Our sense of smell is often seen as less important than sight and hearing but its power to evoke a past experience and trigger strong emotional responses is equal, if not stronger, than the other senses; and that's before considering the absolutely vital...

Every year, millions of Latin Americans set out for the United States, driven by the hope of a better future. Migration, both legal and illegal, has become a central issue in U.S. politics and President Trump's harsh rhetoric, promising tougher ...

According to the Indian political psychologist Ashis Nandy "Cricket is an Indian game discovered accidentally by the British." The International Cricket Council (ICC) agrees, highlighting in a 2018 survey that more than 90% of the billion fans of the ...

The Brooklyn Skate Moms are a group of women who meet at the skate park between taking their kids to school and going to work. What started as an occasional distraction during the pandemic has evolved into a tight-knit community that goes far beyond the ...

Weary Ukrainian civilians escaping war arrive every day. They come from the chain of coal mining towns that line this east-west highway. The E-50 connects Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with Donetsk in the eastern Donbas region, but it now ends ...

Mumbai, India's commercial capital, is a seething whirlpool of human activity that is bursting at the seams, struggling to sustain its 21 million inhabitants. Yet people continue to migrate from the countryside to this hub of activity on the Arabian Sea ...

China is a country of superlatives, and its railway network is no exception: it has the fastest, the longest, the highest and the most indebted national railway system in the world. It is a source of national pride as well as a propaganda tool, ...

Each year tens of thousands of tourists visit the Zambian town of Livingstone to see the famous Victoria Falls and view the area's abundant wildlife. For many, seeing an African savannah elephant is the highlight of their trip. Yet in Livingstone's ...

The Puszta, a grassy plain in eastern Hungary, is rapidly changing. It is the last European steppe, populated by wild horses and grazing cattle, and one of the world's richest habitats in biodiversity. Loved by poets for its 'rough honesty', it is ...

Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Facing years of conflict and humanitarian crisis, local midwives are struggling to save lives. With poverty and food shortages at record levels since the Taliban takeover in August...

Peru 1994 - 2021 In 1988 I first went to my mother's home country of Peru and in many ways, I never left. I grew up in a bucolic Southern California suburb where even the trees seemed to have been meticulously placed. Peru's unbridled chaos, ...

Blood-splattered faces and lacerated backs, every type of flesh wound inflicted with barbed wire and random auto parts. All this accompanied by screaming crowds, beer, smoke, sweat and adrenaline. Lucha Libre Extrema is not for the fainthearted and ...

Cheerleading has long been associated with American high school movies and glittery sideline entertainment, but it has a rich history. Cheerleading began in the US in the late 19th century, growing out of the civil war and finding a place among the ...

Every three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the north-east in remote grasslands, three other astronauts fall ...

Thirty-six hours 'screentime' a week is the average for French teenagers. It's the equivalent of the time spent working in a full-time job each week. And adults who, on average, consult their smartphones every six minutes, are hardly setting a better ...

Few places on earth are currently as strategically sensitive as the Taiwan Strait, a 180 km wide body of water separating the island nation of Taiwan and its huge and increasingly bellicose neighbour, China. A small archipelago of some 36 islands, ...