Trustworthy, accurate and reliable news stories are more important now than ever. Support our newsrooms by making a contribution. Now aged 27, Emma was just two weeks old when she was placed into this orphanage by her alcoholic mother. She spent the first three years of her life here, sleeping in these wooden beds. Emma Barrett in the bedroom for the over two-year-olds, at the orphanage where she spent the first three years of her life. Back then, Emma was Yekaterina Viktorovna Finenko, a tiny toddler with cropped blonde hair, inquiring brown eyes and a slightly asymmetrical face; one of children here at any given time. Until a woman from Howick, Auckland, arrived to take her away for a new life in New Zealand. And so it was that, in , Emma came to us wanting a favour. But for Emma, as for many of the Russian orphans adopted to New Zealand in the s, something was missing. She wanted to find her birth family, and she knew we were investigative journalists so figured we might be able to help.
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Isabella Brazhnikova had to post videos of her drawing to convince followers she was the true artist. A year-old Kiwi artist with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media for her hyper-realistic drawings has skills few adults can master. Bored during the Covid level 4 lockdown, Auckland school-girl Isabella Brazhnikova started posting her art on Tik Tok and Instagram and gained instant recognition. Now she has more than , followers from all around the world, has completed more than 15 commissioned works, and has her sights set on a gallery show. Her Instagram and Tik Tok feeds are filled with photo-like drawings of everything from wild and domestic animals, celebrities, fried eggs, candy wrappers, and melting ice cubes. Timelapse videos of her drawing have more than 6. Most of her commissioned work has been from followers on social media but her most recent for a local school teacher.
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They appear from the water just once a year, with scientists able to work from mid-May until the end of June, upstream of the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam. Hundreds of violins, violas and double basses sounded at Venezuela's military academy on Saturday, then woodwinds, brass and percussion gradually joined in — thousands of musicians, mostly children and adolescents, with one goal: setting the record as the world's largest orchestra. View on euronews.
You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. Like a kiwi? Russia's so-called kiwi has been identified as a bittern, perhaps like the Eurasian one seen here. Photo Wikimedia Commons It appears it was a case of mistaken identity for a reportedly lost kiwi bird which turned up in Russia. In fact, the bird was not a kiwi but a common bittern, Russian news website Pravda reported today. Russian media yesterday reported a kiwi had been living in a decorative garden for the past three days but it was not clear how the bird would have got there. However, Russian zoologist Alexander Kornilov said while the bird was similar in appearance to a kiwi, it was just a "usual bittern".
