IN CASE YOU MISSED IT–Schedule of Reuters features from this week

March 21 - Every week, Reuters journalists produce scores of multimedia features and human-interest stories from around the world.

Below are some stories from this week selected by our editors, as well as explanatory context and background to help you understand world headlines. For a full schedule of news and events, please go to our editorial calendar on Reuters Connect.

It's a boy! Athens zoo welcomes birth of rare pygmy hippo

ATHENS - A rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus has been born in Athens' Attica Zoological Park for the first time in 10 years, delighting conservationists. (GREECE-ANIMALS/BABY HIPPO (PIX, TV), 211 words)

Ancient humans had piercings just like us, archaeologists in Turkey find

ANKARA - Stone ornaments found around the mouths and ears of skeletons at an 11,000-year-old burial site in southeast Turkey prove that humans have been piercing their bodies since prehistoric times and thinking about self-image, archaeologists said. (TURKEY-ARCHEOLOGY/PIERCING (TV, PIX), 324 words)

Study of 'twin' stars finds some of them are planet-eaters

WASHINGTON - The planetary system that includes Earth and its sibling planets orbiting the sun has been remarkably stable during its roughly 4.5 billion years of existence. But not all planetary systems are so lucky, as shown in a new study involving "twin" stars. (SPACE-EXPLORATION/TWINS (PIX), 691 words)

Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos

WASHINGTON - When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object's trajectory, if needed, to protect Earth. It turns out that this collision changed not only the asteroid's path but its shape as well. (SPACE-EXPLORATION/ASTEROID (PIX), 634 words)

Thirty years on, 'Priscilla the Party!' to immerse London audiences

LONDON - London audiences will immerse themselves in a cult comedy starring three extravagantly dressed drag artists, 30 years after "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" became an unexpected cinema hit. (THEATRE-PRISCILLA THE PARTY/ (TV), 312 words)

Sandboarding makes a post-COVID comeback in Namibia desert town

SWAKOPMUND, Namibia - Set against miles of mesmerizing sand dunes, Namibia's seaside resort town of Swakopmund is seeing a boom in sandboarding, buoyed by a near-doubling of the numbers of cruise liners docking at nearby Walvis Bay last year. (NAMIBIA-DUNES/ (TV, PIX), 250 words)

Miners in Kosovo break Ramadan fast 800 metres underground

STANTERG, Kosovo - Kosovar miner Emin Hasani feels closer to God when he breaks the Ramadan fast 800 metres (2,625 feet) underground. (RELIGION-RAMADAN/KOSOVO-MINERS (TV, PIX), 323 words)

New Banksy mural depicting tree foliage appears in north London

LONDON - A new artwork by British street artist Banksy has appeared in London, using green paint sprayed across the side of a building to mimic the foliage of a real, heavily pruned tree that stands a few metres in front of it. (BRITAIN-BANKSY/ (PIX, TV), 244 words)

Police parade 'robo-dog' helper in Spain's Malaga

MALAGA, Spain - Police in Malaga took a robot dog on a trial patrol through the centre of the Spanish city to the joy of bystanders, some of whom imitated its clunky gait or introduced their pets to the whirring contraption with flashing lights on top. (TECH-ROBOT/SPAIN-POLICE (PIX, TV), 142 words)

Rescued greyhounds teach kids empathy in Spain

BARCELONA - Lanky greyhounds placidly let a bunch of beaming children pet them in the SOS Galgos shelter in the suburbs of Barcelona, where the rescued dogs are helping kids learn empathy for animals. (SPAIN-EDUCATION/GREYHOUNDS (PIX), 288 words)

Gloomy youth pull US and western Europe down global happiness ranking

LONDON - Rising unhappiness among younger people has caused the United States and some large western European countries to fall down a global wellbeing index, while Nordic nations retain their grip on the top spots. (HEALTH-GLOBAL/HAPPINESS (PIX), 479 words)

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(Compiled by Mark Porter and Patrick Enright)