States, Daniel Ochoa de Olza invites the viewer to question the function and material reality of this highly politicised frontier between the two ...


In India, the 'Green Revolution' of the 1960s is not the untrammelled success that many of its boosters have claimed, though the myth persists until today. Excessive use of fertiliser and pesticides has contaminated soil, water and food and endangered ...


Convulsed by armed conflict and weakened by decades of instability, the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a new and growing challenge - the rapid spread of monkeypox, or Mpox, an infectious viral disease that causes fever and ...


Frank OConnor and Jude Sherry wanted to show me another side of Cork. Mr. OConnor and Ms. Sherry moved to Cork, a city in the south of Ireland, in 2018 after a two-year stint in the Netherlands. They were immediately struck by the number of vacant ...


Thousands of miles from war-ravaged Europe another epic showdown was unfolding in the early 1940s in Southeast Asia between the Imperial Japanese Army and US forces and their allies. The Solomon Islands, strategically located between Japan and Australia ...