About 500 people recently invaded Indigenous land in the Brazilian Amazon that is home to an isolated, uncontacted group. A Mongabay investigation traces the occupation to a coordinated political campaign that used a questionable new state law to justify the push. Analysis of hundreds of illegal land registrations inside the territory found that 97 percent were for medium or large properties, not the small holdings often cited by politicians.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.