Week's Good News: Spy Drama Premiere, New Guinness Record and a Homecoming After 28 Years
The Latvian news portal Jauns.lv has rounded up the past week's positive stories, from Latvian film and music events to world records and touching tales of people and animals.
The Latvian news portal Jauns.lv has compiled a digest of the past week's positive news, combining cultural events in Latvia, unusual world records and human-interest stories.
Culture and entertainment in Latvia
In cinema, director Andrejs Ēķis's historical spy drama "Tumšā robeža" (The Dark Border) had its premiere. Latvian animation makers also received good news from abroad: the werewolf tale "Dieva suns" will be shown to audiences in the United States and Canada as well.
In music, attention went to Māris Mihelsons, a member of the band "Prāta Vētra", who has decided to try singing in a choir. The portal also published photographs from a party attended by much of Latvia's show business community. For fashion followers, there was a piece on Princess Charlotte's wardrobe, which experts regard as a style example.
Events around the world
In the United States, a retiree set a Guinness record by watching 1,207 films in a cinema over the course of a year. In Italy, a man has saved more than a million one-cent coins, weighing nearly three tonnes in total.
An adventurer finally returned home after 28 years and 50,000 kilometres on foot, and hugged his mother. Animal lovers were moved by a video of a lonely house cat and by the news of a badly injured turtle that was released back into the wild after 22 years of recovery in an aquarium.
The portal invites readers to look back at these stories if they missed them.
