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 Covid-19 was starting to grip the country. Making their parents agree was an uphill task, but they managed to get their nod due to the cause — to raise awareness and funds to educate […]

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 darkness on June 6, 1944, almost 170,000 men crossed the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy. Among the invaders was Sergeant Jerome David Salinger. Along with his rifle and his rations, […]

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 finally arrived, all apologetic. I asked her what happened, and she said: ‘You wouldn’t get it.’ “After we had some drinks, I brought it up again. She explained she was excited about our first […]

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 mother Helvetia went for a walk and took a swim in the small river in the outdoor area on June 1. The zoo reported the 29-year-old mother went through the birth without problems and […]

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 College of Engineering, Design and Art, is based in the satellite town of Ramat Gan, a municipality adjacent to Tel Aviv. The area was affected by rocket fire last month. The attack followed tensions […]

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 his home in the capital Kampala, killing his daughter and driver and injuring him. The statements released by both police and the army said four assailants on two motorcycles with hidden number plates trailed […]

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, Turkana County, saw an opportunity. “I took a bank loan and built a hotel and lodgings thinking we were headed into oil production big time,” he told Zenger News. “I was targeting the workers […]

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 at the Hamburg, Germany, zoo, was chosen to predict outcomes of the German national team. She will make the “predictions” a day before the game by sniffing and picking [what could turn out to […]

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 the University of Hong Kong on June 4, 2021 in Hong Kong, China. Hong Kong activists planned private vigils and religious services to commemorate China’s deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, as a prominent […]

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 Victoria, and police say there is a risk people will be tempted to break the rules over the weekend and head to country Victoria. “Please do not bother, we have an enormous amount of […]