Marathon des Sables takes runners through Sahara desert
The 31st edition of the Marathon des Sables is a live stage 257 km race through a formidable landscape in one of the world’s most inhospitable climates.
Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World desert, marathon, Morocco, Sahara
The 31st edition of the Marathon des Sables is a live stage 257 km race through a formidable landscape in one of the world’s most inhospitable climates.
Quinn Kelley 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World Brazil, France, International Women's Day, Morocco, Turkey, Venezuela
Women around the world celebrate, march and protest for International Women’s Day March 8.
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Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World melilla, Morocco, Spain
African migrants attempt to climb a border fence between Morocco and Spain’s Melilla.
Rachel Woolf 0 Comment Photo essays, The Baltimore Sun, World and Driss Hamouti, Mohamed-El Kotbi, Morocco, Ouezzane, Tifelt, Xeroderma Pigmentosum, XP
For 800 children in Morocco, damaged or burnt skin is genetic, irreparable, and needs to be replaced. Mohamed-El Kotbi, 17, and Driss Hamouti, 21, live with this tragic condition. Due to a disease called Xeroderma Pigmentosum – which medical professionals generally shorthand to XP – they are prone to blistering and burning of their skin and eyes upon the slightest sun exposure
Patrick Maynard 0 Comment Daily Brief China, India, Israel, Japan, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, United Kingdom
The day in photos around the world.
Patrick Maynard 0 Comment World border, Immigration, Morocco, police, Spain
With NPR putting some finishing touches on its borderland series this week, international attention has been focused across the Atlantic, on a place that’s equally familiar with the perils of international migration.
Nick Tann 0 Comment Daily Brief astronauts, Beauty and Fitness, Brazil, cherry blossoms, China, Colombia, drought, Egypt, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Islam, Israel, Japan, Kate Middleton, monkeys, Morocco, Muslim Brotherhood, native Indians, Nepal, pigeons, President Obama, protest, students, tiger, Tunisia, World Water Day
U.S. President Barack Obama visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, the world observes World Water Day with the theme “Water Cooperation,” adepts of Sufism, a mystical form of Islam, self-pierce to earn salvation, a pet tiger plays with a keeper at an Indonesian school and more in today’s daily brief.