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The latest adaptation of The Little Mermaid, with Halle Bailey in the title role, definitively buried the cliché of the blonde, blue-eyed siren. Now there are mermaids of every race, gender and body type. The Afro-American mermaids are having their fourth gathering in Miami, organised by Melanee Schneider.

Florida Mermaids: A Passion for the Waves

Mermaids in Florida are from all backgrounds, gender, and body type.

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A precious material is produced in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh: attar, a fragrant essential oil. In the perfume capital of India, Kannauj, rose and jasmine petals are distilled together with sandalwood oil to create fragrant essences, in a centuries-old tradition.

India: Perfume Country

In the perfume capital of India, Kannauj, flower petals are distilled with sandalwood oil to create fragrant essences.

Every day, Janne Aikio travels long distances to look after the elderly, most of whom are Sami. A population whose daily life is punctuated by ancestral activities. To ensure that, even in old age, the Sámi can remain in their familiar surroundings, the Finnish government is doing its utmost to ensure that they remain at home for as long as possible.

Social Care in Lapland

Every day, Janne Aikio travels long distances to look after the elderly, most of whom are Sami. A population whose daily life is punctuated by ancestral activities.

The danzón is a Mexican dance that has its origins in the French contredanse. After crossing the Atlantic, it passed through Cuba before arriving in Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century. This tradition is still very much alive in Mexico City, particularly among the older generation, for whom the danzón is a celebration of life, love and community spirit.

Mexico: A Passion for Danzón

Celebrating, life, love, and community, the danzón is very much alive in Mexico City.

16-year-old Elsy lives in Nairobi’s largest shanty town. She discovered ballet when she was eight and since then she has dreamed of being a ballerina. With the support of those around her, Elsy and her friend Mary train assiduously.

16-year-old Elsy lives in Nairobi’s largest shanty town where she dreams of being ballerina.

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Lyubov, which means love in Russian, is 80 years old and lives alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. She bears witness to this wonder of nature and possesses an unbreakable bond with the world’s deepest lake in Siberia. Her life here is hard, especially in winter, but she would not live anywhere else.

On the shores of Lake Baikal, an old woman lives alone in a beautiful place that is dear to her heart.

The Old Woman and the Lake

Every year for 45 days, Uruguay lives to the rhythm of Carnival. In Montevideo, the capital, carnival traditions are taken very seriously: Candombe, the special carnival music and dance developed by Afro-Uruguayans, is a highly prized art form and is inscribed on UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Montevideo: Dancing to the Rhythm of Carnival

Every year for 45 days, Uruguay lives to the rhythm of Carnival and the country's traditional art form: Candombe.

In Nepal, in the Thrangu Tara monastery near Kathmandu, nuns have the privilege of creating sand mandalas, intricate geometric configurations of symbols, painstakingly assembled from grains of sand. These astonishingly beautiful creations are destroyed to remind Buddhists of the transitory nature of all things.

Nepal: Magic Sand Mandalas

In a monastery near Kathmandu, nuns painstakingly create beautiful sand mandalas before destroying them.

Medieval combat techniques are alive and swishing in Spain. Every year, a big tournament takes place at the foot of the castle of Belmonte in Castile-La Mancha. Men and women dressed in armour face each other in duels, and fight 'battles' using swords and axes.

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At the foot of the castle of Belmonte, men and women dress in armour face each other in duels.

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