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Opera troupe tours rural China defending a dying art 01 May 2017 - 12:33 pm
This picture taken on March 30, 2017 shows a Jin opera performer (C) having a footbath backstage after a show at an outdoor theatre in a village in Yuxian, China's Hebei province. AFP / Wang Zhao
A Spanish quest to hand down prehistoric secrets 01 May 2017 - 12:17 pm
Archeologist Hipolito Collado checks his laptop prior to entering the Maltravieso Cave in the outskirts of Caceres, on February 17, 2017. AFP Photo / Handpas Project
Cosplay with hijabs showcased in Malaysia 29 Apr 2017 - 07:11 pm
Muslim cosplay enthusiasts Azlyna Zaina (L) and Raja Mohd Rusydi, dressed as
Linguists search for words in parsing Trump's oratory 26 Apr 2017 - 09:39 pm
Donald Trump delivers his inaugural address on the West Front of the US Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / AFP)
Robert Pirsig, author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, dead at 88 26 Apr 2017 - 07:13 pm
Author Robert Pirsig and his son Chris in 1968. Photo courtesy: William Morrow/HarperCollins
Islamic romance novels set hearts aflutter in Bangladesh 26 Apr 2017 - 03:43 pm
In this photograph taken on April 17, 2017, Bangladeshi novelist Kasem bin Abubakar signs an autograph for a relative at his book shop in Dhaka. AFP
Treasures from Paris’s Louvre museum go on display in Hong Kong 25 Apr 2017 - 07:01 pm
This file photo taken on June 22, 2006 in the Napoleon courtyard of the Louvre museum in Paris shows US-Chinese architect of the Louvre Pyramid Ieoh Ming Pei (L) and the French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres posing for photographers. Pei, arc
For Chinese fans, popular teen band are mama's boys 24 Apr 2017 - 01:55 pm
A woman handing out leaflets during an event for fans of China's boy band sensation TFBoys
Religion, free homes spur Mumbai's Bhendi Bazaar revamp 23 Apr 2017 - 07:56 pm
This photo taken on December 2, 2016 shows members of the Dawoodi Bohra community in the Bhendi Bazaar area of Mumbai, which is being redeveloped under the Cluster Development Act 2009 by the Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust. AFP / Indranil Mukherjee
Breaking news: French 'human hen' artist hatches first chick 18 Apr 2017 - 08:10 pm
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Kenya learns to cook with solar power – even when the sun doesn’t shine 14 Apr 2017 - 07:20 pm
A woman walks past roasted corn for sale in Kenya's capital Nairobi July 14, 2009. REUTERS/Noor Khamis
Young people are key to ending fashion labour abuses, says British lawmaker Baroness Lola Young 12 Apr 2017 - 08:13 pm
Baroness Lola Young (Photo courtesy: University of Sussex's YouTube channel)
Native Americans fear loss of culture over Trump’s border wall 12 Apr 2017 - 07:36 pm
Verlon Jose (L), vice-chairman of the Tohono O'odham Nation, talks to his cousin Francine Jose on her family ranch near the U.S.-Mexico border on the Tohono O'odham reservation in Chukut Kuk, Arizona April 6, 2017. Picture taken April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Ric
Circus arts help Syrian children make new life 10 Apr 2017 - 09:09 pm
Syrian boys juggle on a roof of a building on March 19, 2017, in Mardin. Some children are perched on stilts, others are spinning plates or happily performing aerial dances. But this is not the big top circus in a major city but a house in southeastern Tu
Canines can adopt human perspective to find food 10 Apr 2017 - 08:24 pm
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As inequality grows, Brazilians irked by tax to ousted royal heirs 10 Apr 2017 - 08:21 pm
A horse-drawn carriage rides down the road in Brazil's former imperial summer capital Petropolis, March 19, 2017. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Chris Arsenault
Evangelicalism grows in Brazil’s favelas amid poverty and violence 10 Apr 2017 - 08:04 pm
A favela is pictured in Rio De Janeiro June 28, 2014. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
Jewish family renews fight for Passover manuscript 10 Apr 2017 - 06:26 pm
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