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• Man held in India over 1997 murder

  12-01-2015 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man is arrested in India in connection with the murder of a woman in Glasgow 17 years ago.
  
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• Charities offer to help out in A&E to relieve pressure on staff

  12-01-2015 23:49
  
  Some of Britain’s leading charities will urge the Government to let them make a “radical intervention” at accident and emergency (A&E) departments in a bid to relieve crippling pressure on medical staff.
  
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• Cancer Drugs Fund: Life-extending drugs to be denied to NHS patients in England as fund overspends

  12-01-2015 23:44
  Sixteen life-extending cancer drugs will no longer be available to patients in England from March after the NHS announced it would not pay for them through the Government’s flagship Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).
  
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• Former Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan rules out White House run

  12-01-2015 23:17
  
  Republican US Representative Paul Ryan, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2012, said on Monday he will not run for president in 2016 in order to focus on his new role in Congress as chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee.
  
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• No Hodgson vote for Ronaldo & Messi

  12-01-2015 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Roy Hodgson votes Javier Mascherano the world's best player in 2014 but Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are not on his Ballon d'Or list.
  
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• Broadchurch series 2 TV review: Is there too much drama simply for the sake of it?

  12-01-2015 23:00
  
  Warning: Contains spoilersIf last week’s revelation knocked you for six, then tonight’s episode is likely to only leave you a tad breathless.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Now nine-year-old has Cub Scout badge for bamboozling MPs

  12-01-2015 22:46
  
  For centuries MPs have been commendably obedient to WC Fields’ advice: “Never work with animals or children.”  But there’s a first for everything.
  
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• So is the NHS one of the PM’s election priorities? Yes and no

  12-01-2015 22:44
  
  David Cameron insisted that the NHS is one of his top priorities, even though he will not make health one of the six main themes in the Conservatives’ general election manifesto.
  
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• AUDIO: Chocolatier taste tests new Creme Egg

  12-01-2015 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A recipe change for Cadbury's Creme Eggs has provoked outrage among some chocolate lovers.
  
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• Paris terror attacks: US admits higher-level representative should have attended Sunday's unity rally

  12-01-2015 22:03
  
  The White House on Monday conceded that the United States should have sent a higher-level representative to a Paris unity march after deadly Islamic militant attacks there and said President Barack Obama would liked to have come.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: How did it affect ordinary Parisians whose city was under siege?

  12-01-2015 21:50
  
  WednesdayJuliette was in high school when she heard. Her mother's text message about an attack on cartoonists didn't make sense. Everybody knew Charb, Cabu, Wolinski. They weren't just Charlie Hebdo. The teenager walked past their drawings in the street. They were in other papers. They were part of French culture.
  
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• Alarm at surprise fall in life expectancy amid fears that cuts and pressure on NHS may be to blame for earlier deaths

  12-01-2015 21:49
  Health officials are investigating a “statistically significant, sustained” decline in life expectancy among elderly people in some parts of England, amid warnings that cuts to social care and pressures on the NHS may be contributing to earlier deaths.
  
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• Hack of CentCom was not first claimed by CyberCaliphate

  12-01-2015 21:45
  
  Hackers apparently supportive of the Islamic State caused panic on Monday when they attacked the Twitter account of the US military’s Central Command, possibly releasing sensitive US military information. But the hack was not the first of its kind in the US.
  
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• MPs pursued for thousands in overpaid expenses

  12-01-2015 21:39
  
  MPs are being pursued for thousands of pounds in overpaid expenses before the House of Commons is dissolved for the election.
  
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• Teenage sexual sadist Lewis Daynes had been arrested years before he killed schoolboy

  12-01-2015 21:25
  
  The mother of 14-year-old boy groomed, tricked and murdered by a teenage sexual sadist he met online accused the authorities of incompetence tonight after it emerged that his killer had been arrested in a rape inquiry three years earlier.
  
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• Ballon d'Or: Tactical voting revealed as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi don't vote for one another... and what was Roy Hodgson thinking?

  12-01-2015 21:17
  The voting for the Ballon d'Or has been revealed and once again it was full of tactical voting, with the two front runners, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, not picking the other in their top three.
  
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• Paris terror attacks: 3m copies of Charlie Hebdo to be distributed on Wednesday

  12-01-2015 21:16
  
  As many as three million copies of Charlie Hebdo will be available on newsstands on Wednesday, according to its distributors.
  
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• Academic raises fears of 'serial killer' after 61 deaths on Manchester canal network

  12-01-2015 21:14
  
  A sign on Manchester’s Canal Street, which runs along the Rochdale Canal, warns of the “significant risk” of falling into the water.
  
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• US Secretary of State John Kerry could visit Pakistan school where 134 pupils perished

  12-01-2015 21:13
  
  US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Pakistan for a two day visit and might make take time to visit the school where 134 children were killed last month by Taliban gunmen.
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: The embassy siege sniper who found civilian life a struggle

  12-01-2015 21:09
  
  An SAS sniper who took part in the storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 has revealed how his mental health suffered after he returned to civilian life.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: House not in order

  12-01-2015 21:02
  
  One of the country’s longest serving council leaders, Keith House, a Lib Dem who has led Eastleigh council since 1994, has been through some upheaval in his private life.
  
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• Computer 'knows you best of all'

  12-01-2015 21:00
  
  A computer can be a better judge of character than an individual's parents or close friends, research has shown.
  
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• Facebook knows you better than your friends do - because Likes reveal so much about your character

  12-01-2015 21:00
  A computer can be better at assessing someone’s basic personality than close friends or family and is almost as good as someone’s spouse, scientists have found.
  
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• All-knowing Facebook: Am I really a miserable Catholic with (slight) lesbian tendencies?

  12-01-2015 21:00
  
  The test used by the Cambridge University Facebook study will have you believe that I am a 25-year-old single female with liberal political views and an open, agreeable personality. I am indeed 25 – and I’ll happily take that description of my character.
  
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• Egypt court clears 26 men held in raid on 'gay bathhouse'

  12-01-2015 20:53
  
  A court has acquitted 26 men who had been arrested by police looking for gays at a Cairo bathhouse.
  
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• Harsent wins TS Eliot poetry prize

  12-01-2015 20:42
  
  David Harsent, a 72-year-old poet, has won the TS Eliot Prize after being shortlisted five times.
  
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• Briton to run coast to coast in US

  12-01-2015 20:42
  
  A British runner is to run coast to coast in the United States - despite already having run 7,000 miles in the last eight months.
  
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• Poet Harsent wins TS Eliot Prize

  12-01-2015 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Harsent wins the prestigious TS Eliot poetry prize for his eleventh collection Fire Songs - his first victory after five nominations.
  
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• Golden Globes 2015: The alternative awards from best wife to best meme

  12-01-2015 20:32
  
  1. Best wife – Amal ClooneyThe new Mrs Clooney (née Alamuddin) out-glammed half the red carpet but rarely has a plus-one looked so awkwardly out of place . Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who won the whole night with their opening monologue, put it best when Fey said: "Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an adviser to Kofi Annan regarding Syria and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo wins Ballon d'Or 2014: Real Madrid star wins prestigious award ahead of Barcelona rival Lionel Messi and Manuel Neuer

  12-01-2015 20:27
  Cristiano Ronaldo has been named the world's best player ahead of great rival Lionel Messi.
  
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• Ministers fail to investigate G4S ‘human rights abuses’

  12-01-2015 20:20
  
  The Government has been accused of trying to “wash its hands” of potential human rights abuses by refusing to investigate the British security company G4S’s involvement with Guantanamo Bay.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Fighting in Donetsk between army and Russian-backed rebels at highest level for months

  12-01-2015 20:18
  
  The mercury stops at -30 and fierce winds whirl snow through the improvised campsite. Stuck out in frontline positions near Debaltsevo in the Donetsk region, the soldiers of Ukraine’s 128th mechanised brigade have observed the nature of Ukraine’s “ceasefire” at first hand. Their sunken, haunted stares, speak of its success.
  
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• Doctor Elsa Cayat: Psychoanalyst who wrote for 'Charlie Hebdo' and was murdered in the terrorist attack on the magazine

  12-01-2015 20:07
  In the month before she died Elsa Cayat received a pair of identical phone calls: "You dirty Jew. Stop working for Charlie Hebdo. If you don't, we will kill you." Concerned, this eminent Parisian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who contributed a fortnightly column to the satirical magazine, discussed these messages with her family. "We decided they were only verbal garbage," said her younger brother, Frederick. "We didn't think it could actually happen."
  
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• Brian Clemens: Writer and producer who made 'The Avengers' an emblem of the Swinging Sixties and created 'The Professionals'

  12-01-2015 20:02
  In 1956 Brian Clemens was hired as a writer by the independent producers Edward J and Harry Lee Danziger, who churned out "B" features at Merton Park Studios in south London. Danziger productions were always economical, and it was not unusual for him to be presented with sets and props inherited from an earlier film and told to dream up a story involving, say, a German submarine, the Old Bailey and some Father Christmas outfits; he became an expert at devising bizarre plots, a talent which woul
  
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• DNA diet: The genetic test that alerts you to potentially deadly effects of salt, caffeine or saturated fat

  12-01-2015 19:55
  My blood pressure has always been in the healthy range, so it came as a bit of surprise when my doctor told me it was high. At the end of the consultation, she took a second reading. It was slightly lower than the first reading, but still in the hypertensive range.
  
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• Burnt to the ground, the Addis Ababa hotel where Evelyn Waugh (and Scoop's William Boot) stayed

  12-01-2015 19:52
  
  For William Boot, that innocent fettler of plants thrust into war reporting, the Hotel Liberty provided some small sanctuary in Ishmaelia.
  
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• Gamekeeper jailed for killing bird

  12-01-2015 19:50
  
  A gamekeeper who trapped and killed birds of prey has been jailed for four months.
  
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• CentCom hacking: What is US Central Command?

  12-01-2015 19:50
  
  Early on Monday afternoon, the Twitter account of the US military’s Central Command was apparently hacked by Islamic State sympathisers. The hackers also released sensitive information about military scenarios involving China and North Korea, as well as posting addresses and telephone numbers for high-ranking US military officials.
  
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• Koala mittens appeal: Animal charity calls on public to make pouches for orphaned animals

  12-01-2015 19:49
  
  A conservation group in Australia which has been inundated with mittens knitted especially for koalas following an appeal, is now asking the public to sew pouches for orphaned animals.
  
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• Martin Luther King's children feud over whether to sell his Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal

  12-01-2015 19:47
  
  A judge in Atlanta will face the unenviable task tomorrow of trying to umpire the latest in a long line of unseemly legal squabbles between the children of the late Martin Luther King Jnr, this time involving the ownership of his now dog-eared travelling Bible and the Nobel Peace Prize medal he won in 1964.
  
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• Cancer treatments funding to end

  12-01-2015 19:44
  
  The Government is to stop funding 25 cancer treatments as part of efforts to cut costs by £80 million.
  
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• US military command Twitter hacked

  12-01-2015 19:33
  
  The Twitter site of the US Central Command military agency has been taken over by hackers claiming to be working on behalf of Islamic State militants.
  
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• Al-Qaeda gains ground in Yemen as country descends into civil war

  12-01-2015 19:18
  
  Al-Qaeda in Yemen is becoming more powerful because it provides the troops for a Sunni community that feels under increasing threat from a Shia insurgency that has seized much of the country.
  
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• Outrage in Britain as Cadbury owner tweaks Creme Egg recipe

  12-01-2015 19:16
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Mondelez International, maker of Cadbury Creme Eggs, has tweaked the recipe of the chocolate shell of its gooey treats ahead of their main Easter selling season, sparking an angry response in Cadbury's home market of Britain. U.S. group Mondelez said on Monday the Creme Egg would now use a "standard, traditional Cadbury milk chocolate" for its shell, rather than sharing the same recipe as Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate as it has in the past. ...
  
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• Smiling Kate Moss at Galliano show

  12-01-2015 19:14
  
  Supermodel Kate Moss today attended a fashion show by her friend John Galliano.
  
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• Gallagher pokes fun at videos rant

  12-01-2015 19:14
  
  Noel Gallagher, who ranted about how much he hates making music videos, has unveiled a spoof promo in which he repeats many of the things at which he previously poked fun.
  
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• Jingle bells: When classic-loving Michael Gove embraced popular culture

  12-01-2015 19:11
  
  Michael Gove, the former Education Secretary who wanted British teenagers to study classics that are at the very least a century old has shown that he is not totally opposed to modern, popular culture – when there is a freebie on offer.
  
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• US Central Command Twitter account hacked by Isis supporters who claim to have broken into Pentagon networks

  12-01-2015 19:10
  Isis supporters appear to have broken into the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the US Central Command, and are claiming to have access to Pentagon servers.
  
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• Cameron pledge over terror threats

  12-01-2015 19:05
  
  David Cameron has vowed that a new Conservative government would introduce "comprehensive" legislation to ensure there is no "safe space" for terrorists to communicate over the internet.
  
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• Russell T Davies on Cucumber and why his life's work is chronicling the modern gay experience

  12-01-2015 18:58
  
  In a freezing-cold brick warehouse in central Manchester, the comedian and actor Rufus Hound is stark naked and pretending to be drunk. Hound plays a man picked up in a gay bar by Henry, the middle-aged protagonist of a new eight-part drama written by Queer as Folk creator (and Doctor Who regenerator) Russell T Davies. "If I can drop my trousers for a laugh at Glastonbury, I can sure as hell do it for one of the best British screenwriters of our generation," says Hound, when I ask him about bei
  
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