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George Saunders' 'Lincoln in the Bardo' wins 2017 Man Booker prize 18 Oct 2017 - 12:02 pm
George Saunders, author of 'Lincoln in the Bardo', poses for photographers after winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2017 in London, Britain, October 17, 2017. Reuters/Mary Turner
Morocco, Unesco sign pact to preserve crafts 18 Oct 2017 - 09:16 am
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Cairo named riskiest megacity for women, worse since Arab spring 16 Oct 2017 - 09:09 pm
Army soldiers ask a female supporter of overthrown President Mohamed Mursi to take her protest to the sidewalk as they stand guard around Cairo University and Nahdet Misr Square in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, July 4, 2013. Reuters/ Asmaa Waguih
Smallscale farmers try to solve Amazon's big problems 15 Oct 2017 - 09:51 pm
Chief Marcelino Apurina, of the Aldeia Novo Paraiso in the Western Amazon region of Brazil near Labrea stands by a table of modern medicines delivered to the village on September 21, 2017.  AFP / Carl De Souza
Hatchet throwing a new pastime in America 14 Oct 2017 - 12:13 pm
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Five things to do at the Frankfurt Book Fair 14 Oct 2017 - 08:43 am
A visitor walks past a book display at the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 13, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. France is this year's guest of honour at the world's largest book fair, where more than 7,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries
Dan Brown's 'Origin' thriller debuts atop U.S. fiction bestsellers 12 Oct 2017 - 11:05 pm
US author Dan Brown poses in front of a poster promoting his new book
Iraqi football fans united by love of European teams 12 Oct 2017 - 09:49 am
A group of Iraqi Manchester United football supporters gather at a cafe to watch a match in Baghadad on September 18, 2017. AFP / SABAH ARAR
Unwelcome guest: Far-right publisher shunned at Frankfurt Book Fair 11 Oct 2017 - 08:21 pm
Books on shelves are pictured at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on October 11, 2017. The Frankfurt book fair is the world's largest publishing event, bringing together over 7,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries. AFP /
Ivory Coast's African art museum gets new lease of life 10 Oct 2017 - 09:45 am
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Myanmar climbers take latest yoga trend to new heights 10 Oct 2017 - 09:13 am
In this photograph taken on August 16, 2017, Khin Myat Thu Zar, a 32-year-old former lawyer who has been teaching yoga in Myanmar professionally for the last five years, performs a yoga pose as she leads a yoga class at a studio in Yangon. AFP / Roberto S
War or peace? Neither reigns in limbo land of Nagorno-Karabakh 05 Oct 2017 - 06:57 pm
Lida Sargsyan, 82, poses for a photo in the newly-built village of Alashan where she lives, in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, southwestern Azerbaijan, September 20, 2017. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Anna Pujol-Mazzini
Activists condemn craze for wild animal selfies 04 Oct 2017 - 06:00 pm
The charity World Animal Protection said in a report that Instagram has seen a 292 percent increase in wildlife selfies since 2014 around the world. Of these, more than 40 percent involved humans
INSIGHT-White tiger, dark horse: North Korean art market heats up 04 Oct 2017 - 12:35 pm
A visitor looks at works by North Korean artists at the Mansudae Art Museum in the 798 art district in Beijing, China, September 20, 2017. Thomas Peter / REUTERS
Chanel models parade past Paris waterfalls 03 Oct 2017 - 03:09 pm
Models present creations for Chanel during the women's 2018 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Paris, on October 3, 2017. / AFP / Patrick KOVARIK
$37.7 million bowl sets Chinese ceramic auction record 03 Oct 2017 - 09:06 am
A visitor walks past a backlit photo of a Ru Guanyao brush washer bowl from China's Song Dynasty before its record breaking sale at the Sotheby's Chinese Works of Art Autumn Sales in Hong Kong on October 3, 2017. AFP / Anthony WALLACE
'Ernesticos' keep the cult of Che alive in Cuba 03 Oct 2017 - 08:31 am
Cuban Lazaro Ernesto, one of the so-called 'Ernesticos' -named in honor of Argentine-Cuban guerrilla fighter Ernesto
Post-Dylan dilemma for Nobel Literature Prize 03 Oct 2017 - 08:18 am
A medal of Alfred Nobel is pictured prior to the beginning of a press conference to announce the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine on October 2, 2017 in Stockholm. The 2017 Nobel prize season kicks off with the announcement of the medicine prize,