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Deadly storm: A strong tropical 1 storm bearing down on Hong Kong on Wednesday left one person dead and 21 others injured, as city authorities suspended classes, stock market trading and government services. Typhoon Kompasu moved across the South China Sea before hitting China’s southern island province of Hainan, where it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph.

2 14 kangaroos killed: Two teenagers in Australia have been charged in the killing of 14 kangaroos that were found beaten to death over the weekend about 170 miles south of Sydney, according to reports. An injured baby kangaroo was found alive amid the carnage.

800 evacuated: Hundreds of

3 people in Spain’s Canary Islands feared for their homes and property Wednesday as a new river of lava from an erupting volcano threatened another neighborhood on the island of La Palma . Authorities ordered the evacuation of around 800 people from the coastal town.

Step closer to sainthood: The 4

Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope John Paul I, the Italian pontiff who reigned for only 33 days before his death in 1978, will be beatified after a miracle was attributed to him, bringing him one step closer to sainthood.

5 Death penalty argument:

The Supreme Court sounded ready Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In more than 90 minutes of arguments, the court’s six conservative justices seemed likely to embrace the Biden administration’s argument that a federal appeals court mistakenly threw out Tsarnaev’s death sentence for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013.