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A third prototype of China's home-built C919 narrowbody passenger jet completed its first test flight on Friday, its manufacturer said, in another step forward in the nation's push to become a global civil aerospace player. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2SpzKPs http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Sister Wendy Beckett, a nun and art historian who became an unlikely television star in Britain in the 1990s, died at the age of 88 on Wednesday, the BBC reported. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2EODreB http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Many Delhi residents were forced to spend Christmas indoors this year as air quality remained at "severe to emergency" levels for a fourth day, in the Indian capital's worst smog crisis this year. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2Q1Ny0z http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Banksy fans are flocking to the Welsh town of Port Talbot to see a new mural by the elusive British street artist depicting a child covered in snow that is in fact ash from a burning bin. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2EDLHNy http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

Faced with a chronic shortage of truck drivers, logistics firm Deutsche Post DHL Group is trialing a new scheme to get more people behind the wheel so it can keep goods flowing across Europe, especially at peak times like Christmas. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2PSeRdZ http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

As Venezuela collapses, one little-known U.S. investment fund is poised to win big from litigation against its socialist government: Tenor Capital Management. from Reuters: Arts https://reut.rs/2S8pon4 http://bit.ly/1lWo55T

In a nostalgic homage to a now-defunct nation, a bronze statue of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito was unveiled on Wednesday in Montenegro's capital Podgorica. from Reuters: Arts https://ift.tt/2R4xHDk https://ift.tt/1lWo55T

Germany agreed new rules on Wednesday to lower the threshold for screening and even blocking purchases of stakes in German firms by non-Europeans, in a move to fend off unwanted takeovers by Chinese investors in strategic areas. from Reuters: Arts https://ift.tt/2QJnbBR https://ift.tt/1lWo55T

Germany has lowered the threshold for launching security probes of stake purchases by non-European entities to protect critical infrastructure, a government official said on Wednesday, in a push to fend off unwanted takeovers by Chinese investors. from Reuters: Arts https://ift.tt/2EDZnZD https://ift.tt/1lWo55T

Sue, the largest, most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, gets to show off its new lair this week at the Field Museum in Chicago. from Reuters: Arts https://ift.tt/2S9Mz0c https://ift.tt/1lWo55T

Why don't chickens fly? When did the moon learn to be kind? from Reuters: Arts https://ift.tt/2UQ9CPo https://ift.tt/1lWo55T

Ma Chunyan's hands appear to hold Vincent Van Gogh's swirling dreamscape vision of the night sky, the painter's iconic work "The Starry Night". from Reuters: Arts https://ift.tt/2SN12iC https://ift.tt/1lWo55T

Artist and designer Philip Colbert, whose surrealist clothes have been worn by Lady Gaga and Rita Ora, brings pop art back to British painting with a new show that comments on consumerist culture, climate change and our appetite for social media. from Reuters: Arts https://ift.tt/2PGr84N https://ift.tt/1lWo55T