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• Real Madrid 3-4 Schalke (5-4 agg)

  10-03-2015 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Real Madrid survive a huge scare to qualify for the Champions League quarter-finals despite losing on the night to Schalke.
  
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• Families of missing schoolgirls 'appalled' by stolen jewellery claims – video

  10-03-2015 23:43
  
  The families of three missing schoolgirls, thought to have travelled to Syria to join Islamic State (Isis), dispute claims their children stole jewellery to travel abroad. Renu Begum, the sister of Shamima Begum, and Fahmida Aziz, the cousin of Kadiza Sultana, speak to the Guardian after appearing in front of MPs on the home affairs committee on Tuesday. Begum says the girls should be treated as victims, not terrorists Continue reading...
  
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• Missing girls lured by Isis won't face terrorism charges, says Met chief

  10-03-2015 23:39
  
  Bernard Hogan-Howe gives reassurance as families deny that their daughters stole jewellery to finance journey to SyriaBritain’s top police officer says the three London teenagers who allegedly stole jewellery from their parents to fund a trip to Islamic State (Isis) territory can return home without fear of being prosecuted for terrorism.Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, commissioner of the Metropolitan police, cleared the way for Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, to return hom
  
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• Yacine Brahimi and Casemiro turn on the style to help Porto defeat Basel

  10-03-2015 23:32
  
  Porto eased into the Champions League quarter-finals with a comfortable 4-0 win over Basel in the second leg of their last-16 clash.The Portuguese club are through to the last eight for only the second time since winning the competition in 2004 and their place was in little doubt from the moment Yacine Brahimi fired in a free-kick after 14 minutes. Further goals from Héctor Herrera, Casemiro and Vincent Aboubakar after the break rubber-stamped the result, which was further compounded when
  
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• Chelsea earn bonuses only if they win Champions League, says José Mourinho

  10-03-2015 23:31
  
  • ‘Pride of success’ motivates players more than money says manager
  • ‘Our training session was harder work than PSG’s win over Lens’
  • Gregory van der Wiel: Champions League is PSG dream
  • Laurent Blanc calls for calm in face of Costa provocation
  • Chelsea welcome back Matic to help tip the scales against PSG
  • Fàbregas and Chelsea seek killer instinct against Paris Saint-GermainJosé Mourinho has revealed Chelsea’s players will not receive a team bonus if they pr
  
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• 'Foolish' to cut rates, says Carney

  10-03-2015 23:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mark Carney has said it would be "extremely foolish" for the Bank of England to cut interest rates to try to combat the current low inflation rate.
  
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• BBC suspends Clarkson over 'fracas'

  10-03-2015 23:07
  
  The BBC has suspended Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson "following a fracas" with a producer.
  
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• Victoria Cross hero statue unveiled

  10-03-2015 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A full-size statue of a soldier who won the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Gallipoli campaign in World War One is unveiled.
  
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• Real Madrid made to sweat by never-say-die Schalke but shock averted

  10-03-2015 22:59
  
  Real Madrid are through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League. That is not news; what is news is that they genuinely feared they might not be. With six minutes to go Schalke found themselves within a goal of completing an extraordinary turn-around. The Germans won 4-3 at the Santiago Bernabéu, a result that was enough to end a 10-match winning run for Madrid but not ultimately to end their defence of the European Cup. Carry on like this, though, and they will not last much longer.
  
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• Clarkson Jokes On Twitter After Suspension

  10-03-2015 22:53
  
  Jeremy Clarkson has suggested the BBC should show the film Where Eagles Dare after this Sunday's episode of Top Gear was cancelled and the presenter suspended. Several hours after the suspension was announced, Clarkson's co-presenter James May said: "No Top Gear this weekend, apparently.
  
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• Blurred Lines trial: Jury finds against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke awards and awards $7.3m to family of Marvin Gaye

  10-03-2015 22:49
  A jury has decided that Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied a Marvin Gaye song to create their track Blurred Lines and awarded $7.3m to Gaye's family.
  
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• Blurred Lines singers to pay $7.4m to Marvin Gaye's family for copying song

  10-03-2015 22:45
  
  Jury decides Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke copied 1977 hit Got to Give It Up in lawsuit filed by Gaye’s childrenA jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s children nearly $7.4m on Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father’s music to create Blurred Lines, the biggest hit song of 2013.Marvin Gaye’s daughter Nona Gaye wept as the verdict was being read and was hugged by her attorney, Richard Busch. Continue reading...
  
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• Real Madrid v Schalke: Champions League – as it happened

  10-03-2015 22:41
  
  Real Madrid sneaked through to the quarters despite Schalke triumphing on a whirlwind night at the Bernabeu.Porto 4-0 Basel (agg 5-1), as Jacob Steinberg saw it 9.36pm GMT The holders are through. But you wouldn’t know it from the reception they’re getting from their own fans. The bird is the word. Schalke’s meanwhile are defiant and proud, despite the ultimate futility of it all. Their brave, exciting, marvellous side came so close to the most spectacular comeback in European Cup history.
  
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• Paris Fahion Week 2015: Zoolander moment mangles Valentino's message

  10-03-2015 22:41
  
  When Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson strode down the catwalk at the end of the Valentino autumn/winter 2015 show, there was a collective gasp – even as the audience whooped and swooped on the two film stars with iPhones. Or perhaps it was just me, in my head.
  
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• Former NSA director: Charlie Hebdo attack was 'kind of inevitable'

  10-03-2015 22:37
  
  Michael Hayden says in speech to Washington thinktank that attacks like one at French satirical magazine are similar to Ebola epidemicThe former NSA director general Michael Hayden said the Charlie Hebdo attack was “kind of inevitable” on Tuesday, and compared Islamist extremism to Ebola. “The fact of the matter is there’s a plague and people are going to get Ebola,” he said. Continue reading...
  
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• Hillsborough inquest: Police chief admits 'I wasn't best man for the job man for the job'

  10-03-2015 22:36
  
  The man in charge of policing the football match at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough stadium in 1989, when 96 fans were crushed to death, today broke his silence after 26 years – and admitted he was ill-prepared and “probably not the best man for the job”.
  
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• Falcao plays for Man Utd Under-21s

  10-03-2015 22:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United use on-loan Monaco striker Radamel Falcao in an Under-21 Premier League match against Tottenham.
  
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• Boston Marathon bomb trial: FBI agent mistakes Grozny for Mecca in Twitter photo

  10-03-2015 22:34
  
  Agent misidentified Twitter account photo of Grozny as MeccaTweets revealed to be jokes from Comedy Central TV shows and pop lyricsSparks flew in a federal courtroom in Boston on Tuesday in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – the younger and only survivor of two brothers accused of perpetrating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing – as the testimony of an FBI agent and witness for the prosecution collapsed under cross-examination by the defence.Tsarnaev’s defence attorney Miriam Conrad surgically
  
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• Ireland mistakenly legalises drugs: Twitter reacts to bizarre loophole allowing ecstasy, ketamine and magic mushrooms for one night only

  10-03-2015 22:33
  Twitter erupted in confusion today, after a stranger-than-fiction legal case saw over 100 drugs including ecstasy, ketamine and magic mushrooms become legal in Ireland for one night only.
  
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• Payday lenders still misleading and threatening customers, says FCA

  10-03-2015 22:20
  
  Report on first year of City regulator’s oversight of sector finds text messages warning of home visits to vulnerable clients and illegal fees added to accountsThe City regulator has uncovered a litany of unfair practices at payday lenders including sending threatening text messages, pursuing customers for the wrong amount and misleading people about the effect of non-payment on their credit rating.In a report released on Tuesday, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said its review of the pa
  
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• Police boss 'not best man for job'

  10-03-2015 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The man in charge of policing on the day of the Hillsborough disaster admits he "was probably not the best man for the job".
  
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• Clinton on email controversy: 'would have been better' to use two accounts

  10-03-2015 22:08
  
  Former secretary of state publicly addresses week-long controversy and insists she never used her personal email account to send classified materialUpdate: Hillary Clinton faces new questions over personal emails she ‘chose not to keep’Hillary Clinton conceded on Tuesday that she should have used a government email address while serving as US secretary of state, but insisted that she had broken no rules or laws by using her personal account and never used it to send classified material.Publi
  
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• First UK-farmed truffle harvested

  10-03-2015 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first truffle to have been cultivated on UK soil is harvested from a field in Leicestershire.
  
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• The Guardian view on the bankers: blame from the bottom-up

  10-03-2015 22:05
  
  HSBC bosses were true to industry form this week – grab the money for being at the top, then shove responsibility down the lineLeather, plate and chainmail all had their day in the history of armour. In our own times, however, the panoply of choice is a suit of solid gold. Bank bosses deflect the charge of overseeing skulduggery by suggesting that their highly paid time is simply too valuable to be squandered on figuring out what lowly subordinates get up to. While the towers of finance were a
  
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• We are not raising Generation Diva

  10-03-2015 21:53
  
  Dutch research suggests we’re making our children into narcissistic twits – yet this study isn’t about how we make them feel, but how we feel about parentingAre we raising a generation of narcissistic twits? Telling children they’re “special” is not good for them and not good for society, says a new study in an American journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (hey, that sounds catchy – get me a subscription now.) Call me Oprah Winfrey, but I disagree: we are all sp
  
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• Steve Bell on Jeremy Clarkson – cartoon

  10-03-2015 21:51
  
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• Jeremy Clarkson SUSPENDED by BBC after 'throwing a punch at producer'

  10-03-2015 21:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  JEREMY Clarkson's future with the BBC is uncertain tonight after he was suspended from Top Gear after allegedly throwing a punch at a producer.
  
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• Met 'sorry' over Syria girls letter

  10-03-2015 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The head of the Met Police says sorry to the families of three girls missing in Syria after they failed to receive a letter intended for them.
  
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• Louis van Gaal: A 10 point plan to a Manchester United recovery, including learning English and building the team around Angel Di Maria

  10-03-2015 21:47
  1. Improve his EnglishLouis van Gaal’s eccentric pronunciation and belief he can translate his Dutch thoughts into English word for word make his delivery sound ridiculous. It isn’t helping United’s image.
  
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• Ex-Rotherham Boss Will Not Hand Back OBE

  10-03-2015 21:43
  
  The former council leader in Rotherham has said he will not return his OBE, as he faced questions for the first time since stepping down last August. Roger Stone, who was leader of Rotherham Council for more than a decade, said he could not have stopped child sexual exploitation in the town. When asked by Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk whether he would return his OBE, he said: "No. no, no, no. Mr Stone appeared before the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee to answer questions ab
  
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• ‘This is not who we are’ is American for: ‘This is sort of who we are’

  10-03-2015 21:40
  
  And as for the 57-year-old senator who claims never to have sent an email, why not try him on Twitter instead?“This is not who we are.” So said Oklahoma University’s president, David Boren, after fraternity members were filmed chanting racist epithets on a coach. The leadership of the fraternity in question, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, released a statement that said, among other things: “This is absolutely not who we are.”Both assertions echo President Obama’s reaction to the CIA torture re
  
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• Mark Carney defends Bank of England over climate change study

  10-03-2015 21:36
  
  Governor hits back at Nigel Lawson’s description of research into effects of global warming on insurance industry as ‘green claptrap’Climate change is one of the biggest risks facing the insurance industry, the governor of the Bank of England has said after a former Conservative chancellor dismissed a study on global warming as “green claptrap”.Speaking at the House of Lords, Mark Carney mounted a robust defence of the Bank’s work on the impact of climate change on the insurance indu
  
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• Dramatic moment cashier continues counting cash - despite robber pointing GUN at her head

  10-03-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THIS is the tense moment a cashier kept her cool and carried on counting cash - despite an armed robber pointing a GUN at her head.
  
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• Lost pets posters: The photocopied picture of a much-missed companion is not a thing of the past

  10-03-2015 21:29
  On a street near my house recently, I spotted what I thought were three missing cat posters. I find these kinds of notices desperately sad, especially when they are rain-stained and blurry, with the creature pictured unrecognisable (Dog? Cat? Rodent of unusual size?). "Do you know this cat?" read the first. Accompanying the animal's description (green eyes, large, black fur) was a child's drawing of a cat. Gulp.
  
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• Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC over 'fracas' with producer

  10-03-2015 21:29
  
  Motoring show pulled from Sunday night schedules as BBC investigates claims controversial presenter threw punch at colleague
  In the end it wasn’t Jeremy Clarkson’s racist, homophobic or sexist comments, but a “fracas” with a colleague that became the final straw for the BBC, long urged to punish its highest-paid star.A tight-lipped corporation said on Tuesday it had suspended the controversial Top Gear presenter pending an investigation into his “fracas with a BBC producer” and, for
  
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• From Heston Blumenthal to Lidl: Kevin Love on leaving an award-winning restaurant for a supermarket chain

  10-03-2015 21:25
  As far as career moves go, it will likely have some of the restaurant industry choking on their skirt steak.
  
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• Steve Bunce column: From a shed to a world title shot - Ovill McKenzie's tale can have happy end

  10-03-2015 21:21
  
  There was once a wooden shack built on the roof of the Peacock gym in Canning Town in London’s old East End where the bunk beds were three high and packed each night with exhausted men having the ancient dream of all boxers.
  
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• PSG most aggressive team - Mourinho

  10-03-2015 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho says he is surprised by Paris St-Germain's aggression ahead of their Champions League tie.
  
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• Harry Yeadon: Civil engineer who played a key role in the development of the Preston By-pass, Britain's first motorway

  10-03-2015 21:01
  It was thanks to pioneering civil engineers of the calibre of Harry Yeadon that the north-west of England, cradle of the industrial revolution, also saw the beginning of a new era in road communications, when Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, opened in 1958.
  
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• Death risk of stress and depression

  10-03-2015 21:00
  
  A combination of stress and depression can create a "perfect storm" that significantly increases a heart patient's risk of dying, new research has shown.
  
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• Sigma Alpha Epsilon: 5 things to know about the fraternity aside from racist chant

  10-03-2015 20:59
  
  As of the time of writing – about 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon – the words Sigma Alpha Epsilon are stirring up little more than the images of well-dressed, college-aged men taking part in a racist chant.
  
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• Florence Arthaud: Sailor who helped open up sailing for women and won La Route Du Rhum 12 years before Ellen MacArthur

  10-03-2015 20:58
  In 1990, the French champion sailor Florence Arthaud became the first woman to win La Route Du Rhum, the transatlantic single-handed yacht race between Saint Malo, Brittany, and Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, setting a record time of 14 days 10 hours and 8 minutes. "The world of sailing isn't especially macho," Arthaud said, noting that the French yachtsman Philippe Poupon, who had won the previous edition of the race in 1986, and finished second in 1990, had been one of the first to congratulate
  
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• Sam Simon: Writer and producer who started out on 'Taxi' and 'Cheers' before making his name as co-creator of 'The Simpsons'

  10-03-2015 20:54
  Sam Simon was the often overlooked but instrumental co-creator of The Simpsons. Diagnosed with terminal colon cancer in November 2012, twice divorced and with no children, he vowed to spend his remaining time giving away his fortune to animal rights and conservation causes. They had become his main interests after his acrimonious departure from the show in 1993.
  
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• Morgan V Clarkson: Piers appears to take aim at Top Gear host following BBC suspension

  10-03-2015 20:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THEY have a long history of clashes – and Piers Morgan appeared to take aim at Jeremy Clarkson following the Top Gear star's suspension by the BBC.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: The talk of the glen is evensong and a glass of wine

  10-03-2015 20:52
  
  Nobody was actually singing “Oh Danny Boy, The pipes are calling from glen to glen... Tis you must go and I must bide”… There was nevertheless something elegiac about what could be Danny Alexander’s Commons farewell.
  
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• Buskers soon able to accept cashless payments

  10-03-2015 20:49
  
  Buskers will soon be able to accept cashless payments thanks to a new scheme whose backers say is vital to prevent the practice from dying out.
  
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• VIDEO: Four arrested in illegal dumping raids

  10-03-2015 20:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four people have been arrested in connection with the illegal dumping of potentially hazardous waste at sites across England, as Ben Geoghegan reports.
  
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• Crufts dog poisoning: Second dog could also have died after show

  10-03-2015 20:47
  
  The organisers of Crufts were investigating claims today that a second dog had died after being poisoned at the show.
  
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• Brown: EU exit 'North Korea option'

  10-03-2015 20:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Leaving the European Union would make Britain the North Korea of Europe with "few friends [and] no influence", Gordon Brown warns.
  
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• Isis in Afghanistan is a disaster waiting to happen

  10-03-2015 20:38
  
  When tales began to emerge in January that Mullah Abdul Rauf had obtained the Isis franchise in Afghanistan, and was inviting his comrades in the Taliban to join him, there was general surprise. He had the most glittering of CVs: severely injured fighting the Russians and incarcerated by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay before returning to triumphs in the jihad.
  
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