After a collapse in coal mining, Vorkuta has lost a third of its residents in 30 years. Can the remaining miners hang on?
A video showing Iranian morality police dragging off a woman in Tehran for not wearing a hijab has gone viral on social media sites.
In a remote corner of Kyrgyzstan's Naryn region, a devoted medic travels more than 20 kilometers a day making house calls on horseback.
An Afghan-made hat known as a "Mazari hat" is newly popular in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan since it was championed by a prominent rights activist.
Filip Vogel and Petr Javurek spent 10 months traveling around the world in one of the most joked-about cars from Soviet times.
As Chinese-made motorbikes flood Pakistan's roads, fans of vintage Vespa scooters are scrambling to find spare parts and preserve models that hark back to a bygone era.
Security restrictions have shut down most of Indian-administered Kashmir, after clashes between militants and government forces killed at least 20 people on April 2. Neighboring Pakistan condemned the violence as a "mindless killing spree" and said those slain were innocents. (ANI via Reuters)
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on March 31 visited her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot by Taliban militants in 2012.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on March 29, her first trip to her home country since she was shot in the head by Taliban militants in 2012 for advocating for girls' education. Yousafzai spoke emotionally about her return in an appearance on national television.
Jahantab Ahmadi became a viral sensation on the Afghan web after she was photographed nursing her infant daughter while taking her university entrance exam. She passed the exam -- and became the subject of a crowdfunding effort to help her pay her university fees. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
A suicide bombing outside a Shi'ite mosque in Kabul killed at least 29 people on March 21 as Afghans were celebrating the New Year's holiday of Norouz. It was the latest in a series of attacks on Shi'ite targets in the Afghan capital.
Afghan officials say at least three people have been killed and two others wounded in a suicide car-bomb attack in Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast that hit the Despechari area in eastern Kabul early on March 17.
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