Hans Ertl, who helped shape the official visual record of Hitler's regime, left behind a veritable archive - in a shoe box
Being arrested over the length of your coat is humiliating, but many enforcers are no longer ideologues, just ordinary citizens doing a job
The malls are bustling as teenagers seek to amuse themselves after a day of fasting
Shunted into the wings for the capital's coming-out party, China's second city swaggers back onto the global stage
Fishing quotas killed a town's marine economy, but Scottish Nationalist politicians have revived it through European integration
Million-dollar Chinese painter Liu Xiaodong turns an Italian city's uncleared waste into art, under the watchful eye of the mob
Once, Nicaragua's Sandinistas were the embodiment of Catholic "liberation theology." Today their leader sups from a more diverse spiritual table
A new pub aims to celebrate, with tongue in cheek, the old communist regime. Not everyone appreciates the joke
Snakes, alligators and monkeys pose a unique challenge to the fire department of Brazil's second city
Former Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett, now Australia's environment minister, races to the rescue of the Southern Cassowary, a creature that does a fair job of protecting itself
A generation that has only ever known boom time is now coming to terms with bust. Goodbye to Spain's golden era
Their country may have some of the world's biggest oil reserves, but Iraqis are struggling to fill their tanks
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