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• Executions and death sentences worldwide: interactive

  12-02-2015 23:57
  
  At least 778 executions were carried out across the world in 2013, with even more death sentences handed down. This interactive shows the most recent statistics gathered by Amnesty International. Figures marked with a ‘+’ symbol are a minimum estimate, with the real value potentially higher. Figures marked with ‘*’ indicate that at least some executions or death sentences have taken place, but Amnesty was unable to determine how many. Continue reading...
  
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• Steve Strange dead: Simon Le Bon and Billy Idol lead tributes as music pioneer dies from heart attack

  12-02-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Steve Strange's celebrity pals and others influenced by his music have paid tribute to the star following the sad news of his sudden death
  
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• The moment masked jewellery store robber slips on shiny floor after smash and grab raiders burst through window in a Mercedes

  12-02-2015 23:51 via
  
  The hapless raider managed to pick himself up and carry on with the heist at Gems Jewellers in Coventry, during which hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Indian gold jewellery were taken.
  
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• Britons blame suds law when washing clothes goes wrong - but we are nation of laundry symbol dunces

  12-02-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Half of those loading the washing machine never check labels for instructions like how hot or cool to set the load
  
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• Bank of England boss issues negative inflation warning to George Osborne

  12-02-2015 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tories are warned on negative inflation amid fears that stagnation could stunt economic growth in the UK
  
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• VIDEO: BBC films as troops told of peace deal

  12-02-2015 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The United States has welcomed a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the war in Ukraine but demanded that Russia end its support for the separatists.
  
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• Harry Kane set for England call up for Euro qualifiers, says Roy Hodgson

  12-02-2015 23:30
  
  • Hodgson impressed with Tottenham striker’s improvement
  • Manager will not consider using Wayne Rooney in midfield
  • Saido Berahino reprimanded over drink-driving charge
  • Beckham tips Kane for England call-upRoy Hodgson has confirmed that Harry Kane will be called up to his next England squad but insisted that he will not use Wayne Rooney as a midfielder on a day when it also emerged that another of his forwards, Saido Berahino, had become the first player to receive an officia
  
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• Eoin Morgan confident England can buck trend to defeat Australia at MCG

  12-02-2015 23:30
  
  England must visit Melbourne in their World Cup opener, where they have lost five out of six since 2000
  • Michael Clarke ruled out of Australia v England opener
  The bare facts, the simple historical statistics of results, suggest that when England step out to the cacophony of 90,000 pom-baiting Australian spectators for their World Cup opener, they will be given the chance of a snowball in the vicinity of a David Warner rant.Just to take this millennium: the teams have played 27 matches in
  
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• Sports stars including Rory McIlroy and Sergio Aguero embroiled in HMRC tax probe

  12-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  HM Revenue and Customs is investigating if the programmes unfairly exploited incentives designed to boost run-down city centres, under which investors could claim tax relief
  
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• Visage singer and New Romantic pioneer Steve Strange dies

  12-02-2015 23:24 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New Romantic pioneer Steve Strange has died of a heart attack in Egypt aged 55
  
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• Single mum jailed after son 'couldn't be bothered to get out of bed' to go to school

  12-02-2015 23:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Anne Marie Corcoran was jailed for 28 days after making her fourth appearance in court over four years for her son’s non attendance
  
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• New Romantic pioneer Steve Strange dies of heart failure aged 55

  12-02-2015 23:20 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New Romantic club pioneer and frontman of 80's band Visage has died of a heart attack in Egypt, according to his record label
  
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• Rory O'Brien: Farmer who starved pigs until they CANNIBALISED each other is jailed

  12-02-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The father of five pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was jailed for 18 months
  
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• Care home evacuated in the night had mould growing on the walls

  12-02-2015 23:16 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The Merok Park care home which subjected its residents to filthy, dangerous and neglectful conditions and had to be closed in the middle of the night has been criticised in a damning new report
  
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• Carl Barât and the Jackals: Let It Reign review – brief and snarling

  12-02-2015 23:16
  
  (Cooking Vinyl) This is 35 minutes of punky swagger that acts as a placeholder for the next Libertines album“Don’t touch me, you’re a marked man now/ You can say goodbye to the last gang in town,” rasps Carl Barât on the opening song, Glory Days, kicking off 35 minutes of punky swagger that reignites the Libertinesesque notion of bands being blood brothers. Having said that, the “gang” on this record is pretty much Barât himself: he recorded most of Let it Reign before th
  
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• Myles Bradbury: Paedophile doctor who abused children with cancer becomes police adviser

  12-02-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The development comes as the mother of one of a “substantial number” of new victims reveals fears a NHS inquiry into the paediatrician could be a whitewash
  
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• Former Nick Clegg ally Jeremy Browne blasts 'insipid' Lib Dem leader

  12-02-2015 23:11
  
  Nick Clegg has been accused by one of his senior MPs of offering voters “insipid moderation” and retreating to the Liberal Democrats’ “comfort zone” by attacking their Conservative coalition partners.
  
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• Jeremy Browne interview: Why this fallen star of the Lib Dems won’t be standing for re-election

  12-02-2015 23:11
  
  Jeremy Browne admits he would not be standing down as an MP in May if Nick Clegg had not sacked him as a Home Office minister in 2013.
  
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• Lib Dems remain a vital option for the British electorate, despite the body-blows

  12-02-2015 23:11
  
  It’s been a bad 24 hours for the Liberal Democrats. First, an opinion poll from Ipsos Mori putting them on 6 per cent, their lowest showing since 1990, the year Margaret Thatcher compared the party to a dead parrot. Then today’s excoriating critique of their political strategy in The Independent from Jeremy Browne, once a high-flying Lib Dem minister.
  
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• 'Time to contact aliens': Top scientist urges Earth to get in touch with extra-terrestrial life

  12-02-2015 23:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts made the call at a US science conference, insisting that now is the time to contact intelligent lifeforms around the universe
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: A 'modest' increase in public spending is needed. Austerity economics has failed

  12-02-2015 23:04
  
  Greece’s Syriza party won power through a defiant refusal to accept more austerity. Nicola Sturgeon preaches a less radical message. Austerity economics has failed, she says – but her answer is for what she calls a “modest” increase in public spending, an extra 0.5 per cent a year, equivalent to £180bn by 2020, to mitigate “the most pernicious welfare cuts” and invest in infrastructure such as the NHS and high-speed rail.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: 'I want to help women'

  12-02-2015 23:01
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has been in the job only three months but already she is eyeing her legacy. “Being the first woman First Minister is a big responsibility and I feel the weight of that acutely. I’m determined to use that position to help further the ability of other women to get on in their chosen field.”
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland's First Minister seizes chance to play the kingmaker at general election

  12-02-2015 23:01
  
  The SNP should be less confrontational and  co-operate with political rivals – and the English, Scotland’s First Minister has said. Nicola Sturgeon wants to build a “progressive alliance” capable of propelling Ed Miliband into 10 Downing Street after May’s UK general election, she told i in an exclusive interview.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland's First Minister seizes chance to play kingmaker at general election

  12-02-2015 23:01
  
  The SNP should be less confrontational and  co-operate with political rivals – and the English, Scotland’s First Minister has said. Nicola Sturgeon wants to build a “progressive alliance” capable of propelling Ed Miliband into 10 Downing Street after May’s UK general election, she told i in an exclusive interview.
  
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• Stuart Lancaster’s unchanged England team belies growing wealth of options

  12-02-2015 23:00
  
  • Starting XV to face Italy is unchanged from side which beat Wales
  • Jonathan Joseph and George Kruis prepare to make first Twickenham starts
  • The Breakdown: George North’s concussion damaged him and rugby unionThe Six Nations championship can be a stressful, anxious time but England’s players look perkier than they have done in a couple of years.The whoosh of soaring morale since last week’s victory in Cardiff is almost tangible and Stuart Lancaster’s confirmation of an unch
  
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• Women in early thirties spend RIDICULOUS amount of time on daily grooming routine

  12-02-2015 22:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A study found that British females aged 32 spent the longest washing, brushing their teeth and applying makeup - but just how long do they preen for?
  
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• More money, more viewers and fewer runs in prospect for intriguing World Cup

  12-02-2015 22:59
  
  This is an important tournament for the integrity of 50-over cricket, in which the ICC’s excellent if overdue efforts to lengthen boundaries could result in much-improved actionThe skirmishes are over, the preliminaries taken care of, and now, in the disparate settings of the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Hagley Oval in Christchurch – the former a rolling bowl of noise and tiered ranks rising up to the sky; the latter in parkland, with grassy banks surrounded by trees – the World Cup finall
  
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• Fortitude recap: series one, episode three – at last, the plot sparks into life

  12-02-2015 22:57
  
  There’s still plenty of glowering and general gloom, but now that we have a few suspects in our sights, things are starting to look a bit more interesting
  SPOILER ALERT: Don’t read on if you haven’t seen series one, episode three of Fortitude. Related: Fortitude recap: series one, episode two – snow, secrets and carryings on Continue reading...
  
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• Fury at Fatcat Lord Fink: 'I avoid tax - but show me someone who doesn't'

  12-02-2015 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The millionaire Tory donor sparked fury by admitting he used family trusts to slash his bills – denying vital funds for the NHS, schools, defence and a host of public services
  
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• Federal judge orders Alabama official to issue marriage licenses to gay couples

  12-02-2015 22:54
  
  Standoff intensifies as US district court judge targets Mobile County official in ruling that reinforces previous decision striking down same-sex marriage banThe dramatic standoff involving more than 40 probate judges in Alabama who are refusing to administer same-sex marriage has been intensified by a federal court that has ordered an official in Mobile to begin issuing licenses or face possible consequences.
  US district judge Callie Granade has bolstered her own ruling from three weeks ago t
  
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• Steve Strange dead: Latest updates

  12-02-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Welsh pop singer found fame in the 1980s as frontman for Visage whose best known hit was Fade To Grey
  
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• Obama breaks out the selfie stick

  12-02-2015 22:37
  
  Buzzfeed follows up interview with president with video in which Obama poses in Joe Biden’s sunglasses and shoots hoops by himself in the White HouseIs it un-presidential to pose with a selfie stick? To pretend to shoot hoops all alone in the White House? To make fun of yourself on the internet? To say “Yolo”?
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• Asperger's diagnosis saved Charlie's life: 'Daughter slashed wrists at 7 - now she’s beauty queen'

  12-02-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As she got closer, Sara Matthews saw the cutlery drawer open and Charlie clutching a serrated bread knife in her right hand, the blade against her left wrist
  
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• 13 million tons of plastic is dumped into the world's oceans each year

  12-02-2015 22:33 via
  
  Enough plastic is dumped into the sea each year to fill five carrier bags for every foot of coastline on the planet, scientists in San Jose have warned.
  
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• David Cameron has tens of thousands of Twitter followers who DON'T EXIST

  12-02-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister's account has nearly 140,000 'imaginary friends' and nearly half don't use the service
  
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• Deadly shark attacks plummet to just three worldwide in 2014

  12-02-2015 22:31
  
  Sharks had killed 10 in unprovoked attacks in 2013Overall number of attacks holds steady at 73, many in US watersShark attacks killed three people worldwide in 2014, a dramatic drop from 10 fatalities a year earlier, researchers found in an annual global tally released this week.Two of the deaths occurred in New South Wales in eastern Australia, and the other in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, according to the data which was submitted by scientists around the world and catalogued at the Universit
  
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• Drunk Roehampton woman crushed to death under wheels of scaffolding lorry

  12-02-2015 22:31 via
  
  Claire O'Hanlon, pictured, died after she slipped from the back of a lorry she tried to climb aboard while four-times the drink drive limit after it went over a speed ramp near her home in Roehampton, London.
  
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• Sepp Blatter’s quest to remain Fifa president leaves idealism at the door

  12-02-2015 22:31
  
  Despite unending controversy, the Swiss president is glad-handing dictators rather than kissing babies as he campaigns for another term
  • Prince Ali and Michel Platini criticise meddling in Fifa reform reportBirds of a feather stick together. And the sight of Sepp Blatter, the 78-year-old who has been Fifa president since 1998, beaming alongside Issa Hayatou, just 68 and head of African football since 1988, and Africa’s longest-serving dictator, the Equatorial Guinea president Teodoro Obia
  
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• Punches at South Africa parliament

  12-02-2015 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Security forces remove members of an opposition party from South Africa's parliament during a state of the nation speech by President Jacob Zuma.
  
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• Nigel Farage rules out UKIP coalition but will do a deal in return for EU referendum

  12-02-2015 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Labour rubbishes UKIP leader's claim to stand up for hard-working people and the National Health Service
  
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• Pictured: Home of gran who fought Tesco BULLDOZED after she fought development for years

  12-02-2015 22:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Local councillors are up in arms at the move after Enid's home was acquired through a Compulsory Purchase Order and demolished
  
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• Craig Whitelaw and Kristofer McLaren jailed for nine years after raping drunk woman

  12-02-2015 22:28 via
  
  Craig Whitelaw, pictured, and Kristofer McLaren used the 'drunk and vulnerable' woman as a 'play thing' after leading her away from Club Amadeus in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.
  
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• Mother and daughter swindle in £49,000 ‘disabled’ scam

  12-02-2015 22:28
  
  MOTHER and daughter who swindled nearly £50,000 in identical scams claiming they were so disabled they could barely walk were both caught working normally in hospital offices, a court heard.
  
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• New Romantic Steve Strange dies

  12-02-2015 22:25
  
  Steve Strange, singer of Visage and former manager of the Blitz club in London, has died of a heart attack in Egypt at the age of 55 New Romantic pioneer Steve Strange has died of a heart attack in Egypt at the age of 55, his record label has said. The Welsh pop singer found fame in the 1980s as frontman for Visage, whose best known hit was Fade To Grey. Related: It's Blitz: Birth of the New Romantics I'm very sad to announce that our friend Steve Strange has died in Egypt today. He was the lead
  
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• Miliband accuses Fink of U-turn

  12-02-2015 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ed Miliband accuses Lord Fink of an "extraordinary U-turn" after the Tory donor appeared to drop his threat of legal action in row over tax avoidance.
  
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• Colombia's Farc: No soldiers under 17

  12-02-2015 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Colombia's left wing Farc guerrillas announce that they will no longer look to recruit soldiers below the age of 17.
  
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• Andrew the Vice Admiral: Prince gets a promotion from his mum the Queen

  12-02-2015 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The move was blasted by anti-Royal campaign group Republic as “offensive to our armed forces” following allegations he slept with a teen sex slave
  
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• Tim Sherwood in Aston Villa frame as club seeks swift appointment

  12-02-2015 22:17
  
  • Villa keen to move quickly to replace sacked manager Paul Lambert
  • Lambert unhappy after being told of dismissal over the telephone
  • Stuart James: Villa left with few options over managerial vacancyAston Villa have not ruled out the possibility of naming a new manager before Sunday’s FA Cup fifth-round tie at home against Leicester City but the Midlands club would prefer that Paul Lambert’s replacement is a long-term appointment rather than a stop-gap until the end of the seaso
  
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• Dog attack toddler left with 240 stitches after terrifying Staffordshire bull terrier struck

  12-02-2015 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mayzee Jo Gaspa, 18 months, was pounced in her own home and dragged her around the floor while her frantic mum tried to free her from its jaws
  
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• Fifty Shades of Grey premiere: My wife won't be watching, says Jamie Dornan

  12-02-2015 22:15 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan has insisted that his wife will not be watching the raunchy film as anti-domestic violence protesters produced a banner claiming: 'Christian Grey is a rapist'
  
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