Six young British consumers swap their luxury lives for the simple mud huts and shanty towns of Africa and Asia to work alongside the people who mine, manufacture, process and recycle luxury goods ...

At the height of the State of Emergency, the colonial government not only created ‘Emergency Villages’ in Central Kenya, but ensured the mud round huts were smoothened with white clay ...

Kate and Alan Burrows have lived on their smallholding in the Tarka Valley, near Chulmleigh, Devon, since 2015 A couple who live in a mud hut and claim they have "an allergy to modern life" have ...

But attaining Madaraka was preceded by the freedom struggle that saw the colonial government erecting round mud huts in rural Central Kenya in the seven years of the State of Emergency that lasted ...

In Unnao district's Baktauri Kheda village, a mud-hut collapsed due to heavy rainfall, resulting in the deaths of an elderly man and his grandson while they were tending to cattle. Despite ...

Why I fought having my periods in a mud hut’ Long read - Banished for bleeding Police in the western Achhan district said they are investigating whether the suspect, 25-year-old Chhatra Rawat ...

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When Sir Harry Parkes visited Jemulpo (modern-day Incheon) in the spring of 1883, he had almost nothing positive to say. The ...

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II — the most powerful pharaoh ...