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• Jasmine Miller: Man charged with murder after he ‘lured six-year-old into motel room with snacks then strangled her’

  24-02-2015 23:56
  A man in the US state of Missouri has been charged with murder, after he allegedly used snacks to lure a 6-year-old girl into his motel room and then strangled her, according to police.
  
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• Three-parent babies: Britain becomes first country to allow technique after House of Lords approves new regulations

  24-02-2015 23:45
  
  The UK has become the first country in the world to legalise so-called three-parent babies after the House of Lords backed the idea despite objections from church leaders and pro-life groups.
  
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• Rifkind's 'defence contact boasts'

  24-02-2015 23:43
  
  Former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind boasted to undercover reporters about his high-level defence contacts and membership of a nuclear security committee as he discussed possible work with a fictitious Chinese company, it has been reported.
  
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• Arsenal vs Monaco: Monaco - the making of Gunners' manager Arsene Wenger

  24-02-2015 23:30
  
  Arsène Wenger reiterated yesterday that tonight’s game would not trigger any deep emotions in him. He left Monaco more than 20 years ago and his association and success with Arsenal is far stronger than anything he has achieved anywhere else.
  
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• Taylor Swift named woman of year

  24-02-2015 23:11
  
  Pop superstar Taylor Swift was named woman of the year at tonight's Elle Style Awards.
  
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• Vote Approves Babies With Three People's DNA

  24-02-2015 23:11
  
  The first child conceived using "mitochondrial transfer" techniques could be born as early as next year after peers voted against blocking a planned law change with a majority of 232. The procedure, which involves transferring a mother's genes to a donor egg, could allow around 2,500 women in the UK to have their own genetic children without passing on devastating mitochondrial diseases. A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said: "Parliament's decision will bring h
  
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• Manchester City 1 Barcelona 2 player ratings: Luis Suarez? Lionel Messi? Joe Hart? Who was the star man?

  24-02-2015 23:08
  
  Two first half goals by Luis Suarez gave Barcelona a 2-1 win at Manchester City as they moved within sight of the Champions League quarter-finals on Tuesday even though Lionel Messi missed a late penalty.
  
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• Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Aldwych Theatre - review: A likeable, zestful show

  24-02-2015 23:00
  
  Katie Brayben's last stage role was as the ghost of Princess Diana in King Charles III. She's now elevated to the more substantial ranks of pop royalty as Carole King in this Tony Award-winning jukebox bio-musical.
  
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• Legend of Football award for Becks

  24-02-2015 22:55
  
  David Beckham is to be honoured with the Legend of Football award at the 20th Anniversary HMV Football Extravaganza.
  
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• Oscar Pistorius' lawyers to challenge judge's appeal ruling

  24-02-2015 22:47
  
  Oscar Pistorius’ lawyers are to challenge a judge’s decision allowing prosecutors to attempt to upgrade the Olympic athlete’s negligent killing conviction to murder.
  
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• Britain becomes first nation to legalise three-parent babies

  24-02-2015 22:44
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will become the first nation to legalise a "three-parent" IVF technique which doctors say can prevent some inherited incurable diseases but which critics fear will effectively lead to "designer babies".
  
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• Manchester City vs Barcelona match report: Lionel Messi's late penalty blunder keeps City hanging on after Luis Suarez's earlier double

  24-02-2015 22:42
  Luis Suarez took less than 30 minutes to remind English football fans exactly what they were missing, as he scored two vital away goals for Barcelona at the Etihad.
  
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• Bono 'knocked out' by survey

  24-02-2015 22:40
  
  U2's Bono has said he is "knocked out" by an independent survey claiming their songs were more popular on Apple iOS devices than any other musician.
  
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• Cricket World Cup 2015: Chris Gayle - the West Indies' enigma lives up to his reputation

  24-02-2015 22:33
  
  How slender are the margins. Chris Gayle went out to bat for the West Indies today condemned, if not quite in so many words, as a washed-up mercenary wastrel.
  
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• Keystone XL Pipeline: President Obama set for showdown after vetoing Republican bill

  24-02-2015 22:30
  
  President Barack Obama has vetoed a bill forcing construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline – setting himself up for a showdown with Republican opponents.
  
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• Peers vote for triple-DNA babies

  24-02-2015 21:56
  
  The UK has become the first country in the world to legalise the creation of IVF babies using DNA from three people.
  
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• Ellen Pao gender discrimination trial: Leading Silicon Valley firm accused of 'frat boy behaviour'

  24-02-2015 21:49
  
  A female executive who has accused a leading Silicon Valley company of sexual discrimination was treated to “frat boy behaviour”, a court has been told
  
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• Anya Hindmarch's road show an entrancing ode to M25

  24-02-2015 21:45
  
  Accessories designer Anya Hindmarch continued her experimentation with low culture in high fashion today, with an ode to the M25. But rather than the rising blood pressure for which that particular road is known, Hindmarch was referring instead to the trance induced by a clear stretch and “the combination of lights, reflective surfaces and your favourite piece of music”.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Fifty shades of Green - but no sign of policy

  24-02-2015 21:42
  
  To underline the much-mentioned “green surge” – “and yes, that’s the hashtag”, announced Greens’ leader Natalie Bennett – the party today displayed the names of many of its 54,500  members – Darius from Horsham; Cordelia from London; Marisa from Glastonbury, etc. This was very much what this campaign launch was about.
  
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• Choking on Greens: The party's leader Natalie Bennett must learn from her disastrous interview

  24-02-2015 21:37
  
  Today did not end quite so disastrously as it began for the leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett. If the leader of any of the main parties had put in such a toe-curlingly awful interview as she did, early in the morning on LBC radio, the following day’s papers would be full of speculation about an impending leadership contest. But by frankly apologising at the first opportunity and admitting that the interview had been “excruciating”, Ms Bennett made the best of a very bad lapse.
  
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• UK approves three-person babies

  24-02-2015 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK has now become the first country to approve laws to allow the creation of babies from three people.
  
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• HIV pill: The logic of paying £500 a month so gay men don’t have to wear condoms

  24-02-2015 21:18
  
  At a time when the NHS is under immense financial strain – some might say bankrupt – it may seem odd to suggest that the health service pay nearly £500 a month for a gay man to take a daily pill so that he doesn’t have to wear a condom.
  
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• HIV pill: Scientists hail discovery of 'game-changer' that cuts the risk of infection among gay men by 86%

  24-02-2015 21:18
  A daily pill that can dramatically cut a person’s risk of contracting HIV must be made available through the NHS “as soon as possible”, campaigners have said.
  
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• Preventative HIV drug 'effective'

  24-02-2015 21:15
  
  A "game-changing" trial has shown that rates of HIV infection can be slashed by treating actively gay men with an anti-viral drug when they are healthy.
  
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• Wearing wigs and makeup, MI5 officers testify in U.S. trial

  24-02-2015 21:10
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - British MI5 officers, wearing wigs and makeup to hide there identities, testified in U.S. court on Tuesday about their surveillance of an accused al Qaeda operative who is charged with plotting an attack in England.
  
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• Yutaka Katayama: Businessman whose vivacity and innovative marketing transformed Nissan into a world-beating car brand

  24-02-2015 21:02
  Yutaka Katayama, who has died at the age of 105, was president of Nissan Motor's US arm who built the Z sports car into a powerful global brand in the 1970s. Known as the "father of the Z", he won international respect for the Datsun Z as an affordable sports car at a time when Japan-made products were synonymous with slipshod quality.
  
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• Christopher Price: Energetic MP who despite his combative nature was liked and admired both by colleagues and opponents

  24-02-2015 20:58
  It was Christopher Price's misfortune – and in my informed opinion the nation's – that he never held a safe Labour seat. In 1966 he took Birmingham Perry Barr from the Conservative incumbent Dr Wyndham Davies but perished when Edward Heath came to power in 1970. In February 1974 he was elected to Lewisham West, and held the seat in 1979, but to the huge sadness of his many Labour friends – he had the rare gift in politics of being candid and outspoken without making enemies – he lost by
  
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• Cavendish Morton: Painter and illustrator acclaimed for his impressionistic landscapes and sweeping, atmospheric, marine panoramas

  24-02-2015 20:52
  During an exceptionally long and productive career the impressionistic landscape painter, designer and illustrator Cavendish Morton upheld the traditional tenets of landscape painting, underpinned by acute observational powers and graphic fidelity. Alighting on pastoral, and above all maritime, themes in East Anglia and the Isle of Wight – the two locations where his career was principally acted out – Morton elicited in his work an abiding feeling for genius loci, or spirit of place, that q
  
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• Crufts 2015: Should foreign dogs be allowed to compete?

  24-02-2015 20:46
  
  Colin the Pomeranian is a playful, happy-go-lucky ball of orange fluff. Competing last year at Crufts, which opens its doors again next week, Colin was noted for having an excellent relationship with his handler and for clearly delighting in prancing around Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre. In the end, the two-year-old cutey was voted one of the seven group winners. He might have missed out on the top prize to a poodle called Ricky, but Colin stole hearts and was rewarded with a pack of
  
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• Online ticket touts may face £5,000 fines under law to stop rip-off prices

  24-02-2015 20:45
  
  The issue of online ticket touts overcharging fans has been increasingly criticised by artists from the rock band Iron Maiden to comedian Stewart Lee, who both called for a crackdown on the practice this month.
  
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• ‘Millions of pounds’ hang on one parking fine appeal

  24-02-2015 20:42
  
  His surroundings may have been unfamiliar, but the man from the Happy Haddock chip shop looked like the most confident man in the Royal Courts of Justice.
  
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• Abid Nasseer trial: MI5 agents reveal in court their surveillance operation on suspects codenamed Small Panel, Glass Pendant, Happy Skater and Regional Difference

  24-02-2015 20:42
  They were given the names Small Panel, Glass Pendant, Happy Skater and Regional Difference. And over the course of several months in the spring of 2009, agents from MI5 covertly watched them as they allegedly planned an operation the security services believed was a threat to national security.
  
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• Tunnel renaissance: Why cities are hiding roads down in the ground

  24-02-2015 20:40
  
  In JG Ballard's biting satire Concrete Island, architect Robert Maitland ploughs his Jaguar off the M4 and wakes up trapped within a tangle of slip roads. The novel was published in 1973, when motorways were all the rage. But that dystopian vision of chunky flyovers and tangled roads in the sky is disappearing, as cities around the world are electing to hide roads down in the ground.
  
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• Bercow: 'Cash For Access' MPs May 'Cop It'

  24-02-2015 20:39
  
  MPs Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw will "cop it" if it is proven they have broken the rules over claims they offered to trade their influence in return for money. That is the verdict of Commons speaker John Bercow, who was speaking exclusively to contributors to Sky News' Stand Up Be Counted campaign. Sir Malcolm, who has left his role as chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee and will not stand again as an MP , was secretly filmed telling reporters posing as a Chine
  
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• Bikram Choudhury: Indian yoga guru faces string of sexual assault lawsuits in US

  24-02-2015 20:39
  
  Bikram Choudhury, the Indian creator of the popular hot yoga system that bears his name, is facing a stream of defections from his Bikram yoga brand, amid mounting allegations that he sexually assaulted several of his young female acolytes.
  
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• Nigel Farage joins Sarah Palin and the big beasts of the US right

  24-02-2015 20:37
  
  He may be wedged between a star-turn speech by the former US vice-presidential hopeful, Sarah Palin, and a gathering billed as the National Rifle Association’s “Good Guys Reception”. But when Nigel Farage speaks tonight at a conference of hard-right Republicans he is expected to tell them that unless they reclaim their party they “might have to do a Ukip”.
  
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• Greek bailout: Athens' economic reforms accepted by its European creditors to the relief of those worst hit by the troubled nation's economic woes

  24-02-2015 20:34
  The risk of Greece crashing out of the European single currency was alleviated today, as the struggling country’s economic reform proposals were given guarded approval by its European creditors.
  
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• Libertines return for Reading/Leeds

  24-02-2015 20:33
  
  Reformed rockers The Libertines have joined Mumford and Sons and Metallica as headliners at the Reading and Leeds festivals.
  
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• Rajendra Pachauri: Climate expert resigns over harassment claim

  24-02-2015 20:33
  
  Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the world’s top climate change science body, the IPCC, has resigned following allegations of sexual harassment by a 29-year-old researcher.
  
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• Brits quiz from your birth year

  24-02-2015 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A quarter of a century of the UK's biggest music awards
  
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• Bercow's 'cop it' warning to MPs

  24-02-2015 20:32
  
  Former foreign secretaries Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw will "cop it" if they are found to have broken parliamentary rules in secretly-recorded conversations with undercover reporters posing as businessmen, House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has said.
  
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• Architects are branded ‘arrogant and egotistical’ – by one of their own

  24-02-2015 20:22
  
  One of the country’s leading architects has launched a blistering attack on his own profession, branding his colleagues “arrogant” and “egotistical” and accusing them of “taking all the credit” at the expense of Britain’s under-valued engineers.
  
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• Windfall for Star Wars collector

  24-02-2015 20:16
  
  A Star Wars superfan urged other children of the 70s and 80s to check their cupboards and attics for toys after he sold off some more of his collection for over £24,000.
  
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• Natalie Bennett: Green Party’s biggest ever campaign skids before it starts as she suffers ‘mental brain fade’

  24-02-2015 20:15
  The leader of the Greens, Natalie Bennett, apologised to party members for suffering a “mental brain fade” during an interview in which she appeared unable to answer basic questions about key policies.
  
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• UK troops to be sent to Ukraine

  24-02-2015 20:04
  
  Up to 75 British military personnel will deploy to Ukraine next month to provide advice and training to government forces, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.
  
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• Town halls can cut more: Pickles

  24-02-2015 20:04
  
  Town halls are still ripe for a spending squeeze, Eric Pickles said in a warning to local councils to brace for further funding cuts if the Tories are in power after the general election.
  
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• Bystander apathy applies to online bullying too, scientists find

  24-02-2015 20:04
  
  Scientists have long known that bystanders are reluctant to intervene if they see someone being bullied. Now researchers say that the disappointing behaviour termed “bystander apathy” extends to virtual as well as real life.
  
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• UK to help train Ukrainian army

  24-02-2015 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British military personnel are to be sent to Ukraine in the next few weeks to provide advice and training, says Prime Minister David Cameron.
  
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• British troops to ‘train soldiers’ in Ukraine

  24-02-2015 19:57
  
  British troops will be deployed to Ukraine in the next few weeks to train soldiers fighting Russian separatists, David Cameron said yesterday, as he warned of “deeply damaging” consequences for the whole of Europe if the EU fails to stand up to Vladimir Putin.
  
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• How we must adjust our lifestyles to nature: Welcome to the 'Anthropocene', the human epoch

  24-02-2015 19:57
  
  We walked past a small shrine. Gnarled oaks formed something like an entrance gate. Behind, there was a green space, a mix of woodland, rice paddies and open meadows.Kaki fruits, guavas and quinces hung from trees. A silver dragon plant peeked out from underneath a bamboo. The scenery felt enchanted. In this small patch of land called the "Hirabari grove", local people grew food, many species of birds swirled around, and old trees made visitors forget the surrounding city of Nagoya with its 2.3
  
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