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Jakarta’s traffic-clogged economy gets a lift from motorbike deliveries 26 Jul 2017 - 04:33 pm
A Go-Jek driver shows boxes with food for his customer in front of a food stall in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 13, 2017. Reuters/Beawiharta
Bombshell stories spur news war with a twist 24 Jul 2017 - 10:30 pm
New York Times (Wikimedia Commons)
Malaysian children parade in white robes for practice haj 24 Jul 2017 - 07:16 pm
Ihram-clad Malaysian Muslim boys from the Little Caliphs kindergarten circumambulate a mockup of the Kaaba, Islam's most sacred structure located in the holy city of Makkah, during an educational simulation of the Haj pilgrimage in Shah Alam, outside Kual
Spain’s Balearic Islands vote to outlaw killing bulls at fights 24 Jul 2017 - 06:25 pm
Spanish matador Alberto Aguilar performs a pass on an Adolfo Martin Andres bull at Plumacon arena in Mont de Marsan during the festival of La Madeleine, southwestern France, on July 23, 2017. AFP / Iroz Gaizka
Flint water crisis whistle-blowers win MIT Media Lab’s ‘Disobedience Award’ 24 Jul 2017 - 12:32 am
Reid Hoffman (L), co-founder of LinkedIn, presents the inaugural Disobedience Award to Virginia Tech engineering Professor Marc Edwards (C) and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha of Michigan's Hurley Medical Center, who first drew national attention to the water cris
Exhumation of Salvador Dali's remains finds his trademark mustache still intact 22 Jul 2017 - 02:12 am
Forensic examiners leave the Teatre-Museu Dali following the exhumation of Salvador Dali's remains in Figueras, yesterday.
Drowning for sand: miners risk all for India’s building boom 20 Jul 2017 - 09:27 pm
Sand scarcity has set off alarms with the Indian government issuing guidelines last year on sustainable mining and the United Nations flagging concerns about sand consumption globally being much higher than its renewal in a 2014 report.
Bodies of Swiss couple found in glacier after 75 years 18 Jul 2017 - 03:18 pm
This handout picture distributed on July 18, 2017 by the Swiss cable cars company Glacier 3000 shows the mummified remains of a Swiss Couple who went missing 75 years ago and who were found in a glacier in the Diablerets mountains, in southern Switzerland
Tennis ball-sized ‘diamond in the rough’ too big to sell 17 Jul 2017 - 03:02 pm
A model shows off the 1109 carat
From refugee camps to Lord's: dizzying rise of Afghan cricket 15 Jul 2017 - 08:55 am
In this photograph taken on July 6, 2017, Afghan refugees play a cricket match at the Khurasan refugee camp in the suburbs of Peshawar.
Liu Xia: the unpolitical poet who became a dissident's wife 15 Jul 2017 - 08:08 am
 Liu Xia, wife of veteran Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo, wipes her eyes as she speaks during an interview in Beijing June 24, 2009. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo
Saving lives: Pope adds fourth path to Roman Catholic sainthood 11 Jul 2017 - 06:52 pm
Pope Francis waves at the end of his general audience in Saint Peters Square at the Vatican, November 9,  2016 (REUTERS / Stefano Rellandini)
Tanzania’s women street cooks hope for safety, loans 10 Jul 2017 - 10:51 pm
Women preparing dishes in Dar Es Salaam in this video grab dated Jun 19, 2013 (Photo courtesy: Frank Starmer / YouTube)
US newspaper group assails Google-Facebook online 'duopoly' 10 Jul 2017 - 06:45 pm
A 2008 photograph of McClatchy Company’s DC office. The group once owned a chain of more than 30 US newspapers. Reuters
Brazilian port where slaves from Africa first arrived given UNESCO status 09 Jul 2017 - 10:44 pm
Valongo wharf in Rio de Janeiro (Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons / Halley Pacheco de Oliveira / CC BY-SA 3.0)
Jellyfish invasion stirs debate over Egypt's Suez Canal 09 Jul 2017 - 09:20 pm
A jellyfish floats in the Mediterranean sea off the south coast of the Balearic island of Mallorca. Dani Cardona / Reuters
Paintwork: young Liberians slap on any message you want 02 Jul 2017 - 12:22 pm
A man stands in the sweltering heat for hours, painted head to toe in the colours of a fashion house, at a traffic junctions in the Liberian capital of Monrovia on May 25, 2017. AFP / Zoom DOSSO
US labels make Paris debut on haute couture catwalks 01 Jul 2017 - 10:03 am
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