In the wake of the recent mass shootings in American schools, more and more students are taking an interest in guns. Unsurprising for a country where there are 300 million legal guns for a population of 310 million. (...) +
There are no white coats, or straight jackets in sight. In this institution, nurses and the mentally ill live together. Marie-Noëlle is a carer who lives in the same house as those she gives care to. In the converted (...) +
At 23, Faith Dickey has already written her will. The American from Texas is the best in the world at her craft, and the only female to toy with death as she conquers the ‘highline’. Walking across precipices the (...) +
After the discovery of vast amounts of oil in North Dakota, USA, the state has experienced exceptional growth and a huge influx of workers. The economies of towns such as Williston have shot up as workers come from (...) +
If they were to have equal populations, the Ecuadorian village of Vilcabamba would contain ten times as many citizens over the age of 100 than in France. José is 103 and still cultivates his garden, uprooting trees (...) +
Anne-Sophie Pic is the only woman in France to have captured the holy grail of professional cuisine and obtained the status of head chef at a restaurant boasting three Michelin stars. Carrot with orange flower and (...) +
Lost in the center of Réunion Island, scattered in several remote little villages of the Mafate Circus, 850 French people live cut off from the rest of the world, surrounded by the sculptured, majestic landscape of (...) +
For the river towns of Vietnam, the flowing waters are an important source of livelihood, and at the same time an ever-present danger. Last year, one hundred people were killed and 30,000 evacuated during rainy (...) +