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

Ali Akbar of Rawalpindi, Pakistan, has been hawking newspapers in Pariss 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.

Akbars been treading these pavements since 1973. He started out sellingCharlie Hebdo and Libration, then Le Monde which he still