Israel launches Covid booster shot campaign for over-60s
Israel launches its campaign to give over-60s coronavirus booster shots, becoming the first country to widely offer a third dose of a western vaccine to citizens.
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Japanese rice paddies transformed into works of art
Gyōda (Japan) (AFP) – Japan’s Ukiyoe and Kabuki culture are showcased in an unusual masterpiece. Rice fields have been transformed into art in the Japanese city of Gyoda to mark the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
Hundreds of hot air balloons take to French skies
Chambley-Bussières (France) (AFP) – In the sky above the French region of Meurthe-et-Moselle, more than three hundred hot air balloons rise to the rhythm of the rising sun.
Israel launches Covid booster shot campaign for over-60s
Jerusalem (AFP) – Israel launches its campaign to give over-60s coronavirus booster shots, becoming the first country to widely offer a third dose of a western vaccine to citizens.
Man's 'Schitt's Creek'-inspired toys get him a Netflix deal
A Canadian man used his old toys to recreate scenes from "Schitt's Creek" and Netflix took notice.
Cleanup on aisle 3: robot plays key role in US supermarket chain
Quincy (United States) (AFP) – Moving up and down through the aisles of northeast America’s Stop and Shop supermarkets is an autonomous robot named Marty. In these stores he has one job: to inspect the floor and look for hazards and spills.
'The Office' actress reveals what fans commonly tell her
"The Office" actress Kate Flannery sits down with CNN's New Day to share what it was like to work on the smash-hit TV show.
Businesses are taking a stand on vaccines
As the Delta variant surges around the country, Corporate America is taking a stand on vaccinations. Johnny Taylor, president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management, explains the conditions employees will face if they aren't vaccinated against Covid-19.
Keilar: Rubio took a swing, missed and hit himself in the face
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tweeted that US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was participating in "embarrassing Covid theater" by wearing a mask and face shield on his trip to the Philippines, where masks and face shields are government mandated.
Residential schools, atrocities against indigenous children in Canada were genocide: First Nations chief
Recent discoveries of large-scale unmarked graves at or near the site of former indigenous residential schools in Canada are atrocities inflicted upon indigenous people including children and are a form of genocide, said the chief of a Canadian Indigenous people's First Nation group Monday.
Watch Boris Johnson's epic battle with umbrella
CNN's John Berman pokes fun at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson after the world leader engaged in an epic struggle with an umbrella.
Finland's orthodox monks turn to forestry to cover Covid losses
heinavesi (Finland) (AFP) – When the pandemic shut down tourism, Finland's only orthodox Christian monastery, Valamo, faced a one-third loss of its three million euro ($3.5 million) turnover, but the monks opted to cut down and sell four years' worth of their trees at once, managing to plug the gap in its finances.
