One-Time Nomads in the West Bank Face Eviction
A onetime nomadic tribe, the Arab Jahalin were displaced to land in the West Bank. Now they face new eviction orders from the state of Israel.

A Town that Doesn't Want Its Prison to Close
A drop in crime and fewer inmates means Lyon Mountain, N.Y., is about to lose its prison — the main employer in a town of 400.

California's Once-Glamorous Toxic Lake
The Salton Sea was once a tourist destination, a "Palm Springs with water." Now the largest lake in California is an environmental crisis; the water is toxic and the surrounding area .......

Aritz Parra reports from Shanghai, China on the increasing problems of child kidnappers. The kidnapper wins a child's affection by leaving sweets for the child to collect until the child will eventually leave with his/her abductor.

Detroit Meets Peru
Take a look at this video of a black  family from Detroit, that traveled to Andes mountains of Peru to spend a week with a family who are descendants of the Incas. The cultural differences are many.

National Geographic fellow Chris Rainier - chrisrainier.com - discusses his recent trip to Papua New Guinea and the way native cultures there are using new technology to document their language and way of life.

Mexico's drug problem.
From a windswept ridge high above El Paso, looking out across the Rio Grande to the vast plains of northern Mexico, Marisol Valles Garcia can almost see her home town. But she can’t go back.

Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have traveled over 270,000 miles through 40 countries in Africa to document more than 150 cultures. Here they share their images of a vanishing way of life in southern Sudan.

A Father's Quest to Find a Missing Daughter in Sendai
A man searches for his daughter who worked in the tsunami-damaged airport, as students from a nearby school tell of surviving the disaster.

The sophisticated fiberglass submersible is 100 feet long and capable of submersing and transporting a six-member crew and 8 tons of drugs worth an estimated $250 million 30 feet below the surface, for more than a week.

Nomads Land
Yannick Daoudi's 2-week horseback expedition to find the Tsaatan (the reindeer people) deep in the mountains of Northern Mongolia.

In an effort to portray Africa as a place other than a war-torn, AIDS-ridden hellhole, the Mama Hope movement has released a video of a 9 year old Tanzanian named Alex. In the heartwarming video, Alex retells the story of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ....

Searching for the Spirit Bear.
In September 2010, photographer Paul Nicklen entered British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest in search of the elusive Kermode bear.

Mexoco's Drug War
BBC travels to Mexico to look at the the drug war going on there, and to examine how the United States is involved. The bodies are piling up - over 1800 killings so far this year alone.

In the snow-covered plains of northern Mongolia live the Tsaatan nomads. The young Quizilol and the beautiful Solongo are in love. To prove to Solongo's father that he is man enough to marry his daughter, Quizilol has to show he is capable of .......

This documentary details the problems Florida is facing with respect to opiate pain medication. This documentary not only shows the perils that can arise from drug abuse but also details the legitimate need for pain medication in certain circumstances.

Afghan Heroin: The Lost War is a documentary which investigates how the war on terror in Afghanistan has unleashed heroin into the mainstream.
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Slavery is a word which immediately conjures up very specific images in our minds. When it is mentioned we tend to think of people, almost always black people; degraded, abused and bound in chains, and we tend to think of such images ...........

Alex Honnold makes the first free solos of the largest walls in North America. He scales 2,000 feet with only shoes and chalk bag—no rope, no safety, and no room for error. Though he's a superhero on the walls, off the rock Alex is a shy ...........

In New Orleans' Blighted Houses, Perilous Shelter for the Homeless and Sick.
New Orleans has the highest number of blighted buildings in the nation, where homeless people find shelter in unsafe and terribly unsanitary conditions.

Nepal: Escaped from the Sex Trade, Unable to Go Home. Sold by her uncle into prostitution at age 15, Laxmi Bishwokarma escaped the brothels, but cannot go home. She rebuilds her life with the help of a Kathmandu NGO.

Liberia's Daily Chalkboard Newspaper
In Monrovia, Alfred Sirleaf runs 'The Daily Talk,' a chalkboard newspaper that displays the day's news in local dialect and is read aloud to help the illiterate stay informed

The 'Musalman' is probably the last handwritten newspaper in the world. It has been published and read every day in South India's Chennai since 1927 in almost the same form. In the shadow of the Wallajah Mosque in Chennai,

Clinging to the Ruins of a Great Haitian School
The Daniel Fignolé School in Port-au-Prince was admired for giving quality education to those who couldn't afford a private school until the 2010 earthquake wrecked its campus.

Petrospheres or stone balls are pre-Columbian carvings found only in Costa Rica (One has been found just over the border in Panamá). They are almost perfectly spherical, and many are finely polished some are a more than 2 metres (six feet).

Two Veterans Go Back to Baghdad
Two veterans of the war in Iraq — from very different professions — return to find continued danger but a fragile sort of progress.

As the BBC is reporting, the grave was found in Iraq's western Anbar province, while the remains are thought to be from the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war. Some of the skeletons have already been identified as women and children who had been shot in the head.

This extraordinary video of a U.S. Apache gunship attacking a column of Taliban fighters aired on Fox News, according to the person who posted it on LiveLeak.com. As the Fox reporter notes, according to the person who posted it on LiveLeak.com.

Who will come to school?
Stationed in a small police station in Helmand, Sergeant Billy Carnegie, one of The Telegraph's front line video diarists, and his unit decide to open a school to build relations with the local community.

Iguazú is a combination of two words, Great Water. The language of these two words is Guarani. Guarani is a strong language. Some argue as a language it could disappear. It is a native South American language.

The remarkable story of a daring World War II operation in which hundreds of people fleeing the Japanese advance through Burma were rescued by elephant is to be told in full for the first time. The expedition was organised by Gyles Mackrell ......

More than 6,000 child soldiers operate in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur where about two million children have been affected by conflict, UNICEF has said. The youngest soldiers associated with Darfur rebel groups were 11,

Jens Kristensen was in the UN's Port au Prince headquarters when Haiti's worst earthquake struck a year ago. He survived five days trapped in the rubble of the building. Kristensen was enclosed in a five-foot long space so dark that it made no difference ....

The new film follows two young gymnasts and their families for over eight months in the lead up to the Mass Games. The socialist realism spectacular involves a cast of thousands in the biggest and most elaborate human performance on earth.

SAIGON – The rain sheeted down, time washed away. I looked down from the rooftop in Saigon where, more than a generation ago, in the wake of the longest war of modern times, I had watched silent, sullen streets awash. - John Pilger reports

Female Marines Race To Win Over Afghan Women.Local culture forbids men to look at or talk to Afghan women, so the Marine Corps deploys Female Engagement Teams to reach out to them and address their needs.

The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year.

The Lord's Resistance Army insurgency is a guerrilla campaign waged since 1987 by the Christian sectarian Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group, operating mainly in northern Uganda, but also in South Sudan and eastern DR Congo.

Musician and journalist Nathan Thornburgh returned to Havana. He published an article about his experiences, "The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba? " He has now also published video from his trip at Time Video.

Wolf Blitzer presents this special on North Korea, documenting his trip there. It's a look at the crisis through two lenses: what the western world experienced through news reports, including the uncertainty in Washington .

LAHORE, Pakistan — Saad Iqbal Madni looks decades older than his 33 years when he shuffles into the room, head down and eyes averted.
"Muslim people not ready to forgive that ... I'm not going to forget that," he tells NBC News.

Soldier's diaries: Afghan tour of duty video timeline Follow 5th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (5 Scots) on their six month tour of Laskar Gah and the surrounding area of Helmand through their regular video diaries for The Daily Telegraph.

Betty Nguyen Helps Vietnamese Struggling to Survive
CBS News' Betty Nguyen traveled to her birth country of Vietnam to distribute humanitarian aid to those struggling to survive.

In 2006, a lone climber attempting the summit of Mount Everest for the third time was, purely by chance, caught in an amateur photograph taken by another climber of the scenic mountaintop ahead. The climber in the photograph was making his way up what is known as the Final Push of the Northeast ridge, between Camp VI at 8,230 m and the summit. It was late in the afternoon.

Cambodia: Treasures beyond Angkor fit for a Khmer king More than a million tourists visit Angkor Wat each year but further afield there are countless exquisite hidden monuments testifying to Cambodia's rich past. Michelle Jana Chan reports. The older, wiser people of Cambodia say you must never plan to visit the prized temples of Angkor. Better to see them when you least expect it.

Mysterious and spectacular ancient monuments confound scientists and dazzle travelers to this Andean nation
Some people call it Peru Machu or Peru Picchu, but the facts Machu Picchu uncover are really just educated guesses because so little is known about this ancient city. Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas, is nestled 7,500 feet above sea level

Once the fourth-largest metropolis in America some have called it the Death of the American Dream. Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. They are creating the new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity. We put our boots on and went exploring.

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An incredible set of pictures taken during the controversial 1903 British Mission to Tibet has come to light - the first ever photos to come out of the mysterious country.
The rare snaps were taken by an officer during the campaign - the first time the British were given access to the country.

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Kulula is an Airline with head office situated in Johannesburg
Check out their new livery! And have a read about their Customer Relations.
Kulula airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard

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Rifleman Daniel Nickson describes the moment he jumped into a freezing canal to save another soldier's life.

Sgt Maj Karl Ley has received the George Medal

RAF pilot Ian Fortune has described his pride

In Canada a Muslim girl was murdered by her father and/or brother for refusing to wear a hijab. Her dreams, hopes, ideas, and soul were permanently extinguished

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The Telegraph's Derek Bishton became one of more than 100,000 people a year who walk the Camino. ......

In a remote village in central Afghanistan, a former warlord publicly flogged two girls for running away from the husbands they had been illegally forced to marry.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Blood tests have confirmed that a mysterious series of cases of mass sickness at girls’ schools ......

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experience Iranian life today in its historic capital and in a countryside village. Most important, you'll meet the people of this nation whose government so exasperates our own.

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Photographer Jodi Bieber traveled to Afghanistan to shoot portraits of women there, from an Olympic athlete to politicians to a woman ....

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With her clear skin and dark, flowing hair, 18-year-old Aisha would ordinarily have stood out from a crowd because of her beauty. But now, tragically,

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Afghan women can now vote and run for office, but they are still second-class citizens. Domestic violence is entrenched in society,

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The particular challenges facing female soldiers operating in one of the world's deadliest environments, the Helmand Province. ....

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Marine Calvert, a member of the same Commando unit as Marine Adam Brown who was killed on Sunday, gives a bitter and disarmingly frank view of the front line. ....

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The dark tale of the men of 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry & how the war followed them home. Since the Iraq War began ....

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Kidnapping women off the streets in order to force them into marriage with men they have barely met. a harrowing account of the ....

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