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Backyard barnyard: rising egg prices prompt hen hires in US
AFP, Published on 02/05/2025
» LA CRESCENTA (UNITED STATES) - Stung by the rocketing price of eggs -- and US supermarkets rationing a basic breakfast staple -- Yong-mi Kim decided to get some chickens to secure her own supply in southern California.
'Fear and anxiety': Bangkok residents seek quake-proof homes
AFP, Published on 07/04/2025
» BANGKOK - Shaken hours earlier by a massive earthquake, Phatsakon Kaewkla's terror was magnified when he came home to find gaping cracks in the walls of his 22nd-floor Bangkok apartment.
'Organised chaos': $19bn airport megaproject takes shape in cramped NY
AFP, Published on 19/03/2025
» JOHN F. KENNEDY AIRPORT (UNITED STATES) — New York's JFK airport is an overlapping patchwork of open terminals, giant building sites and burgeoning infrastructure, wedged in by thousands of homes on one side and the ocean on the other.
Paris business district looks to students to replace workers
AFP, Published on 08/11/2023
» PARIS - With companies cutting back on office space as working from home remains popular, Europe's biggest business district is looking to students to fill the void left by workers.
China's 'art factory' painters turn from fakes to originals
AFP, Published on 30/03/2023
» DAFEN (CHINA) - Painters in a Chinese village once known for churning out replicas of Western masterpieces are now making original art worth thousands of dollars, selling their own works in a booming domestic art market.
22 killed in Russian nursing home fire
AFP, Published on 24/12/2022
» MOSCOW: A fire erupted overnight in an illegal private nursing home in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, killing 22 people, Russia's investigative committee said Saturday.
Snake escape shuts down Swedish zoo
AFP, Published on 24/10/2022
» STOCKHOLM: A Swedish zoo has been partially shut down after a king cobra staged an impressive escape from its enclosure at the weekend, with staff on Monday still searching for the venomous vagrant.
World Cup boom pushes some Qatar residents out of homes
AFP, Published on 17/10/2022
» DOHA - Qatari landlords eyeing profit from the looming World Cup have been kicking out a growing number of mostly foreign tenants, sometimes with just a few days' notice.
Energy price hikes could force UK pubs to shut
AFP, Published on 30/08/2022
» LONDON: British pubs could be forced to close because of massive increases in energy prices, leading industry figures said on Tuesday, urging the government to step in.
In New York, renters desperate as soaring rents exacerbate housing crisis
AFP, Published on 09/08/2022
» NEW YORK: In mid-May, Paula Sevilla and her roommates joined the many New Yorkers suffering under the city's crushing housing crisis, which has seen rents soar in the pandemic's wake.