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Mary Quant: queen of the mini-skirt 04 Apr 2019 - 09:37 pm
Garments are displayed during a photocall for the first international retrospective on the iconic fashion designer Dame Mary Quant, exploring the years between 1955 and 1975, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London on April 3, 2019.  AFP / Adr
The Sudanese cartoonist reaching out to the world 04 Apr 2019 - 09:37 pm
A video screengrab of Sudanese political cartoonist Khalid Albaih in Copenhagen, Denmark. PHOTO | AFP
Roads deadlier than guns in Libya 04 Apr 2019 - 06:48 pm
Libyan traffic police direct cars during an operation at the Martyrs Square in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on March 12, 2019.  AFP / Mahmud Turkia
Heaven sent: Taiwan honours dead with lavish paper models 04 Apr 2019 - 06:38 pm
This picture taken on March 16, 2019 shows a relative (R) watching a 'villa' paper model, used as an offering for the dead, burn during a ceremony in Shanshia district in New Taipei City. AFP/Sam Yeh
At Athens pinball museum, arcade gamers go back in time 04 Apr 2019 - 12:19 pm
Pinball machines are seen at the Athens Pinball Museum in Athens, Greece March 2, 2019. Picture taken March 2, 2019. REUTERS/Costas Baltas
We feel free: South Africans cycle through apartheid's spatial divides 03 Apr 2019 - 09:49 pm
Maria Kgatitsoe, the only female cyclist to ride to Durban in South Africa with the Stokvel group, strikes a pose in the town of Ladysmith. Handout picture courtesy of: Lesego Button Konupi
Scottish 'Holocaust heroine' who saved Jewish girls lauded in book 03 Apr 2019 - 09:49 pm
Jane Haining, who looked after Jewish girls in Hungary during the Second World War, is seen with girls from the Scottish Mission School in Budapest on holiday at Lake Balaton in Hungary in this undated photo probably from the late 1930s.  Photo: Church of
Pope: Church should admit history of abuse of women, male domination 02 Apr 2019 - 10:22 pm
Pope Francis arrives to hold a mass at Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex in Rabat, Morocco, March 31, 2019. Reuters/Remo Casilli
Costa Rica seeks to free 'trapped' communities from protected area 02 Apr 2019 - 09:23 pm
Farmers plough the land with the help of their horse on a plantation in Tierra Blanca de Cartago, east of San Jose May 15, 2012. Reuters/Juan Carlos Ulate
Murder of child maid forces Pakistan to soul search 02 Apr 2019 - 06:51 pm
In this picture taken on March 13, 2019, a Pakistani boy walks past the house where 16-year-old Uzma worked as a maid, in Lahore, before being killed and dumped in a city canal. AFP / Arif Ali
Downtown Cairo battles to keep cosmopolitan heritage alive 02 Apr 2019 - 01:29 pm
This picture taken on March 8, 2019 shows a view of the central Talaat Harb square in the Egyptian capital Cairo's downtown district. AFP/Khaled Desouki
A roundup of Monday's April Fools: Danes to build Brexit 'herring wall' and other pranks 01 Apr 2019 - 10:21 pm
People attend the Silly Walk Parade, emulating a sketch from British comedy group Monty Python's television series to mark April Fool's day in Budapest, Hungary, April 1, 2019. Reuters/Bernadett Szabo
US woman says strict Christian parents subjected her to FGM 01 Apr 2019 - 08:09 pm
Jennifer, an American woman who says her strict Christian parents forced her and her sister to undergo FGM when she was five, is pictured here aged about three. Photo supplied by Jennifer
Embroidery, the inoffensive feminine pursuit, now a medium of aggressive feminist art 01 Apr 2019 - 08:09 pm
German artist Jess de Wahls poses at her studio in south London on March 8, 2019.AFP/Tolga Akmen
Rwanda's genocide killers learn new life back home 01 Apr 2019 - 05:58 pm
Serubanza Boniface, a former FLDR combattant, attends a class at a vocational training centre at the Reintegration and Demobilisation Centre in Mutobo, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) north-west of Kigali and beneath the Virunga mountains, on March 5, 2019
In Rwanda, the long, slow journey to forgiveness 31 Mar 2019 - 05:13 pm
Jean-Bosco Gakwenzire (L), 65, of Tutsi ethnicity shakes the hand of Rose, 72, wife of his old school mate, Pascal Shyirahwamaboko (R), 68, both Hutu's, following Sunday mass at their church in the sector of Mutete, in Byumba city.  AFP / Jacques Nkinzing
Picasso in Ivory Coast? A village tells of its brush with the artist 31 Mar 2019 - 05:13 pm
An artist displays his paintings in his workshop, in the village of Fakaha, a remote village in northern Ivory Coast, some 650 kilometres (400 miles) from Abidjan on January 24, 2019. AFP / Sia Kambou
Hemingway center opens in Cuba to preserve writer's work 31 Mar 2019 - 12:06 pm
A view of the Ernest Hemingway Museum during a visit of U.S. Congressman James Mcgovern (not pictured) in Havana, Cuba, March 30, 2019. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini