Eagle tries to carry off Australian boy

An eagle attempted to lift a little boy into the air during a bird show at Alice Springs in Australia

A wedge-tailed eagle tried to fly away with a terrified boy at a popular wildlife show in central Australia.

A crowd of stunned onlookers watched the enormous bird latch its talons on to the screaming boy's head during a show at Alice Springs Desert Park.

Witnesses said the bird attempted to pick him up "like a small animal".

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Breaking News; Italy train crash: 'Twelve killed' near Bar

Several carriages were completely destroyed in the collision on a single-track line near Andria

Twelve people have been killed and dozens more hurt in a head-on collision involving two passenger trains in southern Italy, reports say.

The two trains were on a single-track line at the time of the crash, between the coastal towns of Bari and Barletta.

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The refugee who fled civil war and became a multi-millionaire

Daniele's life changed again for the better when she started her own business

Daniele Henkel decided she had to flee Algeria because she felt her children were no longer safe.

"Islamists were starting to attack girls in the street," she says. "I had to think about my daughters, so I decided to move to Canada."

This was back in 1990, and Algeria was about to descend into more than a decade of civil war between a secular government and various Islamist groups.

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'Kill white people'

Micah Johnson

On Thursday, five white police officers were shot dead by a black man, Micah Johnson, during a protest rally against the police killings.

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US police shootings: Protests spread with dozens of arrests

Protesters in Minneapolis call for justice for Philando Castile

Protests continue to spread across US cities against the killing of black men by police, following recent deaths in Minnesota and Louisiana.

Roads were blocked and missiles thrown in Minnesota, while armed New Black Panther Party members confronted police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Dozens of arrests have been made but the rallies were mostly peaceful.

The situation is also tense in Dallas, where five officers were killed by a black man during a protest rally.

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