The film heads to Denver–ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a booming tech sector in what could be called the Silicon Valley of weed–to inhale the newest high-tech […]

Is war looming as Japan strengthens its military power and tensions escalate over disputed East China Sea islands?

Around the world, a new generation of astronomers are hunting for the most mysterious objects in the universe.

In a war on suicide, who is the enemy? An attempt to uncover the true causes of the high suicide rate in Japan.

Turkish riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray into a peaceful protest held to save Gezi Park, one of the last green areas in central Istanbul.

Mixed Martial Arts is now a billion-dollar industry, watched by millions on national TV.

Using revolutionary cameras, the directors have made an amazing chronicle of the insect world. There are at least a dozen fascinating, memorable images, and the carnage is held to a […]

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows

Rio de Janeiro’s sprawling favelas (slums) have been under the control of heavily armed drug gangs. Now before 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the government wants to take them […]

Hong Kong’s maids say they’re treated like second class citizens by controversially being denied permanent residency.

Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns.

The photojournalist and film-maker John D McHugh spent months embedded with US troops in Afghanistan in 2008-09.

A documentary about race, class, and self-righteous college students yelling at each other.