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• Hair-raising video captures motorbike passenger flying 65ft through air during high-speed horror crash

  27-07-2017 23:55 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The 21-year-old man is catapulted over the roof of a stationary car before making a sickening landing on the motorway surface in front of stunned drivers
  
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• Family of Swede who vanished after saving Jews sue Russian state

  27-07-2017 23:43
  Raoul Wallenberg saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the 1940s but disappeared after Soviets took BudapestThe family of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during the second world war before disappearing when Hungary came under under Soviet rule, are suing Russia’s security service for access to its files, their lawyer said Thursday. Related: War hero Wallenberg was executed in Soviet gulagContinue reading...
  
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• Detective Mark Glover denies raping 21-year-old woman

  27-07-2017 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mark Glover, 46, from Penarth in South Wales, denies sexually assaulting a woman and raping her daughter. He claims he and the woman had an affair years before and the sex was consensual.
  
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• Brit boy who went missing in Portugal's Praia da Luz found

  27-07-2017 23:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The photograph, which was uploaded to social media, shows the youngster, seven, stood in the middle of four grinning officers after he went missing in Praia da Luz, Portugal.
  
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• Birmingham girl raped twice by different men in same day

  27-07-2017 23:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Police say the girl was first attacked by a man in Witton Railway station in Birmingham, and then again by a male driver as she flagged down a car for help.
  
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• Football fan's fairytale tattoo leaves him red-faced

  27-07-2017 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Huddersfield Town supporter Calum Harris, 25, wanted to pay tribute to the side after they clinched promotion in a play-off final at Wembley Stadium in May and decided to get a tattoo (pictured).
  
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• Birmingham robber chased off by 2 female shop assistants

  27-07-2017 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Prolific robber Tyrone Dorsett, from Birmingham, was eventually handed 12 years in jail after being collared by DNA left on a beer can near the scene of another convenience store he targeted.
  
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• Nikita Parris seals victory over Portugal as below-par England win Group D

  27-07-2017 23:20
  • Portugal 1-2 England
  • Mark Sampson’s side will face France in quarter-final on SundayMark Sampson’s second stringers revealed some worrying imperfections but still did what was required to set the stage for a potentially spiky quarter-final against France in Deventer on Sunday night.England last beat Les Bleues back in 1974 and, having won all three group D games, they will rarely have been more optimistic of ending that run. Not that the Lionesses can afford to defend a
  
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• Style of the ocean liners – in pictures

  27-07-2017 23:14
  The Duke of Windsor’s 100-piece luggage set and a Cartier diamond-encrusted tiara salvaged from the torpedoed Lusitania are just some of the pieces that will be on show in next spring’s exhibition at the V&A in London – Ocean Liners: Speed and Style Continue reading...
  
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• Three women killed in horror crash 'filmed final drunken moments on Snapchat before ploughing into telephone pole'

  27-07-2017 23:10 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bianca Herwig, 23, Paige Smith, 21, and Heather Camisa, 17, all died after the SUV they were riding in slammed into a post and became entangled in power lines
  
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• Dogs trussed up as they wait to be butchered in Indonesia

  27-07-2017 23:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENTHeartbreaking images show several dogs bound up by their legs with forlorn expressions on their faces before they are killed in Indonesia.
  
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• Lee Jasper sparks outrage after 'offensive' image post

  27-07-2017 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lee Jasper (pictured) has been accused of 'glorifying gun crime' after he posted the image to his 14,000 followers earlier today.
  
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• Leighton Baines rescues Everton as Wayne Rooney makes slow start

  27-07-2017 23:00
  • Everton 1-0 Ruzomberok
  • Baines 65New-look Everton’s latest European campaign got off to only a stuttering start, though at least Leighton Baines’s second half goal gives them a slender advantage to try and hold on to in Slovakia next week.There were several promising debuts as well, with Wayne Rooney finding himself slightly upstaged by the new recruit Sandro Ramírez, who does not actually look much younger but plays with the zip, confidence and aggression one wou
  
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• Adam Gemili claims he raced at trials with injury after selectors’ ultimatum

  27-07-2017 23:00
  • Gemili omitted from 200m team for home world championships
  • Sprinter had hamstring injury but says he ‘had to’ race at trialsAdam Gemili has revealed his frustration at being overlooked for a 200m spot on Great Britain’s world championship team and claims selectors effectively forced him to compete at the trials, risking aggravating an injury.A three-times European gold medallist, Gemili missed out on Olympic bronze in Rio last summer by three thousandths of a seco
  
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• Channel 4 'has axed The Jump'

  27-07-2017 22:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With growing insurance plans and medical costs, insiders close to the broadcaster have suggested the Davina McCall hosted winter sports competition is on 'borrowed time'.
  
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• Mum finds child with heatstroke despite not being in sun

  27-07-2017 22:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jennifer Abma, believed to be from Canada, posted a photo of her daughter, Anastasia, on Facebook and warned parents about the dangers of heatstroke, even if the child has not been outside in the sun.
  
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• Horror of the dog meat industry where animals are strung up and slaughtered in filthy Indonesian abattoirs

  27-07-2017 22:47 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: UPSETTING CONTENT AND GRAPHIC IMAGES Sickening images show dogs are being kept for days in vile conditions before being violently killed and sold
  
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• Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – briefly – becomes world's richest man

  27-07-2017 22:44
  Share price jump of 40% in 2017 made founder worth $91bn – for a short while leapfrogging the fortune of Microsoft founder Bill Gates The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos briefly overtook Microsoft’s Bill Gates to become the world’s richest person.
  Bezos leapfrogged Gates, who has been the richest man on the planet since 2013, after a rise in the share price of Amazon ahead of its latest results due Thursday night.Continue reading...
  
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• England’s Tom Westley feels familiar admiration for defiant Alastair Cook

  27-07-2017 22:42
  • Former England captain impresses Essex team-mate on Test debut
  • Tourists keep up the pressure after Trent Bridge victoryAlastair Cook has his sights trained on what would be a 31st Test hundred after the opener delivered a message of authority to his fellow England batsmen about the virtues of restraint on a tight and rain-affected opening day against South Africa here on Thursday.Though he stood down from the captaincy at the start of the year Cook’s unbeaten 82 led the way f
  
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• Charlie Gard should be allowed to die in the arms of his loving parents who fought so valiantly for him

  27-07-2017 22:36 via mirror.co.uk
  
  There is something in these final days which feels like an unbending refusal to find a way to give the family a few last days of peace with their son
  
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• Vic Mensa: The Autobiography review – candid rapper falls short

  27-07-2017 22:30
  (Roc Nation)Three years after his breakthrough with hip-house anthem Down on My Luck, Vic Mensa has apparently scrapped one album on the way to this debut – clearly aiming for the kind of grand rap statement that, a la Kendrick, unites the old and new schools. His candour about depression and drug addiction is arresting, as on the Pharrell track Wings, where pills turn him into “an armoured truck riding the rink”; woman trouble is amusingly, vividly rendered on Gorgeous, as he
  
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• Chronixx: Chronology review – joyous reggae: forget your troubles and skank

  27-07-2017 22:30
  (Virgin EMI) Although reggae is not as ubiquitous in the charts as it was in the 1970s and 80s, recently it’s enjoyed an upsurge as an element of mainstream pop. And 24-year-old Kingston singer Jamar McNaughton – Chronixx – is making it a chart force again by itself. Already a US smash, his long-awaited debut fuses old-school roots and lover’s rock with contemporary dancehall, rap, R&B and EDM, but this is essentially a celebratory pop album. The likes of Big Bad Soun
  
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• Balancing out the lulls of wind power with a wider reach across Europe

  27-07-2017 22:30
  Europe has seven prevailing weather regimes, a system windfarms could better exploit to even out supply and demand
  Renewable energy is great in principle, but, some people may say, how do we keep the lights on when the wind fails to blow or the sun doesn’t shine? The issue of “intermittency” is a criticism of renewables, but a study analysing weather patterns across Europe shows that a decent wind is almost always blowing somewhere on the continent. Related: World's first float
  
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• Farmer's cheeky note to potato thieves will definitely make them question stealing spuds again

  27-07-2017 22:29 via mirror.co.uk
  
  "Dear thief..."
  
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• Drunk passenger punched in face by fellow flyer after launching expletive-laden tirade when he was stopped from smoking

  27-07-2017 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The man alleged described Russian people as "the biggest sh*** during his rant
  
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• Plymouth mum who crippled Royal Marine died from overdose

  27-07-2017 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mother-of-six Emma May (pictured), 34, was found dead by her 16-year-old daughter at her Plymouth home in June last year after an overdose of painkiller tablets.
  
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• Bosses are 'escaping punishment' for not paying minimum wage under a government scheme, MP warns

  27-07-2017 22:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Bosses gave back £6million in illegally underpaid wages last year using the 'self-correction' policy - which saves them from being fined or prosecuted
  
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• Colson Whitehead adds Arthur C Clarke award to growing prize haul

  27-07-2017 22:00
  The Underground Railroad, a fantastic reimagining of US slavery, takes the UK’s pre-eminent science fiction prize a day after being longlisted for the Man BookerFresh from being nominated for the 2017 Man Booker prize, Colson Whitehead’s alternative history of slavery in the US, The Underground Railroad, has won the UK’s top honour for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award.A fantastical take on the real-life Underground Railroad, which was a network of safe houses and rout
  
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• Male tech CEO pretended to be female sexual harassment victim, suit claims

  27-07-2017 21:51
  Venture capitalist Anis Uzzaman alleges male rival published fake blogpost purporting to be an anonymous woman ‘taken advantage of’ by UzzamanAn anonymous blogpost accusing a Silicon Valley venture capitalist of sexual misconduct was written by a male executive who pretended to be a female victim of harassment in order to damage the reputation of a competitor, according to a lawsuit. The complaint filed by Anis Uzzaman, a prominent tech investor and CEO of Fenox Venture Capital, alle
  
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• Dad, 29, almost died eating "delicious" cherry stones he didn't realise contained CYANIDE

  27-07-2017 21:50 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Matthew Creme, 29, had been enjoying the fruit and decided to munch on the stones, without realising they contained deadly poison cyanide
  
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• Haul of Mirrors: How our little build-it-yourself boat brought sailing to everyone

  27-07-2017 21:45 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The bi-annual Mirror World Championships­, hosted by Restronguet Sailing Club, is taking place off the coast of Cornwall 
  
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• Official estimates of international students in UK 'potentially misleading'

  27-07-2017 21:35
  Research by government’s statistics watchdog casts doubt on supposed high level of students overstaying their visasOfficial estimates of international students remaining in the UK are “potentially misleading” and should be treated with caution, according to the government’s statistics watchdog.The investigation into the quality of long-term student migration figures – undertaken by the Office for Statistics Regulation – amounts to a rap on the knuckles for the
  
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• Injuries as hail stones as large as golf balls sweep Istanbul

  27-07-2017 21:32
  Rain, hail and high winds in Turkish city lead to floods, collapsed wall at cemetery and explosion at port A severe summer storm in Istanbul has left at least three people injured, with heavy rain, hail and strong winds knocking down trees and a stone wall and flooding streets in the Turkish city.The NTV television channel said part of a stone wall surrounding a cemetery for the Christian Armenian community had been demolished in Thursday’s storm, hurting two people. Footage showed rescue
  
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• Man who knifed bus passenger to death in "uncontrolled and vicious" stabbing for 'staring at him' jailed for life

  27-07-2017 21:28 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Kieran Gillespie sat opposite Leon Barrett-Hazle on the bus and some words were exchanged before an argument erupted
  
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• Steve Bell on where the UK stands with Brexit – cartoon

  27-07-2017 21:25
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• Pretty as a picture postcard: Royal Mail celebrates a century of "wish you were here" with amazing online gallery

  27-07-2017 21:23 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The variety of postcards on display range from messages sent from the First World War to traditional saucy seaside images
  
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• Girl, 3, who died after being used as 'black magic voodoo doll' was sexually abused and pierced with needles

  27-07-2017 21:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The tragic child, who was also found to have been sexually assaulted, was taken to hospital in critical condition
  
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• 'They treat us as master and servant': Grenfell Tower survivor's fury at council as he says he will be haunted for life

  27-07-2017 21:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nicholas Burton says he also confronted the judge leading the inquiry, asking if he's "in it for the long run?"
  
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• Watching Alastair Cook at the crease has reassuring quality of Englishness | Barney Ronay

  27-07-2017 21:18
  The former captain showed he has plenty of batting life with a defiant stand against a disciplined South Africa attack on the opening dayShortly after lunch at The Oval, Alastair Cook leaned back like a man settling into his favourite well-worn upright chair and nudged Keshav Maharaj away through square leg for a single, making his ground with that familiar knock-kneed jog. The run brought up England’s hundred in the 29th over of a tough, tight, airless day in south London. As the crowd re
  
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• Terrifying moment man 'carrying crossbow and knife' through city centre Tasered after fighting off police dog

  27-07-2017 21:18 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Witnesses said the man had earlier scared passengers when he boarded a bus in Manchester city centre after earlier allegedly stealing the crossbow from a store
  
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• The posturing Tory Brexit team should be sacked and replaced with calm, cool heads

  27-07-2017 21:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson, david Davis and Liam Fox seem to be treating this divorce not as a complex, sensitive process of diplomacy, but as a battle in which – whatever they demand – they can expect to get it
  
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• Libor interest rate to be phased out after string of scandals

  27-07-2017 21:09
  Index will not be used after 2021 despite reforms put in place because banks no longer want to participate in setting itThe Libor interest rate benchmark used to price billions of pounds of financial products, which was linked to a series of bank scandals, is to be phased out.The index will be phased out in 2021 despite a series of reforms put in place to clean up the way the rate is set. Continue reading...
  
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• Sports Direct increases French Connection stake to 27%

  27-07-2017 21:06
  Mike Ashley’s firm has bought out activist investors, increasing its own share percentage close to the 30% threshold whereby it must launch a takeover bidMike Ashley’s Sports Direct has increased its stake in French Connection to 27%, taking it close to a level at which it must launch a takeover bid.Sports Direct has bought out activist investors, including Gatemore Capital Management – a London-based hedge fund that had an 8% stake – and OTK, an investment firm that owne
  
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• Trust me on antibiotics, doctor – I’m a patient | Anne Perkins

  27-07-2017 21:03
  Evidence that finishing the course may fuel bacterial resistance will test our relationship with experts – and perhaps begin the healing process• Anne Perkins is a Guardian columnistEarly in 1941 Albert Alexander, a middle-aged police officer, went to his local hospital – the John Radcliffe, in Oxford – with a nasty infected scratch on his face. Popular legend says the injury was caused by a thorn on a rosebush; others believe that it had been inflicted during a bombing ra
  
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• Vinnie Jones says "disgruntled" former assistant "planted" sick photo of 100 dead foxes on his Twitter profile

  27-07-2017 21:00 via mirror.co.uk
  
  WARNING: Upsetting images. The footballer-turned-actor, who has spoken about his love of lamping - where hunters shoot animals at night - claimed his Twitter account had been hacked
  
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• Met says Grenfell Tower council 'may have committed corporate manslaughter'

  27-07-2017 20:59
  Met police says there are reasonable grounds to suspect council and tenant management organisation may have committed offence The Scotland Yard investigation into the Grenfell fire disaster has said there are “reasonable grounds” to suspect the council and the organisation that managed the tower block of corporate manslaughter.The two organisations under suspicion are Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation.Continue readin
  
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• Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace urges him to name a successor

  27-07-2017 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robert Mugabe's wife Grace (pictured together), 52, told members of the ruling ZANU-PF party women's league that naming a successor 'will enable all members to rally behind one candidate'.
  
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• IRA victims' families vow to boycott inquests

  27-07-2017 20:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Justice4the21, the main campaign group representing many of the relatives, said it will 'no longer participate' after the issue of perpetrators was ruled out by a coroner.
  
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• 'Privileged' Justin Trudeau accused of colonialist attitude over boxing match

  27-07-2017 20:51
  Account of how 2012 match against fellow politician Patrick Brazeau came about doesn’t square with vows to repair Canada’s relationship with indigenous peopleIn one corner stood Canada’s youngest senator, heavily tattooed and armed with a black belt in karate. In the other stood a lanky Justin Trudeau, the underdog whom bookies were giving 3-1 odds against.
  That 2012 boxing match marked a pivotal moment in Trudeau’s political career. But his account of the episode is now
  
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• Kagiso Rabada’s heat-seeking missile demolishes Dawid Malan’s big day | Ali Martin

  27-07-2017 20:50
  The South Africa paceman returned with a vengeance from his ban, and gave England’s selectors much to consider as they look towards the AshesThere are few more visceral thrills in cricket than the sight of stumps being demolished by an inswinging yorker and though the batsman, Dawid Malan, might not have appreciated this as he lay sprawled on the crease, Kagiso Rabada had just delivered one such moment. Related: Alastair Cook props up wobbly England amid South Africa’s pace barrageCo
  
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