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• 'Arsenal put defence first, at last'

  18-01-2015 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MOTD2 pundit Trevor Sinclair expands on his TV analysis of what was different about Arsenal as they beat Manchester City 2-0.
  
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• Video: Moped collides with pedestrian live on ITV News report

  18-01-2015 23:18
  
  A moped collided with a pedestrian during a live broadcast on ITV News on Sunday evening.
  
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• Conservative MPs campaign for Tony Blair to declare his paymasters

  18-01-2015 23:03
  
  Conservative MPs will today launch a campaign to force Tony Blair to reveal how much he earns – and continue to declare who pays him for the rest of his life.
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: Auctions raise almost £50,000 for homeless veterans

  18-01-2015 22:52
  
  A series of auctions with lots ranging from an African trip of a lifetime to a tour of the Rolls-Royce factory and a walk through the Somme battlefields has raised almost £50,000 for two charities supported by The Independent’s Homeless Veterans Appeal.
  
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• Guinea ready to open schools shut by Ebola for 10 months

  18-01-2015 22:47
  
  Millions of children have not attended school since last summer in the three West African nations brought low by Ebola. But now, among the relentlessly negative events associated with the virus, comes a positive development.
  
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• Jeremy Farrar interview: Wellcome Trust director says 'I'm not a great believer in the power of prayer'

  18-01-2015 22:39
  
  The good news, according to Jeremy Farrar, is that the Ebola outbreak is now unlikely to take hold in the West.
  
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• Lawes to miss start of Six Nations

  18-01-2015 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Northampton's England second row Courtney Lawes needs ankle surgery and will miss "the first few weeks" of the Six Nations.
  
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• Police Scotland: Missing Teenage Girls Found

  18-01-2015 21:45
  
  Missing teenagers Lisa Coleman, 14, and Robyn Quinn, 15, have been traced, Police Scotland confirms. Police Scotland said the girls have been "traced safe and well" two days after they went missing from the East Kilbride area.
  
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• Kim Fowley: Record producer, singer and songwriter best known for creating the influential teenage girl band the Runaways

  18-01-2015 21:42
  
  Looking by his own admission like the creature in Frankenstein, and about as unsettling a presence when in full, self-aggrandising flow, the record producer, singer, songwriter, nusic publisher and svengali Kim Fowley was the ultimate mover, shaker and hustler, as well as inveterate name-dropper.
  
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• Doctor Maher Hathout: Cardiologist and interfaith leader who encouraged American Muslims to embrace their dual identity

  18-01-2015 21:38
  
  Maher Hathout was a prominent interfaith leader who was hailed as the father of the US Muslim-American identity. Born in Egypt, he became a steady and insistent voice for Muslim civic engagement over four decades.
  
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• Francesco Rosi: Director the best of whose work engaged with Italy’s turbulent political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s

  18-01-2015 21:36
  “All characters and events narrated in this film are fictitious, but the social reality that created them is authentic.” So read the unusual disclaimer opening the 1963 film Hands Over the City by the Italian director Francesco Rosi. It cherishes and illustrates the very essence of Rosi’s cinema, a fictional exposé of what official reality often conceals; a cinema of civic and moral courage that the Neapolitan director practised with rigour and passion without ever sounding too didactic
  
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• North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk admits 'inaccuracies' in bestselling tale of torture 'Escape from Camp 14'

  18-01-2015 21:35
  
  Shin Dong-hyuk, the North Korean prison camp survivor whose tale of a dramatic defection became a bestseller, has admitted that parts of his well-known tale were inaccurate and has now apologised.
  
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• Milan autumn/winter menswear 2015: Very different takes on Italian luxury from Bottega Veneta and Prada

  18-01-2015 21:07
  
  Clarity and disparity. Those were the overriding if opposing themes that united the Bottega Veneta and Prada shows, bookending the second day true of the autumn/winter 2015 Milanese menswear shows. What do I mean by that? That one offered a crisp, clean and specific view of man for the future, while the other gave a bit of everything. Both were equally satisfying, albeit in very different ways, and possibly for very different customers.
  
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• Freed Yazidis tell of girls and women being raped and sold into sexual slavery by Isis fighters

  18-01-2015 21:06
  
  Many girls from the Yazidi community in Iraq are committing suicide after being raped and sold into sexual slavery by Isis fighters who captured them last August. And some 200 Yazidis, held prisoner for five months before being freed at the weekend because they were sick or old, report continuing mistreatment of those still captive. 
  
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• Couple dead in 'murder-suicide'

  18-01-2015 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A magistrate and her husband die in a suspected murder-suicide at a house in Greater Manchester.
  
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• Keystone tops lawmakers' State-of-the-Union wish list - Shreveport Times

  18-01-2015 20:47 via shreveporttimes.com
  
  Keystone tops lawmakers' State-of-the-Union wish list
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  WASHINGTON – Louisiana lawmakers say they hope President Barack Obama will change his mind about the Keystone XL pipeline and use his upcoming State of the Union address to support the project as a first step toward working with the Republican ...
  
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• Anne Mensah: Why Sky's drama supremo worries about her customers, not her viewers

  18-01-2015 20:45
  
  When gambling on a £25m Arctic thriller series starring Stanley Tucci and Sofie Grabol, it’s no surprise that Anne Mensah, Sky’s head of drama, wanted to protect her investment.
  
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• Hospital PR boss 'stabbed to death by husband who then killed himself'

  18-01-2015 20:43
  
  An award-winning NHS public relations executive was stabbed to death at home by her husband who then killed himself, police believe.
  
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• Israeli strike in Syria kills senior Hezbollah figures - Reuters

  18-01-2015 20:43 via reuters.com
  
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  Israeli strike in Syria kills senior Hezbollah figures
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  BEIRUT (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed a commander from Lebanon's Hezbollah and the son of the group's late military leader Imad Moughniyah, sources close to Hezbollah said, in a major blow that could lead to reprisal attacks.
  Israeli strikes kill Hezbollah fighters in SyriaDaily Mail
  Israeli strikes kill Hezbollah fighters in Syria, official saysFox News
  Israel attacks Hizbollah positions cl
  
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• Dallas Safari Club abandons auction of elephant hunt

  18-01-2015 20:37
  
  A Texas hunting club which auctioned the opportunity to kill an endangered black rhino last year has cancelled a similar plan to sell an elephant-hunting permit.
  
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• We journalists have every reason to fear the Ripa

  18-01-2015 20:33
  
  One consequence of the police investigations into phone-hacking and alleged payments for information by journalists to public officials is an increased cynicism about how newspapers come to know things. There is also, perhaps, less concern for journalistic wailings about the need to protect “confidential sources”.
  
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• Poroshenko rejected peace proposal made by Putin, Putin's spokesman says - Reuters UK

  18-01-2015 20:28 via uk.reuters.com
  Reuters UK
  Poroshenko rejected peace proposal made by Putin, Putin's spokesman says
  Reuters UK
  Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko is seen as he makes his address to the nation in Kiev, in this January 13, 2015 handout photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service. Credit: Reuters/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Mykola ...
  Ukraine Tries to Reinforce Embattled AirportVoice of America
  Fighting rages in eastern Ukraine as peace rally is held in KievLos Angeles Times
  
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• Anger After Indonesia Executed 6 People for Drug Trafficking - Voice of America

  18-01-2015 20:23 via voanews.com
  
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  Anger After Indonesia Executed 6 People for Drug Trafficking
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  Brazil and the Netherlands have recalled their ambassadors to Indonesia after the Southeast Asian country ignored their pleas for clemency and executed six people, including five foreigners, for drug trafficking. The attorney general's office says five ...
  
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• Artes Mundi: Why can't the Turner Prize be more like this?

  18-01-2015 20:20
  
  Does the UK need another prize?
  
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• Boko Haram 'in Cameroon kidnappings' - BBC News

  18-01-2015 20:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Boko Haram 'in Cameroon kidnappings'
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  Suspected militants from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram have kidnapped dozens of people in raids in neighbouring Cameroon, officials say. They said many of those kidnapped in the cross border attack against villages were children. Four villagers who ...
  Boko Haram fighters kidnap about 80 in raids on northern Cameroon; Suicide ...ABC Online
  Boko Haram feared to have kidnapped up to 80 people, including 50 children ...Daily
  
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• Eurostar chaos Q&A: How long will the disruption continue after fire – and what ... - The Independent

  18-01-2015 20:06 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Eurostar chaos Q&A: How long will the disruption continue after fire – and what ...
  The Independent
  Passenger and vehicle services through the Channel Tunnel have resumed after yesterday's fire, but delays are predicted because one of the two running tunnels remains closed. Simon Calder looks ahead - and explains passengers' rights. Q. A reminder of ...
  Eurostar: Passengers face further misery after a power fault delays trains ...Mirror.co.uk
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• 'Without its Jews, Britain would not be Britain,' warns Theresa May - Daily Mail

  18-01-2015 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Daily Mail
  'Without its Jews, Britain would not be Britain,' warns Theresa May
  Daily Mail
  Theresa May today pleaded with Jews not to leave Britain as she vowed to step up efforts to tackle anti-Semitism. The Home Secretary said she never thought she would see the day when Jews in the UK were frightened to stay here. Scotland Yard have ...
  UK must do more to 'wipe out' anti-Semitism - MayBBC News
  May to clamp down on anti-SemitismBelfast Telegraph
  Theresa May says 'witho
  
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• Mark Ronson continues chart reign

  18-01-2015 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mark Ronson continues his reign at the top of the UK singles chart, notching up a fifth week at number one.
  
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• Uptown Funk retains chart top spot

  18-01-2015 20:00
  
  The only way is Uptown Funk as Mark Ronson recorded a fifth week at number one in the charts.
  
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• Eurostar planning for full service

  18-01-2015 19:48
  
  Eurostar said it plans a full service tomorrow after delays and cancellations struck for a second successive day, as passengers complained of long waits to rebook seats.
  
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• Inequality is threatening to tear our democracy apart, yet the Government is only encouraging it

  18-01-2015 19:46
  
  In the Eighties I wrote articles on ghastly yuppies, effervescing with expensive champagne and inflated egos. One of them poured his bubbly over my blouse when I tried to interview him. How they all laughed.
  
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• About 1,300 NI homes without water

  18-01-2015 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  About 1,300 properties in Northern Ireland remain without water, as industrial action by NI Water staff continues.
  
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• Man detained over shooting 'threat'

  18-01-2015 19:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 34-year-old man is detained after reports of an individual threatening to shoot a police officer in Cornwall.
  
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• Run-DMC 'still get stage nerves'

  18-01-2015 19:31
  
  Hip-hop heavyweights Run-DMC have revealed they still battle stage nerves, as they prepare to play their first UK gig together in 12 years.
  
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• Officer dismissed over Ranger case

  18-01-2015 19:31
  
  One police officer has been dismissed and a second has been disciplined for their conduct connected with a rape case involving footballer Nile Ranger.
  
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• Child injured in sledging accident

  18-01-2015 19:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A nine-year-old child is flown by helicopter to hospital after being hurt in a sledging incident in Ayrshire.
  
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• 'Coldest night' of winter forecast

  18-01-2015 19:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The temperature could dip down to -12C in some parts with the coldest night of the winter forecast for much of Scotland.
  
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• Ed Miliband and Ed Balls urged Brown to hold snap election before economy fell 'off a cliff'

  18-01-2015 19:10
  
  Ed Miliband and Ed Balls both knew the economic crash of 2008 was on the horizon a year before it occurred and urged Gordon Brown to hold an election before it became public, according to a former ally of the Labour leader.
  
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• Manchester City vs Arsenal match report: Super Santi Cazorla inspires solid Gunners to victory

  18-01-2015 19:10
  
  To get a measure of how long it has been, the last time that Arsenal beat Manchester City away from home, it was Samir Nasri who scored the first goal for Arsene Wenger’s side and if that feels like a generation ago wait until you consider it was Alex Song and Nicklas Bendtner who got the other two back in October 2010. Not a single Arsenal player who started the game that day is still contracted to the club and three of them now play for City.
  
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• Isis throws 'gay' men off tower, stones woman accused of adultery and crucifies 17 young men in 'retaliatory' wave of executions

  18-01-2015 19:08
  The Isis militant group has reportedly carried out a seemingly unprecedented string of public executions – including throwing men accused of being gay off towers, stoning a woman accused of adultery and crucifying at least 17 young men in a 48-hour period.
  
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• Nick Clegg: Prime Minister's Questions is 'an absolute farce' - The Independent

  18-01-2015 19:07 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Nick Clegg: Prime Minister's Questions is 'an absolute farce'
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  After more than four years of sitting in silence next to David Cameron in the bear pit of prime minister's question, Nick Clegg has finally said what he thinks of it. It is a pointless farce that should be abolished. “How awkward can you get?” Mr Clegg exclaimed ...
  Prime Minister's Questions should be SCRAPPED, says Nick CleggDaily Mail
  Nick Clegg attacks 'blanket appr
  
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• Nick Clegg: Prime Minister's Questions is 'an absolute farce'

  18-01-2015 19:06
  
  After more than four years of sitting in silence next to David Cameron in the bear pit of prime minister’s question, Nick Clegg has finally said what he thinks of it. It is a pointless farce that should be abolished.
  
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• Pickles in English teaching plea

  18-01-2015 18:59
  
  Councils should spend money on teaching people to learn English rather than translating documents into different languages, Eric Pickles has said.
  
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• Clegg: UK terror laws need update but snooper's charter implies guilt on all - The Guardian

  18-01-2015 18:57 via theguardian.com
  
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  Clegg: UK terror laws need update but snooper's charter implies guilt on all
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  Nick Clegg said: 'Why are we keeping records of every man, woman and child across the country when for starters, we tend to know where to look for the people who want to do us harm?' Photograph: Simon James/GC Images. Patrick Wintour, political editor.
  Snoopers' Charter un-British: CleggBelfast Telegraph
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• Paris attacks: Why the Charlie Hebdo gunmen Saïd and Chérif Kouachi made an unlikely terror cell

  18-01-2015 18:56
  
  In 1992, two brothers, aged 12 and 10, came home from school for lunch to find their mother lying dead in their council flat in north-east Paris.
  
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• Cameron defends free speech 'right to cause offence'

  18-01-2015 18:53
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said there was "a right to cause offence about someone's religion" in a free society, drawing a distinction between himself and Pope Francis in their response to the deadly Islamist attacks in Paris.
  
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• VIDEO: Targeted shop boss calls for action

  18-01-2015 18:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The manager of shop, raided three times in six months, calls on police and the council to take action before it goes out of business.
  
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• Charlie Hebdo: Nearly half of French people oppose Mohammed cartoons

  18-01-2015 18:48
  
  Almost half of France opposes the publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and even more say there should be limitations on free speech, according to a new poll.
  
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• Naturist wedding reports dismissed

  18-01-2015 18:43
  
  The cold weather probably meant it was not a particularly attractive prospect at the moment anyway.
  
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• UK must 'wipe out' anti-Semitism - May

  18-01-2015 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK "must redouble its efforts" to end anti-Semitism, says Home Secretary Theresa May, amid safety fears within the Jewish community.
  
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