Not so long ago Fakira roamed the mean streets of the Afghan capital, hawking magazines for 13 U.S. cents apiece to support her poverty-stricken family. Next month, the 15-year-old cellist appears in America’s most prestigious concert halls, performing alongside other former street children and orphans of Afghanistan’s decades of violence.
The two Paris airports, Charles de Gaulle and Orly, registered a record 88.8 million passengers last year, but growth of the number nonetheless slowed to 0.8 percent, airport operator Aeroports de Paris (ADP) said on Tuesday.
As their two sons were growing up, Joel and Eloisa Buse felt it was time to move out of their rented townhouse. While driving the boys to school, the parents took a shortcut through one of San Juan’s streets. They spotted an old house with a “For Sale” sign.
The powerful Lopez clan of Iloilo held its grand family reunion recently in Jaro, Iloilo, drawing 4,000 kin from all over the world.
In a recent report for NBC News, Duncan Golestani said as much as half of the world’s food appeared to be wasted because consumers preferred produce that looked pretty.
I’ve often wondered what the phrase “I’m sorry” really means to a child. Do children really mean it, or understand what they are saying?
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