The Nile River cruise between Luxor and Aswan is a slow and languid voyage past the ribbon of greenery that rescues Egypt from the parched sands of the Sahara. Most travellers sail aboard the big ...

Crop growers are doing it particularly tough. When the rains don’t come, harvests collapse, wiping out months of work and investment – a gamble that’s getting riskier in the drier inland areas. Hay ...