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The Birmingham 2022 Queen’s Baton Relay has completed four jam-packed days in Australia from 17 to 20 March, where over 50 Batonbearers were selected to represent their country. It follows recent visits to other Commonwealth Games Associations in Oceania, some of which include:

With the aid of a loud speaker, Kayemba Stephen's voice booms out above the noise of the traffic and bustle as people make their way to work in this busiest part of Uganda's capital, Kampala.

"Receive Jesus today!" the preacher, known on the streets as Sulphur Teacher, urges passers-by with a swagger as if he believes everyone is closely listening to what he has to say.

A new Bottega Prosecco Bar has opened in the Extra-Schengen departure area of Venice Airport. Bottega’s quality food service format lands in the lagoon city, where the concept originated with the aim to evoke the tradition of Venetian bacari.

Travellers will therefore have the opportunity to taste Bottega wines in combination with some gastronomic specialities of the Venetian and Italian tradition.

An Indian man has received several offers of help after a video of him running home from work went viral. The video was shot by filmmaker Vinod Kapri, who offered a lift to the 19-year-old Pradeep Mehra as he ran past his car.

But Mr Mehra turned down the offer, saying he ran around 10km (six miles) every night to keep himself in shape to join the Indian Army. The video has more than 6 million views so far.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been told to apologise for what was called utterly distasteful and insulting remarks after linking the invasion of Ukraine by Russia with the UK’s relationship with the European Union.

At the Conservative Party spring conference in Blackpool, the PM said that it was the instinct of the people of this country, like the people of Ukraine, to choose freedom, with the Brexit vote a “famous recent example”.

The hijab, according to a recent landmark Indian court ruling, has something to do with culture but certainly not with religion. A three-judge bench in the southern state of Karnataka upheld a government ban on the headscarf in schools and colleges on the grounds that wearing it was not essential to Islam.

Hot on the heels of the recent Trinidad & Tobago ‘Taste of Carnival’, the Atlanta Caribbean Carnival Bandleaders Association (ACCBA) is preparing to serve a whole buffet of Caribbean culture this May in the center of Georgia’s energetic capital city with the 2022 edition of the beloved ‘Atlanta Caribbean Carnival’.

Atlanta Caribbean Carnival’ which has been in existence for 35 years takes place from May 27th-30th 2022 and is already gearing up to be a major highlight of the Memorial Day Weekend (the unofficial start of the US Summer festival season).

The Australian government has won an appeal against a ruling that it has a duty of care to protect children from harm caused by climate change.

Last year, eight teenagers and an 87-year-old nun convinced a court that the government had a legal duty to children when assessing fossil fuel projects. The decision was hailed as a world first, but it has been successfully challenged by the environment minister.

Seven-time Formula One World Champion Sir Lewis Hamilton delighted fans with a live Q&A session at Expo 2020 Dubai’s Al Wasl. Mercedes Formula One driver Sir Lewis Hamilton told cheering fans in Dubai that he was ready to fight for his eighth championship title this season.

He visited Expo 2020 Dubai for a short talk at Al Wasl Plaza, where thousands of excited fans turned up to see their sporting hero.

China is the world's biggest exporter and one of its most contentious exports of late is students.

Every year it is estimated that more than 700,000 Chinese people leave their country to study abroad. And many of these end up in the UK, learning at British universities.

It was announced that the former President of Zambia, Rupiah Bwezani Banda, has died. As the African country’s fourth president, he was in power from 2008 to 2011.

Diagnosed with colon cancer two years ago, his death came a day after current President, Hakainde Hichilema paid him a courtesy call at his residence - where he found him in high spirits.

Jamaica’s Minister of Education Fayval Williams said the Government would revisit the funding model for low-performing schools and possibly do away with the one-size-fits-all model where resources are allocated equally per student.

The Minister said: “We have to do it in a very transparent manner so that all persons will understand.

There has been a rush of visits to Expo 2020 as the closing date for the Dubai-based event approaches.

In total, 17.4 million people have now passed through the turnstiles, with organisers describing this as “phenomenal increase” of 1.4 million visits in a single week.

Journalists who register for the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will have access to more than 12,000 presentations on a variety of topics.

ACS Spring 2022 is a hybrid meeting being held virtually and in-person in San Diego on March 20-24. Journalists are invited to apply for in-person or virtual press credentials. The meeting theme is “Bonding through Chemistry.”

Included environment-related talks among the 12,000 presentations are:
• Atmospheric aerosol chemistry
• Clean energy, fuel storage and conversion
• Degradation and removal of “forever chemicals”
• Innovative materials and technologies for environmental sustainability
• Micro- and nanoplastic detection, occurrence, fate and toxicological impacts
• Nanomaterials for water treatment and reuse
• Renewable energy options
• Looking for something else? Search the schedule.

To attend ACS Spring 2022 virtually or in-person, registration is required. ACS considers requests for press credentials and complimentary registration to meetings from reporters (staff and freelance) and public information officers at government, non-profit and educational institutions.
ACS Spring 2022 will be a vaccination-required and mask-recommended event for all attendees, exhibitors, vendors, and ACS staff who plan to participate in-person in San Diego, CA.

It was announced that actor Emilio Delgado, who appeared on Sesame Street for more than four decades, has died.

Delgado was a presence in children's lives for 45 years, playing the fix-it shop owner Luis on the long-running series. His wife, Carol Delgado, confirmed he had died from the blood cancer multiple myeloma, which he had been battling since 2020, at their home in New York.

Commonwealth Day 2022 will be celebrated on Monday 14 March 2022 centring around the theme for the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting – 'Delivering a Common Future' – to highlight how the 54 member countries in the Commonwealth family are ‘innovating, connecting and transforming’ to help achieve goals like fighting climate change, promoting good governance and boosting trade.