It was the second "BassBath" club night organised by a culture-bridging group working in the Chinese metropolis. "This event is intended to break down the barrier between deaf and hearing people through play and body language," Alice Hu, BassBath co-organiser and a visual artist who is deaf, told AFP. BassBath "allows deaf people to understand hearing people's culture, and also allows hearing people to understand deaf people's culture, leading to mutual integration", Hu said. Deaf communities... Читать дальше...
AFP photographer Richard A. Brooks photographed the Yamanote's 30 stations in June -- a different one every day -- capturing the hustle and bustle at the heart of the world's biggest urban area. The elevated tracks loop around the centre of the Japanese metropolis in 60 minutes, connecting the main commercial, transport and tourist areas including the stations of Shinjuku, Shibuya and Tokyo. Trains depart every two to four minutes, trundling clockwise and counter-clockwise -- "sotomawari" and "uchi-mawari" -- taking "salarymen" to offices... Читать дальше...
France's prime minister on Wednesday urged voters to form a united front to block the far right in legislative elections, warning that the anti-immigration party of Marine Le Pen was within reach of winning an absolute majority. Just ahead of the second round, France's political future remains up in the air as the far-right National Rally (RN) party seeks to take control of government for the first time. The RN dominated the first round of voting, presenting the party of Le Pen with the prospect... Читать дальше...
Just days after a controversial crash wrecked both drivers’ races at the Austrian Grand Prix, gifting victory to George Russell of Mercedes, Red Bull's three-time champion and McLaren's pretender to the crown meet again. The prospect of more wheel-to-wheel racing and potential contact at the high-speed Silverstone circuit, in front of a partisan home crowd, inevitably prompts memories of a similar scenario in 2021. Then, an unforgiving and relentless Verstappen ended up in hospital after an opening... Читать дальше...
Twenty-five soldiers accused of "fleeing the enemy" while fighting M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo were sentenced to death Wednesday during a one-day trial, according to their lawyers.
Fierce fighting in Gaza kills 7, only 10 days after Israel says 'intense' part of war was over.
The Labour party, led by Keir Starmer, are projected to win a record 441 seats in parliament, ending 14 years of Conservative leadership in Britain.
The Hamas militant group said Wednesday it has sent new "ideas" to Qatari mediators aimed at ending the nearly nine-month Gaza war with Israel.
The UK Labour party is 99 percent "certain" to secure more seats in Thursday's general election than when it won a landslide victory in 1997, a major new poll said on Tuesday. The centre-left opposition party -- out of power since 2010 -- is predicted to claim 484 out of a total of 650 seats in what would be an unprecedented victory in modern British history, pollster Survation said. Meanwhile, the right-wing ruling Conservatives and the centrist Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) are in a close race to... Читать дальше...
