Will China and India Go to War?

More than 500,000 people have been forced to evacuate in Oregon as wildfires continue to decimate the American West. The estimated 100 wildfires have stained the skies an apocalyptic orange, causing at least seven deaths and burning a record 3 million acres. California is in the midst of a 20-year drought.

2. It’s The Russians! … and Others

Let the hacking begin — actually, it already has. With the election upon us, hackers linked to Russia, China and Iran are trying to hack into systems of groups and officials associated with the campaigns of both Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, tech giant Microsoft has said. The firm said it had successfully thwarted most cyber attacks for now. But the starting gun has been fired.

3. Equal $ign

It’s two steps forward, one step back for equality and justice. Citibank has appointed Scottish-born Jane Fraser as its CEO, becoming the first major U.S. bank with a female head. And over in Australia, mining giant Rio Tinto said its CEO Jean-Sébastien Jacques is quitting amid repercussions from the company’s destruction of ancient indigenous rock shelters in May. But in Brazil environmentalists are mourning the death of a leading expert on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon from an arrow — possibly from people he spent his career protecting. Is the Citi change a harbinger of broader gender equality on Wall Street? Vote on Twitter.

4. Fatter, Please

A coronavirus aid bill proposed by Republicans did not make it past the Senate Thursday as Democrats deemed the $300 billion legislation too ‘skinny.’ The bill was significantly less than the $1 trillion suggestion by the GOP in July — an indication that job gains and signs of pandemic progress have made Republicans less worried. However with 191,000 people in the United States dead from the virus, there is no telling if the economy has truly bottomed out.

5. War and Peace?

Taiwan has accused Beijing of “severe provocation” after nearly two dozen Chinese fighter planes and ships operated close to their border over the past two days. Meanwhile Indian and Chinese foreign ministers agreed to return to talks in a Moscow meeting amid a military buildup along their border after gunshots were fired there for the first time in 45 years.

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At least 42 survivors of the attacks have died from COVID-19, and another 1,300 have contracted it. It’s only the latest health setback that 9/11 survivors — many of whom were first responders — have suffered.

2. Crime and Punishment

The U.S. removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan and eventually killed Osama bin Laden. But America’s war on terror has displaced at least 37 million people, killed at least half a million people and sparked allegations of war crimes. Is the world safer today?

3. Beehive Battle

When a beehive is attacked, thousands of bees pursue the assailant until vengeance is served. That’s how America was after 9/11, except we didn’t know whom to attack. Racist attacks on minorities spiked, and it didn’t end there. The criminalization of immigration has since risen dramatically, according to new research.

4. Kindling Kindness

Yet the attacks also forged unity, compassion and kindness toward strangers. Today, 9/11 is marked as the National Day of Service and Remembrance. That spirit extends beyond America’s borders. A Newfoundland town that helped stranded strangers that day is now a tourist attraction.

1. Malaika Vaz

The beach was her childhood getaway. So it’s little surprise that the 23-year-old from Goa, India developed a love for windsurfing, diving and sailing — before plunging into conservation. Her documentaries have been featured on the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Vaz is probing the illegal trade of manta rays across Southeast Asia. Oh, and she’s also a Cessna pilot — she knows how to fly high.

2. Hans Cosmas Ngoteya

The 30-year-old loves it when groups of local visitors to western Tanzania’s Katavi National Park see crocodiles and hippos living together. The message is simple: so can humans and animals. That’s why the filmmaker and photographer is now working with local communities that once poached animals to instead offer them alternative livelihoods while training them in conservation.

3. Alyssa Adler

Did you know that on the seafloor near Antarctica is littered with liquor bottles and plastic? For the past decade Adler, a marine biologist, has been documenting her finds as she navigates water bodies all over the globe as an undersea videographer. And even the pandemic hasn’t slowed her down. From October to December, she’ll be in Patagonia and Antarctica.

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Can you match each of these words to its meaning and to the country where you might hear it? 

Words:

a. Nimekosuma

b. Mamihlapinatapai

c. Jayus

Meanings:

a. A look shared by two people who want to initiate something, but neither start.

b. A joke that’s so, so bad that you can’t stop yourself from laughing.

c. I get you.

Origins:

a. Indonesia

b. Chile

c. Kenya

(For example: Is “Jayus; I get you; Chile” correct?)  

Share your answers below.

Jazz up your already jazzy dirty martini with a little sardine flavor. Wash your gin with sardine oil, then make your martini as normal with vermouth and olive brine. Sounds weird, tastes amazing.

2. Bubblicious

The foamy bubble bath martini from London’s Bohemian Lounge does indeed taste like an alcoholic bath, with lychee and lavender notes and a little teeny rubber ducky.

3. Easter Promises

If Cadbury creme eggs are out of season (or unavailable in your country) you can recreate the flavor, but at home and with alcohol. It does require something called whipped cream vodka though.

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