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• Autopsy into death of child found being pushed on swing by mother is inconclusive

  25-05-2015 23:34
  
  An autopsy into the death of a young child in La Plata, Maryland, whose remains were discovered as his mother pushed him on a park swing, has returned inconclusive.
  
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• Ada Colau: Tough-talking poverty activist voted in as Barcelona's first female mayor

  25-05-2015 23:29
  
  Across the world parliamentary commission meetings have a reputation for being predictable. But at one in Spain two years ago, Ada Colau, then the spokeswoman of the country’s anti-eviction movement, the PAH, tore up the usual script when she referred to a representative of the country’s banks.
  
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• Incredible: UK Primary school where EVERY child has English as their SECOND language

  25-05-2015 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THIS is the incredible UK primary school where every one of the 859 pupils has English as their SECOND language.
  
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• B.B. King was 'poisoned', say daughters

  25-05-2015 23:25
  
  Two of blues legend B.B. King's daughters have accused his two closest aides of poisoning him.
  
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• B.B. King was 'poisoned' by his business manager and personal assistant, say blues star's daughters

  25-05-2015 23:25
  
  Two of blues legend B.B. King's daughters have accused his two closest aides of poisoning him.
  
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• British truckers steer clear of Calais as desperate migrants get more aggressive

  25-05-2015 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITISH lorry drivers are avoiding Calais because of iron-bar wielding illegal immigrants trying to force their way on to their vehicles.
  
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• O2 must 'sort out' phone complaints

  25-05-2015 22:50
  
  Business Secretary Sajid Javid has urged phone provider O2 to "sort it out" after a flood of complaints from people who had lost the signal on their mobile telephones.
  
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• Didcot murders: Who was triple-murder suspect Jed Allen?

  25-05-2015 22:46
  
  The body of triple-murder suspect Jed Allen has been discovered in woodland in Oxford, two days after his schoolgirl sister, his mother and her partner were found stabbed to death at their home in Didcot.
  
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• Woman, 21, dies from blood clot just ONE MONTH after she starts taking contraceptive pill

  25-05-2015 22:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DEVASTATED parents whose 21-year-old daughter died from a blood clot are blaming a contraceptive pill for killing her.
  
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• Tim Farron interview: Front-runner to replace Nick Clegg as Lib Dem leader says party needs to return to grassroots

  25-05-2015 22:29
  It would be fair to say that over the past five years Tim Farron has never been the Liberal Democrats’ greatest coalition enthusiast.
  
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• Tim Farron says Lib Dems must reinvent themselves as campaign movement

  25-05-2015 22:24
  
  The Liberal Democrats must comprehensively reinvent themselves, ditching Edwardian-style party structures and creating a new movement that campaigns on issues that “fire up” new members, the front-runner for the party’s leadership has said.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Yvette Cooper appeals to family vote with childcare pledge

  25-05-2015 22:18
  
  Labour must reach out to a generation of families who struggle to work and bring up children, with an offer of a free, Scandinavian-style system of universal childcare, Yvette Cooper has said.
  
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• Drunk, moi? Traffic cop reveals top excuses of bad French drivers

  25-05-2015 22:12
  
  “When constabulary duty’s to be done. A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.” Nonsense. Gilbert and Sullivan knew nothing of life as a French motorcycle cop.
  
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• I want the Labour Party to lead a revolution in family support

  25-05-2015 22:10
  
  There’s never any shortage of politicians using the word “family” – promising to be family-friendly, help working families or hard-working families.
  
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• Queen's Speech: The Tories' commitments

  25-05-2015 22:06
  
  Tax cuts for low earners
  
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• O2 users hit by phone signal failure problems - even the Business Secretary is affected

  25-05-2015 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PHONE mast problems are causing chaos for mobile users on the O2 network tonight.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron under mounting pressure to let under-18s vote

  25-05-2015 21:56
  
  David Cameron is facing mounting pressure to let 16- and 17-year-olds vote on membership of the EU as Labour and the SNP said they would demand such a move in Parliament this week.
  
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• Jihad fears in Calais: Undercover police search for ISIS extremists in migrant camps

  25-05-2015 21:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UNDERCOVER officers are infiltrating migrant groups in Calais looking for jihadists trying to sneak into the UK, it has been revealed.
  
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• Dancing Man: 'Shamed' by internet trolls, Sean O'Brien has the last laugh

  25-05-2015 21:44
  
  When he was mocked for dancing at a gig and then “fat shamed” by cyber bullies online, Sean O’Brien could never have imagined it would change his life for the better.
  
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• Malta drownings: British victims were partners in Birmingham dental practice

  25-05-2015 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TWO Britons who drowned in Malta were today named as dentists Mehwish Kamran Shabir and Lyace Ali.
  
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• Spice: The truth behind the cannabis substitute wreaking havoc and claiming lives in Alabama

  25-05-2015 21:36
  
  For the small southern city of Anniston, 2011 seemed like a summer of madness. First came the cicadas, woken from their 13-year slumber by some ineffable urge. Then came the reports of a new drug in town. It was called Spice, and all the kids were trying it.
  
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• Campaigners unite in bid to save 'exceptional' Victorian home from being turned into flats

  25-05-2015 21:19
  
  One of the best preserved Victorian homes in the north of England, whose magnificent interiors were admired by poet John Betjeman, is under threat, campaigners say, due to plans to convert the building into flats.
  
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• Chiara D'Angelo interview: Arctic activist who spent 66 hours suspended from anchor said nature inspired her to continue protest

  25-05-2015 21:13
  The activist who spent 66 hours suspended from the anchor of an oil exploration vessel has said she took strength during her protest from looking at the wildlife surrounding her.
  
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• Chiara D'Angelo interview: Arctic activist who spend 66 hours suspended from anchor said nature inspired her to continue protest

  25-05-2015 21:13
  The activist who spent 66 hours suspended from the anchor of an oil exploration vessel has said she took strength during her protest from looking at the wildlife surrounding her.
  
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• War with Isis: Meet the Kurdish women's militia fighting for their families west of the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn

  25-05-2015 21:11
  The Kurdish soldiers relax half a mile behind the front line where they have been battling Isis forces west of the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn. The women are in no doubt about why they are fighting.
  
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• Labour bid to 'hijack' EU referendum by demanding votes for 16-year-olds

  25-05-2015 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LABOUR has been accused of trying to spark a row about lowering the voting age to try to wreck the debate about whether Britain should quit the European Union.
  
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• Chlorine bomb attacks by jihadists are growing threat to the UK, warns chemical warfare expert

  25-05-2015 21:06
  
  Britain faces a growing threat from a homemade chemical weapons attack, it has been reported.
  
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• Hope over ovarian cancer diagnosis

  25-05-2015 21:00
  
  A new genetic discovery could pave the way to earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer and personalised treatments, scientists claim.
  
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• Anne Meara dead: Mother of Ben Stiller had acting and comedy career spanning six decades

  25-05-2015 20:43
  
  Anne Meara’s long marriage to Jerry Stiller in some ways seemed an unlikely one, funny even. She was born to parents of Irish Catholic descent in Brooklyn while he came from a Jewish family on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He was 4in shorter than she was.
  
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• Cameron's Charm Offensive To Woo EU Leaders

  25-05-2015 20:30
  
  David Cameron's opening gambit in an EU charm offensive will be to plead with world leaders not to dismiss his renegotiation demands as "too difficult", arguing that the British public will no longer accept the "status quo". Government officials have told Sky News that the Prime Minister will urge the EU commission president and European counterparts to "work with us" as he tries to find a solution ahead of an EU referendum. One possible stumbling block is that
  
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• Maha Al Musa: Mother defends breastfeeding 6-year-old daughter

  25-05-2015 20:26
  
  A mother from Australia has re-awakened the debate over when a woman should stop breastfeeding, by proudly declaring that she will continue to nurse her 6-year-old daughter until the child is ready to stop.
  
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• Marni Hodgkin: Editor known for her integrity and her bestsellers, who helped to transform the world of children’s books in the 1960s and 70s

  25-05-2015 20:24
  There have always been books for children, but the profession of children’s book editor is still relatively new. Marni Hodgkin, who has died aged 97, may not have been the first (that was Grace Hogarth) – but she was unusual  in following the profession on both sides of  the Atlantic.
  
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• Cameron opens talks with EU chief

  25-05-2015 20:23
  
  David Cameron has begun talks with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker as he kicks off efforts to renegotiate the UK's relations with the EU.
  
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• John Nash: Mathematician who won a Nobel Prize – and inspired the Oscar-winning film 'A Beautiful Mind'

  25-05-2015 20:10
  
  John Nash revolutionised the mathematical field of game theory. He was endowed with a mind that was highly original and deeply troubled. But it became known to most people by its Hollywood description: he was a Nobel laureate whose descent into and recovery from mental illness inspired the Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind.
  
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• Coulson 'Knew Of Intercepted Milly Voicemails'

  25-05-2015 20:07
  
  Andy Coulson knew voicemail messages on the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler had been intercepted, a former News of the World journalist has told a court. Neville Thurlbeck, a former chief reporter at the now defunct Sunday tabloid, also said hacked messages were the source for a story about former Home Secretary David Blunkett having an affair. Among the claims, prosecutors allege Coulson falsely claimed to have been unaware that private investigator Glenn Mulcaire had been involved in
  
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• Triple-Murder Suspect Jed Allen: Body Found

  25-05-2015 19:26
  
  Police have found a body they believe to be that of triple-murder suspect Jed Allen. Detectives hunting the 21-year-old - after his young sister, mother and her partner were found stabbed to death at their Didcot home - say his body was discovered in a wooded area in Oxford. Detective Superintendent Chris Ward, of Thames Valley Police, told a news conference: "Members of the public reported finding the body of a man in a wooded area in Oxford, in Marston Road.
  
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• Triple-killing suspect's body found

  25-05-2015 19:25
  
  Triple-killing suspect Jed Allen has been found dead, police said today.
  
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• Could we be seeing the return of legal standing at British football matches?

  25-05-2015 19:25
  
  In the days before Hillsborough brought grief to Liverpool, rules about – and standards of – stadium safety had remained hardly changed since the days of Roy of The Rovers. But from the 1990s onwards, things drastically changed in football. In the wake of the Taylor Report, all sorts of rules were proposed. And although the report didn’t directly say that standing was a problem, the government at the time took the decision to phase out standing in Tiers 1 and 2 (today’s Premier League a
  
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• Didcot murders: Police find body of Jed Allen in wooded area

  25-05-2015 19:20
  
  Police searching for Jed Allen, following the death of his younger sister, mother and her partner, have discovered his body in Oxford.
  
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• Didcot murders: Body of triple murder suspect Jed Allen found in wooded area by members of the public

  25-05-2015 19:20
  
  The body of a gardener suspected of the triple murder of his schoolgirl half-sister, his mother and her partner has been found in Oxford after a huge 48-hour police manhunt.
  
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• The story of a cancer survivor who went on to create her own line of empathic, cliché-free greetings cards

  25-05-2015 19:10
  When 38-year-old Emily McDowell was diagnosed with cancer 14 years ago, she found herself taken aback at some of the words of “comfort” that were sent her way.
  
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• Murder Suspect's Bizarre Online Videos Emerge

  25-05-2015 18:55
  
  A series of bizarre online videos has emerged of triple-murder suspect Jed Allen, who is being hunted over the death of his six-year-old sister, their mother and her partner.
  
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• Air France flight from Paris to New York escorted by US fighter jets after bomb threat

  25-05-2015 18:51
  
  An Air France flight from Paris was escorted by U.S. fighter jets to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Monday after an anonymous threat was made against the flight, according to ABC News.
  
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• Gay marriages likely by autumn

  25-05-2015 18:38
  
  Ireland's new laws on gay marriage will be enacted by the end of July.
  
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• Malaysia mass graves: Is the Burmese Rohingya minority being trafficked by force?

  25-05-2015 18:29
  
  At the trafficking camp in northern Malaysia where at least 139 shallow graves have been discovered, a police chief said that personal possessions abandoned at the camp included a pink teddy bear and children’s sandals. If the Rohingya and Bangladeshis travelling from the Bay of Bengal to Malaysia were fleeing in search of work, why did they bring small children with them?
  
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• Robinson faces night in hospital

  25-05-2015 18:28
  
  Northern Ireland's First Minister could be facing a night in hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.
  
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• Spain and Italy hit by devastating 'olive ebola' outbreak

  25-05-2015 18:27
  
  Spanish olive groves are at risk of being wiped out by a strain of “olive ebola” which has ravaged the crop in Italy.
  
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• First-ever openly gay parliamentary candidate stands for election in Turkey

  25-05-2015 18:25
  
  A man contesting Turkey's general election is thought to be the first openly gay candidate ever to run for the country's parliament.
  
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• Ro in hospital

  25-05-2015 18:23
  
  Northern Ireland's First Minister could be facing a night in hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack.
  
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• Turkmenistan unveils huge marble and gold statue of their autocratic president

  25-05-2015 18:22
  
  What does a grateful nation get for the demagogue who already has everything, including 97 per cent of the vote and the titles of “Patron” and “National Horse Breeder”? The answer, if Turkmenistan is anything to go by, is a 21-metre marble and gold leaf monument, accessorised with a delirious chanting crowd.
  
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