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• Man held over missing Dorset woman

  23-01-2015 23:59
  
  Police who have "grave concerns" for a missing woman have arrested a man on suspicion of her murder.
  
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• VIDEO: A&E waiting times in England improve

  23-01-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Waiting times in A&E units in England have improved to their best level since November although the target is still being missed, figures show.
  
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• The pitfalls of trying to find a decent savings rate

  23-01-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Can things get any worse for beleaguered savers?
  
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• Mesut Özil puts new physique to work on Arsenal flanks at Brighton

  23-01-2015 23:30
  
  • Arsène Wenger to play Mesut Özil out wide in FA Cup tie
  • Midfielder has bulked up after working hard in gym
  • Why 2015 will be a defining year for Mesut ÖzilMesut Özil will continue his reintegration into the Arsenal team at Brighton & Hove Albion in Sunday’s FA Cup tie but the German may have to get used to a position he does not like.Özil has not started since suffering knee ligament damage in the defeat at Chelsea in early October and is eager to regain a cent
  
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• Emile Heskey: Who’d have thought at 37 I’d be going back to Liverpool?

  23-01-2015 23:30
  
  The Bolton Wanderers striker returns to Anfield seeking an FA Cup upset but with fond memories of his partnership with Michael Owen
  • More FA Cup newsThe framed jerseys on the walls of the basement den in Emile Heskey’s Cheshire home provide a reminder their owner is in the twilight of a fine career. Thirtysomethings all, El Hadji Diouf rubs shoulders with Nicolas Anelka just above Steven Gerrard. Robbie Keane’s hangs over that of Harry Kewell. Michael Owen, the player with whom Heskey for
  
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• Liverpool vs Bolton: Emile Heskey has Reds in sights after his surprise return

  23-01-2015 23:30
  
  Emile Heskey tells me he is on Twitter “but not on it like some,” so appears to be none the wiser about having briefly gone viral after scoring for Bolton Wanderers – two achievements which were equally improbable a few months ago, when his future options included a beach in Antigua or continuing to play veterans football for Liverpool.
  
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• SkyMall: The quirky inflight magazine that offered everything from heated cat baskets to garden gnomes files for bankruptcy

  23-01-2015 23:29
  Who knows just how many bored airline passengers have picked up the SkyMall magazine and flipped through its pages of packed zany and rather bizarre products to while away the hours at 35,000ft?
  
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• US death penalty: Supreme Court to decide lethal injection case

  23-01-2015 23:29
  
  The US Supreme Court revealed on Friday that it would look into lethal injections in Oklahoma, just a week after it allowed the execution of a man in that state, despite questions about the deadly drugs combined for the lethal injections.
  
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• Tangerine Dream founder Edgar Froese dies

  23-01-2015 23:27
  
  Pioneer of electronic music suffered pulmonary embolism, aged 70One of the most influential figures in German rock music, Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream, has died. Froese, who was 70, suffered a pulmonary embolism and died in Vienna on Tuesday, Tangerine Dream announced on their Facebook page.Froese founded Tangerine Dream in Berlin in 1967 and was the only constant member. Early in their career the group were associated with the scene known in the UK as “krautrock”, and their debut album w
  
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• Uncertainty continues over debates

  23-01-2015 23:22
  
  There is continued uncertainty over the live televised debates planned for the general election campaign despite a threat by broadcasters to "empty chair" any party leader who refuses to take part in the showdowns.
  
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• Martin Rowson on the death of King Abdullah – cartoon

  23-01-2015 23:02
  
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• Cambridge United vs Manchester United match report: Lowest-ranked team left in the FA Cup force replay at Old Trafford after heroic draw

  23-01-2015 23:01
  A night of fluffed lines from a Manchester United side blunted by their own failings and the honest endeavour of a stout opponent means we must do it all again.
  
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• Jazz thriller Whiplash hit by backlash from disgruntled jazz fans

  23-01-2015 23:00
  
  Jazz thriller Whiplash, which earned the nickname “Full Metal Jacket at Juilliard” for its brutal portrayal of a music teacher’s bullying, has become a surprise hit with film critics and audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.
  
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• Andy Murray banks on revenge against Grigor Dimitrov at Australian Open

  23-01-2015 23:00
  
  • Scot believes there will be no repeat of Wimbledon defeat
  • ‘I feel pretty calm and there’s no reason why I should be concerned’
  • More news from Melbourne ParkAndy Murray smiles nervously when he recalls what Roger Federer did to him at the ATP World Tour Finals in London a few months ago, the night in front of a home audience when he took just a single game off the Swiss – and that a gift. He knows about public embarrassment, the professional athlete’s unwanted companion.
  
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• Cambridge work hard to gain deserved replay with Manchester United

  23-01-2015 22:58
  
  • Cambridge United 0-0 Manchester United
  • In pictures: all the best images from Abbey StadiumTo put all of this into context, perhaps the best place to start is with the man-of-the-match award. It went to a player, Ryan Donaldson, who house-shares with four of his Cambridge team-mates. The team languishing in 12th place in League Two had shown a wonderful spirit of togetherness and they were entitled to the long, raucous celebrations at the final whistle, notable for the lack of scramble
  
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• US supreme court to review execution procedure in case brought by man already put to death

  23-01-2015 22:57
  
  High court to review Oklahoma protocol and decide whether three-drug process used by prison officials violates ban on cruel and unusual punishmentThe US supreme court agreed on Friday to consider a challenge to the controversial experimental execution protocol used by Oklahoma in a case that was brought by four death row inmates, one of whom was executed last week.The decision of the nation’s highest court to take up a petition brought by three inmates and Charles Warner, who was executed last
  
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• Cambridge United v Manchester United: FA Cup – live!

  23-01-2015 22:57
  
  FA Cup fourth-round updates from the 7.55pm GMT kick-offMax Rushden on life as a Cambridge United supporterAnd email [email protected] or tweet @Simon_Burnton 9.57pm GMT Michael Carrick was also interviewed. Truth be told, he wasn’t very interesting. Here’s a highlight:First half was very scrappy, it was tough. Cambridge made it difficult for us. Second half we were a lot better, had some chances and on another day we could have won. 9.56pm GMT Richard Money, Cambridge manager,
  
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• The Chilcot inquiry: The reckoning – the Iraq War by numbers

  23-01-2015 22:47
  
  After six years and nearly £9m, the report of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war remains unpublished. Here is a summary of the war in numbers.
  
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• Cambridge United 0-0 Manchester United

  23-01-2015 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  League Two Cambridge United hold Manchester United to a goalless draw to earn an FA Cup fourth-round replay.
  
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• The Chilcot inquiry: The men that led Britain to war in Iraq

  23-01-2015 22:47
  
  1. Tony Blair
  
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• The Chilcot inquiry: The timeline of events from 9/11 to the latest delay in publishing the Chilcot report

  23-01-2015 22:47
  
  11 September 2001
  
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• The Chilcot inquiry: The timeline of events from 9/11 to the first post-Saddam parliamentary election

  23-01-2015 22:47
  
  11 September 2001
  
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• The Chilcot inquiry: Recriminations and inquiries – the aftermath of the Iraq War

  23-01-2015 22:47
  
  Recriminations
  
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• The Chilcot inquiry: From missing WMDs to 'shock and awe' – the invasion and occupation of Iraq

  23-01-2015 22:46
  
  Shock and awe
  
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• The Chilcot inquiry: September 11 and the road to the Iraq War

  23-01-2015 22:46
  
  After six years and nearly £9m, the report of Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war remains unpublished – and, we were told this week, will not be published this side of the general election.
  
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• VIDEO: Man's insect-eating mountain ordeal

  23-01-2015 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A student who survived for eight days on a Turkish mountain eating insects has spoken about his ordeal.
  
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• St Johnstone 1-1 Aberdeen

  23-01-2015 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Adam Rooney's 25-yard strike salvages a point against St Johnstone as Aberdeen miss a chance to go top above Celtic.
  
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• NI parties not in TV debate plans

  23-01-2015 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New proposals for TV election debates do not include parties from Northern Ireland, it is confirmed.
  
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• Tesla hotel: Driver rents out car on Airbnb

  23-01-2015 22:25
  
  In what appears to be a bid to make a fast buck, a driver in the US is listing his car as a hotel on Airbnb.
  
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• Sarah Palin says she may be interested in running for US president in 2016

  23-01-2015 22:23
  
  Sarah Palin has left the door cracked on a possible 2016 run for president of the US, saying she is interested in the campaign and adding that she thinks it’s time the US elects a female head of state.
  
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• BBC agrees Eos music payment deal

  23-01-2015 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC and the body representing Welsh musicians sign a contract regarding the broadcaster's payments to artists.
  
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• Jewish groups boycott Holocaust event over Argentina prosecutor's death

  23-01-2015 22:19
  
  Alberto Nisman had accused government of conspiring with Tehran to protect Iranian officials allegedly involved in deadly 1994 bombing of Jewish association
  Jewish community leaders in Argentina have announced that none of their representatives will attend an official Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony next week, amid growing anger over the mysterious death of a state prosecutor who was investigating the alleged coverup of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires.The body of
  
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• Democrats rally around Obama amid furore over Netanyahu Congress visit

  23-01-2015 22:15
  
  Boehner’s invitation sparked controversy despite White House growing more confident it can withstand efforts to frustrate its policy of nuclear talks with IranThe White House is growing more confident it can withstand efforts to frustrate its policy of nuclear talks with Iran, as a furore over the intervention of the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, appears to be encouraging wavering Democrats to rally around their president.In the first White House press conference since the Republ
  
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• Dame Vivienne Westwood 'donating £300,000' to Green Party

  23-01-2015 22:15
  
  Fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood is reportedly planning to donate around £300,000 to the Greens, in a further boost to the party which has seen its ranks swell in recent months.
  
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• VIDEO: Double despair for Coulson

  23-01-2015 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cambridge United defender Josh Coulson heads just over against Manchester United in the fourth round of the FA Cup.
  
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• Rio admits it will fail to clean up 'open sewer' of 2016 sailing venue

  23-01-2015 22:00
  
  Brazilian city had promised to cut flow of pollutants into Guanabara Bay by 80% before next year’s Olympics but denies failure to do so poses health riskRio de Janeiro will not make good on its Olympic pledge of slashing the flow of raw sewage and garbage into the Guanabara Bay, where the 2016 Games’ sailing and windsurfing competitions are to be held, the state’s top environmental official has acknowledged. Related: How engineers hope to cleanse Rio de Janeiro's unholy stink | Jonathan Wa
  
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• The Sun’s Page 3 is surviving on nothing but a necklace and a wink

  23-01-2015 21:52
  
  Rupert Murdoch’s lovelies have made a defiant return, but history’s page has turned on the topless tradition“I don’t think it’s immoral or indecent or anything,” said Rupert Murdoch of Page 3. “But show it to me in any other newspaper I own. Never in America, never in Australia. Never. Never. Never. It just would not be accepted.”Even in the super soaraway Sun, he admitted to an interviewer from India Today, the daily parade of topless lovelies was “getting a bit old-fashioned.
  
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• VIDEO: Manhole explosion 'miracle' escape

  23-01-2015 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mother of a two-year-old girl says it is "a miracle" she escaped injury when a manhole exploded on a Birmingham street.
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: We have a chance to help veterans like ‘Frank’, a true British hero

  23-01-2015 21:48
  
  I’m writing this for “Frank”, who I met by chance at a soup kitchen. Frank was clearly in a bad state and had been in and out of prison over many years. As we chatted, something about his bearing hinted that underneath the scruffy exterior was someone with a military background. I took a punt and asked him when he had left the armed forces. 
  
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• New York woman jailed for calling authorities too frequently

  23-01-2015 21:35
  
  A New York woman is filing a federal lawsuit after she says she was arrested for making too many calls to city authorities to report drug activity in her public-housing building in the borough of the Bronx.
  
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• Indignant letter from aristocratic Titanic survivor sells for $11,875

  23-01-2015 21:25
  
  In the letter Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, who fled the shipwreck on a quarter-full lifeboat, says she can’t believe that people condemned her behaviour An indignant letter from a British aristocrat who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 has sold for $11,875, an auction house in New England said on Friday.Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon, a target of public outrage after she fled the doomed ocean liner on a near-empty lifeboat, penned the two-page letter in London a month after the disaster. Continue
  
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• King Abdullah's friends in the West stayed loyal, but revolution is on the horizon in Saudi Arabia

  23-01-2015 21:22
  
  Poor old Kingdom. And old is the only word you can use about Saudi Arabia, where monarchical brothers take precedence over sons.
  
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• Manchester United weighing up £13m bid for Dynamo Kiev’s Aleksandar Dragovic

  23-01-2015 21:20
  
  • Austria captain also wanted by Arsenal, Liverpool and West Ham
  • Central defender keen to make move to the Premier LeagueManchester United are among a host of English clubs considering making an offer for Austria international Aleksandar Dragovic, with his club Dynamo Kiev prepared to accept a bid of around £13m to sell the central defender.Arsenal, Liverpool and West Ham have also sounded out the availibility of the 23-year-old, who signed a five-year contract in Ukraine when he j
  
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• Gandhi-bot beer: US brewery to rebrand ale after outcry over use of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi's name and image

  23-01-2015 21:16
  A US brewery that sparked anger in India by naming one of its beers after independence hero Mahatma Gandhi has said it is going to rebrand the brew.
  
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• Central bank’s move sends euro to 11-year low

  23-01-2015 21:10
  
  Stock markets climb and bond yields fall as euro hits lowest value against dollar in 11 years as a result of ECB stimulus packageThe euro hit an 11-year low against the dollar on Friday as financial markets continued to digest the effects of the European Central Bank’s unprecedented €1.1tn quantitative easing stimulus package.Analysts said the euro, which has dived 7% since the start of the year, was on track for its biggest monthly fall against the dollar since the depths of the financial c
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko: Widow says ‘a kind of justice’ will be achieved at inquiry

  23-01-2015 21:09
  
  The wife of Alexander Litvinenko yesterday said she would achieve a “kind of justice” during the public inquiry into the fatal poisoning of her husband, which begins in London next week.
  
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• The last stand of Greece's ruling elite

  23-01-2015 21:08
  
  As the campaigning for Greece's parliamentary elections enters its final hours ahead of the vote tomorrow, the last shots are being fired across the bows.
  
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• Pubs facing last orders as more developers cash in

  23-01-2015 21:07
  
  High property prices mean they are increasingly attractive to developers who can often turn one pub into several homesThe Black Lion in Bayswater is a standard central London pub. Halfway between Marble Arch and Notting Hill Gate, its old-fashioned gold fascia boasts of the whiskies and brandies available inside. According to Tripadvisor, it sells a more than decent plate of fish and chips. Last year it made a profit of £700,000 – and was sold for £27m.This vast sum, paid by a prop
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko: Unanswered questions over the murder of Russian spy

  23-01-2015 21:06
  
  After eight years of secrecy, intrigue and international political deadlock, a public inquiry into the fatal poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko will start next week that his widow believes will expose the extent of the Russian state’s culpability in his murder. Here are the key issues at stake:
  
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• Saudi King Abdullah dead: Britain mourns a tyrant

  23-01-2015 21:05
  
  The Government face demands to reassess Britain’s relationship with the Saudi Arabian regime amid fury over the reverential tributes paid to King Abdullah following his death.
  
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