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India's divine designs meld with AI at Durga Puja festival
AFP, Published on 29/09/2025
» KOLKATA - Millions in India's eastern city of Kolkata will draw on millennia-old traditions when they celebrate the Hindu festival of Durga Puja this week with street parties and worshipping idols in elaborate pavilions.
Library offers refuge and recovery in war-scarred Ukraine town
AFP, Published on 27/12/2022
» IRPIN (UKRAINE) - Hundreds of laptop-toting professionals and students line up outside the public library in the Ukrainian town of Irpin, desperate to get plugged in and online amid the latest energy blackout.
Inside the 'living hell' of Cambodia's scam operations
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» Trafficked, beaten and locked up far from his family in China, Lu was one of thousands of people in Cambodia forced to operate online scams to line their captors' pockets.
Digital nomad hotspots grapple with housing squeeze
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 26/09/2022
» LISBON/MEXICO CITY: Among the glitzy new apartment buildings springing up in Mexico City's Juarez neighbourhood, fashionable coffee shops are taking the place of taco stands and English is replacing Spanish on signs and posters aimed at an influx of newcomers.
Final chord: royal piano restorer sells lifetime's collection
AFP, Published on 12/08/2021
» BIDDENDEN (UNITED KINGDOM) - There's little to distinguish the farm building in Kent, southeast England, from others nearby, except for one thing: the royal warrant over the door.
Afghans sift through discarded junk from US occupation
AFP, Published on 23/06/2021
» BAGRAM, Afghanistan: Squatting in the dust by the main road to Afghanistan's biggest air base, Mir Salam sifts through a pile of broken electronics in front of him, salvaged from departing US troops.
'World's leading bank robbers': North Korea's hacker army
AFP, Published on 26/05/2021
» SEOUL: Nuclear-armed North Korea is advancing on the front lines of cyberwarfare, analysts say, stealing billions of dollars and presenting a clearer and more present danger than its banned weapons programmes.
Clubhouse: the wildly popular audio chat app
AFP, Published on 11/02/2021
» SAN FRANCISCO - Clubhouse, the invitation-only audio chat app, exploded in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic when people could not get together person -- but now the once niche platform has far higher goals.
Trump is 'vulgar fool' but world should fear tech titans, says Geldof
AFP, Published on 14/03/2020
» PARIS - Bob Geldof ruffles his white hair in front of the mirror to get it just dishevelled enough for the camera.
French industry hits the beach to woo future recruits
AFP, Published on 11/08/2019
» DEAUVILLE (FRANCE) - A few steps from the sea in the Normandy resort of Deauville, a group of curious holidaymakers in flip-flops and beach garb pepper a technician with questions as he extols the capabilities of a cutting-edge 3D modelling machine.