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, ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...