Mark Giordano of the Calgary Flames

The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Canada, that play in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Western Conference's Pacific Division. Founded in 1972 in Atlanta as the Atlanta Flames, the team relocated to Calgary in 1980. The Calgary Flames initially played at the Stampede Corral before moving into the Olympic Saddledome in 1983. In 1985–86, the Flames became the first Calgary team since the 1923–24 Calgary Tigers to compete for the Stanley Cup. In 1989, the Flames won their first and only Stanley Cup. The Flames' unexpected run to the 2004 Stanley Cup Final gave rise to the Red Mile, and in 2011, the team hosted and won the second Heritage Classic outdoor game. The Flames have won two Presidents' Trophies as the NHL's top regular-season team, and eight division titles. The Flames are one of two NHL teams based in the Canadian province of Alberta, the other being the Edmonton Oilers, leading to a rivalry known as the "Battle of Alberta". (Full article...)

Rakaia salmon statue

• ... that a student magazine hypothesised what would happen if a large salmon statue (pictured) fought a trout statue in New Zealand?
• ... that although the Indonesian Painters Association sought to develop a modern Indonesian art, its members had no shared style?
• ... that while writer Edgar J. March served as a war reserve constable during World War II, he tussled with a burglar and chased him on a borrowed bicycle?
• ... that a faulty premise can turn a whole argument into a fallacy?
• ... that the musical adaptation of Black Swan rewrote the character of Thomas LeRoy as a woman to avoid writing a #MeToo story?
• ... that Philadelphia's Salvation Army Memorial Temple was once an American burlesque theatre?
• ... that A Story About Fire was animated by hand on 50,000 sheets of rice paper?
• ... that the authors of Soonish had to remove a completed chapter from the book before publication?
• ... that a large yellow bear taught 500 children how to wash their hands in Haffen Park?

Rescue teams at a collapsed building in Caracas

• Two earthquakes strike Venezuela (damage pictured), leaving more than 1,700 people dead and tens of thousands of others missing.
• Former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan dies at the age of 100.
• Keir Starmer announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• An attack at Diori Hamani International Airport in Niger kills 35 people, including 22 gunmen.