Hindustani classical music played on a river boat in Banaras.
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Are music bans in India and Pakistan an appropriation of art and performances by nationalist imperatives?
Ayahuasca has been used for spiritual and therapeutic purposes by indigenous healers in Brazil’s northwestern Acre state for centuries.
Luna Parracho/Reuters
Western science is “discovering” the medical potential of ayahuasca, which Amazonian indigenous groups have used ritualistically for centuries.
Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters
Trump’s promises to build a wall have caused anxiety in Mexico – but the country has its own conflicting policies on migration from Central America.
A woman bathes her child after worshipping the sun god Surya in the polluted waters of Yamuna river.
Anindito Mukherjee/Reuters
India’s experiment with bio-toilets could change the way we dispose of our waste and help our rivers.
Marrakesh braces for the first round of climate talks since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.
Youssef Boudlal/Reuters
The Paris Agreement is in place, but there’s still much to lose for the least developed countries.
A broker in Mumbai reacts on November 9.
Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
The world braces for Donald Trump’s brand of` trade protectionism, which will send shockwaves through the global economy.
Carlo Allegri/Reuters
Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail was toxic. His victory means women will suffer the fallout.
Donald Trump claims victory in New York.
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November 9, 2016
William Case , City University of Hong Kong ; Andrea Peto , Central European University ; Janjira Sombatpoonsiri , Thammasat University ; Jay Batongbacal , University of the Philippines ; Jonathan Rynhold , Bar-Ilan University ; Miguel Angel Latouche , Universidad Central de Venezuela ; Richard Maher , European University Institute ; Rut Diamint , Torcuato di Tella University ; Salvador Vázquez del Mercado , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) ; Subarno Chattarji , University of Delhi , and Weronika Grzebalska , Polish Academy of Sciences
Donald J Trump has emerged victorious in the historic, and historically acerbic, 2016 American presidential election. What does this outcome mean for the world?
Ismael Alonso
As obesity has become a health concern globally, weight loss information has proliferated – with questionable effects on its prevalence.
Remote mountain regions like the Upper Mustang in Nepal are often neglected by the rest of the world.
Timothy Karpouzoglou
Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.
The people who live on the Niyamgiri mountain have tried to say no to mining. But the government is not listening.
Reinhard Krause/Reuters
Local people in India are supposed to be protected by progressive laws. But the reality is a far cry from that.
DIY antennas are often placed in churches for better visibility, longer distance and better quality connections.
Freifunk.net
A more democratic internet is possible via personal and community networking. Find out how to build your own connection to the world.
Students turn out for the ‘One Billion Rising’ movement, to end violence against women worldwide.
Ajay Verma/Reuters
India’s economy keeps growing, but women’s rights are going backwards: why?
US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on tour by Grand Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta in 2010.
Adek Berry/Reuters
Obama managed to build stronger rapport with many countries in Southeast Asia,but lacked foreign policy initiatives. China neatly plugged that gap.
A very spooky campaign.
Eduardo Munoz/Reuters
Trump is not a disease that befell the United States, he’s a symptom of a potentially severe illness. Recovering American democracy will take quite some time.
Clinton attending a school event in Luxor in 1999, as First Lady.
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Can Hillary Clinton, as a woman president, make a difference to Egyptian women? Her former views on democratisation in Egypt leave doubt int the minds of local observers.
Bhokul has faced the loss of her family’s land, and the loss of their income. Now climate change threatens her livelihood even more.
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson/UNU-EHS
Meet Bhokal, who has already lost so much due to environmental disasters, and who needs the Paris agreement to be a success.
Rio’s new mayor, a former evangelical bishop, has called homosexuality a sin, but Rio is proud of its tolerance and diversity.
Sergio Moraes/Reuters
Famously freewheeling – but also violent and unequal – Rio de Janeiro has elected a right-wing former pentecostal bishop as mayor. What’s at stake for this ‘gay, black and tolerant’ Brazilian city?
Seven countries in the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership hail from the Asia Pacific.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Security and economic interests, in the guise of the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (seven of which hail from the Asia-Pacific), are causing anxiety among US friends and allies.
Anosmia prevents people from smelling any odors.
Yuri Gripas/Reuters
People with anosmia have no sense of smell, and there is no cure for the condition.