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The US president says he will abandon the global trade body "if they don't shape up". from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PMYsse

Eugene Grant is regularly abused by people as he walks around Newcastle. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PQWRBK

The new 'melting muscle' treatment has proved to be safe and effective, health experts say. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2C20bqX

Paco Box said he carried a gun and robbed people to fund his former lifestyle. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PS6WhW

The Brexit secretary will meet the EU's chief negotiator as work on a divorce deal continues. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2LIgMiR

One of Belgium's top football TV presenters is charged with being an accomplice to an armed robbery. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2NytToH

Many of Friday's papers lead on the resignation of Frank Field over Labour's anti-Semitism row. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2NaQNFX

Your morning briefing for Friday 31 August 2018. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PSpEWw

It's back-to-school time. Here are five top tips for getting your kids back into a school-friendly bedtime routine. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2LIkAkc

It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days? from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2NymWEb

JJ Zhou took on a fiendish cycling challenge on the world's highest mountain. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2NC2pyG

The Arizona senator and the former vice-president shared a decades-long friendship. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2opOXms

A mountain lake is being re-stocked with trout from the air by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PPH2LJ

The 29ft giant inflatable, bought by protesters, shows the London mayor wearing a yellow bikini. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2C2t3iV

Worried motorists called the police after spotting the bird on the hard shoulder. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2wxWPWx

People are unimpressed the Pakistan prime minister takes a helicopter to work despite his austerity policies. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PRUte6

The suicide rate among low-skilled male labourers is three times higher than the national average for men, according to figures by the ONS. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MXbzJ1

Philip's date was going well until Crohn's Disease turned up the morning after the night before. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2BY3lfj

When she gave birth to her son Teddy, Robyn Hollingworth wanted to share the news with her own mum from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PMziKt

One historian suggests in a new book that the ravages of World War Two might have contributed. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Pm5AL3

How internet-connected robots are helping combat the scourge of isolation and loneliness. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2MGfoCX

The real-life story of the Hogwarts Express is almost as magical as the engine itself. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2LDmGC4

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The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country's biggest religion and the government. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2MCG5bE

The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting the stage for a showdown between the country's biggest religion and the government. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2MCG5bE

As wildfires scorched California yet again this summer, Jose Dariush Leal da Costa, a Bay Area native with Portuguese roots, was harvesting his first almonds in a sun-drenched, watery oasis in southern Portugal. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wtck2W

While China meets African leaders at a major summit in Beijing next week, the king of eSwatini, self-ruled Taiwan's last remaining ally on the continent, will be hosting thousands of people at a traditional Reed Dance ceremony. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2osJ085

Kremlin said on Friday it did not rule out the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin could hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at three summits due to take place in 2018, including those in Singapore, France and Argentina. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wBTN4H

A Cambodian court jailed an Australian filmmaker for six years on Friday after finding him guilty of espionage for flying a drone over an opposition party rally. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PQwMCR

Japan's military wants record spending next year to help pay for major upgrades to defenses designed to shoot down North Korean ballistic missiles that Tokyo sees as a continued threat despite Pyongyang's promise to abandon nuclear weapons. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2wtqctN

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has had to strip one minister of her portfolio and had another step aside in less than a week, capping off a month of challenges for the popular premier since her return from maternity leave. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PQSu9V

President Rodrigo Duterte has said graft and illicit drugs were so entrenched in the Philippines that if he were not around, it would be better off run by a dictator such as late strongman Ferdinand Marcos. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2N1Tl96

At dawn, high on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, a Buddhist monk in saffron robes chants blessings over limber athletes preparing to run 100 kilometers across sand dunes, rivers and ravines. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PTk1HR

Twitter comments by U.S. President Donald Trump accusing China of hacking former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's email server are an attempt to cast China as a "scapegoat", the official China Daily said in an editorial Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2PR9yMU

Australia has arrested and charged a Sri Lankan man with planning a terror attack after finding "symbolic locations within Sydney" listed as possible targets in his notebook, police said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NyUDFL