Belem is the Brazilian city at the mouth of the Amazon. Unlike its slummy counterpart, Kinshasa, at the mouth of the Congo, it’s full of...

The gloves are off in Hong Kong. Judging from the pictures on today’s BBC News the police no longer have any compunction about beating...

“In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once...