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• Climate change: Major energy companies write to UN to request help in setting up carbon pricing scheme

  31-05-2015 23:56
  Six major energy companies have written to the United Nations asking for help in setting up a carbon pricing scheme to help tackle climate change.
  
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• Beau Biden dies: Tributes pour in after Democrat on the rise dies

  31-05-2015 23:56
  
  Tributes poured in from across the political spectrum following the death, on Saturday, of 46-year-old Beau Biden, a rising star in the Democratic Party and son of the Vice-President Joe Biden.
  
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• England interim bowling coach Ottis Gibson slams 'impatient' bowlers after New ... - Daily Mail

  31-05-2015 23:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  England's interim bowling coach Ottis Gibson criticised his side's lack of patience as New Zealand rattled along at more than four runs an over for the second time in the Test. 'We lacked control,' said Gibson, after New Zealand had reached 338 for six in their ...and more »
  
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• John Kerry bicycle accident: US Secretary of State cancels European tour after breaking leg on Tour de France route

  31-05-2015 23:44
  John Kerry, the US Secretary of State, has been forced to cancel the remainder of a European tour after breaking his leg in a cycling accident in France.
  
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• Gay Head lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard moved to safety from edge of crumbling cliff

  31-05-2015 23:35
  
  With the help of human ingenuity, hydraulic pistons and just a little bit of soap, a historic lighthouse on the US East Coast has been moved approximately 135ft inland, away from the eroding cliff-face that threatened its existence.
  
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• Trials find drugs that block immune system 'checkpoints' can extend cancer patients' lives

  31-05-2015 23:30
  
  Drugs that “release the brakes” on the body’s immune system have been shown in clinical trials to boost the survival of patients with fatal forms of cancer – further evidence to support a new form of tumour treatment based on immunotherapy.
  
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• Stargazing in June: From the summer solstice to a cosmic embrace

  31-05-2015 23:29
  
  Dawn on 21 June will see the ancient megaliths of Stonehenge bustling with white-robed Druids intent on viewing the Sun rising behind the outlying Heel Stone – just as our ancestors did millennia ago when they raised this vast structure to celebrate midsummer’s morning. Or did they? The dead pigs say otherwise ...
  
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• Floral print womenswear: In full bloom

  31-05-2015 23:23
  
  Floral print gets a modern makeover this season with tropical buds and bright colours.
  
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• Putin's blacklist: If Russia wants to punish the West for imposing sanctions by banning people, it can do so – but this will not sway us

  31-05-2015 23:17
  The release of a list of 89 European figures that the Kremlin will no longer allow into Russia has drawn an angry response from EU leaders, while confirming Russia’s utter lack of interest in winding down the confrontation with the West over Ukraine. No surprise there.
  
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• Dennis Sheehan: Tour manager who kept Led Zeppelin’s worst excesses in check before becoming a mainstay of the U2 ‘family’

  31-05-2015 23:11
  Musicians aside, the tour manager is arguably the most important cog in the machine of a rock band on the road, whether he’s ironing the lead singer’s trousers or trying to make sure he doesn’t fall off the stack of speakers he’s climbed on to.
  
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• Marques Haynes: Dazzling member of the Harlem Globetrotters, hailed as the greatest dribbler basketball has ever seen

  31-05-2015 23:09
  Marques Haynes’ dribbling skills wowed fans in more than 100 countries. He was a showstopper – a player who helped to make the basketball exhibition team the Harlem Globetrotters beloved ambassadors of the game around the world.
  
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• Walter Burkert: Classical scholar whose fascinating books on Greek mythology and religion were packed with fresh insight

  31-05-2015 23:07
  Walter Burkert was a giant among scholars of ancient Greek culture, one whose work had resonance well beyond the world of classical scholarship.  He combined awesome learning, brilliant expository skills in both German and English (the award in 2003 of the Sigmund Freud prize for Scientific Prose was well deserved), and a passionate and wide-ranging intellectual curiosity.
  
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• Swimmer solves incredible mystery of HUMAN ASHES washed up on British beach

  31-05-2015 23:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A SWIMMER who found HUMAN ASHES washed up on a British beach was left astonished when she solved the mystery of who they belong to.
  
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• Britain's Got Talent winner 2015: Jules O'Dwyer and her tightrope-walking dog Matisse win

  31-05-2015 23:04
  
  Britain is known as a pet-loving nation and our obsession with canine chums was cemented this evening when one of them was named this year’s champion of Britain’s Got Talent.
  
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• How do you solve a problem like Sepp Blatter and Fifa? The world is waiting for a manager or a player to speak up for the game's soul

  31-05-2015 23:00
  There’s been no sign in the past few days that the descent of football into an ever-deepening slough is worrying those who have benefited most from its fabulous riches. While Sepp Blatter was celebrating being voted back in for four more years, Cristiano Ronaldo was reminding us on Twitter that summer is a great time to wear the latest in his own new shoe range and Wayne Rooney was looking forward to getting his hands on a new live score app he sponsors and putting in a good word for some of
  
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• Cher shows that ageing beauty will always be more classy than all that booty

  31-05-2015 22:53
  
  Right now, I don’t think I could write about anything except Cher in the designer Marc Jacobs’ autumn/winter advertising campaign. It has registered in a way that few fashion events do, outside of the insular industry bubble. I wonder if more people know that Cher’s wearing MJ than that the designer changed at Pucci? I suspect so.
  
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• Brave shopkeeper throws armed robber out of her shop and slams the door

  31-05-2015 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A DEFIANT woman shopkeeper has told how she grabbed an armed robber, threw him out into the street and slammed the door.
  
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• Leicester Players Sorry Over 'Racist' Video

  31-05-2015 22:35
  
  Three Leicester City players have apologised after a sexually explicit video emerged where a Thai woman was allegedly racially abused. The footballers apparently filmed three Thai women engaging in sex acts in a hotel room, when one of the players appears to refer to one woman as a "slit eye". The Premier League club said it was "deeply concerned" over the incident involving defender James Pearson, the 22-year-old son of the club's manager Nigel, striker Tom Hopper, 21,
  
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• 80 years of the dreadest driving tests that has people failing 90 times

  31-05-2015 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  ROCK wild man Ozzy Osbourne failed 18 times, Maria Carey three, while actress Kate Beckinsale gave up after failing just once.
  
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• Kremlin blacklist of EU politicians is 'tit-for-tat reaction' to Western sanctions, says Lib Dem source after Nick Clegg banned

  31-05-2015 22:23
  Britain has joined the rest of Europe in expressing outrage at the Kremlin’s decision to ban 89 EU politicians, military leaders and critics from entering Russia in what was seen as a tit-for tat-response to Western sanctions against Moscow over its intervention in the Ukraine.
  
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• Tim Farron: Lib Dem leadership contender - and ex-rock star in a 'fourth-rate New Order'

  31-05-2015 22:19
  
  A photograph has emerged of the leading Liberal Democrat leadership contender Tim Farron during his brief foray into the rock and pop world.
  
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• Granddaughter finds time capsule with wartime letters from grandad who died in 1998

  31-05-2015 22:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A LOST “time capsule” of precious keepsakes, including wartime love letters, has been united with the family of the man who buried it in a park.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron boosted by political support for a 'two-speed Europe'

  31-05-2015 22:03
  
  Two senior European politicians have sketched the outline of a possible pre-referendum deal with David Cameron that would allow Britain to become a kind of “low-definition” member of the European Union.
  
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• Leicester City Players Sorry Over 'Racist' Video

  31-05-2015 21:38
  
  Three Leicester City players have apologised after a sexually explicit video emerged where a Thai woman was allegedly racially abused. The footballers are alleged to have filmed three Thai women engaged in sex acts in a hotel room, when one of the players appears to refer to one woman as a "slit eye". The Premier League club said it was "deeply concerned" over a video reportedly showing defender James Pearson, the 22-year-old son of the club's manager Nigel, striker Tom
  
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• Free childcare boost brought forward to 2016 by Tories

  31-05-2015 21:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FAMILIES were handed a major boost today as David Cameron vowed to bring forward plans to double free childcare for working parents to 2016.
  
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• Orgy shame footballers say sorry

  31-05-2015 21:32
  
  Three shamed Premier League footballers who allegedly filmed themselves in an orgy in which a Thai woman was racially abused have apologised amid calls for them to be sacked.
  
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• Haroon Ahmed: Violent criminal claims he escaped prison 'to test out the security'

  31-05-2015 21:31
  
  A violent criminal who escaped from a high-security prison by leaving with visitors claimed he had “wanted to test out the security” after he was tracked down to Spain.
  
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• Britain's Got Talent final 2015: Viewers complain about Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell's plunging necklines

  31-05-2015 21:26
  ITV must be primed for complaints this evening after Britain’s Got Talent judges Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Simon Cowell decided to wear outfits slashed to the navel.
  
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• Will James May and Richard Hammond keep Top Gear's flame of inspired puerility alive?

  31-05-2015 21:22
  
  It is only a few days since the BBC Trust cleared Top Gear over the Argentine number-plate fiasco, but already there is fierce dispute over where the judgment ranks in the annals of exoneration. One school posits it as the most convincing acquittal of its kind since the last time an internal enquiry cleared Fifa of corruption. Others cite Lord Hutton’s emergence from the Shelter Home For Retired Judicial Buffoons to whitewash the Blair government over the upsexing of intelligence and David Ke
  
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• War with Isis: MoD to step up British military training missions in Middle East

  31-05-2015 21:13
  
  Britain is preparing to expand its military training mission in Iraq and increase the number of personnel helping ready the moderate Syrian opposition in Turkey, according to sources.
  
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• David Lodge says authors 'hit their peak in their 40s' and become less creative as they get older

  31-05-2015 20:58
  
  The author David Lodge has claimed people become less creative as they get older.
  
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• Queen's income to face scrutiny after public funding for monarchy rises to £40m

  31-05-2015 20:43
  
  The income the Queen receives from the public purse is to come under severe scrutiny by the Treasury after taxpayer funding of the monarchy rose by nearly a third to £40m.
  
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• Cameron urged to hold Fifa summit

  31-05-2015 20:37
  
  Labour has urged David Cameron to hold an emergency summit over Fifa corruption claims to ensure Britain does not "idly stand by".
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Liz Kendall under fire from Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper

  31-05-2015 20:31
  
  The Labour leadership battle took an acrimonious turn as Liz Kendall, the Blairite candidate in the contest, came under fire from her main rivals.
  
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• Fast-food chains and coffee shops are failing to pay the living wage, survey finds

  31-05-2015 20:18
  
  The largest fast-food chains and coffee shops on Britain’s high streets were accused last night of profiting from “poverty wages”, after a survey failed to identify any that were paying the living wage to all staff.
  
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• Isis in Libya: Suicide bomber who killed six at Misrata checkpoint was Tunisian, says Tripoli

  31-05-2015 20:17
  
  The lethal blast at a checkpoint near Misrata in the early hours of Sunday morning was aided by the element of surprise. The suicide bomber drove his car packed with explosives from the opposite direction to expected attacks – the east, where Isis has its stronghold in the city of Sirte.
  
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• Cooper snipes at Labour head rivals

  31-05-2015 20:16
  
  Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper has hit out her rivals with a warning that the party will not win back power simply by "swallowing the Tory manifesto".
  
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• Female clergy propose referring to God as 'she' to counter idea only men are made in his image

  31-05-2015 20:10
  
  Leading Anglican women are discussing referring to God as “she” as well as “he” to counter the idea that only men are made in his image.
  
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• "Western diet" dubbed as risk increaser for prostate cancer, research reveals

  31-05-2015 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  EATING a “western diet” of red and processed meat together with high-fat dairy food increases the risk of dying following a prostate cancer diagnosis, new research suggests.
  
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• Escaped Criminal: I'm On The Costa Del Sol

  31-05-2015 20:03
  
  A violent criminal who managed to walk out of a high-security prison has told Sky News he has fled to the Costa del Sol. Haroon Ahmed has been the subject of a manhunt since escaping HMP Dovegate in Staffordshire on Wednesday afternoon. Sky's Harriet Hadfield spoke to the 26-year-old on the phone days after he was escorted to the prison gate with a group of visitors that came to see him.
  
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• Pregnant benefits mother-of-11 now costing taxpayer even MORE after moving home

  31-05-2015 19:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MOTHER-OF-11 who rakes in thousands of pounds in benefits is now costing the taxpayer even MORE money after she moved home following a "vicious hate campaign".
  
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• Fifa corruption: Sepp Blatter's daughter issues staunch defence of Fifa president's character

  31-05-2015 19:57
  
  Within hours of his tempestuous appointment to serve a fifth term as Fifa president Sepp Blatter was to be found sat on a sofa with a World Cup trophy in the background posing for photographs with his family.
  
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• Video: Mass Brawl At Community Centre

  31-05-2015 19:40
  
  Police have appealed for information after a mass brawl at a Bangladeshi community centre in Leeds where people threw chairs and punches and also brandished sticks. A small number of officers had been at the scene for what was called a local community event but extra police had to be deployed due to the disorder. Arif Hussain, who represents the Harehills area for Leeds City Council, said the row broke out during the centre's AGM between rival factions who both want to take charge.
  
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• Dame Colette Bowe interview: How the economist plans to restore our trust in the banks

  31-05-2015 19:38
  
  There are six women sitting in the small and sunlit serviced office down the street from the Bank of England. Could the start-up staff of the Banking Standards Board be sending a subliminal message of how to make wayward bankers – who are almost always men – behave better? Their boss, Dame Colette Bowe, who, I’m assured, will add more men to the team soon, picks her words carefully to flesh out the task ahead.
  
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• NHS boss warns food and drink industry must act to cut sugar - Financial Times

  31-05-2015 19:35 via ft.com
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  The head of England's NHS has taken aim at the food and drink industry, saying it must cut the sugar content of its products or risk “poisoning” the public. Simon Stevens has also indicated that the government will act to cap the soaring costs of hiring ...
  Obesity is the 'new smoking' says NHS England's chief executiveThe Guardian
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• Soren Kjeldsen wins Irish Open after three-man play-off - The Guardian

  31-05-2015 19:34 via theguardian.com
  
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  Soren Kjeldsen wins Irish Open after three-man play-off
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  Rory McIlroy, right, give Soren Kjeldsen the Irish Open trophy. Photograph: Ross Kinnaird/Getty Images. Press Association. Sunday 31 May 2015 13.34 EDT. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share via Email · Share on LinkedIn · Share on Google+ ...
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• Central African Republic: After militias hacked community apart with machetes, Bangui starts to rebuild

  31-05-2015 19:27
  
  Three words come up in any conversation among Bangui’s residents about the state of their city: “le cinq Decembre”. That was the day, 5 December 2013, when the capital of the Central African Republic was ripped apart by fighting between Muslim and Christian militias.
  
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• 'What do we think of sh**?' - Arsenal star Jack Wilshere trolls Spurs during FA ... - Irish Independent

  31-05-2015 19:25 via independent.ie
  
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  Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has infuriated Tottenham fans with his foul mouth outburst during the Gunners victory parade following their FA cup victory. Ads by Google. Share. Facebook · Twitter · Google · Email. Go To. Comments. Arsenal were ...
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• Yvette Cooper attacks Labour rivals over 'Tory manifesto' - Channel 4 News

  31-05-2015 19:24 via channel4.com
  
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  Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper has hit out her rivals with a warning that the party will not win back power simply by "swallowing the Tory manifesto". News. In an apparent jibe at the Blairites' favourite Liz Kendall, she sharply criticised ...
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• How David Cameron scaled back European Union reform ambitions - Daily Mail

  31-05-2015 19:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
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  How David Cameron scaled back European Union reform ambitions
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  David Cameron has been urged by business leaders not to ditch some of the far-reaching demands he once made for EU reform. A new report lays out ten major policy areas where the Prime Minister claimed he was seeking concessions from the European ...
  Eurosceptic ministers will resign, Redwood warns CameronBBC News
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