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On the fertile farmlands of Uganda's Kasese district, miles and miles of lush banana plantations dot the green landscape. This is one of the biggest banana growing areas in the east-central African country, where most people make a living through subsistence farming.

In parts of rural China, private health can be a very public affair.

In a country with not enough toilets, manual scavengers are paid $5 a day to scoop human waste. And it's not just in remote towns around India, it's in major cities, including Mumbai.

New York's Ellis Island hospital complex, where immigrants to New York were stopped and checked for disease, is now open to the public for tours.

For the business traveler who doesn't have time to take a side-trip, an hour or two by the pool at one of these city hotels will make you feel like you're on a holiday retreat.

The world's animal population has halved in 40 years as humans put unsustainable demands on Earth, a new report warns. The WWF says the dramatic decline in wildlife will cost the planet billions.