Snakes have become a fashionable alternative to cats and dogs in the US, but not all of these pets are harmless, especially not the enormous Burmese Python. Last July, the emergency services took a call from a snake (...) +
Domestic servants are treated like slaves in present-day Lebanon. About 200,000 women from around 30 countries work as maids in Lebanon. Their passports are confiscated by the Lebanese CID on arrival. From then on, (...) +
A teenager who spends all of his or her time glued to a computer screen doesn’t raise many eyebrows in most European countries, but in China, more than 10 million kids have been diagnosed as ’cyberdependent’: addicted (...) +
With their big, soulful eyes and their beautiful fur coats, Madagascar’s lemurs are a highlight for tourists, who come to play with them. The lemurs are happy to be petted and stroked. However, this trust in mankind (...) +
You’ve tried atkins, aerobics, food combining, bootcamps, nauseating milk shakes, sickly sweet meal replacement bars, the syrup diet... what next? Paleo. It’s a new diet and fitness craze which involves immitating the (...) +
In Pakistan, having a baby girl is seen by some as bad luck; if the child reaches adulthood the parents will have to pay a dowry of up to 5 years’ salary to marry her off. So some parents decide to kill their babies (...) +
John Crowder claims he met Jesus while on an acid trip and now travels the world getting people quite literally high on God. He and his disciples ’drink’, ’inject’ and ’smoke’ Jesus and spend much of their time seemingly (...) +
A report from troubled Ingushetia - Chechnya’s smaller neighbour state. For years, war has raged between Islamic insurgents, and the Russian forces of order. People live in terror of suicide bombings and (...) +
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