Nagoro: In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not...
Nagoro: In the tiny village of Nagoro, deep in the mountains of western Japan, the wind howls down a deserted street with not...
NEW YORK: Aretha Franklin received an honorary Pulitzer Prize on Monday, as judges praised the late icon "for her indelible contribution to American...
Washington: As a professional woman in her late 30s, Kate Packard was keen to start investing. Like many novices, her enthusiasm took a...
YANGON: In a classroom on the outskirts of Myanmar's biggest city, a thin, bespectacled university student led about a dozen peers in boisterous...
Bordeaux: A French couple hoping to sell their luxurious countryside resort via a quiz has been forced to suspend the competition after France's...
Stockholm: Saddled with long dark winters at home, Swedes have for decades been frequent flyers seeking out sunnier climes, but a growing number...
Shima, Japan: In Japan's picturesque Ago Bay, a couple sits in a little hut picking out oysters from a net, cleaning them carefully...
Hadjer Hadid, Chad: "I've already earmarked a customer for this drum -- I need to get a move on!" Ali Ahmat,12, flicks his...
LONDON: DNA tests have shown that American Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski was almost certainly intersex, a documentary to be broadcast on Monday...
Abeche, Chad: The chief medical officer at Adre hospital takes a routine phone call: a patient has been admitted with gunshot wounds and...
Bambari, Central African Republic: The young man picks up a heavy wooden horn, raises it to his lips and with widened eyes and...
Budapest: Hungarian Roma fashion designer Erika Varga says her label is about stitching together cultural traditions and snipping through stereotypes as much as...
Pretoria: Pulane Koboekae looked pensively at the seven nooses suspended over a trap door in Pretoria Central Prison where her brother Richard Motsoahae...
Aleppo, Syria: For generations her husband's family managed the iconic Baron Hotel in northern Syria, but after years of war the inn is...
Abidjan: Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, known as Africa's richest man, told a forum in Ivory Coast on Saturday how he once took $10...
London: Mary Quant, the subject of a major retrospective opening at London's Victoria & Albert Museum this week, was the fashion queen of...
Copenhagen: From his self-imposed exile in Denmark, political cartoonist Khalid Albaih sees himself as an "ambassador" for his native Sudan, with biting sketches...
Tripoli: Roads in conflict-riddled Libya, where petrol is cheaper than mineral water, rank among the deadliest in the world. Disregard for traffic rules,...
