Sejnane, Tunisia: With bucket and spade in hand, Sabiha Ayari from Sejnane in northern Tunisia is among the women keeping alive an ancient...
Sejnane, Tunisia: With bucket and spade in hand, Sabiha Ayari from Sejnane in northern Tunisia is among the women keeping alive an ancient...
Mosul, Iraq: Watheq Mahmud is pursuing an advanced engineering degree but the textbooks he needs are often missing in his native Mosul, the...
Jakarta: Peeking through a slit in her giant puppet costume, Indonesian teen Juniarti is drenched in sweat as she moves stiffly under the...
KATHMANDU, Nepal: Sherpa climber Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday for a 23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful...
Papua New Guinea: In a nation where sexual violence is endemic, women are still targeted and attacked for witchcraft, and female representation in...
Paris: Headline-grabbing PR stunts have become the main tool of environmental pressure groups to turn up the heat on the companies behind the...
LONDON: German schoolteacher Verena Brunschweiger decided shortly after her marriage not to have children - not because she did not want them but...
Jerusalem: At his shop in Jerusalem's Old City, Palestinian craftsman Issam Zughair makes traditional lanterns for Muslims marking the holy month of Ramadan,...
Jerusalem: A dozen cats wake up in cages stacked on top of one another, a pungent odour in the air, while in a...
London: A piece of stone drilled from Stonehenge, a mysterious circle of ancient stones in southern England, has been returned to the site...
LONDON: It is 40 years since "Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister, confounding her own prediction that no women...
Amboise, France: Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago on Thursday, lives in the collective memory as an enigmatic genius who embodied...
Tunceli, Turkey: On his election, Fatih Macoglu's first move as mayor of his Turkish city was to knock down the walls around his...
London: A 500-year-old sketch of a bearded man was on Thursday revealed to be one of only two surviving portraits of Renaissance artist...
Takoradi, Ghana: Rumbling along the rutted roads of Ghana at the wheel of her giant truck, Abigail Asumadu-Amoah turns heads but keeps her...
LONDON: Most British parents think "pink for girls, blue for boys" marketing reinforces messages about what girls and boys can do, according to...
LONDON: Japan's emperor will pass the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son Crown Prince Naruhito after his abdication on Tuesday. The monarch's decision to...
Fes, Morocco: Abdelkader Ouazzani, the last of Morocco's brocade master weavers, has been repeating the same gestures for 63 years in his dilapidated...
