The recent plight of Kenny Sansom raises again the issue of life after sport for former professionals. The ex-Arsenal captain and England full back has admitted this week to being ‘in a bad way’ as he fights alcoholism, gam...
Women leaving Moldova and crossing the border into Romania and then on into Western Europe to work illegally has become a mass phenomenon, leaving children without mothers, and husbands without wives. Bordering Romania and the...
Lima is the largest city in Peru and the fifth largest in all of the Americas, with some 7.6 million people (closer to 9 million when you factor in the surrounding metro area). Because it sits along the southern Pacific Ocean, ...
Our poles remain the only two parts of our planet unexploited by man, but the growing interest in oil and rich fishing grounds in the Arctic is leading to a free for all as nearby powerful nations scramble to declare the territ...
With regards to the general status of women in Tanzania, there is a lot left to be desired. While women provide around 80% of the agricultural labour force in rural areas and 60% of the food production, it is very difficult for...
Jharia lies in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand and is India’s largest coal mining region supplying 67% of India’s electricity. For more than eighty years now fires have been burning underground on its coal ...