Forget about life-work-balance. A new generation of drugs promise unlimited increases in productivity without the need for rest or sleep.
More info
You might imagine that life aboard a luxury liner is paradise. While this may be the case for paying guests, the reality for the workers below deck is far less idyllic.
More info
More than four million people live in the world’s rubbish dumps, eking out a living from the waste of society. More than half of these are children, victims of profound social injustice, poverty and neglect.
More info
Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, never have there been so many walls. Dividing communities; separating the rich and poor; marking borders - walls have become the preferred solution of many states for resolving major conflicts.
More info
Who is dumping toxic waste in Somali waters? Who is making money from it? We open the inquiry. An investigation that leads us into the shady underworlds of the Italian mafia, Somali pirates and the lethal nuclear waste industry.
More info
Did Goldman Sachs use insider information to profit from the financial crisis? How did a brokerage house, founded in 1869 by a German immigrant, become one of the biggest, most powerful banks in the world?
More info
What the world doesn’t know is that the cotton slave trade is not a mere memory, it is a reality lived out each day by the children of West Africa.
More info
They were the first to rise up against their leaders in 2009. The first to tweet, Facebook and YouTube updates, filming the fall-out of their failed revolution on cameraphones. Now, Iran has closed itself off to the Western press, making it difficult to get inside story from the ‘outside’.
More info
We look back at how 9/11 has shaped our world. These personal and intimate testimonies of individuals come together to cast light on the overarching story.
More info