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Part three of fourIt's a short drive from downtown Nairobi to the neighborhood of Eastleigh, but it seems a world away. Known as "Little Mogadishu," Eastleigh is home to tens of thousands of Somali refugees.Somali music floats through the streets of this poor part of Kenya's capital.

It's kimchi season in South Korea, but a shortage of napa cabbage -- the key ingredient in the spicy, fermented dish -- has created a mini crisis in a country where kimchi is served at almost every meal.An unusually long stretch of bad weather nearly halved the latest cabbage crop, causing prices to

First of four partsA pockmarked building, formerly Mogadishu's traffic police headquarters, is now one of the many front lines in the battle between Islamist militants and African peacekeeping forces in Somalia.The ragged structure, with its bloodstained hallways, is used now by peacekeeper

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Young Egyptians are using social media to fight police brutality and urge a more open government. Critics say that not a single Arab dictator has been overthrown by protests on the Web.

The Japanese have long endured crowded cities and scarce living space, with homes so humble a scornful European official once branded them rabbit hutches.But in recent years, Japanese architects have turned necessity into virtue, vying to design unorthodox and visually stunning houses on remarkably