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Château-Thierry (France) (AFP) – There's no soil and no sunshine, just stacks of boxes of microgreens and herbs, robot sprinklers and LED lights at France's first 'vertical farm'. The aromatic plants grown by Jungle company in a hangar in the northern French town Château-Thierry will soon supply the national supermarket chain Monoprix.

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc talks to Amanda Davies about Ferrari's F1 season so far, Euro 2020 and how Cristiano Ronaldo fared when he visited Ferrari HQ in Maranello.

Santos (Brazil) (AFP) – In the narrow alleys and windowless stilt houses of the Vila Gilda favela in Santos, southeast Brazil, good sanitary conditions are hard to come by. The Covid-19 pandemic is just one more item on a long list of problems for the 26,000 residents who face the constant risk of fire, falling between the wooden planks, and other diseases.

In 2004, Wangari Maathai became the first environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The woman who launched the Green Belt Movement was convinced of the value of planting trees to conserve the environment and secure people's livelihoods.

Maidstone (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The players who dominated Wimbledon over the past three decades may have changed, but one feature has remained constant, the supplier of its trademark strawberries. Hugh Lowe Farms, situated near Maidstone in Kent, has been the sole supplier of the fruit so closely associated with the Grand Slam event for almost 30 years.

At least three people have died and hundreds more injured after a rare tornado tore through a region in the southeastern Czech Republic.

Earlier this year, Robbie Balenger set a new record for New York City's Central Park Loop Challenge. The vegan ultrarunner completed 16 loops, totaling nearly 100 miles in just over 18 hours.

Have you ever wondered what mining would look like in the next few years? Well ABB South Africa seems to believe that automation has potential to reduce operating costs and somehow not cause job loses.

Denmark goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel reflects on a eventful two weeks for the Danish team after teammate Christian Eriksen collapsed after suffering a cardiac arrest. As he tells CNN, while Denmark has a history at the Euros, the team's only focus is on their next match.