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Abdulrazak Gurnah during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017.
Books
Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: An introduction to the man and his writing
Sihanoukville, Cambodia, has become a construction site in recent years, with dozens of Chinese projects to build business and apartment high-rises, and with roads under construction around town.
On China's New Silk Road
Opening the door to Chinese investment comes with risks for Southeast Asian nations
An aerial view of a detention center
Refugees
Australia detained this family on a remote island — alone
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Environment
Survivors scavenge for food and water as Indonesia death toll continues to rise
Boats anchored at Qalansiya, Socotra, Yemen
Conflict
Yemen’s war hasn’t yet reached this remote island paradise. But conflict is brewing.
DNA testing in The Hague
Justice
Cutting-edge DNA labs help identify people missing in conflicts and disasters
French gendarmes and police inspect a piece of plane debris found on a beach on the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion.
Technology
What can the Indian Ocean plane wreckage tell us?
The shadow of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion maritime search aircraft can be seen on low-level clouds as it flies over the southern Indian Ocean looking for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 on March 31, 2014.
Technology
One year later, the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is still just that
A rose is lit by a candle as survivors, local residents and visitors gather for a ceremony for victims of the 2004 tsunami in Ban Nam Khem, a fishing village destroyed by the wave. Survivors of Asia's 2004 tsunami and relatives of its 226,000 victims crie
Environment
Survivors will never forget the day the tsunami hit
Conservationists are trying to protect the ocean waters around Palau, a small island nation in the South Pacific due east of the Philippines. The waters are recognized as one of the seven underwater wonders of the world, with more than 1,300 species of fi
Environment
Conservationists are working to create more national parks at sea
A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 shouts at journalists at the Lido hotel in Beijing, March 24, 2014
Conflict & Justice
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 families remain distraught and suspicious after news that aimed to end their uncertainty
A family member of a passenger aboard Malaysia Airlines MH370 shouts at journalists at the Lido hotel in Beijing, March 24, 2014
Conflict & Justice
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 families remain distraught and suspicious after news that aimed to end their uncertainty
2014. Britain's Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the nineteenth century to analyse the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination.The new findings led Malaysian Prime Minister Na
Environment
An oceanographer tells why it will be so tough to find missing Flight 370 in the Indian Ocean
A man comforts a family member of a passenger onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 as they wait for news from Malaysia Airlines, at the lobby of a hotel in Beijing, March 14, 2014.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Malaysian officials say they know where their missing jet went down — but it won’t end hope for families
Environment
How does a jetliner go missing with all of today’s technology?
Environment
How does a jetliner go missing with all of today’s technology?
Malaysia's acting Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, takes questions from journalists during a news conference about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Global Politics
Why Malaysian officials can’t seem to handle the heat over missing plane
Malaysia's acting Transport Minister, Hishammuddin Tun Hussein, takes questions from journalists during a news conference about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
Global Politics
Why Malaysian officials can’t seem to handle the heat over missing plane
Global Scan
Sochi Olympics will have security on full display
Relief supplies for Haiyan victims
Environment
Read these 3 tips before you offer help to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan
Global Scan
From poisonous snakes in Brazil to poisonous gas in Syria, to political poison in the US, what a Monday!
Environment
Maldives working to be carbon-neutral by 2020
Arts, Culture & Media
Body percussion a sign of cultural heritage in recovering Aceh province in Indonesia
Tourists flocking to tsunami-scarred Indonesian communities
In the island nation of the Maldives, China and India trying to assert themselves
Yugoslavia, Zaire and other defunct geo names
Aceh’s Orphans
Mohamed Nasheed and Jon Shenk on the State of the Maldives
Cruise Ship Costa Allegra Towed to the Seychelles
The World’s Largest Water Park
Hard as Sea Snails
Behind the Big Dry