- Le Pen says days of new French govt numbered
- Global stocks mostly rise after US tech rally
- Villa boss Emery set for 'very difficult' clash with Newcastle
- Investors swoop in to save German flying taxi startup
- How Finnish youth learn to spot disinformation
- South Korean opposition postpones decision to impeach acting president
- 12 killed in blast at Turkey explosives plant
- Panama leaders past and present reject Trump's threat of Canal takeover
- Hong Kong police issue fresh bounties for activists overseas
- Saving the mysterious African manatee at Cameroon hotspot
- India consider second spinner for Boxing Day Test
- London wall illuminates Covid's enduring pain at Christmas
- Poyet appointed manager at South Korea's Jeonbuk
- South Korea's opposition vows to impeach acting president
- The tsunami detection buoys safeguarding lives in Thailand
- Teen Konstas to open for Australia in Boxing Day India Test
- Asian stocks mostly up after US tech rally
- US panel could not reach consensus on US-Japan steel deal: Nippon
- The real-life violence that inspired South Korea's 'Squid Game'
- Blogs to Bluesky: social media shifts responses after 2004 tsunami
- Tennis power couple de Minaur and Boulter get engaged
- Supermaxi yachts eye record in gruelling Sydney-Hobart race
- Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts, spewing columns of lava
- Sendero Resources Announces First Tranche Closing of Its Non-Brokered Private Placement
- EVSX Completes Installation of Multi Chemistry Line
- InterContinental Hotels Group PLC Announces Transaction in Own Shares - December 24
- El Salvador Congress votes to end ban on metal mining
- Five things to know about Panama Canal, in Trump's sights
- NBA fines Minnesota guard Edwards $75,000 for outburst
- Haitians massacred for practicing voodoo were abducted, hacked to death: UN
- Inter beat Como to keep in touch with leaders Atalanta
- Mixed day for global stocks as market hopes for 'Santa Claus rally'
- Man Utd boss Amorim questions 'choices' of Rashford's entourage
- Trump's TikTok love raises stakes in battle over app's fate
- Is he serious? Trump stirs unease with Panama, Greenland ploys
- England captain Stokes to miss three months with torn hamstring
- Support grows for Blake Lively over smear campaign claim
- Canada records 50,000 opioid overdose deaths since 2016
- Jordanian, Qatari envoys hold talks with Syria's new leader
- France's second woman premier makes surprise frontline return
- France's Macron announces fourth government of the year
- Netanyahu tells Israel parliament 'some progress' on Gaza hostage deal
- Guatemalan authorities recover minors taken by sect members
- Germany's far-right AfD holds march after Christmas market attack
- European, US markets wobble awaiting Santa rally
- Serie A basement club Monza fire coach Nesta
- Mozambique top court confirms ruling party disputed win
- Biden commutes almost all federal death sentences
- Syrian medics say were coerced into false chemical attack testimony
- NASA solar probe to make its closest ever pass of Sun
New London sculpture pays tribute to trans community
A new sculpture on London's Trafalgar Square, unveiled on Wednesday, will give "visibility to the trans community," its Mexican creator told AFP.
Teresa Margolles' "Mil Veces un Instante" ("A Thousand Times in an Instant") comprises plaster casts of the faces of 726 trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people.
The sculpture, commissioned by the mayor's office, will now occupy one of the four plinths in the central London landmark, in front of the National Gallery, for two years.
Over that time, the sculpture will change shape due to the materials used.
"Let it be known that there are no job opportunities and no health care" for trans people in Latin America, Margolles told AFP.
"And above all, hate crimes, because in Latin America people migrate because of hate crimes. They try to get to the United States thinking that they will at least have a life," she added.
The sculptor was inspired by a friend, a trans woman named Karla, who was murdered in 2015 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The crime remains unsolved.
"She was the one who introduced me to dialogue with the community," explained the 61-year-old artist.
Terry Holiday, a member of the trans community in Mexico, travelled to London for Wednesday's unveiling.
Holiday, whose face is among the 726 casts, said that "for us, this visibility given to the situation of indifference and helplessness that trans women go through in Mexico and Latin America is very important".
"We are people, we are all human beings, we deserve the same treatment," added Holiday, who is also an artist.
Built in 1841, the fourth plinth was intended to house an equestrian statue of William IV but funds ran dry.
Since 1999 it has hosted 15 temporary works.
Previous installations have included a strutting horse skeleton displaying stock exchange share prices, a huge blue fibreglass cockerel and a bronze thumbs-up gesture standing 10 metres (35 feet high).
D.Kaufman--AMWN