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• Golden Globes 2015 nominations: List in full

  11-01-2015 23:29
  
  Best Motion Picture - Drama
  
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• Battle lines drawn over creation of 'metro mayor' for Liverpool

  11-01-2015 23:25
  
  The elected Mayor of Liverpool has accused local political rivals of bringing the region into disrepute with “toytown politics”, amid a bitter row threatening to prevent power being devolved to the city and the wider region.
  
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• Tackling debt is key, says Cameron

  11-01-2015 23:09
  
  David Cameron has cast the coming general election as a choice between security and chaos, as he urged voters not to pass on a crippling "legacy of debt" to their children and grandchildren.
  
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• Petrol station cuts price to 99p

  11-01-2015 23:09
  
  A service station is believed to have become the first in the UK to have slashed petrol prices below the £1-a-litre mark.
  
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• Last Tango in Halifax TV review: Is Sally Wainwright's series getting too dramatic?

  11-01-2015 23:00
  
  Writer Sally Wainwright really knows how to hit you where it hurts.
  
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• Paris attacks: London lights up landmarks in show of unity with France

  11-01-2015 22:23
  
  Landmarks in London were lit up with the colours of the Tricolore in a striking show of unity with France following the terror crisis.
  
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• Paris attacks: 'It's wrong to say attacks nothing to do with Islam' says Culture Secretary Sajid Javid

  11-01-2015 22:07
  
  People who claim that the recent spate of terrorist attacks in France have nothing to do with Islam are both “lazy” and “wrong”, the Culture Secretary has said.
  
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• Paris attacks: French Israelis urge relations to emigrate to escape anti-Semitism

  11-01-2015 21:22
  
  At the Family Café in Jerusalem, owned by French Jewish immigrants, talk turned today to the future of France’s 500,000-strong Jewish community after the killings at a kosher supermarket reinforced growing fears that France is becoming an unsafe place for Jews.
  
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• Paris march: Political divide exposed as politicians who repress freedom of speech join rally

  11-01-2015 21:14
  
  There were some unlikely “Charlies” on today’s march for democracy and freedom – and the presence of leaders of countries known for repressing freedom of speech caused consternation among left-wing commentators and human-rights groups in France.
  
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• Defence and military manufacture makes a comeback as Japan struggles with its wartime legacy

  11-01-2015 21:03
  
  Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, talk about any kind of military expansion remains highly sensitive in Japan.
  
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• Paris attacks: London landmarks light up for France - BBC News

  11-01-2015 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Paris attacks: London landmarks light up for France
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  Major London landmarks have been lit in the colours of the French national flag in tribute to the 17 people killed in the Paris terror attacks. Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square and the National Gallery were among monuments lit in blue, white and red. Meanwhile ...
  London turns red, white and blue in unity with France after terror attacksLondon24
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• At least 3.7 million march in France to honor attack victims - Jerusalem Post

  11-01-2015 20:44 via jpost.com
  
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  PARIS - At least 3.7 million people demonstrated in France on Sunday to honor the victims of Islamist attacks last week, the Interior Ministry said. A ministry spokesman said that 1.2 million to 1.6 million people had marched in Paris and about 2.5 million ...
  Official: At least 3.7 million people march around France for unity against terrorismWashington Post
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• Million join Paris unity march

  11-01-2015 20:29
  
  More than one million people have marched through Paris and thousands more gathered in cities around the world in a moving and defiant display of unity in the wake of the France terror attacks.
  
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• Tomas Rosicky steps up his game at crucial moment for Arsenal - The Independent

  11-01-2015 20:17 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Tomas Rosicky steps up his game at crucial moment for Arsenal
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  This was a familiar sight at this time of year, as the competitions start to narrow down and the remaining games tick away. It was Arsenal starting to play properly again, producing their best performance of the league season and warning Manchester United, ...
  Arsenal march to Alexis Sanchez's tune against StokeIrish Times
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• AirAsia crash: Indonesia confident fuselage discovered, zero in on black box - Sydney Morning Herald

  11-01-2015 20:09 via smh.com.au
  
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  AirAsia crash: Indonesia confident fuselage discovered, zero in on black box
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  Pangkalan bun/Jakarta: Indonesian search teams believe they have found the fuselage of an AirAsia airliner that crashed in the Java Sea two weeks ago, and divers hope calmer waters on Monday will allow them to retrieve the black box flight recorders.
  Search continues for elusive Flight QZ8501 black boxesCNN
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• Mutinous New York police turn blind eye to petty crime in protest against Mayor Bill de Blasio

  11-01-2015 20:08
  
  Is it really possible that no one among the roughly one million revellers who jammed Times Square on New Year’s Eve did anything naughty at all? No double-parking, no sipping from a vodka flask, not one person relieving a stretched bladder in the open air? According to the police crime statistics, yes.
  
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• Arrest over restaurant owner murder

  11-01-2015 20:04
  
  A man aged 25 has been arrested by police investigating the murder of a Chinese restaurant owner.
  
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• Smith reclaims albums top spot

  11-01-2015 20:01
  
  Soul sensation Sam Smith's meteoric rise to super-stardom continued unabated after he reclaimed the top spot in the album charts.
  
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• Wayne Rooney: Manchester United deserved to win against Southampton - Evening Standard

  11-01-2015 19:59 via standard.co.uk
  
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  Wayne Rooney: Manchester United deserved to win against Southampton
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  Wayne Rooney says Manchester United lost despite playing the better football and having the better chances during their 1-0 defeat at Old Trafford. Manchester United failed to manage a single shot on target in their disappointing defeat to Southampton, ...
  Premier League: Louis van Gaal rues Manchester United's missed chances and ...SkySports
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• Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk scores fourth week at singles Number 1 - Official Charts Company

  11-01-2015 19:58 via officialcharts.com
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  Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk scores fourth week at singles Number 1
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  They can't be moved! @MarkRonson and @BrunoMars score a 4th week at No.1 on the Singles Chart with Uptown Funk: http://t.co/4QFvkuVYyC · 6 minutes ago · Follow us on Twitter. Make a comment ...
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• VIDEO: Thatcher bust unveiled in Falklands

  11-01-2015 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A statue of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been unveiled in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
  
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• Julio Scherer Garcia: Fearless and influential journalist who helped expose many of Mexico’s biggest scandals in decades

  11-01-2015 19:51
  
  Julio Scherer Garcia was one of Mexico’s most important and influential journalists of the past half-century. He helped expose many of Mexico’s greatest scandals for decades, probing a secret army unit to combat guerrillas, a multi-million-dollar Swiss bank account of a president’s brother and official involvement in the assassination of a journalist.
  
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• Anita Ekberg: Beauty queen who became a fixture of Rome’s party set and helped usher in the Sixties in Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’

  11-01-2015 19:46
  Though La Dolce Vita is a flawed film, plotless, rambling and self-indulgent, it was a huge success that came to define the wild and carefree days of the early 1960s. The modern world was upon us, and it was symbolised by one image more than any other: Anita Ekberg in a little black dress standing in the Trevi fountain shouting out to Marcello Mastroianni.
  
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• Paris attack: arson incident at German newspaper raises tension before anti ... - Sydney Morning Herald

  11-01-2015 19:43 via smh.com.au
  
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  French dropped surveillance of terrorist brothers six months before Charlie Hebdo attack · Gunman claims IS allegiance in posthumous video · Man who filmed police assassination regrets posting video on Facebook · Netanyahu offers French Jews a safe ...
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• Lance Percival: Comedy performer whose topical calypsos helped make ‘That Was The Week That Was’ a satirical smash

  11-01-2015 19:39
  
  In a week when satire has been the subject of the most anxious public debate for 50 years, this is a crucial time to remember the iconoclasm and the legacy of That Was The Week That Was (1962-63), the BBC’s Saturday night satirical show designed to “prick the pomposity of public figures” and to lampoon everything from the Beatles to the Royal Family; its brazen mix of current affairs and Vaudeville won its 12 million viewers and almost as many complaints.
  
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• George Osborne plans ANOTHER tax break for millionaires if Tories win election - Mirror.co.uk

  11-01-2015 19:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
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  George Osborne plans ANOTHER tax break for millionaires if Tories win election
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  George Osborne plans another tax break for millionaires by raising the inheritance tax threshold to £2million, it has emerged. The Tory Chancellor wants to hike the point at which the levy is paid if the Conservatives win May's election, it was claimed. The plan ...
  Labour want new Ofgem powers for energy bill cutsScotsman
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• VIDEO: London landmarks light up for France

  11-01-2015 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Major London landmarks have been lit in the colours of the French national flag in tribute to the 17 people killed in the Paris terror attacks.
  
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• Reese Witherspoon in 'Wild': An all too rare story of a woman on a solo adventure

  11-01-2015 19:29
  
  There is a scene in the film Wild in which Cheryl Strayed (played by Reese Witherspoon) runs out of food in the middle of nowhere and is forced to hitch a ride into town with a farm worker, an overweight middle-aged guy in a pick-up truck. Is he creepy? Is something awful about to happen to her? We’re not sure, but he makes a few possibly untoward comments and, as Witherspoon edges into the passenger seat, she blusters nervously about her “husband”, who has gone ahead and is waiting for h
  
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• Far too many Western Muslims speak of freedom as a sin

  11-01-2015 19:27
  
  Ill with flu last week, I watched the events unfolding in Paris with dread, rage and disbelief – feelings that surge every time there is an Islamicist atrocity. To kill so many over line drawings or as an expression of religious zeal? What drives these fanatics? In normal circumstances, I would have been on TV and radio channels providing immediate responses, soundbite explanations. Bedbound, I had time to reflect more deeply on this carnage and the question of freedom: what it means, how pre
  
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• Robert Fisk: The only point of 'terror lists' is to get those named a palace invitation

  11-01-2015 19:06
  
  When are we going to give up our infantile “terrorist” lists? The IRA were “terrorists”. So was the Irgun. So was EOKA. So was the Mau-Mau. And their leaders – every bloody one of them – met Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Think Begin, Makarios, Kenyatta. How long, I wonder, before Khaled Mashal of Hamas meets the old girl? Or Sayyed Nasrallah of Hezbollah?
  
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• Manchester United 0-1 Southampton

  11-01-2015 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dusan Tadic scores the only goal as Southampton beat Manchester United to move up to third in the Premier League table.
  
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• Sri Lanka election: Attempted 'coup' by former president Mahinda Rajapaska to be investigated

  11-01-2015 19:01
  
  Sri Lanka’s new government will investigate an alleged attempt by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to stage a coup to try to stay in power when results showed he was losing last week’s election.
  
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• Fight to save Coronation Street set

  11-01-2015 18:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners are fighting to save the former Coronation Street set in Manchester from demolition.
  
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• Ten-fold rent increase sees Spanish shops close

  11-01-2015 18:50
  
  From the Café Central, one of Spain’s best-known jazz bars, to the teddy bears and train sets on sale at Así, a popular toyshop on Madrid’s central Gran Via boulevard, and for thousands of other Spanish small businesses 2015 is anything but welcome. Instead, closure looms.
  
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• World champion Selby out of Masters

  11-01-2015 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World champion Mark Selby is knocked out in the first round of the Masters as he loses 6-5 to Shaun Murphy.
  
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• Another arrest over Cheung murder

  11-01-2015 18:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Another man is arrested by police investigating the murder of a Chinese restaurant owner in Randalstown, County Antrim.
  
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• Chris Brown shooting: Five shot during singer’s performance in San Francisco

  11-01-2015 18:38
  
  Five people have been injured during a shooting incident at a Chris Brown gig in California, police said.
  
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• Charmaine Wilkinson: Police 'concerned' for teenage girl, 16, missing for more than a week

  11-01-2015 18:29
  
  A teenage girl has been missing for more than a week after she claims to have left her home to stay with friends and has not been seen or heard from since, police have said.
  
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• Youth critical after gritter crash

  11-01-2015 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 17-year-old driver is in a critical condition after his car was in collision with a gritter in South Ayrshire.
  
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• Power supply restored to most homes

  11-01-2015 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Power supplies are restored to most homes in the north of Scotland, following the storms which have swept the area over the past few days.
  
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• Trains halted by power line damage

  11-01-2015 18:23
  
  Train passengers faced travel misery after services between London and the north west were disrupted to damage to the overhead line.
  
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• City holds vigil after terror deaths

  11-01-2015 18:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A vigil is due to take place in Cardiff Bay for French citizens and others following terror acts in Paris which left 17 people dead in three days.
  
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• Broadchurch Effect: Series two prompts surge of searches for holidays in Dorset and Somerset

  11-01-2015 18:13
  
  The "Broadchurch Effect" has gripped the nation once again as the television show’s highly anticipated second series began last week.
  
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• Roma 2-2 Lazio

  11-01-2015 18:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Roma talisman Francesco Totti takes a selfie of himself celebrating an equaliser in the draw against Lazio.
  
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• Thousands Around World Show Unity With Paris

  11-01-2015 18:02
  
  Thousands of people in the UK and around the world joined in solidarity with the French people as they marched or gathered in unity against the Paris attacks.
  
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• Body of missing vulnerable man found

  11-01-2015 18:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The body of a vulnerable man who went missing last week from his home in South Lanarkshire has been found.
  
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• General election 2015 TV debates: David Cameron "running scared" says Ed ... - CITY A.M.

  11-01-2015 17:56 via cityam.com
  
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  David Cameron is “running scared” of live TV debates, according to Ed Miliband. Speaking on the Andrew Marr show, the Labour leader claimed the Prime Minister was acting in a “pretty disreputable” manner regarding the debates, after Cameron claimed he ...
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• Tains halted by power line damage

  11-01-2015 17:55
  
  Train passengers faced travel misery after services between London and the north west were disrupted to damage to the overhead line.
  
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• Possible ecstasy link after man dies

  11-01-2015 17:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 24-year-old man dies and two others are in a serious condition after they are suspected of taking Ecstasy at a house in East Dunbartonshire.
  
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• Paris attacks: David Cameron to discuss greater spying powers with UK security chiefs as calls to revive 'snooper's charter' grow

  11-01-2015 17:50
  David Cameron is to meet with UK security chiefs on Monday to discuss whether Britain will give greater powers to its police and spies in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.
  
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