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• Unapologetic Rachel Dolezal resigns from NAACP chapter over race 'storm'

  15-06-2015 23:57
  
  ‘I can see that a separation of family and organizational outcomes is in the best interest of the NAACP,’ Dolezal writes as controversy over identity politics swirlsRachel Dolezal, the civil-rights leader in the middle of a firestorm over accusations that she has been misrepresenting herself as black, has resigned unapologetically from her post at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.The story of Dolezal “passing” for a different race quickly went viral on Frida
  
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• Syria: Five Charged With Terror Offences

  15-06-2015 23:49
  
  Two men and three women have been charged with Syria-related terrorism offences, police have said.
  
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• England beat South Africa to reach Under-20 World Championship final

  15-06-2015 23:49
  
  • England 28-20 South Africa
  • England to face New Zealand in Saturday’s finalEngland upset the tournament favourites, South Africa, 28-20 in the semi-finals to extend their quest for a third successive Under-20 World Championship. They play New Zealand in Saturday’s final.It is the third time the two sides will have met in the final, with New Zealand having won the previous three encounters, the most recent in 2011. The All Blacks will be heavily backed to continue that run, after they
  
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• Naomi Broady and Johanna Konta progress on grass at Aegon Classic

  15-06-2015 23:48
  
  • British wild cards through to second round at Birmingham
  • Broady next faces the world No3, Simona HalepThe British wild cards Naomi Broady and Johanna Konta enjoyed impressive wins in the first round of the Aegon Classic in Birmingham.Broady, 25, beat the Croatian Ajla Tomljanovic 6-3, 6-4 and Konta was even more emphatic in dispatching Australia’s Jarmila Gajdosova 6-1, 6-3 in less than an hour. Continue reading...
  
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• Michelle Obama arrives in UK on charity work visit

  15-06-2015 23:45
  
  US first lady arrives at Stansted airport with her mother and two daughters to promote her campaigns for girls’ education and support for military familiesUS first lady Michelle Obama has touched down in the UK for a two-day trip to promote her charity work. Obama was greeted by US military families as she stepped off the plane at Stansted airport this evening, followed by her mother and two daughters. She is visiting Britain to discuss her campaigns for girls’ education and better support f
  
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• Nobel board to terminate its relationship with Fifa

  15-06-2015 23:40
  
  • Nobel Peace Centre to end involvement in joint initiative
  • Fifa had agreed to contribute €800,000 to the centreIn a move that will be a bitter pill for Sepp Blatter, who once harboured improbable ambitions to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the board behind the award is poised to terminate its relationship with Fifa.In light of the chaos that has enveloped world football’s governing body since US prosecutors accused Fifa executives of a “World Cup of fraud”, the Norwegian magazine Josi
  
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• Average monthly London rents hit £1,500 for first time, says survey

  15-06-2015 23:40
  
  Latest figures for HomeLet rental index suggest 12.5% increase in average rents across the country, with tenants in the capital hit hardest The cost of renting property is spiralling out of control with the average price of a flat or a house in London now hitting £1,500 a month, a survey has shown.According to data collected by HomeLet, rents have shot up 12.5% across the country with tenants on average asked to fork out £751 a month outside the capital.Continue reading...
  
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• Wayne Rooney: spirit in England dressing room the best I’ve experienced

  15-06-2015 23:30
  
  • Captain praises spirit in camp after scoring winner in Slovenia
  • Rooney says helping team is priority not Charlton’s goal recordWayne Rooney considers the spirit within the squad to be the best he has experienced during his 12 years with England as the players of a new generation thrive in each other’s company.The Manchester United and England captain moved level with Gary Lineker as the country’s second-highest scorer with the winner in Sunday’s 3-2 victory over Slovenia. He has
  
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• Roy Hodgson tells Nathaniel Clyne that form is not enough for England

  15-06-2015 23:30
  
  • Manchester United’s Phil Jones preferred at right-back against Slovenia
  • Hodgson says team not chosen ‘on the basis of a good season’Roy Hodgson has indicated he will continue with Phil Jones as England’s right-back and made it clear to Nathaniel Clyne that he has no right “on the basis of a good season” to think he should take over from the Manchester United defender.Clyne was restricted to the role of a late substitute in England’s 3-2 win against Slovenia and was overlook
  
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• Jeb Bush presidential campaign: Full transcript of former Florida governor's announcement speech

  15-06-2015 23:25
  
  Jeb Bush on Monday announced what everyone had already known for some time - that he will make a run for the White House. This is his speech:
  
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• London men's fashion week offers designer, tailor and high street

  15-06-2015 23:24
  
  London wrapped up its menswear fashion week following four days of catwalk shows offering a mix of colourful smart and casual creations for spring and summer 2016 from top designer labels, famed British tailors as well as high street brands. Topman, of British retail billionaire Philip Green's Arcadia Group, was among those to open London Collections Men on Friday while luxury goods maker Burberry helped close the fashion week's seventh edition on Monday. The shows drew male celebritie
  
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• James Bond rumours: Damian Lewis tipped to replace Daniel Craig

  15-06-2015 23:23
  
  The rumour mill over who will replace Daniel Craig as James Bond is turning again, as bookies have slashed the odds on Homeland actor Damian Lewis taking up the iconic role.
  
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• Can Burma strike a deal to hold together its 135 ethnic minorities?

  15-06-2015 23:15
  
  Britain’s recent electoral upset was clearly audible 5,500 miles away in Rangoon. The nationalist tsunami in Scotland resonated loud and clear in a country whose remoter bits have been trying to break off ever since Burma gained independence from Britain nearly 70 years ago.
  
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• Jeb Bush launches 2016 presidential campaign: 'I will run to win' – live updates

  15-06-2015 22:58
  
  Former Florida governor will launch campaign from MiamiBush faces voters’ concerns over family nameSee Jeb Bush’s campaign résumé – as seen by the Guardian 4.48pm ET The reviews begin to trickle in from journalists, pundits and pontificating journalists.Politico’s Ben White was impressed by the show.Very strong performance from Bush. Ad libbed on immigration, diverse crowd, fluent Spanish. Lot passion. He will be formidable.I feel quite comfortable with the idea that Jeb has a better c
  
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• Family Says Briton Killed In Raid On Kenya Base

  15-06-2015 22:44
  
  The family of a Muslim convert who left the UK to join the terror group al Shabaab say they believe he has been killed. Thomas Evans is thought to have died in an attack on a Kenyan army base - and relatives said they confirmed his death after finding a picture of his body online. The British embassy in Nairobi said it was "seeking to confirm reports" Evans died on Sunday when militants from al Qaeda's Somalia affiliate attacked the base in Baure, close to the border with Somali
  
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• E3 2015: Xbox thrills with Lara Croft, Halo 5 and holographic Minecraft

  15-06-2015 22:31
  
  Microsoft promised the greatest line-up in Xbox history for its E3 press briefing – then delivered with fan favourites, and Xbox 360 compatibilityMinecraft is coming to the real world - and in 3D. Just don’t hold your breath. Microsoft delivered a convincing press briefing at E3 2015, revealing a muscular line-up of exclusive titles and features.Continue reading...
  
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• Hayes told brokers to call in favours, Libor trial hears

  15-06-2015 22:27
  
  (Please note strong language in paragraph 11) By Anjuli Davies LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, the former star trader on trial on alleged Libor-rigging charges, asked brokers to wine and dine traders at other banks in order to help him distort benchmark interest rates, according to evidence presented in a London court on Monday. Hayes promised to reward brokers who used their contacts at other banks involved in the Libor-setting process through "wash" trades, where banks make fake trades
  
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• #NoMoreBushes trends on Twitter as Jeb Bush announces he will run for president

  15-06-2015 22:25
  
  Jeb Bush was more than half an hour late taking the stage in Miami to announce he will be running for president of the US in 2016.
  
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• VIDEO: CCTV captures medieval bridge smash

  15-06-2015 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The moment a tractor crashed into an ancient bridge in Bidford-on-Avon has been captured on CCTV footage.
  
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• Jeb Bush makes presidential pitch: 'We will take command of our future again'

  15-06-2015 22:08
  
  The former Florida governor formally announces his presidential campaign in Miami with re-invention of his brother’s ‘compassionate conservatism’Jeb Bush sought to cast himself as a political outsider during his first big speech as a presidential candidate on Monday, drawing on his record as governor of Florida to counter criticism that he represents the establishment wing of the Republican party.“We will take Washington – the static capital of this dynamic country – out of the busin
  
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• 12 members of a Bradford family feared to have crossed into Syria

  15-06-2015 22:00
  
  Three British sisters are feared to have travelled to Syria with their children, some as young as three years old.
  
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• Greece poised on the verge of catastrophic debt default as bailout talks collapse

  15-06-2015 21:54
  
  The world’s financial markets are facing up to the possibility that Greece could soon become the first country to crash out of Europe’s single currency. Talks between Athens and its eurozone creditors have collapsed in acrimony just days before a final deadline for Greece to unlock the €7.2bn (£5.2bn) in bailout funds it needs to avoid a catastrophic debt default.
  
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• VIDEO: Rotherham victim 'felt abandoned'

  15-06-2015 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the victims of child sex abuse in Rotherham has spoken for the first time about how she was abandoned by the authorities.
  
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• Is Europe really safe in the event of a Grexit?

  15-06-2015 21:50
  
  Greece is on the brink of crashing out of the eurozone. So what’s new? Haven’t we been reading headlines like that for the past three years?
  
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• Andy Burnham destabilised after Jeremy Corbyn squeezes onto the Labour leadership ballot

  15-06-2015 21:40
  
  The race for the Labour leadership election has taken a left turn after Jeremy Corbyn won a place on the shortlist after he was nominated by several MPs who will not vote for him.
  
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• Pope warns of 'unprecedented damage' from climate change in leaked encyclical document

  15-06-2015 21:38
  
  Pope Francis warned that the world is heading for “unprecedented destruction” unless mankind confronts climate change and reforms the way it treats the planet, as the most eagerly anticipated papal document in living memory was leaked.
  
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• Fears for 'Syria-bound' family

  15-06-2015 21:29
  
  Three British sisters are feared to have travelled to Syria with their nine children to join up with extremists.
  
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• Hospital worker who 'saw ghost' dealing with horrors of going viral after angry readers send his girlfriend hate mail

  15-06-2015 21:24
  A night worker at a hospital whose photo of a ghostly figure went viral is dealing with an altogether more terrifying situation, after his girlfriend received hate mail over the image.
  
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• Fears family of 12 may be in Syria

  15-06-2015 21:12
  
  Three British sisters are feared to have travelled to Syria with their nine children to join up with extremists.
  
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• Tamir Rice investigation: No proof police warned boy before fatal shooting

  15-06-2015 21:09
  
  Officials investigating the shooting death of Tamir Rice found no proof that the police officer who pulled the trigger shouted a warning before firing the fatal shot.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: No expense spared for the returning Lord Hanningfield

  15-06-2015 21:06
  
  Lord Hanningfield, Parliament’s foremost expenses fiddler, is back in action. He was banned from the House of Lords, but that ban ended after the general election. Since coming back he has not spoken in the Lords chamber, or in Grand Committee, or tabled any oral or written questions. He is not a member of any Lords committee.
  
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• Green spaces 'boost young minds'

  15-06-2015 21:00
  
  Green spaces within and around city schools improve the mental development of young children, a study has found.
  
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• Dinosaur study prompts CO2 warning

  15-06-2015 21:00
  
  Dinosaurs that lived 200 million years ago have given scientists a dramatic glimpse of what may be in store for the world if greenhouse gas emissions are not held back.
  
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• Raising palm oil prices could help to save endangered tigers and orangutans, study claims

  15-06-2015 21:00
  
  Supermarkets could help to save rare endangered animals such as the Sumatran tiger and the orangutan by increasing the price of products containing palm oil providing the money raised went to forest conservation, a study has found.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: The Scots want fiscal control... just not quite now

  15-06-2015 20:56
  This Scotland Bill stuff is not for the faint-hearted. For when it comes to legislation on Scotland nothing is quite what it seems.
  
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• Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's widow Sarah Kyolaba dies in the UK aged 59

  15-06-2015 20:45
  
  Customers at Sarah Kyolaba’s modest hair salon knew her as “Ssenga” or “Aunty”. The gregarious Ugandan proprietor spoke rarely to her clients of the extraordinary life that had preceded her arrival in Britain some 30 years earlier.
  
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• Animals in emergency situations: How keepers care for their animals when zoos are struck by disaster

  15-06-2015 20:42
  
  The human cost of the weekend's devastating flash floods in Tbilisi is on a tragic scale. Twelve people died, thousands more find themselves homeless and destitute.
  
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• US Presidential campaign 2016: Jeb Bush on road to the White House looks wilted by the heat of competition

  15-06-2015 20:38
  
  Jeb Bush is set to formally plunge into the 2016 race to become President of the United States with a campaign that will emphasise both his conservative record as a former governor of Florida and his commitment to building a more inclusive Republican Party. What it will not emphasise are some of his family connections.
  
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• US Presidential campaign 2016: Jeb Bush announces he will run for White House, but already he looks wilted by the competition

  15-06-2015 20:38
  
  Jeb Bush tonight formally plunged into the 2016 race to become President of the United States with a campaign that will emphasise both his conservative record as a former governor of Florida and his commitment to building a more inclusive Republican Party. What it will not emphasise are some of his family connections.
  
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• Fracking in England could begin within a year after Lancashire project receives go-ahead

  15-06-2015 20:38
  
  Fracking could begin in England within a year, after Lancashire planning officials backed an application to extract shale gas for the first time since the technique was banned in 2011.
  
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• Sisters May Have Taken Nine Children To Syria

  15-06-2015 20:26
  
  Three British sisters and their nine children, including one aged three, are feared to have travelled to conflict-hit Syria. Khadija Dawood, Sugra Dawood and Zohra Dawood and the youngsters had gone on an Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. It has emerged the family had flown on 9 June from Medina in Saudi Arabia to Istanbul in Turkey - a commonly used route into Syria.
  
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• Life on Mars: How six scientists' trip to Hawaii simulated a mission to the red planet

  15-06-2015 20:25
  
  Back in the autumn, six scientists received some good news: they were being treated to an eight-month, all expenses paid trip to Hawaii.
  
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• Ethan's mother in wait for decision

  15-06-2015 20:22
  
  A mother who went on the run with her three-year-old son during a bitter custody battle could be jailed if her ex-partner starts legal proceedings against her.
  
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• Danish elections: The 'ice queen' thaws - Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt hoping for a Borgen-style turnaround in polls

  15-06-2015 20:13
  The moment Helle Thorning-Schmidt steps away from the stage and into the dazzling midday sun, she’s arm in arm with a pair of middle-aged women, both total strangers, as they take photographs on their phones of themselves together with Denmark’s first female prime minister.
  
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• Tommy Preston: Versatile footballer whose greatest moments were his goals in a famous Fairs Cup victory against Barcelona

  15-06-2015 20:13
  Tommy Preston was a footballer both versatile and clever, an Hibernian mainstay for a decade and a scorer in each leg of the Easter Road club's stirring Inter-Cities Fairs Cup quarter-final triumph over Barcelona in 1960-61.
  
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• Alton Towers Crash: Daniel Thorpe becomes first victim to leave hospital after ten days

  15-06-2015 20:07
  
  Daniel Thorpe, who suffered a broken leg and a punctured lung when a ride crashed at Alton Towers, has become the first victim to leave hospital after ten days.
  
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• US shark attack: Officials launch search for shark believed to be responsible for two near-fatal attacks

  15-06-2015 20:05
  
  Officials in a North Carolina beach town have began hunting a shark that is believed to have attacked two teenagers over the weekend.
  
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• Lord Griffiths of Govilon: Law lord who won the MC, helped win the County Championship and made many important judgments

  15-06-2015 20:03
  Hugh Griffiths won the Military Cross at the age of 20, and was later a law lord, President of the MCC and Captain of the Royal and Ancient. In a legal career that spanned six decades, the charming and charismatic Griffiths served in many of the judiciary's highest positions, including Lord Justice of Appeal (1980-85).
  
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• Judgement to send boy to live with aunt is driven only by the interests of the child

  15-06-2015 19:47
  
  This is a highly unusual set of circumstances. From the very start the judge was focused on the best interests of the child. Following that path, although it’s not easy, is what enables a judge to make the right decision, by keeping the focus on the child.
  
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• Israel accused of 'war crime' over bulldozing of Palestinian olive groves

  15-06-2015 19:44
  
  Palestinian leaders have accused Israel of a war crime after military tractors destroyed around 1,000 olive and almond trees belonging to local farmers on the grounds that they were illegally planted on state land.
  
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