Kuwait Edition
World Family Photo Box Day leads today's complete edition for Kuwait.
Daily Edition
Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.
A day for printed pictures, old phones, albums, names written on backs, and the people a household remembers together.
National holiday. A significant day for Burkina's Catholic community. Churches fill, choirs sing, and afterward everyone gathers for a meal that always includes riz gras. The faith runs deep in the Centre-Ouest and the processions through Koudougou and Ouaga are a sight that stays with you.
The midpoint of the Kuwaiti summer, when the heat is at its most oppressive and the shamal wind blows hot air from the north. The traditional Kuwaiti calendar divides the summer into phases: the saray (late spring), the sayf (summer), and the qaydh (the scorching heat of July and August). Each phase has its own stars, its own winds, and its own food. In the qaydh, the traditional meal is harees (wheat and meat porridge cooked overnight in a tannur oven), which is heavy enough to sustain a body through the heat and is served with ghee and cinnamon. The midsummer is also the season of dates, when the palm trees bear fruit and the streets smell of ripening dates.
You observe the snow leopard, Asian elephant, and markhor wild goat inhabiting Pakistan's diverse mountain and forest ecosystems. You find that Pakistanis typically keep dogs, cats, and chickens as their most common household animals. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.