Never mind the crass portrayal of Kazakhstan, at least "Borat" put it on the map. And as important, he gave "his" people important insights on America
Mozambicans are killed, maimed and kept from their fields by millions of land mines. For efficient mine-clearing, trained rodents are hard to beat
When an earthquake strikes in rural Iceland, it creates a sense of community
Sinaloa is the cradle of the Mexican drug trade, and traffickers are revered as heroes by many in the local population
Henry Okah's 'army' is a small, ragtag band operating in the Niger Delta, but you feel its impact every time you visit the gas station
At the Islamic Games 2008, the girls of Al-Madinah school accept the limits of their religion as they compete on the boards
The signal to the world that Hitler had been defeated was a photograph of a Soviet soldier raising his army's flag over the Reichstag. The posthumous return of the photographer allows Berliners to reflect
Inducting the Canadian chanteuse into the Legion of Honor has many questioning the purpose of France's highest civilian medal
The fruits of Roman Abramovich's billion-dollar investment in Chelsea Football Club failed to give Russia a "proxy" victory on home soil
Creature comforts require ingenuity from the British soldiers of an isolated combat base in Afghanistan
London remains obsessed with the serial killer who, more than a century ago, introduced its more comfortable residents to the squalor of its East End
On the Black Sea, residents are angry about a land-confiscation law that darkens what they thought was a bright future
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