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13:00 09/05/2019
Sheep enrol at French school as students

Jules Ferry school in Crêts-en-Belledonne, a village in the Alps northeast of Grenoble, had seen its student numbers fall from 266 to 261.

12:43 09/05/2019
A doorbell camera captured the terrifying moment a snake attacked a man

Jerel Heywood was visiting Rodney Copeland's home on Sunday in Lawton, Oklahoma when the attack occurred.

12:29 09/05/2019
Hundreds of people died on this boat. Now it will be displayed at the 'Olympics of the art world'

The fishing vessel sank on April 19, 2015 after colliding with a Portuguese vessel that had come to its aid. Twenty-eight people were rescued. Only 24 bodies were recovered in the area. The Italian Navy estimates 800 people died, many trapped inside behind locked doors.

12:02 09/05/2019
Amanda Knox is going back to Italy for the first time since her murder conviction was overturned

However, the American former exchange student has announced her plans to return to the country in order to speak at a criminal justice conference, after Italy's Supreme Court overturned her conviction in 2015.

11:38 09/05/2019
Only a third of world’s great rivers remain free flowing, analysis finds

Dams, levees, hydropower and habitat degradation behind fragmentation on huge scale, finds global assessment.

11:16 09/05/2019
'Buses with fins': giant basking sharks reappear off California coast

The marine behemoths, which can weigh more than 10,000 pounds, are returning in numbers not seen in decades.

10:45 09/05/2019
Iran rolls back nuclear pledges but stops short of violating pact

A year to the day after Washington exited the nuclear deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced changes that experts said seemed tailored to ensure Tehran avoids triggering the deal’s mechanism to punish it for violations, at least for now.

10:27 09/05/2019
Under pressure from Trump to save jobs, GM acts in Canada, Ohio

The decisions came after GM faced months of criticism over its plan announced in November to close five North American plants and cut 15,000 jobs. GM’s decision to close the small-car Ohio assembly plant in a key state in the 2020 election had already become fodder for several Democratic presidential candidates

20:09 08/05/2019
Pompeo visits Brexit Britain as Iran reduces nuclear compliance

The U.S. military said on Tuesday that B-52 bombers would be among the additional forces being sent to the Middle East to counter what President Donald Trump’s administration says are “clear indications” of threats from Iran to U.S. forces there.

19:47 08/05/2019
Cuba cancels annual Conga Against Homophobia march

In a Facebook post, the state-run National Centre for Sex Education (CENESEX) blamed "new tensions in the international and regional context" for the cancellation.

19:45 08/05/2019
Рыбы-мутанты научились жить в загрязненной воде

Оказалось, что у большинства особей наличествуют гены их атлантических собратьев, которые известны своей способностью быстро адаптироваться к самым экстремальным условиям.

19:24 08/05/2019
Proposal to spend 25% of EU budget on climate change

The joint statement says the EU should have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 'at the latest'.

18:38 08/05/2019
Chinese researchers try brain implants to treat drug addicts

Yan is a methamphetamine addict. The hope is that technology will extinguish his addiction — quite literally, with the flip of a switch.

17:45 08/05/2019
Why you should never clean your ear with a cotton bud: How it can lead to infections, perforated ear drums and tinnitus

Only 31 years old, he had, without any warning, started having seizures and violent headaches. He was also forgetting people’s names — and then he passed out.

17:24 08/05/2019
Chinese doctors conduct 5G-assisted remote ultrasound scan

During the 20-minute scan, three doctors in Guangzhou First People's Hospital operated via a 5G network a robotic arm that performed the ultrasound scan for a patient in a hospital in Guangzhou's Nansha district, and monitored the whole process through large screens in front of them.

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Drivers warned of icy roads in some parts of Armenia
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