Human Interest

Parag Khanna argues that these five maps are critical to understand the world we live in.

Many low income people in urban and suburban areas struggle to find reliable transportation. The result is missed appointments and poor illness management, even when care is readily available.

Opposition to the Nazi regime declined near the Autobahn faster than everywhere else.

Name That Data, city streets edition.

Researchers have known for years that hosting large sporting events like the Olympics always costs more than expected and always yields less revenue and useful long-term infrastructure than estimated. Now voters and politicians in democratically elected countries are starting to realise the same thing.

"Over one million people in sub-Saharan Africa will contract malaria this year because they live near a large dam, according to a new study which, for the first time, has correlated the location of large dams with the incidence of malaria and quantified impacts across the region. The study finds that construction of an expected 78 major new dams in sub-Saharan Africa over the next few years will lead to an additional 56,000 malaria cases annually."

They're tall. They're totally absurd. And they're everywhere.

One of the world’s most dazzling engineering feats is largely hidden from view, as Tim Maughan discovers when he took a futuristic journey on a container ship.

If you suffer from gephyrophobia (fear of bridges), click away now. From bridges so frightening that people will pay someone else to drive their car across to bridges that are just plain dangerous, these 10 bridges are the world's scariest....