Showing 1-10 of 11 results
-
The soggy socks and sandbags month
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/10/2022
» Judging from the pervading sense of dampness experienced during the past week we are entering the annual soggy socks season so beloved by the populace. The meteorological office has been getting into the spirit of things with forecasts of heavy rains brought by what began as Typhoon Noru.
-
Big trouble in Little Loving County, Texas
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 14/08/2022
» In America's least populated county, the rusting ruins of houses, oil drilling operations and an old gas station interrupt the sun-blanched landscape. A hand-painted wooden sign still promises good food at "Chuck's Wagon" to drivers along State Road 302, though the proprietor died months ago and the wagon is gone.
-
Hunger claims children in forgotten corner of Uganda
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» KARAMOJA (UGANDA) - In one of Uganda's poorest and most lawless regions, anxious mothers clutch bone-thin infants in a malnutrition ward, terrified their child could be next to succumb to starvation in Karamoja.
-
In the Alps, white caviar offers an exclusive alternative
AFP, Published on 29/12/2020
» GRöDIG, Austria: In his waders, Stefan Astner checks on the albino sturgeon: Almost two decades after they hatched, they're ready to be gutted for their caviar to be shipped out for New Year's celebrations.
-
South Sudan's road to peace marred by 'unconscionable' violence
AFP, Published on 13/03/2020
» JUBA - The cattle rustlers were asleep, resting ahead of a raid, when automatic gunfire tore through their camp. Ambushed by rival herdsmen, encircled and outgunned, they were cut down, one by one.
-
Despair, jihadism and revolt: Mali's torn heart
AFP, Published on 05/11/2019
» MOPTI (MALI) - Untroubled by time, the mighty Niger River glides through the Sahel city as women wash their clothes in its brackish waters and cows slumber nearby in the heat.
-
Livestock rustlers face jail time as New Zealand tightens laws
AFP, Published on 14/06/2019
» ASHBURTON (NEW ZEALAND) - When livestock rustlers came for sheepbreeder Daniel Wheeler's prize ewes in the dead of night, they didn't take the animals alive -- they slaughtered them on his New Zealand farm and took the meat to sell on, leaving just blood and guts behind.
-
Sri Lanka's latest status symbol, a baby elephant
AFP, Published on 01/07/2016
» COLOMBO - Expensive and high-maintenance, baby elephants have become the ultimate status symbol for Sri Lanka's wealthy elite -- a trend that has horrified conservationists and prompted a government crackdown.
-
Ex-child soldiers choose biros over butchery
News, Tom Esslemont, Published on 30/11/2015
» When two of Josephine's uncles were murdered by armed cattle rustlers on the Central African Republic's southern border just before her 12th birthday, all she could think of was taking revenge.
-
Cattle rustlers burned alive in India
AFP, Published on 03/02/2014
» KOLKATA - Four men were found burnt to death in eastern India, apparently for stealing cattle from a rival criminal gang, a senior police officer said on Monday.
Your recent history
-
Recently searched
-
Recently viewed links