In Yemen's capital Sanaa, women in long-sleeved athletics shirts raced down a basketball court in wheelchairs, dribbling and passing as a small crowd cheered them on. "If the Yemeni people are suffering from the war, then those with disabilities are suffering twice as much," said Amal Hizam from the sidelines, herself also in a wheelchair. The Arab world's poorest country is devastated by conflict, the novel coronavirus and a humanitarian crisis that the United Nations has called the world's worst. But all that didn't stop a local wheelchair basketball championship ...

Stay in a squalid refugee camp -- hopeless, starving, and made to feel a burden -- or leave, risking death, rape, human trafficking and months at sea to reach a husband you've never met. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometers away in Malaysia. Virtual weddings and international betrothals can seem an ideal solution. Arranged marriages ...

Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp. Their drivers are among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords. Aboard the spluttering rickshaws are small groups of young men, women and children hoping to escape the misery of life with other members of their stateless Rohingya group who are crowded into shanties in Bangladesh. Nineteen-year-old Enamul Hasan was aboard one of the rickshaws early this year, taken to the coast and then by small ...

In recent years, fine art photography has spread dramatically; most photos are being sold for what people may consider reasonable amounts, but some are sold for extremely high prices that photographers themselves would never have expected! In fact, the price and value of the photographs is not determined by the photographers themselves but rather by the people who buy the photos. Here are 8 of the highest selling photographs in the world that were sold through auctions:

Almost 75 years ago in 1946, the first Christmas after the war, Augusto Grilli's the little theatre received 12 puppets. Grilli's eyes still light up when he recalls the childhood gift that sparked a career and a lifelong passion. It was love at first sight. He turned out to have a talent for marionettes -- puppets with strings -- and soon became something of a star in his school in Turin, northern Italy. A drawer is filled with heads, while hundreds of eyes look out from an old wooden box ...

Senegal organized its 18th edition of the Dakar Fashion Week on its main catwalk in baobab forest. The 2020 event was held in the forest to maintain social distancing amid the coronavirus spike in the African country. According to Adama Ndiaye, the organizer of the Dakar Fashion Week, "With Covid, we had to be creative, I had to find solutions and above all we had to avoid (cancelling) the show, and here I think there is enough space so that no one feels cramped". Moreover, Dakar Fashion Week models were ...

He's a treat for the eye. Turkish actor Can Yaman is one of Turkey's top actors. He's known for his handsome looks and edgy style making most of his fans females. Every now and then, Can shares some eye-candy pictures to treat his audience. Here are 17 'topless' pictures Can Yaman shared with his 7.7 million followers on Instagram.

Morocco this week became the fourth Arab nation since August to announce a US-brokered deal to normalise relations with Israel, following the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan. Morocco confirmed the deal, saying King Mohammed VI had told outgoing US President Donald Trump his country had agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Israel "with minimal delay". Jewish history and culture in Morocco will soon be part of the school curriculum -- a "first" in the region and in the North African country, where Islam is the state religion. The decision ...

Lawyers, teachers, parents by day, bodybuilders by night. Body shape, muscles, strength, and confidence, everything just exudes on stage. This year Nairobi hosted 130 participants from all across East Africa who took part in the second edition of the Iron Fit Bodybuilding Competition. It included categories like Bikini, Figure, Physique, and Bodybuilding. For many, sports have always been a part of their lives. But there was one thing more, on the back of their minds: Bodybuilding. Lack of resources in Kenya meant that many turn to the internet, using social ...

Italy's Venice was crushed by flooded with water once again as officials warn of a 'terrible situation' a year after the city suffered a billion pounds of damage during high tides. Authorities revealed that bad weather including heavy rain and high winds caused the tide in the city to rise and flood waters reached a height of 122cm, as they couldn't activate the huge flood barriers that were rolled out just two months ago. Moreover, the tides then hit a 145 cm peak as strong sirocco winds blew in from ...

Over years, the products we use in our daily lives evolved a lot. There are numerous products that we enjoyed in our childhood that we no longer use, and others that had evolved in a way that one would not even recognize. Here is a list of the first versions of 10 products that look very different from its current used versions.