Brexit has dealt a blow to Andrew Duff's business. His burgeoning sales of high end Scottish beef to Europe are on hold because his business is too small to navigate the post-Brexit customs border for now.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Crying outside a Mexico City cemetery, a family embraced the box that contained the ashes of their beloved grandmother.
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The grandmother had fallen ill a few days after they met to celebrate New Year’s, and died shortly after, family members said. She was not even 60 years old.
Mexico is set to surpass 150,000 deaths from COVID-19, one of the world s highest death tolls, a Reuters tally shows. tmsnrt.rs/34pvUyi
Its death count is closing the gap with that of India, a country with a population several times larger. Only the United States and Brazil have reported higher numbers.
Frustrated by seeing store shelves in Ivory Coast lined with almost exclusively light-skinned dolls, Sara Coulibaly decided to create alternatives in which local children could see themselves.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Relatives of those killed in the Sriwijaya Air plane crash on Jan. 9 wept and threw red and white petals into the ocean on Friday after an Indonesian navy vessel took them to the site in the Java Sea where their loved ones perished.
Flight SJ 182 crashed minutes after take-off from Jakarta, killing all 62 people on board. Indonesian authorities on Thursday halted the search for victims, but said the hunt would continue for the jet’s cockpit voice recorder (CVR).
“I recalled my brother’s face as I threw the flowers,” said Heri Purnomo, of his late brother Nurkholid Fatil Amin, a father of two. “Tears kept streaming down, it was as though his face was reflected from the sea’s surface.”
"Giggling bread" and "joyfully dancing salad" aren't the usual dishes on a menu in Thailand, but one eatery is hoping its cannabis-infused cuisine can lure foreign tourists and take the taboo out of the recently legalised leaf.