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• The world from above

  07-07-2016 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The winners of this year's Dronestagram photographic competition have been announced.
  
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• North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un says US blacklisting is 'declaration of WAR' and warns of tough response

  07-07-2016 23:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pyongyang released a furious statement on Thursday after Washington blacklisted the nuclear-armed country's leader for human rights abuses
  
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• As Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom go head-to-head - here's where they stand on key issues

  07-07-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After both women were chosen to go forward in the leadership contest it means Britain will have a female PM
  
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• Five sentenced after boy, 16, tortured with hot iron over £80 debt

  07-07-2016 23:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Shohaib Khan (pictured) was among those jailed after the victim was lured to a house in Oldham, Manchester, where he was stripped and branded on his stomach, buttocks and back.
  
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• Brit attacked by racist yob who wrongly thought he was an immigrant because he was wearing Russian hat

  07-07-2016 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Zane Grey, 39, says he was told to 'Go back home you f*****g immigrant' before he was repeatedly punched in the head
  
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• Britain's top authors reveal their summer holiday book recommendations

  07-07-2016 23:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paula Hawkins, Michael Morpurgo, Jeffrey Archer, Nick Hornby, Barbara Taylor Bradford, David Nicholls and Mark Haddon reveal what we should be reading on the beach
  
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• Terrifying moment van hurtles down wrong side of busy dual carriageway towards oncoming traffic

  07-07-2016 23:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Geoff Anderson watched in horror as a van travelling in the opposite direction crossed the double-white line and moved across two lanes of oncoming traffic
  
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• The battle for the Tory PM's job will mean a summer of scheming, says Alison Phillips

  07-07-2016 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May will go head-to-head for the leader of the Conservative Party
  
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• Powerful Russian Soyuz International Space Station rocket blasts off taking three-man crew into orbit

  07-07-2016 23:25 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The astronauts are spending four months on-board the International Space Station before returning to earth
  
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• Woman with compulsion to eat own hair had 1ft-long ball weighing a STONE removed from stomach

  07-07-2016 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum-of-one Sophie Cox was diagnosed with trichotillomania and trichophagia six years ago after she began yanking out locks in her sleep
  
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• England football ace saved by his DOG after five hours trapped in a muddy bog

  07-07-2016 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The former England player Tommy Banks, now 86, was rescued by his dog Susie who barked to attract police
  
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• Poignant memorial for London 7/7 bombing victims as Sadiq Khan pledges to fight terrorism

  07-07-2016 22:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Eleven years have passed since 52 people died and hundreds were injured in suicide bomb attacks
  
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• Racial tensions on verge of boiling over in the US after two black men shot by police

  07-07-2016 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shocking and graphic video footage of the fatal shootings has been released on social media
  
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• Meet the Labour donor who's helping an online campaign for Jeremy Corbyn to quit

  07-07-2016 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Who is behind the Saving Labour website? We got in touch with Reg Race, a former MP who says there is "great concern about the future"
  
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• Police waited 16 DAYS after High Court ruling to find missing parents of toddler

  07-07-2016 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The girl has been in the care of social services since March 15 but Sussex Police did not begin their public appeal until July 6, more than two weeks after a court ordered the force to find her parents.
  
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• Belgian suspect 'hung out in a park' walking past police after ISIS terror attacks

  07-07-2016 22:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mohamed Abrini said he walked past police and soldiers and 'hang out in a park' for days after the attack despite being the target of an international manhunt, according to interrogation transcripts.
  
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• Alleged killer of Sadie Hartley boasted to pal about 'exhausting' sex with victim’s partner, court hears

  07-07-2016 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sarah Williams allegedly told colleagues of her lust for ski instructor Ian Johnston before his partner Sadie Hartley was stabbed to death at home
  
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• Maggie II: Tories pick woman PM... And all we can do is hope she's not as bad as the last one

  07-07-2016 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May are the two MPs on the final Conservative shortlist to be the next party leader
  
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• Bantu the gorilla dies after being sedated so he could be transported to another zoo for mating

  07-07-2016 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bantu the gorilla was given the sedative last night as vets prepared to transfer him to a different city in Mexico to mate with two females
  
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• Horror as Lamborghini £180k supercar completely DESTROYED in seconds in dramatic crash footage

  07-07-2016 22:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Astonishing footage shows the supercar, believed to be a 200mph Huracán, spin out of control five times in the rain - across three lanes of a fast-moving motorway
  
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• Super-rats are being genetically modified to sniff out land mines for the army

  07-07-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  American scientists have already managed to create mice that can be programmed to detect specific smells
  
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• Incredible NASA Hubble space probe image shows glowing heart of Crab Nebula supernova

  07-07-2016 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The centre can be seen glowing due to a dense neutron star spinning while surrounded by swirling gas moving almost at the speed of light
  
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• North Korea says US sanctions on Kim Jong-un are 'a declaration of WAR' 

  07-07-2016 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The move constituted 'the worst hostile act' and 'an open declaration of a war' against North Korea, the country's foreign ministry said, after Kim Jong-un (pictured) was sanctioned for 'human rights abuses'.
  
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• The Yorkshire Ripper killed my dad too - and DNA tests will prove it

  07-07-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Irene Vidler claims police officers told her mother before she died they were “99% sure” serial killer Peter Sutcliffe murdered her husband
  
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• Revealed: The final image captured by Japan's black hole-hunting 'Hitomi' satellite before it died in space

  07-07-2016 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Japan's 'Hitomi' satellite managed to capture one final - and remarkable - image before it dropped out of contact, it has emerged
  
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• Dramatic final Hitomi satellite image captured by black hole-hunting spacecraft before it died in space

  07-07-2016 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Japan's 'Hitomi' satellite managed to capture one final - and remarkable - image before it dropped out of contact, it has emerged
  
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• Boy hired a HELICOPTER to fly himself to his school prom James Bond style

  07-07-2016 21:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Alex Lambert, 16, said he felt like James Bond after he and his mates posed in sunglasses next to the Robinson R22 Helicopter he flew to his prom in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.
  
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• Oscar Pistorius returns to same hospital ward cell at Pretoria's Kgosi Mampuru prison

  07-07-2016 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The disgraced paralympian has already spent a year in the specially adapted cell in Pretoria's Kgosi Mampuru, which is regarded as being reserved for vulnerable inmates.
  
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• Former house master given another prison term for abusing pupils

  07-07-2016 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Thomson-Glover, 54, was head of house of the £30,000 a year Clifton College in Bristol where he taught German for 31 years but was jailed in 2015 for secretly filming pupils.
  
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• Adidas to make shoes in Germany again - using robots instead of Asian labour

  07-07-2016 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The footwear brand has apparently been testing out a robotic production line for six months
  
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• Lidl beats upmarket high street rivals to be named supermarket of the year 

  07-07-2016 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lidl has beaten the rest of the high street – including upmarket rivals – to be named supermarket of the year. The runners up in the Good Housekeeping Institute awards were Aldi and Waitrose.
  
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• Labour Party revolt 'on hold' for talks on Jeremy Corbyn's future

  07-07-2016 21:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Owen Smith and Angela Eagle said negotiations on “healing the rift” in the party needed more time to succeed
  
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• ASDA recalls Disney Buzz Lightyear costume for kids because of STRANGULATION fears

  07-07-2016 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The supermarket giant said the costumes do not carry the appropriate hazard warning on the label and are not suitable for children under 36 months
  
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• Oxford English Dictionary unveils new words - but are you bovvered?

  07-07-2016 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Slang acronyms like ROFL and TBH are among the new entries, along with 'bovver', part of Catherine Tate's catchphrase
  
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• This tiny, modest terraced house for sale has an AMAZING surprise at the back

  07-07-2016 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The couple who bought the narrow house saw huge potential and did something amazing with the back garden
  
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• Teething jewellery business has won a top award from Dragons' Den star

  07-07-2016 21:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jen Downie, 33, from Edinburgh, has devoted the past year to developing Num Num Teething Jewellery - and now her business has been awarded by retail magnate Theo Paphitis.
  
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• British teenager kept prisoner in his bedroom for two years released in dramatic rescue

  07-07-2016 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 19-year-old was found in the house with bars on the windows and was carried out of the house by police in a blanket
  
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• Burglars tortured elderly couple and made them walk on broken glass during terrifying raid

  07-07-2016 21:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A gang smashed into the pensioners' home wearing forensic suits and balaclavas, tied them up and assaulted them repeatedly
  
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• The number of pensioners who handed back their winter fuel payment revealed

  07-07-2016 21:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 12million OAPs receive the payment, which is between £100 and £300
  
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• Chaos at Heathrow as computer glitch in new BA system causes massive queues

  07-07-2016 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of British Airways passengers faced delays at London Heathrow's Terminal 5 today after lengthy check-in queues developed due to a computer glitch in a new system.
  
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• Birmingham wall collapses at recycling centre killing 5 men and leaving another injured

  07-07-2016 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The incident took place at Hawkeswood Metal in Nechells, Birmingham, this morning, with the group pronounced dead at the scene and another man taken to hospital for serious leg injuries.
  
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• Binge watching Game of Thrones box sets with your partner will make you FAT

  07-07-2016 20:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Couples who watch TV series together are more likely to stuff themselves with crisps, biscuits and popcorn, a new study has found
  
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• Hitler's Pope kidnap plot unveiled in incredible documents released by the Vatican

  07-07-2016 20:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A report, written by the now-deceased Antonio Nogara, states the leader of the Nazi Party intended for an elite SS commando squad to seize the pontiff
  
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• Dog owner spends £2,000 on wedding for love-struck pooches Elvis and Bella

  07-07-2016 20:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Shiatzus tied the knot and celebrated with a banquet of bone-shaped biscuits and a wedding cake made of dog food
  
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• Military heroes' fury after Tony Blair refuses to accept troops in Iraq did not have proper kit

  07-07-2016 20:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Chilcot Report found UK forces in Iraq faced “gaps in some key capability areas, including protected mobility, intelligence, surveillance, and helicopter support”
  
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• Boy is stripped and tortured with HOT IRON in sickening attack by gang of teenagers over £80 debt

  07-07-2016 20:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The young lad was lured to a house where he was bound with tape, slashed and continuously punched and kicked - and branded on his stomach, buttocks and back
  
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• Jo Cox helped secure autism diagnosis for four-year-old boy - the day she was killed

  07-07-2016 20:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fredi Kilgallon was finally given his diagnosis on June 16 just hours before the MP was shot and stabbed in the street
  
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• 'Hot criminal' Jeremy Meeks posts cute snap of lookalike 'mini-me' son to celebrate first day of freedom

  07-07-2016 20:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 32-year-old became an internet sensation after a police force posted his 'dreamy' mugshot on Facebook - now he's been released from house arrest
  
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• First look at the new Fletcher in remake of cult television series Porridge

  07-07-2016 20:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 36-year-old actor bares a striking resemblance to his predecessor as he takes up the part in the iconic show, set to air on BBC in October
  
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• Eden's castaways will build their own shacks in the Scottish wilderness

  07-07-2016 20:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twenty-three strangers were abandoned in the Scottish wilderness, tasked with building a new community as part of Channel 4's new reality show, Eden. Pictured, shepherdess Caroline, 27.
  
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