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‘Bend a tree while it is young’.

Burcu, 26, on her background, expectations and what it means to shape your own life.

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The drawer analysis: what our storage spaces reveal about us.

From odds and ends to keepsakes: a tongue-in-cheek look at what we stash away – and why.

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The neighbour nobody knew.

A stranger’s bicycle in the cellar, a faded letterbox – and between them the life of a man who is suddenly gone. Who was he?

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Into the bushes.

From city parks to cemetery toilets: how public places became refuges for gay men – and why cruising still exists today.

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Unexploded bombs beneath the city: the dangerous job of bomb disposal.

Painstaking precision with deadly risk: a look at a profession in which every move has to be exactly right.

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‘The wolf is a problem that can be solved’.

Protect or shoot? How farmers and conservationists are struggling over the right way to deal with the returning predator.

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Irmela Mensah-Schramm: fighting Nazi slogans with a scraper and a heart.

For decades one woman has been scraping messages of hate out of public spaces – she has removed more than 140,000 of them. The attacks go on.

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Life in Transnistria: a state without recognition.

What is it like to live in a place that doesn’t even exist on most maps? Young people tell their stories.

A young couple sit in an empty grandstand at dusk, the girl leaning on the boy’s shoulder; both wear casual clothes. The background shows an urban setting with trees and a building.
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From outlaw to spiritual healer.

Alexander Golandsky was a criminal biker and cocaine dealer. Then he changed his life radically.

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Lost place in the Harz: the abandoned Harzgerode sanatorium.

Where children were once treated for tuberculosis, silence now reigns – a walk through crumbling walls.

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