Moving Portraits of Lonely, Isolated Villagers

When photographer Ricardo Ramos ventured to the region of Trás-os-Montes (English translation: “behind the mountains”) in Portugal, he discovered an area where villages can have less than 10 inhabitants — and some have only one. He photographed these isolated, mostly elderly souls, many of them living alone in homes untouched by decades of technology, and captured in […]

Chinese villagers fight for return of ‘stolen’ 1,000yo mummified monk

Published time: 15 Jul, 2017 19:13 Chinese villagers are fighting a court battle in the Netherlands to retrieve a 1,000-year-old statue containing the remains of a Buddhist monk. The unusual artefact, which villagers say was stolen from their homeland, allegedly went missing from a temple in Yangchun in China’s Fujian province in 1995. It was […]

Boko Haram slaughters Niger villagers, kidnaps 37 women in cross-border raid

Published time: 5 Jul, 2017 02:07 Around forty women have been taken hostage after Boko Haram militants carried out a gruesome cross-border raid on a village in Niger. Security forces have launched an operation to find the captives. Jihadist Boko Haram fighters attacked the Ngalewa village Sunday evening, local authorities said. Riding camels, the terrorists […]

Villagers Find Missing Man's Corpse in Belly of Enormous Snake

Image: YouTube / Tribun Timur Snakes are scary. Even little ones—the way they move, the prospect of venom, those little forked tongues—can send chills down your neck. But did you know that some snakes can eat human beings? A tragic incident in Indonesia recently reminded the world of this fact. Advertisement A 25-year-old man named […]