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Life and Death in the Chocolate Box

Life and Death in the Chocolate Box
On a cool, clear evening in Buenos Aires, San Martín de San Juan, a small team from western Argentina, arrives to meet its fate at La Bombonera. Home of Boca Juniors, the largest and most successful team in the country, the stadium is the beating blue-and-gold heart of the colourful,..
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  • 6 Dec
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State of Play

State of Play
Thanks to its ubiquitous sign, ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada’ may be the most famous branding of any city in the world, even if it’s not always telling the truth. Nevada’s largest city is many things to many people – fabulous for some, but it can just as easily..
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  • 1 Apr
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Half Way to Mars

Half Way to Mars
The first time I met Gary Player he gave me a little cuddle in front of a big crowd. It was in early 2010, shortly before the official opening of Saadiyat Beach Golf Club, the Abu Dhabi course designed by the South African. I was there with a dozen or..
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  • 4 Feb
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The Hospital Built by Gorillas

The Hospital Built by Gorillas
In a jungle on a mountainside, in the southernmost part of Uganda, in the very heart of Africa, there stands a hospital, a hospital built by gorillas. It’s an ongoing job, and though the Bwindi Community Hospital first opened 12 years ago, on some mornings you can still faintly hear..
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  • 13 Nov
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Furiouser and Furiouser

Furiouser and Furiouser
On a hot night in late June 2001, a group of young, largely unknown actors shuffled along the red carpet at the premiere of their new film in Los Angeles, California. Many had made fashion choices they would later regret. Among them, Paul Walker wore an ill-fitting suit with a..
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  • 29 Mar
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Slicker Cities

Slicker Cities
Victoria Derby Day in Melbourne passes largely in monochrome. That is not to say it is dull – tens of thousands of people attend the 140-year-old race which traditionally marks the start of Melbourne Cup week, and most hell-bent on having a good time. But a history that no one..
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  • 8 Mar
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What Becky Said

What Becky Said
One of the first things a broadcaster learns is how to control their voice: intonation, pronunciation and, crucially, pacing. Veteran CNN presenter Becky Anderson does all of this perfectly on air, but off it things are a good deal pacier. For example, when asked if there’s such a thing as..
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  • 11 Dec
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The Return of Ali Mostafa

The Return of Ali Mostafa
Ali Mostafa looks like the most relaxed man in the UAE when he should be anything but. I meet him in a Dubai café, five weeks before his second feature, From A to B, is to open the eighth Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The final version of his film was..
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  • 11 Dec
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Finding Leviathan

Finding Leviathan
It’s hard to quantify the enormity of a whale. A North Atlantic right whale can weigh as much as 10 African elephants. So what? Unless life has taken you down an unlikely path that requires you regularly interact with elephants, that’s a fairly meaningless comparison. Telling you that blue whale..
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  • 1 Oct
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Be Careful What You Piss For

Be Careful What You Piss For
It’s disgusting, of course. I am disgusting. I think that again and again as I refill my idiotically large cup at a Burger King soda fountain, somewhere just south of Miami. If it hadn’t taken so long to get through immigration, I wouldn’t be reduced to this, but after three..
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  • 8 Aug
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Be Careful What You Piss For

Be Careful What You Piss For

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  • 8 Aug
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The World Nomad Games

The World Nomad Games

Travel
  • 8 Dec
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Life and Death in the Chocolate Box

Life and Death in the Chocolate Box

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  • 6 Dec
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Necessity Bears

Necessity Bears

Travel
  • 25 Oct
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Fjord Escort

Fjord Escort

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  • 28 Sep
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