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Vast cemetery in Iraq echoes 14 centuries of life and death
AFP, Published on 24/02/2023
» NAJAF (IRAQ) - Tombstones stretch as far as the eye can see across Iraq's Wadi-al-Salam cemetery, often described as the world's biggest, which bears silent witness to life and death over 14 centuries.
The women who lived as sex slaves to an Indian goddess
AFP, Published on 23/01/2023
» BELGAUM, India: Dedicated to an Indian goddess as a child, Huvakka Bhimappa's years of sexual servitude began when her uncle took her virginity, raping her in exchange for a saree and some jewellery.
Carnival of trumpets and colour returns to Cape Town
AFP, Published on 03/01/2023
» CAPE TOWN - Dressed in a green shirt with yellow and white polka dots, a blue pacifier in his mouth, two-year-old Thaakir Buzic on Monday led a colourful musical band through the streets of Cape Town, in South Africa -- from the safety of his grandfather's arms.
Former pope Benedict dies at 95
Published on 31/12/2022
» ROME: Former pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has died at the age of 95 in the Vatican, a spokesman for the Holy See said on Saturday.
French MPs mull banning bullfighting
AFP, Published on 16/11/2022
» PARIS - French MPs are set to begin debating a ban on bullfighting on Wednesday, with a vote due later this month that has enraged lovers of the blood sport in the south of the country.
Indigenous film bringing cross-border Amazon tribes together
AFP, Published on 10/11/2022
» SAN MARTIN DE AMACAYACU (COLOMBIA) - In Colombia's Amazon jungle, indigenous people of different nations, ethnicities and languages have come together to find a single voice in cinema to tell their own stories, rather than let outsiders do it.
The town that Charles built
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022
» On Queen Mother Square in Poundbury, a quaint town in southern England, sits a huge neo-Classical apartment block, painted bright yellow and decorated with Romanesque columns.
Ancient male rite in Senegal collides with modern times
AFP, Published on 06/10/2022
» KABROUSSE, Senegal: The dancers are a blaze of colour, swirling amid a deafening, pounding noise.
Royal funerals: pomp, pageantry and sometimes privacy
AFP, Published on 19/09/2022
» LONDON - Funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour.
In flooded Kryvyi Rih, residents defiant against Russia
AFP, Published on 18/09/2022
» KRYVYI RIG, Ukraine: The basement of Ukrainian grandma Lyubov Adamenko is full of mud and sludge from the flood that hit her house after Russians blew up a nearby dam.