France ranked sixth on the World Bank GDP rankings in 2016. [br] [originaltext]

World Bank released countries’ 2017 worldwide gross domestic product rankings in early July. On this year’s list, India replaced France as the world’s sixth-largest economy, with a GDP amounting to $2.60 trillion, while France’s figure was $2.58 trillion in 2017.

World renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76. He died peacefully at his home in Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday, his family said.