Around the world

New York, US Stories told in stitches A new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York – What That Quilt Knows About Me – is telling the stories behind 35 quilts from around the world. Each uses different techniques and materials. There is a quilt that took 20 years to make, one designed to look like a starry galaxy and a quilt showing the Bible story of Noah’s Ark. Panama Weather causes canal closure A lack of rain is causing one of the world’s most important shipping routes to limit the number of ships it takes. The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, so that ships don’t have to sail around the bottom of South America. The canal needs lots of water to work its…

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