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Sleeping in a closet: Kyiv adapts to Russian strikes
AFP, Published on 26/05/2023
» KYIV: At the sound of the air raid siren, two little girls quickly unroll a mattress on the ground as their mother takes her other daughter, still asleep, to a closet.
Teacher trades books for a gun
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/03/2023
» Just over a year ago, Yulia Bondarenko's days were full of lesson plans, grading and her students' seventh-grade hormones.
Going on a big-data date
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/06/2022
» In the backyard of a luxury commune, slouched on the stones between a wood-barrel sauna and a cobalt-blue ping-pong table, Logan Ury flicked fragments of acorns off her dress while the woman across from her recited her attachment style. A hot tub burbled in the background, where a string of fairy lights drooped between trees.
Singapore’s poorest stay in lockdown as others move freely
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/09/2020
» With restaurants and malls bustling, pre-pandemic life is slowly returning for people in Singapore -- except for the more than 300,000 migrant workers who make up much of the city’s low-wage workforce.
US 'House of Horrors' couple pleads guilty to torturing kids
AFP, Published on 23/02/2019
» LOS ANGELES - A California couple pleaded guilty Friday to imprisoning and torturing 12 of their 13 children in a grisly "house of horrors" case that gained international attention.
Women's fight for toilets in rural Pakistan
AFP, Published on 24/11/2018
» BASTI AMEERWALA (PAKISTAN) - For as long as she can remember, Ayeesha Siddiqua has fought her male relatives for access to toilets -- but a sanitation drive by new premier Imran Khan could make life easier for women in patriarchal Pakistan.
Dead forgotten at New Delhi's decrepit morgues
AFP, Published on 14/12/2015
» NEW DELHI - A rusted carving knife and a mallet lie on a steel table, while inside the cold storage rooms, bodies take up every square inch of the blood-stained floors.
No justice for Nepal's slave girls
AFP, Published on 21/01/2014
» Nine-year-old Manjita Chaudhary had never spent a night away from her parents when her father sold her to a Nepalese policeman for $25.
Singapore to issue verdict on death of US scientist
AFP, Published on 08/07/2013
» Singapore's state coroner is set to issue the verdict Monday on the controversial death of an American scientist found hanged in the city-state, whose family believe he was murdered.
Pistorius too 'traumatised' for full training
AFP, Published on 04/04/2013
» South Africa's Paralympian sprint star Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend on February 14, is still too traumatised to start training for competition, his family said on Thursday.