Netflix was founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings in Scotts Valley, California, on August 29, 1997, as a DVD rental service that shipped discs by mail. They chose DVDs after rejecting VHS as too expensive to stock and too fragile to ship, and tested the postal model by mailing a disc to Hastings's house, where it arrived intact. A monthly subscription replaced per-rental fees in 1999. The company's real goal, Hastings later said, was always streaming, and DVDs were a way to build a customer base. Netflix launched video streaming on January 16, 2007, with only about 1,000 films available, compared with around 70,000 on DVD. Streaming overtook DVD shipments in 2009, and by 2011 Netflix had become the largest source of internet streaming traffic in North America.

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.