Barbie challenges the 'white saviour complex'

The Barbie Savior Instagram account challenges the way that some people perceive volunteer and development work in Africa.
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Scientists Looking To Fix The Many Problems With Forensic Evidence

Everything everyone saw in cop shows as evidence linking people to crimes -- the hair left on someone's clothing, the tire tracks leading out to the road, the shell casings at the scene, etc. -- is all proving to be about as factual as the shows...
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On Stalin’s Team by Sheila Fitzpatrick – Soviet bunglers and sadists

A superbly researched book details the incompetents and priapic murderers whom Stalin selected to carry out his atrocities. Reviewed by Donald Rayfield.
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Tequila Bottle with Man's Ashes and a Request Washes up on Nova Scotia Beach

​Plans are underway to fulfil the wishes of the late Gary Robert Dupuis after the mystery man's ashes washed up on the shores of Cape Breton inside a tequila bottle — its apparent first stop on an attempted world tour.
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‘Normal America’ Is Not A Small Town of White People

Earlier this week, Jim VandeHei, a former executive editor of Politico, wrote an op-ed article for The Wall Street Journal accusing the Washington political establishment of being out of touch with “normal America.” But that sense that the normal America is out there somewhere in a hamlet where they can’t pronounce “Acela” is misplaced. In fact, it’s not in a small town at all.
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The Best Climbing Along Ireland's Craggy Coast

Outside profiled County Donegal in the April 2016 issue and called it the 'end of the rainbow' for adventure seekers.
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Earth Doesn't Get Weirder Than The Bubbling Springs Of Ethiopia

It might look like a drug-induced vision of hell, but for astrobiologists, the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is heaven. With chlorine and sulfur vapor fogs hanging above its near-boiling, bubbling salty lakes, it is one of the least hospitable places in the world.
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You're More Likely to Die in a Human Extinction Event Than a Car Crash

Nuclear war. Climate change. Pandemics that kill tens of millions. These are the most viable threats to globally organized civilization. They’re the stuff of nightmares and blockbusters—but unlike sea monsters or zombie viruses, they’re real, part of the calculus that political leaders consider everyday. And according to a new report from the U.K.-based Global Challenges Foundation, they’re much more likely than we might think.
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Russia's nuclear nightmare flows down radioactive river

At first glance, Gilani Dambaev looks like a healthy 60-year-old man and the river flowing past his rural family home appears pristine. But Dambaev is riddled with diseases that his doctors link to a lifetime’s exposure to excessive radiation, and the Geiger counter beeps loudly as a reporter strolls down to the muddy riverbank.
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Syria: Attack on Aleppo hospital 'devastating' - BBC News

Dr Vickie Hawkins, executive director of Doctors Without Borders, says an air strike on a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, is
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The Taliban think McDonald’s is ‘tasteless and too pricey’

McDonald’s has a new arch-enemy — the Taliban. The fast-food chain opened its first eatery in Pakistan’s western city of Quetta, the reputed home of the fundamentalist group’s ruling co…
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Should parents pay more to guarantee 2-year-old can sit next to them on flight?

Air Canada increases fees to change flights before departure. Many parents may dream of taking a flight with their toddler assigned a seat far, far away, but few would consider it a serious — or safe — option. But as Caley and Matt Hartney discovered after booking return flights from Vancouver to Toronto for themselves and their two-year-old daughter, Charlotte, Air Canada only guarantees a child between the ages of two and eight will be seated in the same...
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Are these the toughest people on earth?

The Afar people of Djibouti regularly face drought, volcanoes and earthquakes. So what's the secret to their survival?
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How To Move To Canada (If Trump Becomes President)

Exodus
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The Mundari: The tribe dying for their cows

Ankole-Wartusi cows are among the most prized in the South Sudan, and could fetch $500. For some, this means protecting them at all costs.
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He Sold His House, Car & Possessions Because His Dream Was To Travel The Country With His Family

Joe Hendricks, a photographer and travel enthusiast took his family to a trip, that left him craving for more. A dreamer and working on impulse, as he describes himself, he sold everything - his house, his car and all their belongings - and bought a luxurious Airstreamer- a travel trailer, to explore everything that America has to offer. It's been 3 months since the family of four set out on the journey of their lives. Here are the breathtaking pictures and the journey so far, in his own words.
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Australian bearded dragons 'experience deep sleep, dreams'

Research in a German laboratory involving five Australian bearded dragons indicates the reptiles may dream.
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The Tsaatan Reindeer Herders of Mongolia

Over thousands of years, the Tsaatan people have evolved an extraordinary and unique way of life, dependent both on their reindeer and the forests where they hunt. Today, the Tsaatan’s existence and traditional way of life is threatened by the dwindling number of their domesticated reindeer.
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Baby boom for New Zealand’s extremely rare giant parrot

This year, 37 kakapo chicks have survived so far, making it the most successful breeding season for the bird in more than 20 years of conservation efforts, researchers say.
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Stanford's humanoid robotic diver recovers treasures from King Louis XIV's wrecked flagship

The robot, called OceanOne, is powered by artificial intelligence and haptic feedback systems, allowing human pilots an unprecedented ability to explore the depths of the oceans in high fidelity.
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China rising: Highlights from the 2016 Beijing Auto Show

The Beijing Motor Show played host to some important launches, as well as some market-specific specials from brands keen for a slice of China's 1.35 billion-person pie. Have a flick through our gallery for all the new and exciting metal on display.
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The Most Beautiful Tulip in History Cost as Much as a House

During the Netherlands' tulip bubble, the Semper Augustus was among the rarest and most valuable.
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Glaciers with a Flotilla of 'Ice Sails'

Rare and somewhat esoteric. These are the huge pyramids of ice that stand proud of the surface on some glaciers.
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Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'

When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?
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Live Amongst the Locals : The immersive lifestyle experience at “hanare”

The renovated 60-year-old wooden apartments attracting both locals and travelers
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Disease evolution: the origins of anorexia and how it's shaped by culture and time

Young women (and men) have been dramatically restricting their calorie intake for centuries, but not all the symptoms of modern anorexia have always been present.
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Have firearm homicides and suicides dropped since Port Arthur as a result of John Howard's reforms?

Have gun-related homicides fallen significantly in Australia since the Port Arthur Massacre, with gun-related suicides dropping by 74 per cent, as John Howard says? ABC Fact Check investigates.
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Copyright chaos: Why isn’t Anne Frank’s diary free now?

Anne Frank was a teenager who is now known the world over for her diary of life in hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. She died in February or March 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where was she held, shortly before it was liberated. Since the applicable term of copyright in the EU is 70 years after the death of a writer, this means that her famous diary should now be in the public domain.
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Chart: The Most Violent Cities in the World

Here are the world's 50 most violent cities - Brazil is home to an astonishing 32 of them.
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Message in a Bottle: 8 Striking Stories of Letters Sent to Sea

From the words of a shipwrecked castaway to a sailor looking for love, these bottle-bound missives have tales of their own to tell.
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Physicists Dream of a Theory of Everything

A conversation with Hirosi Ooguri, theoretical physicist and scientific advisor for the 3D movie, The Man from the 9 Dimensions
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Why one species of dolphin has turned pink

Botos lurk, virtually unseen, in the huge rivers of South America - and they are the subject of an awful lot of wild speculation.
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A Frozen Sadness

Shortly after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, the United States government forcibly relocated more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans to a series of expansive internment camps dotted throughout the most remote corners of the American wilderness. Of these camps, none were as fortified or as grim as the one at Tule Lake, in Northern California.
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Nestlé’s Half-Billion-Dollar Noodle Debacle in India

Nestlé spent three decades building a beloved noodle brand in India. Then stumbled into a PR debacle that cost half a billion dollars.
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Robot monk blends science and Buddhism at Chinese temple

A Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Beijing has decided to ditch traditional ways and use technology to attract followers.
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Anping Bridge, China’s Longest Ancient Bridge

Spanning the bay between Jinjiang County and Nan'an County, west of Fuzhou City, China, is the beautiful 12th century Anping Bridge, also known as Wuli bridge, built of huge stone blocks. It is more than two kilometers long, 2,070 meters to be exact, and close behind the 2437-meters-long Constantine's Bridge across Danube, which is considered to be the longest ancient bridge in the world. Until 1905, Anping Bridge was the longest bridge in China.
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Half of all males in Western Europe 'descended from one man'

Half of all males in Western Europe are descended from one man, a Bronze Age "king" who lived 4,000 years ago, a new study by genetic scientists claims. The monarch is believed to be one of the earliest people to take power in Europe following the Stone Age. According to the Daily Telegraph, it is likely he was able to wield great power due to his control of new technologies such as wheeled transport, which led to the first...
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Escape from North Korea: A long and dangerous journey

Follow a teenage North Korean defector on her long, dangerous journey to a new life.
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How non-white writers are shunned by the books industry

Bidisha reports on the under-representation of writers of colour in UK publishing.
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Landscapes: Volume 4K

Dustin Farrell
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To Leave This Place

The Gosainkund trek is one of the most popular routes in the Himalayas, but what is it really like for trekkers and local businesses after the devastating 2015 earthquakes?
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The drink that costs more than gold

China’s ancient bushes of Da Hong Pao produce one of the most expensive teas in the world, astonishingly costing more than 30 times its weight in gold.
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The Texas Prison Museum Thrives on ‘Dark Tourism’

The gift shop offers shirts honoring the electric chair, “Home of Old Sparky,” and the museum's visitors get a “selectively edited” history of corrections. By Robyn Ross.
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'Every Minute We Think About War'

After three decades of uninterrupted bloodshed, war is the only way of life many people in Afghanistan know. The psychological toil of endless conflict is profound. Cases of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, drug-induced psychosis, major depressive disorders, and anxiety are commonplace throughout the country. But as the scourge of mental illness spreads, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is barely diagnosed at all.
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Meet the pioneer who built his own empire in the Central Australian desert

A tin shed and lots of red dirt is what greeted the Severins when they moved to Curtin Springs.
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India in sepia

In the eyes of early British photographers, 19th-century India was a place of romance and serenity. It’s an image most Indians at the time wouldn’t have recognised.
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What One Photographer Saw in Deer that Wander Down the Streets

Shika-Shika, a new photo collection by Yoko Ishii
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What Enid Blyton’s school stories taught me about ethics

The unfashionable world of Blyton’s school stories still has much to say about what it means to live an ethical life
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Watch a Japanese Man Play 'Amazing Grace' on a Cabbage

Junji Koyama makes musical instruments out of vegetables.
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There's a Neolithic Sauna at Marden Henge!

An amazing discovery in Wiltshire is throwing a whole new light on the way we think henges might have been used in Neolithic Britain.
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