 The sign hung at 12, rue Chabanais, in the days when the building housed the most prestigious of Paris' infamous bordellos, read "Welcome to the Chabanais: The House of All Nations".
With the brothels closed down 60 years ago, nowadays the skinny eight-storey building on a tiny street near the Louvre houses an employment agency and a bunch of flats. But right across the road, at number 11, a gallery is keeping its memories alive.
Nicole Canet, who runs a gallery-cum-bouti... Natalya Lepyoshkina smiled as she fed her three-week-old "children" a meal of warm cow's blood, rinsed them off with water and poured them into an array of glass jars.
"They're happy, they're full," she said as the young leeches, squirming and swollen from their meal, settled into the containers that would be their home until the next feeding.
Lepyoshkina's charges w...  The anxious wives were on the phone again to their husbands in the Pakistani garrison town of Rawalpindi, a terrorist target where daily routine can turn to horror in an instant.
"She's very worried," Abdul Habib said after putting down the receiver while visiting a friend's carpet shop close to the site of a bombing which left 35 people dead.
Not far from the...
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According to The World Health Organisation,millions of people in South Sudan and Darfur need access to healthcare. 
The bearded women in those yesteryear circuses never failed to evoke the interest of curious onlookers. Had these women been around today they, possibly, would have lived different lives.