LONDON (AP).- The British Museum’s latest exhibition displays ancient artifacts in gold, glass, stone and ivory from Afghanistan, a country whose fortune, and curse, has long been to lie at a crossroads of cultures, traders, artists and armies. That th…
Time Magazine’s Image of Disfigured Afghan Woman Wins World Press Photo Prize for 2010
AMSTERDAM (AP).- A South African photographer’s portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism’s most coveted priz…
Time Magazine’s Image of Disfigured Afghan Woman Wins World Press Photo Prize for 2010
AMSTERDAM (AP).- A South African photographer’s portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears in a case of Taliban-administered justice won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism’s most coveted priz…
Afghan Archaeologists Find Buddhist Site as War Rages
KABUL (REUTERS).- Archaeologists in Afghanistan, where Taliban Islamists are fighting the Western-backed government, have uncovered Buddhist-era remains in an area south of Kabul, an official said on Tuesday. “There is a temple, stupas, beautiful rooms…