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• Reda el-Fouly: Belly dancer jailed for 'inciting debauchery' after making sexy music video

  08-07-2015 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Edyptian Reda el-Fouly was jailed for a year after Egyptian authorities took exception to her video in which she dances in skimpy outfits
  
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• Terrified Brits flee Benidorm beach after mistaking fireworks for gunfire from Tunisia-style attack

  08-07-2015 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The terrified British tourists were running to their Benidorm hotel when they were told the noises were fireworks
  
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• Tunisia state of emergency imposed due to fears of further attacks, says president

  08-07-2015 23:54
  
  Barrier including trenches being constructed along Libyan border as human rights groups fear freedoms gained in Arab spring may be rolled backTunisia fears more potentially destabilising terrorist attacks such as the one that killed 38 foreign tourists last month, which is why it has imposed a state of emergency, the premier said on Wednesday.Eight days after the 26 June shootings at the Mediterranean resort of Port El Kantaoui, president Beji Caid Essebsi decreed a state of emergency on Saturda
  
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• Budget 2015: Working people will be left worse off whatever George Osborne says

  08-07-2015 23:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Writing in the Mirror, the Shadow Chancellor says families on low incomes will suffer – while Britain still faces challenges to the productivity it needs to cut the deficit
  
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• Horrifying photo of 'monster rat' caught in UK sends Facebook into meltdown

  08-07-2015 23:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The image shows a man in a high-vis jacket holding the massive rodent up by the neck to the camera
  
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• Hero shopper saves toddler's life after 18-month-old chocked on a mint at supermarket checkout

  08-07-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jason Rutter sprang into action when Little Lawson Smith began choking on a mint handed to him by his big sister at an Asda store in Bolton
  
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• Budget 2015: Single mum-of-8 fears she could become homeless if her £26,000 benefits are capped

  08-07-2015 23:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  In today's announcement, Chancellor George Osborne said benefits would be capped at £20,000 per year for those living outside London.
  
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• British Airways flight forced to make emergency landing after man 'attacks wife in mid-air'

  08-07-2015 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Darren Halliwell, from Greater Manchester, was travelling from Heathrow to Texas when the alleged fracas with his wife broke out
  
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• Budget 2015: Everything you need to know

  08-07-2015 23:29
  
  George Osborne has delivered one of the most radical Budgets in years, announcing a landmark national living wage, a host of tax giveaways for the middle classes alongside severe cuts to the welfare budget in the first all-Conservative Budget in nearly two decades.
  
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• Mums on anti-depressants may give babies birth defects

  08-07-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Even though anti-depressants may affect unborn babies, doctors still maintain the benefits outweigh the risks
  
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• Seven most isolated places on Earth: Where to REALLY get away from it all

  08-07-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  From Mount Fuji to the South Pole, these remote destinations are not for the faint hearted
  
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• Budget 2015: George Osborne tries to cover up cuts to workers' credit with bogus £7.20 'living wage'

  08-07-2015 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chancellor battered the poor, students, public sector workers and families with cruel Tory policies that will dash children's hopes of escaping poverty
  
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• Tragic couple's bodies may have laid on roadside for THREE days after cops failed to investigate crash

  08-07-2015 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Yuill died while his girlfriend Lamara Bell is fighting for her life after their car careered off the M9
  
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• Paranormal investigators claim 'leaked' UFO pictures taken from US submarine show vessels hovering over Atlantic Ocean

  08-07-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Researchers believe the black and white images published in a French magazine were taken from the USS Trepang SSN 674 submarine in March 1971
  
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• Novak Djokovic apologises to ballgirl

  08-07-2015 23:18 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Novak Djokovichas apologised for shouting "towel" at a young ballgirl describing it as "a moment in battle"
  
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• Chelsea ace may help Jimmy Greaves after £5.5m lottery win

  08-07-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After scooping a big win on the Lotto, Terry Bradbury is thinking of helping out his old team mate Greavsie
  
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• Budget 2015: Cost of EU member to be £3 billion higher than expected

  08-07-2015 23:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain's forecast contributions to the European Union budget have been revised upwards
  
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• Heartwarming social experiment proves Londoners aren't rude after all - video

  08-07-2015 23:06
  
  As far as city-wide stereotypes go, Londoners get a raw deal. Parisians are lovers, Berliners are unshakably cool, but Londoners are simply regarded as miserable curmudgeons in bowler hats.
  
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• Car crash victim and injured passenger left for three days as police failed to investigate

  08-07-2015 23:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Police failed to investigate a car crash reported to them for three days which saw the driver die and his passenger lain critically injured
  
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• Amazing drone footage shows alien crop circles close to Stonehenge

  08-07-2015 23:01 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Massive fields have huge designs cut into them and incredible drone footage shows them in their entirety
  
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• 'Fightback starts here': Families of British ISIS victims urge nation to defeat extremism

  08-07-2015 23:01
  
  THE families of the British aid workers brutally beheaded by Islamic State terrorists have come together to implore the nation to start the fightback against "vicious and poisonous" extremism.
  
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• Ant-Man review: diminishing returns for latest expansion of Marvel universe

  08-07-2015 23:00
  
  The ghost of one-time director Edgar Wright haunts this only occasionally inspired comic-book blockbuster starring Paul Rudd as the incredible shrinking criminal and Michael Douglas his inventor mentorAbout 14 months ago, British director Edgar Wright quit Ant-Man just as shooting was about to start. He’d been working on the project for more than eight years. As well as directing, he’d written the script (along with Joe Cornish) and was a co-producer. Key crew went with him.You’d forgive a
  
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• Grandmother left with horrifying bite marks after stranger 'sunk teeth into her nose during savage street attack'

  08-07-2015 22:53 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wendy Barber suffered horrific injuries and severe pain when a stranger allegedly set-upon her in the street
  
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• Stock trading closed on NYSE after glitch caused major outage – as it happened

  08-07-2015 22:53
  
  Wall Street trading ceased for more than three and a half hoursStoppage coincides with glitch at United Airlines and sharp global market fallsRead the latest report, the social media reaction ... and the dystopian aftermath 4.53pm ET We’re going to close our coverage of the stock market outage for the day with a quick summary of what happened and what we do and don’t know. 4.44pm ET The outage was caused by a “configuration problem in our system that needed fixing,” NYSE president Tom Fa
  
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• New York stock exchange reopens after 'technical issue' forced shutdown

  08-07-2015 22:52
  
  Stocks worth $28tn total were suspended for three and a half hours Wednesday, as authorities report glitch was not due to cyber terrorism or criminal activity The New York stock exchange reopened on Wednesday afternoon after a more than three-and-a-half-hour shutdown caused by a still unexplained “internal technical issue”.Continue reading...
  
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• Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 3 years for bribing Italian senator

  08-07-2015 22:50
  
  Former prime minister of Italy will not have to serve sentence as statute of limitations will expire later in 2015A court in Naples has sentenced former Italian premier and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi to three years in prison for bribing a senator as part of a plot to destabilise a 2006-08 centre-left government.Berlusconi, 78, will not have to serve the sentence as the statute of limitations expires later this year, well before a final ruling will have been reached on appeal. Continue readin
  
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• Hillary Clinton lied about not receiving email subpoena, Benghazi chair claims

  08-07-2015 22:48
  
  Trey Gowdy posts one of ‘several subpoenas’ as war of words over private server returns and Clinton camp fires back to say ‘inaccuracy’ claim is inaccurateHillary Clinton has been accused of lying about receiving a subpoena from the House select committee on Benghazi by the committee’s chair, in a heated back-and-forth that has renewed tensions over the presidential frontrunner’s use of private email.In a statement on Wednesday, Republican congressman Trey Gowdy accused the former se
  
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• Uber driver 'threatens to cut customer's throat' if she cancels his cab again in chilling voicemail message

  08-07-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The taxi firm says 'action has been taken' after passenger Anna Kealey claimed she received the threatening call
  
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• Uber driver left voicemail saying 'cancel again and I'll cut your throat' claims passenger as probe launched

  08-07-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The taxi firm says 'action has been taken' after passenger Anna Kealey claimed she received the threatening call from a driver when she cancelled her car
  
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• London Tube strike: Recap of updates as thousands face travel chaos

  08-07-2015 22:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rush is on to catch the last trains before TfL workers go on strike over plans for a 24-hour tube network
  
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• Budget 2015: Ten of the biggest announcements from business to welfare and what it means to you

  08-07-2015 22:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Tougher rules on wealthy non doms and business owners were overshadowed by savage raids on working people's tax credits and spin over a so-called 'living wage'
  
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• Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years

  08-07-2015 22:41
  
  A newly unearthed missive from Lenny Bernstein, a climate expert with the oil firm for 30 years, shows concerns over high presence of carbon dioxide in enormous gas field in south-east Asia factored into decision not to tap itExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years
  
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• Budget 2015 reaction: How will people be affected by George Osborne's measures?

  08-07-2015 22:34
  
  ‘It’s a negative message’
  
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• Dear Coleen: My breaking wind habit is annoying my best friend

  08-07-2015 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's causes arguments between us and my friend says I'll have to sleep in the bathroom where there is air freshener if I don't sort it out
  
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• The lethal perils of hot cars

  08-07-2015 22:30
  
  Even in relatively mild conditions the temperature in a car can rise to dangerous levels, putting children and dogs inside at riskOn a sunny day, cars can become lethal demonstrations of the greenhouse effect. Visible light passes through the windows, and some of it is converted into heat. Because the car is closed, the hot air does not rise and escape, and infrared wavelengths do not pass easily though window glass. Heat is trapped inside the vehicle and builds up rapidly.The eff
  
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• Andy Murray's new coach says Novak Djokovic is "favourite" to win Wimbledon

  08-07-2015 22:29 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Former Swedish star Jonas Björkman says that although Andy Murray is playing well, Djokovic "has the advantage of being champion"
  
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• Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2015) review: All white on the night

  08-07-2015 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Amazon's newest e-reader is an incremental upgrade to what is already the best on the market
  
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• Sport picture of the day: better the devil you know

  08-07-2015 22:18
  
  The Tour de France wouldn’t be the Tour de France without an appearance from Dieter ‘Didi’ Senft aka the Tour Devil, aka El Diablo. His appearance on stage five, cheering on the riders as they rode the 189.5km between Arras and Amiens, meant that rumours of his retirement have been greatly exaggerated Continue reading...
  
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• Osborne hopes minimum wage increase will soften blow of welfare cuts

  08-07-2015 22:18
  
  Treasury expects £10bn surplus in final year of parliament thanks to cuts and economic growth – but critics say chancellor is placing the burden on the poor
  George Osborne sought to outflank Labour and soften the blow from a £12bn cut to Britain’s welfare bill when he made a big rise in the minimum wage the centrepiece of the first Conservative budget in almost two decades.In a move that went further than Labour was planning at the general election, the chancellor said employers would
  
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• Baltimore police chief fired amid crime spike: 'Families are tired of feeling this pain'

  08-07-2015 22:17
  
  A scathing report also cited evidence that Anthony Batts had instructed officers to refrain from arresting rioters involved in looting during Freddie Gray protestsBaltimore police commissioner Anthony Batts has been fired by the city’s mayor, in a shock announcement made amid a sharply increased murder rate and scathing criticism of his handling of civil unrest earlier this year.Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said on Wednesday afternoon that she had decided to replace Batts, who has led the po
  
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• Never forget Princess Charlotte, one is still number one around here

  08-07-2015 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Polly Hudson imagines a letter from Prince George to Princess Charlotte
  
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• Tube strike today: Delays at London Bridge come on top of industrial action across the London Underground

  08-07-2015 22:11
  
  The travel chaos commuters are facing due to a Tube strike across the capital is being compounded by delays at London Bridge station.
  
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• Budget 2015: Rent reforms 'will massively constrain' efforts to build affordable homes

  08-07-2015 22:09
  
  Housing associations will build nearly 30,000 fewer affordable homes as a result of George Osborne’s decision to enforce rent reductions for the next four years, it has been claimed.
  
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• Budget 2015: 'Non-doms' will be forced to pay full tax on foreign earnings

  08-07-2015 22:01
  
  Wealthy foreigners who live permanently in Britain will be forced to pay full tax on their foreign earnings, although George Osborne stopped short of abolishing the “non-dom” tax status altogether.
  
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• Ariana Grande apologizes for saying 'I hate America' in donut-licking video

  08-07-2015 21:58
  
  The pop singer defended viral footage of her in a donut shop, saying she was referring to child obesity in the US and is ‘extremely proud to be an American’Ariana Grande has defended herself after a video of her licking a donut and saying “I hate America” went viral.The singer and actor said in a statement to Buzzfeed she should have known better, but seemed to imply that she had been making a point about healthy eating. Continue reading...
  
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• FBI hunts up to 100 British victims of US pervert who threatened teenage girls for porn pictures

  08-07-2015 21:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Lucas Chansler, 31, pretended to be boy in online chatrooms, convinced girls to send him inappropriate photos and then extorted them for more images
  
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• Osborne’s class spite wrapped in spin will feed a backlash | Seumas Milne

  08-07-2015 21:55
  
  The budget is a cynical one-nation fraud. The reality is a huge transfer of resources from poor to richIt’s a long-established Tory tradition to play their most outrageous cards as soon as possible after winning an election: impose the most savage cuts and stuff the pockets of their friends without restraint. Margaret Thatcher could barely contain herself in 1979, abolishing exchange controls and cutting the top rate of tax for the wealthiest from 83% to 60% a month after coming to power. Her
  
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• Pregnant woman sees ghost of her mum staring back at her from BABY scan

  08-07-2015 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Rebecca Melia lost her mum Sharon to kidney cancer in February and never got the chance to tell her she was pregnant with her grandchild
  
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• Budget 2015 Q&A: How George Osborne eased the great Whitehall spending squeeze

  08-07-2015 21:39
  
  So has the Chancellor slashed again?
  
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• Fans include Downton and Diddy but English summer game croquet is in danger of dying out

  08-07-2015 21:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Retail chiefs at Heathrow Airport are trying to revive the genteel sport, which was born alongside tennis, with an Alice In Wonderland-themed course at Terminal 2
  
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