customs

A Ryanair plane parks at the airport in Weeze, Germany

‘It’s absolutely ludicrous’: Traveler up in arms after being forced to take Ryanair’s Afrikaans-language test to fly

Borders

Dinesh Joseph, who is a South African-born leadership and management trainer based in London, was recently on vacation and was one of the people forced to take the test before boarding his flight from the Canary Islands back to the UK. He described the experience to The World’s host Marco Werman.

Lantern display at Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai.

China’s last remaining lantern craftspeople uphold a waning tradition

Culture
A German scientist stands in front of shelves of wood samples

How German ‘wood detectives’ protect endangered species

Environment