The aroma of corek, a spiced bun the Armenian community makes for Easter, is once again wafting through the streets of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey.. "The church represents a link to the lost Diyarbakir and that goes for all the inhabitants, Christians or Muslims," said Silva Ozyerli, an Armenian from Diyarbakir who travelled from Istanbul to celebrate Easter.
Tens of thousands of Catholics will gather in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday to hear Pope Francis give the Easter mass and the traditional blessing.. On Sunday, the pope will preside over the mass from 10:00 am (0800 GMT), pronouncing the "Urbi et Orbi" (To the City and the World) blessing at midday.
Officials in Peru and Canada have moved jointly to stop the virtual auction of 20 ancient pieces from Peru's pre-Hispanic Chancay culture, the Foreign Ministry in Lima announced Saturday. . The Foreign Ministry in Lima has been working to recover cultural assets taken from the country.
Conflicting rulings by two federal judges have left the future of abortion pills in the United States deeply uncertain, likely placing the divisive issue squarely in the lap of the Supreme Court.. A ruling Friday by federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Texas banned the widely used drug mifepristone (RU 486) nationwide, boosting conservatives' efforts to further restrict abortion rights after the Supreme Court last year allowed states to prohibit them.
Every morning, Valentyn Dudkin picks up his trombone -- an instrument he hadn't touched in 30 years -- to play Ukraine's national anthem in the courtyard of his apartment building in Kyiv.. "I haven't played the trombone for over 30 years," Dudkin, a graduate of the Donetsk Conservatory in eastern Ukraine, tells AFP. "The start of the full-scale war made me pick up the trombone again."
Leo is 14 years old and has been taking testosterone for about six months.. "I just want to be able to take my shot every week," Leo said, adding that he feels "less depressed" thanks to the testosterone that blocks his menstrual periods and stimulates muscle and hair growth.
Federal judges in Texas and Washington on Friday issued dueling rulings that intensified the legal battle over abortion and a commonly used medical abortion drug.. Then Friday night, in a dramatic lurch in a different legal direction, a federal judge in Washington state said that the FDA must keep the abortion pill available in at least 12 liberal states.
Thousands of Guatemalan worshipers wearing black hoods and purple tunics funnel slowly through the streets of Antigua carrying images of Jesus over a multicolored carpet of flowers and scented sawdust as somber music rings out.. In Mayan neighborhoods, locals wearing traditional outfits take turns carrying images of their saints through the streets.
US radio NPR upheld a freeze of activity on Twitter Friday as a report said Elon Musk was revisiting his decision to label the highly respected broadcaster as "state affiliated.". Twitter earlier this week designated Washington-based National Public Radio as "state-affiliated media," branding the venerable news outlet in the same way as government-owned Chinese and Russian platforms.
Stepping out of a chocolate shop in France's capital, 90-year-old Maurice Ryffel said price hikes were not going to get in the way of him enjoying some Easter eggs.. At his upscale chocolate shop in Paris, Pierre-Benoit Sucheyre told AFP he had changed the ingredients in some of his creations "to keep the same prices as last year".
