The World in Images

As the first all-female rap collective in India, Wild Wild Women are making waves on the Mumbai music scene.

Far away from the South Korean metropolis of Seoul is the Buddhist Gameunsa Temple where three nuns live, pray and cook together 

 In the last few hundred years they have become increasingly endangered but new protection and resettlement schemes are ensuring a comeback.

At the far western tip of France, a champion kitesurfer has a mad idea: Brave the perilous currents and winds of the Iroise Sea to reach a legendary lighthouse.

A new trainline linking the major Maya archaeological sites is a boon for the tourism industry.

To bring law and justice to remote areas of Brazil, a floating courthouse takes to the waterways for six weeks a year.

A journey north from Cape Town through one of South Africa’s most unspoilt and beautiful regions.

White sand, white citrus blossom, white houses – Spain’s Costa Blanca is aptly named.

In Laos, buffaloes suffer from malnutrition. An innovative diet could help them.

Faced with more frequent and violent natural disasters caused by climate change, animals and plants are adapting. A surprising and inspiring documentary about nature's survivors.

Icelandic fishermen are fishing for a new and unusual marine creature: The sea cucumber.

Cannabis farming has a long tradition in northern Morocco: some 300,000 families have long made a living from growing the plant.