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'I know it's immoral': Child labour still common in Pakistan
AFP, Published on 13/10/2025
» KARACHI - From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.
Olympic Council of Asia says Saudi Winter Games 'on schedule'
AFP, Published on 25/08/2025
» HONG KONG - The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) says that preparations for the 2029 Asian Winter Games in Saudi Arabia are "on schedule" after South Korea and China emerged as potential replacements.
Sounds serious: New York City noise pollution takes a toll
AFP, Published on 20/08/2025
» NEW YORK — Tim Mulligan moved to central Manhattan in the United States so he could be closer to work and avoid a daily ordeal on the rattling, screeching subway, just one part of the urban noisescape that tests New Yorkers every day.
Afro-Brazilian carnival celebrates cultural kinship in Lagos
AFP, Published on 21/04/2025
» LAGOS - Thousands of young and old descendants of formerly enslaved people donned elaborate costumes Sunday to bring the rhythm, vibrancy and colours of Brazil's Rio Carnival to the streets of Lagos in Nigeria.
As India's Bollywood shifts, stars and snappers click
AFP, Published on 25/12/2024
» MUMBAI — From riding pillion on zooming motorbikes to round-the-clock airport stakeouts, India's celebrity-hunting paparazzi photographers have gone from "outcasts" to becoming a key part of Bollywood's vast film industry machine.
'Like breathing poison': Delhi children hardest hit by smog
AFP, Published on 09/11/2023
» NEW DELHI - Crying in a hospital bed with a nebuliser mask on his tiny face, one-month-old Ayansh Tiwari has a thick, hacking cough. His doctors blame the acrid air that blights New Delhi every year.
'Air-pocalypse': Indian capital launches 'Green War Room'
AFP, Published on 03/11/2023
» NEW DELHI - The enemy is nearly invisible and there are no soldiers, but the Indian capital's new "Green War Room" is battling air pollution that is cutting lives of residents by over a decade.
'They're afraid of joy': Pakistan's trans community fights hate
AFP, Published on 10/10/2023
» KARACHI - Clad in a Barbie-pink shalwar kameez, influencer and doctor Mehrub Moiz Awan reels off endless examples of harassment she's received since becoming the sharp-tongued figurehead of Pakistan's queer community.
Youthful, gaming-obsessed Saudi seeks homegrown hit
AFP, Published on 04/09/2023
» RIYADH - Young Saudis wander through a museum of video game history stretching from the original Pac-Man to PlayStation 5, a project intended to inspire them to create their own blockbuster titles.
Typhoon Saola weakens but still a threat in southern China
AFP, Published on 02/09/2023
» HONG KONG (CHINA) - Typhoon Saola swept across southern China on Saturday after tearing down trees and smashing windows in Hong Kong, although the megacity avoided a feared direct hit from one of the region's strongest storms in decades.