• An Afghan woman buys bread from a street vendor during a snow storm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini / AP Photo
    An Afghan woman buys bread from a street vendor during a snow storm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini / AP Photo
  • An Afghan man, center, waits as he buys fish at a street stall street during a snow storm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini / AP Photo
    An Afghan man, center, waits as he buys fish at a street stall street during a snow storm in Kabul, Afghanistan. Massoud Hossaini / AP Photo
  • A fleeing protester falls after he was hit by a police water cannon during a rally against Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. Umit Bektas / Reuters
    A fleeing protester falls after he was hit by a police water cannon during a rally against Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. Umit Bektas / Reuters
  • A Syrian refugee woman looks out from a window with no glass, in a house in the Kucukpazar area of Istanbul. Gurcan Ozturk / AFP
    A Syrian refugee woman looks out from a window with no glass, in a house in the Kucukpazar area of Istanbul. Gurcan Ozturk / AFP
  • Journalists stand in court's cage during their trial for allegedly supporting a terrorist group and spreading false information, in Cairo, Egypt. Tarek Wajeh / EPA
    Journalists stand in court's cage during their trial for allegedly supporting a terrorist group and spreading false information, in Cairo, Egypt. Tarek Wajeh / EPA
  • Palestinians look at the body of Palestinian Mousab Al-Zaanin through the window of a hospital morgue in the northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
    Palestinians look at the body of Palestinian Mousab Al-Zaanin through the window of a hospital morgue in the northern Gaza Strip. Mohammed Salem / Reuters
  • Ibrahim Zeid, 65, a Palestinian cigarette vendor and a diabetic, sits next to his artificial limb as he receives treatment at a prosthetics centre in Qalqilya. Ammar Awad / Reuters
    Ibrahim Zeid, 65, a Palestinian cigarette vendor and a diabetic, sits next to his artificial limb as he receives treatment at a prosthetics centre in Qalqilya. Ammar Awad / Reuters
  • An Afghan day labourer skins a camel's head in Mazar-i-Sharif. Farshad Usyan / AFP
    An Afghan day labourer skins a camel's head in Mazar-i-Sharif. Farshad Usyan / AFP
  • A Pakistani child, lies in a hammock at the site of his mother's work in a brick factory in Mandra, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen AP Photo
    A Pakistani child, lies in a hammock at the site of his mother's work in a brick factory in Mandra, near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen AP Photo
  • An Afghan refugee child chases a kite launched by his sister while playing in a field near their home on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo
    An Afghan refugee child chases a kite launched by his sister while playing in a field near their home on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo

Region in Focus - March 7, 2014


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The Porpoise

By Mark Haddon 

(Penguin Random House)