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Britain's Queen Camilla hosts a reception for the Booker Prize Foundation at Clarence House, in London, on November 12, 2024 ahead of the Booker Prize 2024 ceremony. — AFP pic

Britain’s Queen Camilla still ‘sort of coughing’ but back to some royal duties

British writer Samantha Harvey poses on the red carpet upon arrival for the Booker Prize Award announcement ceremony, at the Old Billingsgate, in London, on November 12, 2024. — AFP pic

Existential, haunting, introspective: UK writer Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize

Located on the south bank of the River Thames, surrounded by high-rise buildings glinting in the dawn of early winter, the wholesale market is the UK’s largest for fruit, vegetables and flowers. — Picture from Instagram/marketflowers  

‘London’s best-kept secret’ turns 50: New Covent Garden Market marks half a century of service

A herd of elephants consisting mainly of females and their young arrive at a watering pond for a drink at the Ngutuni Wildlife Conservancy on the outskirts of Voi town in Taita Taventa County in Kenya on October 29, 2024. — AFP pic

New study reveals drastic decline in African elephant populations over last 50 years due to poaching, habitat loss

Australian Writer and Booker Prize 2024 shortlisted author Charlotte Wood poses with her book 'Stone Yard Devotional' during the Booker Prize 2024 Award photo call event. — AFP pic

Who are the five women competing for the UK Booker Prize, and why their books are making waves

Tsutaya Bookstore is set to open at Aeon Mall Tebrau City. — Picture courtesy of Aeon

Aeon Mall Tebrau City unveils Aeon Tebrau City Food Hall and Johor’s first Tsutaya Bookstore

William Mwanduka, 38 inspects bee hives housing colonies of African Honey Bees near Voi town in Taita Taventa County. — AFP pic

Bees help tackle Kenya’s rising elephant-human conflict, offering hope for farmers and wildlife

Videos on the construction of St Peter's basilica are shown on a giant screen during the press preview of

AI-powered virtual tour brings 400 years of Saint Peter’s Basilica history to life with 400,000 drone photos

White truffles are on sale at the truffle fair of Alba, north-western Italy, on November 1, 2024. — AFP pic

Italy’s white truffles under siege: Climate change threatens culinary treasure

Datuk Lat poses with one of his caricatures in front of the Telekom Museum in Kuala Lumpur November 2, 2024. — Picture by Firdaus Latif

Lat at 73: Sketching Malaysia’s soul and finding humour in the everyday

One of Korea’s most celebrated drinks, this banana-flavoured milk has been a beloved classic for 50 years. — Picture via Facebook/Binggrae MY

Is Binggrae’s banana milk South Korea’s next national treasure?

Thousands of students participate in a bike ride to Kaifeng, in search of soup dumplings, causing a highway to be clogged in Zhengzhou, Henan, China this screen grab obtained from social media video released November 9, 2024. — Reuters pic

‘Night Riding Army’: China puts brakes on thousands of students who rent bikes for soup dumpling adventure trip

Catherine, Princess of Wales, returns to royal duties after cancer treatment. — AFP pic

King Charles leads nation in silence for war dead as Kate resumes royal duties following cancer treatment

People play computer games at an internet cafe in Beijing on September 10, 2021. Unlike the rest of the world, where platforms like Google and Facebook dominate, China has developed its own internet ecosystem, largely insulated from Western influence. — AFP pic

From Xiaohongshu to Weibo: A beginner’s guide to navigating China’s internet ecosystem and its top platforms

This photo taken on October 17, 2024 shows cows kept at a gaushala (cowshed) near the Barsana Biogas Plant, a compressed biogas (CBG) production facility in Barsana, in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. In its constant quest for power to fuel its economic growth, the world’s most populous nation and third largest fossil fuel polluter, India has pushed biogas to help wean it off coal to achieve a much promised transition to carbon neutrality by 2070. — AFP pic

Sacred cow: Coal-reliant India eyes biogas from dung to curb carbon footprint

This photo taken on October 22, 2024 shows foreign tourists enjoying a beach in Canggu, Badung regency on Bali island. On Indonesia’s beach-fringed resort island of Bali, fed-up locals want to slow the mass tourism that is their biggest money earner — hoping a plan to freeze hotel-building can restore some calm. — AFP pic

Bali eyes two-year pause on new hotels to address over-tourism concerns amid calls to protect island’s natural beauty