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Sydney Fashion Week
3:05am BST

Backstage and collection highlights from down under.

Monsieur Hollande
1:50am BST

The man who could be the next leader of France.

Celebrity sightings
Thu, May 3 2012

The week in celebrity spottings.

The gift of sight
Thu, May 3 2012

A Nepali surgeon pioneers a simple eye operation to bring sight back to tens of thousands of people who are blind from cataracts.

Rival gangs call a truce
Thu, May 3 2012

Rival gangs in El Salvador have called for a truce, an act which has been endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador.

Chinese dissident wants U.S. refuge
Thu, May 3 2012

Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng wants to leave for the U.S., telling Reuters his safety cannot be assured under a U.S.-China deal that had persuaded him to give up refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing.

Sierra Leone architecture
Thu, May 3 2012

The unique architecture of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown is a link to its past as a colony established for freed slaves.

America and Afghanistan
Thu, May 3 2012

A look at America's involvement with the war in Afghanistan as well as its repercussions on the home front.

Chinese dissidents
Thu, May 3 2012

A look at the activists of China's dissident community.

Mexican Lolita
Thu, May 3 2012

The so-called "Lolita" style has found its way to Mexico.

The L.A. riots: 20 years later

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May Day, the same procedure every year

03 May 2012

Every year I know how my Labour day will end in Berlin. May day concludes in Kreuzberg with riots between radical leftists, the so-called “Autonomen” (autonomists), masked and wearing mostly black clothes and the police.

feisal

03 May 2012

I am so sorry what was happen in Bosnia years ago ,some times when I saw the pictures of Bosnia war I fill sorrow

Weekly Slideshow Showcase

Rice planted in terraced paddies near Jatiluwih in central Bali. REUTERS/Bob Strong

Expanse of the Earth

Recent powerful landscape images.  Slideshow 

A Somali police officer arrests a suspected rebel member of the Al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab among beach goers at the Lido beach north of Mogadishu.

One month: Feisal Omar

One photographer over the course of a month.  Slideshow 

Cyrus Fakroddin and his pet goat Cocoa take a taxi ride in New York. REUTERS/Allison Joyce

Goat in the city

Cocoa the goat takes Manhattan.  Slideshow 

A work by Spanish artist Pamen Pereira in Burgos. REUTERS/Felix Ordonez

Surreal art

Installation pieces designed to give pause.  Slideshow