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Mohammed Sabry Soliman, arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails, faces hate crime charges after expressing intent to kill 'Zionist people' during a protest in Boulder.

"If we clean up their act, actually those (rock) surfaces can become strong again, and even the holes could get filled in by these little micro bacteria."

Africa has oil, gas, minerals, metals; we have forest, we have everything. But we are not getting anything from it because international corporations and national corporations don't pay the relevant taxes and royalties.

My NPR colleague Aya Batrawy, based in Dubai, summed it up best after seeing a video I'd shared of a booby in clear focus, its neck twisted in a 180-degree pose, preening its rear cinnamon-brown and white-streaked feathers. "Now that's life," she remarked, "to be born with perfect footwear and the ability to scratch your own back."

The colony of flesh-footed shearwaters on Lord Howe Island is ingesting alarming amounts of plastic, with every bird now containing 50 or more pieces in their stomachs.

As the two-part finale gets closer, fans who have slept on the latest season will want to catch up quickly.

A mysterious figure ruling at the fringes of the known world, Prester John might be the most famous person you've never heard of. Like a medieval Carmen Sandiego, Prester John was a man people searched the globe for, never quite catching up to him in the end.

With their red loafers and scarves and sashaying, it's almost like these men, by linking their arms and dancing their hearts out, are able to briefly erase the horrors that happened here.

The incident on Friday left three Cambodians dead after lightning struck Angkor Wat, prompting officials to urge against spreading information that could harm tourism.