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After abortion, gay marriage? Fears US court may target other rights
AFP, Published on 05/05/2022
» NEW YORK: After abortion, could gay marriage be next? With America's Supreme Court poised to roll back half a century of abortion rights, activists fear conservatives will set their sights on other constitutional freedoms, starting with same sex unions.
Pakistan students work magic to transform campus into Harry Potter's Hogwarts
AFP, Published on 03/12/2021
» LAHORE: It took more than a wave of a wand, but Pakistani university students transformed their 150-year-old campus into Hogwarts this week as they kicked off a festival celebrating the fictional young wizard Harry Potter.
Student debt a 'life sentence' for millions of Americans
AFP, Published on 25/06/2019
» LOS ANGELES: Haley Walters is five years away from earning her law degree. If everything goes according to plan, she will be under a mountain of US$100,000 in student debt by the time she enters the work force.
Torun gingerbread: the ancient luxury with a secret recipe
AFP, Published on 24/12/2018
» TORUN (POLAND) - Two master bakers dressed in white use a long knife to carve a heavy, thick slab of molasses-coloured gingerbread dough out of a huge metal vat, where, like wine, it has been maturing for a few months, deep in the cellar of one of the world's oldest bakeries.
After the storm, education needs attention
Life, AFP, Published on 28/02/2012
» It's the end of the school day at a middle school in Iligan City, Mindanao, Philippines, and children are milling about excitedly, poking each other in the ribs as they strut to the school gates. Meanwhile in the gym, 400 children from a nearby elementary school are noisily pouring out of makeshift classrooms separated by small partitions. They have no uniforms _ they barely have any books now _ and their learning days haven't been the same since their school was destroyed as Typhoon Sendong ripped through parts of the Philippines on Dec 16 last year.