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The dwarves of Auschwitz

The Ovitzs (from left): Elizabeth, Perla, Rozika, Frieda, Franziska and Avram 'I was saved by the grace of the devil," Holocaust survivor Perla Ovitz told us. Again and again, she recounted in detail…
PUBLISHED: March 23, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2738 words)

Ecuador: Amazon families split over lure of oil money

Children swim in the shadow of oil pipelines in a river near Yasuni national park in Ecuador Photograph: Eduardo Leon/Corbis While they were growing up in their remote community deep in the…
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2036 words)

Bugarach: the French village destined to survive the Mayan apocalypse

Bugarach … AKA 'the doomsday destination'. Photograph: REUTERS Up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a tiny village nestled amid breathtaking landscapes and eagles in flight, a man in a woolly hat…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2206 words)

The rise and fall of Vijay Mallya: are India's boom times ending?

High rise ... a child from a slum colony housing labourers working on a new housing estate, south of New Delhi. Photograph: Stuart Freedman/Panos Pictures Drive out of Delhi, across the heavily…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2630 words)

Why Obama won the women's vote

Women celebrating Barack Obama's triumph: they had much to fear from a Romney victory. Photograph: Shawn Thew/Camera Press In the very long list of people who, in what might come to be seen as the…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1528 words)

Fear and loathing in Athens: the rise of Golden Dawn and the far right

The flag of Golden Dawn: ‘We want all illegal foreigners out of our country, we want the usurers of the troika and the IMF out for ever.’ Photograph: Reuters You can hear it from blocks away: the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3510 words)

Colorado's working poor: 'Suddenly, I'm living below the poverty line'

Volunteers hand out free groceries to locals in Pueblo, Colorado. Last year the census bureau found that a third of Americans are either in poverty or desperately close to it. Photograph: John…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2693 words)

The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man

Target in sight: 'Our expectation was that if he was there, he would go down fighting,' said Barack Obama. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex Features Viewed backwards, from Osama bin Laden's hideout to the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5505 words)

US elections: a battle for America's soul

Let battle commence: the first presidential debate in the US elections takes place next week. Photograph: Mary Altaffer, Evan Vucci/AP You could call it the clash of the titans, though scrap between…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 27, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2408 words)
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