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Senna has pounded rock; she has ground it to gravel with her feet, she has teetered under heavy bags of crushed stone. But she was never lucky as a child miner; she never found even the faintest glimmer of gold. Today, with her father dead...

In remote northwest Myanmar, the traditional home to the headhunting Naga tribes, skulls are harder and harder to find.

How an insurgent movement of pro-democracy activists—from underground, in exile, or in prison—returned to take Burma’s military junta by political storm.

A trip on a barge down Burma’s river highway

Aung San Suu Kyi and democracy may have pushed Burma from an isolated nation to potential partner to the rest of the world. But a trip deep inside the rebel camps tells a different story.

A faith healer has brought hope to hundreds of thousands—but he has also convinced them to abandon HIV medication.

The Rosia Montana mine is one of the oldest mines in the world, but now it threatens to destroy the ancient village it long ago built.

Egyptian protests began on January 25, 2011, spurred in part by the success of protests in Tunisia and brought to a boil by a massive social media campaign. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were so effective in getting Egyptians out onto the...

In Somaliland, a would-be nation struggles toward a democratic future—even as it wrestles with the legacy of a war it can’t forget.