How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.

“What kind of a person looks upon the world’s largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead and lives to retirement age and can distinguish the voice of its enemies—and instead of saying ‘Wow!’ says something like ‘Where’s my gun?’”

Coming out in a country where that can get you killed.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

The author walks to his hometown after the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.

Somaly Mam’s harrowing story of her own flight from sexual servitude and the stories of hundreds of girls she rescued from Cambodian brothels brought her fame and helped raise millions for her non-profit. Does it matter if none or few of the stories are true?

When David Sneddon disappeared hiking around western China, officials chalked it up to a drowning. A decade later, it appears he had been kidnapped and taken to North Korea.

Deep in the jungle, the tourists were targetted, but only the porters were hacked by the machetes. Was it a robbery? Or a deeper pattern of violence amongst ancient tribes?

“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

A profile of Bosnian striker Vedad Ibisevic, who has come home after escaping the war more than 20 years ago.

Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.

Taking a taxi across the Saudi desert.

The writings of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik are a copy-and-paste hodgepodge of “jeremiads against the scourge of cultural theory, lists of atrocities perpetuated by Muslims, and pages of derision of ‘female sluts,’ but also Wikipedia articles about sugar beet farming and investment tips.”

The saga of Naji Mansour.

The Muay Thai fighters of Klong Prem.

A profile of Uruguay President José Mujica, a former revolutionary who’s been shot six times, was imprisoned for 14 years and, since taking office, has shunned the presidential mansion in favor of a small farm while legalizing gay marriage, abortion and marijuana.

How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.

In northern Nigeria, radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram is facing a vigilante backlash from armed teenagers with nothing to lose.

How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.

A dispatch from the Central African Republic.

The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

An investigation into allegations that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is assassinating exiled dissidents.

A trip to Turkey for a soccer game between bitter rivals and its accompanying madness.