This show is made up entirely of amateur images. We've seen time and time again how images captured by ordinary citizens then uploaded onto the Web can change history, or at least shift the balance of power. This week, we take a look back at some of those moments.
We examine how already fragile relations between the US and Afghanistan are being stretched to breaking point after a shooting rampage by an American soldier left 16 civilians dead. Next, we look at the latest power struggle at the top of China's Communist party. Finally, a bit of cultural diplomacy has led to a North Korean orchestra teaming up with a South Korean conductor to put on an exceptional concert in Paris.
The death toll rose to at least 112 on Wednesday after a ferry collided with an oil barge in the Meghna river in Bangladesh. The vessel was carrying some 200 passengers when it capsized early Tuesday, 40 kilometres southeast of the capital Dhaka.
Bangladesh is one of the countries most likely to suffer from rising seawaters as global warming takes hold. Its 150 million inhabitants are squeezed into 130,000 km² and many of those living by the sea are abandoning their land and heading for the capital Dhaka. Once there, they often take up residence as some of the poorest members of society.
Today, most Western ready-to-wear brands are manufactured in Bangladesh. The textile industry makes up 80% of the country’s exports, a windfall of several billion dollars. Bangladesh may be benefiting, but the workers themselves are not. They’re sometimes paid less than one dollar a day and struggle just to keep themselves and their families alive.
Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen microfinancing bank, Muhammad Yunus (centre), lost a final appeal Tuesday against an order sacking him from the bank, a decision his supporters say is politically motivated.
Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Tuesday delayed the hearing of an appeal by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (pictured) against a court confirming his forced retirement from Grameen Bank, his pioneer microlending institution.
In Pakistan, Minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti died in a hail of bullets. He was an outspoken campaigner against Pakistan's blasphemy laws and the only Roman Catholic in the government
Microfinance banking hero Muhamad Yunus is under attack by the Bangladeshi government.
And in India, between abiding by the cast system and satisfying the parents, there's little room for Bollywood style love matches.
A London court Monday found a Bangladeshi Islamic militant formerly employed by British Airways guilty of four counts of plotting terrorist attacks, including a plan to blow up a plane in cooperation with a radical US-Yemeni cleric.
Bangladesh suspended trading on the Dhaka Stock Exchange Monday when stocks fell a record 9.25 percent causing security officials to use batons and tear gas to disperse angry investors upset over the market plunge.
