On 11 June 2013, after nearly two weeks of sustained anti-government protests across the country, Turkish riot police were ordered to clear Taksim square, the place where the protests had started. In the beginning, the authorities claimed that they ...
In one of the more unusual contemporary migrations, several thousand Indian farmers have made their way to the former Soviet republic of Georgia, lured by cheap and plentiful arable land which can be in short supply back home. The keen tillers come ...
High up in the Bolivian Andes, indigenous communities meet in the plaza of Macha and take part in a ritual known as Tinku. The Tinku fight is an ancestral ritual in which thousands come together to fist fight. It also happens in Ocuri, close to ...
In September 2010, the Danish newspaper Berlingske published a photo of an 18-month-old orphan from Nepal. The image was accompanied by a short story: In the back room of Nepal's leading public neonatal department is a girl lying alone on a chair....
Mads Nissen went to Libya in the very first week of the unfolding uprising that soon turned into full scale civil war, bringing thousands of haphazardly armed volunteer fighters onto the streets of Libya's cities, determined to bring Muammar ...
The Philippines has one of the fastest growing populations in Southeast Asia. From 50 million inhabitants in 1980, the country today is home to around 90 million people with 11 million living in Manila alone. Living space is increasingly in short ...
The islands of Hong Kong and Macau given back to China by Great Britain and Portugal in 1997 and 1999 respectively are two places where Chinese are permitted, nay encouraged, to indulge in two activities that are otherwise frowned upon on the ...
Once one of the richest republics in the Soviet Union, Moldova, historically known as Bessarabia, is now officially the poorest country in Europe according to the World Bank. Landlocked and wedged in between Romania, an EU member and Ukraine, another...
Every day, around 1,000 women die in child labor or from pregnancy related complications. 99 % of these women are living in the developing world. Until very recently, Nepal had one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world. Realising ...
Landlocked Niger is the world's third poorest country, pushed out of first place by war-torn DR Congo and perennially troubled Zimbabwe, according to the UN's Human Development Report. In recent years it has been wracked by food shortages and ...
Mads Nissen about his return to Libya, one year after the revolution: 'In 2011, I covered the war in Libya. I wanted to document the extreme emotions that I witnessed - the pain of loss, the self-sacrifice on the frontline, the anxiety at home. The ...
Despite an official peace treaty to end the devastating five year civil war, also known as the Second Congo War, in 2003 and a set of elections which didn't quite live up to expectations of fairness and transparency, the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
With over 30,000 pregnancies on its score sheet, Cryos International, a sperm bank based in Aarhus, Denmark's second city, is a veritable fertility factory, supplying clinics in more than 70 countries around the world. It was started in 1987 by ...
'I had been walking through the rainforest for several days when I reached a glade. The rainforest stood like a dense, green wall surrounding me. From top to bottom the plants were struggling for light and nourishment - thick lianas, razor-sharp ...
Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia has just got worse, following the signing by the State Duma of a new law banning 'propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations' among minors with a majority of 436 to 0. The law states...
200 snakes, 1,000 ducks, 700 chicken and a tonne of pork. This is the weekly meat order for the West Lake Restaurant in Changsha in China's central Hunan province, the world's biggest Chinese restaurant seating 5,000 over a vast 88,000 square metre ...
According to the latest UN figures, 2,000,000 refugees how now fled over Syria's borders to escape the ongoing civil war engulfing the country. Half of those refugees are children. The sprawling Zaatari camp, situated 12 kms from the Syria border, is ...
On 17 December 2010, a 26 year old street vendor called Mohamed Bouazizi stood in the middle of passing traffic in front of the governor's office in his home town of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, poured a canister of petrol over himself and set himself on ...
Since November 2013, Ukraine has been gripped by the most serious political crisis since independence in 1991. What started as public demonstrations protesting against a decision by the government of Viktor Yanukovych, the now deposed president, to ...
Since November 2013, Ukraine has been gripped by the most serious political upheaval since independence in 1991. What started as demonstrations against an incompetent and kleptocratic government in Kiev has developed into a nationwide crisis. From ...
With a surface area of 2,166,086 square kilometres, three quarters of which is permanently covered by an ice sheet, and a population of just 57,000, Greenland would seem like a cold, distant and insignificant appendage, anachronistically linked to ...
North Korea is a perplexing, and often intimidating, place at the best of times. Ruled since its establishment in 1948 with an iron fist by the Kim family, the only family dynasty to have emerged out of the communist world, the Democratic People's ...
The tsunami that swept in from the Pacific Ocean following the massive magnintude 9 underwater earthquake that struck some 70 kilometres off the northeastern coast of the Japanese island of Honshu left a vast corridor of devastation in its wake, all ...
In Kyrgyzstan, almost two thirds of all marriages are thought to be the result of ala kachuu ('grab and run'), or bride kidnapping. Around 15,000 women a year are thought to be the target of abductions by their suitors. Though illegal since 1994, the...
The soul of Russia should be located somewhere along the banks of its rivers - the Volga, the Neva, the Oka - since Russia's development was so closely linked to the waterways. For centuries, the great rivers were the main trade arteries, whether it ...
When Guy Martin went to Libya in April 2011, he was aware of the dangers facing journalists on the ground. The situation along the frontline was fast-moving and impossibly fluid. Having covered the unpredictable frontline in the West of the country, ...
After 21 days of protests, the 32-year regime of Egypt's ageing president Hosni Mubarak finally came to an end on the evening of 11 February 2011. The roots of the revolution lay with a small group of educated internet bloggers using facebook ...
The photographs of these Libyan men adorn the walls of the courthouse and justice rooms on Benghazi's breezy seafront. They were shot in March and April 2011. Over the course of the uprising and revolution in Libya, from its early days in February...
Napoleon is thought to have said: "Give me 20,000 Cossacks and I will conquer the whole of Europe and even the world". Now Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin are enlisting the help of the Cossack ethnic minority to keep order in ...
The town of Taranto on the heel of Italy lies in a region known for its picturesque baroque towns, stone cottages and olive groves. But this southern port city with its crumbling old town perched on an island at the entrance to a lagoon, is a dark ...
Ramallah, the de-facto capital of the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, is home to a growing, educated and secular youth. After years of economic stagnation, Israeli military incursions and poor infrastructure, this once occupied city is coming back to...
What started as a peaceful sit-in by environmental activists trying to dissuade the city authorities from building a gleaming new shopping complex, mosque and a replica of a former army barracks on the site of Gezi Park, a small island of green in an...
Extra-marital affairs, blood feuds, divorce and murder; scenarios that may not reflect the reality of contemporary life in Istanbul but are the plot lines of Turkish soap operas that are drawing in tens of millions of viewers from Athens to Riyadh. ...
Kacper Kowalski, an architecture graduate, combines his passion for paragliding and photography to produce serene, complex images of urban, rural and industrial landscapes from the air. Many of them show severe pollution and environmental degradation...
The historic town of Sandomierz in south-eastern Poland, close to Lublin and the border with Ukraine, is a major magnet for intrepid tourists on their way through Poland. Located near the junction of the Vistula and San rivers, the city became an ...
From his home in Gdynia, on Poland's Baltic coast, Kacper has been exploring the surrounding region from the air for years. Jutting out into the southern Baltic, Eastern Pomerania is relatively sparsely populated, save the Tricity area of Gdansk, ...