April2017
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Wall Street’s ‘Charging Bull’ artist challenges ‘Fearless Girl’ sculpture
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: The sculptor of Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” statue is seeing red over New York City’s decision to keep in place the “Fearless Girl” sculpture that now stares it down, saying the adjacent art has... -
Bosnian villagers shoe eggs to keep age-old craft alive
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: Centuries ago when Saxons developed mining and blacksmithing in Bosnia’s Kresevo, the ability to shoe an egg was regarded as the sign an apprentice was fit to start his own business and family. Now... -
As millions watch via webcam, giraffe gives birth in NY zoo
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: After weeks of suspense, April the giraffe finally gave birth on Saturday to a baby boy, delighting of hundreds of thousands of people who have been monitoring a live cam feed from a New... -
World’s oldest person, dies in Italy at 117
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: Emma Morano, who at 117 was believed to be the world’s oldest person and the last surviving child of the 19th century, died on Saturday, swearing to the end on her diet of two... -
Thousands flock to traditional Easter procession in German town
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: Thousands gathered in the southwestern German town of Bensheim on Friday to watch a procession that seeks to remind locals of the meaning of Easter – an important festival in the Christian calendar –... -
Senior Trump aide visits Afghanistan amid questions over strategy
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser met Afghan officials in Kabul on Sunday, amid questions over the new administration’s plans for the military mission in Afghanistan after American forces unleashed a huge bomb... -
North Korea missile test provocative, U.S. national security adviser says
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: White House national security adviser H. R. McMaster said on Sunday that North Korea’s missile test was provocative and that the United States was working with its allies, including China, to develop a range of... -
Death toll from Aleppo bus convoy bomb attack at least 126
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: The death toll from a bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached at least 126 in the deadliest such incident in Syria in almost a year, the Syrian Observatory for... -
North Korean test missile ‘fizzles’ hours before Pence arrives in South
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: A North Korean missile “blew up almost immediately” on its test launch on Sunday, the U.S. Pacific Command said, hours before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence landed in South Korea for talks on the... -
‘Maarutha’ likely to intensify further
Apr 16, 2017News Hour: The cyclonic storm ‘Maarutha’ (Ecp 996 hpa) over east-central Bay and adjoining area moved north-northeastwards further, reports UNB quoting the Met office. It lies over the same area (near lat 16.4 & deg;n and...
