On a hot June night, revelers descend on Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood, a nightlife and dining hotspot in the US capital.. The District of Columbia consistently makes the top five list of America's rattiest cities, a problem made worse by warming winters, a rising population, and outdoor dining areas made permanent after the Covid pandemic.
Uruguayan authorities are reversing plans to melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken Nazi ship and recast it as a dove of peace, the president said Sunday.. By Sunday, the president had reversed himself, saying: "There is an overwhelming majority that does not share this decision" to melt and recast the eagle.
They gave their name to an area of Britain's second city but Birmingham's celebrated balti restaurants are facing a battle to survive.. "Even though the restaurants are in decline in the area, we are still going positive and looking on the up." mhc/phz/gil
One by one, the 10 women, mostly aged under 30, went defiantly to their deaths by hanging in a city square in Shiraz in southern Iran.. Two days earlier, six Bahai men were executed in the same square, some of them relatives of the 10 women.
It took about a year for authorities to close in on 51-year-old musician and environmental activist Alexander Bakhtin, one of the thousands of Russians arrested for criticising the Ukraine offensive. . Thousands of people have been charged with publishing "fake information" on the offensive, others accused of army "discredit".
Greek and Turkish Cypriots from both sides of the divided island's capital marched Saturday in support of LGBTQ rights, meeting in the UN buffer zone that has cut across Nicosia for decades.. LGBTQ organisations in both the Greek-speaking south and the Turkish-Cypriot north held separate Pride events last month, just over a week apart.
Thousands of protesters on Saturday marched through London demanding that abortion be decriminalised after a woman was handed a 28-month jail sentence for a late abortion.. Foster, 44, who has three children, was jailed on Monday and must serve 14 months of the sentence in custody.
Tens of thousands of people marched through Warsaw on Saturday to support the LGBTQ community in Poland, where the right-wing government is seeking another term in elections this year.. But Niepielski admitted he was concerned the authorities may try to step up the hostile rhetoric against LGBTQ people in the run-up to the autumn elections "to mobilise their electorate".
Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern Yemen to join the queues at the nearest public dispenser.. "Sometimes we get it, sometimes we don't... it's a competition," the 35-year-old said, as her children filled containers at the public tank, one of several around the city.
Trooping the Colour, the annual military parade to mark the British sovereign's official birthday, takes place on Saturday, with King Charles III inspecting troops on horseback.. After inspecting the troops and taking a royal salute, Charles -- who as head of state is commander-in-chief of the armed forces -- will lead soldiers back to the palace.
