His performances in front of all-female crowds, who hurl knickers and bras into the ring, are watched by huge audiences on television.

ECONOMIST: Spain

The people of Manila deserted the streets to crowd in front of television screens and watch the most successful Filipino athlete of all time enter the ring.

ECONOMIST: A hero for the Philippines

By dawn they had also sealed off the Tibetan quarter with a ring of baton-carrying troops and stationed officers with helmets and shields in the square in front of the Jokhang temple, Tibet's most sacred shrine, in the heart of the old district.

ECONOMIST: A week in Tibet

The nearly 20-year-old has been living with her parents in a handsome single-family home in Schwarzkollm, a village on the outskirts of Hoyerswerda with old farm houses, front yards with flower beds and a new neighborhood in which houses sprang up one after the other in a ring.

CNN: Born in the east, young Germans still forced to head west