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Rainforest junkyard a lifeline
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 24/07/2022
» The clangs of the men's chisels and hammers were deafening as they dismantled a rusty truck, the din only fading as it reached the dense forest encircling them.
Teen refugees find new home
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 10/07/2022
» Every afternoon at a park outside a distinctively Stalinesque skyscraper in central Warsaw, scores of Ukrainian teenagers come together. They are young refugees, trying to cope.
The game must go on
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/07/2022
» Young people in their crisp Little League uniforms ran up and down the field in giddy anticipation. The smell of nacho cheese and sizzling chicken fajitas spread through the bleachers on the hot summer night breeze.
21 teenagers die in mysterious circumstances in S. African tavern
AFP, Published on 26/06/2022
» EAST LONDON, South Africa: At least 21 teenagers, the youngest possibly just 13, died at the weekend after a night out at a township tavern in South Africa, in a tragedy whose cause remains unclear.
A railway from the past
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/06/2022
» Astride century-old tracks that cut through the modern metropolis of Amman, a historic train blared a horn to announce its departure. That sound spurred families bearing bags of food, pots of coffee, coolers of soda, grills, hookahs and lots of children into action, scrambling up iron ladders to settle into the train's wooden cars.
EU debates Ukraine candidacy as Russia makes life 'hell' in east
AFP, Published on 23/06/2022
» KYIV, Ukraine: EU leaders will gather in Brussels Thursday to discuss calls to formally grant war-torn Ukraine "candidate status" to join the bloc, as Russian forces slowly advance in the eastern Donbas region despite fierce resistance from Kyiv's military.
Vatican's hidden sins
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022
» David Kertzer put down his cappuccino, put on his backpack and went digging for more Vatican secrets. "There's an aspect of treasure-hunting," said Kertzer, a 74-year-old historian.
Poppy farmers embrace green energy
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022
» For years, opium has been the monster too big to slay. One Afghan government after another has pledged to stamp out opium production and trafficking, only to prove unable to resist billions of dollars in illicit profits.
Male Soprano Comes Into His Own
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 12/06/2022
» Samuel Marino is a rarity in opera: a true male soprano.
QAnon joins vigilantes at US border
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/06/2022
» The 15 migrant children, weary and hungry, stumbled towards a gap in the rust-coloured border wall that soars between Mexico and Arizona, nearing the end of their two-week trek north. Unexpectedly, a man in a cap emblazoned with a blackened American flag -- traditionally, a message that "no quarter" will be given to the enemy -- approached them and coaxed them to his campsite.