A low English sun is creeping in through Tudor windows high up in an ancient York pub, where groaning floorboards that have carried 400 years of life slope precariously at 40 degrees. In a corner where the last of the evening light almost fails to reach ...
Manual sewage clearing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, but it is widespread among India's 'untouchable' caste. The stench is overwhelming as the two slight figures wrestle the lid away from the concrete drain, but the pair hardly ...
In March 2019, following the surprise resignation of President Nazarbayev who had ruled Kazakhstan for 30 years, the capital he built, formerly known as Astana, was renamed Nursultan, his first name, in his honour. In September 2022 Nazarbayev's ...
Back in the dark days of Covid 19 it seemed to be my work that was dying around me as commissions and foreign assignments dried up. With more time on my hands I took on an allotment and enjoyed watching plants grow. As the year marched on and plants ...
When Juscelino Kubitschek was elected 21st president of Brazil in 1955 he immediately fulfilled his promise to build a brand new centrally located capital city. The utopian model city was to become the symbol of a modern nation and help economically ...
The axolotl is an unusual creature. Technically a salamander, it doesn't undergo metamorphosis to reach adulthood. Instead, it remains in the water and retains its gills. It is native to Lake Xochimilco, a now largely drained lake in the southern part of...
In the early hours of the morning, before sunrise, refugees in Borama gather near an area where bread is sold out of wheelbarrows, hoping for hand-outs. The nearby tea shops do what they can to help hundreds of people who have left fighting and drought ...
Over 90% of the Russians were sure that there wouldn't be a war with Ukraine. February 24th 2022 was a shock for everyone. Officially it is forbidden to use the word 'war'. What is happening in Ukraine is a 'Special Military Operation' designed to ...
Since 1994, the Phelophepa train has been travelling around South Africa bringing affordable healthcare to rural communities who may otherwise have to go without. With a team of 22 travelling medical staff, backed up by medical students and around 15 ...
Around the world more than 160 lives are lost every day due to unsafe and illegal abortions. While 90% occur in developing countries, Eastern Europe and the USA account for the remaining 10%. In this multi-country study, Kasia focuses on the reasons ...
Long before the gates open, the queue for food already snakes around the block. Under the watchful gaze of patrolling Taliban guards, hundreds of people in a neighbourhood in Kabul line up to collect their month's worth of meagre rations. The economic ...
Every autumn the entire global population of monarch butterflies numbering hundreds of millions descends on a relatively small patch of volcanic mountains covered in pine forests near the town of Ocampo in the Mexican state of Michoacan. They will have ...
Cloaked in white robes, chanting worshippers sink into Zambia's Kafue river with arms stretched to the sky as their baptism unfolds. But underneath the water's rippling surface lurk parasitic worms, hunting for their next victim. Trematode worms are ...
The dark sea of huddled forms is almost impossible to take in at first. The grimy, bent figures resemble residents of some vast, squalid dungeon. In the filthy riverbed nearby, scattered lifeless figures look like the aftermath of a battle, or an air ...
The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on Morocco's Mediterranean coast are a geographic anomaly and a throwback to Spain's overseas territorial ambitions dating back to the 16th century. Today, their respective borders have become an anachronistic ...
Over 13 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes due to the country's ongoing civil war. More than half have left the country, the majority of them to neighbouring countries, predominantly Turkey. Bradley Secker, based in Istanbul, met ...