The World Today

Malcha’s is a falafel shop owned by a woman who left Yemen to settle first in Israel and then Brazil. Her small restaurant is located in a São Paulo neighbourhood known in the 19th century as Italian, in the 20th century as Jewish, and in the 21st century as Korean and Bolivian. The menu is written in Portuguese, Hebrew, and Korean. The packed lunch hour is just a small indication of how the long history of immigration to Brazil has created an immensely multicultural society.

Rwanda is no model for Africa

The Golan Heights is home to thousands of Druze who cling on tenaciously while looking over their shoulder at the chaos in their homeland

Lords report says it’s time to blow our own trumpet

The rise of a radical jihadist group to international infamy

There was an outbreak of cholera in Haiti in October 2010, the first case of the disease in the country for 150 years. Since then, thousands have died. There is evidence to suggest that cholera was brought to Haiti by the United Nations, although the organization has strongly rejected this.

Primate loose in Lahore: how Welby gave his minders the slip

Money is helping to decriminalize marijuana

Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life, Alex Bellos, BloomsburyThe Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil, edited by Paulo Fontes and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda, C Hurst & Co.

Few in the West know of Brazil’s literature. It’s our loss

The photographer who inspired the character of Rocket in the 2003 film City of God speaks to Agnes Frimston about Brazil