China's economy depends on coal - and it has vast quantities of the black stuff left underground to dig up and burn. The country combusts almost as much coal every year as the rest of the world combined and gets fully three quarters of its energy ...

Myanmar was once the world's largest supplier of heroin until it was unseated by a post-Taliban surge in production in Afghanistan. Yet recently, as the country has been welcomed back into the international community following years of pariah status ...

In recent years Burma, long a byword for political repression and brutal military rule, has emerged from its half century of isolation and become the playground of growing numbers of foreign tourists and companies from around the world sniffing ...

The subject of human trafficking in Southeast Asia has recently been highlighted by the tragic fate of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar trying to gain access to Thailand and other neighbouring countries to escape violence and discrimination in their ...

Founded in 1701, the city of Detroit lies on the banks of the Detroit River which links Lake Erie and Lake Huron and divides the USA from Canada on the other bank of the stream. Its central location on a major waterway in the Great Lakes region ...

From the time of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC, when a Persian empire stretched from modern day Greece to the Indus, to the present cautious engagement of the West with a more moderate government in Tehran, Iran has attracted the attention of...

The Second Amendment is one of the most fiercely contested parts of the Bill of Rights, and indeed the entire United States Constitution on which America is founded. It reads, in its entirety: 'A well regulated militia, being necessary to the ...

Since the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 by a local policeman the reports of police violence, often of the lethal kind, directed against predominantly black men keep on hogging the headlines. Not ...

Spending money on buying a dog, taking it to the vet and for walks belonged to white culture and was not the African way'President Jacob Zuma Middle class South Africans people I know as family and friends, but also the strangers I see at the ...

As the world's population shifts from the countryside to the cities, the urban areas need to expand in order to hold the influx of people. One could go to the empty pueblos in the countryside to explore this shift. Another way to document this ...

Sierra Leone is about to overtake Liberia as the country worst affected by West Africa's devastating Ebola epidemic that has claimed close to 6,000 lives across the region according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Almost a fifth of the ...

With Greece entering its 6th year of recession, tens of thousands of small businesses have been forced to close and many more are likely to go the same way. The Greek economy has shrunk by 25% in the last 5 years and this economic pressure is highly ...

Property prices across London continue to rise sharply and many historically poor areas, often inhabited by immigrants, are now being targeted by property developers keen to ride the wave of inner city gentrification. Brixton in South London sits at ...

'I'm a pilot and a photographer. Side Effects is a documentary photographic project about the complicated relationship between humans and nature. It was shot from a paraglider or a gyroplane some 150 m (500 feet) above the ground. I mainly focus on ...

Wildlife poaching is a highly lucrative enterprise across various African countries and some of the most valuable animals, such as elephants, live in and around some of the most troubled regions of the continent. Militia like the Janjaweed in Sudan ...

Tucked between the Tibetan Plateau to the north and India to the south, west and east, Bhutan lies entirely within the Eastern Himalayas. Slightly smaller than Switzerland, 51% of its land is protected, the highest percentage of any nation in Asia. ...