Mass inside the church dedicated to our Lady of Good Health in Valenkanni, Tamil Nadu.
D.Fernandes
A common place of worship in India and Pakistan offers solace and bonds religious minorities in Pakistan.
Globally the frequency of natural disasters has more than doubled over the past 35 years.
CGIAR/Challenge food and water programme
Wetlands management is vital but sweeping statements about their universal value may do more harm than good.
Estuaries are natural filtering points between freshwater and the ocean where pollutants tend to accumulate.
Stephane Mahe/Reuters
Unless we do something about about antibiotic pollution in the world’s waterways, the next trip you take to the coast for a seafood dinner just might be your last.
A man flies a kite at the Peace Park in San José, Costa Rica.
Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
Environmental sustainability has a role in increasing national well-being.
A Japanese dementia patient holds a baby seal robot known as Paro.
Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Perhaps communication robots can one day help people express their views on having a robot in their life.
There is very little chance that you’ll get one of those in Sweden today.
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The Swedish housing model, once an ideal, has become a nightmare for most Swedes. Many are left struggling to find a roof.
Using a DIY network, activists and researchers can broadcast the interviews they conduct with their visitors.
Andreas Unteidig
In the face of alienation and concentration of power by big corporations, local DIY organisations promote place-based organic internet solutions.
Stephanie Keith/Reuters
We must know people as they would like to be known, not as some dominant power has decided we shall know them.
Beawiharta/Reuters
The success of the first phase prompted financial observers to hail Indonesia’s tax amnesty program as one of the most successful in the world.
People protest Donald Trump’s travel ban from Muslim majority countries at Los Angeles International Airport.
Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters
When politics of compassion are replaced by binary visions of the world, we – scholars, media and civil society – should be able to provide challenging tools in the migration debate.
Canada is a pioneer in providing universal, immediate access to treatment for people living with HIV.
Chris Wattie/Reuters
Thanks to universal testing and easy access to treatment, the Canadian province of British Columbia has seen a major decease in HIV-related mortality.
Foreign policy, now online.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
US foreign relations have gone online. And the results are not looking good.
Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto’s meeting with Donald Trump during the campaign proved wildly unpopular with the Mexico people.
Henry Romero/Reuters
What’s cooler than standing up to a bully?
For Brazilian citizens, it sometimes feels like the whole country is on fire right now.
Adriano Machado/Reuters
Things keep getting worse for South America’s most populous nation and biggest economy. What is going on, Brazil?
Donald Trump meets with professors and students at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mike Segar/Reuters
Scientists must bear some responsibility for the post-truth era and the current crisis in democracy.
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Involuntary bachelors, who fail to add fruit to their family tree are often referred to as “bare branches”. And the Chinese state has recently started to worry about them.
Stefanie Loos/Reuters
What’s the proper way to behave at a Holocaust memorial? Is that even the right question?
NGOs forced to close because of the ‘global gag rule’ provide the whole gamut of primary health-care services.
Luc Gnago/Reuters
Also known as the Mexico City policy, the rule increases abortion demand and has consequences for a range of other health matters such as HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer and child health and well-being.
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order on the country’s withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership.
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
The agreement could be as good as dead, if, instead of pushing ahead without the US, its members decide to explore bilateral trade agreements with the country.
Only long-term integration policies will keep people safe from appalling camps conditions.
Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
The 60,000 people currently stuck in Greece will probably have to stay there. The EU should help them integrate.
Czar Dancel/Reuters
Politics is a world for which show business celebrities are perfectly adapted and their predominance in the Philippines offers a glimpse of what televisual populism could look like in other countries.
White nationalist Richard Spencer was punched in the middle of a TV interview on inauguration day.
Spencer Selvidge/Reuters
No one likes a white supremacist, but is violence the answer?
Denmark is considered the happiest country in the world.
Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen/Reuters
Increasing well-being is generally accepted as one of the essential components of social progress. But which measure of well-being – if any – should we use ?
Kenyans marching in solidarity with Americans and women worldwide to protest the sexist statements of president Donald Trump.
Voice of America
Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
Can events like Chanel Fashion Week can still happen in Cuba?
Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters
With its uncharismatic president and liberalising economy, Cuba already looks less like North Korea and more like China or Vietnam.