As Donald Trump, along with his wife, stepped off Air Force One for the first time as President and set foot on British soil, waving and smiling at the crowd, at the same moment, in a tropical rainforest in Sri Lanka, a Rusty Spotted Cat was making its solitary way along the damp forest floor. Sunlight filtered through the gaps in the leaves to fall on it, as it darted through damp tree hollows and jumped over weeds. Suddenly, it stopped, its ears pricked up alertly, its eyes widened, and its nose continually sniffing. This creature, known as the smallest cat in the world, seemed to have discovered something. At the same time, a battle was raging in Aleppo, the second largest city in Syria. Nineteen-year-old Assam was hiding in a ruin - formerly a large supermarket - clutching a gun. He had been injured in the leg, and not far from him was a dried, blackened pool of blood and an open can of beef. He heard sporadic gunshots and screams in the distance along with his own breathing a...