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Winter warmers

  • 11 December 2008

In Finland the sauna is both art and national institution. Victoria James takes part in a 6,000-year-old tradition

Palestine's secret oasis

  • 04 December 2008

Surrounded by conflict, the West Bank city of Ramallah is undergoing a quiet renaissance

Rough crossings

  • 27 November 2008

York Membery looks back to an era when scores of poor Britons sailed the Atlantic in search of a better life

A deadly craft

  • 20 November 2008
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Paddy Docherty visits a town on Pakistan's Afghan border where the law of the gun reigns supreme

Mountains of the wind

  • 13 November 2008

In remote Patagonia, Simon Worrall discovers an elderly woman who has defied all conventions

Side by side they fell

  • 06 November 2008
  • 2 comments

Amid the war graves of Belgium, Tom Farrell finds a family story tangled up with the birth of modern Ireland

The edge of an empire

  • 30 October 2008
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Officially, China gets on well with its Muslims. Alice Albinia uncovers an altogether different story

Beneath the ice

  • 23 October 2008

Adrian Glover braves the freezing ocean around Antarctica and finds it rich with underwater life

To Soho in a charabanc

  • 09 October 2008

Tom Blass sees London through the eyes of his teenage daughter and a century-old guidebook

Conditions of carriage

  • 02 October 2008

Trains are the "mode of the moment". But where's the romance in today's railway journey?

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