The trouble telling aid workers and foreign fighters apart
It should be easy to tell the difference between an aid worker and a jihadist, but the war in Syria shows that is not...
‘I want to explain arranged marriage to white people’
When Pakistani designer Nashra Balagamwala produced a board game about arranged marriage, most news reports about her wrongly assumed she was dead against it....
The ancient wisdom the Dalai Lama hopes will enrich the world
It isn’t often you meet the leader of a world religion - rarer still that he tweaks your cheek. But that’s what happened when...
A one-man rescue mission in Vietnam War
Dick Swanson first went to Vietnam as a war photographer. James Jeffrey tells the story of Swanson’s return - on a rescue mission for...
Fukushima’s long road to recovery
It was supposed to be a day of celebration. But Rio Watanabe’s graduation ceremony became memorable for all the wrong reasons.
Mr Watanabe, who was...
