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Chinese vase found in attic sells for 16.2 million euros 12 Jun 2018 - 01:22 pm
(FILES) In this file photo taken on May 22, 2018 a rare Imperial Qianlong porcelain vase (18th century) is displayed at Sotheby's auction company in Paris. AFP / Thomas SAMSON
Chef Anthony Bourdain's death means loss of a voice for immigrant workers 10 Jun 2018 - 08:28 pm
In this file photo taken on October 07, 2017, Chef Anthony Bourdain speaks onstage at New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City (AFP / Getty Images North America / Craig Barritt)
Doyouthinkhesaurus: Thai 'T-Rex' cop gives traffic safety lessons 10 Jun 2018 - 10:56 am
Thai police sargent Tanit Bussabong directs traffic wearing a costume where he appears to ride a T-rex dinosaur outside a school in Nakhon Nayok on June 4, 2018. AFP / Stephen J. BOITANO
Nearly 1,800 families separated at US-Mexico border in 17 months through February 08 Jun 2018 - 11:14 pm
Relatives and friends of Claudia Gomez, a 19-year old Guatemalan immigrant who was shot by a U.S. Border Patrol officer, take part in her funeral procession towards a cemetery in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala June 2, 2018. Reuters/Luis Echeverria
Bonne chance! Frenchman bags second million-euro lottery win 06 Jun 2018 - 08:46 pm
A picture taken on May 30, 2018 at the headquarters of Francaise des Jeux (FDJ), operator of France's national lottery games, shows scratch cards with pictures of monuments to benefit from the lottery 'Loto au patrimoine', which aims at helping to restore
Kate Spade, fashion designer who built handbag empire, found dead, New York police confirm suicide 05 Jun 2018 - 09:58 pm
Kate Spade arrives at the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards in New York on June 2, 2003, at the New York Public Library. Reuters/Chip East
#Metoo, feminism sparking demand for art by women, data shows 31 May 2018 - 11:22 pm
Youmn Ahmad,  a Lebanese artist paints a portrait of Lebanon Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri during the annual Beirut Marathon in Beirut, November 12, 2017 (Reuters/ Jamal Saidi)
Police pull abortion pill robots from Belfast streets 31 May 2018 - 10:30 pm
Messages are left at a memorial to Savita Halappanava a day after an Abortion Referendum to liberalise abortion laws was passed by popular vote, in Dublin, Ireland May 27, 2018. Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Expose of labour abuse brews trouble for 'slave-free' Indian tea 31 May 2018 - 09:15 pm
A tea garden worker plucks tea leaves on an estate in Assam, India, April 21, 2015. Reuters/Ahmad Masoodc
Beirut's dapper barber-on-a-bike offers curbside cuts 30 May 2018 - 12:26 pm
Mohammed, a Lebanese roaming barber, better known as
Starbucks closes stores, asks workers to talk about race 30 May 2018 - 01:58 am
A Starbucks employee gives change to a patron in a Center City store, before more than 8,000 branches nationwide will close this afternoon for anti-bias training, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S., May 29, 2018. Reuters/Mark Makela
Serena's 'Wakanda-inspired' bodysuit about more than fashion 30 May 2018 - 01:27 am
Serena Williams of the USA in action against Kristyna Pliskova (not seen) of Czech Republic during their first round match at the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris, France on May 29, 2018. (Mustafa Yalç?n/Anadolu Agency)
Germany and Turkey mark deadly 1993 neo-Nazi attack 30 May 2018 - 12:32 am
People pray during a silent remembrance commemorating the 25th anniversary of an arson attack killing two Turkish women and three girls by right-wing extremists in Solingen, Germany, May 29, 2018. Reuters/Thilo Schmuelgen
One family, four countries: the dispossession of the Rohingya 28 May 2018 - 10:42 pm
Rohingya Muslim refugee Khadija Begum, the mother of 16-year-old Rohingya youth Robi Alam, shows a photograph of two of her other sons during an interview with AFP at their house in Kutapalong refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district. AFP / Munir
Burundi angered by French gift of donkeys to village 28 May 2018 - 08:29 pm
Wild donkeys are seen in Karpasia peninsula in northern Cyprus in this file picture taken on August 3, 2017.  Reuters/Yiannis Kourtoglou
London introduces contactless payments for buskers 28 May 2018 - 08:22 pm
Buskers perform along Sai Yeung Choi street in the Mong Kok area of Hong Kong on May 26, 2018. The road, which has been a pedestrian zone on the weekends for 18 years, will be cleared in the coming weeks of all street performers and shoppers and opened up
Some Irish Catholics worried, dismayed after abortion vote 27 May 2018 - 10:44 pm
Messages are left at a memorial to Savita Halappanavar a day after an Abortion Referendum to liberalise abortion laws was passed by popular vote, in Dublin, Ireland May 27, 2018. Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Japan keeps word, gifts Akita dog to Russian skater Zagitova 27 May 2018 - 08:31 pm
Russian figure skating gold medallist Alina Zagitova (L), Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) and his wife Akie Abe poses with an Akita Inu puppy presented to Zagitova in Moscow on May 26, 2018 during Abe's official visit to Russia. AFP / Alexander Zem