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• Steven Gerrard to LA Galaxy: Not even a Liverpool legend will make Angelenos fall in love with 'soccer'

  08-01-2015 23:47
  As news broke this week that Steven Gerrard would be joining the Los Angeles Galaxy, one of the first people to publicly welcome him to the city was Kobe Bryant.
  
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• Al Qaeda 'Plotting New Massacre' In Britain

  08-01-2015 23:44
  
  Al Qaeda is plotting to massacre huge numbers of civilians in Britain and other western countries, the head of Mi5 has warned.
  
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• Warning of 100mph gales set to hit

  08-01-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Winds gusting to up to 100mph and heavy rain are forecast for parts of Scotland from early Friday morning.
  
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• Green anger at Ofcom exclusion

  08-01-2015 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Green Party is "deeply disappointed" at its exclusion from the broadcasting regulator's proposed list of major parties.
  
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• Chuka Umunna accuses eurosceptic Tories of muzzling business leaders

  08-01-2015 23:34
  
  Labour has accused the Conservatives of trying to “muzzle” business leaders by warning them not to speak out in favour of Britain remaining in the European Union.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attack: Britain faced four major terror plots in past year, reveals head of MI5

  08-01-2015 23:33
  
  Britain has faced four major terrorist plots in the past year, three of them in the past few months alone, the head of MI5 has disclosed as he warned that the lethal threat from Islamist extremists, including those home-grown, has continued to grow at an unprecedented rate.
  
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• Prosecco is now outselling champagne in the UK - but could the EU call time on the party?

  08-01-2015 23:30
  
  There's a curious takeover happening at bars across the country. Next to the San Miguel and Fosters on draught, you should find a new thirst-quencher increasingly being offered on tap: prosecco.
  
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• Taylor in Evans-Hillsborough comment

  08-01-2015 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gordon Taylor risks further controversy by appearing to compare the Ched Evans case with the Hillsborough tragedy.
  
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• MI5 'cannot stop every threat to UK'

  08-01-2015 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The threat of a terror attack in the UK is increasing but security services cannot be expected to stop every plot, the head of MI5 warns.
  
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• Andy Moles: 'My family are not happy I'm doing this,' says Afghanistan's World Cup coach

  08-01-2015 23:06
  
  A crackling phone line to a hotel room in Kabul isn’t the average way of communicating with the coach of a side preparing for their first World Cup, but then leading the Afghanistan cricket team isn’t your everyday international calling.
  
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• Second baby for Strictly's Frankie

  08-01-2015 23:05
  
  Strictly Come Dancing finalist Frankie Bridge is expecting her second baby with footballer husband Wayne.
  
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• MI5 chief warns of planned attacks

  08-01-2015 23:02
  
  A group of core al Qaida terrorists in Syria is planning "mass casualty attacks" against the West, the head of MI5 has warned, in a stark reminder that the threat to the UK continues to stretch beyond Islamic State (IS).
  
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• MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West

  08-01-2015 23:02
  
  By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of MI5 Security Service said on Thursday. Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on a French satirical newspaper, MI5 boss Andrew Parker warned a strike on the United Kingdom was highly likely. "A group of core al Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks aga
  
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• Andromeda 'has history of violence'

  08-01-2015 23:00
  
  Striking differences have been found between our galaxy the Milky Way and its near-twin neighbour, Andromeda.
  
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• Technology firms want every device connected to the internet - but is that what consumers want?

  08-01-2015 23:00
  If technology firms have their way, everything we use on a daily basis, from our toothbrush to our car, will one day be connected to the internet.
  
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• Sam Wallace: Ched Evans apology finally arrives – now it's time to close the website

  08-01-2015 22:57
  
  The first act of contrition from the convicted rapist Ched Evans since he was released from prison on licence, took him a mere 83 days and two high-profile aborted attempts to sign him by League One clubs. Perhaps the penny is starting to drop with Evans that serving his sentence is only part of the rehabilitation he so craves.
  
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• Ched Evans: Why the footballers move to Oldham collapsed

  08-01-2015 22:55
  
  Ched Evans is resigned to the fact that he will have to clear his name before he gets an opportunity to return to football – after threats to the financing of Oldham Athletic’s new stand and the chairman’s mounting unease at becoming a source of mass vitriol contributed to the club aborting plans to sign the 26-year-old.
  
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• VIDEO: Tesco announces shop closures

  08-01-2015 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kamal Ahmed speaks to Dave Lewis, Tesco's Chief Executive, Tesco announces it will close 43 stores across the UK, which it says are unprofitable.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attack: The battle between political cartoonists and the forces of censorship has been going on for centuries

  08-01-2015 22:30
  Historians of visual satire and its suppression by the forces of darkness must have experienced feelings of déjà vu about the infamous events in Paris on Wednesday.
  
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• Tesco to close 43 stores across UK

  08-01-2015 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The beleaguered supermarket Tesco has said it will close 43 unprofitable stores, and look to make cuts of £250m, despite enjoying better Christmas sales.
  
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• No Greens, no TV debates - Cameron

  08-01-2015 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister David Cameron says he does not want to take part in TV election debates unless the Green Party are also included.
  
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• Two arrested over Ballymoney murder

  08-01-2015 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two men are arrested in connection with the murder of a man in Ballymoney, County Antrim, on Monday.
  
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• Hitler's Fuhrerbunker to be reconstructed in Germany

  08-01-2015 21:47
  
  A German museum plans to recreate the Berlin bunker where Hitler spent his last days at Führer during the Second World War.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Ed Miliband gets all gladiatorial at 'People's Questions'

  08-01-2015 21:36
  
  Before Ed Miliband’s first “People’s Question Time”, in the Nottinghamshire village of Hucknall, the local Labour candidate, Leonie Mathers, urged his audience not to “hold back”, adding: “The tougher the questions, the better!”
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attack: Killings prompt only disgust in Paris's deprived northern suburbs

  08-01-2015 21:34
  
  Sheltering from a shower in the stairwell of a tatty high-rise in the Paris suburb of Pantin-Aubervilliers, Alim was spending today much as he passes most days – looking for a job and wondering whether he can have a future.
  
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• Alliance to work on high resolution

  08-01-2015 21:27
  
  Major brands at global consumer electronics and consumer technology trade show CES have promised to do more to get high resolution in our homes, and have formed an alliance to prove it.
  
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• James Inhofe: Seven memorable lines from US's most famous (and most influential) climate change denier

  08-01-2015 21:26
  
  With the Republicans once more in the majority in the United States Senate, the chairmanship of its influential Environment Committee has been returned to Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma. He held the same position for four years until 2006. 
  
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• Charlie Hebdo murders: Dave Brown's second cartoon in response to the atrocity

  08-01-2015 21:10
  
  Dave Brown's second cartoon in response to the Charlie Hebdo killings depicts the Eiffel Tower, stylised as a fountain pen, piercing a lone jihadist at its tip.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: Dave Brown's second cartoon in response to the atrocity

  08-01-2015 21:10
  
  Dave Brown's second cartoon in response to the Charlie Hebdo killings depicts the Eiffel Tower, stylised as a fountain pen, piercing a lone jihadist at its tip.
  
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• VIDEO: Water pumped from stricken ship

  08-01-2015 21:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The stricken cargo ship Hoegh Osaka, which ran aground at the weekend, remains under anchor in the Solent as salvage teams begin to pump water from its hull.
  
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• Evans blames 'mob rule' as talks end

  08-01-2015 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rapist Ched Evans blames "mob rule" for putting pressure on sponsors and forcing Oldham to pull out of a deal to sign him.
  
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• Police in Florida say father threw daughter, 5, off Tampa Bay bridge

  08-01-2015 20:57
  
  Why? That was the question police officers in Florida were trying to answer on Thursday after they accused a man of throwing his five-year-old daughter from a bridge.
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: From action in Kosovo to the corridors of power, a former soldier turns her life around

  08-01-2015 20:40
  When Siobhan Weller goes to work at Portcullis House in Westminster, she has to pinch herself. Just five years ago she was watching Prime Minister’s Questions on television from a hospital bed in Lincolnshire. Now she rubs shoulders with the same MPs she used to watch on TV as part of her new job as a parliamentary assistant.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo shooters: The ‘has-been’ jihadis considered too old for security surveillance

  08-01-2015 20:34
  
  Like the Boston bombing in 2013, the Charlie Hebdo massacre has come to a tale of two brothers. The chief suspects, Chérif, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, were said to be on the run last night in countryside 80 miles north-east of Paris.
  
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• Cavendish Rio hopes 'probably over'

  08-01-2015 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mark Cavendish admits he is unlikely to be able to qualify for Great Britain's track cycling team at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
  
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• David Cameron accused of using Ofcom ruling to quash leaders’ TV debates

  08-01-2015 20:17
  
  David Cameron has been accused of using an Ofcom ruling as cover for an attempt to torpedo televised leaders’ debates in the run-up to the general election in May.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attacks: The massacre has brought out the best, and worst, of France

  08-01-2015 20:13
  
  Politicians of left and right joined arms to sing “La Marseillaise” on the steps of the National Assembly yesterday.Paris Metro trains paused in stations during a nationwide minute of silence. The bells of Notre Dame tolled. The Eiffel tower turned off its lights. Leaders of most French political parties will march silently through Paris on Sunday.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo attacks: Party leaders unite to decry ‘point-scoring’ by Farage

  08-01-2015 20:10
  
  Nigel Farage was accused of trying to score political points after blaming the terrorist attack in Paris on “multiculturalism”.
  
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• Mother begged doctors to save baby

  08-01-2015 20:08
  
  A mother "begged" doctors to save her four-month-old baby after ambulance staff failed to treat her as an emergency, an inquest heard.
  
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• Evans blames 'mob rule tactics'

  08-01-2015 20:05
  
  Convicted rapist Ched Evans has blamed the "mob rule tactics employed by the more radical elements of our society" for scuppering his planned return to football with Oldham Athletic.
  
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• World Pooh Sticks Championships in desperate need of a new home as popularity grows

  08-01-2015 20:03
  
  Should you own a plot of land through which runs a river crossed by a bridge – with ample space for nearby parking – you could well be the saviour of a particularly British institution.
  
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• Massacre manhunt focuses on forest

  08-01-2015 19:58
  
  A manhunt to trace two brothers wanted over the Paris magazine massacre was focusing on a stretch of countryside outside the capital tonight.
  
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• Jeb Bush positions himself as the 'anti-Mitt Romney' with risky plan to release tax returns

  08-01-2015 19:55
  
  Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, may be on a quest to position himself as the Republican establishment candidate in 2016 as Mitt Romney was four years ago, but it is becoming increasingly clear that he also means to distance himself from the 2012 nominee. He may, in fact, be the anti-Mitt.
  
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• NHS crisis: Mutating flu virus means more cases will join queues at already stretched A&Es

  08-01-2015 19:42
  Flu rates are at a three-year high and mutated strains of the virus have emerged against which the national influenza vaccine may offer reduced protection, health authorities have said.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: Norway's Christians didn't have to apologise for Anders Breivik, and it's the same for Muslims now

  08-01-2015 19:34
  
  The important thing must be to establish the rules, so we can all get along. To start with, are you allowed to be critical of Muhammad at all? For example, can you suggest that while he was generally perfect, he could sometimes be quite forgetful, and wander into Mecca saying "what did I come out here for"?
  
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• Sri Lanka election: Day of reckoning for a once untouchable president who could suffer an unexpected and humiliating defeat

  08-01-2015 19:33
  Sri Lanka is braced for a major political upset, after a turnout of 75 per cent in the presidential election lent force to speculation that the strongman who ended the civil war, and whose family has towered over the nation in recent years, could suffer a humiliating defeat.
  
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• 10 best men's sleepwear

  08-01-2015 19:32
  
  Intro: If there’s a month for early nights and Sunday lie-ins, it’s January. We’ve found a range of nightwear to sleep in style – here’s our edit.
  
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• Man Utd sign Valdes as backup

  08-01-2015 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ex-Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes signs for Manchester United on an 18-month contract, with an option for another year.
  
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• With voters undecided, an attack or foreign setback may make or break Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

  08-01-2015 19:25
  
  The electoral alliance that is challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for leadership of Israel enjoys a slim lead over his Likud party with polling two months away.
  
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• Man 'murdered pensioner after rebuff'

  08-01-2015 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man with a sexual interest in much older women strangled a pensioner when she rebuffed his sexual advances, a jury hears.
  
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