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Football Comes Home

Brazilians are ambivalent about hosting the world cup, but, as these superfans show, their passion for the sport is undimmed

By Bobby Ghosh

Football Comes Home: Soccer as Religion in Brazil

Brazil-based Sebastián Liste took these powerful photos of soccer fans and soccer players in Rio de Janeiro, for whom football is no mere pastime, it is a religion.

By Bobby Ghosh

How I Finally Got My Picture With Pelé

This week, TIME International editor Bobby Ghosh stood for a photograph with the Brazilian soccer legend Pelé—a snap that both fulfilled a childhood dream and ended a journalist's longstanding frustration

By Bobby Ghosh

No, Iran's Rouhani Doesn't Tweet

Time to stop imagining he's some kind of hipster-cleric and judge him by what he does

By Bobby Ghosh

Will Japan and China Go to War?

Japan's Abe worries a conflict could be sparked by something unexpected

By Bobby Ghosh

Whom to Watch at the World Economic Forum in Davos

As the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks off Tuesday in the snowbound Swiss town of Davos, more than 40 heads of state and government will be competing to make a lasting impression, for themselves and...

By Bobby Ghosh

The Superstar and the Sex Symbol: The World's Highest Ranking Chess Champions

When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chennai’s Hyatt Regency on Nov. 9 for Game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it will mark the coming together of the sport’s first superstar with its first sex symbol.

By Bobby Ghosh

The End of al-Qaeda? On Patrol in Yemen by Yuri Kozyrev

TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and editor-at-large Bobby Ghosh traveled to southern Abyan province in Yemen for this week's cover story in TIME International. Here, Ghosh recounts their travels with a Yemeni Central Security Force (CSF) patrol through territory plagued by al-Qaeda.

By Bobby Ghosh

TIME Style&Design: Travels Through Bhutan

Bhutan receives fewer visitors in a year than New York City does in a day. The country's breathtaking vistas and rich culture, captured here by Photographer Bharat Sikka, remain despite recent steps towards modernity.

By Bobby Ghosh

The New Islamists: Photographs by Yuri Kozyrev

Morocco's Islamists are not seeking to take their country back to some ancient golden age, but instead trying to bring it to the 21st Century without losing its religious moorings.

By Bobby Ghosh

Why They Hate Each Other: Behind the Sunni-Shi'ite Divide

The war between the two Islamic sects has left the U.S.'s hopes of building a stable Iraq in ruins. A look at the roots of the struggle — and whether anything can stop it. (This article first ran as a TIME cover story in March 2007)

By Bobby Ghosh
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