Grozny. July 2009. The body of journalist and human rights defender Natasha Estemirova is discovered by the side of the road. Like her friend, Anna Politkovskaya, Estemirova sought to publicise...
Forget about life-work-balance. A new generation of drugs promise unlimited increases in productivity without the need for rest or sleep. “Brain doping” is the latest trend among high flyers. Pharmaceutical...
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...
They’re free, sexy and financially independent. More and more older women are demanding their right to love and sexual freedom. In countries like Tunisia, female sex tourism is booming. This...
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...
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...
It costs just $2.50 to dump a tonne of toxic waste off the coast of Somalia. It’s the world’s cheapest rubbish dump and a nice little earner for certain westerners,...
While life expectancy is increasing in Western countries, cases of diabetes, hypertension, obesity and cancer are increasing, and the use of medication has exploded. Does this mean that in order...
For 13 days in 1962, the world was on the brink of nuclear war. Krushchev’s decision to place nuclear weapons in Cuba sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis. But what’s relatively...
Hard Bargaining: Museums Face Claims for Returns of Artefacts
Four French museums: the Louvre, the Musée du quai Branly, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Muséum de Rouen are faced with pressing demands to return several works of...
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