A new phenomenon: Highly equipped police forces intimidate demonstrators in democracies around the world. Whatever happened to peaceful protest?

Instead of maintaining public order during protests, police have shifted to suppression and rubber bullets.

Around the world, angry crowds are confronting heavily armed law enforcement forces.

Stress levels, sleep, sexuality: Hormones in our bodies wield enormous power over us. They control us, but can we control them?

Is happiness found in tidying? Ronja von Rönne investigates how to live a more organised life.

Piet Mondrian is one of the pioneers of abstraction

In a more dangerous world, should we bring back compulsory military service? Or encourage volunteers instead?

Influencers and coaches sell dangerous anabolic steroids to build muscle on social media.

Support for Spain's former dictator is on the rise with right-wing groups exploiting young people's lack of knowledge of their recent history.

The abolition of the US Development Agency's programmes is a disaster for the world's poorest people.

Mexico has invested massively in infrastructure in order to host the World Cup. But ordinary Mexicans are being priced out by expensive tickets.

Kim Jong-un has ordered the North Korean economy to be developed at the same speed as the country’s nuclear programme. 

What is the dangerous and extreme organisation that rejects the post-war democratic order in Germany?

Soldiers take to the streets of Brussels as authorities move to contain violence in drug hotspots.

Only 10 years in development by a renowned studio, incredible promises and 8 million pre-orders. What could possibly go wrong...?

As many Mexicans go hungry amid the lockdown, drug traffickers have started handing out care packages of food

Many Senegalese fishermen are making the dangerous journey to Europe via the Canary Islands due to their difficult situation in Senegal. 

Hamas, with its extremist ideology, has never stopped advocating for the destruction of Israel. Why?

The women of the Spanish exclave decided to act in order to improve the lives of local people and refugees.

Brazil’s military public schools are a stronghold of support for recently elected president Jair Bolsonaro, himself a military man. Support for the 1964-1985 dictatorship is not uncommon in these establishments where an atmosphere of strict obedience and order reigns.