No Comment Clown helps Mumbai kids fight Covid Volunteer social worker Ashok Kurmi is helping an army of young fans fight the coronavirus in Mumbai's slums using an unusual accessory: a clown costume. 04/06/2021
No Comment Sri Lanka facing environmental disaster after ship Rough seas and poor visibility forced Sri Lanka navy divers to abandon an inspection Thursday of a sinking ship threatening a disastrous oil spill off Colombo's main harbour, officials said. 03/06/2021
No Comment Moroccan migrants queue to seek asylum in Spain Hundreds of Moroccan migrants who recently crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta queued to potentially seek asylum and avoid deportation to Morocco. 03/06/2021
No Comment Tokyo unveils Olympic podium, medal tray and music with 50 days to go The Tokyo 2020 organisers unveil items to be used for the Olympic medal ceremonies, including podiums made with recycled plastic and release the victory music for the medalists, exactly 50 days before the pandemic-postponed Games. 03/06/2021
Israel Israel: PM Netanyahu's opponents strike coalition deal to oust him Centrist Yair Lapid and ultranationalist Naftali Bennett said they reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, which also includes a small Islamist party. 02/06/2021
No Comment LEGO staff create the world’s largest ever football made of bricks The world’s largest LEGO ball has been built at the LEGO House in Billund, the hometown of Lego, to celebrate the upcoming European Football Championship, that will kick off on June 11. 02/06/2021
No Comment Cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov conduct spacewalk from the ISS Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov conduct a spacewalk from the International Space Station. The duo carry out preparations for the undocking and disposing of a station module later this year. 02/06/2021
No Comment Gigantic sinkhole appears in central Mexico, worrying locals A sinkhole that has been growing dozens of meters daily since last weekend is worrying the residents of a rural area of the Mexican state of Puebla, in the center of the country. 02/06/2021
No Comment Wandering elephants in China roam villages, wreck crops A herd of 15 wandering elephants in southwestern China has been entering villages and gorging on crops, state media reported, causing millions of yuan in losses. 02/06/2021
No Comment Humanoid robot aims to read and react to human emotion A humanoid robot called Abel is being developed to help recognise and react to human emotions. 02/06/2021
No Comment Lyon Danse Biennale At the heart of this year's Biennale is Africa and young people, with performers from 16 African countries, including Nigerian choreographer Qudus Onikeku and his dancers. 01/06/2021
No Comment Thousands of Palestinian volunteers clean the debris in the streets of Gaza Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in a campaign to clean up the destruction wreaked by Israel’s bombardment in its 11-day offensive. 01/06/2021
No Comment Taiwan: 'Spiderman and Ninja Turtle' donate food to frontline medical staff A Taiwan restaurateur and his friends dress up as spiderman and ninja turtle while they deliver donations of lunch boxes to frontline medical staff, in an effort to put a smile on the island's healthcare workers as they deal with a sudden surge of infections. 01/06/2021
No Comment Through theatre, feminists protest against violence during demonstrations in Colombia With a play relating the pain of mothers who lose a child, but also with a candlelight vigil, feminist organisations of Bogotá gathered to denounce the violence suffered by the demonstrators at the hands of the police in Colombia. 01/06/2021
No Comment Gazans head to the beach as ceasefire holds Families flocked to Gaza's beaches on Sunday after spending almost two weeks largely confined to their homes during the latest war between Israel and the territory's militant Hamas rulers. 31/05/2021
No Comment Sri Lanka: Police investigate fire on ship off Colombo Firefighting tugboats continued to spray a burning ship anchored off the Sri Lankan capital on Monday, as navy personnel began clearing debris from the vessel. 31/05/2021
No Comment The show must go on! Puppeteers pick up the pieces of destroyed theatre in Gaza Two weeks after a ceasefire brought an end to 11 days of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, Nabil al-Khatib, Palestinian artist and founder of Beit al-Fann (the house of art) salvages puppets from his theatre studio in Gaza City to keep bringing smiles to the faces of Palestinian children. 31/05/2021
No Comment Greenpeace activists block a soya warehouse in western France A dozen Greenpeace activists block a soya warehouse in the port of Saint-Nazaire, on France's Atlantic coast, to denounce soya imports into France. 31/05/2021
No Comment New Zealand Floods Aerial video showed the extent of the flooding in New Zealand's Canterbury region on Monday, as forecasters warned of possible heavy rain into the evening before conditions improved. 31/05/2021
No Comment Ethiopia rallies against US over Tigray restrictions Ethiopia stages a massive rally in Addis Ababa to rail against the United States imposing restrictions on economic and security assistance over the conflict in the Tigray region. 30/05/2021