Kandahar by Humvee
Jon Hemming has been Reuters chief correspondent in Afghanistan for just over a year. In the following story, he tells of an experience traveling in a convoy of U.S. troops through the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a hot-bed of Taliban insurgents. Full Article
When is a coup not a coup?
Daniel Magnowski is a correspondent for Reuters in West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal. Here he tells of covering the aftermath of the military coup in Mauritania and his encounter with the new junta leader. Full Article
My SUV-selling hell
Tom Hals is a financial editor based in New York. He joined Reuters in London in 2001 and has worked in Tokyo, New Orleans and Philadelphia. In the following story, he tells of becoming an accidental owner of a sport utility vehicle and the troubles of selling a gas-guzzler as energy prices soar. Full Article
Zooming around the velodrome
Deborah Charles, a reporter and keen road cyclist in Washington, has long wondered how the velodrome cyclists stayed upright on the severely sloping curves of an Olympic arena. Thanks to USA Cycling, she was given the chance to find out. Full Article
Devil in the detail for would-be drivers in Japan
Chang-Ran Kim, who has covered the Asian auto industry for Reuters in Tokyo for six years, describes getting a driver's licence in a notoriously draconian system. Full Article
Dreaming of a long shower in parched Cyprus
Michele Kambas, senior correspondent in Cyprus where she has worked since 1995, recounts the upheaval caused by stringent water rationing and one of the worst droughts on record. Full Article
Volunteer 7768, which way to Bird's Nest?
Nick Mulvenney, Reuters' first sports correspondent in China, has spent the last 2.5 years reporting on the preparations for the Olympics, a task that has taken him from the Chaoyang Park beach volleyball venue to Everest Base Camp. Full Article
Test diving the "revolutionary" Speedo suit
Ken Wills, an editor in Beijing who spent much of his youth in the pool, tries out Speedo's LZR Racer suit, which many Olympic swimmers are wearing this year. Full Article
In search of invisible borders in central Africa
Correspondent Joe Bavier describes a trip to Central African Republic's porous eastern border with Sudan in the aftermath of a wave of raids by Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army. Full Article
Love or hate them, Olympic openings are pure kitsch
London-based correspondent Paul Majendie first went to the summer Olympics at Los Angeles in 1984 and has covered every opening ceremony since then -- in Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney and Athens. Full Article
Return to Gaza
Wafa Amr, a Jordanian who has been working for Reuters in Jerusalem since 1994 with a focus on the Palestinian Territories, recounts her first visit since before Hamas took over the enclave. Full Article
An encounter with Karadzic in the snow
Giles Elgood, who covered the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 from both sides of the front line, describes meeting the now-arrested Bosnian Serb leader in 1994. Full Article
Hell's kitchen: mining sulfur in a volcano
Ed Davies, deputy bureau chief in Indonesia, describes spending a day with the sulfur miners of an East Java volcano. Full Article
Shooting hoops, in the name of the state
Michael Fiala, a senior photo editor, tells the story of a family of top Chinese basketball players attending the Beijing Olympics as spectators after years working "for the glory of the country". Full Article
So, he asked me, when will oil come down?
Daniel Fineren, a senior energy correspondent, describes his recent encounter with a Spanish taxi driver on the way home from the World Petroleum Congress. Full Article
Burial abroad brings double loss
William Kemble-Diaz, senior real estate correspondent and editor of www.reutersrealestate.com, tells how his father's remains in a Spanish cemetery were removed without the family's knowledge Full Article
Media menace at British coup plotter's trial
Daniel Flynn, correspondent for West and Central Africa, describes his experience of the trial of Simon Mann in Equatorial Guinea. Full Article
Virtual friends in a cancer world
Janet Guttsman, bureau chief for Reuters in Canada and who enjoys long bicycling trips in Canada and beyond, tells of support she received online after a diagnosis of early-stage breast cancer. Full Article
Rebel gunfire, the music of Chad
Finbarr O'Reilly, chief photographer for West and Central Africa and who won a World Press Photo Award for picture of the year in 2006, describes a recent encounter with rebels in eastern Chad. Full Article
Sergeant William Bee, May 18, 2008
Goran Tomasevic, senior photographer in Egypt, recalls a rare sequence of split-second shots he took of a U.S. Marine in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Full Article
Humor, the strongest levee in the Midwest?
Correspondent Nick Carey tells of his impressions of people he met along a 300-mile stretch of mid-Mississippi River flood plain as they fortified levees, organized flood responses, and coped with the disaster that swallowed up towns and rich farmland. Full Article
The open secret of doping in sport
Balazs Koranyi, Olympic semi-finalist at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games for Hungary and current Reuters correspondent, recounts his experiences of performance-enhancing drugs in the athletic community. Full Article
Four days at the wheel of a hydrogen car
Nichola Groom reports on driving a hydrogen-powered car. Full Article
Siberian pickled tomatoes blew my mind
Correspondent Jackie Cowhig describes a surprising meal in Siberia. Full Article
My mixed-race family
Diane Bartz recounts her experience of changing responses to race within a generation of her family. Full Article
Amid chaos, Nepal's king bows out gracefully
Simon Denyer describes the swansong of Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra. Full Article
At the helm of trans-Atlantic maxi racer
Alden Bentley is Editor in Charge of Commodities for North and South America. He describes steering the world's fastest single-hull ocean racer in waters around New York. Full Article
Royal flaws in focus at birth of Nepal's republic
Gopal Sharma has been a Reuters correspondent in Nepal since 1995. Gopal recounts the royal family's decline. Full Article
Photographing evil in S.Africa's townships
Siphiwe Sibeko, who was born and raised in Soweto township, describes covering the anti-foreigner violence that has swept parts of South Africa. Full Article
At quake epicenter, they fed me noodles
Reuters correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison describes her day-long hike into the cut-off epicenter of the Wenchuan earthquake and the devastation and generosity she found when she got there. Full Article
A drive, in Dubai
Amran Abocar, Canadian treasury editor who is temporarily based in Dubai, recounts experiences of the roads in the most congested city in the Middle East. Full Article
Blacklisted by my bank for living in Iran
Correspondent Fredrik Dahl recounts how his Belgian bank account was blocked because he now lives in Iran, which is under tightening U.N. and U.S. sanctions over its disputed nuclear ambitions. Full Article
Incest in Austria: a story I didn't want to believe
Correspondent Sylvia Westall describes covering the story of Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a cellar in Amstetten, Austria for 24 years and fathered seven children by her. Full Article
From war to election: Nepal's exhilarating ride
Simon Denyer, Reuters India bureau chief with responsibility for Nepal and Bhutan, describes the Nepal election many had never expected to happen and, when it did, few expected to go smoothly. The skeptics were in for a surprise. Full Article
Dragon's Blood in a place like nowhere on earth
Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent for the Middle East and based in Beirut, describes a trip to a remote Arabian Sea island that rivals the Galapagos and Mauritius for biodiversity. Full Article
Get down! Orcas on the attack
Damian Wroclavsky, Reuters senior correspondent with the Spanish-language service in Buenos Aires, recounts how he watched killer whales hunt sea lion pups at risk of beaching themselves. Full Article
Death in the streets of Yangon
Reuters photographer Adrees Latif describes the story behind the photo of anti-government protests in Myanmar last year that won him a 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Full Article | Slideshow
Democracy with a difference stuns humble Bhutanese
Simon Denyer, India bureau chief, visited Bhutan last May when it had a dry run of its first real democratic elections, and last month for the real thing. Full Article
Running in Kenya's land of the champions
Andrew Cawthorne, chief correspondent for Reuters in east Africa, describes meeting -- and running with -- some of the nation's top athletes preparing for the Olympics in a region hardest hit by Kenya's recent post-election violence. Full Article
No pain, no gain? Giving birth Dutch-style
Emma Thomasson, chief correspondent for Reuters in the Netherlands, writes about giving birth in a country where childbirth is seen as a natural process that should not be medicalised unless there are complications. Full Article
Chased through the Nile Delta by a blue Peugeot
Correspondent Cynthia Johnston recounts her coverage of attempts by the Muslim brotherhood to enter Egyptian local council elections, which ended in a car chase across the Nile Delta. Full Article
Following a hit man's rifle to Mexico
Correspondent Tim Gaynor tells how he traced a Kalashnikov rifle bought in Arizona to a mining town in Mexico where it was used by a drug gang in a battle with police and troops that killed 23 people. Full Article | Slideshow
Paralyzed but skiing at speed in Sweden
Peter Apps, a Reuters correspondent paralysed from the shoulders down in a road accident on assignment in September 2006, describes going skiing in a specially modified ski cart in. Full Article
Chase for the news can take a while in Africa
Correspondent Alistair Thomson recounts his slow race across the Africa to cover rebel fighting in Chad. Full Article
A hacker's tale of golf with Christina Kim
Peter Rutherford, an avid amateur golfer working on Reuters’ Asia Sports desk in Singapore, describes what it was like to be completely outplayed by one of the world's top women golfers. Full Article
Dorking about? It was a management course
Dina Kyriakidou, Reuters bureau chief for Greece and Cyprus, charts her latest discoveries in the art of management. Full Article
In Pyongyang, a tale of two concerts
Jon Herskovitz, correspondent for Reuters in South Korea for three years, has travelled to parts of the North three times but made his first trip to Pyongyang when he joined media covering the New York Philharmonic orchestra's unprecedented concert in the North Korean capital. Full Article
A whale of a time in the Indian Ocean
Ed Harris recounts a chance and very rare meeting with a pod of sperm whales just off the coast of Mauritius. Full Article
On Oscar's red carpet: sore feet and torn dresses
Alexandria Sage gives a personal account of the hazards of the covering the Academy Awards from the red carpet. Full Article
Five years on, what good can reporting Darfur do?
Opheera McDoom, one of the first foreign correspondents to begin covering the Darfur conflict in 2003, gives some of her own impressions of covering the war which swept western Sudan's Darfur region as the conflict's fifth anniversary passes. Full Article
"Hijab problem" sparks police standoff in Tehran
Fredrik Dahl recounts how he watched Iranian police detain a woman deemed to be violating the Islamic dress code. Full Article
In Kenya, watching as tribalism takes over
David Lewis recounts his experiences travelling around Kenya's Rift Valley during the post-election violence. Full Article
'Hurricane Katrina was big, but God is bigger'
Jon Hurdle recounts his experiences as a volunteer helping to rebuild after the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina 2-1/2 years ago. Full Article
Rock-steady women build Africa's villas
Julien Pretot describes the women construction workers he and photographer Siphiwe Sibeko befriended as they passed them on their way to cover the African Nations Cup in Ghana. Full Article
Reporting in the dark
Correspondent John Ruwitch describes his time in Chenzhou, China, a city without power for nearly two weeks. Full Article
A prostate cancer patient trusts in a robot
Balkans Bureau Chief Douglas Hamilton relates how a diagnosis of cancer led him to the United States for robotic surgery. Full Article
Camping in Antarctica
Reporter Alister Doyle describes his visit to Antarctica with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Full Article
Returning to Zimbabwe, life looks tougher for most
Reporter Stella Mapenzauswa she describes how living conditions have deteriorated in her native Zimbabwe. Full Article
Talk meanders on McCain's Straight Talk bus
Correspondent Andy Sullivan describes the relaxed atmosphere on Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign bus. Full Article
Gaining the trust of mothers in an Argentine prison
Carolina Camps, a freelance photographer based in Argentina, relates her experiences of getting close enough to women prisoners in La Plata, Argentina, to portray their lives through her images. Full Article
Shop till you drop on China magical mystery tour
Nick Macfie, an editor for Reuters in Beijing, recounts his family's experience trying to keep up with a bucket-shop tour of China's mountainous southwest province of Yunnan. Full Article
How did it come to this in Kenya?
Andrew Cawthorne, Reuters chief correspondent for East Africa, describes Kenya's post-election spiral into chaos and death. Full Article
Edwards' 36-hour Iowa campaign marathon tests stamina
Atlanta Bureau Chief Matthew Bigg describes following Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on a marathon campaign tour through Iowa. Full Article
OPEC, war in the desert and bicycles in Bali
Nicholas Moore describes reporting on OPEC in 1980, when a bicycle helped Reuters get the story first. Full Article
Allah meets Bollywood on India-Pakistan border
Alistair Scrutton, Chief Correspondent for Reuters in India and Nepal, describes his trip to Pakistan in December to reinforce the Reuters Islamabad bureau, before the assassination of Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. India has put its border forces on alert and suspended bus and train links to Pakistan since the killing. Full Article
Money falls from the sky in Germany
Erik Kirschbaum, a Reuters correspondent in Germany, describes the rise of private solar power in Germany. Full Article
Thai elections hinge on village ties, money and fear
Hong Kong correspondent Dominic Whiting left Thailand when he was six but has returned often to live and work as an adult, including in the Reuters office in Bangkok. His British father and Thai mother have retired to his mother's home village in the northeast, and when he paid them a visit this past weekend, he enjoyed a taste of grassroots Thai politics. Full Article
Cheating the grim reaper: a heart attack survived
Reporter and marathoner Sam Nelson describes surviving a heart attack he suffered while on a training run. Full Article
I'm in row Z, but I do get to see Led Zeppelin
Senior Arts & Entertainment Correspondent Mike Collett-White describes attending a rare reunion performance by classic rock band Led Zeppelin. Full Article
DNA tests don't always help uncover family roots
Reporter Andy Sullivan finds that despite the promise of finding out about long-lost relatives, the results from a personal DNA test can be underwhelming. Full Article
After a bombing, retail therapy in Baghdad
Aseel Kami relates how how Baghdad shoppers and shopkeepers shrug off the worst bombing in months, and contemplates whether it may now be safe enough to raise her seven-year-old son in the city. Full Article
Stuck in Gaza, the question is "Why?"
Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters correspondent in the Gaza Strip, on the frustrations of being prevented from leaving the coastal enclave by Israeli security measures following the seizure of control in Gaza by Hamas Islamists in June. Full Article
From London to Helsinki on two little wheels
Reuters journalist Agnieszka Flak describes describes driving to Finland across northern Europe via scooter. Full Article
Did I just marry an African chief?
Reuters journalist Katrina Manson describes describes her adventures on a tour of remote parts of Sierra Leone. Full Article
If seeking enlightenment, be on time for the Dalai Lama
Reuters Correspondent Michele Kambas describes how a trip to India left her with the realization that even the manifestation of Buddha cannot escape bureaucracy. Full Article
Making sense of India through a fog of acronyms
Reuters correspondent Alistair Scrutton on India's endemic acronyms, abbreviations and initials. Full Article
