On a thin mattress by the wall sits Rana Alkassem Alkhaled with her children. She lost her husband in the deadly conflict in Syria, and fled to safer grounds accross the border in Lebanon. She is not alone. According to the UNHCR, of the more than 30,000...

Alphonsine Banyanga was nine when the militia kidnapped her and started using her as a sex slave. Two years later, they left her under a tree, pregnant. The men had tried to cut out the foetus using machetes, scissors and gun barrels. When she was ...

Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal and it has been widely described as 'the toughest race in the world', with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. It markets itself as 'the safest...

As part of a long term project looking at masculinity in its various forms, Espen Rasmussen met some of the competitors at two extreme sport events in the minutes after they finished and photographed them and their feet. The first race, Den Store ...

Greenland's vast natural resources, ranging from oil and gas to uranium, rare earth and iron ore, have remained largely inaccessible under thick layers of ice, making them too difficult and expensive to extract. But with a receding ice sheet and new ...

Since November 2013, Ukraine has been gripped by the most serious political crisis since its independence in 1991. What started as public demonstrations protesting against a decision by the government of Viktor Yanukovych, the president, to pull out ...

When does the pain start? Norwegian runner Bernt Arne Tvedt (34) starts to feel it 3 km into gruelling 254 km Amazon Jungle Marathon in Brazil. It starts with a cramp in one leg, then cramps in the other. By the time he is able to stop and stretch, ...

The Norseman xtreme triathlon is an annual endurance race which starts at the Hardangerfjord south of Bergen. Limited to 250 participants for safety reasons, the race is regarded as one of the toughest in the world. The runners are 'unsupported' so ...

Five year old Jonathan Yala died of malaria, not because of a lack of medicine or equipment but because neither of the two health workers at his local clinic had the training necessary to diagnose and treat his illness in time.The sad story of Jonathan's...

For centuries, Europe's Romani people have traversed the continent, sometimes taking root and becoming sedentary, at other times staying on the move, true to their peripatetic tradition. Rarely socially integrated, usually ostracised and viewed with ...

Although Yemen is a very conservative country, women have more rights than in any other country in the region. Unlike their neighbours in Saudi Arabia, Yemeni women are allowed to drive and vote, while many work in the professions as teachers, nurses, ...

There is another side to the Land of Smiles. In Thailand's deep south, only 150 miles from its tourist-filled beaches, 1.8 million people are living under martial law. Bombs, disappearances, torture and murder are everyday events. The Thai government now...

The shocking, hidden lives of refused asylum seekers whose bids for sanctuary have been rejected by the British government are revealed in a new exhibition and multimedia presentation commissioned by Panos Pictures.Abbie Trayler-Smith has photographed ...

Tinginaput is an ordinary village in remote rural India: two rows of neat mud houses, a couple of water pumps, a mango tree where people gather to talk. But there is something very modern perched on the tiles of each roof: a solar panel the size of a ...

Working on assignment for an NGO in Kabul this summer, I found out what it means to work under the auspices of a security-conscious international organisation in times of conflict and unrest. My task was to document the lives of a number of inspiring ...

The Afghan Women's Boxing Club - the only such organisation in the country - boasts 20 members, mostly girls in their late teens, who share a passion for a sport that even in less conservative countries might be deemed inappropriate for young women....