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• Some of the most unusual McDonald's restaurants from around the world revealed

  27-02-2015 23:59 via
  
  It is recognised as the safe option for any weary traveler who fears the local cuisine may unravel their sensitive stomach. But it transpires that not all McDonald's restaurants are created equal.
  
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• The agency wannabes styling themselves on Victoria and David Beckham's daughter Harper

  27-02-2015 23:52 via
  
  With her floppy hat, designer boots and chic coat, Harper Beckham captured the hearts of parents everywhere on her way to New York Fashion Week recently.
  
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• Mohammed Emwazi: Jihadi John's former teachers 'quizzed by MI5' as hunt for ISIS terrorist steps up

  27-02-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A teacher described their former pupil as "a success story" after apparently overcoming anger issues to achieve good grades
  
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• David Blunkett on Mohammed Emwazi: Security chiefs aren’t to blame for radicalisation of Jihadi John

  27-02-2015 23:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former Labour Home Secretary says it is not sensible to blame those working on our behalf in identifying who puts us at risk for not getting it right every time
  
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• UK Weather: This winter has been the sunniest since records began

  27-02-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The UK has had 189 hours of sunshine so far since December 1, equalling the previous record in 2001, and is expected to beat the record by seven hours today
  
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• We have thousand potential jihadis on UK radar, warns ex-MI6 chief

  27-02-2015 23:41 via
  
  Sir John Sawers, the former head of MI6, praised the work of the security services, adding that laws need to keep ahead of the threat to avert another 7/7-style attack.
  
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• Sheila Bowling killed by bus driver 'trying to win green bonus given to those who use least fuel'

  27-02-2015 23:40 via
  
  Great-grandmother Sheila Bowling was crossing the road when she was hit by the bus going 14mph. The court heard driver David Cameron had time to swerve but had failed to do so.
  
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• Gadgets that make you a microwave masterchef

  27-02-2015 23:39 via
  
  As a new pressure cooker - which promises to cook a chicken casserole from scratch in just 15 minutes - hits the market, we test nine of the best new kitchen gadgets to see how they compare.
  
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• Mohammed Emwazi: Jihadi John's schoolfriend recognised eyes of ISIS butcher in beheading videos

  27-02-2015 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 27-year-old said: "It sent a little shiver down my spine. Mohammed has very distinctive, dark eyes that are inset deep into his skull"
  
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• Fugitive fights may delay Cuba talks

  27-02-2015 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wanted men and women could hinder improved US-Cuba ties
  
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• Thugs who bludgeoned badger to death convicted after DNA from animal is found on clothes

  27-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Three men in their 20s were caught and convicted at a Magistrates Court in Chesterfield after DNA from the badger was found on one of the men’s clothes
  
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• Matt Lucas: I think I'm fat, short and bald - maybe I need a gastric band

  27-02-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In his first newspaper interview for five years, the Little Britain funnyman discusses shyness, diets, gastric bands and his TV return in new comedy Pompidou
  
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• Gary Glitter's brother-in-law has demanded that the disgraced singer be executed

  27-02-2015 23:30
  
  GARY Glitter’s brother-in-law condemned the pervert’s 16-year jail sentence yesterday as too lenient and declared: “I would have shot him.”
  
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• Batman wannabe who dressed as caped crusader to fight crime 'molested underage girl'

  27-02-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Unemployed Zoltan Kohari, 29, first donned the outfit three years ago, helping locals in his hometown of Dunajska Streda in south west Slovakia
  
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• Apps in pockets, bums on seats

  27-02-2015 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Keeping cinema affordable after Orange Wednesday's demise
  
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• Lloyds finally pays out dividend to nearly 3m investors as profits jump to £1.8billion

  27-02-2015 23:17 via
  
  The state-backed lender confirmed it would pay a full-year dividend of 0.75p per share to 2.7million investors, handing out a total of £535million.
  
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• Royal Mail to increase price of first and second-class stamps by 1p each from March 30 

  27-02-2015 23:16 via
  
  The group said it had thought 'carefully' about the impact on its customers before deciding to raise prices. Sending a large letter will increase by 2p to 95p for first class and by 1p to 74p for second class.
  
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• Bill Oddie says 'I tried to kill myself TWICE after being axed from Springwatch' 

  27-02-2015 23:13 via
  
  Bill Oddie, show to fame in the 1970 as part of The Goodies - and later became a national treasure on Springwatch. But being axed from the show plunged into depression which nearly killed him.
  
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• Jeb Bush survives grassroots gauntlet

  27-02-2015 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush runs the conservative grassroots gauntlet at the CPAC conference in Washington, DC.
  
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• Thug who drove off with cop hanging out of car door - crushing his foot - is jailed

  27-02-2015 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lee Eyo punched PC John Duran as leaned into his Volvo to try and take his keys and then sped off with him still half-inside
  
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• Karen Danczuk says it's her brother who raped her as he hits back at claims

  27-02-2015 23:09 via
  
  The Mail can now reveal that the name Karen Danczuk gave to police of her alleged abuser was that of one of her own brothers, Michael Burke, a 36-year-old former security guard.
  
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• Rosemary Turnbull died from internal injuries after being crushed between two horses

  27-02-2015 23:02 via
  
  Mother-of-two Rosemary Turnbull, from Marden, Kent, suffered multiple injuries to her chest and heart as she led the animals ahead of a hunting pack in November last year.
  
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• Mohammed Emwazi may have been radicalised by childhood friend

  27-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Emwazi, who has been identified as the Isil militant known as Jihadhi John, was friends with Mohammed Sakr, who went on to become a senior figure in the jihadist group al-Shabaab
  
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• Jihadhi John may have been radicalised by childhood friend

  27-02-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Emwazi, who has been identified as the Isil militant known as Jihadhi John, was friends with Mohammed Sakr, who went on to become a senior figure in the jihadist group al-Shabaab
  
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• Baby love triangle: I want a baby with new lover using my cheating husband’s sperm

  27-02-2015 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tracy Bray suffers fertility problems and says her only hope of bearing her own child is to use the five fertilised eggs frozen before she split from Michael
  
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• Pictured: Heartbreaking final images of dying dog cruelly dumped in alleyway

  27-02-2015 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The RSPCA is appealing to help trace owner of the dog, which had to be put to sleep after it was found collapsed and unable to stand
  
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• Jihadi John: Student record of Mohammed Emwazi leaked

  27-02-2015 22:55 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Academic record of Mohammed Emwazi is made public, iincluding the first photograph of the Islamic State executioner as an adult
  
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• Police hunt fugitive who fled on rooftops in nothing but his underwear

  27-02-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After managing to evade police, the bizarre getaway continued with him hiding in a man's chicken shed before making another escape
  
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• Greek PM vows 'no third bailout'

  27-02-2015 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greek PM Alexis Tsipras denies his country will need a third international bailout, and vows to "start working hard" to change the country.
  
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• Watch moment 'UFO the size of a football field' flashed its lights in night sky above woman's home

  27-02-2015 22:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The object was recorded by paranormal investigator Angela Ashton before appearing to shoot upwards and disappear
  
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• Moment Avijit Roy's wife was left next to her husband's body after he was hacked to death

  27-02-2015 22:35 via
  
  Dr Avijit Roy, who lived in Atlanta, Georgia, was known for speaking out against religious extremism. He was hacked to death in Dhaka by Muslim extremists armed with meat cleavers.
  
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• The top 40 facts about the Top 40 as the charts face a radical makeover

  27-02-2015 22:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From this summer, the release day for new singles will change from Monday to Friday, which could spell the end of the traiditional Sunday music sales countdown
  
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• Elizabeth Taylor's Taj Mahal diamond at center of dispute between estate and auction house

  27-02-2015 22:30 via
  
  The estate of Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor is suing Chjristie's over the $8 million sale of the actress's Taj Mahal diamond
  
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• Police cautions for serious offences banned as 11,000 criminals reoffend within weeks

  27-02-2015 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Last year nearly 11,000 offenders, 2,000 of them juveniles, committed a fresh crime within a month of being cautioned, Ministry of Justice figures show
  
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• Vicious thug stabbed woman 15 times and left her for dead as his mother begged him to stop

  27-02-2015 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nazakat Ali, 30, left the victim in a pool of her own blood after the frenzied attack
  
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• Paedophile entertainer Rolf Harris to be stripped of CBE 'within weeks' following campaign by MP

  27-02-2015 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The decision by the Honours Forfeiture Committee will be rubber-stamped by Prime Minister David Cameron
  
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• VIDEO: The men fighting with bullets from 1943

  27-02-2015 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Paul Wood and cameraman Moose Campbell report from the frontline near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
  
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• British Airways spying scandal: New logo, new routes, new bosses – but the stench remains

  27-02-2015 22:09
  
  The use of computer information to gain an upper hand and a commercial advantage is not new to British Airways (BA). And even when it has been caught engaging in  what the rest of industry calls “dirty tricks”, the world’s favourite airline has preferred to describe its discovered errors as “disreputable business practices”.
  
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• British Airways spying scandal: How the world's most famous airline spied on its own staff

  27-02-2015 22:06
  
  British Airways paid £1m to hush up the details of a spying operation in which the phones and emails of its own cabin staff were allegedly improperly accessed during a bitter dispute with Britain’s largest union.
  
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• £1.3m compensation for man blinded by faulty equipment at David Lloyd gym

  27-02-2015 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mauro Carneiro was left fully blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other after he was hit by a resistance band at a David Lloyd Leisure centre in Stoke
  
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• Boxers drawn against each other for bout refuse to fight - because they are identical twins

  27-02-2015 21:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The loving twins say their parents would never allow them to fight eachother
  
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• Parents write moving tributes to their inspirational daughters living with rare diseases

  27-02-2015 21:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rare Disease Day: raising awareness with testimonies from carers and patients
  
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• Sir Cliff's lawyers criticise MPs

  27-02-2015 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Cliff Richard's lawyers criticise a parliamentary committee for publishing a letter about the police inquiry into sex abuse allegations against the singer.
  
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• Cliff Richard's lawyers hit out at MPs for publishing sex abuse claims letter

  27-02-2015 21:55 via
  
  In a letter to MP Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, Gideon Benaim, of Michael Simkins LLP said the disclosure was 'unnecessary'.
  
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• Missouri shootings: Nine dead after 'family feud led to mass murder-suicide' in small rural town

  27-02-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police in Tyrone discovered a 36-year-old man had been on a rampage before turning the gun on himself while sat in his getaway car
  
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• Pictured: Horrifying moment post office is raided by masked thugs wielding 12-inch kitchen knives

  27-02-2015 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The two men stormed into the shop and wrenched the till from its fixings, but escaped with only a small amount of cash
  
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• Three gay Thai men tie the knot in 'fairytale ceremony'

  27-02-2015 21:51 via
  
  Happy newlyweds Joke, 29, Bell, 21 and Art, 26, took the plunge on Valentine's Day after exchanging their vows in a fairy-tale ceremony at their home in Thailand.
  
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• Eight die in series of US shootings

  27-02-2015 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eight people have been killed and one person injured in a series of shootings in the US state of Missouri, police say.
  
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• Emmerdale's sexual assault storyline sparks dozens of complaints from viewers

  27-02-2015 21:50 via
  
  Ofcom said it has received 47 complaints after Natalie Anderson's character Alicia Metcalfe was sexually assaulted by Lachlan White, played by Thomas Atkinson, in last night's episode.
  
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• Heart disease revealed as biggest killer of men AND women ahead of dementia and Alzheimer's

  27-02-2015 21:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The grim statistics came from a study of more than half a million deaths recorded in England and Wales in 2013 by staff from the Office of National Statistics
  
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