A white lion slips on ice while playing with a plastic drum like a kitten with a ball of yarn, but the big cat quickly regains its footing.

The world's oldest major film studio celebrates its 100th birthday this month with Hollywood stars and European players ready to toast the mythic Studio Babelsberg outside Berlin.

Pilloried by neighbours, laughed at in freakshows and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse.

A sensational boat parade took place in Melaka early in the morning of Chap Goh Meh (the 15th and last day of Lunar New Year).

An artist, a vegetable seller, a mother of 14 -- gigantic portraits of these everyday "heroes" on the streets of Medellin aim to give young people something other than the city's violent street gangs to look up to.

As the only girl in her noisy classroom of 22 boys, Padma Kanwar Bhatti is one defiant symbol of the toll exacted by India's deadly preference for male children.

They trek for days through crocodile-infested swamps and up rain-lashed mountain jungles, but the members of the Malaya Historical Group are not seeking treasure or ancient artefacts. Instead, they're after rusty wreckage.

t has been the undying mission of Seong Lee Coffee Shop owner, 50-year-old Wu Jing Shu, to preserve the traditional culture, original shop display, food ingredients as well as suppliers left behind by his father.

Queen Elizabeth II starts five months of diamond jubilee celebrations this weekend with the promise of pomp and splendour despite the British monarch's wishes for restraint.

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