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Free driving courses with Alfardan Motorcycles’ latest offer 04 Apr 2019 - 08:23 am
KTM 390 Duke (left) and ‘DU 2017-09-07 MONSTER 1502’ models are among the latest promotional offers by Alfardan Motorcycles.
WhatsApp allows users to control who can add them to group chats 03 Apr 2019 - 10:25 pm
This file photo illustration taken on September 26, 2017 shows the Whatsapp application logo (C) on a smartphone screen in Beijing. AFP /Nicolas Asfouri
A tiny beetle is killing an urban forest and there's no solution 03 Apr 2019 - 10:25 pm
Many adult female polyphagous shot hole borers, shown by red arrows, can be seen in this cross section of an infested tree.  Photo: Akif Eskalen, University of California Riverside via plantheroes.org
Soap and superbugs: 2 billion people lack water at health facilities 03 Apr 2019 - 09:49 pm
A Congolese child washes her hands as a preventive measure against Ebola at the Church of Christ in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo May 20, 2018. Reuters/Kenny Katombe
Cameroon farmers spice up earnings with forest-friendly foods 03 Apr 2019 - 09:49 pm
A spice-grinding machine provided to a group of women farmers by the government is pictured in Mbalmayo, Cameroon, January 22, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Elias Ntungwe Ngalame
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
Polluted air to shorten lives by 20 months, researchers say 03 Apr 2019 - 08:01 pm
A man wears mask as he sweeps the ground near a palace in Chiang Mai, Thailand April 3, 2019. Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun
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
Berlin-born polar bear cub named after football club Hertha 02 Apr 2019 - 01:13 pm
Polar bear cub Hertha plays with a ball after she was given her name on April 2, 2019 at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin. AFP / John MACDOUGALL
Emperor burger: Tokyo chef whips up $900 monster of 3kgs for new monarch 01 Apr 2019 - 10:21 pm
Patrick Shimada, the chef de cuisine at The Oak Door of the Grand Hyatt Tokyo hotel poses with a 3kgs burger in Tokyo on April 1, 2019.  AFP / Charly Triballeau
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