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Mexico’s Maya point way to slow species loss, climate change 02 Jan 2017 - 08:12 pm
Taking a break from serving breakfast to visitors at the community lakeside eco-resort of Sijil Noh Ha, which means “Where the Lake is Born”, Samuel Montalvo looks at the leafy wild chaya plant (centre), which is used in egg dishes, soup, tea and baking f
Syrian child refugees taught to release stress and resist recruitment 02 Jan 2017 - 08:36 am
Syrian refugee children queue as they head towards their classroom at a school in Mount Lebanon, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Italy's philosopher tycoon shapes landscape of his legacy 01 Jan 2017 - 09:14 am
File photo of Italian clothing designer Brunello Cucinelli posing as seamstresses in the Umbrian village of Solomeo October 7, 2009. Reuters/Alessandro Bianchi
Wedding vows a blessing for clean-up of filthy Indonesian river 31 Dec 2016 - 10:02 am
Novanto Rahman and his bride Sandra Fidelia Novianti, a volunteer who takes part in a Ciliwung river clean-up initiative, hold part of their wedding ceremony on the Ciliwung, which runs more than 100 km (60 miles) from its source in West Java to Jakarta b
Woods worth $740 million, Jordan a billionaire says Forbes 29 Dec 2016 - 09:36 am
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Queen bees: how honey co-ops help Afghan women take control 29 Dec 2016 - 09:28 am
In this photograph taken on November 5, 2016, Afghan Hazara women beekeepers check beehives as they work at a bee farm in the Yakawlang District of Bamiyan Province. AFP / Wakil KOHSAR
Growing number of Americans are retiring outside the US 28 Dec 2016 - 03:25 pm
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Congo's sculptor with a mission 28 Dec 2016 - 01:10 pm
Sauveur Mulwana poses in front of one of the monuments that he created in Butembo on November 11, 2016. AFP / Eduardo Soteras
3,800-year-old potato garden discovered in Canada 27 Dec 2016 - 07:37 pm
Farmers sort potatoes at a field in Badi Gohari village near Allahabad April 1, 2010. Researchers in India have developed a genetically modified potato that is packed with up to 60 percent more protein and increased levels of amino acids. REUTERS/Jitendra
Scans unveil secrets of world's oldest mummies 24 Dec 2016 - 10:51 am
Chilean anthropologist Veronica Silva shows one of the mummies from the ancient Chinchorro culture at the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, on December 16, 2016. AFP / Martin BERNETTI
World-famous diamond inspires new and bloody history 23 Dec 2016 - 10:06 pm
Scottish historian and writer William Dalrymple walks amongst his pigeons at his farm house in New Delhi. Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Kohinoor surpasses them all, with a lita
At 96, Cuban ballet legend Alicia Alonso still dancing inside 23 Dec 2016 - 12:38 pm
Prima ballerina assoluta and director of Cuba's National Ballet Alicia Alonso, attends a training session in Havana, on December 20, 2016. This wednesday Alicia Alonso celebrates her 96th birthday . / AFP / YAMIL LAGE
Hundreds of West African communities declare end to female genital mutilation: campaigners 22 Dec 2016 - 09:20 pm
A razor blade used for female genital mutilation (Reuters)
Russian babushkas break stereotypes with fashion shoots 22 Dec 2016 - 11:16 am
Olga Kondrasheva, 71, poses for a photographer in Moscow on November 20, 2016. AFP / VASILY MAXIMOV
Bunnies, brains, implants: Welcome to LA's odder museums 22 Dec 2016 - 10:48 am
(FILES) This file photo taken on December 14, 2016 shows people walking by a mural at the Museum of Death in Hollywood, California. AFP / Mark Ralston
The unlikely saviours of Libya's Roman remains 22 Dec 2016 - 09:35 am
A partial view shows a part of the ancient Roman city of Leptis Magna in al-Khums, 130 kms east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on December 18, 2016. AFP / MAHMUD TURKIA
Chinese turn to gallows humor and superheroes as they hunker down in smog 21 Dec 2016 - 10:13 am
People wearing masks cycle past Tiananmen Gate during the smog after a red alert was issued for heavy air pollution in Beijing, China, December 20, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee
Van Gogh 'lost' sketches publisher threatens legal action 19 Dec 2016 - 01:28 pm
(FILES) This file photo taken on November 15, 2016 shows a man leafing through the pages of a book of drawings from Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh at the architecture academy in Paris. / AFP / JACQUES DEMARTHON