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Turning collectibles into a museum is something few people get a chance to do. But for one “Hot Wheels” collector near Washington, DC, he’s turned a childhood passion into a grownup hobby he can share with others. VOA’s Ronan Zakaria has the details.

Despite COVID-19 vaccines being available to all South African adults, uptake remains low with just 20 percent of adults having received a first dose. The Muslim Association of South Africa is one of many groups combatting vaccine hesitancy by delivering jabs to doorsteps. Linda Givetash reports

In a beauty salon in San Francisco, a robot paints nails in under 10 minutes with the help of computer vision and artificial intelligence. Michelle Quinn reports.

VOA60 World- Crowds of desperate Afghans continued to gather outside of Kabul's airport Wednesday in hopes of evacuation

Beeple, NFT, Ethereum – words familiar mostly in the worlds of cryptocurrency and digital art. but they have revolutionized the art world and are now worth millions of dollars. Maxim Avloshenko looked into what exactly they are and why they are worth so much in this story, narrated by Anna Rice.

The fall of Afghanistan happened quicker than most U.S. officials anticipated and publicly stated, creating an atmosphere of chaos and desperation in Kabul. Watch The Inside Story for a first-person account of those first 36 hours and the impact the U.S. withdrawal is having on Afghan society.

Afghanistan evacuations reached a highwater mark with Pentagon officials saying about 90 aircraft evacuated 16,000 people from the international airport in Kabul in the past 24 hours. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb has the latest.

Kurdish forces in Syria said two towns under their control have been bombarded by Turkish military and allied Syrian militias, killing six people, including two civilians and wounding more than a dozen others. VOA’s Zana Omer reports from Tel Tamer, Syria, in this story narrated by Sirwan Kajjo.]

President Joe Biden remains defiant amid a political storm triggered by the swift Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the chaotic end of America’s longest war. Whether he can survive the crisis depends on many factors, including the safe evacuation of Americans. Patsy Widakuswara has more.

The world's children cannot afford more empty promises at this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), youth activists including Greta Thunberg said, after a U.N. report found virtually no child will escape the impact of global warming.