Potamienne sings softly as she plays with her youngest son and sorts beans for that night's meal in her yard. 'As I photographed her' explained Stuart Freedman, 'I knocked against something behind me and nearly fell. She paid no attention and it was only...

The lives of former child soldiers in Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone are examined in Stuart Freedman's story 'Lord of the Flies'. 'What's special about Stuart Freedman's photographs is their interest in the ramifications of child ...

India's coffee houses are analogous to the classic British cafes; those iconic, vintage 'greasy spoons' that have almost disappeared in the last decade. Just as those were symbols of London's post war optimism and modernism, India's cafes speak of a ...

The poor have fallen out of the narrative of modern India. Delhi, the nation's capital, has been transformed into a vibrant, wealthy metropolis. But where extremes of wealth tread, illness and despair follow, and Delhi is today in the grip of a ...

By conservative estimates, Delhi has a homeless population of around 100,000 people. The city, once a sleepy bureaucratic backwater compared to glittery Mumbai, is now an island of ostentatious wealth floating on a sea of medieval squalor. Slum ...

On a chilly winter's night in 1922, a young Danish scientist, Johannes Schmidt, stood up at the Royal Society in London and presented his paper 'The Breeding Places of the Eel'. What would become known as 'Schmidt's Classical Theory' overturned...

By 2020, the elderly population in India will nearly double to 150 million people. Better medical care and low fertility rates have made the elderly the fastest growing section of society. India, rapidly developing into an economic superpower, is ...

The ahwas or coffee houses of Cairo have a long and significant history in modern Egypt. Reflecting political and social change throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, they became the focus for the independence movement that culminated in the ...

Kashmir is a crossroads and remains one of the great conflicted narratives of modern India. A land given, taken and fought over a thousand times. When Timur (Tamerlane) invaded India from Persia in the fifteenth century, he came with an army of 1,700...

The highest point in the tiny nation of Tuvalu is just four and a half metres above sea level. Its ten thousand people face the horrifying prospect of becoming refugees of climate change, as rising sea levels caused by global warming threaten to submerge...

A tsunami triggered by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake in the South Pacific struck Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga on the 29th of September 2009. More than 170 people were killed when waves up to 15 feet high hit the islands, destroying entire villages....

'...thought I'd let you know we made it to Melbourne last night. The fires are still close, although I believe they'll not reach the house......There are so many very sad stories. Heaps of homes lost, livestock burnt and at the moment 14 people dead and ...

The story of Kiribati is one that reflects modern life in many developing Pacific Ocean states: nations who suffer the environmental consequences of sustaining life in fragile ecosystems and find themselves treading water in the fight against rising sea ...

'El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha', Miguel de Cervantes' classic 17th century novel, is the pre-eminent work in the history of Spanish literature. The book tells the story of Don Quixote, an errant knight who embarks upon a series of ...

Morocco, a Muslim country whose culture is a blend of Arab, Berber, European and African influences, feels more than most the tension between modernity and tradition which is a feature of the Islamic world. King Mohammed VI, who came to power in 1999, ...

They've been inside for nine months, but still face a three year stretch. More than two hundred children live with their mothers in Spanish jails. The law says that they can stay in prison up to the age of three. 'The mother's unit is very different ...