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Artist's work takes shine off glossy Russian image
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Artist and photographer Ivan Ushkov takes dark pictures that set out to puncture the glossy image of Russia that the country's leaders try to project.

Floods, legacy of wars drive Africa cholera risk
LONDON (Reuters) - Floods, insecurity and war-damaged infrastructure have combined to raise the risk of cholera in Africa this year and experts say new methods are needed to fight its ...

KaDeWe, Berlin's temple to consumerism, turns 100
BERLIN (Reuters) - When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, East German chef Joern Aksel had one goal in mind: to cross to the West to see the famous food hall at luxury department store ...

S.Africa police face low pay and hardened criminals
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Shinta had always dreamed of becoming a policewoman in South Africa, a public servant who could take on some of the world's most dangerous criminals.

Economic growth masks social woes in Estonia election
TALLINN (Reuters) - Strong economic growth in Estonia, a new European Union member, hides big social problems -- the bloc's highest rate of registered HIV infections, highest proportion of ...

Chechen parents cry tears of frustration for missing
VEDENO, Russia (Reuters) - At first the woman standing in the muddy, snow-caked hospital yard of a Chechen mountain town seemed calm.

Tanzanians wonder whether Nyerere saint or sinner
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - In a world where politicians are usually cast as villains and sinners, Tanzania's founding father Julius Nyerere may yet turn out to be a saint.

Curry shows mettle against "Godfather" O'Neal
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Knicks coach Isiah Thomas considered it a rite of passage when his beefy young center Eddy Curry stood tall this week against the NBA's "Godfather" of big ...

Varsity rivals face off in age-old contest
LONDON (Reuters) - Slap shots and body checks in frozen climes does not sound British, but Cambridge and Oxford say their annual ice hockey match is the sport's oldest rivalry.

Africa's most corrupt state wants to clean up act
CONAKRY (Reuters) - At a crossroads in Conakry's Avenue of the Republic, a group of traffic police lounge by their motorbikes while one of them waves down a rusting taxi and plucks a few ...

Civil war erases Sri Lanka's "paradise isle" tag
HIKKADUWA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Glass bottom boats tethered to the shore, candlelit shacks serving seafood empty of patrons, a solitary bar open: Not the signs of a vibrant beach resort at ...

Climbing craze drives dare-devils up the wall
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Like spiders they clamber up the walls -- children, young adults, pensioners -- and then descend on cords. They are multiplying fast.

You seen our ruins? Tanzanian isle seeks tourists
KILWA KISIWANI, Tanzania (Reuters) - Like most other men on the tiny southern Tanzanian island of Kilwa Kisiwani, Ahmed Timami spends his days fishing.

Bulgarian Muslims wonder what EU entry holds
SMOLYAN, Bulgaria (Reuters) - Like most Bulgarians, Salikh Kutsov hopes joining the European Union will bring prosperity to his town. But the Muslim carpenter wonders if his future wife ...

South Korea's little sister just wants to grow up
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's little sister wants to grow up. She only hopes the country will let her.

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