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The Little Prince drops in on Brazil

The Little Prince, the intergalactic boy traveler who is part of many peoples' childhoods around the world, is visiting Brazil in a show also honoring his adventuresome creator. Duration: 01:39
AFP - Saturday, November 7

SAO PAULO (AFP) - - The Little Prince, the intergalactic boy traveler part of many childhoods around the world, is visiting Brazil in a show also honoring his adventuresome creator. More »

  • A poker table during a championship. A logger from rural America who lives in a trailer is among nine card players eying a 8.5-million-dollar jackpot as the climax of the World Series of Poker gets underway in Las Vegas Saturday.

    Card sharks eye $8.5 mln poker jackpot

    AFP - Saturday, November 7

    LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AFP) - - A logger from rural America who lives in a trailer is among nine card players eying a 8.5-million-dollar jackpot as the climax of the World Series of Poker gets underway here Saturday.

  • Undated picture Adolf Hitler. One in 20 British children think Hitler was Germany's national football coach, while six percent believe the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of World War II, according to a poll released by a war veterans' charity.

    UK kids think Hitler 'was German football coach'

    AFP - Saturday, November 7

    LONDON (AFP) - - One in 20 British children think Adolf Hitler was Germany's national football coach, while six percent believe the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of World War II, according to a new poll.

  • Young Latvians protest against the Gay Pride march in a closed park in center of Riga. Twenty years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe's homosexuals say they still face a tough struggle for equal rights, plus the kind of verbal abuse and violence rarely seen in the West anymore.

    Gay rights a tall order in ex-communist bloc

    AFP - Friday, November 6

    VILNIUS (AFP) - - Twenty years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain, Eastern Europe's homosexuals say they still face a tough struggle for equal rights, plus the kind of verbal abuse and violence rarely seen in the West anymore.

  • Peer educators from the Reproductive Health Research Unit (RHRU) are pictured walking around the streets of Hillbrow in Johannesburg giving out condoms and leaflets. They also visit bars to talk to men about the importance of safe sex to help prevent the spread of HIV.

    South Africa tries to enlist men in AIDS battle

    AFP - Friday, November 6

    JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - - "There is a new man in South Africa," proclaims a new ad splashed across South African media, aiming to transform ideas about sexuality and to enlist the nation's men in the fight against AIDS.

  • File photo of a 12-foot (3.65m) Burmese python that was captured in the backyard of a home in south Miami, Florida.

    Florida grapples slippery giant snake invasion

    AFP - Friday, November 6

    MIAMI (AFP) - - Florida homes and swamps more used to dealing with dangerous critters like alligators now face a more foreign invader -- giant pet snakes escaped into the wild whose numbers are growing at an alarming rate.

  • Immigrants who over-stayed their visa to work in Saudi Arabia sleep under a bridge in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah. In the oil-rich kingdom foreign workers have their travel documents taken away upon arrival but some - who may be fleeing an abusive or non-paying employer - and who want to leave are trapped without their official papers.

    Under a Saudi road, migrant workers live in limbo

    AFP - Friday, November 6

    JEDDAH (AFP) - - Larita Delacruz sits on the concrete base of a bridge pylon, rubs her swollen belly and explains her predicament: she is five months pregnant with twins, and wants to go home to give birth.

  • Winner Ai Haruna of Japan walks on stage during the Miss International Queen 2009 beauty pageant, in Pattaya, southeastern Thailand. Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.

    Transsexual Miss World contest aims to boost awareness

    AFP - Monday, November 2

    PATTAYA, Thailand (AFP) - - Shimmering in a tight gold evening gown, a Japanese television host wept and called for greater tolerance as she was crowned the world's most beautiful transsexual at a pageant in Thailand.

  • A woman in shorts crosses a street on the Harvard University campus, in 2007, on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts. Students are flocking to US universities at record levels, as the recession fuels an enrollment explosion at less expensive two-year colleges, a report said Friday.

    Recession drives up US university enrollment: report

    AFP - Saturday, October 31

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - - Students are flocking to US universities at record levels, as the recession fuels an enrollment explosion at less expensive two-year colleges, a report said Friday.

  • A Guiness World Records judge measures the world biggest tiramisu during the third edition of a chocolate and taste fair in Villeurbanne, near Lyon. Chefs rustled up the world's biggest tiramisu at a food festival in France on Friday, whipping buckets full of eggs, cream, sugar and cocoa into a tonne of the finger-licking Italian treat.

    French chefs whip up world record tiramisu

    AFP - Saturday, October 31

    LYON, France (AFP) - - Chefs rustled up the world's biggest tiramisu at a food festival in France on Friday, whipping buckets full of eggs, cream, sugar and cocoa into a tonne of the finger-licking Italian treat.

  • Coachmen with their horses waiting for tourists near Hofburg Palace in Vienna. Austria beats even Thailand and Italy as the world's favourite place to retire to, according to a new survey by Forbes magazine.

    Austria is pensioners' paradise: magazine survey

    AFP - Thursday, October 29

    VIENNA (AFP) - - Austria beats even Thailand and Italy as the world's favourite place to retire to, according to a new survey by Forbes magazine.

  • The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit family photo in 2008 in Lima. This year, Asian fusion will be the fashion theme when APEC leaders including US President Barack Obama appear for a traditional group picture at their Singapore summit next month, organisers said Wednesday.

    APEC leaders to sport Asian fusion at Singapore summit

    AFP - Thursday, October 29

    SINGAPORE (AFP) - - Asian fusion will be the fashion theme when APEC leaders including US President Barack Obama appear for a traditional group picture at their Singapore summit next month, organisers said Wednesday.

  • Louis Petiet (L), head of Bernard Krief consulting, a potential buyer of French fashion designer Christian Lacroix House that filed for bankrupcy in July, speaks with the head of Lacroix House, Nicolas Topiol (R). A French tribunal on Tuesday adjourned hearings on a bid by an Emirati sheikh to take over Christian Lacroix, four months after the couture house filed for bankruptcy, participants said.

    Hearings adjourned on Emirati bid for Christian Lacroix

    AFP - Wednesday, October 28

    PARIS (AFP) - - A French tribunal on Tuesday adjourned hearings on a bid by an Emirati sheikh to take over Christian Lacroix, four months after the couture house filed for bankruptcy, participants said.

  • Brazilian pole dancer Rafaela Montenero performs during the

    Brazilian writhes to win South American pole-dancing crown

    AFP - Thursday, October 22

    BUENOS AIRES (AFP) - - Brazil's Rafaela Montenero, 24, has taken first place in South America's premier pole dancing competition, where women writhe on a pole in a mix of eroticism and acrobatics, organizers said Wednesday.

  • Bhutanese refugee Milan Kumar Rana, 22, is seen speaking with an AFP reporter at The Beldangi II Refugee Camp, southeast of Kathmandu.

    Tensions rise as Bhutan refugees leave Nepal

    AFP - Tuesday, October 20

    BELDANGI REFUGEE CAMP, Nepal (AFP) - - Seventeen years ago, Narad Muni Sanyasi was forced to flee his native Bhutan in the middle of the night, leaving his home and all his possessions behind.

  • An Iraqi employee counts currency at a bank in Baghdad, in 2003. An Iraqi bank has opened a branch entirely dedicated to and operated by women in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf, its chief, who admitted even he could not enter, told AFP Monday.

    Iraqi bank opens women-only branch: chief

    AFP - Tuesday, October 20

    NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - - An Iraqi bank has opened a branch entirely dedicated to and operated by women in the holy Shiite Muslim city of Najaf, its chief, who admitted even he could not enter, told AFP Monday.