Mick Jagger Teases New Album and Tour at 80

Mick Jagger, renowned frontman of The Rolling Stones, continues to defy age by teasing a new album and more tour dates as he turns 80. His energetic performances and enduring charisma promise to make upcoming shows as thrilling as ever, captivating fans around the world.

June 6 - 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.

Somaliland's first all-girls basketball team shoots for recognition HARGEISA, Somaliland - Wrapped in the tricolor flag of her homeland, 21-year old captain Hafsa Omer bounces the basketball between her legs, dribbles, lays it up off the backboard, and watches it clatter into the hoop. Her dream is to one day play for her nation, but there is a catch - Somaliland is not a country. (SOMALIA-SOMALILAND/BASKETBALL (TV, PIX), 441 words)

Innovative Chileans use discarded hair to clean up coasts and waterways SANTIAGO - Luisana Gil, a dog groomer in Santiago, Chile, has a lot of hair on her hands - she throws away bags and bags of her clients' hair, which until recently went straight to the landfill. Now Gil is connecting her discarded pet hair with Matter of Trust Chile, a group that uses human and animal hair to make tools that leverage hair's natural absorbent qualities to clean local waterways of oils, heavy metals and even bacteria. (OCEANS-DAY/CHILE-COAST (TV, PIX), 306 words)

Chile to install world's largest astronomy camera on the edge of Atacama desert SANTIAGO - With a resolution above 3.2 gigapixels, a nearly three-ton weight and the ambitious task of carrying out an unprecedented decade-long exploration, the largest digital camera ever built for optical astronomy is ready to be installed under the clear skies of northern Chile. (CHILE-ASTRONOMY/ (PIX, TV), 382 words)

Rare fossil of adolescent Tyrannosaurus - 'Teen Rex'- found by US kids A rare fossil of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex has been excavated in North Dakota's badlands - a find noteworthy for the scientific insight it may offer into the life history of this famous dinosaur and for the tale of the kids who found it. (SCIENCE-TYRANNOSAURUS/ (PIX), 706 words)

Paintings damaged in Copenhagen fire can be almost fully restored COPENHAGEN - Historical paintings rescued by fire fighters and the public during a huge blaze at Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange can almost all be restored, conservators said. (DENMARK-FIRE/ (PIX, TV), 277 words)

In Albania, two women take on a nation with a rooftop wedding TIRANA - In many ways Alba Ahmetaj and Edlira Mara lead an ordinary life. They brush their twin daughters' hair before school and play fight with them in their flat on weekend mornings. They have matching shoulder tattoos that mark their 14 years together. But in their fight to be treated like other families, the lesbian couple did something extraordinary. (ALBANIA-LGBT/FAMILY (PIX), 495 words)

As Japan's birthrate drops, runner freezes her eggs to sustain motherhood dream TOKYO - Japanese champion runner Tomomi Bitoh completed a 170-km (106-mile) race in the Himalayas last November, and immediately made a beeline for a Tokyo clinic to begin freezing her eggs, hoping to keep alive her dream of becoming a mother. (ASIA-POPULATION/JAPAN-FERTILITY (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV, GRAPHICS), 477 words)

Tourist numbers in Italy hit record in 2023, foreigners a majority ROME - Tourism in Italy hit a record high last year and foreigners made up the majority for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, national statistic bureau ISTAT said. (ITALY-TOURISM/ISTAT (PIX), 211 words)

Mick Jagger, strutting at 80, teases new album and more touring LOS ANGELES - How does it feel for Mick Jagger to be back on tour singing, dancing and strutting across stadium concert stages at 80 years old? (MUSIC-MICK JAGGER/ (PIX, TV), 790 words)

'Star Wars' show 'Acolyte' merges murder mystery with family drama LOS ANGELES - For Amandla Stenberg, the "Star Wars" franchise is about how trauma affects everyone and how the inability to accept and process it makes people more vulnerable to corruption. (TELEVISION-ACOLYTE/INTERVIEWS (TV, PIX), 381 words)

With thistles and tartan, Dior pays tribute to Scotland in cruise collection LONDON - French fashion house Christian Dior paid homage to Scotland at a catwalk show in a Perthshire castle, with tartan designs and thistle motifs adorning its cruise 2025 collection. (FASHION-DIOR/ (PIX), 303 words)

After China, Zara expands live shopping experiment to Europe and US LONDON - Zara will expand its live shopping broadcasts to the UK, Europe and the United States this year, testing a format that is already wildly popular in China but one with which Western shoppers are less familiar. (INDITEX-LIVESHOPPING/ (FOCUS, PIX), 381 words)

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