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In many tribal communities, including the Hadza and the Innu featured here, women and men enjoy equal status. But tribal people often face displacement, murder and rape, according to Survival International. Often humiliated by governments that perpetuate the idea they are backward, some have their lands taken away. Yet resistance is growing as they take

Leeds PlayhouseWilsons play eavesdrops on the lives of an African American taxicab crew in a quietly compelling snapshot of men on the margins in the 1970s Single-location dramas are all about comings and goings, manoeuvring multiple characters and plot lines in the same space. So what better setting than a taxicab office? August Wilsons 1970s

John Burton, who has died aged 78, was no ordinary conservationist. Radical, visionary and inspirational, he challenged the usual approaches to saving wild creatures and their habitats through his creation of the World Land Trust (WLT), an organisation he set up with his wife, Viv.

Pop star, author and lady of the manor Madonna required hospital treatment yesterday after she fell off a horse while celebrating her 47th birthday. The singer, who was last night understood to be recovering at her home in Wiltshire, cracked three ribs, and broke a collarbone and a hand in the fall at her 1,200-acre

Hollywood star Russell Crowe was arrested in New York today and charged with assault after allegedly hurling a telephone at a hotel employee, a police spokeswoman said. Crowe got into an argument at the Mercer Street Hotel in the SoHo district of New York City shortly after 4am and threw the phone at the worker,