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Impoverished Filipinos forge a life among the dead
AFP, Published on 30/10/2025
» MANILA - In teeming Manila, where poverty runs deep and millions lack adequate shelter, some of the living have found refuge among the dead.
Notre-Dame’s twin towers reopened to public
AFP, Published on 19/09/2025
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday reopened the two great mediaeval towers of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris for public visits, one of the final steps in its immense reconstruction following a devastating fire.
China's frigid northeast thrives on 'little potato' tourism boom
AFP, Published on 31/12/2024
» HARBIN, China - Animal ears and pom-poms on fuzzy hats adorn tourists' heads on the streets of the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, which is enjoying a surge in visitors driven by social media.
Fading colours: Bangladesh's threatened rickshaw art
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» DHAKA - Vibrant greens and swirling yellows, film stars, birds and architecture: Bangladesh's bicycle rickshaw drivers have for decades used their transport as a unique moving canvas of urban folk art.
Flags and murals as N.Irish pick sides in Israel-Hamas war
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» BELFAST - Northern Ireland may be thousands of miles from the Middle East but signs of the current heightened conflict can be seen on the streets of the British province.
School's out forever in ageing Japan
AFP, Published on 31/10/2023
» NAMEGATA (JAPAN) - Fading photos of smiling children still adorn the staircase walls at the Ashigakubo primary school, one of thousands that have shut in ageing Japan over the past 20 years.
Sacred cow: Ball makers break taboos for India's favourite sport
AFP, Published on 27/09/2023
» MEERUT (INDIA) - Stitching together cricket balls is a wearisome task for leatherworker Bunty Sagar, whose labours are frowned upon by many fellow Indians even if he makes their favourite pastime possible.
Art show highlights destructive ties between Man and Nature
AFP, Published on 23/03/2023
» JOHANNESBURG: A lioness towers over a seemingly dead hunter, her paws pinning his body to the ground.
Ukraine schools return to sound of war
AFP, Published on 02/09/2022
» POKROVSKé (UKRAINE) - Antonina Sidorenko has put on her favourite clothes, selected the prettiest ribbon to adorn her hair and can recite by heart the poem given by her schoolteacher.
Embattled rappers fight to speak out in troubled DR Congo
AFP, Published on 07/02/2022
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - "I don't sing to avenge my family, but because other innocent people who know nothing about politics continue to die," says imprisoned Congolese rapper Idengo.