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13:45 07/05/2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook made a surprise appearance at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting in Omaha,

Nebraska over the weekend, where he said he is "thrilled" that billionaire Warren Buffett is an investor in the iPhone maker. 

13:33 07/05/2019
Another training camp of bombers found in Nuwara Eliya

The camp has been discovered on information revealed during the interrogation of a person arrested in the Sainthamaurdu area in Kalmunai, stated Ada Derana reporter.

13:00 07/05/2019
US warns Beijing's Arctic activity risks creating 'new South China Sea'

Speaking on the eve of a meeting of the eight members of the Arctic Council, Pompeo took on Beijing and Moscow.

12:41 07/05/2019
Humanity must save insects to save ourselves, leading scientist warns

Insects are ‘the glue in nature’, says Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, underpinning the food and water we rely on.

12:29 07/05/2019
Mural of journalist Lyra McKee unveiled in Belfast

A mural of the journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot dead in Derry last month, has been unveiled in her home city of Belfast.

12:02 07/05/2019
Mississippi police shooting: suspect who shot officer dead on the run

Biloxi police chief says he believes the man who killed officer Robert McKeithen outside the police station is still in the area.

11:38 07/05/2019
14-year-old athlete tipped for NFL stardom shot dead at party

The St Louis Post-Dispatch quoted police as saying that Jaylon McKenzie, an East St Louis eighth grader, was shot on Saturday night at a party in Venice, Illinois, which is about five miles from St Louis.

11:16 07/05/2019
Morgan Stanley to shut down its Russian banking business in first quarter 2020

Morgan Stanley announced late last year that it was planning a voluntary shutdown of its banking business in Russia.

10:45 07/05/2019
Starbucks' China rival Luckin seeks to raise up to $586.5 million in IPO

Luckin Coffee, which has been expanding at breakneck speed, currently operates 2,370 stores in 28 Chinese cities and plans to open 2,500 more this year as it tries to displace Starbucks as China’s largest coffee chain.

10:27 07/05/2019
Hurricane Michael unearths evidence of fort occupied by hundreds of freed slaves

On July 27, 1816, the U.S. Navy was firing shots at the fort (then called the "Negro Fort"), when one shot hit a storage unit filled with ammunition, leading to an explosion that killed hundreds of African Americans.

20:09 06/05/2019
Russia says it won't ground Sukhoi plane despite fatal crash-landing

The crash-landing on Sunday is the latest serious setback for the plane, the first new passenger jet developed in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, and threatens to undermine confidence in an airliner Moscow touts as proof it can produce its own high quality civil passenger aircraft.

19:24 06/05/2019
Greek court reduces sentences over migrant's fatal stabbing

Monday's Athens court ruling took into account the two Greek men's good conduct after the stabbing.

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11:15
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