From Jenna Orkin

Africa’s rising cities

By 2100, 13 of the world’s 20 biggest urban areas will be in Africa.

Kazakhstan officials say 164 dead in protests, country now ‘stabilized’

Turkmenistan’s leader wants to extinguish the country’s ‘Gates of hell Carl Bernstein’s Eulogy for the Newspaper Business 'If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] Troops At Its Embassy In Afghanistan, We Also Want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., Suicide Bombers] From The Fateh Force At The Embassy Of Afghanistan In America'

China’s Chang’e 5 lunar probe finds first on-site evidence of water on moon’s surface

Highest Ever Vegetable Oil Prices

How 15,000 ceramics are made a day in Gujarat, India

Clay refrigerators that don't need electricity saved the ceramics company Mitticool when other pottery companies in Gujarat failed.

A lawmaker in Indiana walked back comments saying teachers should be 'impartial' when teaching students about Nazism

Some cruise passengers and staff infected with COVID-19 say they were served rotten food and left without water for hours: report

Video shows freeloading grizzly bear in Yellowstone Park hunting with wolf pack to steal elk kill