They have been described as the frozen conflicts: those messy, unresolved territorial issues left over from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Early in August of 2008, two of these conflicts experienced a sudden melting.South Ossetia is home to just ...
The war in DR Congo is the most deadly conflict to have taken place anywhere on earth since World War II. Bewildering in its complexity, the war officially came to an end in 2003. And yet the killing goes on. At the beginning of 2008, as a ceasefire was ...
It's a journey of horrors, the kind you would only make if you were truly desperate. But in the failed state of Somalia there are a lot of desperate people. Up to a quarter of a million Somalis are now living in Yemen after undertaking the harrowing boat...
Strictly Come Dancing is the most watched television programme in the world, according to figures released by industry magazine Television Business International in November 2008. The show, which began in the UK in 1949, has spawned more international ...
Iran is a country divided. Following the disputed election held in June 2009, that division was symbolised by a single street: Vali asr Avenue, the spine of Tehran. At one end, supporters of incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have rallied in his ...
Standing in mud that reaches up to their knees, hundreds of men form a human chain that snakes to the horizon. They are trying to rebuild a flood barrier with their bare hands. There are no excavators or trucks, no cement or iron. Everything here is ...
A stricken oil tanker sits in a slick of 200 tons of diesel, 100 miles south of Norway's capital city, Oslo. The usually picturesque landscapes of Sastein and Langesund, site of wildlife sanctuaries and tourist beaches, saw thousands of birds slaughtered...
The smell gets in your clothes and stays. The sun barely shines through the windows. Walls that were once white are now black. The streets are covered in a dirty layer of ash, and the horizon is dominated by factory chimneys and slag heaps that are ...
For close to 8 millennia, the cobbled streets of Aleppo have echoed with the footfall of traders and shoppers. The narrow alleyways of its souks, marked by 2000 years of continuous construction, sell much the same wares now as they did centuries ago, ...
'This work is about people on the run. For almost seven years I have followed in their footsteps - marked by war and unbearable anxieties, but also by hopes and aspirations. This pursuit has taken me to a refugee camp in Congo, to an earthen hut ...
Six months after Japan was rocked by a huge earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, two Panos photographers - William Daniels and Espen Rasmussen - travelled back to the devastated areas to document the continuing reconstruction. William Daniels, ...
After 3 decades of sham elections which saw Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak re-elected on four occasions with ludicrously large majorities, the country is now entering a new era with an eagerly awaited election that is to start on 28 November....
The Nobel Peace Prize this year has been awarded to three women - Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson and Leymah Gbowee from Liberia and Tawakkul Karman from Yemen. The Nobel laureates will travel to Oslo for the Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo's City Hall. On 11 ...
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...