DELHI, India — Five fresh graduates set out in an auto-rickshaw to cover 1,700 kilometers [1,055 miles] from India’s Bengaluru to Mumbai when the second wave of…
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American Heritage’s “Catcher In The Rye” On D-Day (June 2021 edition), by Bruce Watson, has been used with permission from American Heritage magazine. In rain and…
Lateness can be a spur to innovation. Just ask Omri Moran. His date was late, and Moran kept texting to make sure she’d show up. “She…
A baby female hippo made her first trip outside her enclosure at Basel Zoo in Switzerland after being born May 3. Newborn hippo Serena and her…
An Israeli architecture student used colorful Lego bricks to spruce up a wall damaged during last month’s rocket attacks. Raz Sror, an architecture student at Shenkar…
KAMPALA, Uganda — On the morning of June 1, shooters ambushed Uganda’s minister of Works and Transport and former Army commander General Edward Katumba Wamala’s convoy near…
LOKICHAR, Kenya — When Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta announced in August 2019 that the country had joined the oil-exporting nations, Abraham Lokopir, a businessman in Lokichar,…
A 42-year-old elephant at Hagenbeck Zoo has been selected to try to predict team results at the UEFA European Championship this month. Yashoda, the oldest elephant…
The post University students clean the Pillar of Shame sculpture by Danish artist Jens Galschiot, to remember the victims of the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing, at…
MELBOURNE, Australia — Victoria Police will have 450 officers patrolling the state’s roads to make sure Melbourne residents comply with Covid restrictions. The rules have been eased in regional…