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 ...

They come from Morocco, Mali, Yemen and Cote d'Ivoire; from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. They even come all the way from Nepal and beyond. Tens of thousands of people are on the move at any given time, trying desperately to get into Europe - on ...

In the Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky, the sick and uninsured have learnt to wait. One wintry Friday, a convoy of white trucks and trailers pulls up to the Knott County Sportsplex, built on the site of a disused coal mine in Soft Shell, ...

The Chagos archipelago, a chain of islands in the Indian Ocean, is one of the last outposts of the British Empire. Its people have been the enduring victims of a shameful example of colonial power politics, which saw the islanders forced into exile by ...

A portrait of survivors, yesterday's people in the land of the free. The United States of America may be the world's one and only superpower, but many of its people have been left behind by economic, social and cultural 'progress'. These are the people ...

Many commentators now see the escalating conflict in Darfur as the first climate change war. Until twenty years ago African farmers and Arab nomads in Darfur coexisted, but from the mid 1980s increasingly frequent drought cycles and the Sahara's ...

Looking at Tim Dirven's black and white photos of Afghanistan, I experience a sensation akin to a wave of recognition. Where have I seen that same expression of helpless anger, like in the stare of the man with his starving wife in a refugee camp? ...

Oumar Chagaev, Fatima Davdieva and their three children fled Grozny in July 2000 during the Second Chechen War and eventually received political asylum in Belgium. In 2010, as Belgian nationals, they returned to Chechnya for the first time to visit ...

Mark Henley's book and exhibition 'China [sur]real' is drawn from 16 years of independent journeys through the country, and poses a challenge to the distorting mirrors through which the Middle Kingdom is usually regarded. Using humour as a means of ...

Since first encountering Shanghai twenty years ago, I have been repeatedly struck by feelings of alienation not encountered elsewhere in China - an alienation rising in the city itself. Shanghai is a construct, built and rebuilt many times over, ...