A 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy has been found with its natural hair still in place.

Barkhad Abdi went from answering a casting call in Minneapolis to an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He played the pirate leader Muse opposite Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips his first-ever film role, which paid him $65,000. He was one of just four people picked out of more than 700 who showed up for that 2011 call in Minneapolis. Before the movie, he worked at his brother’s phone shop in a local mall. Once filming ended he went back to the store, and only left around the time the film came out in 2013 so he could try to make a real go of acting. The attention arrived fast. Abdi picked up nominations for the Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award, and he actually won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor. The money didn’t follow as quickly. A 2014 New Yorker piece noted that he was still struggling financially during awards season and was mostly getting by on the hotel rooms and per diems the studio provided while he promoted the film.

A young white lioness in South Korea has been turning heads online with her pale cream fur, blue-gray eyes, and surprisingly long eyelashes. Her name is Luna, and for a while some people weren’t even sure she was real she just looked that polished. Luna was born on August 18, 2025, and lives at Nature Park in Daegu with her brother Luca. Caretakers have been sharing photos and videos of the pair, but Luna’s look has drawn the most attention. The soft coloring, light eyes, and those dark lashes give her an almost fairy-tale quality; a few people online even started calling her a Disney princess. There’s a straightforward biological reason for her appearance. White lions like Luna usually have a genetic condition called leucism, which lightens the fur without turning them fully albino, so their eyes and skin keep normal color. The long eyelashes are just a normal protective feature against dust and debris. As the pictures spread in 2026, people around the world got hooked on how she looks. Still, the videos of her moving around and interacting with her keepers make it clear she’s a very real young lioness.

A Ugandan court has handed 27-year-old Nicholas Male an 18-month prison sentence for forging a letter he claimed came from President Yoweri Museveni. The fake document, dated August 15, 2025, said Museveni had instructed the transport minister to give Male a 15-year fuel supply contract for the MV Kalangala ferry on Lake Victoria. Male took the forged letter to the minister on September 18.

Cars parked at airport that owners never returned for

Chinese ladies imitating African ladies

Rioters tried to break into Louis Vuitton

Two farmers in the Philippines tried to resolve an argument over land by holding a traditional underwater endurance contest. Neither of them survived.

Destroying other people's property got him into trouble

Drones are the new Kings of the battlefield

A police commissioner is quietly trying to snatch a rookie officer’s gun to see whether the new guy notices anything.

Others drove away quickly but some people came to their rescue

Games boys play

K-9 police dog at work

Road rage

Few birds in Africa look as strange as the Shoebill. That massive, shoe-like bill, those intense staring eyes, and the way it stands almost perfectly still make it seem like something that somehow survived from the dinosaur era. It won’t come after people though it just locks eyes with you and doesn’t look away.

Fifteen-year-old Heman Bekele from Virginia started wondering how skin cancer treatment could be made more affordable. What he came up with was an experimental soap designed to deliver cancer-fighting compounds at a much lower cost. TIME named him Kid of the Year, and he’s still pushing to get the idea approved and into people’s hands. His aim is straightforward: treatment that actually reaches everyone who needs it.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has made clear that any military help Cairo gives Saudi Arabia will stick strictly to protecting the kingdom’s own land and borders and will not include striking targets in Yemen. He also noted that Egypt stands ready to help defend other Arab states if they ask, as Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia continue to intensify.

Officials in Juba, South Sudan’s capital, have outlawed selling goods from wheelbarrows. They say some traders are using the carts to dodge setting up proper shops, where tax inspectors regularly check that businesses are following the rules.

Egypt has flatly rejected a deal on maritime boundaries that Libya’s eastern parliament recently signed off on with Türkiye. Cairo’s foreign ministry said Wednesday the agreement is null and void and carries no legal weight for Egypt.

On Wednesday, a group of masked men dressed in military gear tried to force their way into the main offices of Libya’s financial watchdog. The apparent goal was to push through the installation of a senior staff member against the usual process. Libya’s UN mission quickly slammed the move, calling it an unacceptable bid to force an appointment through intimidation.