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• Prince Charles in Saudi Arabia: Heir to throne raises issue of jailed blogger Raif Badawi with King Salman

  10-02-2015 23:59
  Human rights campaigners have welcomed Prince Charles efforts to raise the plight of jailed blogger Raif Badawi with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman.
  
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• Boy 'critical' after school attack

  10-02-2015 23:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 13-year-old schoolboy is in a critical condition in hospital and an older pupil is arrested following an assault at a County Fermanagh secondary school.
  
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• Sky pays record 4.2 billion pounds for top Premier League rights, BT takes the rest

  10-02-2015 23:54
  
  By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Pay-TV group Sky has agreed to pay 4.2 billion pounds to show 126 live English Premier League matches a season from 2016 to 2019, pressured by fierce rival BT to smash analysts' forecasts and secure the best games. After one of the most high-profile broadcast auctions of recent times, the Premier League said that Sky had won five of the seven rights packages, including the most popular Sunday afternoon matches showing the likes of Manchester
  
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• Premier League in £5.14bn TV deal

  10-02-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sky and BT Sport pay a record £5.136bn to show live Premier League football between 2016 and 2019 - 71% above the current deal.
  
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• Akai Gurley shooting: New York police officer Peter Liang to be charged over shooting death of unarmed black man in stairwell says lawyer

  10-02-2015 23:26
  A rookie police officer who allegedly accidentally shot and killed an unarmed black man in a New York stairwell has been charged over the killing.
  
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• HSBC leaks: If tax-dodging was ever considered acceptable, it certainly isn't now

  10-02-2015 23:23
  
  The latest scandal to erupt within the world of high finance is beyond dispiriting. Yes, HSBC may no longer offer its wealthiest and stealthiest clients so much help in the field of tax dodging, but the disclosures of the past few days have done nothing to dent a widely held perception that the maintenance of economic inequality is the raison d’être of the banking sector.
  
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• The machine age: Britain must prepare for an increasingly robotic workforce

  10-02-2015 23:21
  
  Decades ago, robots began their march through Hollywood, most often leaving a trail of destruction behind them. Their real-life counterparts have been slow to catch up. The majority of current models still struggle to operate beyond factory floors, and lack the dexterity, both physical and mental, to displace skilled human workers, let alone rule over them.
  
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• Liverpool vs Tottenham match report: Mario Balotelli scores Premier League goal for Reds to sink Spurs in thriller at Anfield

  10-02-2015 23:05
  As anyone who has seen him stroll about the football pitch can testify, Mario Balotelli takes his time when it comes to playing the game itself and, 13 league matches into his career at Liverpool was long enough indeed for his first league goal for the club.
  
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• Liverpool vs Tottenham match report: Mario Balotelli scores first Premier League goal for Reds to sink Spurs in thriller at Anfield

  10-02-2015 23:05
  Finally, Mario - as his Twitter handle has it. It only took the famously enigmatic Italian striker 13 league games and six months of his Liverpool career but Mario Balotelli’s first league goal for the club arrived just in time.
  
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• Arsenal 2-1 Leicester City

  10-02-2015 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Arsenal move into the Premier League top four by beating Leicester, who sit five points adrift of safety.
  
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• Strangled wife accused 'on drugs'

  10-02-2015 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A jealous husband who strangled his wife and tried to kill her as she worked on an intensive care unit was on drugs at the time, a jury hears.
  
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• Tributes to tipper truck death girl

  10-02-2015 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tributes are paid to a four-year-old girl who was killed when she was struck by a truck while walking with her grandmother in Bath.
  
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• United KINK-dom: British couples revealed to be most sexually adventurous in EU

  10-02-2015 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITISH couples are the most sexually adventurous in Europe, a huge Fifty Shades of Grey-inspired sex poll has revealed.
  
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• Homeless Veterans appeal: how you've changed our veterans' lives

  10-02-2015 22:21
  
  The Independent has supported a number of causes in the last few years, from helping child soldiers in the Central African Republic, to ending elephant poaching on the ground in Kenya.
  
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• Capita accused of using major government contract to short-change small companies, driving some out of business

  10-02-2015 22:19
  
  The controversial outsourcing giant Capita is facing an investigation into allegations that it used a major government contract to short-change small companies, resulting in some going out of business.
  
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• Bobbi Kristina Brown ‘progressing’ despite rumours family plans to take her off life support

  10-02-2015 22:12
  
  Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of late pop star Whitney Houston, reportedly is improving in the hospital, family members say, despite rumours in the media that the family had planned to take her off life support on Wednesday, CBS News reported.
  
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• Valentine's Day 2015: 13 best gifts for him under £50

  10-02-2015 21:34
  
  From cool coffee cups to authentic curry kits, here are gifts that he will actually want to use and wear this year.
  
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• Support team to tackle A&E times

  10-02-2015 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Scottish government is sending in a support team to help cut A&E waiting times at the Royal Alexandra hospital in Paisley.
  
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• Labour defends 'pink van' campaign

  10-02-2015 21:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour defends the choice of a pink minibus to launch a campaign aimed at female voters after it is attacked on social media.
  
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• Political fundraisers: From shoe shopping with Theresa May to Iron Man Endeavour with Iain Duncan Smith

  10-02-2015 20:58
  
  Nothing says, "We're all in this together" quite like a £1,500-a-head dinner at a five-star hotel. And so, despite the best efforts of the Tory party to keep the details of its annual shindig hush-hush, some squirm-inducing titbits have emerged about the Conservative Black and White fundraiser that took place on Monday.
  
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• Joseph Langdell: Oldest crewman to survive Pearl Harbour attack on USS Arizona dies aged 100

  10-02-2015 20:58
  
  In the weeks and years after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbour, Joseph Langdell would tell people he only survived because he was on shore when the Japanese planes arrived and not on his ship – the USS Arizona.
  
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• Premier League TV rights: As long as viewers are sofa-bound and spending, the broadcasters will shell out

  10-02-2015 20:55
  
  It is hard to convey the inflation that has been applied to Premier League football rights since they were first auctioned in 1992, but try this. If the length of a televised match had increased in line with the amount that broadcasters are willing to pay to show each one, the players who turned out for 90 minutes for the cameras back then would be running up and down the pitch for an entire 24 hours per fixture from August 2016.
  
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• VIDEO: Could you spot a fake work of art?

  10-02-2015 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Will Gompertz sets a challenge to a former art forger, so see if he can spot a replica in Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.
  
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• Eurovision Song Contest 2015: Australia invited to compete

  10-02-2015 20:50
  
  Australia is set to compete in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, as part of the competition’s 60th anniversary celebrations.
  
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• Excited aunt misses nephew's football debut after being KNOCKED OUT by stray ball

  10-02-2015 20:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A PROUD family member missed her nephew's debut as a football mascot after she was KNOCKED OUT by a stray ball during the pre-match warm-up.
  
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• Premier League in £5.1bn TV deal

  10-02-2015 20:36
  
  The Premier League has announced a staggering 70% increase in the value of its British television rights for the 2016-19 seasons with Sky and BT Sports paying a combined £5.136 billion to show games.
  
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• Scientists are closing in on a cure for love, but should they go ahead with it?

  10-02-2015 20:30
  
  At one point or another, all of us have probably felt like 'love', however we define it, is more trouble than it's worth. 'Love hurts' and 'heartache' are phrases most of us can relate to and a 'cure for love' was written about by Lucretius, Ovid and Shakespeare. But is love just a troublesome artifice we've created for ourselves, or a fundamental part of human existence, to be cherished even when it hurts us?
  
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• Middleclass workers without pensions miss £1billion in tax rebates

  10-02-2015 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MORE than a million middleclass workers are missing out on £1billion in tax rebates because they do not have a pension, figures show today.
  
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• Australia to get Eurovision spot

  10-02-2015 20:28
  
  It is called Eurovision, but organisers of the famous singing competition have invited Australia to take part in this year's show.
  
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• Video shows Los Angeles police shoot man after intense car chase

  10-02-2015 20:25
  
  An armed carjacker ran riot near Los Angeles on Monday, driving the wrong way down freeways and forcing a woman out of her car at gunpoint. The man, who has yet to be identified, was only stopped when police shot him after he tried to commandeer another vehicle.
  
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• What was the 'sweating sickness' in 'Wolf Hall'?

  10-02-2015 20:24
  
  In the first episode of the BBC's adaptation of Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell returned home to find his wife and two daughters had all died during the night, victims of a pestilence – the "sweating sickness" – that was scything through the Tudor world.
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko inquiry: All traitors to Russia 'should be exterminated', suspect claims

  10-02-2015 20:19
  
  One of two men suspected of murdering Alexander Litvinenko said two years after the Russian spy’s death that he was a “traitor” and anyone causing damage to Russia should be “exterminated”, an inquiry has heard.
  
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• Boris bangs drum for UK fashion

  10-02-2015 20:18
  
  Boris Johnson will be "talking up British fashion" at a glitzy dinner in New York City.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg in court with neighbour over ‘personal privacy deal’

  10-02-2015 20:14
  
  Users of his website may worry about what he does with their personal data, and 25,000 disgruntled customers are even trying to sue him about it, but when it comes to his own bedroom, it seems that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is rock solid on the issue of privacy.
  
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• Charles raises case of blogger

  10-02-2015 20:13
  
  The Prince of Wales has raised the plight of jailed blogger Raif Badawi with Saudi Arabia's new King Salman.
  
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• HSBC leaks: David Cameron faces grilling over party links with scandal-hit bank

  10-02-2015 20:10
  
  David Cameron will be challenged over the long-standing links between scandal-hit HSBC and the Conservative Party, after Electoral Commission records showed three senior bank figures have donated £875,000 to the party in recent years.
  
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• Tributes after truck crash tragedy

  10-02-2015 20:09
  
  Tributes have been paid to a "gorgeous little girl" and three men killed when a tipper truck careered out of control down a hill.
  
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• Bondage at the box office: Fifty Shades of Grey and other BDSM cinema

  10-02-2015 20:07
  
  When Anastasia Steele, a shy, pale, ponytailed virgin and student of English literature, is flown to the Seattle headquarters of his global  company by the suavely handsome, obscenely rich, 27-year-old business mogul Christian Grey, she has high hopes.
  
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• VIDEO: Prince Charles brings up blogger case

  10-02-2015 20:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Prince of Wales has raised the issue of jailed blogger Raif Badawi during his first meeting with Saudi Arabia's new king.
  
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• Spouse rules 'unfair to UK citizens'

  10-02-2015 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A minister promises to close an "unfair" immigration loophole in the rules for allowing foreign-born spouses of UK citizens into the country.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Let them eat chocolate… and give everyone a pay rise while you're at it

  10-02-2015 20:01
  
  It’s not easy to trump top politicians – David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Balls, et al. But the man from Hotel Chocolat, virtuoso extraordinaire of the higher-brand development speak, managed it.
  
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• Duchess in visit to hospital school

  10-02-2015 19:56
  
  The Duchess of Cambridge has made a private visit to a hospital school for children suffering from mental health problems.
  
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• Would it matter to the world - or Europe - if Greece left the euro?

  10-02-2015 19:56
  
  It is, we are told, crunch time today. The finance ministers of the eurozone meet to see whether a deal can be thrashed out with Greece. The aim will be to ease its debt obligations sufficiently for the new Greek government to sell the deal to an angry electorate, but retain sufficient discipline on the country to satisfy its creditors in the rest of the eurozone.
  
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• War with Isis: Syria's President Assad is overplaying a weak hand – he needs the West to keep militants from Damascus

  10-02-2015 19:52
  
  President Bashar al-Assad has given four interviews to the foreign media in recent weeks after a year of silence, the latest being to the BBC. The aim is obvious enough: he believes that the moment may have come when the US will be willing to more or less openly accept him as the ruler of the whole of Syria.
  
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• Death Row Records founder Suge Knight will be held in jail six more weeks

  10-02-2015 19:49
  
  Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight will be kept in jail an additional six weeks as his bail hearing has been postponed until 20 March.
  
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• Sky pays record 4.2 billion pounds for Premier League rights, BT takes the rest

  10-02-2015 19:48
  
  By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Pay-TV group Sky has agreed to pay 4.2 billion pounds to show 126 live English Premier League matches a season from 2016 to 2019, smashing analysts' forecasts to beat fierce rival BT to the best games. After one of the most high-profile broadcast auctions of recent times, the Premier League said that Sky had won five of the seven rights packages, including the most popular Sunday afternoon matches showing the likes of Manchester United and A
  
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• 'Inspirational' businesswoman hanged herself due to stress

  10-02-2015 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AN “inspirational” businesswoman hanged herself after dealing with the stress of a house move, change of job and broken relationship, an inquest was told.
  
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• Robot revolution gathers pace – but at what cost to jobs?

  10-02-2015 19:40
  
  In food factories they will trim your sirloins and trusschickens. Assembling electric car batteries will also be firmly within their skillset. And in Japan, in the not too-distant future, they will be serving bank customers, checking-in hotel guests and delivering laundry.
  
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• Art organisations to bring in data scientists to lure new audiences

  10-02-2015 19:39
  
  Some companies bring in “artists in residence” to boost creativity in the workplace. But in a reversal of that trend, three of the UK’s biggest artistic organisations are now recruiting “data scientists in residence” to develop their businesses through what has been described as a “cultural Moneyball” programme.
  
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• Children’s playmates replaced by laptops – more time on gadgets then playing outdoors

  10-02-2015 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CHILDREN spend more time staring at a screen than they do playing outside with their friends, a survey shows.
  
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