Pro-government forces in Yemen, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have launched air strikes on the airport that serves the key port city of Hudaydah.

They have also been fighting Houthi rebels on the ground with mortar fire.

The pro-government forces said they had taken control of the airport on Saturday, but the rebels denied this.

Read more at BBC News.

In a comic book produced by the organisation Latvian Literature for the recent London Book Fair, the main character gives a rare smile on realising that the weather outside is perfect. That is, it’s heavily snowing, and thus he’s unlikely to meet anyone out on the roads. As he says, “below zero = below average risk of random encounter”.

Read more at BBC News.

• Neymar starts alongside Jesus & Coutinho for Brazil
• Brazil unbeaten in past 12 World Cup group games
• Switzerland lost only once in their last 22 matches

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I can drink dairy milk with impunity. I can eat all the saturated fat I want without gaining extra weight, although it would probably clog my arteries. And I have at least some of the muscle power of an elite athlete, even if I haven’t made good on that genetic promise.

Read more at NBC News.

Labor violations are an all too common reality in technology manufacturing, and Amazon just made that patently clear. In the wake of a joint exposé between China Labor Watch and the Guardian, Amazon has acknowledged that a Foxconn factory in Hengyang, China has been violating labor laws while making Echo speakers and Kindle e-readers. A March audit revealed that over 40 percent of staff were low-cost agency workers (who don't get holiday or sick pay and can be laid off without wages), or well over the 10 percent allowed in China. Moreover, employees who worked overtime were paid at their regular rate, rather than the time-and-a-half demanded by both Chinese laws and Amazon itself.

Read more at Engadget.

In the 1950s, the United States freaked out big time over comics books. There were Senate hearings and comic book burnings. In the end, careers were ruined, companies went out of business, and comics fell under a strict censorship regime for decades.

Read more at CNBC.

When creating a content calendar as part of your marketing plan or content strategy, it can be easy to whip out the first ideas for topics you can think of and call it a day. While those first top-of-mind content ideas may be relevant and helpful to your customer or interesting to the reader, they may not be the types of content topics to really increase sales or drive engagement with your brand. The best content strategy plans mix it up, promoting posts meant to be shared, to help the reader see how a product solves their problem, or to explain why a company or brand is the one people should trust.

Read more at Small Biz Trends.

As per a report, the exchange shall allow account holders to lend a minimum of 1 bitcoin (BTC) to its Virtual Currency Lending service – in return for a fixed, predetermined rate of interest.

Initially, the service shall be available only for BTC holders and is scheduled to include popular cryptocurrencies like ripple, ether, litecoin, and bitcoin cash in the coming months.

Read more at Yahoo Finance.

If you find yourself with $1,000 all of a sudden -- or perhaps through slow consistent saving -- you might be wondering: What's next? Maybe ideas of a beach vacation are floating through your head, or maybe you're thinking about buying yourself a big-ticket gadget like a new computer or TV.

You can certainly spend your money on those things if you want, but here are 10 smart things you could do with that $1,000 right now to improve your financial well-being.

Read more at USA Today.