Nature and allegory at new Titian show in Rome
Italian Renaissance painter Titian was known for his portraits, but a new exhibition opening in Rome on Tuesday asks visitors to examine the role nature played in the 16th-century Venetian master's works.
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Take holiday to grow food, Sri Lanka tells civil servants
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka is asking civil servants to take an extra day off each week to grow crops in their backyards in a bid to forestall a looming food shortage.
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Asian stocks pare early losses but inflation fears remain in focus
Asian equities mostly fell Tuesday after the previous day's global rout but dip-buying helped pare early losses, while Europe saw gains, with attention turning to the Federal Reserve as it prepares to ramp up interest rates to fight runaway inflation.
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Polluted air cuts global life expectancy by two years
Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels shortens lives worldwide by more than two years, researchers reported Tuesday.
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Famed Hong Kong floating restaurant towed away after half a century
Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a famed but ageing tourist attraction that featured in multiple Cantonese and Hollywood films, was towed out of the city Tuesday after years of revitalisation efforts went nowhere.
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Hunger claims children in forgotten corner of Uganda
In one of Uganda's poorest and most lawless regions, anxious mothers clutch bone-thin infants in a malnutrition ward, terrified their child could be next to succumb to starvation in Karamoja.
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Cambodia convicts opposition figures in mass trial
A Phnom Penh court convicted around 60 opposition figures including an outspoken US-Cambodian activist in a mass trial Tuesday as long-serving leader Hun Sen cracks down on dissent ahead of national elections next year.
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'King' Babar Azam wants World Cup glory to fulfil boyhood dreams
High-flying skipper Babar Azam hopes that his extraordinary run-scoring can fire Pakistan to World Cup glory -- and in the process fulfil a childhood dream.
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Abortion in Italy is legal, but finding one is hard
For 40 years, gynaecologist Michele Mariano has been the only person performing abortions in Italy's conservative Molise region.
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Revisiting trauma with a child-refugee-turned artist
Petrit Halilaj knows something about how art can help pull children out of the horror of war -- but also the dangers of them being used as a propaganda tool.
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