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Turkish artist goes viral with stark misery/comfort images 13 Jun 2019 - 01:16 pm
Turkish artist Ugur Gallenkus poses at his home on April 14, 2019 in Istanbul. AFP / Yasin Akgul
NASA renames street for 'hidden' black women mathematicians 13 Jun 2019 - 11:04 am
Image taken from NASA's twitter page.
Nuclear wasteland selfies draw ire as tourists flock to Chernobyl 12 Jun 2019 - 06:11 pm
A woman looks at wreckage of trucks in the ghost city of Pripyat during a tour in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on June 7, 2019.  AFP / Genya Savilov
Suited and booted: menswear on show at London Fashion Week Men's 10 Jun 2019 - 01:51 pm
A model presents a creation during the St James catwalk show at London Fashion Week Men's in London, Britain, June 8, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
'First Lady' of NY graffiti now a businesswoman 09 Jun 2019 - 01:31 pm
Artist Lady Pink,
Dora Maar shakes off Picasso's shadow in new Paris show 07 Jun 2019 - 12:08 am
Picasso & Dora Maar. Photo courtesy: artmarketmonitor.com
Most diamonds formed from ancient seabeds 03 Jun 2019 - 12:18 pm
Image used for representation.
Banksy's home city an urban canvas for elusive artist 21 May 2019 - 09:35 pm
A pedestrian walks past graffiti street art on the side of a building in Bristol, south west England, on May 8, 2019.  AFP / Geoff Caddick
Sherpa climbs Everest twice in a week for record 24th 21 May 2019 - 01:19 pm
FILE PHOTO: Kami Rita Sherpa, 48, a Nepali mountaineer waves towards the media personnel upon his arrival after climbing Mount Everest for a 22nd time, creating a new record for the most summits of the world's highest mountain, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 20,
Young urbanites help revive Poland's mazurka folk dance 21 May 2019 - 12:25 am
A Polish couple dressed in traditional costumes and others dance the country's mazurka folk dance in Warsaw on April 26, 2019.  AFP / Janek Skarzynski
Want Alpine thrills? Try competitive paper plane flying 19 May 2019 - 01:50 pm
A participant in the Red Bull Paper Wings World Finals 2019 competes in Salzburg, Austria on May 17, 2019. AFP / ALEX HALADA
From mother to daughter, Tunisia potters pass on ancestral know-how 17 May 2019 - 09:22 pm
Sabiha Ayari, a Tunisian potter in her fifties, works in the village of Sejnane in the northern Tunisian province of Bizerte, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of the capital Tunis, on March 14, 2019. AFP / Fethi Belaid
In Iraq, academics restock Mosul's barren bookshelves 15 May 2019 - 09:10 pm
Iraqi women sit at the new library of Mosul University in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on April 17, 2019.  AFP / Zaid Al-Obeidi
Masters of puppets: Indonesia's 'Ondel-Ondel' kids 15 May 2019 - 09:10 pm
This picture taken on April 26, 2019 shows people walking past Ondel-ondel effigies worn by children busking for money on a street in Jakarta.  AFP / Goh Chai Hin
Sherpa climber scales Mount Everest for record 23rd time 15 May 2019 - 09:17 am
In this file photo taken on March 28, 2018, Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa spins prayer wheels at Boudhanath Stupa on the outskirts of Kathmandu. AFP / Prakash Mathema
'Rise up': Papua New Guinea female police chief's battle cry to women 14 May 2019 - 09:31 pm
This picture taken on March 4, 2019 shows parade commander Julie Palakai (L) escorting East New Britain’s new residential Judge Justice Stephen Kassman (R) during a guard of honour parade outside Kokopo Police station in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea. AFP / El
Environmental activists turn up heat on polluting businesses 14 May 2019 - 08:30 pm
Environmental activists protesting against the merger of Germany's pharmaceutical and chemical maker Bayer AG with U.S. seeds and agrochemicals company Monsanto, march through Germany's former capital Bonn before Bayer's annual general shareholders meetin
A new 'climate strike': Opting for no children as fears grow 12 May 2019 - 10:37 pm
A child rides a bike adorned with balloons in Tepetitan, Mexico, July 1, 2018. Reuters/Anthony Esposito