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Fighting for every breath

WITH pollution in Pakistan hitting record highs in recent years, citizens clutching air monitors and legal papers are taking the fight for clean air into their own hands.

The man behind the club

FROM a television studio, Venezuela's feared interior minister would brandish a plastic club and call out the names of government critics – who knew what that usually meant. They could expect government agents to show up and take them away.

Maimed by someone else’s war

IN the dense hill forests along Bangladesh's border with war-torn Myanmar, villagers are losing limbs to landmines, casualties of a conflict not of their making.

A giant beneath the steppe

MORE than 3.2km beneath the wind-swept steppe of western Kazakhstan, porous rock formed from the skeletons of ancient coral and marine life holds one of the world's most prolific oil deposits.

Courage and passion: Fire Horse spirit charges up Chinese New Year fashion

Luxury and homegrown brands welcome the Year of the Fire Horse with spirited campaigns and capsule collections blending cultural symbolism, heritage craft and modern style.

'Wonder Man' review: Hearts on a sleeve

Heartfelt look at a different corner of the MCU is more buddy dramedy than superhero spectacular.

Moody, mystical, mysterious: Say hello to the whimsigoth fashion trend

A darkly romantic blend of gothic drama and bohemian whimsy, the whimsigoth trend is re-emerging as fashion's dreamy rebellion against stark minimalism.

Guardians of the celluloid

THE suburban movie theatre was packed and brimming with anticipation on a Tuesday night.

Searching for the butterfly’s compass

IN A storage shed beneath a cloudless Texas sky last November, Robin Grob performed open-brain surgery on a monarch butterfly.

Why Russia’s defences fizzled

VENEZUELA's Russian-made air defence systems were barely operational when US helicopters swooped in to capture President Nicolas Maduro, US officials say, leaving the country's airspace wide open long before the Pentagon launched its raid early this month.