A crackling fire heats a pile of rocks in a village in Baliem Valley
under the Jayawijaya mountain range. The Lani people in Yonggime village
are getting ready for a…
In the Javanese tradition, jenang is considered closely related to the
phases of life, from conception to demise. Made mostly from rice or
sticky rice, brown sugar and coconut milk,…
The Associated Press, Kuala Lumpur | Wed, 01/09/2013 9:24 PM
Ethnic Chinese pay a visit to a temple, decorated with Chinese traditional lanterns in preparation of the upcoming Chinese New Year, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Wednesday. Ethnic Chinese Malaysians…
Arya Dipa, The Jakarta Post, Bandung | Mon, 12/17/2012 4:15 PM
A visitor
examines the work of visual artist R.E. Hartanto at an exhibition
entitled “Mencari Saya dalam Sejarah Seni Rupa” (Looking for Me in
Visual Art History), at Selasar Sunaryo…
Mansur Mirovalev, The Associated Press, Moscow | Thu, 12/06/2012 9:54 PM
Better known in the West for promising to "bury" the capitalist world, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev is also remembered by Russians for banning works that didn't conform to the Communist…
Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press, Paris | Wed, 12/05/2012 9:53 PM
Residents of a sleepy French village in Bordeaux have been left dumbfounded after discovering their local 18th-century chateau was completely bulldozed "by mistake."
The Associated Press, Germany | Wed, 12/05/2012 9:04 PM
Men dressed in bizarre straw outfits and devilish masks start the traditional "Buttnmandl" run, when they shout and make noise with cowbells to frighten people in the village of Bischofswiesen,…
The Associated Press, Lens, France | Mon, 12/03/2012 7:18 PM
People walk past " La Liberte Guidant Le Peuple", centre back, (1830) by Eugene Delacroix in the Louvre Museum in Lens, northern France, on Monday. The museum in Lens, to…
