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A portrait of the late Pope Francis is placed in front of the altar during a mass at the Buenos Aires Cathedral on Monday, following his death in the Vatican.

WORLD / Society

Apr 22, 2025

'One isn't born a saint': School nuns remember Pope Francis as a boy

By Sonia AVALOS

A boisterous child, then-Jorge Bergoglio played football with his friends in the courtyard, and sprinted up and down the marble stairs.

Palestinian girl Silla Abu Aqleen, who lost her right leg during the Israeli military offensive, holds her artificial limb during a physiotherapy session at the Gaza City municipality-run Artificial Limbs and Polio Center, in Gaza City on March 17.

WORLD / Society

Apr 14, 2025

Gaza's amputees face life in a war zone with little treatment and less hope

By Dawoud Abu Alkas and Nidal al-Mughrabi

Israel suspended all humanitarian aid into Gaza after the collapse of a 2-month-old ceasefire last month, complicating efforts to obtain artificial limbs.

A dog lies on the street as a man walks pushing a baby stroller in Matera, Italy, in 2021.

WORLD / Society

Apr 1, 2025

Italy's demographic crisis worsens as births hit record low

By Philippe Leroy Beaulieu

Italy's ever-falling birth rate is considered a national emergency, but no one has so far been able to halt the drop.

Volunteers and locals help to clean the mud off a street following heavy rains in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain, on Nov. 5, 2024.

WORLD / Society

Mar 27, 2025

EU tells public to hold 72 hours of emergency supplies

A new strategy unveiled by the bloc calls for preparing for risks including natural disasters, cyber attacks and geopolitical crises.

Women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to al-Fashir in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024

WORLD / Society

Mar 26, 2025

Sudan's RSF squeezing relief supplies as famine spreads, aid workers say

By Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz

The move puts hundreds of thousands of people in the western region of Darfur at greater risk of starvation.

A shopkeeper displays women's wigs at his shop in Kabul on March 13. Until the Taliban took power, Afghan women could freely sell their hair to be made into wigs, bringing in crucial cash. But last year Taliban authorities imposed vice and virtue laws regulating everyday life for men and women, including banning sales of "any part of the human body" such as hair.

WORLD / Society

Mar 25, 2025

Afghan women risk Taliban wrath over hair trade

By Claire Gounon

A ban imposed last year has forced women to brave punishment by covertly trading hair for crucial cash.

People gather at the National Covid Memorial Wall on the COVID-19 Day of Reflection, marking 5 years since the start of the pandemic, in London on March 9.

WORLD / Society

Mar 18, 2025

Debt, job loss and eviction weigh on parents of children with long COVID

By Emma Batha

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the families of over 111,000 children in the U.K. sick with long COVID feel invisible.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.

Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.

By Tomoko Otake

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Tsukuba massif granite, one of the world’s few heritage stones

Tsukuba massif granite, one of the world’s few heritage stones

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