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When carp attack: Watch fish jump at rowers –
As the Washington University in St. Louis men’s rowing teams practiced Friday morning, a school of Asian carp showed their apparent displeasure with the activity by leaping frantically from the waters of Missouri’s Creve Coeur Lake. Junior Benjamin Rosenbaum, a captain of the varsity team, captured the aquatic onslaught on video. Rosenbaum says practices on the lake aren’t normally so eventful, but recent heavy rains and flooding may have brought more of the fish to this particular area. He had seen this activity once before, in 2013, when he was in a boat rather than on the banks. (See Video of the day) [USA Today]

Soul singer Percy Sledge dies aged 73 –
US soul singer Percy Sledge, famed for his song When a Man Loves a Woman, has died aged 73. Steve Green from talent agency Artists International Management Inc confirmed to the BBC that he died at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Tuesday. Sledge’s debut single When a Man Loves a Woman reached the top 10 twice in the UK and topped the US Billboard chart for two weeks in 1966, when it also got to number four in the UK chart (See List of the day). During an interview for the the 2013 documentary Muscle Shoals, he recalled his first recording of it. “When I came into the studio, I was shaking like a leaf. I was scared,” he said, adding that it was the “same melody that I sang when I was out in the fields. I just wailed out in the woods and let the echo come back to me”.

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• Iraqi insurgency (2011–present)
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• War in Somalia (2009–present)
  • al-Shabab gunmen enter the Higher Education Ministry building in Mogadishu after a large explosion is reported. (Voice of America)

Business and economy

• The Wall Street Journal reports that European Union regulators have announced plans to file charges against American Internet giant Googlefollowing a European Union investigation. (CNBC)

Disasters and accidents

• An Asiana Airlines Airbus A320 en route from South Korea to Japan skids off the runway at Hiroshima Airport injuring 20 of the 74 passengers.(AP via News24)
• Up to 400 people may have died as a boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea between Libya and Italy. (AFP/Reuters via ABC News Australia)

International relations

• President of the United States Barack Obama endorses a proposal to remove Cuba from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism. (New York Times)
• Yemeni Civil War (2015)
  • The United Nations Security Council votes to impose sanctions on Yemen‘s Houthi rebels. Los Angeles Times)

Law and crime

• A court in Japan‘s Fukui Prefecture issues a landmark injunction against restarting reactors 3 and 4 of the Takahama Nuclear Power Plant. (AFP via Yahoo! News Australia)

Science and technology

• SpaceX‘s latest attempt at recycling its Falcon 9 rocket by landing it on an ocean platform fails again. (AFP via Yahoo! News)

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