Mads Nissen went to Libya in the very first week of the unfolding uprising that soon turned into full scale civil war, bringing thousands of haphazardly armed volunteer fighters onto the streets of Libya's cities, determined to bring Muammar ...

The Philippines has one of the fastest growing populations in Southeast Asia. From 50 million inhabitants in 1980, the country today is home to around 90 million people with 11 million living in Manila alone. Living space is increasingly in short ...

The islands of Hong Kong and Macau given back to China by Great Britain and Portugal in 1997 and 1999 respectively are two places where Chinese are permitted, nay encouraged, to indulge in two activities that are otherwise frowned upon on the ...

Once one of the richest republics in the Soviet Union, Moldova, historically known as Bessarabia, is now officially the poorest country in Europe according to the World Bank. Landlocked and wedged in between Romania, an EU member and Ukraine, another...

Every day, around 1,000 women die in child labor or from pregnancy related complications. 99 % of these women are living in the developing world. Until very recently, Nepal had one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world. Realising ...

Landlocked Niger is the world's third poorest country, pushed out of first place by war-torn DR Congo and perennially troubled Zimbabwe, according to the UN's Human Development Report. In recent years it has been wracked by food shortages and ...

Mads Nissen about his return to Libya, one year after the revolution: 'In 2011, I covered the war in Libya. I wanted to document the extreme emotions that I witnessed - the pain of loss, the self-sacrifice on the frontline, the anxiety at home. The ...

Despite an official peace treaty to end the devastating five year civil war, also known as the Second Congo War, in 2003 and a set of elections which didn't quite live up to expectations of fairness and transparency, the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

With over 30,000 pregnancies on its score sheet, Cryos International, a sperm bank based in Aarhus, Denmark's second city, is a veritable fertility factory, supplying clinics in more than 70 countries around the world. It was started in 1987 by ...

'I had been walking through the rainforest for several days when I reached a glade. The rainforest stood like a dense, green wall surrounding me. From top to bottom the plants were struggling for light and nourishment - thick lianas, razor-sharp ...

Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia has just got worse, following the signing by the State Duma of a new law banning 'propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations' among minors with a majority of 436 to 0. The law states...

200 snakes, 1,000 ducks, 700 chicken and a tonne of pork. This is the weekly meat order for the West Lake Restaurant in Changsha in China's central Hunan province, the world's biggest Chinese restaurant seating 5,000 over a vast 88,000 square metre ...

According to the latest UN figures, 2,000,000 refugees how now fled over Syria's borders to escape the ongoing civil war engulfing the country. Half of those refugees are children. The sprawling Zaatari camp, situated 12 kms from the Syria border, is ...

On 17 December 2010, a 26 year old street vendor called Mohamed Bouazizi stood in the middle of passing traffic in front of the governor's office in his home town of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, poured a canister of petrol over himself and set himself on ...

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

Since November 2013, Ukraine has been gripped by the most serious political upheaval since independence in 1991. What started as demonstrations against an incompetent and kleptocratic government in Kiev has developed into a nationwide crisis. From ...