It may not be everyone's taste in popular music but in Poland, Disco Polo is filling the clubs, blaring out of countless sound-systems up and down the country and drawing even some of the most ambivalent revellers onto the dance floor as the night ...
Every day, over half a million people commute into 'The City', London's traditional financial district, and Canary Wharf, its second business hub in East London. London generates almost a quarter of the UK's GDP, mainly through financial services. ...
Almost three years after his beatification, former pope John Paul II will be made a saint by Pope Francis on 27 April 2014 along with his predecessor, Pope John XXIII. John Paul II, revered by many Catholics, and nowhere more than in Poland, died in ...
Glasgow may well be the most passionate football city on earth. Its two mighty teams, Celtic and Rangers, are known collectively as the 'Old Firm', a sobriquet which hints at the stranglehold they have had on Scottish football for over 100 years. The ...
The 1992 famine in Somalia was, in common with many famines, as much the result of the civil war as the climatic conditions. In 1991 President Barre was overthrown by opposing clans, but they failed to agree on a replacement and plunged the country into ...
On 29th August 1949 the first Russian plutonium bomb was exploded at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site, which came to be known as 'The Polygon'. This first detonation was followed by more than 500 nuclear explosions, both atmospheric and underground. ...
During the four year conflict in Bosnia more than 200,000 citizens were killed. Most of these were Muslim civilians murdered by paramilitaries during the ethnic cleansing of eastern and western Bosnia. Towns like Priedor, Banja Luka, Foca, Zepa and of ...
From the beginning of the Bosnian conflict in 1992, Paul Lowe takes us on a journey through Sarajevo, Srebrenica, Gorazde and Mostar - places that back then reverberated in the daily headlines much as Fallujah and Basra have done in more recent times. ...
It has a peculiar beauty, a concrete monolith winding across the landscape like a modernist snake in featureless grey concrete. Forty years after a war in which the Israeli military easily defeated the armies of three Arab nations and trebled its ...
For the players of FC Nepean Stars, a First Division Sierra Leonean football club, conditions could barely contrast more with the pampered lifestyle of their counterparts in Europe. Their squad of 18 players journey to matches in a single Toyota ...
'Are we protected in Pakistan?' asks graffiti on the wall of a burned-out shop in Shanti Nagar in the country's wheat belt. It provides its own stark answer: 'No'. Pakistan's three million Christians are nervous. They have been at the bottom of the ...
Graeme Williams began his photographic career as a photojournalist documenting the struggle to end apartheid. He never intended to become a photojournalist but as the clamour for Nelson Mandela's release grew in the late 1980s and the violence broke ...
Since 2010, Graeme Williams has been working on his project charting the transformation of South Africa's society since the end of minority rule. I began this project 16 years after the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. As a photographer, I ...
The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has left at least 200,000 people dead and an estimated two million displaced. The conflict has spread to neighbouring Chad and the Central African Republic, with up to four and a half million people ...
Sleeping sickness, once thought almost eradicated through vigorous colonial control programmes in the first half of the 20th century, was for a while relegated to historical footnotes in medical textbooks. Now it's making a come back in a big way. The ...
The humanitarian situation in Goma remains desperate. Over a million people are displaced, and many of those have fled their homes for the second, third or even fourth time because of conflict. Sven Torfinn reports from the Kibati camp, where Medecins ...
When peace finally came, the daunting task of building a new country could begin. There were only ten kilometres of tarmacked road in Southern Sudan, which covers an area the size of Spain and Portugal combined. An estimated six million people, more than...
In 2006, a motorcycle-riding suicide bomber rode into a crowd at a wrestling match in the town of Spin Boldak, killing at least twenty people. But Afghans are serious about sport, and have not allowed such incidents to put them off. In October 2009, ...
Vincent left Ghana at the age of 16. His journey was long and arduous, and his eventual success in reaching Europe was down to a combination of luck and his extraordinary determination. When I met him five years later he was living in Amsterdam. He ...
Every spring, out here on this endless sheet of yellow grass, two million wildebeest, zebras, gazelles and other grazers march north in search of greener pastures, with lions and hyenas stalking them and vultures circling above. It is called the ...
Joseph Gatyoung Khan made a vow, uttered in the back seat of a Land Cruiser on a very bumpy road, as he headed home for the first time in 22 years: I will not cry. He had not seen his parents for two decades. He had not set foot in his village since...
The glitzy shopping malls of London, Berlin and Shanghai, where mobile phones and other electronic gadgets are sold as must-have life-style choices, may seem a long way from the muddy jungles of Central Africa. The two are, however, inextricably ...
When Agnes Lunkembesa gave birth to her ninth child, she decided enough was enough. But although she knew perfectly well how babies were made, she had no idea how to stop them being made. Then she met Seraphine Lumfuankenda, a voluntary community health...
Chinese investment in Africa is a hot topic that is splitting opinion in surprising ways. Some commentators are up in arms, warning of ruthless exploitation of natural resources for the good of Chinese investors and a kleptocratic few local ...
Nic Dunlop's long term project on Burma offers a timely in-depth investigation into one of the world's most brutal regimes. It is an unrivaled historical record of a secretive country, from the frontlines of the ongoing civil war involving various ...
Burma is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world with more than 35 distinct races. Over a period of fifteen years, Nic Dunlop has photographed the Burmese at home and in exile, in peace and at war. Soldiers, peasants, heroes and ...
In June of 2008, a 46-year-old man named Myo Myint walked through the gates of a Burmese refugee camp and travelled by bus to Bangkok airport, where his first ever plane-ride took him 12,000 miles to the USA. There, on a humid Indiana evening, he ...
Zo Sun-il is not your usual North Korean government official. Firstly, he spends half his time outside the People's Republic, travelling around Europe and other parts of the West, or in Salomo, a small town in rural Catalonia. More importantly, ...
Barnes, War Office, Crusaders, Forest, No Names, Crystal Palace, Blackheath, Kensington School, Perceval House, Surbiton, Blackheath Proprietory School and Charterhouse. These were the 12 clubs, whose representatives met on Monday 26 October 1863 to ...
Hungary's thermal waters lie far nearer the surface than they do elsewhere in Europe; as a consequence, it is a land of more than 1,000 hot springs and enough spa facilities to accommodate 300,000 people at any one time. With a high concentration of ...
The al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Madrid on the 11th of March 2004 killed almost 200 people. In an unprecedented expression of unity and grief, 8 million Spaniards took to the streets to protest against terrorism. Many improvised shrines to the dead ...
The metamorphosis of Beijing's urban landscape is so shattering that maps become obsolete in a matter of days. The old hutongs, traditional districts with ground floor houses, are being swept aside by skyscrapers and their inhabitants face an enforced ...
In Mali, drought is a familiar and regular feature of daily life. The country's northern half is an arid desert, sparsely populated and currently in a state of secession following a rebellion by Tuareg fighters aligned with Ansar Dine, an islamist ...
After the fall of the Soviet Union, its enormous fishing fleet - ships and crews - were abandoned in different ports around the world. The largest chunk of the fleet ended up in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands. The ships. often ...
The leftward shift sweeping Latin America represents the most significant economic and social development in the region since a wave of leftist and populist governments were overthrown in the 1970s. Since 1998, eight states have elected leftist leaders ...
A boy tenderly cradles his younger sibling. A minibus driver leans on his window and watches the world go by. A man has his toenails clipped in the street. Women pay the equivalent of four cents to walk across a wooden bridge, avoiding the piles of ...