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• CIA torture program: Senate report details abuse of detainees – as it happened

  09-12-2014 23:50
  
  Feinstein: torture ‘far more brutal than people were led to believe’UN calls for prosecutionsReport says ‘techniques were not effective’Read the report as released (pdf)
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• VIDEO: Eddie Redmayne: 'Fear galvanizes me'

  09-12-2014 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The world famous physicist Professor Stephen Hawking got the red carpet treatment on Tuesday at the premiere of a film about his life.
  
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• Strong winds disruption warning

  09-12-2014 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Met Office issues a yellow 'be aware' warning for gales overnight, affecting most of north Wales and other parts of the UK.
  
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• UK weather: 'Unpredictable' conditions may see severe 80 mph 'weather bomb ... - The Independent

  09-12-2014 23:36 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Britain is braced for “severe” gale force winds, with some forecasters predicting a "weather bomb" that could create winds of up to 80 mph in some remote parts of the country. The Met Office has issued a yellow wind warning for most of the UK on Wednesday, ...
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• Cowell not biased, says Haenow

  09-12-2014 23:28
  
  X Factor hunk Ben Haenow insisted Simon Cowell does not have a "favourite" on the show as they visited the singer's home town tonight to drum up support ahead of this weekend's eagerly anticipated final.
  
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• Murder conviction quashed thanks to 30 law students' homework - Irish Independent

  09-12-2014 23:23 via independent.ie
  
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  After five years in prison for a murder he said he didn't commit, Dwaine George's options were running out. Found guilty by a jury and rebuffed by the court of appeal, he took one of the few options left open to him: he entrusted his future in a group of law ...
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• Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program

  09-12-2014 23:17
  
  Report released by Senate after four-year, $40m investigation concludes CIA repeatedly lied about brutal techniques in years after 9/11 CIA torture report released – follow live reactionThe key methods used in the CIA’s torture of detaineesStop believing the lies: America tortured more than ‘some folks’ The full extent of the CIA’s interrogation and detention programmes launched in the wake of the September 11 terror attack was laid bare in a milestone report by the Senate intelligence
  
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• Liverpool 1-1 Basel

  09-12-2014 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool are knocked out of the Champions League after a 1-1 with Basel and drop into the Europa League.
  
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• Liverpool vs Basel match report: Red card and red faces at Anfield as Lazar Markovic is sent off and Steven Gerrard free-kick isn't enough

  09-12-2014 23:13
  In years to come Steven Gerrard may reflect that, to the very end, he always took his team down fighting. Liverpool were slipping out of the Champions League with a whimper – and with a performance deeply unfitting of the club who had never known when they were beaten – when he stepped up to unravel another of those arced free-kicks which will be remembered for decades after he has gone.
  
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• CIA 'took credit for UK intelligence work'

  09-12-2014 23:08
  
  The CIA wrongly claimed that its use of torture against terror suspects disrupted at least three major plots against the UK which were in reality thwarted by Britain’s intelligence services, according to the US Senate report.
  
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• Galatasaray vs Arsenal match report: Aaron Ramsey electrifies Arsenal with timely return to form with Lukas Podolski with brace as well

  09-12-2014 23:08
  Arsenal did not finish top of Group D but they did find something that could be far more rewarding: the return to form of Aaron Ramsey.
  
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• Malala calls on David Cameron to do better on human rights and climate change

  09-12-2014 23:01
  
  The Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban for speaking out for the rights of girls has called on David Cameron to “do better” and to raise his ambition in 2015.
  
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• Warning over experimental brain boost

  09-12-2014 23:00
  
  Equipment that can boost cognitive performance may also impair brain function, research from Oxford University has shownElectrical brain stimulation equipment – which can boost cognitive performance and is easy to buy online – can have bad effects, impairing brain functioning, research from scientists at Oxford University has shown.A steady stream of reports of stimulators being able to boost brain performance, coupled with the simplicity of the devices, has led to a rise in DIY enthusiasts
  
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• Liverpool crash out of Champions League after meek show against Basel

  09-12-2014 22:58
  
  At least in that frenzied final assault, after Steven Gerrard had equalised and the team in red gave everything to add this to their all-time list of comebacks, we saw a few glimpses of the old Liverpool spirit. Yet the damage, ultimately, had been done and for the majority of the match it had been mystifying to see them playing with so little drive and momentum when their place in the Champions League was at stake.They had played like a team politely ushering themselves to the door and, though
  
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• Arsenal’s Aaron Ramsey strikes twice to brush aside Galatasaray

  09-12-2014 22:55
  
  There was a moment during the first-half blitz that Arsenal staged here, when they led by three goals and the chances continued to come, that the most outlandish thought flashed through the minds of the romantics. Could Arsène Wenger’s team yet win by the six-goal margin that, coupled with a Borussia Dortmund draw against Anderlecht, would have seen them advance into the Champions League last-16 as the Group D winners?They could easily have led by the required scoreline at half-time, su
  
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• UKIP boss 'lied over relationship'

  09-12-2014 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Activist Natasha Bolter says UKIP boss Roger Bird was "lying" when he said they had a relationship, after he released messages which he said proved it.
  
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• Daylight robbery? New Scotland Yard is bought for £370m by developer

  09-12-2014 22:43
  
  Abu Dhabi investor buys famous police headquarters for £370m and says he will replace the block with luxury apartmentsPossibly the world’s most famous police headquarters, New Scotland Yard in London, has been sold for £370m to a Middle East investor who plans to replace the 1960s block with luxury apartments.In a further sign of intense international interest in the London property market, Abu Dhabi Financial Group (ADFG) paid £120m more than the asking price for the block in Wes
  
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• Galatasaray v Arsenal: Champions League – as it happened

  09-12-2014 22:40
  
  Lukas Podolski and Aaron Ramsey scored spectacular goals as Arsenal won with style in Turkey Continue reading...
  
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• Liverpool v Basel: Champions League – as it happened

  09-12-2014 22:36
  
  Steven Gerrard scored another Champions League stunner, but ten-man Liverpool left it far too late against Basel, who advance to the knockout stages at the expense of the Anfield club
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• Rally outside White House calls on US to aid abortion services abroad

  09-12-2014 22:35
  
  Decades-old Helms amendment blocks US from funding foreign abortions‘With the stroke of a pen, Obama can change the fate of millions of women’
  Dozens of reproductive rights groups braved piercing rain in Washington DC on Tuesday to denounce a controversial law that prevents the US from providing aid for abortion services in foreign countries. The afternoon rally outside the White House featured 21 groups from the US and abroad. These groups are demanding that President Barack Obama intervene
  
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• John Legend and Chrissy Teigen sponsor food truck for police protesters

  09-12-2014 22:35
  
  New York City demonstrators decrying the grand jury decisions not to prosecute the police killers of unarmed men have been fed by #OperationHelporHushNew York protests over chokehold death of Eric Garner continue – videoModel Chrissy Teigen and musician John Legend are a beloved celebrity power couple who have now found their way into the hearts of protesters with free macaroni and cheese. Protesters have gathered across New York City for nearly a week over two separate grand jury decisions to
  
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• YouTube's biggest hits of 2014: mutant spider-dog, singing nuns and sexism

  09-12-2014 22:33
  
  YouTube reveals its top 10 trending videos of 2014. Also includes kissing, footballers, a bendy iPhone 6 and a devil baby roaming New York• PewDiePie, Zoella and who else? What the UK watched on YouTube in 2014
  YouTube has published its annual Rewind chart of its top trending videos, and while last year’s list was topped by a novelty song about a fox, 2014 is all about something with a few more legs.A Polish prank video starring a “mutant giant spider-dog” was the top trending video this
  
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• Georgia man to be executed despite lawyer being impaired by alcohol at trial

  09-12-2014 22:32
  
  Robert Holsey, who is intellectually disabled, sentenced to death for 1995 murder of police officer and will be killed by lethal injection at 7pm local time on TuesdayA death row inmate who was represented at his murder trial by an alcoholic lawyer who was under investigation at the time for stealing from a client and who drank a quart of vodka every night of the trial has just a few hours left to live as the state of Georgia makes its final preparations to execute him.Robert Holsey, who was sen
  
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• Suzman defends comment that theatre was ‘white invention’

  09-12-2014 22:30
  
  Actor responds in letter to the Guardian to criticism from writers such as Ben Okri and Stephen PoliakoffJanet Suzman has defended her controversial comment claiming that theatre was a “white invention” by stating she was simply noting the lack of racial diversity on the West End stage.Suzman sparked outrage from figures across the arts on Monday when she responded to comments by the actor Meera Syal, calling on the theatre industry to do more to pull in Asian audiences, by saying theatre is
  
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• Cinderella review: Dallas star Linda Gray does pantomime with aplomb

  09-12-2014 22:30
  
  While jokes about 80s series may be for older audiences, Tim Vine and Wayne Sleep help capture children’s attentionGiven that Dallas was at its peak in the 1980s, you have to be a moderately mature theatregoer to appreciate the casting of Linda Gray, who played JR’s alcoholic spouse, in this year’s Wimbledon panto.But although tiny tots may be puzzled to see the Fairy Godmother constantly swigging from a hip flask, the former Sue Ellen negotiates the rhyming couplets with aplomb and, when
  
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• 'Sarah's Law' call over child rapist

  09-12-2014 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Communities should know where a child rapist is living, says a children's charity after a judge ruled it was unlawful to keep him in prison.
  
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• Cameron says UK and Turkey working hand in glove to stop Isis fighters

  09-12-2014 22:23
  
  Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoğlu accuses media of spreading ‘propaganda’ about foreign fighters crossing borders to SyriaDavid Cameron faced an awkward diplomatic encounter with Turkey’s prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu last night as he promised to share high-level intelligence on Islamic State fighters but his counterpart hit out at foreign “propaganda” about them passing through Turkish territory.On his first trip to Turkey for four years, Cameron said the UK was working “hand in glove�
  
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• Rising funeral costs mean poor people are forced to 'bury relatives in their back garden', says Labour MP

  09-12-2014 22:19
  
  Rising funeral costs mean tens of thousands of poor people struggle to pay for services, with some so desperate they are resorting to bury their loved ones in their garden, MPs have heard.
  
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• Police killing of 22 dogs 'unlawful'

  09-12-2014 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A police crackdown that saw 22 dangerous dogs rounded up and destroyed across Merseyside was "unlawful", a court rules.
  
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• CIA Torture: Report shows the CIA tortured suspects at secret overseas sites for years, achieved nothing from it, and lied about it

  09-12-2014 22:11
  The United States was last night confronted with a landmark report into the CIA interrogation of detainees in the wake of the September  11 attacks at “black site” prisons around the world so replete with details of barbarism and inhumane treatment as to call into question the values at the core of the nation’s identity.
  
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• America’s day of shame: Report shows the CIA tortured suspects at secret overseas sites for years, achieved nothing from it, and lied about it

  09-12-2014 22:11
  The United States was last night confronted with a landmark report into the CIA interrogation of detainees in the wake of the September  11 attacks at “black site” prisons around the world so replete with details of barbarism and inhumane treatment as to call into question the values at the core of the nation’s identity.
  
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• Luxembourg tax files: how Juncker's duchy accommodated Skype and the Koch empire

  09-12-2014 22:00
  
  New leaked documents reveal more firms using Grand Duchy for favourable tax arrangements, putting pressure on EC president, Jean-Claude JunckerThe EU’s most powerful official is under mounting pressure as dozens more multinational corporate names are dragged into the Luxembourg tax scandal following a new leak of confidential documents on Tuesday.Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European commission, has been battling to distance himself from the growing furore over the Grand Duchy’s rol
  
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• Waterboarding and sleep deprivation: how the CIA tortured its detainees

  09-12-2014 21:57
  
  Waterboarding, confinement, sleep deprivation – Oliver Laughland takes a look at some of the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ used by the agencyLive blog: get the latest on the Senate report on CIA tortureCIA’s brutal use of torture revealed in landmark report Continue reading...
  
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• US firms to be given special dispensation in bid to boost search for Ebola vaccine

  09-12-2014 21:55
  
  HHS secretary Sylvia Burwell announces step under Prep Act‘Legitimate liability concerns must not hold back Ebola vaccine’ The US Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday offered liability protections to drugmakers rushing to develop Ebola vaccines and urged other countries to follow suit. The health and human services (HHS) secretary, Sylvia Burwell, made the announcement as part of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (Prep) Act in a move aimed at encouraging the devel
  
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• Leading British athlete 'escaped doping probe' - ESPN.co.uk

  09-12-2014 21:55 via espn.co.uk
  
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  One of Great Britain's leading athletes escaped a doping probe after it was alleged that world governing body the IAAF turned a blind eye to 150 suspicious blood samples. German TV broadcaster ARD reported that a long-time member of the IAAF's medical ...
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• Manuel Pellegrini says Manchester City job is safe regardless of Roma result

  09-12-2014 21:53
  
  • City manager has never been under pressure from owners
  • Win will put Manchester City into Champions League last 16
  • City’s top striker Sergio Agüero set for long layoffA night in Rome may prove the defining moment of Manuel Pellegrini’s Manchester City career.The demand from the club’s owners is material progress in the Champions League. This means that after Pellegrini took the Sheikh Mansour project into the last 16 for the first time last season, the quarter-finals are th
  
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• Exonerated after 40 years: Ohio man says 'I could have been Barack Obama'

  09-12-2014 21:51
  
  Judge dismisses all charges and prosecutor concedes three men convicted in 1975 murder ‘have been the victims of a terrible injustice’ Having just exonerated Kwame Ajamu, Judge Pamela Barker stepped down from the bench on Tuesday, leaned across the defense table and gave him a hug.It had taken nearly 40 years, but Ajamu was no longer a convicted murderer. Continue reading...
  
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• Classic Pooh drawing makes £314,500

  09-12-2014 21:44
  
  A familiar image of Winnie the Pooh as he played "Poohsticks" with Piglet and Christopher Robin has sold at auction for more than £300,000.
  
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• What Is The Weather Bomb Heading To UK?

  09-12-2014 21:36
  
  It's not unusual to have big Atlantic storms barrelling towards Scotland at this time of year.
  
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• Hawking joins Redmayne at premiere

  09-12-2014 21:25
  
  Eddie Redmayne was joined by Stephen Hawking tonight for the premiere of The Theory Of Everything, in which he plays the physicist.
  
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• Britain and Turkey vow closer cooperation on foreign fighters

  09-12-2014 21:13
  
  By Jonny Hogg and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Britain and Turkey will share more information on foreign fighters among the ranks of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq to try to prevent them posing a threat when they return home, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday. After meeting his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara, Cameron said Britain and Turkey were fighting a "common enemy of extremist terrorism". ...
  
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• CIA 'torture report': The shocking Senate Intelligence Committee’s document in numbers

  09-12-2014 21:10
  
  The Senate Intelligence Committee’s highly anticipated report on the CIA’s interrogation and detention program listed, for the first time, the names of the 119 detainees who went through the agency’s secret prison system.
  
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• Kate moved by 9/11 memorial visit

  09-12-2014 21:06
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge has told how she was left moved after visiting the memorial to victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
  
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• Traditional model of politics 'cracking apart' as hung parliament looms again

  09-12-2014 21:03
  
  Labour has lost its lead over the Conservatives for the first time since February 2012, according to The Independent’s “poll of polls,” making a hung parliament increasingly likely after next May’s general election.
  
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• Labour and Tories neck and neck in poll of polls, with Greens on new high of 7%

  09-12-2014 21:03
  
  Labour has lost its lead over the Conservatives for the first time since February 2012, according to The Independent’s “poll of polls,” making a hung parliament increasingly likely after next May’s general election.
  
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• New Scotland Yard, storied London police HQ, sold to Abu Dhabi

  09-12-2014 21:02
  
  By Andrew Osborn and Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's storied police force and one of the British capital's most famous landmarks, has been sold to an Abu Dhabi investor, paving the way for its macabre but private museum to open to the public elsewhere. The 20-storey block in central London is famous around the globe as the home of the Metropolitan Police Service and for the rotating triangular sign in front of it nicknamed "the revol
  
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• Police arrest man over 'kidnap' threat to officer

  09-12-2014 20:59
  LONDON (Reuters) - A police force in central England said on Tuesday it had arrested a man after receiving anonymous information about a threat to its staff.
  
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• VIDEO: Boris Johnson's singing skills tested

  09-12-2014 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  London Mayor Boris Johnson recites the lyrics to Jessie J's song Bang Bang on London radio station Capital FM's breakfast show.
  
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• Cameron hails UK-Turkey terror fight

  09-12-2014 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron says the UK and Turkey are working "hand in glove" to prevent UK jihadists returning home after fighting in Iraq and Syria.
  
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• Ambulance man walked past crush

  09-12-2014 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An ambulance officer at Hillsborough walked past fans who seemed to be "in significant need of help", an inquests jury has heard.
  
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