Ashura

Ducking death on Mt Everest

22 May 2012

Nishat Majumder on top of the world. She is the third Bangladeshi to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Photo: Courtesy "I was close to losing my life several times. Once I was swept around 30 metres away from my tracks and almost into a crevasse.�

AFP photographer honoured with agency's first Pulitzer

22 May 2012

He received the Pulitzer prize for his shot of the aftermath of a suicide bomb in Kabul. -AFP

AFP photographer honored with agency's first Pulitzer

21 May 2012

Agence France-Presse photographer Massoud Hossaini received the Pulitzer prize in New York on Monday for his wrenching shot of the aftermath of a suicide bomb in Kabul.