Hundreds attend Venice’s Regata Storica despite Covid restrictions

Municipalities around the world are increasingly cracking down on plastic pollution, especially single-use straws.

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says that Manchester United's draw was a positive outcome and a much better performance than he would have seen last season in the Premier League.

Venice holds its annual Regata Storica, drawing hundreds of people as boats move through the Grand Canal. "It's less joyful this year," says one local resident, before adding that "it's always beautiful."

I try to take my pains and turn them into art. So says Mana Neyestani, an Iranian cartoonist who lives in exile here in France. He fled Iran whilst awaiting trial after he draw a cartoon deemed highly offensive by Azeris living in northwestern Iran. He insists he never meant any offence in the cartoon. As his new book "Trois Heures" (Three Hours) comes out, he spoke to us about its inspiration: a three-hour wait at Paris's Orly airport with nothing but a refugee travel document.

The UN Security Council renewed the assistance mission to Afghanistan for another year. Russia abstained from voting, calling out the mission's renewal for "stubborn ignorance of the new realities" of Taliban rule.