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• Two people missing after Base jumping accident in California

  26-01-2016 23:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Video from a helmet camera shows a woman being overtaken by waves after Base jumping in Big Sur, and her companion jumping in to try to save herA thrill-seeker who parachuted off a bridge in Big Sur overlooking the Pacific likely drowned, as did the man who jumped in to try to save her, authorities said.The Monterey County Herald reported on Tuesday that authorities first realized the two Base jumpers were missing on Saturday, although the jump is thought to have occurred days earlier.Continue r
  
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• Is Vladimir Putin secretly the world's richest man?

  26-01-2016 23:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some claim Putin is actually Russia's Tsar with an estimated wealth of £140bn
  
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• Dad's Army review: who don't you think you are kidding?

  26-01-2016 23:57 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Do panic: the cast pull off a convincing impression – and Catherine Zeta-Jones adds sauce – but there’s something inescapably creaky about this strangest of sitcom revivals Related: Dad's Army film - first trailer reports for duty Dad’s Army is having a bit of a moment. A BBC drama entitled We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story recently gave us the behind-the-scenes story of this legendary, much-loved TV comedy which ran from 1968 to 1977, about the bumbling Home
  
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• VIDEO: How to win the US nomination battle

  26-01-2016 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
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• Joe Allen fires Liverpool to Wembley in shootout win over Stoke City

  26-01-2016 23:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Liverpool completed their journey to Wembley as their Capital One Cup run began, with victory in a penalty shoot-out following another gruelling night at Anfield. In the third round it was Carlisle United who lost out in the lottery against a side managed by Brendan Rodgers. Now it was Jürgen Klopp’s turn to take the acclaim after Stoke City suffered an agonising defeat in the semi-final.Mark Hughes’ side deservedly took the second leg to extra time and penalties with a 1-0 win
  
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• Everton steward 'who branded Liverpool fans murderers' on Facebook sacked by Premier League club

  26-01-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Karen Flynn apologised after the remarks were made on Facebook
  
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• Shocking CCTV shows gangster threaten man with hammer as he cowers behind car

  26-01-2016 23:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nathan Patton walked over to the man, picked up a hammer and lunged at him with it - he then grabbed £50 from the bonnet of a car
  
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• British paedophile Trevor Monk filmed himself abusing girls in the Philippines

  26-01-2016 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Predatory Trevor Monk, 47, (pictured) of Erith, south east London, paid thousands of pounds for access to the children during a two-week holiday in the Phillipines. He has now been jailed.
  
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• San Diego naval hospital: no evidence of gunshots at center as lockdown is lifted

  26-01-2016 23:34 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Officials found ‘absolutely nothing’ that indicates there were gunshots after a witness said a gunman fired three shots inside, but the investigation continuedAuthorities in San Diego have found no evidence of gunshots or injuries at a naval medical center, but the investigation was continuing at the facility after the lockdown was lifted, the Associated Press reported.Police and military authorities swarmed the facility soon after the naval medical center posted a Facebook warning t
  
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• Online billing is not for everybody - especially older people

  26-01-2016 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  You can’t simply switch everyone over to the digital world. Firms need to realise they have to offer options to suit everyone and at different times in life, writes Tricia Phillips
  
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• Bingo worker Sonia Burton who 'died' for 56 minutes was saved by her late husband

  26-01-2016 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sonia Burton (pictured) was 'dead' for 56 minutes following her heart attack at the bingo hall in Ashington, Northumberland, but paramedics refused to give up on her.
  
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• Meet the brave baby who has to wear helmet 23 hours every day due to misshapen head

  26-01-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nine-month-old Kai Yates has a twisted neck which leaves his head tilted on one side
  
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• Liverpool 0-1 Stoke City - 1-1 on aggregate, Liverpool win 6-5 on penalties: Capital One Cup, semi-final second leg – as it happened

  26-01-2016 23:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Liverpool are through to the Capital One Cup final after beating Stoke City 6-5 on penalties, after the tie finished 1-1 on aggregate after extra-time 10.31pm GMTAnd that’s it for tonight. Cheers for reading - Liverpool fans enjoy making plans for Wembley. The final is on February 28th and will be against either Everton or Manchester City, who play each other tomorrow night. 10.29pm GMTAnd there you go. Not a classic performance by Liverpool - in fact they were comfortably second best over
  
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• Oxford University physicist formulates how long conspiracy theories could remain secret

  26-01-2016 23:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A physicist from Oxford University calculated how many people would have potentially worked on some of the most popular theories, and what is the likelihood of them all keeping a secret.
  
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• Wonderful Life singer Colin Vearncombe dies aged 53 after car accident

  26-01-2016 23:22
  
  WONDERFUL Life singer Colin Vearncombe, better known by his stage name Black, has died after suffering head injuries in a car accident.
  
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• Frances Hardinge wins the 2015 Costa Book of the Year prize

  26-01-2016 23:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Young adult fiction and children's writer Frances Hardinge has won the 2015 Costa Book of the Year Award at a ceremony in London for her novel The Lie Tree, a Victorian melodrama.
  
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• Ban Ki-moon calls Israeli settlement expansion an 'affront' to the world

  26-01-2016 23:10 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Netanyahu says Ban giving ‘tailwind to terror’ as UN chief says violence born of Palestinians’ despair after ‘half-century of occupation and paralysis of peace’Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has accused UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, of giving a “tailwind to terror” after the UN head criticised Israel for continuing to build settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and describing it as an affront to the Palestinian peop
  
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• Google expected to reveal growth of offshore cash funds to $43bn

  26-01-2016 23:05 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Tech company’s 2015 earnings will be announced next week as governments aim to crack down on Google’s controversial tax avoidance arrangementsGoogle is poised to confirm next week that controversial tax structures in Ireland, the Netherlands and Bermuda have boosted its offshore cash mountain to more than $43bn (£30bn), figures from financial analysts suggest.Despite governments around the world promising to crack down on the tech company’s tax avoidance arrangements, Wal
  
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• Two people arrested in connection with shocking Brighton hit-and-run

  26-01-2016 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A 31-year-old man and a woman, 56, have been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that saw a pedestrian, 53, hit by a Fiat 500 as he crossed the road in the Kemptown area of Brighton.
  
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• 'Emotional' brain circuit study is the first to use MRI to track depression

  26-01-2016 23:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have shown the corticolimbic system, which governs emotions, is most likely to be passed down from mothers to daughters.
  
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• Eddie Jones picks England squad to make a winning start in Six Nations

  26-01-2016 23:01 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Paul Hill, Jack Clifford and Ollie Devoto selected in squad for Scotland game
  • Training has started with a bang, says James Haskell of Jones’s high standardsEddie Jones has resisted the temptation to blood the in-form duo of Elliot Daly and Maro Itoje but has included three uncapped players in his 23-man squad for England’s opening fixture of the Six Nations championship. Northampton’s 20-year-old tighthead prop Paul Hill, the inexperienced Harlequins back-row Jack
  
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• Russia turns alleged rape of teenager in Berlin by 'Arabic looking men' into diplomatic incident

  26-01-2016 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Kremlin has accused Germany of "covering up reality" but Berlin says any sexual contact that took place during the incident was "consensual"
  
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• Palace of Westminster refurbishment could see MPs and peers relocated

  26-01-2016 22:54 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘Full decant’ option would see oldest part of the Palace of Westminster entirely vacated for six years at a cost of £3.52bnThe House of Commons may have to relocate beyond its historic home at the Palace of Westminster to a temporary home in a nearby Whitehall courtyard as part of plans to refurbish parliament during the next decade.MPs would sit a few hundred metres up the road in a specially built chamber in the courtyard of the Department of Health in the most radical propos
  
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• Brighton hit-and-run: Two arrested after man was knocked flying by car as he crossed road

  26-01-2016 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 53-year-old was left seriously injured after being hit by a Fiat 500 as he crossed Montague Place in the Kemptown area
  
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• Apple iPhone sales flatline as growth falls well short of expectations

  26-01-2016 22:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Sales of its top-selling device grew by only 0.4% over the holidays, compared with 46% over same period last year, but company posts record revenuesApple’s iPhone sales are flatlining, the tech company said on Tuesday, as it announced a sharp slowdown in sales growth for its top-selling mobile device. The company sold 74.8m of its flagship devices in the final three months of 2015, below analysts’ expectations. In the same period in 2014 the company sold 74.46m iPhones, meaning sales
  
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• Road hogs and other animals that have literally stopped the traffic

  26-01-2016 22:46 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After images of a sloth clinging to a motorway central reservation in Ecuador went viral, we look at other creatures which have said 'it's my way not the highway'
  
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• GoPro video footage can now be broadcast using Twitter's Periscope app

  26-01-2016 22:44 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The live-streaming app announced it is now integrated with the wearable cameras, meaning that sometimes insane footage can now find a larger audienceGoPro action camera users can now broadcast their daring adventures live through Twitter’s Periscope app, opening the door to a whole new dimension of real-time video sharing.The live-streaming app announced on Tuesday that it was now integrated with GoPro, meaning that the sometimes insane footage captured on wearable cameras can now find a m
  
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• Canada pledges to overhaul broken welfare program for indigenous children

  26-01-2016 22:33 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Funds to be increased after human rights body found country was racially discriminating against aboriginal youth by underfunding the system in OttawaCanada’s federal government has pledged to overhaul its broken First Nation child welfare program after a human rights body found it was racially discriminating against aboriginal youth by underfunding the system.Tuesday’s ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is being called one of the most important rights decisions related to t
  
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• Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel fastest at F1’s wet tyre test for Pirelli

  26-01-2016 22:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Four-times world champion runs quickest lap in 2015 car
  • Paul Ricard track artificially watered to gain tyre dataSebastian Vettel ended Pirelli’s two-day wet tyre test in France as the quickest driver. The four-times world champion, who took over testing duties from Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen on Tuesday, completed 134 laps at the Paul Ricard circuit.Pirelli, Formula One’s sole tyre supplier, called for the test in order to gather data on their wet tyre, and a total
  
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• Two arrested after Brighton hit-and-run incident

  26-01-2016 22:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Man, 31, and woman, 56, held after 53-year-old man was seriously injured after being hit by a Fiat 500 in KemptownTwo people have been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run in which a suspected stolen car careered into a pedestrian and flung him in to the air.The 53-year-old was left seriously injured after being hit by a Fiat 500 as he crossed Montague Place in the Kemptown area of Brighton. Continue reading...
  
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• Homeowners living in flood-hit areas face higher council tax bills

  26-01-2016 22:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  £15 a year tax hike to pay for new defences, minister warn
  
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• Yoga Hosers review – Kevin Smith unleashes Nazi sausages in tired comedy

  26-01-2016 22:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The second in Smith’s planned True North trilogy, following Tusk, aims for inspired lunacy but comes up short in every departmentKevin Smith despises critics. He makes that crystal clear late in Yoga Hosers, his loose follow-up to his far superior Tusk, when a Nazi commands his grotesque creation to “crush all the critics who got to hate, hate, hate”. Johnny Depp, reprising his Tusk role, under a mound of prosthetics, as the bumbling French Canadian detective Guy Lapointe, utte
  
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• Cancer mum: I would have done things differently if I knew my baby would die

  26-01-2016 22:26
  
  A CANCER patient has admitted she would have taken different treatment had she known her daughter would die after being born prematurely.
  
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• Jenny's Friends offers pensioners company by allowing them to 'hire a friend'

  26-01-2016 22:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jenny's Friends, created by Jenny Clement (pictured), describes itself as a 'kind and professional befriending service' for people across Cardiff and Newport, in South Wales, who feel isolated.
  
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• The incredibly close links between Google and Downing Street that go back decades

  26-01-2016 22:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The UK's Prime Minister has enjoyed a special relationship with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who made billions making the business into a global powerhouse. But the links do not end there.
  
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• How to live like Britain's most frugal pensioner who gets by on just £6.50 a day

  26-01-2016 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thrifty Ilona Richards shares 40 top tips for hard-up families and promises we'll enjoy seeing the cash build up in our bank accounts
  
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• Meet the teenage girl who cannot smile due to paralysing condition

  26-01-2016 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Teegan O'Reilly's face does not change even if she is listening to her favourite band One Direction
  
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• Cancer mum Heidi Loughlin would have 'kept baby in her tummy' had she known she was going to die

  26-01-2016 22:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Heidi Loughlin, who delayed treatment to give her and her unborn baby the best chance of survival, said she would not have given birth to her so early had she known what would happen
  
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• Unite being sued for £200,000 after activist says union hired him on zero hours contract

  26-01-2016 22:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martyn Reuby, a Unite member for over 42 years, was fired after continually raising the issue whilst working as a lecturer to union officials
  
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• Steve Bell on Denmark seizing refugees' assets – cartoon

  26-01-2016 22:15 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
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• UK-bound migrant 'SHOT by suspected people smugglers at notorious camp'

  26-01-2016 22:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police were called when trouble broke out at the Grande-Synthe shanty town in Dunkirk
  
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• Pictures show ISIS's Jihadi John with a beard and an AK-47 before his death

  26-01-2016 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Images of Mohammed Emwazi, who was killed by a US missile strike in November, have been released showing him armed and bearded in what appears to be the Middle East.
  
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• Ex-World Sailing chief ‘voted out for trying to oust polluted Olympic venue’

  26-01-2016 22:05 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Testing on Guanabara Bay shows disease-causing viruses linked to sewage
  • Peter Sowrey: I was told to gag myself on the subject and I did not resignThe former chief executive of World Sailing has claimed he was fired for pushing to get rid of the polluted Guanabara Bay as the venue for the sport at the Rio Olympics.Peter Sowrey tried to change the venue but was “told to gag myself on the subject”. Continue reading...
  
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• Canada to lift sanctions against Iran, foreign affairs minister says

  26-01-2016 22:02 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  ‘We will change this policy,’ Stephane Dion said Tuesday without giving a timeline for economic action already taken by US and EUCanada will follow the US and EU lead and lift sanctions against Iran, foreign affairs minister Stephane Dion said Tuesday.Responding to questions in the House of Commons, Dion said: “Canada will remove those sanctions.” Continue reading...
  
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• Lotto bosses yet to view CCTV from shop where £33million ticket was allegedly bought

  26-01-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shopkeeper Natu Patel says he is “100% sure” the person who bought the life-changing Lotto was captured making the purchase by his in-store cameras
  
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• Costa Prize: Frances Hardinge children's novel wins

  26-01-2016 22:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Children's novel wins for only the second time in award's 30-year history
  
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• Bookies making £34million a WEEK on 'crack cocaine' gambling machines

  26-01-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Campaigners say tens of thousands of pounds can be raked in by some individual machines each week
  
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• Angler lands record 68lb catch, ending a 10-year mission

  26-01-2016 22:00
  
  ANGLER Dean Fletcher ended a 10-year mission when he finally landed “The Parrot”... Britain's biggest freshwater fish at 68lb 1oz.
  
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• The Scottish Parliament debated legalising INCEST today over a petition with no signatures

  26-01-2016 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  MSPs were forced to discuss legalising sex between consenting family members after a man who lives in Australia submitted a petition that nobody had signed
  
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• Will the real snowy panda please stand up? Costumed man mimics clip – video

  26-01-2016 21:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Perhaps pandering to popular demand, an Instagram user dressed up as the Smithsonian national zoo’s giant panda Tian Tian on Tuesday, to re-enact the panda’s viral snow video. Tian Tian was filmed joyfully rolling around in snow dumped in Washington over the weekend, in a clip which quickly gained widespread coverage. Jperez501 captioned his video: ‘I challenge #tiantian to a snow battle!’Watch Jperez501’s videos on Instagram
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