This is the story of the gang that held luxury jewellers all over the world to ransom, using methods that would not look out of place in a film.
The ‘Pink Panthers’ are a group of educated gangsters from the former (...) +
Casinos, strip joints, 315 days of sunshine every year and anything goes, that’s Vegas. Or rather, that was Vegas. Sin City has lost some of its sparkle recently, thanks to the economic crisis which has affected (...) +
Burma is one of the world’s most closed and surveiled societies.
It is a nation where independent journalists are banned and where translators and guides are often threatened. Even the most banal street shots must (...) +
We gain rare access to an industry often cloaked in secrecy. We meet the people involved and broach the moral dilemmas they face. Should they be able to sell weapons to any country? What about UN embargoes on (...) +
There is at least one place in the US where it is still possible to chase the American dream: Silicon Valley, birth place of Yahoo, Google, Intel and Paypal.
Young entrepreneurs from all over the world flock to the (...) +
In the 1980’s, animal rights groups shocked consumers so much that it fell out of fashion, but after many years of absence, fur is back on the catwalks in an abundance unseen for many years. From exclusive labels (...) +
The Rif, in Northern Morocco, has become a cannabis supermarket for European drug dealers. Whilst cannabis is illegal in Morocco, as it is in most European countries, the Moroccan authorities prefer to turn a blind (...) +
Fashion dictates that our jeans should look at battered and worn out as possible, before we’ve even tried them on. The scruffier they look the better, and the bigger the price tag.
Back in the day, people simply (...) +