The Greek island of Lesvos has for the past year been at the forefront of a migration crisis that has seen over a million people making their way into the European Union, mainly from the Middle East and Africa. Due to being a mere 5.5 kilometres from...

After numerous setbacks, delays and cost overruns the Panama Canal's massive expansion project, nine years in the making, is finally reaching completion with a launch date of 26 June 2016. Originally opened in 1914 the expansion, which is supposed ...

It bills itself as a "unique, exclusive and professional butlering and house management schoolthe finest and most innovative butler service training institute in the world." Set in Huize Damiaan, a former monastery founded in 1892 by the followers ...

Over the course of five trips to the US, George Georgiou photographed 26 parades while covering 13,000 miles across the country. Here are his thoughts about their significance: "Three or four years ago, I was traveling around the United States, ...

She was shielding her eyes from the sun, a lone Orthodox nun, framed by the blades of the helicopter's rotors against snow-capped mountains and a flawless blue sky. I was hitchhiking, riding out on a Georgian Border Police chopper to begin an ...

Coastal and riverine erosion are not new phenomena on the Ghana coast. However, the pace of change has accelerated drastically in recent years, sweeping away homes and livelihoods and, according to some experts, foreshadowing the fate of many of ...

For years they lived as ordinary Norwegian until the police turned up and sent them back to their home countries. While asylum applications are processed and rejections are appealed, children of asylum seekers begin school, learn Norwegian and make ...

As winter descends on Europe, thousands of refugees continue to arrive at its frontiers, the vast majority of them on the Greek islands close to the coast of Turkey which is home to over 1 million Syrian refugees. They carry all their belongings and...

As countries across West Africa announce that they have finally managed to contain the worst Ebola outbreak ever which has claimed over 11,000 lives, the virus continues to linger in Guinea, the country where it first struck. Guinea's decision not to...

Five years after the momentous events of the Arab Spring unfolded in Egypt which saw the autocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak brought to an end, Samuel Aranda travels across the country documenting the difficult changes the country is going through. ...

Each year, thousands of Fulani (Peul) nomads take their herds on an epic journey from Mauritania in Western Africa through Mali and into Niger in search of food, water and better pastures for their cattle. They are the largest nomadic ethnic group in...

On 1 October 2017, a referendum in Catalonia asked voters a simple question - 'Do you want Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic?' The answer of the vast majority of those who turned out to vote and were able to cast ...

The Dia de Yemenja (Day of Yemenja) is an annual event in the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia which coincides with the day dedicated to Our Lady of Seafaring (Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes) in the Catholic Church on the 2nd of February. As is ...

When the lower house of the Brazilian parliament voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on 17 April 2016, conservative congressman Jair Bolsonaro, a former army parachutist and a possible 2018 presidential candidate, dedicated his vote to the ...

The term 'wealth management' is used in the elite retail divisions of international banks to distinguish special banking services from the mass-market offerings. It refers to a personalised service which combines financial advice, investment strategy...

Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia all share a border with either Russia or, in Poland's case, with Belarus, a close ally of Russia. Following the Ukrainian revolution and the ensuing civil war in the country's East as well as the Russian annexation ...