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Wildlife photographer Christophe Courteau got much closer to a silverback gorilla than he probably expected.

While photographing gorillas in Rwanda, Courteau captured the dramatic moment a silverback named Akarevuro charged toward him and struck him, knocking him off balance.

The result was a once-in-a-lifetime wildlife photo and taken from the perspective of the person getting hit.

Sometimes getting the shot means getting the shot.

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New Zealand’s black robin has gone from just five known birds in 1980 to around 350 adults today, making its 2026 Bird of the Year victory an especially fitting celebration.

At its lowest point, only five black robins remained, with just one breeding pair. Conservationists launched an intensive recovery programme, including a pioneering technique of using other bird species to foster-parent black robin eggs and chicks.

Today, all living black robins are descended from the last breeding female, Old Blue. The species now lives on two predator-free islands in the Chatham Islands.

It’s an incredible conservation comeback, but the story isn’t over. The black robin is still classified as critically threatened, and conservationists are working to establish another population and secure more safe habitat.

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Malls and public spaces across the country have started replacing some commercial ads with huge portraits of famous scientists, including rocket scientist Qian Xuesen, Nobel Prize winner Tu Youyou and agricultural scientist Yuan Longping.

The trend appears to have started in Shandong before spreading to other parts of China, with people even stopping to take photos in front of the displays.

The idea is simple: give the people behind major scientific breakthroughs the same kind of public attention usually reserved for actors, athletes and influencers

Pierre Damas Bel was 20 years old.

He had just graduated high school with honors in Springfield, Ohio, and started studying physiology and neuroscience at Wright State, with dreams of one day becoming a doctor. After losing his Temporary Protected Status and being fitted with an ICE ankle monitor, he wrote on Instagram about the shame and humiliation he never imagined he’d experience.

He died days later, in what his family believes was a suicide.

His story is one of an estimated 350,000 Haitians affected when the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end TPS protections.

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