With all the economic challenges we've been facing in 2020, these 10 men made it to the list of 10 riches people and one of them is a centibillionaire! The question remains though, will we see the same faces in 2021?
Every year in the north-west of Nigeria, communities gather to participate in the Argungu International Fishing and Cultural Festival near the Matan Fada River. The Argungu fishing and cultural festival in northwest Nigeria has returned after a ten-year hiatus due to instability in the region. The festival was originally founded to encourage peaceful co-existence among the people of Sokoto and Kebbi, after a prolonged conflict between the inhabitants of both towns that lasted for 100 years. In the post-independence era, the festival was aimed at unifying Nigeria and promoting peaceful ...
Despite global coronavirus concerns, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe revealed that the Tokyo Olympic Games will continue as planned in July. The Olympics were supposed to kick off on July 24 till August 9. However, the coronavirus outbreak created doubt if Japan will be able to continue with the games or not. The Japanese prime minister said: "We will overcome the spread of the infection and host the Olympics without problem, as planned."
The United States began withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, taking a step forward on its peace deal with the Taliban. The US-Taliban deal signed on Feb. 29 seen as Washington's effort to end 18 years of war in Afghanistan. In September 2017, US President Donald Trump started returning troops to Afghanistan. On March 10, 2020, Centcom rejected reports that the U.S. military had developed a plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, despite planning to reduce their number to 8,600 in a 14 month-period. The next crucial step is intra-Afghan ...
Coronavirus has stopped everyday life from Asia to Europe where the death toll continues to increase. Schools, international flights, religious pilgrims, tourism, stock markets and many other sectors are heavily affected as the virus infects more people. More than 4,000 people have died out of 114,300 coronavirus cases across 112 countries, mostly from China, Iran and Italy, since last December when the outbreak started in China's Wuhan. With all of Italy under lockdown, reeling financial markets and rioting prisoners, it remains to be seen how the country can cope. Over ...
These pictures capture these rarely seen sides to the city. We can see the density, uniformity and contrast of the city - the sense of living in Hong Kong. A giant container ship sailing under a suspension bridge, Chinese cemeteries as densely packed as the housing blocks their occupants once lived in and lush rows of paddy fields. Hong Kong is made up of about 260 islands, the Kowloon peninsula and New Territories that borders mainland China. It is home to more than seven million people.
The "Day Without Us" strike was staged to highlight the more than 1,000 women and children murdered in Mexico last year. Few women could be seen walking or driving through the center of the capital, waitresses abandoned cafes and restaurants to their male counterparts and female teachers and office workers, for the most part, stayed at home. Elsewhere, women who had chosen to work wore a purple ribbon or garment, in solidarity with the nationwide campaign against gender violence In Mexico City center, a woman cleaned the glass windows of ...
It was a sight to behold when a thousand people got together dressed as Smurfs. The crowd gathered in Landerneau, western France to break the world record for the most people dressed as Smurfs in one place. Donning blue body paint and cartoonish outfits, the group knocked the record out of the park. The fan had to wear a white Smurf hat, white pants, and shoes, a blue t-shirt and be painted blue to be counted toward the world record. At the gathering in France people dressed as Papa Smurf ...