Residents and business owners in a town badly hit by the record flooding in Germany struggled to pick up the pieces after their livelihoods - from old books to wine - were swept away or caked in sludge. The floods - Germany's worst natural disaster in more than half a century - turned houses into rubble and cut power and communications in some regions.

Antique books and vintage wine - livelihoods ruined by the floods

Fewer pilgrims than normal flocked to the city of Mina, the first of the three-day stoning of the devil ritual amid the coronavirus. The annual ritual usually brings millions of worshippers from all over the world shoulder to shoulder. Clad in white robes denoting a state of purity and face masks, men and women cast their stones in Mina, a neighbourhood east of Mecca. After their third day of stoning, pilgrims will go back to Mecca to pray at the Grand Mosque at the end of haj.

Hajj pilgrims take part in first of three-day 'stoning of the devil' ritual

Polar bears, ice melt, wind energy: all issues highlighted at a climate change-themed mini golf course in New York City. The Putting Green mini golf course opened earlier this month along a waterfront park in Brooklyn. Each of the 18 holes showcases a climate change problem or solution. A placard at each hole describes each theme.

Climate change-themed mini golf course seeks to educate and entertain in NYC

Feeling anguish and despair after days of the worst violence to hit South Africa in years, Durban pianist Jenny Bowes is using music to bring hope and love into the scenes of devastation as the country rebuilds following the unrest.

After unrest, South African pianist tackles despair through music

Bolivia's folklore dance parade returned to the streets of El Alto and La Paz with face masks as this year's must-have item among the colourful costumes. This parade is in honour of the Virgin of El Carmen, and it is the event's first return since being cancelled at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Face masks and folklore in Bolivia as dance parade returns after COVID-19 cancellation

Thousands of people are defying a nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Bangladesh to see Rani, a 51-centimetre (20-inch) tall cow whose owners claim it is the world's smallest. The 23-month-old dwarf cow has become a media star with scores of newspapers and television stations throwing the spotlight on the tiny bovine at a farm near Dhaka.

Thousands flock to see dwarf cow in Bangladesh

A gigantic billboard in one of Tokyo's busiest areas featuring a 3D cat that appears perched on a ledge is attracting people to take out their smartphones and snap an Instagram-worthy photo or video. The realistic-looking cat in 4K resolution appears between advertisements on a 154.7 square metre LED screen on top of a building in front of Shinjuku train station, meowing at people walking by.

Gigantic 3D cat on Tokyo billboard dazzles passersby

The Jellyfishbot flickered a yellow glow amongst white boats docked at a southern French port, as the robotic sea-cleaning boat gobbled up plastic bags, discarded drinks bottles, and even used surgical masks floating on the water. At the port of the French city of Cassis, the remote-controlled electric powered boat weaves around the harbour sucking the trash into a net that it trails behind its hulls.

Meet Jellyfishbot, the robot that eats trash on the sea

Since women are "automatically" relegated to cleaning tasks, a group of women in Avellaneda, Argentina started doing masonry to break down gender roles. According to Argentina's construction workers union, the number of women in the industry increased by 131 percent from 2003 to 2010 and they now make up five percent of the workforce.

Argentine women build houses to break down gender stereotypes

Dozens of children live and work in sweltering heat in the Mindoube landfill in the Gabonese capital Libreville, searching for copper or aluminium items they can then resell. In Gabon, one of Africa's largest oil producers and one of the richest per capita in the region, one-third of the population lived below the poverty line in 2017, says the World Bank. "There are a lot of children here who...spend all their time in the landfill," says an activist.

Going to waste: The children who survive on Gabon's garbage dumps

A new kind of pizzeria opened in the Beaubourg district of central Paris, and it comes with a twist: the service, from order-taking to cutting slices and putting the pizzas in boxes, is provided by robots. After "eight years of research and development, we managed to create this technology of the first pizza-making robot in the world," explains inventor Sébastien Roverso.

Paris gets a taste of pizza-making robots

Divers have made a rare sighting of what they say are hundreds of seahorses, a threatened species, in a pollution ravaged lagoon in western Greece, and warn they could be lost if efforts are not made to clean up the lagoon.

Divers make rare sighting of 'hundreds' of seahorses in polluted Greek lagoon

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