Politics
A court in Hong Kong has found journalist Bao Choy guilty of a crime after she used a public database during an investigation into Hong Kong police’s failure to respond to a mob attack on pro-democracy protesters in July 2019.
Activism
Tens of thousands of people across Russia took to the streets in unsanctioned protests on Wednesday, demanding the release of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose health is failing in prison.
Politics
The president of Chad, Idriss Déby, has died of injuries he suffered when he was at the frontline of troops battling a rebel group.
Video
A railway worker in Maharashtra, India, risked his life to save a child who fell onto the tracks from an oncoming train on Saturday Apr. 17.
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Reunions are happening across Australia and New Zealand after the two countries opened a two-way travel bubble on Monday Apr. 19.
Cute
A “mysterious tree creature” that was terrorizing a woman’s neighborhood in Krakow turned out to be a croissant.
Climate
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes on the Caribbean Island of St. Vincent, after the island’s largest volcano has been erupting for more than a week.
Cute
Meet Nancy Van Der Stracten, a 75-year-old painter and grandmother of eight from Belgium who now lives in Turkey.
Impact
Hideki Matsuyama, 29, has become the first Japanese person to win a men’s major golf championship and Asian-born person to win the Masters.
Impact
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has selected its next two astronauts for its future space missions, including its first Arab woman astronaut.
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A couple in South Korea accidentally defaced a painting worth about US$500,000 in an art gallery in Seoul after they mistook it for a participatory art project.
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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered an ancient city that was built more than 3,400 years ago during the reign of Amenhotep III, one of Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs.