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Preserved in time: WWII bunker hidden under Paris train station 03 Feb 2018 - 09:13 am
This picture taken on January 23, 2018, shows the interior of a World War II bunker located under the Gare de l'Est (the East railway station) in Paris. / AFP / Philippe LOPEZ
Portraits challenge Britain to see refugees as family 02 Feb 2018 - 08:12 pm
Charles Elliott, 61, and wife Catharine, 55, have been hosting Hussein, 20, from Ethiopia since October 2016. © UNHCR/Aubrey Wade
Lebanon museum unveils artefacts looted during civil war 02 Feb 2018 - 04:17 pm
Lebanese Minister of Culture Ghattas Khoury inspects repatriated marble sculptures dating back to 4th to 6th centuries on display during a ceremony at Beirut National Museum in the Lebanese capital on February 2, 2018. AFP / Joseph Eid
Vatican 'closer to historic recognition of Beijing bishops' 02 Feb 2018 - 04:02 pm
Exterior of Dali Catholic Church.  Dali is a diocese located in the city of Dali in the Ecclesiastical province of Kunming in China.
Galapagos hosts nursery for new species of giant tortoise 01 Feb 2018 - 11:24 pm
A Santa Cruz Island adult giant tortoise (Chelonoidis Donfaustoi) is examined by the director of the Galapagos National Park, Walter Bustos (C), and two park rangers on Santa Cruz Island, in the remote Ecuadorean archipelago 1000 km off South America's Pa
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)