Arslanbob is an ancient walnut forest on the slopes of the Tian Shan mountains in southern Kyrgyzstan. Every fall, the locals, mostly ethnic Uzbeks, harvest walnuts for sale at Central Asia’s biggest walnut market
Overfishing in Lake Malawi has caused scarcity of fish in Malawi, forcing many fishermen to look for other ways to make a living, such as raising livestock. The scarcity has also resulted in increases in the price of fish
Cameroon’s port city of Douala, most used cooking oil from hotels and restaurants was once dumped down the drain, where it fouled up plumbing systems and caused pollution…Creating human organs from a 3D printer may sound like science fiction, but researchers are working on making that a reality. Engineers in one lab at Rice University are 3D printing complex vascular networks found in human tissue
In Hong Kong, journalists covering the increasingly violent pro-democracy demonstrations have been injured by police action and sometimes assaulted by protesters
Myroslava Keryk was born and raised in Ukraine, but now lives in Warsaw and is running in Poland’s parliamentary election on October 13 promising to represent the interests of all migrants, not just those from Ukraine. Although estimates vary, there are up to 2 million Ukrainians living and working in the country
A Special report on the impact of on the impact of load shedding in Zimbabwe’s resort town of Livingston, which borders Zimbabwe along the Victoria Falls. Many businesses, including butcheries, are seeing their produce go to waste as customers stop buying
A Secret Service dog that prevented a potential attack on President Barack Obama in the White House has been given the rare honor of an Order of Merit from a British charity — the first foreign animal to receive the award
Global nonprofit organization in Tanzania has developed innovative method using African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis using their extraordinary sense of smell
Albert Razin, a scholar and activist in the Russian region of Udmurtia, set himself on fire in front of the local parliament building in September and died shortly afterwards. His death was a final act of protest in defense of the Udmurt language, which he believed was threatened by recent legislation from Moscow
Pandal hoppers throng streets of Kolkata.They are enjoying the art work and the deity in pandals.Here is the glimpse of one such pandal in south Kolkata which draws huge crowd