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?
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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Those who dare to climb the Rwenzori mountains in Uganda are greeted by a scene straight out of a science fiction movie. We follow a group of young villagers who live at the foot of the of these perilous mountains.
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With roughly 3 million tourists a year, Jamaica is both heaven and hell – a place of unparalleled beauty and interest that is also home to extreme violence.
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Hundreds of thousands of South Korean students are plunged into a world of competition and are forced to attend a number of extra evening classes to the point of reaching exhaustion.
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In August 2011, journalist Sofia Amara entered Syria illegally to film the revolutionaries. She spent three weeks in Damascus, Rastan, Homs and Hama, accompanied by rebels and filming the scale of repression they faced.
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On the 25 December 1996, a tiny boat loaded with over 300 immigrants went down off the coast of Sicily. 283 men, women and children died. It was the Mediterranean’s worst shipping disaster since World War II.
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