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• America braced for backlash after explosive Ferguson report findings

  03-03-2015 23:58
  
  America was braced for a backlash last night as the explosive findings of a government report found conclusive evidence that the Ferguson, Missouri police department routinely engaged in racially biased practises.
  
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• Briton Dies Fighting Against IS, Reports Say

  03-03-2015 23:58
  
  The Foreign Office is investigating reports that a former Royal Marine has died fighting against Islamic State in Syria. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the combatant had been fighting with Kurdish YPG forces in the northern province of Hasakah. The organisation said it was not clear whether the man was a British national or a Greek man who had been living in Britain. Sky's Harriet Hadfield said: "There are just a few details at the moment emerging on social
  
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• Briton Dies Fighting Islamic State, Reports Say

  03-03-2015 23:30
  
  The Foreign Office is investigating reports that a former Royal Marine has died fighting against Islamic State in Syria.
  
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• Morecambe Bay report: Bereaved families of babies who died 'saddened' but 'vindicated' by damning findings

  03-03-2015 23:17
  
  Parents of newborn babies who died due to shocking failings by maternity staff at Furness General Hospital have spoken of how they are “saddened” but “vindicated” by the publication of the damning Morecambe Bay report.
  
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• Home town memorial for Lee Rigby

  03-03-2015 23:11
  
  A memorial to murdered soldier Lee Rigby will be unveiled in his home town later this month.
  
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• Beckham unveils new collection

  03-03-2015 23:11
  
  Photos of Victoria Beckham's latest collection showcase modern designs with vibrant colours and classic fabrics.
  
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• Fears for missing father and son

  03-03-2015 23:05
  
  Police say they are becoming "increasingly concerned" for a young father and his eight-month-old son who have gone missing.
  
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• Peter Hain interview: Green Party surge could keep David Cameron in power

  03-03-2015 23:05
  
  A close ally of Ed Miliband has warned that the Green Party’s surge could deprive Labour of victory in scores of seats at the May election and keep David Cameron in Downing Street.
  
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• US House passes bill to fund Homeland Security through September

  03-03-2015 23:02
  
  In a rare move, US House Speaker John Boehner was among those who voted to approve a bill funding the Homeland Security Department through the end of September, sending the bill to the desk of President Barack Obama for a signature.
  
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• Aston Villa vs West Brom match report: Tim Sherwood picks up first win after mad moment from Ben Foster

  03-03-2015 22:58
  They came running back from the concourses and crowded back into the stands – it had been so long since Aston Villa had won a league game that there was not a home supporter who wanted to miss the moment when Christian Benteke slotted in the 93rd minute penalty that won this match.
  
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• UK Govt Investigates Briton Syria Death Report

  03-03-2015 22:52
  
  The Foreign Office is investigating reports of the death of a British national in Syria, following claims a Briton had been killed while fighting against Islamic State militants. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the combatant had been fighting with Kurdish YPG forces in the northern province of Hasakah. The organisation said it was not clear whether the man was a British national or a Greek man who had been living in Britain. The Foreign Office said in a statement: &qu
  
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• Penis-size study 'Am I normal?' reveals average manhood length - MSNBC

  03-03-2015 22:10 via msnbc.com
  
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• Bubonic plague-carrying fleas found on New York City rats

  03-03-2015 22:08
  
  Spend any length of time in New York City and a rat will show its whiskery face or worm-like tail. It could be on the subway tracks or nibbling through the garbage on the side of the street. It could also be carrying the bubonic plague.
  
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• Steve Bruce vs Gus Poyet: Managers have to be separated during Hull City vs Sunderland

  03-03-2015 21:55
  
  Gus Poyet and Steve Bruce had to be physically restrained during the Premier League encounter between Hull and Sunderland.
  
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• Netanyahu speech: Far-right blogger calls for Black Congressional Caucus Democrats boycotting speech to be hanged

  03-03-2015 21:54
  
  A far right-wing radio host has sparked a race row, after she called on Democrat politicians, including members of the Black Congressional Caucus, to be hanged if they boycotted a controversial speech by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Congress today.
  
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• Charley Saturmin Robinet: Homeless man shot dead by LAPD identified as French national with record for bank robbery

  03-03-2015 21:47
  The homeless man shot dead by Los Angeles policemen on Sunday during a scuffle in which police say he grabbed at an officer's gun had previously served time in federal prison for armed bank robbery. He was also identified as a French national.
  
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• Hacking Was 'Rife At Three Mirror Papers'

  03-03-2015 21:37
  
  Phone hacking was "rife" at all three Mirror Group newspapers from the end of the 1990s, the High Court has heard. One journalist had 100 celebrity targets and was making 250 hacking calls a day, it was claimed. The revelations emerged at a hearing to decide the level of compensation for eight high-profile complainants: TV executive Alan Yentob, actress Sadie Frost, ex-footballer Paul Gascoigne, soap stars Lucy Taggart, Shane Richie and Shobna Gulati, flight attendant Lauren Alcorn and
  
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• Oxford officer was silenced over sex abuse fears

  03-03-2015 21:24
  
  A council worker who wrote a series of increasingly exasperated emails warning of child abuse by Asian men in Oxfordshire was silenced after an official complaint by senior officials about his attitude, it has emerged.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress: Five key parts of Israeli leader's adresss and what they mean

  03-03-2015 21:18
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday where he voiced his opposition to efforts by the US and other Western countries to try and negotiate a deal with Iran that will ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress: Five key parts of Israeli leader's address and what they mean

  03-03-2015 21:18
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday where he voiced his opposition to efforts by the US and other Western countries to try and negotiate a deal with Iran that will ensure it does not develop nuclear weapons.
  
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• Kenneth Moore: Medic parachuted into Normandy for D-Day who set up a medical unit in a church, treating soldiers from both sides

  03-03-2015 21:08
  More than 70 years on, the Normandy villagers have not cleaned the blood stains from their church pews. The stains have dried in the oakwood but to worshippers in the 12th century Angoville-au-Plain church they are a reminder of what two US paratroopers did on and after D-Day, 1944. Few know of the two American medics, Private Ken Moore and his medic buddy Bob Wright, who used church pews and the altar to treat not just their own comrades but also German soldiers and local French civilians and
  
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• Child abuse report 'a wake-up call'

  03-03-2015 21:05
  
  Hundreds of girls may have been sexually exploited after authorities repeatedly failed to tackle grooming gangs responsible for "indescribably awful" abuse, a report has found.
  
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• Dave Mackay: Dynamic footballer whose extraordinary will to win helped Tottenham to the League and FA Cup double

  03-03-2015 21:04
  Dave Mackay was the indestructible powerhouse at the core of the Tottenham Hotspur football team which in 1961 became the first side during the 20th century to win the League and FA Cup double. Just as his fellow wing-half, the eloquent Ulsterman Danny Blanchflower, was the brain of that remarkable side, so the flintily imperious Scot was its fighting heart.
  
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• Harris to headline city festival

  03-03-2015 21:01
  
  Chart-topping DJ Calvin Harris has been announced as the first headline act of a city music festival taking place this summer.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's US Sketch: Bibi’s Congress gamble targets voters back home

  03-03-2015 20:59
  
  There’s a good old Yiddish (and Hebrew) word for what underlay Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress yesterday: chutzpah. He said at the outset, in tones of injured innocence: “I deeply regret that some have perceived my being here as political.”
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu's nuclear war of words provokes Washington fall out

  03-03-2015 20:55
  
  An unbridled Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minster of Israel, last night accused the United States and its allies, including Britain, of pursuing an arms enforcement deal with Iran so weak that it would all but ensure that it acquires nuclear weapons, catapulting the world into a “nuclear nightmare”.
  
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• Boko Haram fails to unite African allies as Chad and Cameroon wait for Nigerian support

  03-03-2015 20:51
  
  In their forward base in the town of Gambaru on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, Chadian soldiers displayed dozens of guns seized from Boko Haram and a burnt-out armoured vehicle painted with black and white Arabic script.
  
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• Stay at home mums: Spending all day with children is a luxury few can afford

  03-03-2015 20:46
  
  "I worked long and hard to bring home the money," said one of the most-liked commenters on yesterday's Mail Online lead story, titled DECLINE OF THE STAY AT HOME MOTHER. "My wife of 45 years has never had a 'job' since we got married but has worked as long and hard as a mum and housewife. I salute her."
  
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• Bring me the Head of Franco Toselli! Shapero Modern Gallery to show explicit Chapman Brothers film

  03-03-2015 20:42
  
  An artwork by the Chapman Brothers showing explicit sex scenes that caused a gallery to be shut down by the vice squad two decades ago is to go on display again – with the film being shown in a booth with a peephole placed at a respectable height in the hope of preventing minors from viewing it.
  
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• Jimmy McGovern's new TV series 'Banished': Why Australia's past has such resonance today

  03-03-2015 20:41
  
  On the 26 January 1788, at the sweltering height of the antipodean summer and after an eight-month sea voyage by way of Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town, 11 ships anchored off the coast of New South Wales near to what would eventually become the city of Sydney. The two Royal Navy escorts helped unload its cargo – 100 soldiers, scores of sheep, goats and chickens, and (last and very much least) an emaciated, rag-tag collection of just over 1,000 men, women and children who had been found guilty of
  
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• Mirror hacking trial: Staff ‘sung Ying Tong song’ as they hacked Yentob’s phone

  03-03-2015 20:41
  
  The “industrial scale” phone hacking conducted by journalists at Mirror Group Newspapers went “right to the top” of the organisation, the High Court has heard.
  
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• Rush hour delays at major station

  03-03-2015 20:36
  
  Police were called to London Bridge station this evening after thousands of travellers were left stranded when services ground to a halt during rush hour.
  
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• Mentally ill British man near plea deal in U.S. terror case - lawyer

  03-03-2015 20:19
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mentally ill Briton is near a plea deal to resolve U.S. terrorism charges that he conspired with radical London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to set up a jihadist training camp in Oregon in 1999, his lawyer said Tuesday.
  
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• Appeal over missing father and son

  03-03-2015 20:12
  
  Police are urgently trying to trace a young father who has gone missing with his eight-month-old son.
  
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• The only choice in schools is between the one you want and the ones you don’t

  03-03-2015 20:12
  
  With high-flying parents like hers, you can imagine Nancy Cameron knows her own mind. So as her father, the Prime Minister, said last year of their hunt for a secondary school for the 11-year-old: “My daughter has got a very large say in the matter.”
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: A law to stop more tenants burning to death is held up by Tories

  03-03-2015 20:12
  
  “There is robust legislation in place to ensure that landlords, freeholders and others who exercise a degree of control over the management or maintenance of a building take action to remove the risk of fire,” the Local Government Minister Stephen Williams claimed yesterday, as MPs debated the story of 23-year-old Sophie Rosser, who died after running into a burning building to rescue her boyfriend, who was asleep.
  
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• Bosnian war criminals: US trying to deport 150 Bosnians who may have hidden war crimes

  03-03-2015 20:09
  
  US officials are looking to deport as many as 150 Bosnian immigrants, who are believed to have been involved in war crimes committed in the Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995, according to the New York Times.
  
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• Flu is much less common in adults than you might think

  03-03-2015 20:08
  
  Adults over the age of 30 typically get flu about twice every 10 years whereas children contract the infection once every two years on average, a study has revealed.
  
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• Start a family – you’ll never have to go out again

  03-03-2015 20:06
  
  Thank you to Zoë Ball, the talented television and radio presenter, for shamelessly voicing what all of us with children are afraid to admit: that our little sprogs might be formidable drains on our bank balances, but they do offer extremely convenient excuses to avoid some very tedious nights out.
  
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• Threatening social workers with jail won’t do much for recruitment

  03-03-2015 20:05
  
  The world is, of course, a much simpler place if you view it in black and white. And, where children are concerned, most of us probably do. So, let us give our clear backing to David Cameron’s headline-grabbing initiative to re-designate child abuse as a “national threat”. The aim is laudable: to galvanise the child protection agencies’ approach to this scourge, and to encourage them to co-ordinate it.
  
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• £3bn to repair Parliament? Knock it into flats and send MPs up North

  03-03-2015 20:03
  
  Resist the eruption of tears as best you may, but from Parliament comes news to reactivate the most dormant of lachrymals. The Palace of Westminster is falling apart, so John Bercow claims and, for the life of him, Mr Speaker doesn’t know what will befall it unless the public purse wedges up for a refurb.
  
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• Home Office says Nigerian asylum-seeker can’t be a lesbian as she’s got children

  03-03-2015 19:59
  
  The Home Office was accused of relying on “highly offensive” and “outdated” views of sexuality to reject an asylum claim made by a Nigerian lesbian.
  
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• Why Manchester City could turn to Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers if Manuel Pellegrini is dismissed

  03-03-2015 19:57
  Brendan Rodgers could have a decision to make about the Manchester City manager’s job this summer if he is interested in such deliberations.
  
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• Sex assault allegation ‘motivated paddock murder’

  03-03-2015 19:56
  
  A mother-of-five was stabbed to death as she tended her horses in the New Forest by a man recruited by a former lover’s son to stop her accusing him of an indecent assault, a court has heard.
  
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• Celebrity 'witch-hunt' claim denied

  03-03-2015 19:53
  
  The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has denied conducting a "witch-hunt" against celebrities after broadcaster Paul Gambaccini told a parliamentary committee that he and other showbiz figures were used as human "fly paper" in the hope that their public identification as sex-abuse suspects would encourage more alleged victims to come forward.
  
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• Aston Villa vs West Brom, Hull vs Sunderland and Southampton vs Crystal Palace - Premier League LIVE!

  03-03-2015 19:42
  Welcome to our live text coverage and live score service from tonight's Premier League games.Three Premier League games - all kicking off at 7.45pmAston Villa vs West BromMidlands derby sees Tim Sherwood still seeking first winTony Pulis has taken West Brom well clear of relegation zoneHull vs SunderlandSunderland without Adam Johnson following arrestTeams separated by one point at start of eveningSouthampton vs Crystal PalaceSaints looking to get Champions League bid back on trackCrystal Palac
  
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• The City of the Monkey God: Archaeologists claim to have found city lost for 1,000 years in remote Honduran jungle

  03-03-2015 19:33
  The mossy carving had lain undisturbed for up to a millennium in some of the remotest jungle on Earth. It is a powerful effigy of a “were-jaguar” but also the pristine legacy of a vanished and - until now - unknown civilisation.
  
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• Anglo-Canadian Duo Swoops For Eurostar Stake

  03-03-2015 19:29
  
  A consortium of British and Canadian pension and infrastructure funds is poised to swoop on the government's stake in Eurostar in a deal that will raise hundreds of millions of pounds for the Treasury. Sky News understands that Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ) and an infrastructure arm of Hermes, a major UK institutional investor, are close to a deal to buy the government's 40% shareholding. The stake was put up for sale last autumn as part of a plan outlined by George Osb
  
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• Iraqi army and militias surround Isis in major offensive in the battle for Tikrit

  03-03-2015 19:19
  
  The Iraqi Army, backed by Shia militia, sought to surround Isis fighters in Tikrit and its surrounding towns yesterday as the battle for control of Saddam Hussein’s birthplace entered a second, and potentially decisive, day.
  
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• Army and militias surround Isis in major offensive

  03-03-2015 19:19
  
  The Iraqi Army, backed by Shia militia, sought to surround Isis fighters in Tikrit and its surrounding towns yesterday as the battle for control of Saddam Hussein’s birthplace entered a second, and potentially decisive, day.
  
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