Yahoo Finance's Akiko Fujita breaks down today's top stories from around the world.

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- In our worldview today, a British lawmaker has died after being stabbed multiple times during a meeting with constituents. A member of the Conservative Labor Party David Amess was talking to voters at a church when the violence unfolded. Police arrested the suspect at the scene. Amess was first elected to parliament back in 1983. He represented Essex and Eastern England for more than 20 years.

China is set to launch its second manned flight into space. The Shenzhou 13 rocket will take off from the Gobi Desert Saturday carrying three astronauts including the first Chinese woman to travel to orbit.

The crew will be stationed at the Tiangong Space Station for six months conducting a number of experiments. The launch comes just days after China successfully launched its solar observatory along with 10 other satellites into orbit.

And finally in the UK street, artist Banksy's famous Shredded Love Is In The Bin painting fetched an eye popping $25 million at an auction. The Turin work was priced at 5 and a half to $8 million in pre-sale but a 10 minute bidding war led to the price tag tripling. The buyer has not been disclosed yet.

Love Is In The Bin first auction for $1.4 million back in 2018 but a shredder built into the frame tore up the painting as soon as it was sold shocking the art world. That more paintings were sold higher shredded. You'd think other artists might follow but $25 million, not nothing.

- Yeah. Not bad there and you know, it's you know, I guess. I'm not sure what the symbolism of that was because you know original piece girl with balloon then it shredded love is the bid or loving the bid and now it's worth even more. But yeah, maybe that's the new thing to do in art class these days. Just shred it up you get.