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• Drink (tap) water - not sports drinks, unless you really are a football star

  11-07-2014 01:01 via The Guardian
  
  Sports drinks are fashionable and considered healthy among teenagers, who drink them while watching TV, but they contain useless added sugar. Water is the better optionSports drinks - if they have a justification at all - are for people playing serious sport. According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), they are useful only for "active individuals performing endurance exercise". That is not even a half-hearted kick-about of a ball in a park, let alone the spectator sport of
  
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• Furious Trump calls New York Times report on how he tried to smother investigations 'false' 

  20-02-2019 16:04 via News | Mail Online
  
  President Trump slammed a New York Times report he asked then-acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to stifle a hush money probe as 'false' and proclaimed the newspaper the 'enemy of the people.'
  
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• Boy finds his mother dead after she was shot by her boyfriend in a murder-suicide

  20-02-2019 16:04 via News | Mail Online
  
  Authorities in Florida say Gregory Schatz, 45, on Monday shot dead his new girlfriend and divorced mother-of-four, Laura Randall, 53, before turning the gun on himself inside their rented home.
  
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• May slams Corbyn for turning 'once proud' Labour into an 'institutionally anti-Semitic' party  

  20-02-2019 16:02 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Prime Minister seized on warnings from MPs who quit Labour this week that the party suffered from 'institutional anti-Semitism' in a ferocious attack at PMQs.
  
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• Bizarre footage of Tyne and Wear man power-washing the INSIDE of his car

  20-02-2019 16:01 via News | Mail Online
  
  The clip, filmed by 32-year-old Mark Herd, shows the unidentified individual blasting the interior of his vehicle with a high-pressure hose in Birtly, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
  
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• Iranian refugee who starred in national TV campaign charged in $36million ice importation conspiracy

  20-02-2019 16:00 via News | Mail Online
  
  Hamid Ranjbarain starred in an insurance ad in 2018 where he talked about fleeing Iran to start a better life in Australia. He was arrested in Sydney on Wednesday on charges of meth importation.
  
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• Cops arrest a man in the 1973 cold case murder of 11-year-old Linda O'Keefe

  20-02-2019 15:59 via News | Mail Online
  
  Police have arrested a man in Colorado Springs, Colorado in the decades-old murder case of 11-year-old California girl Linda Ann O'Keefe who was strangled to death on July 6, 1973.
  
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• Australian scientists are developing cutting-edge technique that could wipe out the pests for good

  20-02-2019 15:59 via News | Mail Online
  
  The invasive pets would be wiped out with controversial gene manipulation research that will cause the toads to be less fit or would turn the entire male population in Australia.
  
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• Pensioner in court accused of driving car into pram with baby in Swansea

  20-02-2019 15:57 via News | Mail Online
  
  Joyce Jenkins, 73, is accused of 'nudging' a buggy off the Swansea dual carriageway after the traffic lights went green just before rush hour in April last year.
  
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• How projects in 6 cities are working to end poverty plagued African American communities generations

  20-02-2019 15:55 via News | Mail Online
  
  African Americans tend to have lower incomes, lower home ownership rates and a greater risk of becoming trapped in a multigenerational cycle of poverty than white Americans.
  
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• British backpacker, 23, became first person to be killed by a sea snake in Australia

  20-02-2019 15:55 via News | Mail Online
  
  Harry Evans, 23, died after he was bitten by a sea snake while he was working on a relative's fishing trawler in the sea off the Northern Territory of Australia.
  
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• Toddler escapes being crushed to death by a heavy lorry after falling from a fast van

  20-02-2019 15:54 via News | Mail Online
  
  The child flew out of the black van after a door suddenly slid open when the vehicle went around a corner at a high speed in China. Seconds later, a woman jumped out of the van to rescue the child.
  
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• Schoolboy, 15, convicted of sex assault on girl in classroom is allowed to stay at SAME school

  20-02-2019 15:53 via News | Mail Online
  
  The victim's family, from Essex has slammed the decision to let the 15-year-old boy who assaulted their daughter return back to the same school as her.
  
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• Video show girl getting ready for cheer competition before fatal gas explosion

  20-02-2019 15:51 via News | Mail Online
  
  Linda 'Michellita' Rogers recorded herselfdoing her hair in three different cellphone videos inher Dallas home on the morning of February 23 last year.
  
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• California rapper killed by cops while sleeping in car was shot 25 times - including through throat

  20-02-2019 15:45 via News | Mail Online
  
  The aspiring California rapper killed by police after taking a nap in his car at the drive-thru of a Taco Bell was shot around 25 times and had his ear partially blown off, his attorney claims.
  
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• Welsh Denbigh Plum is awarded protected food status alongside Stilton cheese and Cornish pasties

  20-02-2019 15:44 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Denbigh Plum, from the Vale of Clwyd, has been awarded protected status by the EU. The scheme recognises quality food and drink that are processed and prepared in a specific region.
  
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• Photos of Hong Kong horse racing fire that killed 600 people sell for £4,000 at auction

  20-02-2019 15:43 via News | Mail Online
  
  The unique set of 20 images show the disaster at the The Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong which claimed the lives of over 600 people after a grandstand caught fire back in 1918.
  
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• Melbourne lake becomes a photo favourite after it turns pink - but experts say keep out of the water

  20-02-2019 15:43 via News | Mail Online
  
  The Instagram-worthy lake in Westgate Park, west Melbourne, is now glistening with apink complexion thanks to the mixture of high salt levels, increased sunlight and warmer temperatures.
  
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• Ohio man, 42, punched his OWN lawyer in the face after being sentenced to 47 years in prison

  20-02-2019 15:36 via News | Mail Online
  
  David Chislton, right, hit Aaron Brockler, left, in the face in the Cuyahoga County courtroom on Tuesday. Brockler was stretchered from court and suffered a broken nose and concussion.
  
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• Trump jokes about 'Crazy Bernie' Sanders after 77-year-old socialist launches campaign to unseat him

  20-02-2019 15:28 via News | Mail Online
  
  Sanders, 77, entered the 2020 presidential race Tuesday morning. His campaign announced 14 hours later that 150,000 donors had contributed $4 million to the effort.
  
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• Knee-buckling drone footage shows two teenagers posing atop a 820ft crane in Canary Wharf

  20-02-2019 15:28 via News | Mail Online
  
  The boys were only 180ft lower than the Shard, the third tallest building in Europe. They pose on the platform at the end, reaching their arms in the air with only their feet to stop them falling.
  
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• Hitler’s mountain lair revealed by haunting new photo album showing the leader's expensive tastes

  20-02-2019 15:27 via News | Mail Online
  
  Stunning photos revealing Adolf Hitler's lair are going on sale at an auction in Kent on Friday. The Berghof was Hitler's mountain residence and it became a German headquarters during WWII.
  
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• Food lovers disgusted by woman's 'f****** disappointing' 'fully loaded' breakfast

  20-02-2019 15:26 via Mirror - News
  
  Gemma E proudly showed off her plate of bacon, tomatoes, hashbrowns and a fried egg, but it didn't go down well with people on the Rate My Plate Facebook group
  
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• Traumatised fashionista, 22, left with 'world's WORST haircut' after stylist 'butchered' her locks 

  20-02-2019 15:23 via News | Mail Online
  
  Lucy Burrows from Swindon in Wiltshire raged on social that Barber n' Bar in Cheltenham left her with the 'world's worst' undercut after shaving wonky lines into the back of her head.
  
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• Schoolboy attacks 'vulnerable' OAP in street as laughing pals film it

  20-02-2019 15:23 via Mirror - News
  
  Teenager was told to 'bang him up' by his goading friends who filmed the shocking attack in Southall, London
  
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• Inspirational post of West Virginia state trooper saluting funeral parade goes viral

  20-02-2019 15:22 via News | Mail Online
  
  A West Virginia state trooper tugged at hundreds of heartstrings after blocking traffic and standing to salute a passing funeral procession. The photo went viral with 2,500 likes.
  
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• What happens when a baby is born mid-flight - and whether they get free flights for life

  20-02-2019 15:20 via Mirror - News
  
  Only a tiny number of babies are born mid-air, but can the cabin crew help? And what does this mean in terms of nationality?
  
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• Furious mother, 42, slams NHS after medic brands her four-year-old son OVERWEIGHT

  20-02-2019 15:20 via News | Mail Online
  
  Hector Harvey, four, was weighed as part of a nationwide measuring programme. His mother Natalie, from Derbyshire, felt she had 'let down' her sporty son after receiving the letter from the NHS.
  
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• Devastated husband of slain housekeeper in triple murder shooting describes heartbreak

  20-02-2019 15:18 via News | Mail Online
  
  Wayne Morse told DailyMail.com of his devastation of learning that his housekeeper wife of 25 years Maria was killed in a triple homicide at her employer's home.
  
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• Crufts dogs go off script as they try to impress judges with hilarious falls

  20-02-2019 15:11 via News | Mail Online
  
  Owners falling flat on their faces, furry competitors straying from the iconic green course and dogs answering the call of nature have all been captured in this gag reel ahead of this year’s Crufts.
  
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