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    Photos: The last generation of tattooed headhunters in Myanmar

    news
    Updated on Feb 28, 2020 10:06 IST
    Houn Ngo Kaw, 75, a tattooed Konyak tribeman, at Longwa village, Myanmar. People in the region subscribe to a complex patchwork of customs, intertwining their animist beliefs with warrior traditions that include striking tattoo designs, which can signify different forms of tribal heritage. However, this tradition is losing its popularity. “I wanted to be one of the last tattooed warriors and I am,” said Kaw with a huge grin. “Of course I’m happy.” (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)8

    Photos: The ancient Turkish village that’s about to disappear

    People visit abandoned houses of the ancient city of Hasankeyf, in Turkey's Kurdish-majority south-east, that will be soon under water as part of a dam project. Despite years of protests by residents and activists, the small village on the banks of the Tigris River will soon be under water as part of the project. Authorities have started to move some historic monuments, and have already destroyed others. (Bulent Kilic / AFP)7
    news
    Updated on Feb 27, 2020 13:54 IST

    Photos: 32 dead, over 250 injured in Delhi’s worst communal riot in three decades

    Women break down following violent clashes over the new citizenship law in New Delhi. The Delhi High Court Thursday allowed the Centre’s impleadment in the PIL seeking lodging of FIRs and arrests in the northeast Delhi communal violence over the amended citizenship law. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar granted four weeks to the Centre and the police to file their replies to the PIL seeking lodging of FIRs against alleged hate speeches by three BJP leaders. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)9
    news
    Updated on Feb 27, 2020 10:20 IST

    Photos: Inside Italy’s coronavirus red zone

    Gino Verani, 87, sits a table in a piazza in San Fiorano, one of the towns on lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak. Some 50,000 people are under quarantine as Italy tries to contain Europe’s worst outbreak of coronavirus that flared up in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto. (Marzio Toniolo / REUTERS)10
    news
    Updated on Feb 27, 2020 10:03 IST

    Photos | Made in Albania: carnival masks that travel the world

    An artist works on a carnival mask at the Venice Art Mask workshop in Shkoder, Albania. In a quiet studio in northern Albania, artists delicately paint, gild and bejewel tens of thousands of Venetian masks that revellers around the world have been donning for carnival season. (Gent SHKULLAKU / AFP)7
    news
    Updated on Feb 26, 2020 14:05 IST

    Photos: Torrential rains flood Jakarta

    A man wearing a plastic sheet travels along a flooded street at Pondok Maharta residence, South Tangerang, near Jakarta, Indonesia. Torrential rain brought floods to Indonesia’s capital on Tuesday, paralysing large parts of the city as rescue workers used boats to navigate streets turned into murky, brown waterways to get people to safety, reports Reuters. (Antara Foto / Rivan Awal Lingga / REUTERS)7
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    Updated on Feb 26, 2020 12:08 IST

    Photos: A locality stuck between planes and trains

    Residents on a rooftop at Shahbad Mohammadpur village, near Dwarka, in New Delhi. Vipin Lamba looks pretty dismayed as he refers to his village, Shahabad Mohammadpur, in south-west Delhi, as a “unique transport hub”. “You can see and hear planes take off and land in our vicinity all the time, a Metro passes underground, and trains rattle through our village throughout the day,” he says. “But these modes of transport have only been a source of trouble.” (Vipin Kumar / HT Photo)7
    news
    Updated on Feb 25, 2020 13:20 IST

    Photos: 10 dead in clashes at north-east Delhi violence

    Police personnel rescue a man during violent clashes between anti and pro CAA demonstrations, at Jafrabad. Two groups, one opposed to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and largely composed of Muslims, and another, supporting the new law and mostly made up of Hindus, both armed with guns, swords, stones, sticks, rods, and petrol bombs, clashed in North-east Delhi on Monday, leaving a policeman and 10 civilians dead, and about 150 injured. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)10
    news
    Updated on Feb 25, 2020 13:11 IST

    Photos: Life in the time of coronavirus

    Shanghai Ballet dancers wearing masks practise in a dance studio in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten, the World Health Organization said on Monday, insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to reach that level, reports Reuters. (Aly Song / REUTERS)11
    news
    Updated on Feb 25, 2020 12:31 IST

    Photos: US President Donald Trump arrives in India on two-day visit

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes US President Donald Trump and first Lady Melania Trump, on their arrival at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. Trump began his two-day India visit on Monday. He arrived in Ahmedabad around 11.40am for the first-leg of his trip. (PTI)8
    news
    Updated on Feb 24, 2020 13:02 IST

    Photos: Chinese restaurants starve for cash as virus hits industry

    It is lunch time in Beijing, but the only diner in Cindy’s Cafe is an employee having a staff meal—it has been closed for more than three weeks as China battles a deadly virus epidemic. At Cindy’s Cafe in Beijing’s Roosevelt Plaza, dine-in revenue has fallen to zero, and relying on deliveries hardly makes up the shortfall, manager Cai Yaoyang told AFP. (Greg Baker / AFP)12
    news
    Updated on Feb 24, 2020 12:40 IST

    PHOTOS: President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad

    U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive for the ‘Namaste Trump’ event at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, in Ahmedabad. (REUTERS)5
    lifestyle
    Updated on Feb 24, 2020 12:31 IST

    Photos: Branson targets young travellers with Virgin Voyages cruise ship

    The Virgin Voyages Scarlet Lady cruise liner sits docked at Dover Port in Dover, Britain.British entrepreneur Richard Branson hopes to lure a younger generation of holidaymakers with his first cruise ship, featuring a boutique hotel-type design, festival environment and features like sundeck yoga, a tattoo studio and vinyl records store. (Simon Dawson / REUTERS)10
    news
    Updated on Feb 24, 2020 12:08 IST

    PHOTOS: President Donald Trump arrives in India

    US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad. (ANI)7
    lifestyle
    Updated on Feb 24, 2020 08:45 IST

    PHOTOS: Preparations for ‘Namaste Trump’ event

    People clean the glass enclosure erected on the podium where U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be seated at Sardar Patel stadium in Ahmedabad. (AP)9
    lifestyle
    Updated on Feb 24, 2020 06:20 IST

    Preparations for Trump’s visit and AAP 3.0 takes charge: India this week

    Earthmovers remove debris from the Yamuna river bed near Taj Mahal, ahead of the US President Donald Trump’s visit, in Agra, Uttar Pradesh. (PTI)20
    news
    Updated on Feb 23, 2020 15:07 IST

    Photos: Erratic snowfall raises concerns for Sapporo’s Olympic bid

    A worker blows fresh snow off a snow sculpture celebrating Sapporo’s hosting of Tokyo 2020’s marathon and race walk. After two months of almost no snow, Japan’s northern city of Sapporo was overwhelmed with the white stuff. Earlier this month, about 14 inches fell in just six hours following the nearly barren months of December and January. (Jae C. Hong / AP)10
    news
    Updated on Feb 23, 2020 06:30 IST

    Vying for luck in Japan and COVID-19 concerns: Photos of the week

    Men dressed in loincloths prepare to snatch a wooden stick called “shingi” tossed by the priest during a naked festival at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Japan. The person who grabs the wooden stick is considered the “luckiest man of the year”. (Kim Kyung-Hoon / REUTERS)20
    news
    Updated on Feb 23, 2020 06:30 IST

    Photos: UAE falcon hospital a window into Emirati tradition

    Eid al-Qobeissy’s two birds perched majestically in the waiting room of Abu Dhabi’s falcon hospital, awaiting a routine check-up ahead of a hunting trip to Azerbaijan. Like other well-travelled residents of the United Arab Emirates, the falcons will make the journey with their devoted owner on a well-worn route from a country where the creature is both a national symbol and treasured tradition. (Guiseppe Cacace / AFP)12
    news
    Updated on Feb 22, 2020 07:51 IST

    Photos: Buses turned into mobile washrooms for women in Pune

    Like many Indian women, college student Suvarna Dongare dreads getting caught short when she is out and about, with hygienic public toilets in short supply across the country. So she was pleasantly surprised to find a pink women-only “washroom-on-wheels” in a public park -- one of several facilities dotting the city of Pune, where a pair of entrepreneurs has transformed run-down buses into hop-on toilets. (Indranil Mukherjee / AFP)7
    news
    Updated on Feb 22, 2020 06:07 IST

    Photos: Harvest rituals among Myanmar’s isolated Nagas

    Naga tribeswomen around a fire during an overnight ceremony to bless the harvest in Satpalaw Shaung village, Lahe township in Myanmar's Sagaing region. A haunting refrain pierced the night as the tribeswomen of the Gongwang Bonyo, among the most isolated people in Myanmar, danced around a camp-fire to bless the harvest ahead. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)10
    news
    Updated on Feb 22, 2020 06:07 IST

    Photos: Surviving a Siberian winter without a home

    Alexei Vergunov, nicknamed “Lyokha Boroda” (Lyokha the beard), who is homeless, stands near his makeshift shelter with his dog Bella, in Omsk, Russia. Like many of Siberia’s homeless, Alexei Vergunov survives freezing night-time temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius by sleeping under an industrial heating pipe for warmth. (Alexey Malgavko / REUTERS)11
    news
    Updated on Feb 21, 2020 12:23 IST

    Photos: Kurdish women win big with Syria football title

    Samar Sheikh takes part in a practice session with her teammates in the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province. Samar Sheikh’s neighbours used to tell her football was not for girls but the criticism stopped when her team won the very first women’s championship in Syria. (Delil Souleiman / AFP)10
    sports
    Updated on Feb 21, 2020 11:21 IST

    Photos: India prepares for ‘Namaste Trump’

    A man applies finishing touches to paintings of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a wall as part of a beautification along a route that Trump and Modi will be taking during Trump’s upcoming two day visit, in Ahmedabad. (Amit Dave / REUTERS)12
    news
    Updated on Feb 20, 2020 13:41 IST

    Photos: Pompeii’s House of Lovers reopens to public after 40 years

    A restorer works on a fresco in the House of Lovers "Casa degli Amanti", one of three restored domus --family residences for the upper classes --reopened to the public at the archaeological site of Pompeii, Italy 40 years after it was severely damaged in 1980 by an earthquake. (Ciro De Luca / REUTERS)9
    news
    Updated on Feb 20, 2020 13:27 IST

    Photos: Chinatowns across the world feel the brunt of virus panic

    Normally bustling century-old Chinatowns from Melbourne to San Francisco have fallen quiet and businesses are struggling to survive as fears over the novel coronavirus outbreak ripple around the world. “Scaremongering is rampant” complained Max Huang, owner of the Juicy Bao restaurant in Melbourne’s historic Chinese district. “Customers won’t come in if they can avoid it,” he told AFP. (William West / AFP)12
    news
    Updated on Feb 20, 2020 13:27 IST

    Photos: Human-tiger conflict victims’ widows ostracised in rural Bangladesh

    Mosammat Rashida, prepares a meal at her house in Shyamnagar, Bangladesh. Abandoned by her sons, shunned by her neighbours and branded a witch. Rashida’s crime? Her husband was killed by a Bengal tiger. Women like her are ostracised in many rural villages in Bangladesh, where they are viewed as the cause of their partner’s misfortune. (Munir uz Zaman / AFP)9
    news
    Updated on Feb 19, 2020 12:23 IST

    Photos: A slow fade-in for traditional Pashtun music in Pakistan

    A worker makes a traditional rabab musical instrument in a workplace on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan. For years, the distinctive twang of Pashtun music was drowned out by rattling gunfire and deafening explosions as musicians in Pakistan's northwest were targeted by militants. But, as security improves, a centuries-old tribal tradition is staging a comeback. (Abdul Majeed / AFP)7
    news
    Updated on Feb 19, 2020 10:45 IST

    Photos: Near-religious experience for foreign judo pilgrims in Japan

    Judokas attend “Kangeiko,” the Winter Training, at Kodokan in Tokyo, Japan. For judo lovers all over the world who make the pilgrimage to Kodokan, it's an emotional experience to tread the hallowed mats -- a unique chance to train at the sport's Mecca. Many spend small fortunes just to experience the thrill of throwing opponents where judo began and others have been known to break down in tears when they realise a life’s dream. (Behrouz Mehri / AFP)8
    news
    Updated on Feb 18, 2020 13:52 IST

    Photos: 40 crore social media users in India could lose their anonymity

    People use smartphones while sitting on steps in Mumbai. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok will have to reveal users' identities if government agencies ask them to, according to the new rules for social media companies and messaging apps expected to be published later this month. (Dhiraj Singh / Bloomberg)10
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    Updated on Feb 18, 2020 13:52 IST
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