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Ai Weiwei unveils Lego portraits of Mexico's missing students
AFP, Published on 12/04/2019
» MEXICO CITY - Chinese artist Ai Weiwei unveiled a series of portraits Thursday made with around one million Lego blocks, depicting 43 Mexican students who were abducted and apparently massacred in 2014.
Australia kicks off New Year party defying terror threat
AFP, Published on 31/12/2016
» SYDNEY - Global terror attacks have cast a pall over New Year celebrations but Sydney was on Saturday set to defy the threats and ring in 2017 with a firework extravaganza on the glittering harbour.
Indonesian scavengers scrape a living by recycling
AFP, Published on 30/09/2016
» JAKARTA - Sifting through piles of pungent rubbish in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, scores of men and women collect used plastic bottles with their bare hands and put them into big bags.
Refugee fights his way into Olympics and new life in Brazil
News, AFP, Published on 27/04/2016
» Ferocity may sound like a good thing in martial arts, but when Popole Misenga started training for his Olympic judo team he was, well, too ferocious -- "brutal," one coach says.
Refugee fights way into Olympics and new life
AFP, Published on 26/04/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Ferocity may sound like a good thing in martial arts, but when Popole Misenga started training for his Olympic judo team he was, well, too ferocious -- "brutal," one coach says.
Travel chaos in Argentina as transit unions strike
AFP, Published on 01/04/2015
» BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's largest cities ground to a halt Tuesday as transport unions went on strike, demanding tax cuts for low-income workers and putting the government on the defensive seven months out from general elections.
America's homeless capital LA counts its down-and-outs
AFP, Published on 01/02/2015
» LOS ANGELES - Notebook in hand, Ana Alvarez walked along the streets of Skid Row, the downtown Los Angeles district that's sometimes called the homeless capital of America.
Hong Kong netizens lampoon government negotiators
AFP, Published on 22/10/2014
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong government negotiators who sat down to crunch talks with student leaders have become figures of online derision with netizens mocking them as empty vases, garbage bins and Teletubbies.
Urban disasters spotlight strain on Asian cities
AFP, Published on 13/08/2012
» Deadly floods, power blackouts and traffic gridlock -- many of Asia's biggest cities are buckling under the strain of rapid economic development, extreme weather and an exodus from the countryside.