
July 24 - Every week, Reuters journalists produce scores of multimedia features and human-interest stories from around the world.
Below are some stories from this week selected by our editors, as well as explanatory context and background to help you understand world headlines. For a full schedule of news and events, please go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect.
Denmark records highest number of white stork nestlings in decades
COPENHAGEN - Once extinct in Denmark, the white stork is making a comeback with the highest number of nestlings in decades, sparking hope the bird may once again become a familiar sight in the Nordic country. (DENMARK-STORKS/ (PIX, TV), 352 words) nL8N3TJ0UN
Greece reveals boundaries of two marine parks in Ionian and Aegean Sea
ATHENS - Greece has revealed the boundaries of two planned marine parks in the Ionian and Aegean Seas, which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said will be the largest in the Mediterranean region. (GREECE-PM/ENVIRONMENT (UPDATE 1, TV), 391 words) nL1N3TI0CK
Rising seas and shifting sands attack ancient Alexandria from below
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - From her ninth-floor balcony over Alexandria's seafront, Eman Mabrouk looked down at the strip of sand that used to be the wide beach where she played as a child. (CLIMATE-CHANGE/MEDITERRANEAN-ALEXANDRIA (TV, PIX), 746 words) nL1N3TH056
Cut to UK voting age puts new group in political spotlight
LONDON - Britain's move to lower the voting age to 16 launches the political battle for teenagers' votes, with campaign groups warning that no one should make assumptions about their allegiances and parties must address the issues that affect them. (BRITAIN-ELECTION/YOUTH (PIX, TV), 727 words) nL8N3TF1QE
Microsoft to help France showcase Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in digital replica
Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral, France's most visited monument, Brad Smith, the U.S. tech company's president, said. (MICROSOFT-TECH/FRANCE (PIX), 270 words) nL1N3TH05U
Prague's St Vitus Cathedral installing new, long-overdue pipe organ
PRAGUE - Workers are installing more than 6,000 organ pipes to resonate through St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle, seen as the symbolic completion of one of Europe's greatest Gothic architectural monuments after more than 700 years. (CZECH-CATHEDRAL/ORGAN (TV, PIX), 254 words) nL8N3TJ0QL
At 70, skyscraper Stalin 'gifted' to Warsaw still evokes strong feelings
WARSAW - Seventy years after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "gifted" the Palace of Culture and Science to Warsaw, the towering skyscraper at the heart of Poland's capital still stirs strong feelings among Poles. (POLAND-MONUMENT/PALACE OF CULTURE (TV, PIX), 420 words) nL8N3TJ0D6
Spy cockroaches and AI robots: Germany plots the future of warfare
MUNICH/BERLIN/FRANKFURT - For Gundbert Scherf - the co-founder of Germany's Helsing, Europe's most valuable defence start-up - Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed everything. (UKRAINE-CRISIS/GERMANY-DEFENCE-TECH (UPDATE 1, INSIGHT, PIX), 1,603 words) nL1N3TK0GF
Mussolini's great-grandson hopes skills on soccer pitch outweigh family name
Defender Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, said he wants his footballing talent to mean more than his family name as he readies for a Serie A debut with promoted side Cremonese. (SOCCER-ITALY/MUSSOLINI (PIX), 285 words) nL4N3TK1GY
Inside a US guitar string maker's strategy to navigate the trade war
FARMINGDALE, NY - Once a week, executives of D’Addario & Co, a maker of strings and drumsticks for the world's top musicians, gather at the company’s headquarters about 40 miles east of New York to strategize how they should respond to President Donald Trump's trade war between the United States and the rest of the world. (USA-TRUMP/TARIFFS-INSTRUMENTS (INSIGHT, PIX), 1,206 words) nL6N3TC0LY
Five years after COVID, pharma shares languish in US policy limbo
MILAN - Global healthcare stocks have not been this cheap in decades and fund inflows into the sector are picking up, yet the shares remain in the doldrums, highlighting uncertainty over drug pricing policies since Donald Trump returned to the White House. (GLOBAL-HEALTHCARE/STOCKS (ANALYSIS, PIX), 830 words) nL8N3TJ0JO
In South Korea's 'apple county,' farmers beg not to be sacrificed for US trade deal
CHEONGSONG, South Korea - The apples grown in the South Korean county of Cheongsong in the country's southeast are so renowned for their flavor that they are often given out in neatly packaged gift boxes during national holidays. But apple farmers, who account for about a third of the roughly 14,000 households in the sleepy rural area, now worry that their way of life could be under threat from an influx of cheap U.S. imports.(USA-TRUMP/TARIFFS-SOUTHKOREA-AGRICULTURE (PIX, TV), 629 words) nL4N3TC1UO
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