The Afghan Premier League (APL) is playing its second season of professional soccer after a successful debut year. Players from the eight teams in the APL live together in a large communal house in Kabul where they eat and sleep during the seven-week season, earning about $9 per day.
The redeveloped site of the World Trade Center in Manhattan includes the new National September 11 Memorial Museum, dedicated to documenting the impact of the September 11, 2001, attacks and their continuing significance. The museum is scheduled to open to the public in the spring of 2014.
Photographer Kamil Chutuev has been photographing his native Daghestan since the 1970s. His photographs appeared in a recent exhibition in Makhachkala, "Planet of Daghestan," in which several photographers' work maps the cultural and natural landscape of the Caucasus republic over many years.
China has 2.7 million U.S.-dollar millionaires and 251 billionaires, according to "The Hurun Report," a financial publication. But the UN states that 13 percent of the country's 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. The Chinese government has pledged to double household incomes over the next decade in a bid to close the country's wealth gap. which is now so wide that it threatens social stability.
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Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny held the final rally of his campaign for Moscow mayor on September 6. His election campaign office said some 15,000 people gathered at Moscow's central Sakharova Avenue. The rally kicked off with a rock concert. (12 PHOTOS)
RFE/RL Turkmen Service correspondent Yovshan Annagurban Annagurban traveled back to his home country for the first time in 15 years. What he found was a Turkmenistan that in some ways had changed dramatically -- and in other ways hadn't changed at all.
The 9th annual Kazan International Muslim Film Festival is under way in the capital of the Russian republic of Tatarstan. Fifty films from 27 countries are competing for the festival's top prize.
Thousands of Hasidic Jews from at least 15 countries have gathered in the town of Uman, Ukraine, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year. A record number of pilgrims, estimated at more than 30,000, have come to spend the holiday at the gravesite of the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement, Reb Nachman. (Andriy Bashtovyy, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
Everyone from Hollywood movie stars to famous pop singers have performed or partied for dictators and their children in various places around the world -- usually for large sums of money. Whether its Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov or the grandson of Kazakhstan's ruler-for-life Nursultan Nazarbaev, various celebrities have accepted cash to sing, dance, or party with ruthless rulers with nasty human-rights records. Most of the "naive" and "unaware" stars apologize -- after being publicly criticized -- and claim to donate their appearance money to charity.
Japan's nuclear regulation authority said on September 4 that radiation levels near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have reached a new high, measuring 20 percent above the previous peak.
Border police in Serbia say they are facing growing numbers of illegal migrants attempting to enter the country, mainly over its southern border with Macedonia. In the first six months of 2013, police registered illegal entry attempts by more than 5,000 migrants, mostly from Africa and the Middle East. Many are following the trans-Asian corridor, which leads from the Mideast through Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia before reaching Hungary and the Schengen free-travel zone. In the past year, the war in Syria has resulted in a massive influx of Syrians attempting to cross the Western Balkans in search of asylum in Europe or beyond. (Photos by Marko Djurica of Reuters.
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