Living in 54°C heat: diaries from Delhi's slums reveal what it's like to endure extreme temperatures.
Every summer evening, Gulshan follows the same routine. She washes the floor of her one-room home several times to cool…
Category: Global development
Global development
She drowned on the very day her visa was approved: the tragic story of a Moroccan footballer who was trying to reach Ceuta.
Football was everything Faten Ben Omar El Azizi had ever wanted. She had played for years in Morocco’s regional league…
"Why are you doing this to me?": one woman's story of surviving two years enslaved on a farm in Spain.
On a farm in the northwestern Spanish region of Castile and León, a typical day for Fatima* would start at…
A photo essay: giving birth under the shadow of Haiti's gang violence.
Eight months pregnant, Françoise, 45, arrives early in the morning at an empty school in Bel Air. This hillside neighborhood…
'They made us call him a martyr': families at Iran's largest cemetery mourn those killed in the January protests.
Sepehr Family members gather to mourn Sepehr, who was 25 when he was killed in the January protests. Sepehr, 25,…
An 'astonishing' discovery could help save children from a deadly, disfiguring condition.
Researchers say the “astonishing” discovery of a new bacteria could lead to better ways to prevent, detect, and treat a…
'The world's memory': why Nigeria is preserving its history in a mountain vault in Svalbard
A decommissioned coal mine near the North Pole is the last place you’d expect to find Indigenous stories from rural…
My journey to sexual freedom: what ancient African wisdom can teach us about pleasure today
In the kitchen of my Airbnb in Dar es Salaam, I stripped down to my underwear and wrapped a colorful…
In Search of a Miracle: What's Behind the Disappearance of Dugongs from Thailand's Coasts?
A solitary figure stands on the shore of Thailand’s Tang Khen Bay. The tide is slowly rising over the sandy…
We can be heroes: inspiring people we met around the world in 2025 – part one
In 2012, Adana Omágua Kambemba traveled 4,000 kilometers from her home in Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazon, to take up…