London (AFP) – In south London’s Crystal Palace Park, a collection of dinosaur sculptures which date back to 1854 will be among the heritage sites to benefit from new funding announced by the UK’s National Lottery Heritage Fund. The total funding, worth over £24 million, will go towards projects in locations ranging from northern Scotland’s John O’Groats to southwest England’s Penzance.
Sunda Straits (Indonesia) (AFP) – Images captured by a CCTV camera show Indonesia’s Mount Anak Krakatoa erupting and spewing hot ash clouds. Mount Anak Krakatoa, which means Child of Krakatoa, erupted four times, officials said, with the biggest followed by another that sent a column of smoke and ash 1,500 metres above its crater.
Alausí (Ecuador) (AFP) – Rescue workers save a dog that was trapped underneath rubble after a landslide occurred that buried dozens of homes and killed at least seven people in Alausi, Ecuador.
Nashville (AFP) – People lay flowers and pray at a makeshift memorial outside a private elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, where a heavily armed former student killed three young children and three staff. “I don’t think it should be as easy to buy flowers as it is a gun,” says a Nashville resident.
Alausí (Ecuador) (AFP) – Rescuers searched Monday for nearly 50 people reported missing after a landslide triggered by months of heavy rain in southern Ecuador.
Rotterdam (Netherlands) (AFP) – Germany has delivered promised Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, providing Kyiv with much-needed heavy weaponry against Russia.
Unknown (AFP) – Thomas Dambo is best-known for his towering wooden “troll” sculptures. Now, he invites the public on a complex quest to find his recently-completed hundredth troll, named “Moon Mother”.
Tel Aviv (AFP) – Israeli police used water cannon to disperse protesters during a demonstration against the judicial overhaul which triggered the country’s most severe domestic crisis in years. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paused the overhaul on Monday night.
Munich (Germany) (AFP) – On Monday, a large-scale strike movement paralyzed Germany’s transportation sector at the request of unions demanding higher wages to compensate for inflation.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits frontline positions and a command centre in the Zaporizhzhia region, where he presents awards to servicemen and police officials. Zelensky’s visit to the region — home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant — was made alongside UN nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi.
Solna (Sweden) (AFP) – Outdoor naps in 5°C, knife lessons and lunch over a wood fire… In northern Europe, some pre-schools are moving their education to the open air. At two “forest kindergartens” in Sweden and Denmark, educators insist that the children are finding the change of scenery to be a breath of fresh air.
Near Bakhmut (Ukraine) (AFP) – Standing on the roadside at sunset, a team of medics have snapped on their latex gloves, waiting for the arrival of wounded Ukrainian soldiers. Based in a frontline village, their job is to collect injured troops battling for Bakhmut, the centre of the war’s bloodiest fighting, who have been evacuated by military paramedics.
