The Berlin Wall photographed pre-unification in March 1989

Gas holders (gasometers), Victorian gas storage tanks in use until the 1960′s. Many are due to be demolished to make way for housing developments and parks transforming brown field sites into public space. National Grid plans to demolish 76 gas holders at a cost of £79m.

Some 800 refugees from Syria and Afghanistan are arriving on the Greek island of Chios per day. Between 50 and 60 are packed onto inflatable boats, women, children, pregnant women and young men. It has been estimated that 120,000 refugees have arrived on those islands closest to Turkey this year alone.The journey from Turkey to the northern coast of Chios takes about 5 hours. Those who arrived this day had walked for three days across Turkey from Syria before making the sea crossing. An area of coast some 400metres long is littered with the slashed rubber boats that have been sunk immediately on arrival to prevent the refugees from being sent out to sea again, life vests and tyre inner tubes, and clothes abandoned on arrival.

Orbis prevents and treats blindness through hands-on training, public health education, improved access to quality eye care, advocacy and partnerships with local health care organizations. For three weeks, the Orbis DC10 sits on the runway at Yangon Airport, and each day five patients will have been treated for cateracts, glycoma, and some will even receive cornea transplants. For a period prior to the arrival of the plane, local doctors will be screening a wide range of people to be examined by the plane's doctors, who will then make the final decision on who will be operated upon. Those chosen are selected on the basis of the value that the proceedure will have in training local doctors in techniques that will be of benefit to them, as well as being of clinical advantage to the patients. All patients selected will be poor