Vietnamese girls smuggled into China and sold as child brides
"When I woke up I didn't know that I was in China."
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The fall and rise of subscription libraries
In the days before public libraries, people paid for the privilege of borrowing books
How important is social class in Britain today?
The UK is famed for the rigid distinctions between the different strata of society – but what’s the truth in the myth?
North Carolina loses 400 jobs as PayPal pulls facility
PayPal has canceled its plans to open a new global operations center in Charlotte, following passage of a North Carolina law that prevents cities from creating non-discrimination policies based on gender identity.
Obstacles to ‘coding while black’
Rodney Sampson helps run Codestart, a 13-month program designed to teach young people from low-income backgrounds or communities about coding, finance and finding jobs.
The hidden psychology of failure
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Seattle University program hopes to foster a more civil society
Could we all be just a little more civil to each other?
Making way for the Three Gorges Dam: a photographer captures its immigrants
Locals start to move out of town in Wushan county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, 1993, one year before the construction started. Now this part of the old town is beneath the water
Five men with one mission: Keep women in India safe
In India, a sexual assault occurs every 22.5 minutes.
Mob calls for assaults on foreigners in Sweden; clashes at UK migrant protests
Tensions over Europe's migrant crisis led to arrests and violence in Sweden and the UK over the weekend,
