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KitKat’s new “summer ice cream” flavor includes something familiar to Japanese schoolchildren on summer vacation: homework.

Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, has filled the candy bars’ packages with questions on space, food, the environment, physiology and technology.

Hundreds of Finns took to the muck this weekend to compete in the annual world championship of “suolentis” — swamp volleyball.

More than 80 teams traveled to the village of Haukivuori to play volleyball knee-deep in mud.

Foreign teams were not allowed this year, due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

Authorities have set price controls in response to wildly swinging grain prices.

But some vendors have protested the price caps by refusing to sell — a rare display of defiance in the Hermit Kingdom.

“The crackdown team has been going to the vendors’ houses. They will go after you just for having a bag of rice at home,” a source said.

The Great Barrier Reef will not be added to UNESCO’s “in danger” list this year, following a successful lobbying push from the government.

Instead, the World Heritage Committee asked Australia for an update on the reef ’s condition.

“Our concern was always that UNESCO had sought an immediate ‘in danger’ listing without appropriate consultation, without a site visit and without all the latest information,” said Sussan Ley, the nation’s environmental minister.

When she went into labor, villagers carried a 20-year-old pregnant woman from rural Madhya Pradesh nearly five miles — in a bedsheet hung from a bamboo pole — to a nearby village.

There an ambulance picked her up for the 12-mile drive to a hospital, according to NDTV.

Locals say the community hospital is the only place to give birth in the region, and accessible only on foot.

The mother delivered a daughter safely — and both are fine.