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US stocks and the dollar plunged again as President Donald Trump intensified his attacks on the US central bank boss and called him "a major loser".
In a social media post, Trump called on Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates "pre-emptively" to help boost the economy, and said Powell had been consistently too slow to respond to economic developments.
Trump's criticism of Powell's handling of the US economy came as his own plans for tariffs have driven a stock market sell-off and raised fears of economic recession.
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Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms.
K2-18b is two and a half times the size of Earth and is seven hundred trillion miles away from us.
This is the second, and more promising, time chemicals associated with life have been detected in the planet's atmosphere by Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
But the team and independent astronomers stress that more data is needed to confirm these results.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney has said Canada is "not for sale" as US President Donald Trump insists the country would benefit from becoming the 51st US state.
Relations between the once close allies have been frayed in the wake of Trump's new tariff regime, as well as the comments, but the US president added that Canada's opposition to his proposal will not impact today's discussions.
Trump also said during the meeting that the US will "always" protect Canada.
He also encouraged Carney to think of the US "as a super luxury store" while talking about international trade and added that other countries will come and pay a price, and the US will give them "very good deals".
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Pope Francis' funeral has taken place in the Vatican, and his coffin has arrived at the church in Rome where he will be buried.
Pope Francis "touched minds and hearts" and wanted to "build bridges, not walls", said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who led the service.
Dozens of leaders and dignitaries - including Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Prince William - joined hundreds of thousands of people gathered in St Peter’s Square and the surrounding area.
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Stock markets have plunged in Asia, as President Donald Trump's tariffs continue to send shockwaves around the world.
Earlier, US stock market futures were sharply down, indicating that Wall Street shares will fall when they open.
Donald Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, has defended his tariff policy, saying "sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something".
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European Union member states have voted to impose an extra 25% tariffs on US imports, affecting €20.9bn (£18bn) worth of goods.
The tariffs are in response to the 25% import taxes US President Donald Trump imposed on all steel and aluminium that came into force in mid-March.
It is unclear which goods the EU is targeting, but the new tariffs will come into effect from 15 April.
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China's finance ministry has announced that it is placing an additional 84% tariff on all goods imported from the US.
US President Donald Trump placed a 104% tariff on all Chinese goods entering the US, starting from Wednesday.
China says that these new retaliatory charges will take effect from 12:01 CST (05:00 BST) on 10 April.
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We look at how far China is willing to go in retaliation against President Trump’s tariffs?
Beijing has vowed to “fight to the end” after the US president threatened to nearly double the tariffs on China. How far could the trade war go?
And, how would big tariffs on Chinese goods impact people in the UK? James is joined by Ian Williams, author of the Fire of the Dragon, China’s New Cold War and Sophia Gaston, visiting fellow at Kings College London.
Plus, President Trump says the US is having direct nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday. Why now? And what does it mean for tensions in the Middle East? James is joined by Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet.
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