In Norway, the 22nd of July 2011 has etched itself into the collective and private memory forever. That day, a car bomb killed eight people and wreaked havoc in the government quarter of Oslo. While emergency services dealt with the fallout of the ...

This photo project explores the restless lives of adolescents growing up in Finnmark, the northeastern most county of Norway which loops over the top of Finland and borders on the empty wastelands of northern Karelia in Russia. Norway's renowned ...

Over the last century, adventurers have travelled to Greenland to explore this vast, frozen land. The pictures they brought back show hardy men battling against nature against the backdrop of a pristine wilderness. Today, however, few of us know much...

At the St. Moritz Polo World Cup on Snow, on the shores of Lake St. Moritz in Switzerland, glimpses of British imperial tradition blend with the ostentation of the international jet set to create a quite unusual spectacle that brands itself as 'the ...

Hemmed in by the wiggly course of the Dniester River in the West and a strange assortment of jagged and straight lines marking the border with Ukraine in the East, Transnistria or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as it is known by its official ...

While much of the rest of Spain is still reeling from years of economic contraction, a massive hike in the rate of unemployment and a collapse of the property market that has left tens of thousands of homes unsold there is one corner of southern ...

The grinding crisis that has been battering Spain's economy since 2008 is starting to rock the very foundations of society with increasing numbers of people resorting to scavenging for food and whole households subsisting on zero disposable income. ...

In Spain, memories of Franco's fascist dictatorship which only ended with the death of el Generalissimo in 1975, are still fresh amongst the older generations. With an estimated 150,000 people disappeared and believed killed by government forces ...

Despite frequent media reports about immigrants drowning at sea, being abandoned by traffickers who take their money or being deported from Europe the columns of hopefuls seeking a better life and work seem to keep on arriving at Europe's borders. ...

At 400 metres long, 73 metres high and 59 metres wide, she's a big girl by anyone's standards. Weighing in at 55,000 tonnes, she can accommodate up to 18,000 containers in her voluminous belly and, while not exactly a racer at a top speed of 25 ...

Samuel Aranda goes on a journey through Iran at a time of both stagnation and change. While crowds took to the streets to mark the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, many are also eager for change after the 2013 election of ...

An outbreak of Ebola, a highly contagious and deadly virus, has killed more than 700 people in Guinea, where the outbreak started, and in neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia. Usually transmitted through the blood or other bodily fluids of infected ...

India has the largest number of child labourers under the age of 14 in the world. With an estimated 12.6 million children engaged in hazardous work, the country's impressive economic boom hides the crushing poverty which compels such large numbers of...

In 2006, FC Barcelona won football's European Cup for the second time in their history. Their victory in the continent's premier competition crowned two years of success which had seen the team win the affections of millions of neutral fans with their ...

Dramatised in films like 'City of God' and 'Elite Squad', Rio's sprawling slums, or favelas as they're locally known, both fascinate and appall with their sheer size, density and endemic violence. According to a 2010 census almost a quarter of Rio's ...

At 155 years old, Providencia is Rio de Janeiro's oldest favela. It was originally formed when soldiers of the Canudos War, a brief and brutal civil conflict in Brazil's Northeast at the end of the 19th century, returned to the city and settled ...