Getting the weekend off to a positive start with a round up of good news snippets.
Glastonbury: No wellies, no mud, no tent - don't forget to celebrate 50 years of the iconic festival on TV at home. BBC has comprehensive coverage all weekend.
Asteroid attack: It's about us attacking the asteroid, not the other way round. How NASA plans to save the world... with no need to call on Bruce Willis this time.
Good week for teenage K-pop fans who expertly trolled Donald Trump by reserving tickets to his widely criticised Tulsa rally, embarrassing the president with empty seats.
Bike boom: UK sales up 60% in April as Covid-19 changes lifestyles.
Going Dutch: The Netherlands may have figured out something about working from home (pandemic or no) that the rest of the world has yet to learn.
Two pig farmers from Suffolk are supporting one million bees by planting wildflowers on 33 hectares of their land, a bee survey has confirmed.
US: NASA renames its Washington DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, their first Black female engineer who joined the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics - NASA’s predecessor -in 1951.
Mongolia: When a common cuckoo took off from Mongolia last June (with a tiny tracker) no one expected him to make a 26,000km round trip to southern Africa.
Australia: Following devastating bushfires six months ago, the critically-endangered smoky mouse had been feared extinct by conservationists as more than 90 percent its habitat had been scorched. Happily it turns out that's not the case.
France: First phase of what will be the world’s largest urban farm has just opened on the roof of the Paris Exhibition Centre, following a two-month delay. It currently covers an area of 4,000m², but plans to expand the space to 14,000m² by 2022.
Greta Thunberg: The coronavirus pandemic and the BLM movement have given the young activist hope by demonstrating that, if the emergency is great enough, those in power are, indeed, able to act.
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