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The European Union is set to take the lead in climate policy action among the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters this week, with a raft of ambitious plans designed to cut emissions drastically over the next decade.

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Thousands of fish were dropped from a plane into lakes near Bicknell in Utah, to repopulate them with marine life.

Plane dumps thousands of fish into Utah lake

Taekwondo player Juliana Alsadeq made her childhood dream come true after she managed to qualify for the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo this summer. The 26-year-old athlete's objective may be to fetch the gold medal, but she also expressed hope that her participation will be a source of inspiration for young girls in Jordan.

Jordanian taekwondo athlete competing in Olympics hopes to inspire young women

Makeup artist Sahar Ahmad travels the West Bank in a pink-and-black minibus with the picture of Marilyn Monroe painted on it. Named 'Glitter' and adorned with the slogan "Beauty on the way," the minibus serves brides and clients short on time or ones who are unable to reach the salon.

Mobile salon brings beauty services to West Bank women

French champagne producer Michel Drappier loves Russian customers. He sells them thousands of bottles every year, the national airline serves his brand in business class, and it was on the menu when Vladimir Putin visited France. But Drappier worries a new Russian law on labeling imported champagne will undermine the principle he holds sacrosanct, that only champagne produced in France's Champagne region is worthy of the name.

French champagne maker: We can't let Russia water down our brand

A surprising mixture of waste and high fashion comes together in a newly established recycling space in the Russian capital of Moscow.

Moscow museum shows off recycling fashion

A trove of love letters that explore American poet Sylvia Plath's passion for her British husband, fellow poet Ted Hughes, are up for auction at Sotheby's, along with their wedding rings, family recipes and photo albums.

Poet Sylvia Plath's love letters to Ted Hughes up for sale

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.

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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

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

Denmark's Queen Margrethe inaugurated the brand new and reimagined H.C. Andersen's House in Odense, the famous Danish fairytale author's birth town.

Step into H.C. Andersen fairytales at new museum

A group of athletes has rowed a boat from San Francisco to Hawaii in record time. The four-man crew was part of the Great Pacific Race, a rowing competition that pits two and four-person teams against one another in identical boats on a solitary journey across the open ocean.

Four-man team break world record, row from San Fran to Hawaii in 30 days

As Brazil battles, a pandemic that has taken over half a million lives and thrust millions more further into poverty, a church in the west of Rio de Janeiro has assumed a new mission: to bake thousands of loaves of bread.

A church in Brazil takes on a new mission, baking bread for the poor

A favourite spot of the late Princess Diana, the Sunken Garden at her former London home Kensington Palace has been redesigned to house a statue in her honour to be unveiled on Thursday (July 1) by her sons, Princes William and Harry.

Forget-me-not: London palace's garden redesigned for Diana statue

Students at a Kyiv school have been learning about saving the environment and helping those in need by using a special recycling machine which uses plastic bottles as currency.

Kyiv recycling machine trades plastic for donations to good causes

Ahymara Espinoza, a 36-year-old athlete made it to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, and to repeat the achievement this year, she needs to stay under 32nd place in the shot put ranking.

Venezuelan athlete seeks the Olympic dream

Bangkok "tuk tuk" taxi driver Samran Thammasa, 39, had never heard of K-pop star Jessica Jung before the coronavirus pandemic, but now the singer's Thai fans are helping him survive the loss of tourist customers. His bright green three-wheeled motorcycle rickshaw has been mostly vacant for more than a year. In the past few months, though, he's earned about 600 baht ($19) a month to feature K-pop ads on his vehicle.

K-pop fans come to the rescue for Thailand's hard-hit 'tuk tuk' drivers

Meet Tal and Molly. At 7 years of age, Tal is a 130-pound Akbash and Molly is a one-year old Walker Coonhound. The two are trained therapy dogs with the Boricuas de Corazon disaster relief team.

Therapy dogs bring comfort to victims after building collapse

Balconies have become the new performance space for Bolivia's National Symphony Orchestra, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of concert halls.

Bolivian orchestra delights with balcony concert for pandemic respite

Nearly six decades after France's prehistoric Lascaux caves were made off-limits, visitors will be once again able to tour the site - only this time in virtual reality.

Virtual reality brings prehistoric Lascaux caves back into view

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