Why do so many people choose to go to plastic surgeons? Some go for major facelifts or body reshapes, others for a quick fix with botox. But why not just age naturally? DW's Ben Fajzullin found out more about the business of beauty enhancement.

Beauty treatments are not reserved for humans. DW visits a beauty pageant for dairy cows, and talks to a stylist who makes his clients udderly beautiful. The winners are not just cute but also very valuable as great mothers and milk machines.

In Hong Kong, land is in desperately short supply and rents are extortionate. German Tech entrepreneur Fritjof Detzner explores a world beyond the city's dazzling skyline, to find out how people deal with the cramped conditions.

One square meter of land can be of great or negligible value - in economic and emotional terms. It depends who you ask. People in Uganda, the Netherlands and Germany reflect on what it means to them.

We visit a firm in Bavaria where skilled craftspeople work with wood to make beautiful floorboards and parquet.

If there is not enough room, you can sometimes create more - new land where here once was water. A number of companies in the Netherlands are specialists in creating something out of nothing. It is a big and expanding business.

In eastern Germany, about a quarter of farmland belongs to agribusinesses and investment funds. Land prices are soaring. Many farmers feel besieged.

Investors and foreign states are buying up farmland in many parts of the world. Land is often considered a relatively safe investment, and everybody needs food.

Actor Michael Schwager from the Hexenberg Ensemble in Berlin has played the title role in Molière's 17th-century play "The Miser". We ask him what it means to be chronic penny-pincher.

Increasingly, retired people are discovering that their pensions are not enough to live off. We meet an elderly woman who gets by on 5.60 euros a day.