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• Britain's Prince Charles meets Obama on U.S. goodwill tour

  19-03-2015 23:41
  
  Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday as part of a goodwill tour of the United States. Obama and the Prince of Wales chatted amiably in front of reporters and television cameras while the Duchess of Cornwall sat smiling on a couch nearby. "I think it’s fair to say that the American people are quite fond of the royal family," Obama told the prince. It was the first White House visit by Charles since May 2011.
  
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• Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson's staff 'tripled restaurant bill to claim more EU expenses'

  19-03-2015 23:38
  
  A Ukip MEP, who infamously referred to a Thai woman as a “ting tong”, has been suspended from the party after “serious financial” allegations about her expenses.
  
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• Goodbye, bell bottoms: the Royal Navy has got a 'cool' new uniform for the first time in 70 years

  19-03-2015 23:30
  
  Seventy years is quite a while to wait for a wardrobe overhaul – when it comes, it had better be worth it – but that's how long it has been, roughly, since the Royal Navy last had its uniforms revamped.
  
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• Boy, 16, killed in police car crash

  19-03-2015 23:08
  
  A teenager has died after being struck by a police car.
  
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• Frank Warren: Derry Mathews must teach emigre Richar Abril a few home truths

  19-03-2015 23:00
  
  Ask Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal, Roy Hodgson or Stuart Lancaster and they’ll tell you there’s no place like home. So it is in boxing.
  
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• Banished, episode 3, review: There are some lovely moments in Jimmy McGovern's plot-heavy drama (if you can keep up)

  19-03-2015 23:00
  Midway through the latest episode of Jimmy McGovern’s Banished, dramatising the (mis)adventures of the First Fleet as they settle in a hostile 18th Century Australia, David Wenham’s upstanding Governor Phillips indulged in a little flirting with his married housekeeper Deborah (Brooke Harman).
  
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• UKIP's Atkinson Suspended Over 'Serious' Claims

  19-03-2015 22:43
  
  UKIP MEP and General Election candidate Janice Atkinson has been suspended "following allegations of a serious financial nature". The Sun newspaper claims it filmed a member of Ms Atkinson's staff "apparently plotting to make a substantial bogus expenses claim" in relation to a UKIP party in Margate. Ms Atkinson was due to stand in the Folkestone and Hythe seat - one of UKIP's top election targets. UKIP leader Nigel Farage told KentOnline he was not pre-judging
  
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• Marion Maréchal-Le Pen: The poster-girl of the French far-right is more extreme than her aunt and bigger box office than her grandfather

  19-03-2015 22:30
  A young woman, tall, slender and blonde, greets market-goers in the pretty town of Bollène in the Rhône valley. She wears smart black trousers and a black woollen jacket with big zips on the pockets. She is friendly but shy – not yet a polished, political back-slapper or hand-shaker. She has been a French MP for three years. She is 25.
  
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• Tunisia shootings: Shock for a nation that is the standard-bearer for a successful, recent conversion to democracy

  19-03-2015 22:21
  
  The Arab Spring held such promise. Peoples made captive by tyranny appeared to unbind the chains of servitude. Once-muted voices were suddenly emboldened. In the West, a conceited thought arose that, at last, the democracy we had long known and loved was taking organic root in places where we knew it must eventually do so.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: The curious case of the yellow budget box

  19-03-2015 22:11
  
  It was always going to be tricky explaining to curious passers-by what we were waiting for.
  
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• Tunisia shooting: 'We smeared victims' blood over our bodies' - museum massacre survivors tell how they escaped from gunmen

  19-03-2015 22:07
  Survivors of the Tunisian museum massacre have told how they smeared themselves with blood and played dead as others tried to hide or escape from the gunmen.
  
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• Tunisia shooting: Isis says Tunis museum massacre opens a new front in its war against the West

  19-03-2015 22:07
  
  The deliberate massacre of tourists at Tunisia’s national museum was an atrocity perpetrated by Isis – with the jihadists of Iraq, Syria and neighbouring Libya warning that they had opened a new front in their war on the West.
  
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• McCluskey warns on right to strike

  19-03-2015 21:58
  
  The leader of Britain's biggest trade union has warned that the right to strike is "hanging by a thread" and faces further attacks if the Conservatives win the general election.
  
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• Eclipse-watchers hope for clear sky

  19-03-2015 21:35
  
  A near-total eclipse of the sun is set to thrill or disappoint millions tomorrow, depending on luck and the fickle British weather.
  
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• Meat Free Week: Star chefs from Raymond Blanc to Thomasina Miers share their veggie tips

  19-03-2015 21:30
  
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• Helena praises no-twist Cinderella

  19-03-2015 21:20
  
  Helena Bonham Carter has confessed she feared Kenneth Branagh's retelling of Cinderella was going to be a "boring cliche" because there was no twist to the classic fairytale.
  
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• Charles Gladdened By Obama's Royal Thumbs-Up

  19-03-2015 21:15
  
  President Barack Obama had some reassuring news for the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall as he welcomed them to the White House. During a chat in the Oval Office, Mr Obama told Charles that Americans are "quite fond" of the British royal family and much prefer them to US politicians. The two men last met almost four years ago when Charles flew to America a few days after the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Prince Charles and Mr Obama could be heard chatting on Thur
  
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• Election 2015: How close are you to the political centre?

  19-03-2015 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How close are you to the political centre?
  
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• Nigel Farage vows to uphold 'decency' in Ukip after MEP Janice Atkinson suspended

  19-03-2015 21:03
  
  Nigel Farage has vowed to do his best to uphold the principles of “decency” in Ukip after MEP Janice Atkinson was suspended over financial allegations.
  
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• After five lost years, the Coalition is finally falling apart

  19-03-2015 20:57
  
  George Osborne has attempted to tell the nation that since he took office in 2010, the economy has recovered, and that everyone across the country is doing A-OK. But people around the country won’t, and don’t, believe him. Because they’re not feeling this so-called recovery.
  
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• VIDEO: Nicola Sturgeon on life as first minister

  19-03-2015 20:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon takes a walk with the BBC's James Cook, telling him about her life along the way.
  
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• Obama highlights monarchy's appeal

  19-03-2015 20:48
  
  President Barack Obama has confessed to the Prince of Wales that Americans are not only fond of the Royal Family, but like them better than their own politicians.
  
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• Ukip's Atkinson axed as candidate

  19-03-2015 20:36
  A leading Ukip politician has been suspended and removed as a general election candidate over what the party said were " allegations of a serious financial nature".
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: How the tone of George Osborne's trumpet tax was rapidly remixed

  19-03-2015 20:35
  
  Never in the history of British fiscal policy has there been a tax that came and went faster than the trumpet tax. It was there in the morning: by the afternoon it was gone, leaving nothing but a cacophony of puns.
  
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• French comedian Dieudonne convicted for second time in two days

  19-03-2015 20:32
  
  The anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala was today convicted of inciting racial hatred – his second conviction in two days.
  
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• Justice Secretary facing cronyism row over make up of panel to appoint new Chief Inspector of Prisons

  19-03-2015 20:24
  
  Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, is facing a cronyism row over the appointment of a new Chief Inspector of Prisons.
  
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• Charles meets Obama in Oval Office

  19-03-2015 20:24
  
  US President Barack Obama and the Prince of Wales met in the famous White House's Oval Office today - and caught up on lost time.
  
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• Another mutiny for descendants of HMS Bounty crew as Australia plans to end Norfolk Island's self-rule

  19-03-2015 20:18
  
  Residents of the remote Pacific island of Norfolk Island, home to descendants of the sailors who launched mutiny on the Bounty, are poised for their own fightback over plans to end its self-rule.
  
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• Texas Senate approves bill allowing concealed handguns on college campuses

  19-03-2015 20:15
  
  College students in the state of Texas could soon carry concealed weapons on their campuses after the state Senate gave final approval to a bill on Thursday.
  
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• Syria civil war: The Israeli hospitals treating wounded soldiers from the violence across the border

  19-03-2015 20:11
  
  Moataz lay in his hospital bed with parts of his body swathed in bandages, the victim of an artillery round by the forces of the Assad regime. He was, he said, a village teacher, adding a little later that he was also an activist, and, later still, that he was a fighter with the Free Syrian Army.
  
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• Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson suspended and axed as election candidate over 'financial allegations'

  19-03-2015 20:02
  
  Ukip has removed the whip from MEP Janice Atkinson and axed her as a general election candidate “following allegations of a serious financial nature”, the party said.
  
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• Alexander Litvinenko murder inquiry: Accused to attend inquiry

  19-03-2015 20:01
  
  One of the two Russian men wanted for the murder of Alexander Litvinenko appears to have offered to give evidence to the inquiry into the former KGB agent’s death.
  
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• Crowe doesn't rule out buying Leeds

  19-03-2015 20:00
  Hollywood star Russell Crowe has not ruled out buying Leeds United, saying "let's just see how it goes".
  
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• Liberal Democrats go to war with Tories over spending cut plans

  19-03-2015 19:56
  
  Coalition differences were laid bare today as the Liberal Democrats accused the Conservatives of wanting to cut spending so deeply that they would turn the clock back half a century.
  
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• High Court judge dismisses Satanic cult abuse claims

  19-03-2015 19:49
  
  Anti-paedophile campaigners who use the internet to spread “poisonous” lies about innocent people have been condemned by a High Court judge, as she dismissed “fabricated” and “baseless” claims that a satanic cult abused children in London.
  
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• Parents risk lives climbing exam buildings to help hundreds of Indian students cheat

  19-03-2015 19:49
  
  Parents have been risking their lives in India by scaling school buildings to help their children cheat in the country’s equivalent of GCSEs.
  
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• Budget 2015: The £12bn question - where will the next cuts come from?

  19-03-2015 19:46
  
  George Osborne’s claim that households are already £900 a year better off than when the Coalition came to power has been called into question by independent experts.
  
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• Charles bowled over by challenge

  19-03-2015 19:38
  
  The Prince of Wales has proved that when it comes to 10-pin bowling he hasn't inherited the skills of his ancestor Henry VIII.
  
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• Budget 2015: Who has George Osborne shafted the most after five years in ... - The Independent

  19-03-2015 19:34 via independent.co.uk
  
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  Budget 2015: Who has George Osborne shafted the most after five years in ...
  The Independent
  The poorest in society and those in their 20s have been hit the hardest by George Osborne's five budgets. That's the verdict of the influential think thank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which delivered its traditional post-budget assessment this afternoon.
  IFS challenges George Osborne over £12bn welfare spending cut planThe Guardian
  IFS challenges Osborne's shift in 
  
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• Welshman charged £1,775 by English hospital for being 'technically a foreigner'

  19-03-2015 19:34
  
  A man from Wales was mistakenly charged £1,775 for treatment at an English NHS hospital after being told he was “technically a foreigner”.
  
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• Suspect in Litvinenko death says he'll take part in inquiry - Daily Mail

  19-03-2015 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  Suspect in Litvinenko death says he'll take part in inquiry
  Daily Mail
  LONDON (AP) — A prime suspect in the poisoning of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko appears to have broken his silence to say he will cooperate with a British inquiry into the death. Inquiry attorney Robin Tam said Thursday that a man calling ...
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• Budget 2015: Who has George Osborne shafted the most after five years in power? The poorest and the youngest

  19-03-2015 19:30
  The poorest in society and those in their 20s have been hit the hardest by George Osborne’s five budgets.
  
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• Life under Isis: As long as its enemies remain divided, the militants will not be defeated

  19-03-2015 19:29
  
  Isis still rules most of the territories it captured last year in Iraq and Syria. It may no longer be expanding, but it is little diminished, despite 2,500 US air strikes hitting its military forces and economic infrastructure.
  
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• EU summit begins in acrimony with Greek PM told to implement reform

  19-03-2015 19:23
  
  Greece’s Prime Minister arrived in Brussels today to try and convince his EU partners to unlock more emergency funding, but instead received a dressing-down from leaders unhappy with the increasingly combative rhetoric and lack of reform from Athens.
  
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• Solar eclipse: how to watch the eclipse safely - Telegraph.co.uk

  19-03-2015 19:21 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Solar eclipse: how to watch the eclipse safely
  Telegraph.co.uk
  The most important message is never to look directly at the Sun, even through sunglasses or dark material such as a bin liner or photographic negative. Makeshift filters may not screen out the harmful infrared radiation that can burn the retina of the eye.
  Eclipse 2015 path: when and where the blackout will happen and how to watch it ...The Independent
  "Viewing an eclipse reminds us of the bigger system": H
  
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• Cyclone Pam: Vanuatu provides a lesson in how to survive a category five storm

  19-03-2015 19:20
  
  Villagers in Vanuatu buried food and fresh water as one of the strongest storms on record bore down on them.
  
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• Genetically engineering mosquitoes to end malaria could have unintended consequences

  19-03-2015 19:19
  
  A new way of creating genetically modified insects could wipe out many mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria within a few years but it could also unleash potentially devastating unintended consequences, scientists have warned.
  
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• Climate change: President Obama orders US to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent

  19-03-2015 19:17
  
  President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Thursday to reduce the US government’s use of greenhouse gases by 40 per cent by 2025, in an effort to show that the US is serious about taking on climate change.
  
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• Mushroom's glow 'attracts insects'

  19-03-2015 19:17
  
  A glowing mushroom lights up to attract insects that can spread its spores, a study suggests.
  
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• Crocodile ancestor 'top predator'

  19-03-2015 19:17
  
  A newly discovered crocodile ancestor that lived on land and walked on two legs may have been a top predator before dinosaurs took over the world, scientists believe.
  
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