Police deployed tear gas and arrested protesters marching to Taksim Square at a Labour Day march in Istanbul, on Saturday. Police could be seen scuffling with protesters as well as deploying tear gas. Police then arrested scores of protesters and put them in a bus to be taken to the police station.
South Africa's e-commerce boom is driving new consumer trends and an overwhelming demand for digital skills in an otherwise battered economy. The tech-enabled sector is one of a few that have thrived since the country imposed lockdown restrictions close to a year ago.
Workers in Indonesia marked International Labour Day Saturday with significantly less attended marches due to coronavirus restrictions. (May 1)
Around three thousand people in the UK city of Liverpool danced, drank, and listened to music without masks or social distancing. The event on Friday was one of a series of pilots sponsored by the UK government to test whether covid-19 restrictions can be eased without sparking new outbreaks.
There was a heavy police presence in Paris on Saturday as thousands of protesters marked May Day by marching for more protections for workers. (May 1)
A fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in western India killed 18 patients early Saturday, as the country, grappling with the worst outbreak yet, stepped up a vaccination drive for all its adults. (May 1)
In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital, the Covid-19 pandemic is taking lives at a pace not seen since The Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war.
For Isha Johansen, a journey that began by helping to give kids displaced by war a semblance of a normal childhood, has led her to become the first West African woman elected to soccer's world governing body's FIFA council.
The holiday of Lag BaOmer is one of the happiest days on the calendar for Israel's ultra-Orthodox community – a time of mass celebrations in honour of a revered sage.
British sculptor Frances Segelman shapes lifelike busts of celebrities in just two hours! Even Great Britain's Queen has posed for her. Ever since, she's been known as the “Royal Sculptor.”
Around 1,500 French farmers protested outside European Parliament in Strasbourg on Friday. The demonstrators, many driving tractors, are angry over EU proposals that they say threaten their livelihood.
A fire in a COVID-19 hospital ward in western India killed 18 patients early on Saturday. Thirty-one other patients at the Welfare Hospital in Bharuch, a town in Gujarat state, were rescued by hospital workers and firefighters and their condition was stable, said police officer B.
