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UNITED STATES

Ethologist Jane Goodall dies at 91

World-renowned ethologist, primatologist, and conservationist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, the Jane Goodall Institute said on Wednesday in a statement. Goodall, a United Nations Messenger of Peace and founder of the institute, passed away from natural causes in California while on a speaking tour in the United States, the statement said. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world, the statement further said. Born in Britain, Goodall rose to fame for her pioneering research on chimpanzees in Tanzania in the 1960s. Widely regarded as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, she devoted more than six decades to studying their social and family interactions in the wild.

UNITED KINGDOM

2 killed in Manchester synagogue attack

Two people were killed after an assailant reportedly drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in Manchester in northwest England on Thursday, police said. Greater Manchester Police said officers had been called to Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the north Manchester district of Crumpsall after a witness reported seeing a car being driven toward members of the public and that one man had been stabbed. Armed officers responded and a man, believed to be the offender, was shot.

Agencies - Xinhua