Laura Hall/BBC: In Norway, there is a cake for just about every celebration and event. For weddings, there is the tower-like kransekake, made of 15 to 20 ground almond-and-egg white rings stacked in concentric circles. At birthdays, a layered sponge cake with cream and be ...বিস্তারিত
Marcos Such-Gutiérrez/National Geographic: The foundations of human civilization first flowered in the fertile lands between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. Known today as Sumer, this ground-breaking culture gave birth to not only the first cities but also innovations i ...বিস্তারিত
Chris Baraniuk/ BBC: It is a traffic jam on a colossal scale. More than 200 ships, according to some estimates, float there, just waiting. Some are loaded with containers stuffed full of items including furniture, consumer goods or building materials. Some carry oil or ga ...বিস্তারিত
JUSTIN MENEGUZZI/ National Geographic: As long as people have been traveling, they’ve sought mementos and souvenirs. Ancient Egyptians and Romans brought spices, animal skins, and gold back from foreign trade missions or conquests. Modern travelers hunt for handicrafts ...বিস্তারিত
Elif Shafak/ The Guardian: This summer, as Rhodes was ravaged by wildfires and the world witnessed the destruction of precious trees and fragile ecosystems, on the opposite shore in Turkey, only miles away, ancient forests were being felled for the sake of more coal, more ...বিস্তারিত
Jill Petzinger/ BBC: It is 11:00 on a Tuesday at Bodega Casa Flor, a 130-year-old restaurant in the Cabanyal neighbourhood of Valencia City, Spain, and noise levels have reached a peak. Waiters zip around bearing huge paper-wrapped sandwiches to tables strewn with peanuts ...বিস্তারিত
Baria Alamuddin/ Arab News: In a country where financial, health and welfare systems have collapsed, half the population are starving, there are four million drug addicts, and 20 percent suffer mental health problems, the Taliban are obsessed with one policy agenda — ro ...বিস্তারিত
Amy Briggs/ National Geographic: The day before Midsummer’s Eve in June 1936, five-year-old Gulli Johanssen tagged along with her older brother Thure as he went to harvest peat in Bocksten Bog in Varberg, Sweden. The Johansson children were shocked to discover bones in ...বিস্তারিত
Kenan Malik/ The Guardian: When I speak to civil servants next month about my book Not So Black and White, it will be, according to former home secretary Priti Patel, “an extraordinary betrayal of the voters who elected us to take back control of our borders in 2019”. ...বিস্তারিত
Andrew Hammond/ Arab News: The 2015 Paris Climate Accords came at a time of relative geopolitical harmony, including in relations between China and the US. It is sometimes forgotten that one of the key developments that preceded the landmark agreement was months of intensive ...বিস্তারিত