Its V&A curator hopes it’s a way to get visitors to think beyond Tehran’s tensions with the west. Source link

Despite the threat to his life, and the oppressively strict circumstances he’s now living in, the virologist who became Belgium’s most public figure in tackling the Covid pandemic is remarkably calm. He even manages a joke about working from home, even though he admits this is taking it to extremes. […]

The US airline has ordered 15 supersonic passenger jets which could cut travel times in half. Source link

A few of the stories you may have missed this week. Source link

A Hungarian couple taking part in a challenge to raise awareness of river pollution in the Danube river came across a pair of rare white-tailed eagles that were clasped together, likely after a fight, at risk of drowning. Klaudia Kis and Richard Varga took it upon themselves to rescue them […]

George Floyd Square in Minneapolis has served as a public memorial to Floyd in the year since he was killed by police. Now, it’s being cleared out and opened up to traffic. Activists at the site say the city did not notify them before crews began clearing barricades. City officials […]

Russia’s Yana Sizikova had been detained as part of an investigation into fixing at the French Open. Source link

But just to be clear: today Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, has denied access to its megaphone to a man who 74 million people voted for. They didn’t just know him, or approve of him; they voted for him to be US president. That is a big call. Source […]