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Marine conservationist Amanda Vincent campaigns for the protection of seahorses, which are threatened by industrial fishing and the global wildlife trade.

Almost 750 people attended Chess Fest, the UK's largest outdoor chess festival, aimed to promote the game to inner-city communities, in London's Trafalgar Square on Sunday. Participants could be seen playing on chess boards that had been set up for the festival, including one giant chess board, beside the fountain.

Dozens of drug stores have been ransacked in South Africa amid the country's recent public violence after former president Jacob Zuma was imprisoned, concerning the drug regulator about possible risks triggered by improper use of the missing medicine.

Michelangelo dreamed it, Olivier Grossetête did it: the artist from Marseille has created a cardboard bridge over the Tiber River in Rome to link the gardens of the Villa Farnesina to the Farnese Palace, a splendid Renaissance building that houses the French embassy.

Soweto (South Africa) (AFP) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says recent violent unrest and looting, which claimed more than 200 lives, united the country as well, as he visits cleanup and rebuilding efforts in Soweto township in Johannesburg.

American tennis hopeful Cori "Coco" Gauff will miss the Tokyo Olympics after announcing on Twitter she tested positive for coronavirus. CNN's Andy Scholes reports.

Time Magazine's Charlotte Alter got a rare on-the-record interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson and shares what she learned about why he is so appealing to the conservative base.

Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad says that she is the person who is targeted by four Iranian nationals that have been charged in an alleged kidnapping plot. A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Minister called the allegation "baseless."

Charlotte Alter, who recently interviewed Tucker Carlson, says "Tuckerism" is "more of a posture or an attitude than a real ideology." It's "walking right up to a conspiracy theory, putting your toe in the water, then kind of jumping back when you're challenged and wrapping yourself in the mantle of free speech.

Barry Glassner says news headlines that over-emphasize rising Covid-19 case counts and "breakthrough infections," without putting the numbers into perspective, may discourage unvaccinated people from going ahead and getting vaccinated.

In his first TV interview since leaving Facebook, former vice president of partnerships strategy Brian Boland reacts to President Biden's statement that the platform is "killing people." He says he quit Facebook partly because the company wasn't doing enough to understand what it has built.

Former Facebook vice president Brian Boland who stepped down after 11 years with the company talks to CNN's Brian Stelter about the industry's transparency after the White House said tech companies' steps to fight Covid misinformation are not enough.