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    Photos: Tourism in Antarctica may endanger the region’s ecosystem

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    Updated on Dec 1, 2019 16:04 IST
    Tourists loot at the sunset from a ship at Chiriguano bay in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. On this continent, visitors throng to see wildlife that is normally only viewed in zoos or nature documentaries along with spectacular icy landscapes. Experts are of the view that tourism in the region should be controlled so that tourists don’t ruin the very aspect that they come here to witness – the bounty of nature. (Johan Ordonez / AFP)10

    Uddhav Thackeray takes over as Maha CM and Hyderabad rape: India this week

    Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray gestures after he was elected as Maharashtra Chief Minister by the Maha Vikas Aghadi in the presence of NCP chief Shaead Pawar, at Trident hotel, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. (HT Photo)15
    news
    Updated on Dec 1, 2019 08:12 IST

    Photos: Wettest monsoon could lift 2020 wheat output to record surplus

    India’s wheat production could jump to a second consecutive annual record in 2020 as the wettest monsoon in 25 years is set to help farmers in expanding the area under the winter-sown crop while also boosting yields. But that higher production would add to India’s already swelling inventories, potentially forcing the world’s second-biggest wheat producer to ramp up procurement of the grain from farmers and provide incentives for overseas sales to support local prices. (Sameer Sehgal / HT Archive)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 30, 2019 14:11 IST

    Photos of the week: Brazil Presidential Guard exchange and Hong Kong elections

    Hands of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Vice President Hamilton Mourao are seen during a ceremony of exchange of the Presidential Guard at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil. (Ueslei Marcelino / REUTERS)15
    news
    Updated on Nov 30, 2019 14:05 IST

    Photos: ‘Bug cafe’ serves up insect tapas in Cambodia

    A tourist (L) holds up skewered cricket and spiders for a picture at the Bugs Cafe restaurant in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. Ant spring rolls, silkworm taro croquettes and a “bug mac” -- Cambodia’s first insect tapas restaurant is mixing cocktail culture with creepy crawler fare. (Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP)9
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    Updated on Nov 30, 2019 07:20 IST

    Photos: The hair salon changing how transgenders are seen in Pakistan

    Bebo Haider at her beauty parlour in Karachi. Even when the owner of one salon first decided to take a chance on Haider, clients refused her services -- or to return her greetings. It took two years before one regular finally returned her hello, she said -- but the thaw, for that customer at least, was complete. “After that day she would not get her hair and makeup done by anybody else,” Haider told AFP, sitting in her hairdressing chair. (Rizwan Tabassum / AFP)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 29, 2019 09:49 IST

    Photos: Delhi’s first ‘one-stop’ centre for sexual assault victims at IHBAS

    Staff members at the city’s first full-fledged “one-stop” centre for women victims of sexual assault or physical violence that opened this week at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) in Shahdara, in New Delhi, on Wednesday, November 27, 2019. The centre “Sakhi” was inaugurated on Wednesday by deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia. (Raj K Raj / HT Photo)7
    news
    Updated on Nov 29, 2019 08:45 IST

    Photos: Off the Emirates’ glittering coast, pearl trade lives on

    Emirati Abdullah al-Suwaidi watches the sea from his traditional dhow boat, at the Suwaidi pearl farm, off the coast of al-Rams in the northern emirate of Ras al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. Before the discovery of oil transformed the Gulf into one of the world’s wealthiest regions, the fortunes of its people depended on pearling -- a tradition that Abdullah al-Suwaidi hopes to revive. (Guiseppe Cacace / AFP)11
    news
    Updated on Nov 29, 2019 07:33 IST

    Photos: Buddhist nationalists claim victory after Sri Lanka election results

    An aerial view of Kandy town Sri Lanka. In this mountain city that was for centuries home to Sri Lanka’s kings and in recent years has been riven by religious violence, Buddhist nationalists are rejoicing the election of the country’s newest leader. They hope he ushers in another golden era for the nation’s ethnic majority. (Dar Yasin / AP)15
    news
    Updated on Nov 28, 2019 10:30 IST

    Photos: S. Korea’s young ‘Dirt Spoons’ lose faith in President Moon

    Kim Jae-hoon drinks water as he sits in his cubicle, called a goshi-won, where he lives in Suwon, South Korea. Such sparsely furnished rooms, in premises called goshi-won, were previously mostly used by less well-off students to temporarily cut themselves off from the outside world while they studied for civil service job tests. (Kim Hong-Ji / REUTERS)15
    news
    Updated on Nov 28, 2019 08:06 IST

    Photos: Pink Shuttle buses aid safe mobility for women in Kabul

    Fatima Mohammadi drives her car on the streets of Kabul. A first-of-its kind service called Pink Shuttle is helping women navigate the many challenges they face getting around Kabul, where a woeful lack of transport options is compounded by the risk of harassment on the streets. The service employs only women to ferry female passengers and their kids across the Afghan capital. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 28, 2019 04:30 IST

    Photos: Summarising the 2019 Maharashtra government formation tussle

    Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray after he was selected as the chief ministerial candidate by the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress at Trident hotel, in Mumbai on November 26, 2019. The MVA is the latest contender to staking a claim to the state government after over a month speculation over fragmented results from the October 21 Vidhan Sabha polls. (HT Photo)14
    news
    Updated on Nov 27, 2019 12:30 IST

    Photos: Bolivia coca farmers in anguish after Evo Morales exit

    People amid sacks of coca leaves at the coca market in La Paz, Bolivia. A sense of abandonment now pervades the indigenous coca farmers after the departure of ex-president Evo Morales, the socialist leader who encouraged cultivation of coca, and under whose reign, extreme poverty reduced from 38% to 17% and the country achieved an average economic growth rate of 4.8%. (Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 27, 2019 06:42 IST

    Photos: Riding high on Myanmar’s human-powered Ferris wheels

    Crew members operate a human-powered ferris wheel in Taunggyi, Shan state. Aung Sein Phyo (not pictured), is among the crew and can be seen careering towards the ground, hanging from one arm on the basket of one of Myanmar’s human-powered Ferris wheels, reliant on gravity-defying agility and split-second coordination honed since the age of nine. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 27, 2019 06:41 IST

    Photos: Scars of Hong Kong protests on a university campus

    A saline solution capsule -- typically used to wash the eyes after exposure to tear gas or pepper spray -- is seen on a road outside the main entrance of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus in the Hung Hom district of Hong Kong, an area that saw multiple battles between anti-government protesters and police. The objects strewn at the campus are attest to the chaos and ferocity of clashes between protesters and police. (Anthony Wallace / AFP)10
    news
    Updated on Nov 26, 2019 11:19 IST

    Photos: Hardscrabble work at Egypt’s limestone quarries

    A labourer walks wearing protective gear at the ‘White Mountain’ limestone extraction quarry site near Egypt’s southern city of Minya. Covered in fine white dust, labourers at this limestone quarry toil in brutal conditions with little workplace safety for paltry pay. (Khaled Desouki / AFP)10
    news
    Updated on Nov 26, 2019 06:53 IST

    Photos: The dwindling trade of Delhi’s unsung recycling heroes

    Clothes are hung on ropes to dry at Raghubir Nagar in New Delhi. The locality is home to members of the Waghri community who barter new utensils for old clothes, and then sell these used clothes to roadside vendors and traders who come to the colony’s second-hand clothes market, known as Ghoda Mandi --organised every morning between 4 am and 8 am. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 26, 2019 04:42 IST

    Photos: Women take to the streets as France grapples with domestic violence

    The word "violence" is pasted onto a wall by a group of women in a dark street in Paris. In Paris and cities across France, the signs are everywhere. "Complaints ignored, women killed" and "She leaves him, he kills her," they read in black block letters pasted over stately municipal buildings, drawing attention to the country’s high domestic violence rate. (Kamil Zihnioglu / AP)10
    news
    Updated on Nov 25, 2019 12:52 IST

    Photos | Delhi Queer Pride 2019: A push for rights while celebrating love

    Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community marched during the 12th Delhi Queer Pride March on Sunday from Barakhambha Road and Tolstoy Marg to Jantar Mantar. Protests against the transgender rights bill dominated the pride parade as around 4000 LGBTQ persons marched carrying placards and rainbow flags, chanting slogans and dancing to beat of dhols. (Amal KS / HT Photo)10
    news
    Updated on Nov 25, 2019 10:22 IST

    Photos: Extreme surfers flock to Portugal’s Nazare to catch record waves

    Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa rides a wave during a free surfing session in Nazare, Portugal. Big wave surfers have been flocking to this formerly sleepy Portuguese fishing town, chasing monster waves that are some of the highest ever surfed. Nazare hosts one the two big waves surfing contest in the world, with waves reaching up to 30 metre during winter time. (Olivier Morin / AFP)7
    news
    Updated on Nov 25, 2019 05:47 IST

    Photos: Muslims in a Myanmar town await the end of religious persecution

    People walk in Kyauktalone camp in Kyaukphyu, Rakhine state, where Muslim residents have been forced to live for seven years after the inter-communal unrest tore apart the town. Some 130,000 Muslims, the vast majority Rohingya, have been languishing in various camps in central Rakhine since the violence between Buddhist and Muslims swept through the region in 2012, without decent access to education, healthcare and work. (Ye Aung Thu / AFP)9
    news
    Updated on Nov 24, 2019 10:55 IST

    Pink ball Test and Fadnavis takes oath as Maharashtra CM: India this week

    Bangladeshi batsman Nayeem Hasan plays a shot during the 1st pink-ball day/night cricket test match between India and Bangladesh, at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, West Bengal. The two teams are playing with the pink ball for the first time. The first four days of the game are also sold out. (Swapan Mahapatra / PTI)13
    news
    Updated on Nov 24, 2019 06:35 IST

    Photos: Camel herding in Western Sahara a passion with pedigree

    Saharawi camel owner Habiboullah Dlimi poses with one of his animals in the desert near Dakhla in Morocco-administered Western Sahara. His animals roam free in the desert and are milked as camels always have been, by hand, at dawn and dusk. When camels “feed on wild plants and walk all day, the milk is much better,” said the 59-year-old herder, rhapsodising about the benefits of the nutrient-rich drink, known as the “source of life” for nomads. But Dlimi no longer lives with his flock. (FADEL SENNA / AFP)7
    news
    Updated on Nov 23, 2019 11:40 IST

    Photos: Devendra Fadnavis takes oath as Maharashtra CM, Ajit Pawar his deputy

    Newly sworn-in Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis shakes hands with his Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, in Mumbai. The BJP staked claim late Friday night to form the next government in Maharashtra on the strength of its own 105 legislators along with NCP’s 54 and 11 independent legislators, a senior BJP leader said Saturday after Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar took oath and chief minister and deputy chief minister. (PTI)9
    news
    Updated on Nov 23, 2019 07:52 IST

    Photos of the week: Pope Francis in Thailand and protests in Chile

    A mass display showing an image of Pope Francis is seen before a Holy Mass at the National Stadium in Bangkok. The Pope is on his first trip to Buddhist-majority Thailand, where just over 0.5 percent of the population is Catholic. His trip marks 350 years since “the Mission de Siam”, the first papal mission to the country. (Mohd RASFAN / AFP)15
    news
    Updated on Nov 23, 2019 06:01 IST

    Photos: A track of Delhi air quality’s downward slide this week

    A view of the India Gate, on Wednesday, November 20. Air quality in the national capital entered the very poor category on Wednesday. Due to prevailing calm winds and increased incidents of farm fires the AQI was likely to turn severe over the next two days. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 22, 2019 11:17 IST

    Photos: Baghdad tunnel becomes a museum for Iraq’s protest movement

    People pass by graffiti at the Saadoun tunnel, in Baghdad, Iraq. The Saadoun Tunnel has become an ad hoc museum for Iraq’s massive anti-government protest movement. Along its walls, young artists draw murals, portraits and graffiti that illustrate the country’s tortured past and the Iraq they aspire to. (Hadi Mizban / AP)8
    news
    Updated on Nov 22, 2019 06:49 IST

    Photos: Protesters in Hong Kong University search for escape route

    The slogan “Never Surrender” is spray painted on a wall in the besieged Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in Hong Kong. Inside the increasingly empty and trashed campus of a Hong Kong university only a handful of activists held out on Thursday as they desperately searched for ways to escape or hide while squads of police encircled the grounds. (Thomas Peter / REUTERS)7
    news
    Updated on Nov 22, 2019 04:16 IST

    Photos: Resource crunch chokes pollution fight in Delhi

    Pollution levels are set to rise once again in the Capital, but municipal agencies, the primary enforcement agencies for pollution control measures, are grappling with the limitation of resources, staff, and finance, which are slowing down the city’s fight against pollution. (Sanjeev Verma/ HT Photo)6
    news
    Updated on Nov 21, 2019 14:03 IST

    Photos: Colombia’s ex-rebels remove mines they left during war

    An ex-combatant of the FARC-EP takes part in a humanitarian de-mining training in the municipality of La Montanita, Caqueta. A grenade blew off the hands of onetime guerrilla Edwin Correa, but he only surrendered his rifle once a peace deal was struck nearly three years ago. Since then, the former bomb expert has joined a different sort of fighting unit, one dedicated to removing the land mines in Colombia’s countryside that he once helped to plant. (Juan Barreto / AFP)7
    news
    Updated on Nov 21, 2019 11:20 IST
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