Seven is the age of all of these children. It is also the number of years the Syrian Civil War has been raging, still with no end in sight. All of these children are born in Syria yet most of them cannot remember their homeland. Like millions of ...

Ciocana Sector in the eastern part of Chisinau, the capital of Moldova, is one of the newest parts of the city. It is a typical product of early Soviet city planning when cheap, multi-storey housing was built across the country to provide cheap and ...

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, ...

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 ...