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Bizarre candidates kick off Philippine election race

Filipino presidential candidate Rigoberto Madera displays the copy of his
AFP - Tuesday, November 24

MANILA (AFP) - - Bizarre candidates such as the "Ultimate Messiah" and a man who crows like a chicken are seeking their moments of fame by making unlikely bids for president in next year's Philippine elections. More »

  • An Indian woman looking into a jewellery shop display window in New Delhi on November 2009.

    Flashy Indian brides struggle with high gold prices

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    NEW DELHI (AFP) - - For Indian brides buying jewellery, the bigger the better is the general rule, but record gold prices during this year's wedding season are forcing many to compromise.

  • A copy of Darwin's book the

    Rare Charles Darwin book in toilet in Britain

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    LONDON (AFP) - - A first edition of Charles Darwin's seminal "On the Origin of Species" will be sold this week after it was found in a family's toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said Sunday.

  • Lebanese women sit on a bench in front of a poster announcing the opening of a Christian Dior shop in downtown Beirut on November 5. Brimming with style, Beirut is regaining its reputation as a shoppers' paradise, with luxury labels such as Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton among a slew of shops opening in the city's renovated souks.

    Beirut sets out to woo back shoppers

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    BEIRUT (AFP) - - Brimming with style, Beirut is regaining its reputation as a shoppers' paradise, with luxury labels such as Christian Dior and Louis Vuitton among a slew of shops opening in the city's renovated souks.

  • A sign on display at the Nations Gunshow in Chantilly, Virginia. Recession-stoked fears of rising crime and tougher gun laws under a Democratic government are sending US gun sales sky high, and big crowds at the Chantilly Gun Show this weekend proved it once again.

    Pistols, Tasers, assault rifles sell fast at US show

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    CHANTILLY, Virginia (AFP) - - Recession-stoked fears of rising crime and tougher gun laws under a Democratic government are sending US gun sales sky high, and big crowds at the Chantilly Gun Show this weekend proved it once again.

  • A Pakistani man is seen looking at Buddha sculptures at a museum in Peshawar. Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country's northwest.

    Taliban suffocate Pakistan Buddhist heritage

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    TAXILA, Pakistan (AFP) - - Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country's northwest.

  • Hair is displayed for sale in Justino Delgado's natural hair store in Madrid. With the economic crisis, more and more Spanish women are selling their hair to make ends meet, delighting Delgado, who exports it for wigs and extensions

    Crisis forcing hard-up Spaniards to sell their hair

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    MADRID (AFP) - - Cash-strapped Spaniards are pulling their hair out over the economic crisis -- literally.

  • Tourists love to watch herds of elephants trekking across Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, but nearby farmers watch in dismay when the animals trample their crops, leaving them little to eat.

    Botswana tries spicy solution to keep elephants at bay

    AFP - Sunday, November 22

    GABORONE (AFP) - - Tourists love to watch herds of elephants trekking across Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, but nearby farmers watch in dismay when the animals trample their crops, leaving them little to eat.

  • A poker player collects his chips. Poland's parliament on Friday adopted a law that confines gambling to casinos and phases out the slot machines currently in many Polish cafes, clubs, shops and service stations.

    Poland restricts gambling outside casinos

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    WARSAW (AFP) - - Poland's parliament on Friday adopted a law that confines gambling to casinos and phases out the slot machines currently in many Polish cafes, clubs, shops and service stations.

  • A view of the Marigny theater in Paris on the first of four auction days led by Christie's of Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Berge collection, which profit will fund campaigns against HIV-AIDS. A humble if eye-pleasing umbrella stand once owned by YSL fetched an amazing 134,000 dollars Friday at the close of a sale of the last belongings of the late couturier and his partner Pierre Berge.

    Auction record for umbrella stand as YSL mystique inflates prices

    AFP - Saturday, November 21

    PARIS (AFP) - - A humble if eye-pleasing umbrella stand once owned by Yves Saint Laurent fetched an amazing 90,000 euros (134,000 dollars) Friday at the close of a sale of the last belongings of the late couturier and his partner Pierre Berge.

  • Bottles of whisky manufactured by Whyte & Mackay are pictured in Glasgow in Scotland in 2007. Two crates of Scotch whisky belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton are to be recovered after being buried for a century under the Antarctic ice, officials said Monday.

    Century-old whisky to be retrieved from polar ice

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    WELLINGTON (AFP) - - Two crates of Scotch whisky belonging to polar explorer Ernest Shackleton are to be recovered after being buried for a century under the Antarctic ice, officials said Monday.

  • VIDEO - In Rio de Janeiro, the physically disabled get a chance to do something that might seem out of reach for many: surf lessons, courtesy of three friends who started a non-profit that uses the

    Surfing is a new freedom for handicapped in Rio

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - - With his tan, sun-bleached hair and muscles, Henrique Saraiva projects a surfer image as clearly as the lines he carves across the waves that curl onto Rio's beaches.

  • A man enjoys a steam bath inside the 410-year-old Turkish Hamam al-Abhar in Sanaa's old city, November 9. For centuries, the traditional Turkish-style bathhouse -- hamam in Arabic -- has been a cornerstone of life in the Middle East, a place for social gatherings as well as for ritual cleansing.

    Stepping back in time to the Yemen of old

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    SANAA (AFP) - - For centuries, the traditional Turkish-style bathhouse -- hamam in Arabic -- has been a cornerstone of life in the Middle East, a place for social gatherings as well as for ritual cleansing.

  • VIDEO - Tomoyuki Abe of Japanese restaurant chain Sushizen was named best chef at a sushi awards ceremony in London late Saturday. Duration: 00:54

    Japanese chef scoops top award in London

    AFP - Monday, November 16

    LONDON (AFP) - - Tomoyuki Abe of Japanese restaurant chain Sushizen was named best chef at a sushi awards ceremony in London late Saturday.

  • A bunch of Opinel knives ready to be sorted at the knife manufacturer's factory in Chambery, in the French Savoie region in September 2009. The family-owned group, which was created in 1890, employs around 100 persons and produces 3 million knives per year.

    The globetrotting little Opinel knife

    AFP - Thursday, November 12

    CHAMBERY, France (AFP) - - Picasso used it in his workshop, Ellen MacArthur and Eric Tabarly took it out to sea: from a blacksmith's forge in France's Savoie region, the simple Opinel knife has come a long way.

  • American Joseph Cada organizes his chips during a hand at the final table at the 2009 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 7. The 21-year-old college dropout has won the World Series, completing the biggest comeback in the tournament's history to earn a $8.5 million jackpot.

    College dropout wins $8.5 million poker jackpot

    AFP - Wednesday, November 11

    LAS VEGAS (AFP) - - A 21-year-old college dropout won the World Series of Poker early Tuesday, completing the biggest comeback in the tournament's history to earn a 8.5 million dollar jackpot.

  • 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

    The Little Prince drops in on Brazil

    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.

  • 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.

  • A man is pictured on a nudist beach in northern Germany. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the so-called

    East German nudists let it all hang out, 20 years on

    AFP - Thursday, November 5

    PREROW, Germany (AFP) - - "It has nothing to do with sex," insisted Udo Schumacher, 64, as he stood, stark naked, on a beautiful but bracing beach in Prerow in what was once communist East Germany.