On 19 October 2011, 86 families of Irish Traveller heritage were evicted from their homes on a former scrapyard known as Dale Farm in Essex, southeastern England. Although the Travellers owned the land, the surrounding community would not tolerate ...
Moldova has one of the highest incarceration rates in Europe as well as the highest rate of inmates serving long prison sentences. Penitentiary Nr. 17 in the town of Rezina on the banks of the Dniester River is the most secure prison in the country ...
Sakura or cherry blossom is intimately identified with Japanese culture. For centuries it has been an enduring metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life and symbolises transience and nobility. The fleeting spirit of the Japanese spring is captured ...
Following inter-communal violence in the 1960s between Greek and Turkish populations in Cyprus, then a British colony, Major-General Peter Young, commander of the so-called Peace Force, drew a line across the island with a green chinagraph pencil, an...
Every year, on the 13th day of the first lunar month of the Chinese calendar, the small hamlet of Majie in central Henan province becomes the scene for one of the largest folk festivals in the world. Hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the...
Afghanistan is the USA's second longest war and is set to overtake Vietnam as the longest-running military engagement in 2019. The country has been the violent playground of rival geopolitical forces for centuries - the British and Russian empires, ...
In Papua New Guinea where homosexuality is illegal, Hanuabada village is one of few places where gay and transgender men can live in safety. Elsewhere, gays are targeted and physical and sexual assaults are common. ...
Tea has occupied a special place in British culture for centuries. The tea industry has played a leading role in connecting Britain and the Asian subcontinent. However, behind Britain's cup of choice is a fascinating story rarely told, of how the early ...
Sudan has seen more than its fair share of conflict over the past six decades, with two major bouts of fighting between the north and south lasting a total of 38 years before a peace agreement in 2005 paved the way for the separation into two ...
Would you open your home to a stranger? These intimate portraits and their accompanying captions show how refugees and the people who have welcomed them into their homes are living together in five countries across Europe - and how both benefit from the ...
Selfitis - the obsessive taking of selfies on mobile phones - appears to be a genuine disorder according to a new academic study published in the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. Researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the ...
Over seven thousand miles from home, the Iranian diaspora in the United States finds itself constantly working to navigate through a web of complex cultural, political, religious, racial and social issues and identities. In a nation of immigrants, ...
The Polish term "falowiec" means something like "wavy block". In the northern city of Gdansk, on the shores of the Baltic Sea, eight 'wavy' apartment blocks were built in the 1960s and 1970s. The largest of them is the longest residential building in...
10-year-old James from Efate Island in Vanuatu lost his home and school when Cyclone Pam devastated the small Pacific island nation. This is his story. Your support is urgently needed to help rebuild schools and restore water systems for children in ...
Barcelona Residence, American village, SoHo Apartments and Mediterranean Court - these are some of the ambitious names given to host of new residential developments on the outskirts of Bucharest, the capital of Romania, one of the poorest countries ...
A short film about the international rescue effort in the Mediterranean to bring thousands of migrants arriving on unseaworthy boats from Africa to safety in Europe. ...
The Englishman & the Eel is a journey into that most London of institutions, the Eel, Pie and Mash shop. Today, these simple spaces hold within them the memories of a rich, largely undocumented cultural heritage of generations of working-class ...
The region of Tusheti, spread across the peaks and valleys of the Caucasus Mountains in northeastern Georgia, is all but cut off from the outside world for seven months of the year. The one road in, through the treacherous Abano Pass, is impassable until...
In Trump's America, the Ku Klux Klan has been superseded by Nazis with European role models. Espen and journalist Ronny Berg travelled 3266 km through three states to understand what drives hate in America. "Every year there are 300 attacks from...
Whether dachshund, Persian cat, dwarf hamster, rabbit, turtle, guinea pig or singing canary - most people's most faithful furry or feathered companions usually end up being shredded at a disposal facility with slaughterhouse waste and made into soap ...
Palm oil is everywhere. As a cheap substitute to butter and other trans fats that are solid at room temperature, it has become a ubiquitous ingredient in a wide range of food products, from chocolate and margarine to breakfast cereals, biscuits, ...
The conflict between the Nigerian Army and the militants of Boko Haram, a brutal islamist group founded in 2002 and committed to establishing an Islamic State in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria, has cost the lives of over 20,000 civilians, ...
In the first five months of 2016, more than 33,000 migrants made the perilous journey from the shores of North Africa to Italy. Thousands have died in the process. In the last week of May alone, an estimated 1,200 people drowned when their boats sank...
Niger has the highest rate of child marriage in the world. Three quarters of girls marry before their 18th birthday. In some rural parts of the country, almost 89% of girls marry as children. In many cases, child marriages resemble domestic slavery ...
Imagine surviving on just one meal a day. This is the reality for many living in Africa's Lake Chad region which straddles the borders of Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad. Conflict in the northeast of Nigeria, which periodically spills across the border...
Conflict and climate change have had a major impact on food security in sub-Saharan Africa where many countries are experiencing dangerous levels of hunger and malnutrition. This set of images, taken by Chris de Bode in Niger, Burundi and Central ...
Almost a million migrants arrived in Europe in 2015, over 800,000 of them in Germany. Most have come through the Balkans, most recently arriving in Austria from Slovenia. If Germany shuts its gates, Austrians worry they'll be the ones left without a...
The wars that swept across the Balkans in the early 1990s as former Yugoslavia imploded, pitted former compatriots against each other along ethnic and sectarian lines. Supported and encouraged by Slobodan Milosevic's government in Belgrade, Bosnian ...
The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.' George Orwell Red Utopia is a beautifully executed large format art photo book documenting communist parties and their iconography in India, Italy, ...
On 26 April 2016 it will be 30 years to the day since the worst nuclear accident in human history. On this day in 1986, at 1.23am Moscow time, during an experiment to test safety procedures in the event of power failure, reactor number 4 at the ...
The Greek island of Lesvos has for the past year been at the forefront of a migration crisis that has seen over a million people making their way into the European Union, mainly from the Middle East and Africa. Due to being a mere 5.5 kilometres from...
After numerous setbacks, delays and cost overruns the Panama Canal's massive expansion project, nine years in the making, is finally reaching completion with a launch date of 26 June 2016. Originally opened in 1914 the expansion, which is supposed ...
It bills itself as a "unique, exclusive and professional butlering and house management schoolthe finest and most innovative butler service training institute in the world." Set in Huize Damiaan, a former monastery founded in 1892 by the followers ...
Over the course of five trips to the US, George Georgiou photographed 26 parades while covering 13,000 miles across the country. Here are his thoughts about their significance: "Three or four years ago, I was traveling around the United States, ...
She was shielding her eyes from the sun, a lone Orthodox nun, framed by the blades of the helicopter's rotors against snow-capped mountains and a flawless blue sky. I was hitchhiking, riding out on a Georgian Border Police chopper to begin an ...
Coastal and riverine erosion are not new phenomena on the Ghana coast. However, the pace of change has accelerated drastically in recent years, sweeping away homes and livelihoods and, according to some experts, foreshadowing the fate of many of ...