Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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Cambodians wear black ribbons and flags fly at half-mast as the nation mourns the death of revered former king Norodom Sihanouk and prepare for the return of his body from China.
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