China's giant Baihetan hydro plant begins generating power - CCTV
The project is part of a national electricity scheme, but critics say it has destroyed habitats and damaged natural flood plains
Rio kept destruction of Ice Age Australia heritage secret, Aboriginal group says
The Aboriginal group say that material dating back at least 18,000 years and other artefacts were thrown in a Darwin rubbish heap
Competing events make their marks on LGBTQ+ Pride Day in New York
Thousands join 'Reclaim Pride' march as city's official event closed to most over coronavirus fears
Czech President Zeman calls transgender people 'disgusting'
Czech President Milos Zeman made his remarks about transgender people while commenting on a Hungarian law that bans LGBT material from schools
Saudi Arabia releases two women activists, says rights group
Saudi Arabia has released two women's rights activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah, detained nearly three years ago
Competing Pride marches - one virtual, one in-person - step off in New York
Both Pride events commemorate the June 28, 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village
'It's unbearable': U.S. Pacific Northwest swelters in heat wave
National Weather Service says heat wave will likely be one of the most extreme and prolonged in the recorded history of the inland northwest
Thousands march in Paris' first LGBT pride since lockdown
An LGBT Pride march drew thousands to the streets of Paris, the first event of its kind since the coronavirus pandemic
Cooling centers open in U.S. Pacific Northwest ahead of 'life-threatening heat'
The National Weather Service issues excessive heat warnings and watches across nearly all of Oregon and Washington state, telling residents punishing conditions could be fatal
U.N. rights expert decries Hungary's new anti-LGBT law
Hungary's parliament passed a law that bans the dissemination of LGBT+ content in schools