Fear of women

Off the coast of Italy, fruit and vegetables are being cultivated 10 meters below the sea's surface. Could these futuristic greenhouses be a prototype for how to grow food in an uncertain future?

On why the Golden Plover is used to sell barbecues

How a tortilla oven survived a tsunami and fed three generations of one Chilean family

Remember, remember the fifth of November! Writer Will Self on why effigies of Guy Fawkes and contemporary villains go up in flames all across the UK

Civil war, nightly air raids, a lack of water: as a refugee from Palestine, Mohammad El-Hassan, felt he had no future in Lebanon. He fled to Berlin in 2003 and today works as a cook in Prenzlauer Berg

Education, work, marriage: over the years, the rights of Afghan women have been fiercely contested. A chronology of an eventful history

Our anonymous author’s sister was a journalist who was murdered on the street by the Taliban. This is her attempt to say farewell

When the Taliban came to power, women in Afghanistan lost almost everything overnight: their rights, their jobs, their dignity. What are their concerns today? We asked Afghan women for a selfie, and asked the question: how are you doing?

Ethnic plurality, religious tensions, rival elites: Afghanistan is a nation of contradictions. In an effort to dig below the surface, we posed seven questions to four experts

Girls scavenging in piles of rubbish and scarcely any cars on the streets: the Afghan capital has changed. An author takes us for a stroll in her neighbourhood

Afghanistan is on the verge of becoming a “failed state”, says journalist and women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj. And it's the West’s power politics that are partly to blame

Profits from the opium industry account for over half of Afghanistan's economic output. An overview of the drug threatening to tear Afghanistan apart

Even before the Taliban seized power, health care for Afghan women and girls was sub-standard. Now it is catastrophic: a visit to the provinces

Artist Salwa Rahen describes destroying a lifetime of work and why she can't imagine herself working again under Taliban rule. A conversation.

Ever since the Taliban returned, music has been banned and it has been forbidden for woman to sing. Yet a number of female Afghan musicians continue their careers in exile. Introducing a selection of famous singers - and and their songs.

Multimedia artist Musquiqui Chihying explores how people of colour are portrayed in film and television - and what camera technology has to do with it. A conversation

During the Second World War, Latvia was occupied by the Red Army. This legacy casts a long shadow but, amid the war in Ukraine, perceptions are suddenly shifting.

Linear, efficient and punctual: that's how the Western world ticks. But can't time be understood and used differently, for example as it is in Sudan?

Cheon Myeong-kwan's expansive novel “The Whale” retells South Korea's 20th-century history as a feminist fairy tale. Twenty years after its Korean publication, European readers can finally access a modern masterpiece

Assassin flies taste with their feet, scallops have 200 eyes, fishes are “swimming tongues”. Science journalist Ed Yong explores the weird and wonderful world of animal perception