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BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Two teams confronted each other on the dusty sports field, wielding roughly cut sticks to whack a homemade puck at high speed.For the middle-aged and beyond, the sight of this rugged game triggered distant memories, of happier times.The sport, known as ngbaba, is unique to the Central African Republic -- and, almost like the embattled country itself, has been hauled back from near-death.Once played widely in streets and villages, ngbaba -- pronounced "g'baba" -- has simple rules and requires speed, dexterity and a dose of fearlessness.Players hew a thin stick, roughly about as long as their arm and slightly curved at the end, and use it to hit a puck carved out of an old pair of rubber sandals.If the puck lands in the opposing side of the...
August 27, 2019
Ngbaba, a sport lost in time, returns to battered C. Africa
August 25, 2019
Nearly 900 Mexican performers set world record for folk dance
August 24, 2019
Algeria's culture minister resigns after deadly concert stampede
August 20, 2019
'I'm here 24/7': Rohingya youths share their stories on social media
August 17, 2019
Acehnese hold mass dance for Indonesian independence day
BELGRADE - After making his name designing and printing posters for Nirvana and other bands at the height of Seattle's grunge scene, American artist Jeff Ross has since been wandering the globe in search of inspiration.Now he is finding it in Serbia, where the 58-year-old recently set up studio outside of Belgrade and is taking part in the gritty capital's vibrant street art scene."I sense there is something here, there is a ball of something happening and I want to be here for it, and collaborate, teach people how to screen print, make art, make music, noise," he told AFP of the "energy" that drew him to Serbia.On a recent night Ross could be seen spray-painting loopy, brightly colored designs on the walls of Maniac, one of Belgrade's underground --...
August 16, 2019
Nirvana artist finds a new canvas in Serbia
August 15, 2019
Nigeria's divisive tradition of facial markings fades
August 15, 2019
Irishman, 99, competes at world tango championships in Argentina
August 15, 2019
Opera's 'New Callas' charts her life on Instagram
BUCHAREST - American heavy metal band Metallica has donated 250,000 euros to a Romanian association building the country's first pediatric oncology hospital, they said on Wednesday.The donation to Daruieste Viata (Give Life), founded in 2012, came ahead of the band's sold out concert on Wednesday, its fourth in the European Union state since 1999, the association said on its Facebook page.The donation was made through the band's non-profit foundation All Within My Hands, it said in a statement.Construction began in mid-2018 on the hospital in Bucharest, one of the few to be built in Romania over the last three decades. The project is expected to be completed next year, with donations from 260,000 individuals and slightly fewer than 2,000 companies so far.Romania has one of the...
August 15, 2019
Heavy metal band Metallica donates 250,000 euros for Romanian pediatric hospital
