The 10 most important things in the world right now

Peter Jacobs

REUTERS

Retired factory worker Liu Guoyuan, 68, practices tightrope walking near a construction site in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China April 27, 2016.

Hello! Here's what you need to know on Friday.

1. $4$4, and the stock went up 12% in after-hours trading.

2. $4$4. Obama nominated career diplomat Roberta Jacobson for the Mexico City post in June.

3. $4, making up for lost oil profits after its battlefield losses.

$44. $4. More than a hundred demonstrators were detained.

5. $4. The move comes amid growing tensions in the disputed South China Sea.

6. $4. Amazon plans to "significantly" increase its spending in video content, the company stressed in its earnings call Thursday.

7. $4. "I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life," Boehner said.

8. $4. LeEco just opened its new US headquarters with close to 300 employees in San Jose, California.

9. $4. Goff played college football at the University of California, Berkeley.

10. $4. Ken Livingstone told BBC Radio that Hitler "was supporting Zionism" in 1932, "before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews."

And finally ...