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Houilles (France) (AFP) – Thunderstorms hit France's Yvelines region overnight near the capital, leaving streets in the town of Houilles heavily flooded

Despite cryptocurrency volatility, African artists across the continent are joining the NFT craze due to its lure of a big payday. CNN takes a look at the burgeoning Non-Fungible Token industry in Nigeria to see how digital artists are navigating the new sector.

Bangalore (India) (AFP) – An aviation firm has carried out the first tests in India of longer-range drone deliveries, as hopes grow that they could deliver medicines as well as Covid-19 vaccines to remote areas.

Spain has pardoned nine jailed Catalan separatists behind a failed 2017 independence bid, announces Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, in an attempt to break the deadlock over the political crisis in this wealthy northeastern region. The separatists were convicted over a banned referendum in October 2017 that was marred by police violence and followed by a short-lived declaration of independence, sparking Spain's worst political crisis in decades.

Kgomotso Phatsima, one of Botswana's first female pilots, is giving kids the tools they need to succeed through STEM programs.

After the shooting death of Breonna Taylor in 2020, her sister Ju'Niyah Palmer not only had to deal with her loss, but also with attacks and death threats on social media. After learning about this, two digital artists from California created a safe virtual space for the African American family to share their memories and go through the grieving process.

Germany's competition watchdog has launched an investigation into Apple over its iOS operating system. The authority said they had received various complaints about Apple's "potentially anticompetitive practices". The investigation will examine whether the US technology giant is hindering free competition for its rivals with the operating system on its iPhone smartphones.

Australia (Australia) (AFP) – An arachnid invasion has left swathes of Australia's Gippsland region covered in webs as the spiders seek higher ground to escape flooding. Spiders are known to release webs to create makeshift parachutes and ride the wind to change location, a phenomenon known as ballooning.

Great Barrier Reef (Australia) (AFP) – Australia will strongly oppose a UNESCO plan to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger" over its deterioration caused by climate change, the government said Tuesday. The UN body released a draft report on Monday recommending the reef's World Heritage status be downgraded because of its dramatic coral decline.

Media outlets in Hong Kong must not "subvert" the government, the city's leader says, rejecting US criticism of recent action against pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily under a powerful new security law.