Asia’s ‘cleanest village’ tries to find a balance between tourists and calm

In Sweden, ‘fika’ is making time for coffee, sweets and the people you care about

From pensions to pastries: Vienna café supports elderly workers

Hundreds of people across dozens of countries worked on this single dress

‘Abandoned’ settlement in Greenland still hums with life

Amid divorce and war, a Palestinian-Israeli actor finds himself ‘between the river and the sea’

How a small community in Italy turned its home into a ‘bear smart’ town

Evangelical churches flourish among Indigenous communities in Ecuador

Out of Eden Walk: Finding privacy and solitude on a long journey across the globe

In Damascus, stand-up comedians test the limits under a new government

The ‘1975’ project helps Vietnamese refugee families open up about their past

Community, conversation, music: How people are tackling eco-anxiety around the world

Astropical band fuses electronic music with Caribbean rhythms in an ‘optimistic’ album that ‘takes you to beach’

Some people on Indonesia’s Simeulue island relied on folklore to escape the 2004 tsunami

On this remote isle, an icon of the Virgin Mary has endured the flames of war

A massive mural project in Mexico City is transforming some of the poorest neighborhoods

Is retirement officially dead in Japan?

‘A whole bunch of goodness’: Chef Alexander Smalls talks about new cookbook of African home cooking

In the UK, a man’s shed is his castle. For some, it’s also a lifeline.

In rural Japan, a closed school becomes a new kind of community hub

As Dutch residents struggle to find housing, some are trying new initiatives