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Homeless in Hong Kong: soaring costs fuel housing crisis in Asian financial hub 01 Feb 2018 - 09:18 pm
Cheung Muk-gun, 72, eats a burger in front of his make-shift home under a footbridge in Hong Kong, China January 22, 2018. Reuters/Bobby Yip
Rare Picasso painting for auction in Hong Kong 31 Jan 2018 - 10:28 am
James Mackie (left), Sotheby’s Senior Director and Head of the Department Impressionist and Modern Art, speaks with a colleague in front of Pablo Picasso’s 1937 oil painting during a media preview at the Sotheby’s showroom in Hong Kong, yesterday.
Voting to survive: Romanians elect mayors despite graft record 29 Jan 2018 - 10:09 pm
A horse-drawn carriage is pictured on a street in Dragomiresti, Dambovita county, Romania, January 23, 2018.  Inquam Photos/Octav Ganea via Reuters
US pays tribute to 'mother of forensic science' 29 Jan 2018 - 08:56 pm
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Gandhi nonviolence a tough sell in Trump era, says grandson 29 Jan 2018 - 07:23 pm
Indian-American social activist, author and grandson of Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi poses for photographs in Paris on January 29, 2018. AFP / Jacques Demarthon
Benin's Pendjari National Park comes back to life 28 Jan 2018 - 08:58 am
File photo of a herd of elephants feeding around the waterhole in late afternoon at Pendjari National Park near Tanguieta on January 10, 2018. / AFP / STEFAN HEUNIS
‘Sherlock Holmes’ of Nepal’s Himalayas dies 26 Jan 2018 - 11:26 pm
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New archaeological discoveries in Oman 24 Jan 2018 - 07:17 pm
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As Singapore ages, low tax model creaks 23 Jan 2018 - 07:32 pm
A man reads a newspaper as others play checkers in Singapore January 16, 2018. Reuters/Calvin Wong
First hijab-wearing model to appear in a L'Oreal haircare campaign pulls out 23 Jan 2018 - 01:33 pm
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Big, bold and bright: London muralist fetes immigration 23 Jan 2018 - 01:06 pm
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With a beehive fence, Kerala’s farmers tell marauding elephants to buzz off 22 Jan 2018 - 09:52 pm
A farmer displays a beehive that is part of an elephant control beehive fence in Mayilattumpara village in India's Kerala state, October 2017. Thomson Reuters Foundation/K. Rajendran
Lured with a happily-ever-after dream, Rohingya girls sold in India 22 Jan 2018 - 08:46 pm
A girl from the Rohingya Muslim community walks past a makeshift settlement on the outskirts of Jammu, May 6, 2017. (Reuters/ Mukesh Gupta)
With solar water, trees grow into a sturdy business in Western Kenya 21 Jan 2018 - 08:53 pm
A view of trees being used as living fence posts on the Ebunyiri village farm of Western Kenya farmer Tom Joseph Olumasai Nyangweso, January 9 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Isaiah Esipisu
Artworks illuminate UK in Lumiere Fest 20 Jan 2018 - 12:21 am
A visitor looks at a light installation during the Lumiere Festival 2018 in London, yesterday.
Author Peter Mayle dies aged 78 20 Jan 2018 - 12:21 am
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Simone de Beauvoir's 'passionate' love letters sold 19 Jan 2018 - 09:40 pm
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Down to business: Drought-hit Kenyan women trade their way out of poverty 19 Jan 2018 - 09:23 pm
Members of the Kargi savings group hold a meeting in Marsabit County, Kenya, on November 30, 2017. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Benson Rioba