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A volunteer of the Cheetah Conservation Fund plays with cheetahs in their cage in one of the facilities of the organisation in the city of Hargeisa, Somaliland.
Cheetahs fast running to extinction as cub trade thrives
Members of the Cheetah Conservation Fund feed baby cheetahs.Tiny, weeks-old cheetah cubs suckled from baby bottles and purred weakly, their condition still dangerously precarious after their rescue from the Horn of Africa’s illegal wildlife trade. Around half the cubs saved from traffickers do not survive the trauma-and there are real concerns for the smallest of this lot, a frail infant nicknamed “Green” weighing just 700 grams (25...
Picture shows Japanese artist Masakazu Rokuhara, who is also an architect and a member of the Taiyoshi Hyakuban restoration project, pointing to ageing designs during an interview with AFP at Taiyoshi Hyakuban. — AFP photos
‘Ugly history’: Battle to restore Japan’s iconic building
Picture shows Japanese artist Masakazu Rokuhara, who is also an architect and a member of the Taiyoshi Hyakuban restoration project, pointing to ageing designs during an interview with AFP at Taiyoshi Hyakuban. — AFP photoAt the corner of a red-light district in the Japanese city of Osaka stands an unlikely architectural gem: a century-old former brothel at the centre of a restoration campaign. Taiyoshi Hyakuban hasn’t functioned as a...
Models working with fashion designer, Ndeye Diop Guisse, talk as they wear their traditional Signares outfits in Saint Louis.
‘Like queens’: Divisive legacy of Senegal’s women traders
Models working with fashion designer, Ndeye Diop Guisse, talk as they wear their traditional Signares outfits in Saint Louis.Aminata Sall, who rents out brilliantly coloured dresses in the Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, systematically quizzes her clients about their motivations for the prized cultural heirlooms. Kept in a storeroom near her office, the gowns represent a now-vanished group of mixed-race merchant women known as the Signares....
Items made at the Colour Indigo workshop, a project transforming waste fabric into decorative objects.
Benin project turns waste fabric into recycled ‘gold’
Marcel Adjanohoun, head of several hotels in Ouidah, holds items made at Colour Indigo workshop.Every morning, Amake Yessoufou makes the rounds of the sewing workshops of Ouidah, a small coastal town in the south of Benin, and collects scraps of fabric used by tailors to make clothes. In the past, waste fabric clogged up the gutters of Ouidah, but Yessoufou is part of one effort to change that culture and make the most of recycling...
SINGAPORE: In this photograph taken yesterday migrant workers are pictured working at a construction site in Singapore. —AFP
Singapore migrant workers suffer under COVID curbs
SINGAPORE: In this photograph taken yesterday migrant workers are pictured working at a construction site in Singapore. —AFPSINGAPORE: Bangladeshi migrant worker MD Sharif Uddin used to spend his days off with friends outside his cramped Singapore dormitory, but coronavirus curbs have for 18 months left him stuck inside during his spare time. More than 300,000 migrant workers, many of them from South Asia, live in dorms in the prosperous...
KUWAIT: Tareq Al-Saleh interviews Ahmed Al-Majed during Gulf Bank’s second episode of ‘Let’s Talk Business’ podcast.
Gulf Bank’s ‘Let’s Talk Business’ podcast interviews top events management firm
KUWAIT: Tareq Al-Saleh interviews Ahmed Al-Majed during Gulf Bank’s second episode of ‘Let’s Talk Business’ podcast.KUWAIT: Gulf Bank aired the second episode of its “Let’s Talk Business” podcast with Ahmed Al-Majed, General Manager at the Suffix company for sports events management. The program, hosted by Tareq Al-Saleh, Deputy General Manager of the Economic Research Unit at Gulf Bank, presents entrepreneurial stories within a...
CATANIA: This image grabbed from a video handout shows a watch found by members of the Guardia di Finanza dog squad from Nicolosi, Catania, in a lava cave on the Etna volcano near Zafferana Etnea, Sicily. — AFP
Is the body on Mount Etna Italian reporter ‘killed’ by mob?
CATANIA: This image grabbed from a video handout shows a watch found by members of the Guardia di Finanza dog squad from Nicolosi, Catania, in a lava cave on the Etna volcano near Zafferana Etnea, Sicily. — AFPROME: Half a century after investigative journalist Mauro De Mauro disappeared in Sicily, the discovery of a body in a cave has raised fresh hopes of cracking one of Italy’s mafia mysteries. Crime laboratory analysts are expected to...
OGOSSAGOU: A Senegalese Blue Helmet peacekeeper stands in the village of Ogossagou, Mopti Region. — AFP
Peace is a tall order in massacre-hit Mali village
OGOSSAGOU: A Senegalese Blue Helmet peacekeeper stands in the village of Ogossagou, Mopti Region. — AFPOGOSSAGOU: In Ogossagou, where ethnic Fulani suffered two massacres in two years, traces of the recent horrors abound in this village of central Mali. They are one sign of just how tough incipient internationally-sponsored peacemaking efforts are between nomadic Fulani herders and traditional Dogon hunters. Reconciliation is all the more...
GLASGOW: Performers of the Blue Rebels prepare to conduct a funeral ceremony to symbolize the failure of the COP26 process, at Glasgow Cathedral in Glasgow yesterday during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. — AFP
Governments risk ‘trillions’ in fossil fuel climate litigation
GLASGOW: Performers of the Blue Rebels prepare to conduct a funeral ceremony to symbolize the failure of the COP26 process, at Glasgow Cathedral in Glasgow yesterday during the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference. — AFPGLASGOW: Governments which enact climate legislation risk being sued for trillions of dollars by fossil fuel companies seeking compensation for lost revenue and stranded assets, according to data that campaigners warn threaten...
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GAZOO Racing celebrates spectacular WEC World Championship win
MANAMA: GAZOO Racing (GR) completed its history-making hypercar season in style with a one-two victory in the 8 Hours of Bahrain on a day of destiny for the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) Drivers’ Championship crown. An emotional finale to the season saw Kazuki Nakajima bring the curtain down on his glittering endurance career in style, with victory in the No 8 GR010 Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) he shares with teammates Sebastien...
MONTEVIDEO: Argentina’s Angel Di Maria (11) celebrates with teammates after scoring against Uruguay during their South American qualification football match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, at the Campeon del Siglo stadium in Montevideo on Friday. — AFP
Di Maria winner puts Argentina on brink of WC qualification
MONTEVIDEO: Argentina’s Angel Di Maria (11) celebrates with teammates after scoring against Uruguay during their South American qualification football match for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, at the Campeon del Siglo stadium in Montevideo on Friday. — AFPMONTEVIDEO: Angel Di Maria’s goal on Friday put Argentina on the verge of qualifying for next year’s World Cup in Qatar as Lionel Messi was on the bench for the 1-0 win away to Uruguay....
Afghan pop star Aryana Sayeed poses during an interview in Istanbul on Sept 8, 2021. — AFP
'Just shoot me': Afghan star recalls surreal Kabul escape
Afghan pop star Aryana Sayeed poses during an interview in Istanbul on Sept 8, 2021. — AFPAfghan pop star Aryana Sayeed recalls asking her fiance one thing as they snuck into Kabul's chaotic airport after the Taleban moved in: "Don't let them take me away alive". Aryana, who brags of 1.4 million Instagram followers and is often likened to US megastar Kim Kardashian, had drawn the religious conservatives' ire for her women's rights activism and...
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ADDIS ABABA: Pedestrians walk past old Lada cars parked and ready to carry goods in the vicinity of a busy market in Addis Ababa. – AFP photos
The last of Ethiopia’s Soviet-era Lada cars
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KUWAIT: Kuwait’s new Amir HH Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah salutes as he swears in before lawmakers as the country’s 17th Amir, at the Kuwaiti parliament, on December 20, 2023 in Kuwait City. - Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Amir’s first year leading Kuwait drives development and unity
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KUWAIT: Cabinet ministers convene for their weekly meeting on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 at at Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium. — KUNA
Cabinet approves MoU with China to accelerate Mubarak Al-Kabeer Port
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Floating diwaniya on a yacht trip.
Kuwait’s hidden appeal
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A design of a bridge with the sea stretching on both sides.
Vision for a sustainable Kuwait