The steelpan is a Trinidadian instrument made by hammering the top of an oil drum into tuned notes. Its roots go back to West African talking drums, which carried messages and marked ceremonies. Enslaved Africans in Trinidad kept drumming alive through Christian holidays and held their own carnival celebrations. Percussion grew from bamboo tuned sticks to brake drums, pans and oil drums. In 1951 the Trinidad All-Steel Pan Percussion Orchestra was the first steelband made entirely of oil drums, and it introduced the instrument to the world at the Festival of Britain. In the 1950s Anthony Williams arranged the notes in a fourths-and-fifths pattern, which became the standard layout for lead pans.

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.