Hundreds of antique clocks fill a small hall in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, where collector Gul Kakar swears he will spend all the time he has left caring for them.

Ressa's position at the head of the Rappler news site meant getting, by her own estimate, up to 90 abusive messages per hour online at one point towards the end of 2016.

British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, criticised the "inhumane" responses of the UK and French governments to the Channel migrant crisis.

French police arrested a man suspected of involvement in the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but Saudi officials claimed that they were holding the wrong man.

In journalism it is considered a breach of ethics to use one's position to advocate for a personal cause or to conduct investigations for personal reasons.

Britain's Prince William has revealed himself as an unlikely headbanger in a podcast in which he talks of his love for Australian hardrockers AC/DC.

Maxwell, charged with eight counts of sex trafficking and other crimes, including two perjury charges that will be tried separately, is facing up to 80 years in prison if convicted.

Once upon a time, the Cuomo family looked set to go into the history books as one of America's storied political dynasties, perhaps even one that included a White House stay.

Four people were injured, one of them seriously, when a World War II bomb exploded at a building site near Munich's main train station on Wednesday.

Prosecutors say Maxwell recruited and groomed Jane and three other underage girls for Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004.

At the start of the pandemic, the brothers soared to new heights of popularity: Andrew Cuomo earned praise for his frank daily briefings as the coronavirus ravaged New York, and their live exchanges on CNN were peppered with banter.

With a reboot of the popular 2000s TV show Sex and the City confirmed, fans can’t help but wonder how the show writers will explain the absence of Samantha Jones.

Bens Leo passed away at Fatmawati Hospital in South Jakarta on Monday at the age of 69, after a battle with COVID-19.

The widow of a South Korean dictator who brutally crushed opponents until mass demonstrations forced him from power apologised for the "pains and wounds" of her husband's rule.

The Fidel Castro Ruz center in Havana is the first and only Cuban building to carry his name. 

Sharbat Gula became arguably Afghanistan's most famous refugee after US photographer Steve McCurry captured her portrait in a Pakistan camp in the 1980s and it was published on the front cover of the National Geographic magazine.

The new stamp features a picture of Atwood -- eyes closed and one hand on her cheek -- with the lines "A word after a word after a word is power," from her poem "Spelling."

In September, the KPK sacked 58 employees who had failed a controversial civics test that was required by law to upgrade them to civil servant status. Two months later, the “KPK 58” are en route to rebuilding their lives.

Despite the fact that the vast majority of Indians worship Hindu gods who routinely shape-shift from male to female, the transgender community is largely exiled to the margins of society, with many forced to take up begging or sex work.

Diego is everywhere, from the central station all the way to the official Napoli store where his face stares out from the stylised fingerprint on the jersey in the window.

The first female signing for label Def Jam in Southeast Asia, Malaysian hip-hop artist SYA calls for empowerment while taking a sledgehammer to stereotypes of Muslim women.   

For some, especially minorities, teachers play an important role in building their confidence despite the challenges they face. 

Beijing's censorship machine has allowed it to suppress the scandal domestically in China's tightly controlled cyberspace.

Badminton heroine Verawaty Fadjrin passed away on Sunday, Nov. 21 at the Dharmais Hospital in Jakarta following a long battle with lung cancer. Known for her tall frame, excellent smash and never-say-die attitude, Verawaty left an impression on her fellow shuttlers – and beyond.

Brandon is in the last year of elementary school, and while he dreams of being a sailor, his second choice is tattoo artist.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said she had received a flood of death threats, as she slammed three transgender rights activists who posted her home address on Twitter.

The sheer number of COVID-19 deaths has made it easy to forget that behind the statistics lie stories lived by individuals who could and should have continued on. In “People, not numbers”, The Jakarta Post remembers their lives through the eyes of those who knew them best.

The fashion photographer and former model has managed to come out the other side of the pandemic as one of the most productive fashion photographers in the game

US actor Alec Baldwin "chose to play Russian roulette" with safety in the minutes leading up to the fatal movie set shooting of a cinematographer, a new lawsuit alleged.

A Syrian teenager who drowned last month while trying to cross a river into the EU from Belarus was laid to rest in a forest cemetery for Poland's tiny ethnic Muslim community.