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• Violent escaped prisoner hunted

  29-05-2015 23:48
  
  Police are hunting for a prisoner convicted of a violent robbery who has escaped.
  
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• Dignitas 'using struck off medic'

  29-05-2015 23:48
  
  The Department of Health tonight described as "shocking" newspaper claims that an unregistered doctor is providing medical assessments to patients who want to go to Dignitas.
  
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• Britain may expand mission in Iraq

  29-05-2015 23:48
  
  Britain is preparing to send troops into the more dangerous parts of Iraq in support of the US military mission to train local forces battling Islamic State (IS) fighters.
  
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• Canada's conservatives under pressure after another senior minister resigns

  29-05-2015 23:43
  
  Justice minister Peter MacKay’s resignation comes after former foreign minister announces exit from politics, putting yet more strain on Harper governmentThe political pact binding Canadian conservatives together has come under renewed strain after yet another senior cabinet minister announced that he was bailing out of the increasingly unpopular government of Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper.Justice minister Peter MacKay declaration on Friday that he would not to seek re-election in
  
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• Arsène Wenger has no intention of letting Jack Wilshere leave Arsenal

  29-05-2015 23:30
  
  • Wenger wants midfielder at the club for his peak years
  • Wilshere is not certain to start FA Cup final against Aston VillaArsène Wenger has said he has never considered selling Jack Wilshere, nor is he about to start. The midfielder, who has been with the club since the age of nine, stated recently that it would hurt if Arsenal sold him and feel strange to wear another shirt. Wenger responded by emphasising his commitment to the 23-year-old.“I made Jack Wilshere start at 17 years
  
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• Arsenal’s Héctor Bellerín fast-tracked to Wembley after breakthrough season

  29-05-2015 23:30
  
  The former Barcelona youth player has seized his chance to shine at right-back for Arsenal and now looks forward to his first FA Cup finalAs Héctor Bellerín boards the bus bound for Wembley on Saturday, it will be impossible for him not to reflect on the journey he made a year before. When Arsenal played Hull in last season’s FA Cup final the Spaniard got together with the club’s other young players, sporting their boyband civvies, pretty relaxed, and made his way there to sit
  
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• New limit leads to drink-drive fall

  29-05-2015 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drink-driving offences have fallen in Scotland following the introduction of a lower alcohol limit, new figures show.
  
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• Rand Paul declares surveillance 'war' and hints at filibuster for NSA reform

  29-05-2015 23:03
  
  Kentucky senator tells crowd ‘I can talk for a long time’ as privacy advocates feel momentum build against Patriot Act provision ahead of Sunday sessionRand Paul indicated his intention on Friday to filibuster a surveillance reform bill that he considers insufficient, as privacy advocates felt momentum to tear the heart out of the Bush-era Patriot Act as its Snowden-era expiration date approaches.With controversial provisions of the Patriot Act scheduled to run out at midnight on Sunday, Pau
  
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• Who advises overnight millionaires?

  29-05-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why you'd be very pleased to meet Andy Carteralth?
  
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• French farmer jailed for killing suspected truffle thief

  29-05-2015 22:55
  
  Laurent Rambaud receives eight-year sentence for shooting man he thought was stealing his trufflesA French farmer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for shooting and killing a man he thought was stealing his truffles. Laurent Rambaud, 37, had grown increasingly frustrated with a spate of thefts in the south-eastern region of Drome.On the night of 20 December 2010, he headed out into his fields armed with a shotgun. He came across 43-year-old Ernest Pardo, who was known as a truffle hunt
  
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• Tony Lloyd selected as interim mayor

  29-05-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Greater Manchester's police and crime commissioner Tony Lloyd is selected as the region's interim mayor.
  
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• Italian navy recovers corpses of migrants in Mediterranean

  29-05-2015 22:47
  
  Navy manages to rescue 217 people from boat off the Libya coast
  Seventeen migrants died on a boat off the coast of Libya, the Italian navy said on Friday, in the latest episode in the Mediterranean migrant crisis.The navy said it had rescued 217 migrants in an operation carried out by its ship Fenice. No further details were immediately available.Continue reading...
  
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• Video captures moment pedestrians lift double-decker bus off man's crushed leg - TVNZ

  29-05-2015 22:34 via tvnz.co.nz
  
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  Dramatic video footage has captured the moment a crowd of about 100 bystanders lifted a double-decker bus off a man's crushed leg in London. The man was riding a unicycle when he was hit by the bus in Walthamstow, north-east London, the Independent ...
  Heroic Londoners lift 12-tonne double decker bus off trapped unicyclistStuff.co.nz
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• Arsenal vs Aston Villa: Tim Sherwood must play a game of two halves for Aston Villa to cause an FA Cup final upset

  29-05-2015 22:25
  Arsenal are the clear favourites to lift the FA Cup but the pronounced pattern of their games this season points very clearly to a way in which Aston Villa can beat them at Wembley.
  
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• VIDEO: Party for Winnie, 100, after BBC appeal

  29-05-2015 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman from Sheffield who was facing her 100th birthday alone because she had no surviving relatives, has celebrated the day in style at the local city hall.
  
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• Merkel suggests deal can be reached over Cameron's EU demands - The Hindu

  29-05-2015 22:19 via thehindu.com
  
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  David Cameron has received a boost to his EU renegotiation plans after Angela Merkel left the door open to revising the Lisbon treaty to accommodate British demands. On the final stage of Mr. Cameron's two-day tour of four European capitals, the German ...
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• Students upset after high school hands out 'no sausage rolls' dress code for female students

  29-05-2015 22:13
  
  A family has threatened to sue an entire school district for sexual harassment after receiving a dress code letter for graduation.
  
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• Students outraged after school district hands out 'no sausage rolls' dress code for female students

  29-05-2015 22:13
  
  A family has threatened to sue an entire school district for sexual harassment after receiving a dress code letter for graduation.
  
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• Students are outraged after school district hands out "no sausage rolls" dress code for female students

  29-05-2015 22:13
  
  A family has threatened to sue an entire school district for sexual harassment after receiving a dress code letter for graduation.
  
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• NSA tried Stuxnet cyber-attack on North Korea five years ago but failed

  29-05-2015 22:13
  
  Intelligience sources say a covert campaign to attack nuclear weapons programme was stymied by North Korea’s isolated communications systemsThe US tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign.The operation began in tandem with the now-famous Stuxnet attack that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear programme in 2009 and 2010 by destroying a thousand or
  
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• Isis fighter in Syria was 'beheaded in revenge attack'

  29-05-2015 22:12
  
  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims Assyrian fighter captured and murdered Isis jihadi in Hasakeh provinceA Christian fighter in Syria has beheaded an Islamic State (Isis) militant to avenge people killed by jihadis in north-east Syria, a monitor said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the incident took place on Thursday in Hasakeh province, where Isis occupies large areas of the countryside.According to the monitor, the Christian fighter – a member of the minority
  
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• Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison over creation of 'dark web' marketplace

  29-05-2015 22:10
  
  Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the infamous Silk Road internet marketplace, has been sentenced to life in prison by a Manhattan judge, nearly four months after he was found guilty on all counts, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  
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• Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison

  29-05-2015 22:10
  
  Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the infamous Silk Road internet marketplace, has been sentenced to life in prison by a Manhattan judge, nearly four months after he was found guilty on all counts, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  
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• Marks and Spencer becomes first retailer to add vitamin D to packaged bread range

  29-05-2015 22:04
  
  Marks and Spencer has become the first UK retailer to add vitamin D to its packaged bread range after finding that customers are concerned they are not getting their recommended daily amount.
  
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• Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison

  29-05-2015 22:02
  
  Thirty-one-year-old behind illegal online drug emporium handed five sentences – including two for life – to be served concurrently with no chance of paroleRoss Ulbricht, the man behind illegal online drug emporium Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison on Friday by Judge Katherine Forrest of Manhattan’s US district court for the southern district of New York.
  Before the sentencing the parents of the victims of drug overdoses addressed the court. Ulbricht broke down in tears. “I never
  
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• American Express president suddenly dies on corporate plane

  29-05-2015 22:00
  
  Plane made emergency landing after Ed Gilligan, 55, fell ill; he worked at credit card company for 35 years, becoming president in 2013American Express said on Friday the company’s president, Ed Gilligan, died suddenly after falling ill while flying on a corporate plane to New York.The company said the 55-year-old executive was coming back from a business trip. It said the plane made an emergency landing in the US, but did not say where Gilligan had been. Continue reading...
  
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• Rory McIlroy disappoints sell-out crowds as he misses Irish Open cut

  29-05-2015 22:00
  
  • World No1 misses cut for a third successive Irish Open
  • Padraig Harrington one off lead as he seeks second title Whether through external pressure, charity commitments or basic matters of technicality, Rory McIlroy’s Irish Open trouble will linger for another year as he missed the cut. This time the damage was done during Thursday’s round of 80. Friday’s 71 was hardly the stuff of embarrassment but for a third time in succession he has lasted only 36 holes.This one will hurt the mos
  
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• Teen Charged With Murdering Two In Colchester

  29-05-2015 22:00
  
  A teenager has been charged with murdering a Saudi student and a vulnerable man in Colchester last year. The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested on the Salary Brook Trail in the town at about 11am on Tuesday. Essex Police said he was initially held on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon but was subsequently arrested over the death of Saudi student Nahid Almanea and that of James Attfield, who was stabbed multiple times in a park in March 2014.
  
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• Manchester Mayor elected - despite not being voted in by the public

  29-05-2015 21:47
  
  Kris McBurnie seems to speak for many of the voters out and about in central Manchester. “I had no idea we were getting a mayor,” he said. “And I certainly didn’t know he was being appointed today by the council. I would have assumed we would get a chance to vote on it.”
  
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• Gunmen kill at least 19 bus passengers in Pakistan

  29-05-2015 21:45
  
  Bodies found in hills after attackers stop buses travelling from Quetta to Karachi and force passengers to dismount
  Gunmen have killed at least 19 passengers they forced off buses travelling from the western Pakistani city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, according to officials.
  Sarfaraz Bugti, the home minister of Baluchistan province, where the attack took place, said the assault occurred late on Friday in the town of Mastung, about 40km south of Quetta. Continue reading...
  
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• Why the Danish radio stunt to kill a rabbit live on air was barbaric and counterproductive

  29-05-2015 21:44
  
  I still have no idea what Asger Juhl was thinking of.
  
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• Archaeologists discover 2,400-year-old gold bongs in Russia

  29-05-2015 21:32
  
  The “once-in-a-century” discovery of a set of solid gold bongs has offered a glimpse into the little-understood lives of Scythians, who ruled vast areas of Eurasia for a thousand years 2,400 years ago.
  
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• Boy, 16, charged with knife murders

  29-05-2015 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 16-year-old boy is charged with the murders of two people in Colchester.
  
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• Minecraft to launch monthly magazine aimed at seven to 11 year-olds

  29-05-2015 21:23
  
  It is the blocky freeform building game that looks like a relic from a previous computer era, yet has gripped millions of video gamers around the world.
  
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• Foreign film directors flock to Cuba as isolated island opens up to outside world

  29-05-2015 21:12
  
  As film locations go, Cuba has got pretty much everything: a rich and turbulent history, the faded glamour of its capital Havana and a world-renowned music scene. But all that, until recently, was out of bounds to foreign film-makers.
  
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• Two pensioners critically injured by bus in Glasgow - BBC News

  29-05-2015 21:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Two pensioners critically injured by bus in Glasgow
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  A man and woman - believed to be in their 70s - have been critically injured by a bus in central Glasgow. They were struck by a double-decker First Glasgow service, at the corner of Argyle and Queen Street, at 14:30. Both casualties were removed from under ...
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• Two OAPs critically injured by bus

  29-05-2015 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man and woman - believed to be in their 70s - are critically injured by a bus in central Glasgow.
  
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• Detectives find murder weapon on display at Imperial War Museum

  29-05-2015 21:05
  
  A gun connected to seven murders during the Troubles has been found on public display at the Imperial War Museum.
  
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• Colorado cinema shooter James Holmes tormented by ‘obsession to kill’, court hears

  29-05-2015 21:04
  
  Notebook scribblings by James Holmes, the former neuroscience student accused of killing 12 people in the 2012 Colorado cinema shooting, suggest he had been haunted by an impulse to kill for 10 years. Over two of its pages, he wrote simply, “Why? Why?” over and over again.
  
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• David Miliband says world refugee crisis to worsen with climate change

  29-05-2015 21:02
  
  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A historic 52 million people are fleeing conflict worldwide, a trend that will intensify over the next two decades because of climate change, International Rescue Committee chief David Miliband said on Friday. "One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity," said Miliband, a former United Kingdom foreign minister. "Climate change is going to compound the c
  
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• Jessica Ennis-Hill to put body to test in heptathlon return at Hypo meeting

  29-05-2015 21:00
  
  • Briton in first competitive event since London 2012
  • Olympic champion returned to training in November after giving birthOf all the mountain peaks that overlook the frayed six-lane running track in the Austrian town of Götzis, none is as steep as the challenge Jessica Ennis-Hill has set herself in the next 15 months: to return from giving birth and retain her Olympic heptathlon title. As she says, she is entering unknown territory. However, as she makes the final preparations for her
  
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• Heysel disaster anniversary marked

  29-05-2015 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ceremonies are held to mark the 30th anniversary of the Heysel disaster which claimed the lives of 39 football fans.
  
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• India heatwave: As toll passes 1,800, even ice-cream sellers suffer as crowds stay in the shade

  29-05-2015 20:55
  
  Outside Delhi’s busy Nizamuddin railway station, red-shirted porters take turns to shelter under trees from the fierce afternoon sun.
  
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• Pets as Therapy: How Millie the Jack Russell is helping children learn to read

  29-05-2015 20:53
  
  Every Friday lunchtime, Denise Kantor and Millie, her Jack Russell, leave their home in Willesden Green in north-west London and make the short journey by foot to Anson Primary School. A single-storey building hidden from the street by a bank of trees, Anson has been described by Ofsted as "a village school in the United Nations of Brent".
  
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• Inside the comic world of Peter Serafinowicz: The spoof video master is heading to Hollywood

  29-05-2015 20:53
  
  Peter Serafinowicz is telling me about his "expensive hobby". It's not yachting, or flying, wine-tasting, or watch-buying. It is putting funny videos on the internet. Chances are, you will have seen one of them. There was the spoof video he made for Daft Punk's "Get Lucky", in which he transformed himself into a suave, three-headed monster and mimed and dad-danced to the track. Or there was the one where he quiffed up his hair and sang the first page of Morrissey's autobiography as if it were a
  
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• Hypocrisy the winner as Fifa votes for yet more Sepp Blatter

  29-05-2015 20:42
  
  The brazen nonsense has been emanating from close to home in the past week, too. There was David Cameron, demanding on Thursday that Sepp Blatter must stand down, for example. That would have been be the same David Cameron who condemned the BBC’s Panorama five years ago for the journalism which exposed precisely what the FBI has now made public about Fifa. “It’s a free country and you have to roll with that,” Cameron said at the time, rolling his eyes.
  
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• Libya, land of last hopes: Where sub-Saharan refugees wait to risk everything to reach Europe

  29-05-2015 20:37
  
  “We are meant to be citizens of the world. We do the jobs others will not do to feed our family,” said Abdulahi Fateh, squatting under a hot sun on the dusty ground of the detention centre. “If they do not let us have even that chance, then send us back home and let us die with dignity.”
  
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• Violent robber ‘walks out door’ of Serco-run private prison

  29-05-2015 20:36
  
  A “violent” robber managed to escape from a high-security prison run by the outsourcing giant Serco by walking out with a group of people who were visiting him, The Independent has learnt.
  
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• Deadly spider found in Tamworth

  29-05-2015 20:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An exotic spider known as one of the most poisonous in the world is found in a Staffordshire warehouse.
  
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