2 November 2025 10:26

Crying the news with Ali Akbar, the last paperboy of Paris


Ali Akbar of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has been hawking newspapers in Paris’s Left Bank district for more than five decades. While sales are dwindling, the job has allowed him to lift his family out of poverty and earned him a knighthood – a testament to a local legend, and the end of an era.

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