Features Mark Bowling witnesses the recent rise of Papuan separatism . North Korea - Philip Williams shares his impressions of Pyongyang . Love it or hate it, this is one of the planet's engineering marvels. A complete mountain called the Grasberg has been scraped away to become a vast open-cut mining pit. But to the traditional owners, the Amungme, this is sacred ground.
Legend has it that their ancestral grandmother lives here, guarding the balance of nature.
Right now she's angry. In May 2000, a landslide of stockpiled waste ended up crashing into Lake Wanegon hundreds of metres below the mine site. A massive wave of water was sent crashing over the lake's edge, and into the valley below. Four mine contractors at the base of the stockpile died in the torrent. Downstream, a mighty wave ripped through a village.