Go behind the bars of two of the world’s toughest prisons, including one run by the inmates.

In the middle of California’s Mojave Desert, there’s more than 3-million square miles of desert sand, barren landscape, and scorched earth, known as Death Valley. But despite its extremes there is life there.

Italian mafia doing their usual work.

Two Kenyan guys try to get a grip on a culture of ATMs, high rise buildings, and hot dogs.

Chile’s February 27 earthquake caused an apartment building in this small city to collapse, killing 23.

A therapist teaches drinking urine, a Papua New Guinea woman breast feeds a pig, and organ trade thrives in the Philippines.

As many as 15 gunmen stormed into a house party in Juarez, Mexico, in the early hours of Sunday morning and opened fire, killing at least 13 people and injuring 13 others in one of the deadliest attacks the city has seen this year, a police official said. Read More

The Tallest Man in the world, Sultan Kosen (8 ft 1 in) meets the Shortest Man, He Pingping (2 ft 5.37) for the first time.

Video from the top of Burj Dubai tower – the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 818 m (2,684 ft).
The total budget for the Burj Dubai project is about US$4.1 billion, and for the entire new “Downtown Dubai”, US$20 billion

Floor layout:
160-206 Mechanical
156-159 Transmission
155 Mechanical
139-154 Office
136-138 Mechanical
125-135 Office
124 Observatory
111-123 Office
109-110 Mechanical
76-108 Residential
73-75 Mechanical
43-72 Residential
40-42 Mechanical
19-39 Hotel
17-18 Mechanical
5-16 Hotel
4 Hotel, Mechanical
3 Hotel, restaurant
2 Hotel, lobby
1 Hotel, lobby, restaurant
Concourse Restaurant, lobby
B1-B2 Parking, Mechanical