Features

Castle in the clouds

Finland’s strict drug laws have put a cannabis farmer behind bars – but he feels he’s done nothing wrong

Holes in the socks of our enemies

In the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine, a reporter follows Ukrainian volunteers on a dangerous mission to retrieve the bodies of fallen soldiers – and their enemies

The families that own all the fish

A mind-boggling investigation into the fishery-financial complex at the heart of Iceland’s leading industry

SADR: The country lost in the middle of the desert

A Colombian journalist travels to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to meet the embattled people struggling against a 50-year displacement from their homeland

Searching for the promised land

Following the Chinese transgender women journeying to Thailand in pursuit of life-changing surgeries

Over our dead bodies

How a mine has become a rallying cry for a rural Serbian community – and wider national protests

When hate reaches the school gates

Guro Middle School is on the frontline of a war on immigrants waged by Korea's far-right

Refugees welcome

A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Original by Oliver Wehrs ‘Refugees welcome’, published in

Gaming behind the iron curtain

From the Rubik's Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games

The last glass eels

A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep

A shaman’s survival in modern China

In a China racing toward the future one reluctant young shaman fights to honour the ancient spirits that refuse to let him go

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