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In his fiercest attack yet on Jeff Sessions, the US president says he is "very disappointed". - Brexit: May urges EU leaders to consider 'serious' UK plans The PM urges EU leaders to focus their minds on getting a deal, saying talks will not be extended. - New York inmate's golf drawings lead to exoneration in murder Valentino Dixon, whose art featured in a golf magazine, is a free man after 27 years behind bars. - Pioneering US ballet dancer Arthur Mitchell dies at 84 The African-American ballet dancer achieved global success after he was raised in poverty in Harlem. - Colombia cocaine production acreage at 'record level' UN statistics show the total cocaine production area rose to its highest recorded level in 2017. - Ronaldo weeps after Juventus red card Cristiano Ronaldo is sent off but Juventus still claim an important win at Valencia in their opening Champions League game. - Salisbury incident: Hoax 'likely' to be one line of inquiry The man who prompted Sunday?s major incident after ?falling ill? at a restaurant once hoaxed Prince Charles. - Which is real - and which is the drawing? "It's about creating an illusion whereby you don't know which item is real and which is a drawing". - US 'ready to restart negotiations' with North Korea US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the aim is North Korea's denuclearisation "by January 2021". - Storm Ali: 100mph winds disrupt Great Britain Flights fail to land and trees and trampolines are pulled from the ground, as high winds cause devastation in UK and Ireland. - Brett Kavanaugh: Senate sets deadline for accuser testimony In a letter, the judiciary committee chairman says it is "not the FBI's role" to investigate this. - French police seize 20 tonnes of Eiffel Tower souvenirs French police have dismantled a network selling the small metal souvenirs to tourists across Paris. - Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour might have been found in US Researchers in the US will release a 3D image on Friday before a planned excavation in 2019. - Florence: Two patients dead after van swept away in floods A van carrying two mental health patients in South Carolina was overtaken by floods, officials say. - Man guilty in yoga ball murder case A Hong Kong court finds a doctor guilty of killing his wife and daughter with a gas-filled yoga ball. - My holiday with the Afghan mujahideen A man's neighbour invited him on holiday to war zone in Afghanistan for an extraordinary experience. - The daring Allied plan to defeat the Nazis The daring Allied parachute drop to win WW2 - India's only self-made female billionaire Self-made billionaire Kiran Mazumdar Shaw shares her secrets for succeeding in a man's world. - Osborne Macharia on the Afrofuturism revolution Visual artist Osborne Macharia wants the cultural movement to revolutionise the perception of Africa. - Cycling land speed: Denise Mueller-Korenek breaks world record Denise Mueller-Korenek rode a custom bike at a 183.932 mph average, the take-off speed of a large jet. - In Pictures: South Korea's Moon Jae-in attends Pyongyang Mass Games South Korea's president attended the events at Pyongyang's May Day stadium during his visit. - Giant spider-web cloaks land in Aitoliko, Greece A large area of land by a lagoon in western Greece is covered by a giant spider-web. - The new face of the far right in Europe He's the far right's newest poster boy ? but Martin Sellner?s insistence that his far-right group is non-violent doesn?t have everyone convinced. - Trump's tariffs putting the squeeze on the Midwest Companies in the US state of Wisconsin show how President Trump's trade war with China is continuing to hurt. - Letter from Africa: The link between earth tremors, God and Nigeria's elections Why some earth tremors in Nigerian's capital, Abuja, have caused such a stir. |
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