The funeral rites for the world's largest ships are read on the beaches of the Indian subcontinent. When a super tanker or a cargo vessel reaches the end of its useful life, it generally limps towards Chittagong in Bangladesh, Alang in India or ...

Nearly three thousand kilometres of railway track crisscross the delta lowlands of Bangladesh, connecting Dhaka, the capital, with Chittagong to the south-east and Calcutta to the south-west. The system was built largely by the British and began ...

The Tazreen Fashion textile factory on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh produced cheap fashion for a number of major European retailers including C&A. On 25 November 2012 it went up in flames, leaving 117 people dead and hundreds more scarred...

In one of India's poorest districts in Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state, a remarkable movement of women has evolved over the past seven years which is challenging engrained power structures and bringing the concerns of some of the country's ...

Bangladesh lies squarely in the middle of the waterlogged floodplains of some of Asia's largest rivers and relies on water transportation to ship huge quantities of goods and vast numbers of people up and down the watery arteries that traverse the ...

When search teams scouring the collapsed Rana Plaza in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh ended their efforts to find survivors among the rubble of the former shopping centre and factory complex, a shocking 1,127 had been confirmed dead in...

In a country where less than a quarter of the population uses the internet and where access is both slow and expensive, Bangladesh's 'Info Ladies' offer a series of vital services to people living in remote, rural parts of the country. Launched by ...

The catastrophic collapse of the Rana Plaza shopping centre and factory complex in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh in April 2014 claimed the lives of over 1,100 people, mainly factory workers employed in one of the numerous garment ...

Bangladesh's leather industry is worth over $ 1 billion a year and around 20,000 people are employed in the hundreds of tanneries operating along the banks of the Buriganga River in the southwest of Dhaka, the capital. Yet while this industry ...

In the Spanish province of Murcia massive building developments are being thrown up along with water guzzling 18 hole golf courses. At the same time Spain has experienced its worst droughts since 1947, river and reservoir levels have been at record lows,...

If I have time on my hands I often choose to walk from my home in Borough, just south of the river Thames, to my office in Old Street in the centre of London. The journey is approximately 2.7 miles, or 4.3 kilometres. Walking in one day, I began to idly ...

In Calea Vacaresti, on the outskirts of Bucharest, four families have made their homes in the dried out basin of an artificial lake. Eking out a living collecting scrap metal to sell to local car wreckers, they build shacks from bricks, plastic and ...

Sicily's shores have been the first landing point for thousands of would-be immigrants to the European Union. Many have been able to continue to Italy's mainland, escaping the attentions of the authorities and dispersing across the continent in pursuit ...

The Greek port of Patras is home to around 3,000 illegal immigrants. Most are Afghans, although there are also significant numbers of Iranians and Uzbeks. From here they try to find passage to other European destinations by hiding in ships, ...

For nearly two hundred years, a small group of women in the town of Cachoeira have joined together in a sisterhood that celebrates freedom from slavery, women's resistance and Afro-Brazilian culture. Irmandade da Boa Morte - Sisterhood of the Good ...

In the tense early days of May, as the Greek government unveiled a raft of harsh austerity measures aimed at tackling the country's crippling debt and dire public finances, Alfredo D'Amato gauged the effect of the crisis on people's day-to-day lives. ...