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  • 22 March 2018: Sydney experiences hottest March day in 35 years
  • 21 March 2018: Kenyan conservancy euthanises last male northern white rhino; only two females remain
  • 21 March 2018: Uber suspends self-driving car program after pedestrian death in Arizona, United States
  • 20 March 2018: Vladimir Putin wins fourth term as President of Russia
  • 17 March 2018: United States: Coroner says former patient killed self and three hostages at California veterans center
  • 17 March 2018: British scientist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76
  • 15 March 2018: US toy retail giant Toys ‘R’ Us files for liquidation in United States
  • 14 March 2018: State of emergency in Sri Lanka remains despite calm returning after violence
  • 13 March 2018: Mirror’s exposé prompts call for inquiry into child abuse ring in Telford, England
  • 13 March 2018: United States President Trump dismisses Secretary of State Tillerson

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  • United States: Coroner says former patient killed self and three hostages at California veterans center
  • State of emergency in Sri Lanka remains despite calm returning after violence
  • Mirror’s exposé prompts call for inquiry into child abuse ring in Telford, England
  • Pixar Studios animator Bud Luckey, designer of Toy Story’s Woody, dies aged 83
  • Irish rock band The Cranberries’ lead singer Dolores O’Riordan dies at 46
  • Apple, Inc. confirms acquisition of Shazam
  • Uber suspends self-driving car program after pedestrian death in Arizona, United States
  • Winter storm fells US President George Washington’s tree at Mount Vernon estate, Virginia
  • Bus crash in Ocoña District of Peru costs over 40 lives
  • US toy retail giant Toys ‘R’ Us files for liquidation in United States
  • Maria Contreras-Sweet Group buys The Weinstein Company assets, saves it from bankruptcy
  • Amazon to buy smart doorbell startup Ring
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  • United States: Two dead in Kentucky high school shooting
  • Arrangement of light receptors in the eye may cause dyslexia, scientists say
  • Detroit teachers stage sickout to protest working conditions as Obama visits
  • Kenyan conservancy euthanises last male northern white rhino; only two females remain
  • French fashion brand Lacoste announces limited-edition logo change from crocodile to endangered animals
  • British surfers catch more than waves: Scientists find antibiotic-resistant bacteria
  • Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai
  • British surfers catch more than waves: Scientists find antibiotic-resistant bacteria
  • England: Baby born with heart outside body operated on; surviving, three weeks after birth
  • British scientist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76
  • Pixar Studios animator Bud Luckey, designer of Toy Story’s Woody, dies aged 83
  • Former Irish footballer Liam Miller dies at 36
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  • Vladimir Putin wins fourth term as President of Russia
  • State of emergency in Sri Lanka remains despite calm returning after violence
  • United States President Trump dismisses Secretary of State Tillerson
  • Uber suspends self-driving car program after pedestrian death in Arizona, United States
  • British scientist Stephen Hawking dies aged 76
  • Scientists report exoplanet K2-155d could hold liquid water
  • Former Irish footballer Liam Miller dies at 36
  • Dutch Football Association appoints Ronald Koeman manager of men’s national team
  • North Korea to send head of state to South Korea for Olympics
  • Airborne sedan smashes into dental office in Santa Ana, California, US
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  • India Supreme Court overrules High Court: rivers Yamuna, Ganga no longer living entities
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  • Kenyan conservancy euthanises last male northern white rhino; only two females remain
  • Zimbabwean politician Bennett and four others die in New Mexico helicopter crash
  • Liberia: Former football striker George Weah wins presidential election
  • Vladimir Putin wins fourth term as President of Russia
  • China ends presidential term limits in constitutional amendment
  • State of emergency in Sri Lanka remains despite calm returning after violence
  • Australia bars North Korea’s U-19 football team from entering country citing ‘illegal nuclear programmes’
  • New South Wales police extradict ‘self-healer’ Hongchi Xiao from London over death of six-year-old boy at conference
  • Australia: Victorian government to trial driverless vehicles on public roads
  • Fifteen states sue United States President Donald Trump for cancelling program for undocumented immigrant minors
  • Gunmen murder Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres
  • Guatemalan Supreme Court approves impeachment of President Molina
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  • Vladimir Putin wins fourth term as President of Russia
  • Mirror’s exposé prompts call for inquiry into child abuse ring in Telford, England
  • French fashion brand Lacoste announces limited-edition logo change from crocodile to endangered animals
  • Iran: Wreckage found of plane crashed in mountains; all believed dead
  • ‘Save the Children’ organisation suspends all activities in Afghanistan after ISIL attack
  • US Vice President Pence speaks to Israeli Knesset: US embassy to move to Jerusalem
  • Uber suspends self-driving car program after pedestrian death in Arizona, United States
  • United States: Coroner says former patient killed self and three hostages at California veterans center
  • US toy retail giant Toys ‘R’ Us files for liquidation in United States
  • Margot Duhalde, Chile’s first female military pilot, dies aged 97
  • Chile: Pope Francis stirs outrage with ‘slander’ comment
  • Italian court sentences Brazilian footballer Robinho to nine years for 2013 sexual assault


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  • Austria: Victims’ condition upgraded, suspect confesses to stabbings in Leopoldstadt, Vienna
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