Fried dough snacks are very old: the Roman writer Cato the Elder recorded a deep-fried dough ball sweetened with honey, cheese and poppy seeds. Similar recipes spread across Europe and the Arab world, and a 13th-century Arabic cookbook describes a doughnut-like sfenj shaped with a hole. In the early 18th century Dutch settlers brought oliekoek to New York, and by the early 1800s the name dough-nuts was in use. Washington Irving's 1809 history of New York described these fried cakes as a Dutch treat. Frozen baked doughnuts began selling in American supermarkets in the 1960s.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.