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• Boat carrying Britons capsizes off Norwegian coast

  16-02-2017 23:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The boat, one of two carrying British tourists on the trip, reportedly smashed into a fountain near the shore in Norway at high speed. Two men were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
  
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• Donald Trump attacks Jewish reporter and insists he's the 'least anti-Semitic person'

  16-02-2017 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The President called Orthodox Jewish reporter Jake Turx a liar and insulting for asking a question about anti-Semitism
  
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• Adorable baby Primrose has so much hair people think she's wearing a wig

  16-02-2017 23:56 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The four-month-old has always had such a luscious head of hair it even showed up in her pregnancy scans
  
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• Business rates rise 'is illegal' claim ministers

  16-02-2017 23:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 500,000 cafes, shops, hotels, nurseries, schools and hospitals will pay up to 300 per cent more from April, following the first revaluation of business rates for seven years.
  
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• Samsung heir arrested on bribery charges in corruption probe that led to South Korean president's impeachment

  16-02-2017 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Prosecutors have accused Samsung of paying bribes totalling about £30m to organisations linked to the president's friend to secure the government's backing for a merger
  
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• Bizarre moment man throws himself onto bonnet of car while crossing road - then blames the driver

  16-02-2017 23:54 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A man in a green parka engaged in a strange episode of play-acting and it was all caught on camera
  
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• Sajid Javid under fire for disappearing act

  16-02-2017 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sajid Javid – the minister in charge of business rates – came under fire last night for staying on holiday amid uproar over the planned rises.
  
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• Incredible rotating hotel 'beyond star rating' planned for Dubai will let guests turn apartments 360-degrees

  16-02-2017 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Dubbed the "Dynamic Tower", it will likely include flats that will sell for around £24million each
  
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• Trump to BBC: Here's another beauty

  16-02-2017 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump has made a dig at the BBC in a sharp exchange during a heated White House press conference.
  
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• Watch the adorable moment a three-year-old pops the question for her daddy

  16-02-2017 23:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Little Erin Hancock proposed to her mum on behalf of her dad - via FaceTime
  
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• Brewdog gives staff a week off when they get a puppy

  16-02-2017 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  BrewDog, a canine-inspired Scottish beer company, will offer the benefit to staff at its soon-to-be opened Ohio brewery. It calls the animal-friendly perk Puppy Parental Leave.
  
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• Zlatan Ibrahimovic equalled one of Cristiano Ronaldo's Manchester United records against St Etienne

  16-02-2017 23:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The big Swede put St Etienne to the sword in the Europa League, and he matched one of the club's recent icons in doing so
  
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• Chinese bras to Nigerian malls benefit from foreign aid

  16-02-2017 23:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Britain has poured more than £100million of the foreign aid budget into shopping malls and retail chains around the world as high street shops at home face massive rises in business rates.
  
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• CCTV footage shows London robbers attack woman

  16-02-2017 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The pair attacked Tania Levenfiche as her 10-year-old son looked on with fear from inside their house in north-west London. The robbers are due to be sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Friday.
  
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• Bear forced to 'salute' and crocodile manhandled in degrading animal circus act

  16-02-2017 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bizarre spectacles involving seals, dogs, monkeys and birds will also be watched by audiences at the Ukrainian National Circus in Kiev
  
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• Northern Irish Muslim convert accused of fleeing to Syria

  16-02-2017 23:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Eamon Bradley (pictured), from Londonderry, insisted he went to help the people suffering during a catastrophic civil war.
  
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• Are these creepiest museum exhibits ever? Macabre display includes DEMONIC NUN and 'monkey chef' holding decapitated cat's head

  16-02-2017 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  They have been terrifying the Twitter-sphere with their collections' creepiest dolls, paintings and often bizarre dioramas
  
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• Amazing copy of Sistine Chapel in suburban English church attracts tens of thousands of visitors

  16-02-2017 23:27 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The English Martyrs Church in Worthing, West Sussex, looks unassuming - but inside lies the stunning ceiling
  
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• Defamation claim filed against Bill Cosby by Sammy Davis Jr's ex-girlfriend is dismissed by court

  16-02-2017 23:26 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A judge ruled that Cosby acted within his rights when he proclaimed himself innocent from claims that he raped Katherine Mae McKee while she was on tour with the rat pack singer
  
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• Sinn Fein's new leader marks the deaths of four IRA men

  16-02-2017 23:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michelle O'Neill (pictured) said there should be no hierarchy of victims as she clutched a candle in memory of those who died in a churchyard in Clonoe, County Tyrone.
  
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• YouTuber PewDiePie 'apologises' for anti-semitic stunt after backlash during 11 minute rant about 'unfair media treatment'

  16-02-2017 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The vlogger, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, came close to tears as he thanked his millions of fans for their support
  
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• Shocking moment BMW passenger hurls bottle at a driver's windscreen in 'unprovoked road rage attack'

  16-02-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The passenger leans out of the window and chucks the bottle at the driver's windscreen, soaking it with water
  
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• 'Are they friends of yours?': Donald Trump asks black reporter to set up meeting with black congressmen

  16-02-2017 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The President asked an African American reporter to help set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus for him
  
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• Father died after taking so many painkillers for his bad back it was most medic had seen in 25 years

  16-02-2017 23:12 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ty Porter, 40, had so much morphine in his system a pathologist said it was the most he had seen in his 25 year career
  
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• Pogba v Pogba watch: A minute-by-minute rundown of how the brothers fared in Manchester United v St Etienne

  16-02-2017 23:08 via mirror.co.uk
  
  As you may have heard, Manchester United against St Etienne in the Europa League pitted brother against brother, and here's how they got on
  
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• Mother claims rats have made her and her children move

  16-02-2017 23:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Carla Hazlett (pictured, right) has been forced to move into a three-bedroom house with with her seven children because her home in Bootle, Liverpool has become infested with foot-long rats.
  
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• Ukip's Paul Nuttall claims HE is the real victim of Hillsborough 'smear campaign'

  16-02-2017 23:04 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Mr Nuttall moaned he has faced “the most difficult circumstances of my life” this week after being caught falsely claiming on his website to have lost “close personal friends” at Hillsborough
  
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• Baby rhino frolics in the mud with her mother in KENT

  16-02-2017 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Little Rukuru, who was born last December at Port Lympne Reserve near Hythe, Kent. Rukuru is the 36th eastern black rhino - an endangered species of rhino - to be born at Port Lympne.
  
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• Family's terror as "paranoid" driver banged on car's windows with military-style knife after he stopped taking medication

  16-02-2017 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A father and his four young children - aged between six months and 11 - were inside the car when Sajad Ditta forced it to stop and tried to get inside
  
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• CCTV footage of London cyclist shooting at a group of men

  16-02-2017 22:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The suspect fled from the scene on a bike as the group of men pursued him in Lavender Hill, Clapham, south London. No one was injured. Police are appealing for information about the incident.
  
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• 15 absurd moments from Donald Trump's jaw-dropping press conference

  16-02-2017 22:40 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump reportedly walked into the Oval Office this morning and said: "Let's hold a press conference today." This is what happened next
  
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• Meet the world's most mysterious pygmy tribe who are now fighting for their survival

  16-02-2017 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Accomplished forest dwellers, the Baka have managed to eke out an existence for centuries within the hostile rainforests of west and central Africa
  
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• Nottingham's Volt nightclub investigated for 'hate crime'

  16-02-2017 22:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mahalia Hamid paid £300 for a VIP table to celebrate her 24th birthday with nine friends atVolt in Nottingham. But when the group of six women and four men arrived they were barred from entering.
  
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• ISIS suicide bomb kills 75 at famed shrine in Pakistan

  16-02-2017 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A suicide bombing in a crowded Sufi shrine in Pakistan has killed at least 75 people. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack that was the deadliest to hit Pakistan so far this year.
  
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• Child cries for his father after losing his legs in Idlib

  16-02-2017 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The little boy was caught up in the heavy bombing from the Syrian Air Force in Habeet, Idlib. He had lost his legs in the attack, which killed his mother and injured his two siblings.
  
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• Deal to end long-running train strikes is turned down by drivers' union

  16-02-2017 22:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The organisation has been at loggerheads with Southern Rail over driver-only operated trains
  
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• Universities take illiterate students to hit targets

  16-02-2017 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Almost half of professors believe students are not prepared for higher education. A survey by The Times Higher Education showed that many think entry standards have slipped.
  
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• Sick woman guilty of murder after man found hacked to death under bloody duvet with 117 different wounds

  16-02-2017 22:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Craig Wild was attacked with two knives and a screwdriver, and punched, kicked and stamped on after his killers binged on drugs and booze
  
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• Russia's tank biathlon kicks off with a bang

  16-02-2017 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Images show the rugged vehicles in action as they stormed around the course at the Sergeyevsky training ground, in Russia's Primorye Territory.
  
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• Boyfriend used air freshener, carpet and bizarre excuse to mask rotting corpse smell in one-bedroom flat for 15 months

  16-02-2017 22:06 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Victoria Cherry's body was hidden inside an airing cupboard for more than a year as her partner Andrew Colin Reade told neighbours she had left him and moved out
  
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• Millions of human beings are being used as Brexit bargaining chips by Theresa May

  16-02-2017 22:05 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Since the Brexit decision the uncertainty about three million people’s lives has been a political choice made by Theresa May and her Government
  
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• Zuckerberg: my Facebook manifesto to re-boot globalisation

  16-02-2017 22:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mark Zuckerberg talks to the BBC about globalisation, fake news, and a new Facebook manifesto.
  
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• Scores of Whitehall staff are "doing nothing on full pay" as they wait for new jobs

  16-02-2017 22:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The workers are languishing in "redeployment pools" as they wait to be assigned new roles
  
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• Inside the world's sex capital: City dubbed 'modern day Sodom and Gomorrah' with highest number of prostitutes anywhere

  16-02-2017 21:59 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Pattaya in Thailand has a reported 27,00 prostitutes, roughly one for every five people living in the east-coast city visited by more than a million men each year
  
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• Man with bizarre sexual prevention order forcing him to wear layer of clothing over underwear groped Poundland shopper

  16-02-2017 21:51 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Jamie Lee Stevens was sentenced to 180 days imprisonment for the attack on the shopper last month
  
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• Man 'snuck into caravan and lifted woman's duvet to see her naked as she slept'

  16-02-2017 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Neil Terry, 46, has denied claims that he used his mobile phone either as a light so that he could see the woman or to film her while she was sleeping
  
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• Male cross-dressing assassin 'disguised as a woman' helped 'murder' Kim Jong-un's half brother

  16-02-2017 21:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The ‘man’ stood behind Kim Jung-nam, 46, before a deadly toxin - most likely ricin - was used to kill him
  
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• Pensioner caught on CCTV keying neighbour’s BENTLEY

  16-02-2017 21:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  John Saunders, 69, was caught on CCTV vandalising neighbour Peter Stirling's classic car over a dispute about the running of the apartments they live in in Colchester, Essex.
  
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• Prisoners handed leaflets telling them how to 'safely' take dangerous illegal drugs

  16-02-2017 21:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The pamphlet - distributed to inmates when they order items such as toiletries and cigarettes - details an 11-point checklist of ‘safety rules’ for taking ‘new psychoactive substances’
  
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• British woman imprisoned by father in Saudi Arabia for kissing a man 'still waiting to speak to a lawyer'

  16-02-2017 21:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  A High Court judge has given detail of Amina Al-Jeffery's difficulties since the case was heard last summer
  
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