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Hello and welcome to bbc news. The European Union and the south American Economic bloc, mercosur have agreed a huge free trade deal after two decades of talks. The agreement with argentina, brazil, paraguay and uruguay creates a market for goods and Services Covering almost eight hundred million people. Heres our south America Business correspondent, daniel gallas. All attention is about trade tensions between china and the United States, the news of brexit being negotiated, so were seeing politicians saying that the best way to create jobs is to lower tariffs and reduce protectionism. Its not...

Hello and welcome. Theres anticipation building as President Trump and chinas xijinping are meeting at the 620 summit injapan. The two countries are of course currently locked in a bitter trade war which is threatening to escalate. All eyes are on whether this meeting can break the deadlock or at least offer Global Markets some relief. Ourjapan correspondent, Rupert Wingfield hayes is at the summit in osaka. Are we expecting any sort of resolution to come out of this meeting . I dont think we will see a complete resolution to the trade dispute, this is too short a meeting with too many issues ...

The Empire State Building's website states that lightning strikes the antenna 25 times a year on average.

On May 29, as a thunderstorm swept through Manhattan, lightning struck the Empire State Building. On the internet, dramatic photos have appeared on Empire State's official X account.

Dramatic photos captured the moment glowing white bolts sliced through the night sky, striking the antennas atop both skyscrapers, including the Empire State Building, in the US.