Venezuela opposition cling to social media lifeline

AFP | Deprived almost entirely of coverage on mainstream media, Venezuela's self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido has been deftly using the social networks to woo support,...

Bring home the bacon: the Taiwanese woman living with four pet pigs

AFP | Every year is the Year of the Pig in Jenny Tsai's ninth-floor apartment in Taiwan's Taichung City which she shares with one fellow...

Strategic investments under Chinese corporation likely as FFC reports profits

News Desk | A high-level visit by a major Chinese corporation is projected to end in several strategic investments in the country. According to Pakistan...

Imran Khan is the second best leader for Pakistan: International analyst

News Analysis | Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is known across the world since his 1990s for being a world class player and winning a...

Govt housing scheme to be expanded to 4 more Punjab districts: Mian Rasheed

News Desk | Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Provincial Minister of Punjab for housing, urban development and public health engineering, has revealed that “by mid-February, Prime Minister Imran...

Brazil dam disaster: mourning and dead fish along river of mud

AFP | Five days after a dam collapse at a Brazilian mine, residents were mourning Wednesday the nearly 360 people killed and missing -- as...

Pakistan rejects US threat assessment report’s allegations

News Desk | Rejecting the allegations leveled by the US in its threat assessment report, foreign office spokesperson has said that such controversial statements will...

Ice instruments melt musical boundaries in Italian Alps

AFP | When Tim Linhart started making instruments from ice they were more likely to explode with a bang than produce music, but things have...

Displaced Syrian children sift through trash to buy bread

AFP | Outside a camp for the displaced in northwest Syria, 15-year-old Sabaa al-Jassim hacked away at a mountain of trash hoping to find scraps...

2019: The year of Change?

Farah Adeed | Today is the last day of the first month of 2019. Three powerful persons have made the 2019 quirky and a year of...

Hidden homeless: England´s rural rough sleepers

AFP | In an idyllic stretch of countryside, Benny Clapp has made his home in a tent beside a river near Canterbury in Kent, a...

Grams of gold fuel French Guiana’s ruthless jungle economy

AFP | Honda all-terrain vehicles have replaced mules as the beast of burden of choice, but the wildcat mining camps of French Guiana are governed...