It was early morning in June and a village woman named Tatu sat outside her huge stone house, cooking and selling vitumbua - buns made of rice flour. She explained that the low building at the corner of the land was for poultry and rabbit farming, a new activity she was dabbling in.
TRIPOLI, Libya - The Libyan capital Tripoli, home to nearly 3 million people, is witnessing power blackouts which last as long as 12 hours every day, as temperatures get higher and the demand for power increases.
HOMS, Syria - After the war in the Syrian northern city of Aleppo broke out, Zakaraia Qarkoush, carrying his pottery tools, escaped to the central city of Homs.
The final stage of the Conservative leadership race to be the next British prime minister has begun after Environment Secretary Michael Gove was eliminated from the contest amid speculation tactical voting helped oust him.
Free trade zones, from the coastal to the inland provinces, have well implemented the major tasks assigned by the central government in the past five years, a report said on Friday.
The A-share inclusion plan implemented by UK-based index provider FTSE Russell will bring in an estimated $10 billion in net passive foreign inflows, including some $2 billion in June, an analyst said. The plan takes effect from the closing bell on Friday.
China's top securities regulator has released draft rules that will encourage mergers and acquisitions involving listed firms, a move that could improve fundamentals of listed firms and elevate the ChiNext board's valuation level, analysts said.
The stock market and the White House didn't get an interest rate cut on Wednesday, but the Federal Reserve was accommodating in its statement.
San Francisco is on its way to becoming the first city in the United States to ban sales of electronic cigarettes.
ASCO, France - In the forest undergrowth of northern Corsica, two wildlife rangers open a cage to reveal a striped, tawny-coated animal, one of 16 felines known as "cat-foxes" on the island thought to be a new species.
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pennsylvania - In a country that nearly always believes bigger is better - think supersize fries, giant cars and 10-gallon hats - more and more people in the United States are downsizing their living quarters.
TEHERAN - The Revolutionary Guard Corps said it shot down a US "spy drone" which violated Iranian airspace near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, in the latest incident to stoke tension in the strategic sea lane.
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