Belgium's King Leopold II became exorbitantly wealthy by colonising the Democratic Republic of Congo. How should the country reconcile with its brutal past?
Belgium's King Leopold II became exorbitantly wealthy by colonising the Democratic Republic of Congo. How should the country reconcile with its brutal past?
Though banned, the centuries-old custom of confining women to a cowshed during their period persists in Nepal, with damaging and even fatal results.
Thousands of people remain homeless weeks after the Sierra Leone mudslide disaster.
Auschwitz survivor Alberto Israel, 93, was detained at the camp in Poland in 1944 when he was 17 years old. He says he still has nightmares about it.