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• Welsh woman 'was arrested for kissing and hugging US student at Saudi university'

  28-07-2016 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amina Al-Jeffery was born in Swansea but moved to Saudi Arabia four years ago at the insistence of her father. Lawyers say they fear for her safety and have taken legal action in a bid to protect her.
  
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• Nun who survived ISIS church attack attends memorial service for the elderly priest slaughtered by knife-wielding jihadis 

  28-07-2016 23:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sister Danielle received hugs and applause throughout the emotional ceremony, held in Gagarine Park in St Etienne in memory of elderly Catholic Father Jacques Hamel.
  
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• Cattle class is getting worse: Railways 'at crisis point' as trains carry TWICE as many people as they should

  28-07-2016 23:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The most overcrowded service last year was the 6:57am Govia Thameslink commuter train from Brighton to Bedford, which is designed to carry 420 people but crammed in 960 on a 'typical weekday'.
  
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• Nightmare A&E scenes at Royal Stoke shows the NHS is itself on a stretcher

  28-07-2016 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Voice of the Mirror says that the massive queues at Royal Stoke University Hospital show how desperate for funding the NHS is
  
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• Deep sea robot films mysterious purple orb on ocean floor - and scientists don't know what it is

  28-07-2016 23:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The team of scientists, who are part of the ocean research vessel E/V Nautilus, suggested it looked like a spider egg sack or a disco ball
  
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• Olympians Zola Budd and Mary Decker return to LA to make peace 32 years after clash

  28-07-2016 23:31 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The world was eagerly awaiting the 3,000m battle between the two runners but the race ended in disaster sparking years of controversy
  
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• Mum and young son lucky to escape alive after E-CIGARETTE explodes and sets bedroom on fire

  28-07-2016 23:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jill Oswald and her eight-year-old son, Aydin, were watching TV in her bedroom when they suddenly heard a loud 'bang' on the floor
  
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• Police e-fits of RAF Marham abduction suspects lead to 150 calls

  28-07-2016 23:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Two men attempted to abduct an RAF serviceman from an airbase in Norfolk and e-fits of the pair have been released
  
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• Remarkable moment defiant teacher breaks into her own home after being evicted in neighbour dispute

  28-07-2016 23:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Maths teacher Rekha Patel was booted out her home after she refused to pay £72,000 in legal fees and court costs
  
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• As if Donald Trump's hair didn't get enough stick now it's his late mum's turn

  28-07-2016 23:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mary Trump's hairstyle has been compared to a "dollop of whipped cream" by awestruck social media users
  
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• Cocaine becomes the safe 'dinner party drug' as misuse of the class A substance soars

  28-07-2016 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New figures have revealed more rich people living in the suburbs are snorting the class A drug with those taking cocaine in households with an income of £50,000 or more up by 75,000 on last year.
  
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• Majority of voters prefer Owen Smith to Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, new poll reveals

  28-07-2016 23:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Some 57% of UK adults think Owen Smith would make a better Prime Minister - but just a quarter of people who intend to vote Labour agreed
  
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• Malmo explosion: Blast rocks Swedish city in residential area as locals told to stay indoors

  28-07-2016 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The blast occurred at around 10pm local time  - but it is unclear if anyone was injured
  
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• York Magistrates' Court fines Sean Harman for playing The Prodigy song too loudly

  28-07-2016 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sean Harman, 37, didn't turn up to York Magistrates' Court after the city's council officers turned up at his house to hear 'Sweet Home Alabama' blaring from speakers they confiscated.
  
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• MH370 captain's home flight simulator WAS used to plot 'suicide route' over Indian Ocean

  28-07-2016 22:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian officials confirm data from a home flight simulator owned by the Flight MH370 pilot shows 'someone' used it to plot course eerily similar to that followed by the plane before it vanished.
  
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• Video of Rio Olympics protesters trying to extinguish the Olympic flame in Brazil

  28-07-2016 22:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Protesters in Angra dos Reis, Brazil blocked the way of the torch bearers on Wednesday night, prompting the military police to disperse the crowd with rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray.
  
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• Fears ISIS could use DRONES to launch terror attacks in Britain

  28-07-2016 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  UK officials have found disturbing evidence the terror group is flying armed commercial drones over Syria and Iraq, it was revealed this afternoon.
  
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• Dramatic moment Deliveroo rider is handcuffed as he lies screaming on the ground after 'spooking police horses'

  28-07-2016 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Raven Morrello, 19, is accused of swearing and behaving aggressively towards two mounted officers and their horses in Manchester city centre last month
  
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• Labour MP Jess Phillips beefs up home security after receiving hate mail and online abuse

  28-07-2016 22:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jess Phillips had a locksmith spend six hours beefing up security in her home, where she raises her two sons
  
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• Al-Nusra terror leader's image revealed as group announces official split from al-Qaeda

  28-07-2016 22:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of the deadly al-Nusra Front in Syria and one of the most wanted jihadis in the world, has been pictured for the first time after years of mystery surrounding his identity.
  
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• Could eerie hospital footage of 'ghostly figure drifting above woman's body' prove the afterlife exists?

  28-07-2016 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The creepy CCTV shows a woman lying still on a hospital bed with a white sheet draped over her, before a shadowy figure suddenly appears
  
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• Van driver dubbed 'Superman' after surviving horrific explosion despite suffering 98% burns

  28-07-2016 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Constantin Huber was filling up a mobile generator with petrol in the back of his vehicle when the fumes exploded
  
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• British Gas powers its way to £516million profit despite mass customer walkout

  28-07-2016 22:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  But the loss of 399,000 clients between January and June, combined with households using less energy, knocked profits by 7%
  
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• Dozens ill at USAF base after 'mystery irritant' leads to 'hazardous material alert'

  28-07-2016 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Medics sent 14 of the victims to local hospitals for treatment
  
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• Bizarre Sky News report 'like something off The Day Today' sweeps the web

  28-07-2016 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sky News journalist Martin Brunt was reporting on the topic of terrorism in the UK from outside The Parish Church of Saint James Weybridge in Surrey when he made the astonishing comment.
  
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• Grieving dad says Apple won't give him password for murdered son's laptop

  28-07-2016 21:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Musician Morgan Hehir, 20, was stabbed by a gang last year – and his father Colin is desperate to access the photos and music he left
  
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• Theresa May reassures Poles in Britain they are still welcome despite rise in xenophobic abuse

  28-07-2016 21:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Prime Minister made the promise after talks with her Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo
  
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• Police probing Bernie Ecclestone's mother-in-law's abduction 'know who kidnapped her'

  28-07-2016 21:33 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The captors have demanded £28million to free Aparecida Schunck, whose daughter Fabiana Flosi is the Formula One boss’s wife
  
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• Bizarre triangular flying craft resembling character from 'Space Invaders' video game 'could NOT have been a plane'

  28-07-2016 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man, who claimed he shot the video, said him and his mother spotted the object above his car while waiting at traffic lights
  
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• Our leaders don't know what Brexit means – and some of their ideas are laughable

  28-07-2016 21:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The three ministers Theresa May has put in charge of negotiating our departure from the EU have spouted some worrying nonsense
  
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• ISIS priest killer's mother insists he wasn't a jihadi as police raid his Alps home

  28-07-2016 21:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Yatima, the mother of the 19-year-old second suspected knifeman Abdel Malik Petitjean, said it was 'impossible' that she had given birth to a 'devil' in a short interview at the front door of her home.
  
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• Syrian Muslim investigated by Buckinghamshire police after claims of radicalisation by ISIS

  28-07-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Syrian refugee who took a university course in 'air transport and pilot training' was investigated by police after claims from his wife. She said he supported Islamists and wanted to call one son 'War'.
  
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• Northampton book-keeper accused of raping and murdering doctor’s daughter

  28-07-2016 21:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Edward Tenniswood, 52, denies raping and killing the 20-year-old (pictured) whose body was found at his home in Northampton on January 30.
  
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• Heartbreaking moment exhausted polar bear smeared in his own faeces struggles to stand up in dirty zoo enclosure

  28-07-2016 21:14 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The poor creature was filmed struggling to stand on his back legs by horrified tourists visiting the attraction
  
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• A-level student sent exam questions early on WhatsApp feels 'victimised' after being disqualified for 'cheating'

  28-07-2016 21:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Fabienne Ruttledge says her university choices are in jeopardy after she was sent three out of the four questions before her sociology exam
  
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• Two Hermes couriers 'hounded back to work as they sat at the bedside of their dying son, 6'

  28-07-2016 20:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shocking claim was just one of a raft of complaints by employees at the UK delivery giant, who are allegedly "treated like dirt"
  
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• Cecil the lion killer Walter Palmer living the high life one year on from beast's tragic death

  28-07-2016 20:42 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The American dentist has been seen driving around in a brand new £91,000 Porsche
  
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• Young woman seeking love on dating website found 'BEHEADED after going on first date with stranger'

  28-07-2016 20:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kristina Medvedeva, 22, was found dead beside a lake, with her head almost entirely severed from her body
  
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• Brilliant moment easyJet passenger asks girlfriend to marry him on packed plane flying to Mallorca

  28-07-2016 20:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The happy couple were given a celebratory bottle of champagne on the house and also enjoyed a visit to the cockpit once their flight had landed
  
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• Tattooist apologises after bungling ink tribute to victims of the Hillsborough disaster

  28-07-2016 20:13 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The artist said his “head wasn’t in the right place” when he undertook the design at Vivid Arts Tattoo Arts
  
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• 'Alien' Mayan king who 'flew to Earth on spaceship' may have sailed to underworld on canal boat

  28-07-2016 20:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Researchers have found a new underground water tunnel beneath the tomb of Pakal among Aztec ruins deep in the Mexican jungle which could reveal new information about the ancient civilisation
  
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• Cologne on lockdown: German police arrest five people after 'woman with a gun storms job centre'

  28-07-2016 20:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police special forces in Cologne, Germany, have descended on an employment agency building today after witnesses saw an armed woman inside.
  
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• Labour loses by-election after selecting a candidate who wasn't eligible to stand

  28-07-2016 20:03 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The party lost their only seat on South Hams District Council after they didn't put up an official candidate
  
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• Grade II-listed mill used by BBC to film 'The Living and the Dead' on sale for £1.3m

  28-07-2016 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hartpury Mill is a picturesque estate in a Gloucestershire village with equestrian facilities, outbuildings, an annexe and more than 40 acres of land for the new owner to enjoy.
  
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• Polish woman killed by Syrian refuee machete attack's ex-husband demands death penalty

  28-07-2016 19:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pawel Gradzki said he is 'stunned' and 'sickened' by the senseless murder of  his ex-wife Jolanta Kijak, mother of his three children. She was murdered in Reutlingen, Germany, on Sunday.
  
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• Boris Johnson travels to Paris for lunch with French minister who branded him a liar

  28-07-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson (right) met his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault (left) in Paris for a working lunch today just a fortnight after he criticised him for telling 'a lot of lies' during the EU referendum campaign.
  
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• Angela Merkel faces rising anger over her response to terror attacks in Germany

  28-07-2016 19:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The chancellor has defended her decision not to visit Munich and Ansbach after the atrocities and said she would keep the open-door refugee policy
  
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• New Harry Potter book will be first read by 1000-word-a-MINUTE child speed reader

  28-07-2016 19:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 10-year-old wizard Toby L'Estrange will be the first in Britain to the read latest Harry Potter saga
  
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• Randy middle-aged couple filmed having sex naked on car bonnet in middle of residential street

  28-07-2016 19:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A shocked shop worker videoed the lusty pair, after spotting them dart out a house naked, as she walked home from a night shift
  
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• Teen caught trying to join ISIS with 'step-by-step' terrorist guide in rucksack and beheading videos on phone jailed

  28-07-2016 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Cubeyda Jama, 19, also had a map of Turkey and protective clothing, while his laptop was found to include the Google search: "How to get to ISIS"
  
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