Centurions drink from a fountain near Rome’s Coliseum during a heat wave in summer 2014. (ANGELO CARCONI/epa/Corbis)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 7, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Rome, London- Baking summer heat triggered a public outcry following a decision to close some of the drinking fountains known as “big noses”, or “nasoni” that constantly gush fresh water on thousands of street corners. Hit by the soaring temperatures...
by Eugene Linden | Jun 25, 2017 | Opinion
In tiny Lesotho, a landlocked kingdom in southern Africa, about one-third of its estimated two million people spent much of the past two years in danger of starving because of the lingering effects of a drought. That is just the latest woe afflicting this cursed...
