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• Two big banks plan to send 2,000 City jobs to Paris in wake of Brexit

  18-01-2017 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  HSBC said it will be shifting 1,000 roles with UBS saying the same number of jobs there will be going
  
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• England Women's pre-Euro 2017 "warm weather" training takes place in a SNOW STORM

  18-01-2017 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mark Sampson's side headed off to La Manga to prepare for a couple of friendly matches, but they didn't quite believe what they found
  
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• Sir Ranulph Fiennes forced to abandon climb with bad back

  18-01-2017 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 72-year-old veteran explorer was airlifted from Aconcagua in the Andes, Argentina, on Monday when he was overcome with severe back pain, just a few hours from the summit.
  
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• Furious EU reaction after Boris Johnson compared French President to World War Two prison guard

  18-01-2017 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bungling Foreign Secretary warned President Francois Hollande against “punishment beatings” over Brexit like in “some World War Two movie”
  
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• Uri Geller 'forced Russians to sign nuclear arms treaty with TELEPATHY' as CIA files reveal spies tested him for psychic skills

  18-01-2017 23:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  CIA files reveal the Israeli, famed for his ability to seemingly bend spoons with his mind, was taken to Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s
  
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• 'Aids-curing' pastor claims he removed woman's 'vaginal warts' with the power of his holy shoe

  18-01-2017 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bizarre footage shows Zendile Andries November passing his footwear to a woman in his congregation at Victorious Faith Ministries
  
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• Somme stretcher bearer who won three medals in three weeks

  18-01-2017 23:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  William Peniston, then 27, won the Military Medal before being awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for his bravery at Woodlane. His medals will be on sale at an auction in London.
  
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• Civil rights groups urge Facebook to fix 'racially biased' moderation system

  18-01-2017 23:37
  
  A coalition of more than 70 social and racial justice organizations urged Facebook to adopt reforms that would better target abusive content and harassmentFacebook allows white supremacists to spread violent threats while censoring Black Lives Matter posts and activists of color, according to civil rights groups that called on the technology company to fix its “racially biased” moderation system. “Activists in the Movement for Black Lives have routinely reported the takedown of
  
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• Wigan girl in coma after Ecstasy overdose

  18-01-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Essex student Leah Betts, died in 1995, four days after taking the deadly class A drug Ecstasy at her 18th birthday party.Leah Robinson collapsed after taking the drug on Christmas Day 2016.
  
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• Tory donor set to fight extradition to Germany over £100million VAT scam allegations

  18-01-2017 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Peter Singh Virdee was held earlier this month under a European Arrest Warrant after arriving at Heathrow from Abu Dhabi
  
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• Viewpoint: Does democracy lead to tyranny?

  18-01-2017 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The second of two animated opinion pieces for BBC Newsnight looking ahead to Donald Trump's presidency. British-American author and blogger Andrew Sullivan argues there are lessons to be learnt from Plato.
  
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• Three people missing as Italian hotel buried under snow after being hit by an avalanche

  18-01-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.
  
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• Church of England groups praise fracking as a way to cut carbon emissions

  18-01-2017 23:13
  
  The stance is outraging Christian environmentalists, but the church says there are caveats to its supportThe fracking industry has praised the Church of England (CoE) after two groups at the church tentatively backed the controversial technology as a way to help the UK cut carbon emissions.Shale gas was a “potentially useful element” in switching to a low-carbon economy as it was cleaner than coal, so long as it did not harm renewable energy’s expansion, a church briefing paper
  
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• Virus lottery: What could be next epidemic?

  18-01-2017 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have shortlisted three little-known diseases that they think could become the next global health emergency.
  
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• $460m pledged for vaccine initiative aimed at preventing global epidemics

  18-01-2017 23:00
  
  Lassa, Mers and Nipah will be first diseases targeted by programme announced at Davos by coalition of governments, philanthropists and businessA coalition of governments, philanthropists and business is pledging to put money and effort into making vaccines to stop the spread of diseases that could threaten mankind – and to prevent another outbreak as devastating as the Ebola epidemic.At the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Norwegian, Japanese and German governments, the Wellcome Trust an
  
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• Eddie Jones: ‘I want England to be the best. You should never be satisfied’

  18-01-2017 22:59
  
  England head coach has set his sights on the 2019 World Cup but says Dylan Hartley may not be captain by that time while Alun Wyn Jones is a shoo-in for the Lions armbandEven on a dark midweek January evening a warm glow covers the Twickenham turf. It turns out to be from the portable lights helping the winter grass to grow but the golden touch of Eddie Jones still feels all-pervasive. Ask him to forecast the outcome of the 2019 Rugby World Cup final and his prediction is similarly illuminating.
  
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• New Yorkers from Donald Trump's hometown reveal what they really think about him becoming President

  18-01-2017 22:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The US President-elect was born in New York in 1946 and now owns one of Manhatten's most famous buildings
  
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• Lucas heads lax Liverpool through in FA Cup replay against plucky Plymouth

  18-01-2017 22:54
  
  It was one of those nights that reminded us why the FA Cup third round is so special, even if Liverpool ended up surviving the sort of giant-killing that would have troubled Jürgen Klopp for years to come. Plymouth Argyle, 67 places below Liverpool on the league ladder, played with courage and spirit throughout and came within the width of an upright of taking this replay into extra time. Continue reading...
  
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• Liverpool quiz! Can you name the 19 players given their Reds debut under Jurgen Klopp?

  18-01-2017 22:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The German boss has made sweeping changes at Anfield since joining in October 2015, but can you name the players he gave a first appearance to?
  
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• First picture of mum found stuffed in a suitcase in alleyway as family pay tribute

  18-01-2017 22:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man in his 50s has been arrested after Kiran Daudia's body was found in a suitcase by a member of the public yesterday morning
  
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• Mum shares heartbreaking picture of 'miracle' son with cancer in hospital bed as he fights for life

  18-01-2017 22:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former Manchester City ballboy Elliott Fernandez, 19, is battling a rare form of sarcoma cancer that has seen him lose the use of his legs
  
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• World's only wing-walking acrobatics team about to thrill Prince George almost crash into giant helicopter

  18-01-2017 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Daredevils from the famous Breitling formation came within a hair-raising 400m of the Chinook chopper en route to an air show
  
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• West Yorkshire policeman found with '11kg of cocaine'

  18-01-2017 22:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Keith Boots, 55, allegedly stole the drugs from police stores to put back on the streets for profit. Narcotics were found at his home after a raid by his West Yorkshire Police colleagues.
  
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• Bradley Lowery undergoes gruelling cancer treatment 

  18-01-2017 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gemma Lowery made an emotion plea on Facebook after five-year-old Bradley, from Blackhall, Country Durham, endured the painful side effects of his treatment as he battles neuroblastoma.
  
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• Spam mail tricks vulnerable woman into wasting £10,000 on useless trash

  18-01-2017 22:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  This is a tragic story, warns councillor after scammers fleece an easy target
  
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• Mum slams primary school for letting 'mystery' step-dad pick up daughter, 4, over feared 'attempted abduction'

  18-01-2017 22:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mum says school failed her little girl after she was removed from classroom and left in reception to be collected by a stranger
  
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• Meghan Markle's diary gift to Kate Middleton could only be described as extremely dull

  18-01-2017 22:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Doing something that seems nice but is actually not is something of an art form when it comes to present giving
  
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• 'It's not the end of the world': Barack Obama says Donald Trump won't bring on the apocalypse

  18-01-2017 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  At his final press conference as President, he told reporters 'we're going to be OK, we just have to fight for it'
  
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• National Lottery results: Lotto and Thunderball numbers for £12.2million jackpot on Wednesday, 18 January

  18-01-2017 22:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Wednesday's Lottery could make you a very rich person - but have you got a winning ticket?
  
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• EU politicians and businesses warn May over 'difficult' Brexit

  18-01-2017 22:05
  
  As PM travels to Davos to deliver ‘global Britain’ message, European leaders present united frontEuropean politicians and multinational bosses lined up to warn Theresa May the UK’s exit from the European Union will be fraught with difficulty, as the prime minister flew out to deliver her “global Britain” message to business leaders in Davos.Key Brussels negotiators told the prime minister she was being over-optimistic in her hope to achieve a quick, clean break from
  
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• Terrified British family trapped in house as angry kangaroo pounds on window in apparent bid to break in

  18-01-2017 21:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The raging roo pounds on a glass door with frightening ferocity, placing a mum and her two kids under 'house arrest' in Wallan, Australia
  
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• Military forces from West Africa gather at Gambia border

  18-01-2017 21:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The nearby nations are preparing to invade Gambia to overthrow Yahya Jammeh who failed to accept his election defeat to Adama Barrow an ex-Argos security guard from north London.
  
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• Patrick Stewart to voice poo emoji in The Emoji Movie

  18-01-2017 21:47
  
  The acclaimed Shakespearean actor will take on the role of a pile of excrement in a new animated comedyPatrick Stewart is set to voice the poo emoji in animated adventure The Emoji Movie. Related: Ready for their smiley face close ups: which emoticons should be film stars?Continue reading...
  
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• The women Donald Trump 'touched inappropriately' as incoming US President faces court appearance

  18-01-2017 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Former US Apprentice star Summer Zervos filed a lawsuit against the US Prssident-elect for defamation
  
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• John Barnes reveals his all-time Liverpool XI - and it proves life existed before the Premier League

  18-01-2017 21:44 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Liverpool legend was in the last Anfield team to win the old First Division in 1990, and his all-time best Reds XI goes to show just how good the good old days were
  
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• "The last time Lucas scored for Liverpool, Ben Woodburn was in primary school" - Twitter reacts to shock goal

  18-01-2017 21:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The Brazilian found the net for the first time since September 2010 in the FA Cup at Plymouth Argyle - and nobody could quite believe their eyes
  
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• I fought for Chelsea Manning because she stood up for all trans people | Evan Greer

  18-01-2017 21:31
  
  Although doing so put her future at risk, the whistleblower bravely spoke out about trans liberation from prison. It was an honour to fight for her freedomChelsea Manning’s courage knows no bounds. This 1.6 metres (5ft 3in) woman with a slight southern accent announced to the world that she was transgender on the Today Show, while incarcerated in an all-male military prison in Kansas.At that time, Manning had already been a captive of the US government for three years, and had been sentenc
  
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• Taxi driving grandfather, 60, with a 'schoolgirl fetish'

  18-01-2017 21:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Grandfather Mark Durden, 60, preyed on shoppers using an iPhone at the Royal Victoria Place shopping centre in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent because he had a schoolgirl fetish.
  
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• Obama's final press conference: Chelsea Manning commutation is 'appropriate'

  18-01-2017 21:30
  
  President says he is ‘comfortable’ with decision and does not see contradiction between pardon and accusations of Russian hacking of US electionManning to go free in May after Obama commutes majority of sentenceBarack Obama has defended as “entirely appropriate” his decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning, arguing that the whistleblower behind one of the largest breaches of classified information in US history had served a tough but adequate prison sentence.&l
  
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• 500 dog fights a year reported - as RSPCA calls for tougher jail terms for organisers

  18-01-2017 21:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Offenders can only be jailed for a maximum of six months but animal welfare groups want a three year maximum term introduced
  
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• Alarmed underwear with combination lock to protect against sex attacks created by German after Cologne New Year rapes

  18-01-2017 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 'safe shorts', which trigger a 130db siren if tampered with, were created by a German inventor following the Cologne New Year's Eve sex attacks
  
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• Cambridge council house Ferry House on the market

  18-01-2017 21:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ferry House is a three-bedroom 'doer upper', which sits on the bank of the River Cam in Cambridge - and is worth around three times the price of the average UK home.
  
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• Car wash boss jailed after worker electrocuted in shower of rat-infested flat where staff lived in squalor

  18-01-2017 21:17 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Sandu-Laurentiu Sava lived in "abject squalor" in his cramped home next door to Bubbles Carwash in east London
  
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• This is Brexit poker - and Theresa May was right to up the stakes | Simon Jenkins

  18-01-2017 21:16
  
  It was strategically sensible to begin the skirmishes in uncompromising mood. The inevitable compromises will come laterThe siege of Harfleur was a disaster for the English. Henry V was humiliated and had to abandon his march on Paris, turning instead to confront the French cavalry at Agincourt. Here he faced overwhelming odds but decided to rely on bluff, cunning and Welsh archers to rescue a shred of glory from his European venture.Theresa May must hope she is somewhere between Harfl
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump and global warming: the right fight | Editorial

  18-01-2017 21:10
  
  The president-elect should understand that America needs to shoulder global responsibilities, and that in doing so America will benefit by owning the technologies of the futureOn climate change, like so many other things, the world is going one way and Donald Trump is going the other. On Twitter the president-elect has claimed manmade global warming was a hoax invented by China to increase its trade surplus with the US. However, for most Americans, like most other people on the globe, daily life
  
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• ISIS fighters bring death to Mosul from beyond the grave

  18-01-2017 21:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Experts have warned of the threat of disease being spread by contaminated water, after Iraqi forces announced they were in 'full control' of eastern Mosul.
  
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• Huge 10ft wooden barrier erected outside empty BHS store to 'stop homeless people gathering in its doorways'

  18-01-2017 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Homeless couple have been turfed out from the spot after a huge blockade was built this week 
  
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• How to watch Donald Trump's Inauguration in the UK - Full schedule of events and speeches

  18-01-2017 21:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  US President-elect Donald Trump will take office on January 20. Here's a full timetable for what will happen - and how you can watch
  
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• Jos Buttler welcomes knockout pressure while England ponder plan for Kohli

  18-01-2017 21:04
  
  • England trail India 1-0 in ODI series after defeat in Pune
  • Buttler is optimistic tourists can bounce back in CuttackThe Barabati stadium in Cuttack is a pleasantly rambling cricket ground, with a lovely green oval pegged out in a clearing at the centre of its jumble of stickle-brick stands. For England’s cricketers the second one‑day international on Thursday on a ground in east India none of the squad have previously played at represents a chance to level the series an
  
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• The Guardian view on Putin’s Europe: the new fellow travellers | Editorial

  18-01-2017 21:03
  
  Moscow may relish a role as a disrupter of liberal democracy as much as it would like to see the EU unravel, but that does little to hide the contradictions among pro-Russian political groups in EuropeWith all the speculation surrounding Russia’s influence over European politics, seeking clarity and finding a sense of balance is a challenge. To say that Mr Putin’s regime engineered the rise of populist forces on the continent is an exaggeration if not a fallacy. France’s far-ri
  
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