Architect Tim Bushe is quite literally carving out a niche for himself by cutting the privet hedges that surround local gardens into giant animal shapes - and making a big impact on his neighbourhood.

Charlotte Von Schedvin was a blonde, blue-eyed young woman who hailed from Swedish nobility.PK Mahanandia was a poor art student from eastern India, seen as an "untouchable" in his country's caste system. Yet their chance meeting in Delhi, late 1975, led to him cycling a mammoth 3,600 km to be with her.

Unlike most teenagers, Ashley Delgado starts her school day by crossing an international border. She gets up at 5am so her mother Dora can drive through Juárez’s dense traffic to...

Dakar (CNN) For 13-year-old Amar, it's Real Madrid. For 17-year-old Junior, it's Marseille. Like so many boys, their dream is to travel from Africa to Europe and follow in the...

In the spring of 1972, three Kyoto dropouts -- a folk singer, a photographer and a poet -- decided to build a space where their creative and political ideas could meet. The US and its allies had been fighting communist Vietnam in a brutal and unpopular war.

Three months after the United Nations warned of the imminent risk of famine in Somalia, aid agencies there are battling a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Drought has devastated vegetation...

Curries simmering in huge vats, each pan the shade of a season. Crepes browning on griddles, flipped and smeared with molten chocolate. Tempting cries at the Jemaa el-Fnaa as spiced chicken is slapped onto searing grill plates. Eating is surely one of the greatest pleasures of travel.

The Kenyan government is scaling up an innovative livestock insurance programme that uses satellite imagery of drought-hit areas to offer a safety net to vulnerable farmers. The Kenya Livestock Insurance...

With 10 million people flocking each year to its colorful, noisy and bustling cities, India is facing the largest urban migration in history. These Instagrammers reveal a changing India, where old and new are morphing to create an eclectic and fascinating landscape.

Overcrowding, self harm, record levels of attacks on staff. Could bright young graduates be the fresh blood needed to solve the problems plaguing Britain's jails?

El Paso, Texas - Â Sayed came into the world in a border detention cell. His mother, who had travelled from El Salvador with her husband, daughter and 100 others...

London, United Kingdom - In revenge for trying to side with the Allies, in March 1944 the Nazis invaded Hungary and quickly forced 424,000 Hungarian Jews on the death train...

Dakar Lives began as an Instagram feed in 2015 with the aim of "curating the best photos from Senegal". Now, the account has become an avid community sharing vibrant snaps of the West African nation's idyllic beaches, buzzing street scenes and rich cuisine.

It's only 15 seconds of music, featuring a delicate jingle of banjo and guitar topped with a honeyed song in the dialect of Bassa. Yet it's 15 seconds that changed everything for Blick Bassy, the Cameroonian musician.

They are heaped up four-high by the door, stacked in boxes along the corridor and piled in a multi-colored wall by the bed. DJ Kish Kash has so many sneakers in his one-bedroom London apartment, there is little room for anything else.

Feature in Spanish for Catalunya's regional daily on the contemporary philosopher Alain de Botton and his School of Life.

CNN Interview with Swedish tennis legend Bjorn Borg, whose court battles with John McEnroe created one of the most famous rivalries in sport.

Report from drought-hit Somalia. UN livestock coordinator Khalid Saeed explains the importance of keeping animals alive to avoid the outbreak of famine, and 23-year-old herder Muna Hashid Mohammed tells of...