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The distances between the women in the photographs hint at the challenges in their relationships.
The Burkinabe city of Bobo-Dioulasso was an exciting place to be young in the years following independence from France.
What are you left with after two dreams die?
One of the strongest pieces of evidence to support the idea that Mauricio Pochettino is indeed magic, as the song suggests, is his record of resurrections.
More than a century after British soldiers looted a collection of priceless artifacts from the Kingdom of Benin, some of the Benin bronzes are heading back to Nigeria - with strings attached.
Islamic institutions are having to adapt to a dangerous new era.
Tommy Robinson's movement is making a play for the hearts and minds of football fans.
Fresh thinking required to break the impasse.
The last president of apartheid South Africa is feeling a lot better about his country's prospects, he tells CNN in a wide-ranging interview.
"The west has become pussified," complained a young man with a neat moustache and a waistcoat that looked like velvet.
Notorious prison might offer an escape route from London's housing crisis.
Barely a week seems to pass without a new iteration of a scandal that has plagued Jeremy Corbyn's leadership and threatened to tear the party apart.
A unique instituion, once home to Charle Chaplin, faces existential threat.
Football fans serve as pinatas for freelance nightclub bouncers but rarely complain.
A derided building and marginalised community are not going quietly.
Real estate businessman Femi Olaniyi travelled to Los Angeles with a two-year multiple entry visa. The experience proved to be an ordeal.
The city's largest Latin American communities are on the edge of a precipice.
"The vision is for a street lined with trees," Sadiq Khan told CNN.
Does the island of Tuvalu predict our future?
"I don't understand arachnophobia," says Vollrath, as he inspects his brood.
Planned for a population of 35,000, the city will showcase a modern business district downtown, and neat rows of terraced housing in the suburbs.
Innovative housing projects offer a lifeline in the capital.
It is a cruel irony that a region so blessed with the treasures of early human civilizations is also among those most troubled by conflict.
ConIFA World Cup is a soccer tournament for stateless teams not recognized by FIFA.
Omer Kiyani shot as teenager, is now developing smart guns that can only be fired by authorized users.
The information age is powered by thin fiber-optic cables buried in the sea bed, spreading between continents to connect every corner of the planet.
A unique alliance at Fortuna Dusseldorf provides a glimpse of football beyond its lingering prejudices.
Best known for gulags, dictatorship and secrecy, the 'Hermit Kingdom' is not an obvious choice for a road trip.
This is the 99%, not the 75%
My experience in a haphazard but fast-moving industry.
Addiction and drug-related crime tears through traditional conservative areas
Unions take up the fight for real power
Palestine is swamped with international visitors - here's why that's a good thing.
Attack on mixed-education NGO a worrying sign
Walking a mile in the shoes of bedouin families surrounded by unexploded ordnance.
A permanent life-support system that sustains the Occupation
There is no rule of law in 'C' areas - 60% of the West Bank in which Palestinian police cannot operate freely
When Israeli officials say security is their highest priority, they do not mean in Area C.
Black supremacists have created an idyllic but vaguely sinister commune in the Negev desert
Anawi's home has been demolished six times by the Israeli army, just part of the unique challenge of life in the Jordan Valley.
The case of Bethlehem University student Berlanty Azzam highlights sinister mechanisms to attack Palestinian education.
The party is looking good for the European elections with a progressive agenda, but what do they really think
Interviews
Investigative journalist Tom Burgis explains why the resource curse is here to stay.
One year since eight million people watched his jump from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner has settled into a more relaxed lifestyle.