Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka designed Super Mario Bros. in 1984 and 1985 with a scrolling screen, larger characters and colourful backgrounds, unlike the single-screen Mario Bros. The team reused the fast scrolling engine from Excitebike, which let Mario speed up from a walk to a run. Miyamoto felt the big Mario prototype was not big enough, so players start as small Mario and grow by collecting mushrooms, which gave the first-level mushroom real meaning. The team also saved memory by recolouring sprites for clouds and bushes, and by flipping one Goomba image back and forth to animate it. The game shipped in 1985 with one of the most influential level designs in video games.

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.