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Canadian multiculturalism is in rude health and has licked the kinds of problems that crop up in other countries. Haroon Siddiqui explains how.

A divided society needs new answers and new identities, argues Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

With Dinyar Godrej, whose personal journey as an immigrant reveals some of the faultlines of multiculturalism, making the case for looking beneath the smokescreen of ‘culture clash’.

The late 1970s. A kitsch television show is looking for a Tony Manero impersonator. Tony who? Horribly, wonderfully real, and incredibly repulsive.

Even when the odds are stacked against them, Maria Golia observes her neighbour’s family taking life as it comes.

World Bank project leaves families homeless

Scouts log tens of thousands of acres of forestland

Viyakula Mary talks to Ewa Jasiewicz.

Respectful, real and engrossing: Modern Life in rural France.

Congo’s amazing disabled rhythm-maestros Staff Benda Bilili

How sex with widows helps dead men

Polyp tackles climate change

Sissoko’s warm-toned vocals and fluid kora work, counterpointed by Stone’s banjo-picking make for a wonderfully expansive sound on Africa to Appalachia

Egypt’s President Mubarak may have survived six assassination attempts but does not escape the NI treatment.

A haunting and sensitive glimpse into a Malaysian orphanage by photographer Abdul Rahman Roslan.