133 years ago today, the Vizcaya Bridge, Spain's only UNESCO World Heritage Site of industrial heritage was completed. Spanning the two banks situated at the mouth of the Nervion River, connecting the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas, it is the world's oldest transporter bridge, using a 6-car gondola suspended on steel cables to ferry people and vehicles across the water without disrupting maritime traffic. READ how it was built, and how it works… (1893)

There's no walking across Vizcaya. It works like a horizontal elevator and has only been disrupted once in its whole history during the Spanish Civil War. Designed by Alberto Palacio, one of Gustave Eiffel's disciples, UNESCO considers the bridge to be a perfect combination of beauty and functionality.

It was the first to use a combination of iron technology and new steel cables which began a new form of constructing bridges which was later imitated throughout the world.

The structure is made of four 61-meter towers which are the pillars and stand on the river banks. The towers are braced by iron cables to the crossbeam and are parallel to the river and by cables following the line of

High schools funded and/or managed by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) have achieved the highest average graduation rates yet recorded in its history.

8 high schools saw every senior in the 2025/26 class graduate, while another 13 high schools achieved graduation rates of 90% or higher.

It's no secret that Native American communities often rank as disadvantaged when measuring for things like literacy and education, medical services, life expectancy, and income levels.

The rise in graduation rates, reports AP, reflects a mixture of different approaches and accounting methods that have put the graduation rate of students at BIE managed or funded schools bang on the national average of 87-88%, eliminating that previous disparity.

"These schools are a testament to what is possible when students, families, educators, and tribal communities work together," said BIE Director Tony Dearman.

"Our students are showing the nation what Native excellence looks like. Their success reflects the unwavering dedication across our school communities to keep students at the center of everything we do, to ensure they graduate, and to thrive afterward."

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Protection and conservation programs have recorded a banner year for the eastern imperial eagle, as majestic a bird as you're likely to see in Europe, and the national bird of Serbia.

Emblazoned on the flag of the Balkans nation, 29 breeding pairs were counted out of which 16 helped 25 chicks to hatch and fledge.

The news comes from the Serbian Bird Protection and Research Society (DZPPS) which called it the most successful year since targeted conservation began in 2017. Then, just a single known breeding pair remained in the country.

The news is reminiscent to America sparing no amount of effort to save her own national bird: the bald eagle.

Most birds were sighted in the Banat region along the Tisa River, but expansion has also been recorded into several areas. For the first time, a nesting couple were found in southern Bačka. The population recovery has been aided by additional recolonization of Hungarian lands.

Young fledglings will be fitted with radio transceivers when possible and safe, a method of conservation that will inform where this gradually growing

Internet access has increased 20-fold and broadband costs have fallen by 99% on the archipelago of Micronesia thanks to the ending of government monopoly in the sector.

Market liberalization has dropped the cost of internet to $65.00 per Mbps per month to just 78 cents, while more than 1,500 kilometers of undersea fiber optic cables have been laid, and advanced satellite dish networks have sprung up on the most outlying islands.

Made up of more than 600 small islands spread across 2.9 million km² of ocean, telecommunications is both complicated and absolutely necessary on the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

For decades, FSM had had but one single telecom provider: FSM Telecommunications Corporation, a government-granted monopoly established in 1984 to provide fixed-line, mobile, and internet across the islands. Its board members were appointed by the head of state and state governors.

In 2014, at the urging of the World Bank Group, the Telecommunications Act ended FSMTC's monopoly, and since then internet access has increased 2,000%, reaching

On this day in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created. The US Congress was spurred to create the federal agency by the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, the first orbital satellite. Two of the goals were to expand human knowledge of the Earth's atmosphere and space, and the improvement of space vehicles. It consistently places as the most popular government agency. READ More… (1958)

The phrase "We came in peace for all mankind," inscribed on a plaque left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 11, is derived from the agency's founding principle: It is the policy of the US that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.

Three of NASA's most impressive achievements have been the Apollo Moon landing, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle reusable rocket. WATCH a 60th-anniversary message from the International Space Station for all of us on Earth…

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