Sean O'Neill

A decade af­ter Turin host­ed the Win­ter Games, more than 1,000 refugees are find­ing shel­ter in its Olympic Vil­lage.

The num­ber of Mus­lims has bur­geoned in this Ital­ian city, but plans to build a mosque have been con­tentious.

Vol­un­teers on the Mediter­ranean is­land are help­ing in­te­grate young ar­rivals and keep them away from hu­man traf­fick­ers.

Thou­sands toil­ing at ISAF bases will soon be out of work and fac­ing Tal­iban ret­ri­bu­tion.

Dur­ing the re­cent at­tacks on Gaza, some Pales­tini­ans laboured in Is­rael, even as rock­ets flew over­head.