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11:33 29/03/2016
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11:38 World
Wiltshire: 'unknown substance' leaves pair critically ill in Salisbury hospital

Major incident declared and parts of Amesbury cordoned off after couple were initially thought to have taken tainted drugs.

11:16 World
Uber in talks with Dubai's Careem to merge in Middle East: Bloomberg

In discussions with Careem, Uber has said that it would need to own more than half of the combined company, if not buy Careem outright, according to the report.

10:45 World
Indonesia says at least 29 dead in ferry sinking, search goes on

The regional disaster mitigation agency said 29 people were confirmed dead in Tuesday’s accident and 41 remained missing. Another 69 passengers had been rescued.

10:00 World
UK police arrest medical worker on suspicion of baby murders

Detectives began investigating the deaths of babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester more than a year ago, after the hospital reported a higher than expected mortality rate, which it could not explain, on the unit that cares for premature babies and infants needing special care.

20:23 World
Ryanair Irish pilots call 24-hour strike for July 12

The union said it had advised Ryanair that it will notify it of additional strike days in due course but that it also remained available and willing to engage on the issues identified in the notice of strike action.

19:49 World
Greenpeace drone, toy plane crash into French nuclear plant

The drone, which was decorated like a miniature Superman, slammed into the tower in Bugey, 20 miles from the eastern city of Lyon, according to a Greenpeace video Tuesday.

19:24 World
Mountjoy fort rediscovered during County Tyrone dig

Students from Queen's University in Belfast have taken part in the dig at Brockagh in County Tyrone over the past month.

19:00 World
Giraffe hunter criticised for dead giraffe pose in South Africa

Images of the woman, identified as Tess Thompson Talley, posted on the AfricaDigest Twitter account last month have been retweeted thousands of times.

18:38 World
Zimbabwe's rugby union team sleep rough in Tunisia

The team are in the North African country for a World Cup qualifier and the protest came after they had been held at immigration for six hours.

16:16 World
The world's best 'secret' urban gardens

Urban centers might be 24-hour hubs of activity, but often you just need some green space in the concrete jungle.

14:44 World
Indonesia rushes to rescue 140 after ferry sinks, killing four

The disaster comes in the wake of last month's sinking of an overcrowded ferry on the southeast Asian nation's Lake Toba, one of the world's deepest volcanic lakes, which took about 200 lives.

14:02 World
Google Street View captures very confused cat hanging out in Rome

That's because, while there are plenty of weird and wacky moments well documented in the various lists we've created, Google is constantly updating Street View for accuracy.

13:41 World
First confirmed image of newborn planet caught with ESO's VLT

The sphere instrument also enabled the team to measure the brightness of the planet at different wavelengths, which allowed properties of its atmosphere to be deduced.

13:38 World
Volcano on Indonesian island of Bali hurls out ash and lava

Indonesia’s national disaster mitigation agency said residents heard a loud explosion and saw flaming volcanic rocks thrown at least 2 km (1.2 miles) out of the crater.

13:00 World
Migrant crisis: Many missing after boat disaster off Libya

One official is quoted as saying 63 migrants have disappeared after Sunday's incident east of Tripoli, while 41 people have been rescued.

12:43 World
Syria war: 270,000 displaced by fighting in south-west

Many of those displaced by the fighting in Deraa and Quneitra provinces have headed towards the borders with Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

12:29 World
John Malkovich joins jude law in HBO, sky’s 'The new Pope'

It was previously said that the series, an original production of HBO and Italy’s Sky, will not be a second season of “The Young Pope.” Rather, HBO and Sky described it as Sorrentino’s second limited series set in the world of the modern papacy.

12:02 World
Forest fires cause rail chaos in Norway

The state-owned rail operator advised commuters in the area served by the Gjøvikbanen line to work from home on Monday where possible, news agency NTB reports.

11:16 World
'WhatsApp murders': India struggles to combat crimes linked to messaging service

In the past year the murders of at least 30 people accused of being ‘child-lifters’ have been linked to platform.

10:45 World
Huge, fast-moving wildfire forces California evacuations

The blaze, which started Saturday near San Francisco, has exploded in size as dry weather sweeps western states.

10:27 World
Probe into Facebook's data breach broadens: Washington Post

The emphasis has been on what Facebook has reported publicly about its sharing of information with Cambridge Analytica, whether those representations square with the underlying facts and whether Facebook made sufficiently complete and timely disclosures to the public and investors about the matter, the Washington Post report said.

20:01 World
UN chief says he heard 'unimaginable' stories from Rohingya

Guterres said in a tweet Monday after visiting sprawling refugee camps in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district that the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have taken shelter there want "justice and a safe return home."

19:47 World
Poland's supreme court constitutional crisis approaches a standoff

The government’s attempt to lower the mandatory retirement age of judges is due to come into effect this week.

19:00 World
Knifeman attacks children's birthday party in Idaho

They believe that Saturday's attack at a complex for refugees was motivated by "vengeance" after the suspect had been asked to leave the place a day before.

18:38 World
Drake pays tribute to murdered rapper Smoke Dawg

Tributes have been paid to the Canadian rapper on social media following a triple shooting outside a club on Saturday night.

17:45 World
Bay City Rollers bassist Alan Longmuir has died, aged 70

The 70-year-old died in hospital ‘surrounded by loved ones’, only a fortnight after he was flown home from Mexico where he had contracted an illness.

16:38 World
Deaths surpass 1,000 this year after surge in attempts to cross Mediterranean

Around 204 people have died in the past few days after being packed into unsafe vessels by smugglers, with 103 lost in a shipwreck on Friday and more lost on Sunday when a rubber boat capsized east of Tripoli, with 41 survivors.

15:45 World
20 mice were just launched into space while their identical twins stay on Earth

On Friday morning, a SpaceX Dragon spaceship blasted off from Florida carrying the mice. The rodent crew is expected to arrive at the ISS on Monday.

15:27 World
Adam Sandler and his mustache photobombed someone's wedding pictures

It was Alex who recognized him and waved, photographer Sana Belgot told the CBC. Sandler came over for a chat, and all of a sudden he was posing for the camera as well.

14:44 World
Afghanistan blast: Sikhs among 19 dead in Jalalabad suicide attack

Police said they had been travelling in a vehicle to meet President Ashraf Ghani, who is visiting Nangarhar province, when the bomber struck.

14:26 World
Jim Carrey to play 'Sonic the hedgehog' Villain Robotnik

Sonic the Hedgehog has spanned several iterations from Sega consoles in the 1990s to mobile fan and absorption into the Nintendo Mario Brothers video game universe.

14:02 World
Outrage over alleged plan to export rare animals from Congo to China

Fury among wildlife groups as leaked letter to Congolese minister suggests Chinese zoos want gorillas and other endangered species.

13:41 World
Mohamed Salah signs new five-year deal with Liverpool

The 26-year-old Egypt international joined the Reds for £34m from Roma last summer and has scored 44 goals in 52 appearances for the club.

13:28 World
Tesla hits Model 3 manufacturing milestone, hours after deadline - factory sources

Musk said the company hit its target of 5,000 Model 3s in a week, according to an email sent to employees on Sunday afternoon and seen by Reuters. Tesla also expects to produce 6,000 Model 3 sedans a week “next month.”

13:00 World
Canada hits $13 billion of US goods with new tariffs

More than 40 US steel products attract tariffs of 25%. A tax of 10% has been levied on over 80 other American items including toffee, maple syrup, coffee beans and strawberry jam.

12:29 World
Jacinda Ardern welcomes new welfare reforms from the sofa with new baby

Prime minister, who is on six weeks’ maternity leave, says families package is her proudest achievement so far.

12:02 World
These are 2018's nominees for the UNESCO World Heritage List

Currently in session in Manama, Bahrain, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee is debating which sites to add to its catalog.

11:38 World
Philippines mayor Antonio Halili shot dead by sniper, police chief says

In the video, Halili is seen standing in a line with government employees as the flag is raised and those in attendance sing the national anthem. 

11:16 World
Smoke Dawg: Canadian rapper reportedly killed after shooting in Toronto

Police say 'multiple shots' fired leaving two other victims 'seriously injured'.

10:45 World
American tourist dies in boat explosion in the Bahamas

The explosion occurred shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday in waters off Barraterre island in the Exuma Cays, police said in a statement.

10:27 World
Nine wounded in stabbing at child's birthday party in Idaho

Kinner was being held without bail at the Ada County jail on 15 charges, including six of injury to a child and nine of aggravated battery, jail records showed. There was no lawyer listed for Kinner in the records.

10:00 World
Australia's CBA slapped with shareholder class action

The bank added that the proceeding involved similar claims to the shareholder class action commenced by Maurice Blackburn against the bank in October 2017, and that it intended to “vigorously” defend the claim.

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