The Taliban outlawed dozens of seemingly innocuous activities and pastimes in Afghanistan during their 1996-2001 rule - including kite flying, TV soap operas, pigeon racing, fancy haircuts, and even playing music. These have made a comeback in the years since, but fears are growing they will be banned again if the hardline Islamists return to power.

'Talibanned': From kite-running to breakdancing, Afghan pastimes again under threat

A pageant for Indigenous women in Bolivia ended in victory Friday for a 28 year old medical student, Nelly Mamani Chambi. She was awarded the title of "Miss Cholita 2021". Contestants wore clear plastic face coverings during the event to guard against the coronavirus.

Miss Cholita 2021 crowned in La Paz

Forty divers have removed abandoned fishing nets covering coral reefs in a protected area in the Gulf of Thailand in a two-day operation which ended on Sunday (June 20). Removal of the nets by a group of volunteer divers and the Coastal Resources Research Center, helped by the Royal Thai Navy, revealed long lines of coral bleaching inside the protected area around Ko Losin, a small rocky islet in the southern waters of the gulf.

Thai divers remove fishing nets bleaching protected coral reefs

June 21 is marked as International Yoga Day every year. This year marks the seventh annual celebration of yoga - a spiritual science meant to unite the body and mind. The holistic art of healthy life is known to improve flexibility, strength and general wellness. Here's a look at how Indian Navy personnel onboard INS Airavat performed Yoga.

International Yoga Day 2021: Indian Navy personnel onboard INS Airavat perform Yoga

New underwater video shot by documentary filmmaker Tahsin Ceylan showed a slimy 'sea snot' expanding in Sea of Marmara as Turkish government launched a disaster management programme meant to clean up the outbreak. Video shot by Ceylan, shortly before cleaning efforts has begun, showed layers of 'sea snot' floating on the surface of water and covering marine plants.

What is Turkey's 'sea snot' outbreak and how does it threaten marine life?

Activist group Avaaz welcomed G7 leaders to Cornwall by sketching their likenesses into sand, putting their support behind calls to waive intellectual property rights over COVID-19 vaccines.

Activists sketch G7 leaders' likeness in sand

At the Keur Moussa abbey near Senegal's capital, the kora has replaced the organ and accompanies all the religious services of the Benedictine monks who live there. The friars fabricate themselves the instruments in their atelier, to the point where the Keur Moussa's kora has acquired the likes of professional Griots, well beyond the Catholic world.

Senegalese monks seek God through kora music

A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years. Russian scientists found the tiny, ancient animal called the bdelloid rotifer in soil taken from the river Alazeya in Russia's region of Yakutia in the far north.

Tiny creature comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze

Cicadas are flying off the shelves at a Maryland chocolate shop that is dipping the insects in chocolate to make sweet and crunchy treats. Sarah Dwyer, of Chouquette Chocolates, started coating cicadas in chocolate and selling them when Brood X started singing in 2021. Now her chocolate shop, which spends most of the year selling romantic and timely chocolates, has a five-day backlog for cicada orders.

Chocolatier serves up cicada sweets

A bronze statue of the main God of the kingdom of Saba, located in what is now the Yemeni province of Marib, lies in a dark and fortified room of the Sanaa National Museum. The piece was made by a man named Hawtar Athat in the first half of the sixth century BC. It has been lucky enough to survive the latest war in Yemen. Many other artefacts have not.

As war destroys Yemen's present, museums struggle to preserve its past

The world's oldest cave painting is decaying at a rapid pace due to climate change, archaeologists said, as experts race against time to find ways to preserve the priceless prehistorical artwork in Indonesia. Found in 2017, the painting in a limestone cave in Indonesia's island of Sulawesi appears to be the earliest known pictorial record of storytelling and thought to date back 45,500 years.

Archaeologists fear climate change slowly erasing world's oldest cave painting in Indonesia

As the leaders of the G7 begin to arrive at the South western tip of the UK, their likenesses have also appeared on the side of the Cornish coast in trash. Artists Joe Rush and Alex Wreckage created the sculpture nicknamed "Mount Recyclemore" of the leaders of the G7 out of electronic waste to highlight the huge amount of tech and gadgets that goes unrecycled globally each year.

Artists create giant e-waste 'Mount Recyclemore' sculpture of G7 leaders

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