• A reconnaissance team will examine the inside of the salvaged South Korean ferry Sewol on Sunday, the third anniversary of the disaster that killed more than 300 people, most of them teenagers on a school trip. [Korea Herald]

• The European Court of Human Rights faulted the Russian authorities for storming a school in 2004 in the North Caucasus town of Beslan to try and seize it back from Chechen militants, resulting in the deaths of some 330 hostages. The Kremlin rejected the findings. [The New York Times]

• Cyclone Cook hit New Zealand, largely sparing Auckland as it tracked south toward the capital, Wellington. Hundreds of people have been evacuated and thousands of homes have lost power. [New Zealand Herald]

• Officials in China seized more than a ton of woolly mammoth tusks, part of a booming trade in ivory from Russia that comes from skeletons of the long-extinct creatures emerging from warming Siberian tundra. [BBC]

• Meet DJ Sumirock, an 82-year-old Japanese mix master. [Mashable]

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