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10:00 12/04/2019
Asian shares dip on caution over global growth, U.S. earnings

Despite broad weakness in the region, with Chinese blue-chips down 0.8 percent ahead of the release of trade data, higher Chinese iron ore prices helped to push Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 index up 0.7 percent.

20:11 11/04/2019
French court finds Bayer's Monsanto liable for farmer's sickness

Francois, who says he suffered neurological problems after accidentally inhaling the Lasso weedkiller in 2004, accused Monsanto of not providing adequate safety warnings.

19:47 11/04/2019
19:00 11/04/2019
YouTube cancels four original scripted shows

YouTube quietly stopped taking new scripted pitches over the last few months. The company remains committed to its current series and projects already in the pipeline, which include pilot Dark Cargo, but is not going to develop new projects, at least not for now.

18:38 11/04/2019
Phuket’s water supply scraping the bottom of the three dams

Meanwhile the remaining supply in Phuket’s three main catchments continues to evaporate today. The less water in the dams, the quicker it warms up each day and the more it evaporates.

18:16 11/04/2019
Chinese blogger loses libel case after saying Zaha Hadid building had 'bad feng shui'

Last November, Zhuhai Shengun Internet Technology published a blog post criticizing the undulating Wangjing SOHO development in Beijing, designed by the late Iraqi-British architect Hadid.

17:45 11/04/2019
German court defends cows' clanging bells

It was the latest setback for a couple from Holzkirchen, a peaceful market town, who first sued five years ago. But they plan to appeal again.

17:24 11/04/2019
Man catches his wife 'cheating with his good friend after accidentally leaving his dashcam switched on at home'

The device caught the woman, a secretary for a local discipline watchdog, having a rendezvous with the man, who was the mayor of his town, the husband accused.

17:00 11/04/2019
Baby with DNA from three people born in Greece

Experimental IVF, which involves extra egg from female donor, criticised by UK experts.

 

16:38 11/04/2019
Pakistan court lets converted Hindu girls live with husbands

Thursday's decision says medical checks found the girls, from southern Sindh province, to be 18 and 19 years old. It says they converted and married of their own free will.

16:16 11/04/2019
Benedict says Vatican legal system protected accused clergy

Benedict wrote that during the 1980s and 1990s, "the right to a defense was so broad as to make a conviction nearly impossible."

15:45 11/04/2019
Nigerian troops evacuate town in security operation: U.N.

The military relocated the people of Jakana to a camp in the city of Maiduguri about 40 km (25 miles) away, some arriving with “nothing, not even shoes on their feet,” the United Nations said in a statement.

15:27 11/04/2019
Bolts of lightning shoot upwards into the night sky in stunning slow-motion footage captured by US storm chaser

Dan Robinson, 43, was left thunderstruck after watching the bolts blast upwards through the night sky, rather than streaking down as they usually do.

15:27 11/04/2019
Scientists may have discovered a new human species. It lived on a tiny island in the Philippines at the same time as Homo sapiens

At the northern tip of the Philippines lies the tiny island of Luzon, and some 50,000 years ago, an ancient hominin species lived and thrived there, according to a study published April 10 in the journal Nature.

15:01 11/04/2019
Sudan's Bashir forced to step down, sources say

Sudanese sources told Reuters Bashir, 75, was deposed by the army and was at the presidential residence under 'heavy guard'.

14:44 11/04/2019
CEO sees Bayer 'massively' affected by herbicide litigation

Bayer has seen about 30 billion euros ($34 billion) wiped off its market value since August, when a U.S. jury found Bayer liable because Monsanto, acquired by Bayer for $63 billion last year, had not warned of weedkiller Roundup’s alleged cancer risks.

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