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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.
In New York, Vermeer show reveals art of the love letter
AFP, Published on 22/06/2025
» NEW YORK - In a special exhibit featuring just three paintings, the Frick Collection in New York is inviting viewers to contemplate the age and the art of seduction by the written word.
Prominent US lawyer sentenced to life for murder of wife, son
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Alex Murdaugh, a prominent South Carolina lawyer, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the murders of his wife and son on their hunting estate in a case whose twists and turns drew global attention.
Drugs, money and wild hogs: US jury weighs case of lawyer accused of killing family
AFP, Published on 03/03/2023
» WASHINGTON - Millions stolen, a $7,000 a day drug habit, but no witnesses and no weapons: a US jury was asked Thursday to decide whether a prominent lawyer killed his wife and son on their hunting estate in a trial that has drawn global attention.
'Murder, She Wrote' star Angela Lansbury dies aged 96
AFP, Published on 12/10/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Actress Angela Lansbury, who became a household name through her role as a writer-detective in "Murder, She Wrote," died on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 96.
Braves overpower Astros to win World Series
AFP, Published on 03/11/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Max Fried hurled six shutout innings and Jorge Soler smashed a towering home run as the Atlanta Braves captured their first World Series since 1995 with a 7-0 rout of the Houston Astros on Tuesday.
Astros defeat Red Sox to reach World Series
AFP, Published on 23/10/2021
» HOUSTON: The Houston Astros booked their third trip to the World Series in five seasons on Friday, defeating the Boston Red Sox 5-0 to wrap up a 4-2 victory in the American League Championship Series.
Singaporean woman jailed 30 years for torturing, killing maid
AFP, Published on 22/06/2021
» A Singaporean woman who starved, assaulted and ultimately killed her domestic worker was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday, with the judge describing the case as "among the worst types of culpable homicide".
Trailblazing Vietnamese beauty queen pushing girls to stay in school
AFP, Published on 30/09/2020
» HO CHI MINH CITY: Skin-whitening, child marriage, a curtailed education - Vietnamese model and literacy campaigner H'Hen Nie has defied traditional expectations and is determined to show the next generation a different way.
From opera to bread line: Italy's surge in the 'new poor'
AFP, Published on 14/05/2020
» ROME - Within 10 minutes, all the food was gone.