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Although more than one in five of Rio’s 6.5 million people live in favelas, until recently, these neighbourhoods were just blank spaces on the map.
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Israel's mysterious Druze women are beginning to open their craft circles, kitchens and homes to travellers.
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Hidden in Iran's vast central deserts lies one of the Islamic Republic's most unexpected geographical finds.
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In 2002, the last pair of wild ‘alalā disappeared from the forest. Biologist Paul Banko is fighting to return this rare charismatic bird to the wild.
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Serbian photographer Dusan Stojancevic has spent 15 years experimenting with a new artistic process to produce incredible photography.
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Massive statues of gods, kings and creatures stare down visitors to this little-known Unesco site in southeastern Turkey.
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As Facebook, Google and American movies and music arrive, young Cubans are not only changing the way they dress and talk, but the way they communicate with each other and the world.
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This former regional power is now an eerie, abandoned city of ghosts
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Drinking lessons from the Scottish island of Islay
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