On the south side of Clemson University's campus cemetery, dozens of white flags with pink ribbons mark the final resting places of the enslaved and convicted African American laborers who built the school and the plantation on which it sits.
A former Mrs. Sri Lanka forcefully removed the crown from the newly appointed beauty pageant queen after falsely claiming she was ineligible to take part.
The rising Chinese market is too promising for European companies to walk away from, said Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, regarding the recent worrying situation in the bilateral trade ties. Trade between China and the European Union (EU) has been advancing in recent years, with China becoming the largest trading partner of the latter.
Zimbabwe officials have set up additional vaccination centers in community areas across the capital city of Harare as a way of decongesting the main centers that had been overwhelmed as the nation entered the second phase of its inoculation drive.
An episode of short feline film series "The Cats That Rule The World" looks at the stray cats being nursed back to health by prison inmates in the U.S.. (April 8)
Gwacheon (South Korea) (AFP) – The Brave Girls were losing courage just weeks ago, on the verge of abandoning their dreams of K-pop stardom after years of going nowhere. Then a YouTuber uploaded a compilation of them performing on S.Korean army bases — and saved their careers.
For more than a century, many directors have fallen foul of Italy's film censorship laws. But now state intervention into artistic freedom is over as the government has called time on the censorship of films on moral or religious grounds.
Lembata (Indonesia) (AFP) – Tropical cyclone Seroja pounded Indonesia and East Timor Monday after torrential rains triggered floods and landslides that have killed many people and left dozens more missing.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) says he vetoed a bill that would've prohibited physicians in Arkansas from providing gender-affirming "procedures" for trans people under age 18 because it would be "vast government overreach."
Response teams in Manatee County, Florida, are trying to prevent a "real catastrophic flood situation" in the Piney Point reservoir area, Gov. Ron DeSantis said after taking an aerial tour of the area. The Manatee County Public Safety Department declared a state of emergency and ordered a complete evacuation of the Piney Point reservoir site and surrounding areas due to a leak that could cause a collapse of phosphogypsum stacks, radioactive waste that is created during fertilizer production and phosphate rock mining.
The All-Star Game will be played at Coors Field in Denver. Major League Baseball officially announced the new venue Tuesday after pulling the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to extensive changes to Georgia's voting laws. (April 6)
White House press secretary Jen Psaki hailed Colorado's voting laws and said Georgia's election changes are "built on a lie" after Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver over objections to Georgia's new law. (April 6)
