Ten-year-old Adnan insists he felt no fear when the shells began to fall, but when he describes what happened in his village, his face tells a different story. "A house was bombed just 300 meters away from our home. I felt everything was shaking around me," he says, his eyes...

For an affliction that has dogged humanity since pre-modernity, surprisingly little is known about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Sure, we have come a long way from the days of the first World War, when "shell shocked" soldiers were routinely shot for cowardice, but then this seems a particularly low...

Sergio Viera de Mello was the UN's top trouble-shooter, the organisation's "go-to guy" when delicate diplomacy was needed in less than delicate situations.

In a glittering 34-year career, he established a reputation as a dashing maverick who tore up the rulebook to promote peace in the world's conflict zones,...

In the backstreets of Cairo, recycling is not a modern-day affectation of the environmentally conscious. It is a centuries-old survival mechanism, sustaining the 60,000 Zabbaleen, or garbage people, who make their living from what the rest of the city throws away.

Every day, they collect more than 3,000 tons...