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• Man 'dissolved Tinder date's body in a bath of acid after she refused to have sex with him'

  26-12-2016 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-medical student Emmanuel Bocangegra was arrested for murder after human bones found in rubbish bags on his apartment balcony in Mexico City were linked to student Francia Ibarra
  
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• Mum told she could never have children gives birth to 'miracle' baby girl on Christmas Day

  26-12-2016 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  First-time parents Aneesa and Jesse California were stunned when they learned she was pregnant
  
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• The Royle Family actress Liz Smith dies aged 95

  26-12-2016 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Smith played Nana in the comedy series and was a much-loved character with fans
  
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• George Michael partied until the end as he hosted wild all-night bashes just weeks before his tragic death

  26-12-2016 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The star enjoyed raucous nights until 8am with friends at his £8million mansion in Highgate, North London
  
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• Fears for missing student Isabel Gayther who failed to turn up at her family's home on Christmas Day

  26-12-2016 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Metropolitan Police the disappearance of Isabel Gayther, 21, is "extremely out of character" and that her family are extremely concerned for her safety and wellbeing
  
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• Female 'Boko Haram' suicide bomber LYNCHED by angry mob after failing to detonate explosive vest in busy marketplace

  26-12-2016 22:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: She was one of two female suicide bombers - said to be in their teens - who targeted a busy cattle market
  
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• Not sure whether to laugh or cry at 2016 - you can't help but giggle at our comic take on the year

  26-12-2016 22:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The way this year played out, you often weren’t sure whether to laugh or cry but our man was on hand to solve the problem by making you cry with laughter
  
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• Saudi 'morality police' arrest women 'filmed drinking, dancing and mixing with men' in video that shocked Muslim state

  26-12-2016 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A clip from a party posted on YouTube shows a group of young men and women enjoying themselves on the terrace of a building next to bottles of 'alcohol' - both of which are illegal
  
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• Heartwarming rescue of dogs who were rescued from brutal illegal dog meat trade

  26-12-2016 22:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Clover has run on grass for the first time after being rescued from the horrific Chinese trade by a small UK charity
  
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• Little boy breaks down in tears after reading news of best Christmas present EVER disguised as cracker joke

  26-12-2016 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sean Brown had been hoping for a little brother or sister for years and now his wish finally came true - in a clip being described as the "best post this Christmas"
  
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• Tragic death of seven-month-old sparks probe into bunk bed firm

  26-12-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bespoke bunk bed manufacturer Playtime Beds is being investigated following the tragic death of a seven-month-old in York
  
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• Man plunged five floors to his death down lift shaft as firm guilty of health and safety breach

  26-12-2016 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Warwick Estates Property has been fined £120,000 after Craig Jones, 27, fell five floors at Marsden House in Bolton
  
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• Inside Myanmar's hidden tribe which tattoos girl's faces and stretches their earlobes so they're too UGLY for kidnap

  26-12-2016 21:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  One theory suggests the tattoos were intended to make women look unattractive so they wouldn't be kidnapped
  
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• Grieving daughter posts tragic photograph of terminally ill mum to raise awareness of deadly skin cancer

  26-12-2016 21:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Laura Bhasker, 22, from Mulhuddart in Dublin is appealing to others not to take risks in the sunshine - or face leaving their loved ones on their own next Christmas
  
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• George Michael's ex-partner Kenny Goss left "heartbroken" by death of "dear friend and long-time love"

  26-12-2016 21:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pair were an item for a number of years
  
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• Cheetah sprinting to extinction with just 7,100 left in the wild, experts warn

  26-12-2016 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Urgent action is needed to stop the big cat dying out
  
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• Church accidentally prints lyrics to Tupac Shakur's raunchy "Hail Mary" song in Christmas carol service booklet

  26-12-2016 20:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The song contains repeated uses of the N-word and lines such as 'Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' p****'
  
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• Young dad-of-two dies after being hit by car while travelling home to see his daughters on Christmas Eve

  26-12-2016 20:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police officers told tragic pedestrian Ross Cowling's family that he had been killed by a car as they waited for him to arrive home on Christmas Eve
  
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• Dramatic rescue operation to save Brits among 153 skiers trapped in cable cars for HOURS in Christmas horror

  26-12-2016 20:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dramatic footage shows how scary it was for five British holidaymakers among 153 people stuck when a Italian ski lift broke down - stranding them about 180ft (30m) above ground
  
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• Owen Smith reveals he's STILL receiving death threats for trying to oust Jeremy Corbyn

  26-12-2016 20:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pontypridd MP says he's had “lots and lots” of threats but does not regret his decision to challenge Mr Corbyn this summer
  
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• George Michael dies 'peacefully in bed' at his Oxfordshire home aged just 53

  26-12-2016 20:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The musician's publicist said that he had 'passed away peacefully' at his property in Goring yesterday, with police announcing that they were not treating Michael's death as suspicious.
  
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• Is my Kodi box illegal? You could find yourself in trouble if you use it under these circumstances

  26-12-2016 19:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The boxes have proved a huge hit with people desperate to watch PPV films and live sport on the cheap
  
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• Dominatrix exposes 50 Shades-style bondage perversions of Hollywood stars like kinky actor who likes to be on leash

  26-12-2016 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  College graduate Jenny Nordbak, 29, from Yorkshire, stripped a mystery megastar naked - before tying the actor up and beating him with a riding crop in her Los Angeles sex dungeon
  
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• Three arrested on suspicion of murder after man killed outside pub on Christmas night

  26-12-2016 19:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police and paramedics rushed to the victim's aid but he was pronounced dead at the scene
  
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• Ayers Rock turned into massive waterfall after heavy rain falls on iconic landmark in freak twice-a-century weather event

  26-12-2016 19:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Footage shows the jaw-dropping scene as the massive sandstone monolith was shrouded in rain clouds
  
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• Brit drafted to fight for US Marines in Vietnam finally honoured four decades after he was killed

  26-12-2016 19:09 via mirror.co.uk
  
  L/Cpl Stuart 'Limey' Wood, a UK student who was bizarrely drafted into US Marines only to be killed in the Vietnam War, has finally been honoured by his home country
  
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• The simple spoon trick which actually does keep your leftover sparkling wine fizzy for longer

  26-12-2016 18:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  It's a trick and a persistent old wives' tale, but the science behind it proves this method works
  
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• Doomed jet carrying Chapecoense football team crashed into mountains killing 71 due to 'failings caused by human error'

  26-12-2016 18:58 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The shocking findings come in a preliminary report on the incident by the Colombian civil aviation agency Aerocivil said in its preliminary report on the accident Monday
  
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• Man accused of deliberately infecting male lovers with HIV appears in court

  26-12-2016 18:57 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daryll Rowe stands accused of seven counts of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) and one count of attempted GBH
  
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• Private firms rake in half a BILLION pounds for cruel disability benefit assessments

  26-12-2016 18:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Atos and Capita earn the fees assessing people for PIP despite thousands having their cases overturned on appeal
  
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• Dozens die in ferry disaster horror as boat carrying football club and fans to Christmas Day match capsizes

  26-12-2016 18:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There was a party on the 'overloaded' ferry and many passengers were drunk and playing musical instruments
  
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• Gran committed string of crimes including two muggings in one day to 'feed her family'

  26-12-2016 18:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Trena McNamara said she committed a string of crimes to feed her family while she was at her “wits' end” after falling on hard times
  
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• Chilling surveillance footage shows Berlin terror attacker travelling via Lyon three days after carrying out massacre

  26-12-2016 18:21 via mirror.co.uk
  
  ISIS killer Anis Amri, 24, was caught on film at Lyon-Part-Dieu station three days after the Berlin Christmas market attack in which 12 people died
  
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• George Michael's incredible generosity revealed

  26-12-2016 18:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Details of the singer's donations and secret acts of generosity emerged following his death from suspected heart failure at his home in Oxfordshire yesterday.
  
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• Football fans urged to remember heroes who fought in First World War

  26-12-2016 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tottenham's Walter Tull (pictured), the first black officer to lead white troops into battle, was killed in action in March 1918 and was one of the soldiers who went to war and never came home.
  
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• UK weather sees second warmest Christmas but Scotland takes hammering from Storm Conor

  26-12-2016 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  After temperatures reached a balmy 15.1C on Christmas Day - the second warmest since 1920 - Scotland now faces the wrath of Storm Conor with hurricane-force gales and snow.
  
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• Bargain hunters expected to shell out almost £4bn on Boxing Day deals

  26-12-2016 18:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Millions of bargain hunters have hit high streets across the UK today and are expected to spend almost £4billion as they try to take advantage of cut-price deals for Boxing Day.
  
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• Animal lover called in deep sea divers as she couldn't find pet terrapin in 4ft garden pond

  26-12-2016 18:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Underwater adventurer Martin Woodward donned full scuba diving kit to successfully rescue the tiny female turtle
  
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• George Michael 'rekindled close friendship with Kenny Goss' before his death 

  26-12-2016 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The singer, who passed away aged 53 yesterday, had 13-year relationship with Kenny Goss, the man often described as the love of his life, before the pair split in 2011.
  
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• primary school children suspended from classes for racial abuse and sexual behaviour 

  26-12-2016 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Figures from the Department for Education show 720 pupils were suspended from school last year and 470 of those incidents were to do with racial abuse.
  
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• Nigel Farage joins spectators as the traditional Boxing Day hunts get underway

  26-12-2016 17:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The former Ukip leader (pictured) posed for the cameras in a wax jacket and Wellington boots ahead of the Old Surrey Burstow and West Kent Hunt at Chiddingstone Castle.
  
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• Has Mary Beard stumbled across 'reconstruction of Henry VIII's Caesar tapestry'?

  26-12-2016 17:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A Cambridge professor says she may have stumbled across a reconstruction of a tapestry owned by King Henry VIII in New York.
  
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• How sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll took their toll on troubled genius George Michael

  26-12-2016 17:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In one of his many candid moments, George Michael said he had spent the past 20 years trying to sabotage his glittering career via a series of humiliating drug and sex scandals.
  
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• George Michael bought John Lennon's Imagine piano for £1.7m so it would stay in Britain

  26-12-2016 17:48 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Wham! star anonymously purchased the upright historic Steinway formerly owned by the ex-Beatle at a pop auction
  
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• Status Quo's Rick Parfitt was 'archetypal rock star' says bandmate

  26-12-2016 17:44
  
  Frontman Francis Rossi pays tribute to guitarist, who died aged 68 on Christmas Eve, saying he ‘lived life at high speed’Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi has paid tribute to his bandmate, Rick Parfitt, who died aged 68 on Christmas Eve.Rossi describing Parfitt as “the archetypal rock star”, “one of the originals” who “never lost his joy, his mischievous edge and his penchant for living life at high speed, high volume, high risk”.Continue reading..
  
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• Hundreds of homeless people enjoy FREE Christmas dinner after pub lays on heartwarming festive feast

  26-12-2016 17:43 via mirror.co.uk
  
  More than 300 people who passed through the pub were treated to food and drink, haircuts and donated items
  
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• Tesco opening and closing times for Boxing Day 2016 plus all their best sales deals

  26-12-2016 17:39 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Don't get caught out this Boxing Day and New Year, check when your local Tesco branch will be open over the Christmas break using our guide
  
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• Mum releases heartbreaking photo of 15-year-old son in intensive care after hit-and-run driver left him for dead

  26-12-2016 17:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Shocking CCTV shows the boy colliding with the car, stopping briefly before driving off leaving the teen lying injured
  
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• Asda opening and closing times for Boxing Day 2016 sales and all the best deals on offer there

  26-12-2016 17:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Find out when your local Asda will be open during the Christmas holidays and over New Year
  
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• This everyday kitchen item will make your veg last longer in the fridge - and costs pennies

  26-12-2016 17:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Millions of tonnes of food goes off and gets thrown away every year - this little trick may help
  
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