Chased "like animals", CAR villagers live on roots
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BOWARA, Central African Republic  - Driven from their homes by armed raiders, terrified villagers in northwest Central African Republic say they are surviving in the bush eating roots, fruit and leaves.
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They look alike, these two races involving ancient Northeast baseball towns, but they are vastly different.
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Ameer brings alive the rustic feel of the village in his latest flick.
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BOUCARD, France -- When this village's fairy-tale chateau is viewed from afar, with its seven slender spires and fortress-like bearing, it is easy to imagine the genteel, pampered existence of the aristocrats who call it home.
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With a home in the woods, wild animals for neighbors and a recreational vehicle to take on quickie vacations, Tony Hill and his wife are enjoying a comfortable, if not luxurious, retirement.
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COTTENHAM, England -- A brutal killing, cigarette smuggling, a tax revolt, and a human rights dispute -- the last things one would expect to find in an English village.
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TONG BUJI, China -- Every few weeks, farmer Long Zhu Xiang walks about 30 minutes down the rubble-strewn path that connects her remote impoverished village in Guizhou Province to a county road and then takes a bus ride into the nearest county town to sell the one precious commodity she has -- her blood.
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They produce as much organic carbon as all the rainforests on Earth, but they&#39;re not plants. They live in hard shells and can survive for months in the dark, but they&#39;re not animals.
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Residents in three villages apply for an injunction to prevent animal rights extremists entering the area.
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Even cars are at risk as floods and building sites drive out rodents from their underground lairs
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Though there is probably no more evocative image of the British countryside than that of red-coated hunters riding to the hounds in pursuit of the fox, that picture is likely to pass into history as a result of ...
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...
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Mythical tales abound of a race of little people that dwell on the islands of Indonesia. Dutch explorers who colonized Flores 100 years ago were told stories of a human-like creature local
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On any other day but this one, the village of Ahmad al-Hamadi, on the green banks of the Euphrates, would be an idyllic place. In the rich, agricultural gardens
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If you're a parent, be forewarned: The homecomers may snack like locusts, sleep like vampires, treat property with the respect of marauding villagers -- yet exude such charm and sweetness that you pray they never leave.
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MAN VERSUS BEAST: Overtrapping and overhunting in the early 20th century drove many species &#151; river otters, black bears and Canada geese, for example &#151; from their natural habitats.
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SANTO TOMAS, Philippines  - It could be any other sleepy town in the Philippine countryside, rows of single-storey houses basking under the sun alongside roads with the occasional car or van driving past.