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

Nov 30 (Reuters) - 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.

South Korean city turns to matchmaking to boost low birth rates

SEONGNAM, South Korea - Against the backdrop of Christmas songs, 100 South Korean men and women gathered at a hotel near Seoul dressed in their best with name tags hanging on their clothes, hoping to find love. The government hopes they make babies. (ASIA-POPULATION/SOUTHKOREA (TV, PIX), 528 words)

Italy is no country for young chefs

ROME - Like many young people growing up in Sardinia, Davide Sanna loved Italian cuisine and wanted to have a successful career as a chef. But to do so, he had to move to New York. (ITALY-CHEFS/ (INSIGHT, PIX), 1,421 words)

In a first, a newborn star's spinning disk is seen in another galaxy

WASHINGTON - Our sun and other stars form when a dense clump of interstellar gas and dust collapses under its own gravitational pull. Once a star is born at the center of such a cloud, leftover material forms a swirling disk around it that feeds stellar growth and often gives rise to planets. Newborn stars with these circumstellar disks had been observed by astronomers only in our Milky Way galaxy - until now. (SPACE-EXPLORATION/DISK (PIX), 690 words)

Six planets found in synchronized orbit may help solve cosmic puzzle

WASHINGTON - They are the most common type of planet observed in our Milky Way. Called "sub-Neptunes," they are absent from our solar system and their fundamental nature has remained a puzzle. But the discovery of six of them in synchronized orbits around a star about 20% smaller in mass than the sun is giving astronomers hope that an answer could come soon. (SPACE-EXPLORATION/PLANETS (PIX), 690 words)

Migrant Senegalese teenager wrestling for Canary Islands future

VALVERDE, Spain - Amid cheers from the crowd, 13-year-old Senegalese migrant Cheik Ndaa tricks his opponent into falling over and wins his first tournament in Lucha Canaria, a traditional form of wrestling in Spain's Canary Islands. (MIGRATION-SPAIN/WRESTLING (TV, PIX), 359 words)

Jon Batiste says documentary became a 'symphony of life'

LONDON - He planned to make a film about composing his first symphony but in late 2021, Oscar-winning musician Jon Batiste was nominated for 11 Grammy awards and his partner's long-dormant cancer returned, so the movie became more of a "symphony of life." (FILM-AMERICAN-SYMPHONY/ (TV, PIX), 381 words)

Actions speak louder than words in dialogue-free film 'Silent Night'

LOS ANGELES - Director John Woo opted not to have any actor dialogue in the action-thriller film "Silent Night" and focus on his own unique visual and sound techniques to engage audiences. (FILM-SILENT NIGHT/ (TV, PIX), 329 words)

Dove Cameron sheds Disney past to become her own kind of pop star

LOS ANGELES - Singer-songwriter and actor Dove Cameron is breaking away from her Disney star persona and putting a new version of herself out there with “Alchemical: Volume 1,” the first part in her debut studio album. (MUSIC-DOVE CAMERON/ (TV, PIX), 379 words)

Timothee Chalamet turned to vocal coach to the stars for ‘Wonka’

LONDON - Timothee Chalamet took lessons from a top vocal coach as he prepared to follow in the footsteps of Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp to play Willy Wonka in a new movie that tells the origin story of Roald Dahl's famed character. (FILM-WONKA/PREMIERE (TV, PIX), 342 words)

Second endangered Sumatran rhino born in Indonesia

JAKARTA - Another Sumatran Rhinoceros has been born in an Indonesian sanctuary, the Environment Ministry said, the second birth of this critically endangered animal at the reserve this year. (INDONESIA-RHINO/ (TV), 200 words)

Kyrgyzstan moves to rid national flag of likeness to 'fickle' sunflower

BISHKEK - Kyrgyzstan's parliament has voted to tweak the design of the national flag after critics said its central element looked like a sunflower which in the local culture symbolizes fickleness and servility. (KYRGYZSTAN-FLAG/ (PIX), 248 words)

Thais give digital spin to ancient 'floating basket' festival

BANGKOK - Thai children crafted virtual rafts and sent them floating down digital rivers, in an environmentally friendly version of an ancient festival. (THAILAND-FESTIVAL/RIVER-CLEANUP (TV, PIX), 259 words)

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EXPLAINER-What Turkey gained in delaying Sweden's NATO bid

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(Compiled by Mark Porter and Patrick Enright)