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10:45 06/08/2019
Vivendi in talks to sell 10% of Universal Music Group to Tencent

Vivendi said the deal would give the whole of UMG a preliminary equity valuation of 30 billion euros ($33.6 billion) and that Tencent would have an option to buy a further 10% stake in UMG.

10:27 06/08/2019
Sharks bite 3 people in 24 hours at the same Florida beach

On Saturday, 20-year-old surfer Emily Comfort was bitten on her left hand and wrist, according to Volusia County Beach Safety. She was taken to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach with injuries that were not life-threatening.

10:00 06/08/2019
Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump’s critics, sentenced to 20 years in prison

Prosecutors had sought a life sentence for the 57-year-old former pizza deliveryman and strip club worker whose “campaign of terror,” they said, coincided with the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections.

20:00 05/08/2019
Prosecutors charge Texas shooting suspect with murder, seek death penalty

It was the second of three separate public shooting sprees carried out in the United States in the span of a week, an unusually dense cluster of massacres that prompted fresh alarm in a country accustomed to reports of young men shooting down strangers

19:47 05/08/2019
Lead's gains climax as auto battery demand in China wanes

Prices have since moderated to around $1,946 after Port Pirie restarted and metal flowed into LME warehouses.

19:24 05/08/2019
19:01 05/08/2019
HSBC chief out after 18 months on the job

The bank said in a statement that Flint resigned by mutual agreement with the board, adding that change is needed to meet "the increasingly complex and challenging global environment" HSBC faces.

18:38 05/08/2019
Siberia wildfires: Russians battle to contain the blazes

The great Siberian river, the Lena, flows past here. And, stretching into the distance, is lush green forest - the taiga. It's a picture postcard kind of place.

18:16 05/08/2019
17:45 05/08/2019
Convicted killer Peter Atkins goes missing from psychiatric hospital

Peter Atkins, 66, was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order in 2001 after killing his pregnant daughter's husband.

17:24 05/08/2019
Bendigo woman Kerry Robertson becomes first Victorian to use Voluntary Assisted Dying Act

Kerry Robertson, 61, died in a nursing home in Bendigo on July 15 from metastatic breast cancer weeks after Victoria's assisted dying laws came into force on June 19.

16:16 05/08/2019
Kiev Bus Garage Number 7: Ukraine's giant abandoned space-age saucer

From above, it's disc-shaped main building resembles a giant flying saucer -- perhaps even a vessel from "Star Trek" -- that's made an emergency landing in the middle of a Kiev residential area.

15:45 05/08/2019
Employees in Lagos are stressed, burned out and exhausted because of 'hellish traffic'

Welcome to traffic and travel Lagos-style, where the roads are clogged and millions of commuters are choked with frustration about the daily hassle in Nigeria's commercial capital and Africa's fifth largest economy.

15:01 05/08/2019
14:44 05/08/2019
Police have fired more than 1,000 rounds of tear gas and arrested over 500 people since Hong Kong protests began on June 9

Some suggest surrounding Tuen Mun Police Station and creating more roadblocks along the way. A protester surnamed Yeung says: “We are willing to abandon our defence here, because our strategy is to create flash mobs at multiple points to stretch police’s resources.

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'Twin Peaks' director David Lynch dies at 78
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Heavy fog hits parts of Armenia
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