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• Use of rape as plot device is 'shifting' sympathy from victim to perpetrator, warns academic

  07-03-2015 23:58
  
  The use of rape as a plot device in film, video games and literature is ‘shifting’ sympathy from the victim to the perpetrator, an academic warned yesterday.
  
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• Man On House Of Commons Roof - Reports

  07-03-2015 23:53
  
  A man is believed to be on the roof of the House of Commons, according to witnesses.
  
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• Osborne planning 'diverted profits tax' - Sunday Times

  07-03-2015 23:49
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Chancellor, George Osborne, is planning to introduce a new "diverted profits tax" targeting multinational companies judged to have shifted profits overseas to avoid tax, the Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing government sources.
  
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• Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Isis in video message

  07-03-2015 21:58
  
  Boko Haram, the militant Nigerian group, has announced it is allying with the Islamic State (Isis). The pledge was made in a film, appearing to be a recording of the group’s leader Abubakar Shjeka, which was posted online on Saturday evening. Monitoring news website SITE quoted the recording as saying: “We announce our allegiance to the Caliph… and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity.”
  
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• Teens held after four-deaths crash

  07-03-2015 21:55
  
  Five teenagers are being held on suspicion of dangerous driving after four people died in a horrific crash between two cars.
  
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• Wedding murder charge man remanded - Belfast Telegraph

  07-03-2015 21:52 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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  A man has been remanded in custody accused of murdering his great-uncle outside a family wedding. Also in this Section. Warm weather to give way to winds · Adams sets out government plans · Britain enjoys warmest day of year · Police probe poisoning ...
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• Elgin Marbles row: Greece tells British Government to stop stonewalling on return of Parthenon sculptures

  07-03-2015 21:36
  
  The Government is refusing to negotiate with Greece about the return of the so-called Elgin Marbles despite a request to do so from the United Nations, a decision that could prompt Athens to begin legal action for the first time.
  
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• White House lockdown triggered by bang now lifted: media - Channel News Asia

  07-03-2015 21:02 via channelnewsasia.com
  
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  A White House lockdown triggered by a loud bang just moments before President Barack Obama and his family were due to take off by helicopter from the South Lawn has been lifted. PHOTOS. Snow starts to fall as a woman walks past the White House in ...
  
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• Aston Villa likely to face disciplinary action after fans invade pitch before final whistle during FA Cup victory over West Brom

  07-03-2015 20:49
  Aston Villa reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup for the first time since 2010 after goals from Fabian Delph and Scott Sinclair booked their place at Wembley with a 2-0 win over West Brom, but the victory was overshadowed by an embarrassing pitch invasion before and after the final whistle that will almost certainly see the club face repercussions.
  
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• Five Teens Arrested As Four Die In Car Smash

  07-03-2015 19:32
  
  Four people have died after an accident involving two cars in South Wales. The two vehicles involved were a black Volkswagen Golf estate and a green Volkswagen Golf.
  
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• Police admit Syria letter errors

  07-03-2015 19:29
  
  Police have admitted they should have communicated more directly with the families of three teenage girls who are feared to have travelled to Syria to join Isis.
  
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• The Last Word: All hail the devoted fans who go that extra mile – or 500

  07-03-2015 19:04
  
  It was just before 1.30 on Wednesday morning, in the time-tunnel known as the northbound carriageway of the M6. Paul Butler still had another 90 minutes behind the wheel of a minibus containing 14 other Morecambe fans, returning from a 1-1 draw at Oxford United.
  
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• Britain enjoys warmest day of year

  07-03-2015 18:55
  
  Britons have basked in the warmest day of the year so far, with temperatures higher than Mediterranean hotspots such as Barcelona, Rome and Athens.
  
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• Porn at the Pyramids: investigation after tourists make adult film at ancient wonder

  07-03-2015 18:31
  
  Egyptian tourist bosses have launched an investigation into a pornography video shot near Egypt's famous Pyramids appeared online.
  
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• Sierra Leone athlete arrested in London for overstaying visa because Ebola killed his family

  07-03-2015 18:30
  
  Sierra Leone’s best sprinter has been arrested after he was found living rough on the streets of London.
  
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• Royal snub for BBC as C4 bag rights for King Richard III burial

  07-03-2015 18:19
  
  Channel  4 has secured the live rights to covering the burial of King Richard III – found unexpectedly in a Leicestershire car park - after the BBC “couldn’t make their minds” up.
  
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• Suicide bomb attacks kill dozens in Nigeria

  07-03-2015 18:17
  
  Blasts in Maiduguri bear hallmarks of Boko Haram, though no group has claimed responsibility for the attacksFour suicide bomb attacks have hit the city of Maiduguri, killing at least 54 people and wounding 143 in the heartland of Nigeria’s north-eastern Islamic uprising, police have said.The blasts occurred over four hours in locations from a busy fish market to a crowded bus station, said the police commissioner Clement Adoda. A fifth explosion from a car bomb at a military checkpoint 50 mile
  
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• Tottenham’s Harry Kane nets double to keep QPR in bottom three

  07-03-2015 18:09
  
  Harry Kane kept Tottenham Hotspur in contention for Champions League qualification and surely secured an England call-up by scoring two more goals to keep Queens Park Rangers deep in peril. Roy Hodgson was at Loftus Road to watch Kane score for the sixth away game in a row and leapfrog Charlie Austin in the Premier League striking charts. Sandro pulled a goal back for the home side but Rangers could not rescue a point and remain in the relegation zone, having now lost seven of their last eight m
  
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• QPR vs Tottenham match report: Harry Kane brace keeps Spurs in the hunt for top-four but deals a blow to Rangers' survival hopes

  07-03-2015 18:08
  QPR's hopes of beating the drop received a major blow as Harry Kane underlined his England credentials with a match-winning brace for Tottenham.
  
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• Chinese authorities remove pollution documentary "Under the Dome" from online video sites

  07-03-2015 18:04
  
  Chinese authorities have taken the damning pollution documentary “Under the Dome” offline after it gained hundreds of millions of views within days of its release.
  
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• UK police defend actions over teenage girls who flew to Syria

  07-03-2015 18:03
  
  British police on Saturday denied accusations that they had failed to pass on crucial information that could have allowed families to stop three teenage girls from travelling to Syria to join Islamic State militants. Shamima Begum and Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, who all attended the same London school, were reported missing on Feb. 17. They flew to Turkey that day and police believe they subsequently made their way to Syria. Dozens of Britons, mostly young men but also some you
  
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• Football clockwatch: QPR 1-2 Tottenham, Football League and more – as it happened

  07-03-2015 18:03
  
  Harry Kane’s brace kept Spurs’ top four push motoring along at Loftus Road, while there were plenty of thrills in the Football League 5.03pm GMT PS – here’s a match report from Hannover 1-3 Bayern Munich. Bye! 5.02pm GMT That’s about it from me. Scroll through the results here. And do pay a visit to the Aston Villa v West Brom MBM after. Thanks for reading. Until next time! 5.00pm GMT It finished 4-3 to Sevilla at Deportivo in the end. Sidnei scored an own goal to make it 4-2 to Sevill
  
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• Teenage burglars think they stole cocaine from a house – turns out to be cremation ashes

  07-03-2015 18:02
  
  Three boys thought they were stealing cocaine from a house but the powder turned out to be the cremated remains of the homeowner’s father.
  
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• Ukip on track for 100-plus second places across England

  07-03-2015 18:00
  
  Analysis predicts huge breakthrough as Nigel Farage provides main threat to three partiesUkip is on course to come second in at least 100 seats at the general election as it displaces the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems as the main opposition across large parts of the country, according to new analysis of the party’s electoral prospects on 7 May.The extraordinary potential haul of Ukip “silver medals” – in an addition to a likely tally of half-a-dozen or so seats at Westminster – would rep
  
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• World first in surrogacy as MOTHER gives birth to SON'S baby... making them brothers

  07-03-2015 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MOTHER has given birth to her son’s baby in a world first for surrogacy.
  
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• Dating site for 'beautiful people only' removes 3,000 members for 'ageing and weight gain'

  07-03-2015 17:59
  
  A self-proclaimed “elite” dating website has removed around 3,000 members because they were "letting themselves go".
  
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• Konstandinos Erik Scurfield: British soldier killed by Isis hoped his mum was a 'bit proud' in final message

  07-03-2015 17:57
  Just weeks before he was killed by Isis militants in Syria, the former British soldier wrote to a friend that he hoped his mum might be "a bit proud" of her son.
  
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• Billion-pound defence contract for Apache helicopters reportedly delayed

  07-03-2015 17:57
  
  A billion-pound defence contract is reportedly being delayed by a British firm’s insistent lobbying for the job, despite the Ministry of Defence’s recommendation to award the business to a cheaper US company.
  
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• Lib Dems ponder 10mph speed limit

  07-03-2015 17:55
  
  Speed limits on public roads could be cut to 10mph under Liberal Democrat plans for green transport laws aimed at reducing air and noise pollution.
  
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• QPR v Tottenham, Football League and more – live football clockwatch!

  07-03-2015 17:46
  
  Live updates from the Premier League, Football League and across Europe
  Live scoreboard! Follow all of the day’s action as it happens around EuropeAnd email [email protected] or tweet @alansmith90 4.46pm GMT Kane has scored goals in all five of Tottenham's PL derbies this year. Vs Chelsea, Palace, Arsenal, West Ham and now QPR #THFC 4.44pm GMT Millwall have pulled one back from the penalty sport against Norwich. Lee Gregory’s consolation makes it 1-4. 4.43pm GMT … it’s half-clea
  
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• Aston Villa v West Brom: FA Cup quarter-final – live!

  07-03-2015 17:45
  
  FA Cup quarter-final updates from the 5.30pm GMT kick-off at Villa ParkLive scoreboard! Follow all of the day’s action as it happens around EuropeAnd email [email protected] or tweet @bglendenning 4.43pm GMT In another FA Cup news: Reading boss Steve Clarke has accused the Football Association of “devaluing the competition” after bowing to Uefa pressure to stage their FA Cup quarter-final replay with Bradford a week on Monday. The two lowest-ranked sides left in the competi
  
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• White House placed in lockdown after 'loud noise' and nearby fire

  07-03-2015 17:44
  
  The White House was placed into lockdown on Saturday following a "loud bang" and a fire, just moments before President Barack Obama and his family were due to take off by helicopter from the South Lawn.
  
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• Russia detains two men in Boris Nemtsov murder inquiry

  07-03-2015 17:31
  
  Two men from North Caucasus region detained in connection with February killing of Russian opposition leaderRussian authorities have detained two men in connection with the murder of the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
  The pair were named as Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadayev, both from the North Caucasus, a volatile region of southern Russia plagued by insurgency. Related: The killing of my friend Boris Nemtsov must signal the death of appeasement | Garry Kasparov Continue reading...
  
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• Syria-bound girls' parents should have been given letters directly, police admit

  07-03-2015 17:18
  
  Police gave letters to girls to pass on, but say parents had already been made aware by school that 15-year-old friend had gone to SyriaPolice have acknowledged they should have communicated more directly with the families of three teenage girls who are feared to have travelled to Syria to join Isis.Scotland Yard said that “with the benefit of hindsight” it recognised that letters addressed to seven girls’ families about a 15-year-old fellow pupil at Bethnal Green Academy in east London wh
  
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• Kelly Gissendaner's last words to her children released after Georgia execution is postponed

  07-03-2015 17:13
  
  The intended final words of a mother-of-three who was due to be killed by lethal injection have been released after her execution was postponed.
  
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• 5,000 join climate change protest

  07-03-2015 17:12
  
  More than 5,000 protesters gathered outside Parliament in London calling on the Government to take tougher action on climate change.
  
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• Grandmother drowns after being swept away by freak wave on 'dream holiday' in Goa

  07-03-2015 17:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BRITISH grandmother drowned after being swept out to sea on a luxury family holiday as her horrified partner battled to save her life.
  
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• Indian ban on rape film is 'international suicide', says director

  07-03-2015 17:02
  
  Leslee Udwin says India’s Daughter documentary was a ‘gift of gratitude to India’ and calls on PM Narendra Modi to allow screeningThe director of a documentary about the gang rape and murder of a woman in Delhi has said India committed “international suicide” by banning the film and asking for YouTube to remove all links to it.The film, India’s Daughter, was broadcast in Britain last week on BBC4 and many YouTube users have posted a recording of the programme on the site. It is avail
  
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• The imaginative ring-box art of Talwst – in pictures

  07-03-2015 17:00
  
  Seven years ago, Canadian-Trinidadian artist Talwst was given an old ring box by a Parisian street vendor, who told him: “I want to see what you make with this.” Talwst placed a miniature figure emerging from a tiny seascape inside and, ever since, has been creating dioramas of scenes inspired by pop culture, current events and everyday experiences. “I like to capture memories and fleeting moments,” he says. “They feel all the more moving because of their fugitive nature.” He hunts o
  
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• Should parliament move out of London?

  07-03-2015 17:00
  
  Faced with a £3bn repair bill, is the Palace of Westminster still the best place for MPs to meet?Danny Dorling, professor of geography at Oxford University
  A sensible time to debate moving parliament out of London is when you are faced with a £3bn repair bill to make the Palace of Westminster fit for purpose. This is the speaker’s estimate and these are always underestimates. He suggests temporarily decanting from London. For a fraction of the cost, the palace could be turned into a p
  
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• Books about San Francisco: readers' picks

  07-03-2015 17:00
  
  From yuppies to Harvey Milk via Jack London, here is your essential reading list for San Francisco travels – real or imaginary. These are some of our readers’ favourite books about the west coast cradle of bohemia, tech and groundbreaking literatureReading American cities: books about San FranciscoSome things can only happen in San Francisco. Few cities combine the magnetism of “start-up” entrepreneurship with being the perfect place for outsiders and seekers – and the literature set i
  
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• Police: we erred on Syria letters

  07-03-2015 16:51
  
  Police have admitted they should have communicated more directly with the families of three teenage girls who are feared to have travelled to Syria to join Isis.
  
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• Victoria Pendleton returns to the saddle… as a jockey

  07-03-2015 16:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VICTORIA Pendleton is swapping one saddle for another as she aims to become a jockey at the 2016 Cheltenham Festival.
  
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• Toddlers in Boston are surprise coffee drinkers according to new study

  07-03-2015 16:40
  
  As many as 15 per cent of toddlers in Boston drink coffee every day, new research shows.
  
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• Miliband insists on TV debate, says Cameron 'chickening out'

  07-03-2015 16:37
  
  British opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband on Saturday accused Prime Minister David Cameron of trying to "chicken out" of head-to-head televised debates with him ahead of a national election on May 7 and said he would take part with or without Cameron. Broadcasters had proposed three debates, two of them between the leaders of seven parties and one between just Miliband and Cameron, the two people most likely to become prime minister after May 7, but Cameron has rejected their propos
  
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• Man Appears In Court Over Teen Cyclist Murder

  07-03-2015 16:36
  
  Joshua Williams, 18, of Davenant Road, Holloway, north London, was remanded in custody over the death of Alan Cartwright. The youngster had been cycling along Caledonian Road in Islington, north London, when he was attacked on 27 February. Williams appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court and will appear next at the Old Bailey on Tuesday.
  
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• Parliament protester admits throwing marbles and shouting 'you're all liars' from public gallery

  07-03-2015 16:31
  
  A protester admits to causing a huge security alert in Parliament by throwing marbles at a glass screen that separates MPs from the public gallery.
  
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• Isis militants continue path of destruction in Hatra by 'demolishing 2,000 year-old ruins'

  07-03-2015 16:27
  
  Iraqi officials say Isis militants are continuing in their path of destruction and have begun attacking ancient ruins in Hatra, just a day after bulldozing the Assyrian archaeological site of Nimrud.
  
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• Vote for SNP 'would save Cameron'

  07-03-2015 16:23
  
  Voting for the SNP would "save" David Cameron and lead to another Tory austerity government for the UK, Jim Murphy has warned Scots.
  
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• Clinton email domain shows effort for security and obscurity, say experts

  07-03-2015 16:21
  
  Former secretary of state’s ‘clintonemail.com’ was no ‘homebrew’ system: creators appear to have worked to shield dataThe private email infrastructure created by Hillary Clinton after she left the State Department employs several techniques to obscure its location as well as some sophisticated security shields to protect it from hackers, cyber security experts have told the Guardian.The private “clintonemail.com” domain that has been the subject of intense political controversy thi
  
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