Category: Multimedia
Bangladeshi women hold photo of relatives missing at building collapse
A Bangladeshi woman cries holding a paper with a photograph of her missing relative as she pleads for help and demands compensation for the dead and missing workers of a […]
Filipino children dance in celebration of St. John the Baptist water festival
Schoolchildren dance as they are sprayed with water by a fireman during celebration of the Feast of St. John The Baptist at suburban San Juan, east of Manila, Philippines Monday […]
Malaysia declares emergency state for haze caused by Indonesia’s forest fire
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono apologized Monday to Singapore and Malaysia for record-setting pollution caused by forest fires in his country. “For what is happening, as the president, I apologize […]
A liger licks her one-month-old liliger cub at Novosibirsk Zoo, Russia
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo Zita, a liger, half-lioness, half-tiger, licks her one month old liliger cub in the Novosibirsk Zoo. The cub’s father is a lion, Sam. […]
Pakistani people condemn Taliban for killing 10 foreign tourists
Islamic militants disguised as policemen killed 10 foreign climbers and a Pakistani guide in a brazen overnight raid against their campsite at the base of one of the world’s tallest […]
More than 1000 dead in monsoon flooding in northern India
An Indian man crosses over a swollen river with the help of a rope in Govindghat, India, Sunday, June 23, 2013. Bad weather hampered efforts Sunday to evacuate thousands of […]
‘Super moon’ rises over Singapore’s Bay Garden clearing from haze
A full moon sets behind a building of the Forbidden City in Beijing, capital of China, June 23, 2013. The moon looks 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than […]
Suicide car bomb attack kills 8 people in Damascus, Syria
Suicide bombers targeted security compounds in Damascus and a car bomb exploded in a pro-regime district there Sunday, killing at least eight people, the latest in a surge of civil […]
Japan’s ruling party makes big gains in Tokyo metropolitan assembly election
Japan’s ruling party on Monday welcomed its sweeping gains in a Tokyo assembly election that was closely watched as an indicator of how the country’s major parties will fare in […]
Hong Kong allows whistle-blower Snowden to go for third country
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden – an admitted leaker of state secrets – was expected to fly from Moscow to Cuba and Venezuela en route to possible asylum […]