- The Telegraph
How to avoid the travel chaos caused by this weekend’s M25 closures
Planning a car journey this weekend? The stretch of the M25 between junction 10 and 11 will be shut in both directions from tonight between 9pm on Friday 10 May and 6am on Monday 13 May, while necessary improvement work takes place – and it could affect your journey.
- Associated Press
Pope urges Italians to have babies as a measure of hope for future
Pope Francis pressed his campaign Friday to urge Italians to have children, calling for long-term policies to help families and warning that the country’s demographic crisis was threatening the future. “The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups. “Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for the future.”
- AFP
'Easter egg' plastic skeleton props in US lake falsely shared as genuine discoveries in the ocean
Underwater footage of an assortment of props -- including plastic skeletons and a lawnmower -- in a flooded old mining pit in the US state of Minnesota were in fact placed by divers over the years, contrary to Korean-language posts on YouTube and TikTok that suggested the scenes were filmed deep under the sea. Though the false claims suggested a "strange incident" had taken place, the diver who filmed the video told AFP the props were planted before 2003, likely as "easter eggs" for other people
