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• Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcommunism

  21-06-2015 23:30
  
  Peer-to-peer platforms have changed the game. Make them cheap or free, and it would be way of reinventing the economy to deliver participation and choice alongside social justiceThe key will be under a milk bottle, said the email, and it had better be. I had flown to Sydney for a month-long stay in an apartment, booked via Airbnb, and I would have been in disarray if there had been something wrong. But the key was there, and, eventually, so was a line in my credit-card bill commensurate with sta
  
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• Lawsuit brought by Muslims rounded up after 9/11 gets go-ahead from court

  21-06-2015 23:19
  
  In all, 762 detainees were swept up across US, including 491 in the New York area, and locked up and abused for months at a time, alleges lawsuitIt has been nearly 14 years since the 9/11 attacks, but a lawsuit on behalf of Muslims rounded up in the aftermath has barely moved forward as lawyers try to show how frightening it was for hundreds of men with no ties to terrorism to be treated like terrorists, locked up and abused for months at a time.The lawsuit finally got the go-ahead from a federa
  
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• Mother releases heart-wrenching open letter written to son, 6, who vanished in January

  21-06-2015 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A DISTRAUGHT mother has written an emotional letter to her six-year-old son who has not been since vanishing with her estranged husband at the beginning of this year.
  
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• Britain needs to get a better deal from Brussels or leave the European Union ... - Telegraph.co.uk

  21-06-2015 23:06 via telegraph.co.uk
  
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  Britain needs to get a better deal from Brussels or leave the European Union ...
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  David Cameron should lead Britain out of the EU if he is unable to secure a veto for the UK over European laws, win back control over employment rules and permanently protect the City from Eurozone regulations, a group of business leaders and economists ...
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• Creditors offer Greece six-month bailout reprieve as Tsipras weighs response

  21-06-2015 23:01
  
  Deal may also include up to €18bn in rescue funds, and later debt relief, but EU officials stress Greek prime minister must make concessionsGreece’s international creditors are aiming to strike a deal to stop Athens defaulting on its debt and possibly tumbling out of the euro by extending its bailout by six months and supplying up to €18bn (£12.9bn) in rescue funds.
  The negotiators representing Greece’s lenders are also proposing to pledge debt relief for the austerity-battered cou
  
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• Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell recap: episode six – The Black Tower

  21-06-2015 23:00
  
  The penultimate episode finds Norrell reading Strange’s book, Strange holed up in Venice and Stephen Black finding a voice at last Related: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell recap: episode five – Arabella Spoiler warning: this blogpost contains references to episode six of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell which airs on BBC1 in the UK and BBC America in the US. Continue reading...
  
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• Humans recap: season one, episode two – who’s real and who’s a synth?

  21-06-2015 23:00
  
  The confusing world of human-synth crossover continues – and Laura finally gets to the end of her tether with AnitaLast week’s final scene saw Anita carrying her owners’ youngest daughter Sophie off into the night; now, it’s the next morning in the family home.Will Laura discover her daughter has been abducted by a rogue synth? Er, no. The little one is tucked up in bed and Anita is making breakfast. But Laura knows something is not right. Sophie has changed her pyjamas, and the ones she
  
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• Charleston mourns deaths of nine people in church shooting – in pictures

  21-06-2015 22:57
  
  The African American church in the South Carolina city where nine people were shot dead by a white gunman on Wednesday reopened for services on Sunday, as locals led a remembrance march for the victims Continue reading...
  
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• 62 year old man gets hero's welcome after marching 125 miles to protest against alleged government corruption in Guatemala

  21-06-2015 22:50
  A 62-year-old Guatemalan man has been given a hero’s welcome after completing a 125 mile (200km) march in protest against alleged government corruption.
  
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• Cat earns US animal shelter's 'hero dog' award

  21-06-2015 22:47
  
  A US animal shelter has given its 'hero dog' award to a cat after she saved a six-year-old boy from an attack by a neighbour's dog.
  
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• Pool swimmers stricken by leak

  21-06-2015 22:44
  
  Around 40 people, including a three-year-old child, were treated by paramedics after a chemical leak in a swimming pool of a holiday park.
  
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• Hackers ground 1,400 passengers at Warsaw in attack on airline's computers

  21-06-2015 22:40
  
  Polish state-owned airline LOT suffers hacking assault on ground systems that causes 10 national and international flights to be cancelled Around 1,400 passengers of the Polish airline LOT have been grounded at Warsaw Chopin airport after hackers attacked the airline ground computer systems used to issue flight plans, the company said. The computer system was hacked on Sunday afternoon and fixed after about five hours, during which 10 of the state-owned carrier’s national and international fli
  
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• Tea – a new national drink for Scotland?

  21-06-2015 22:30
  
  Tea plantations usually conjure up images of steamy hillside estates in India or China, but Scotland now has its own tea farm nestled in the Highland hills of Perth and Kinross. The Wee Tea plantation in Amulree may be thousands of miles from Assam or Darjeeling, but the growing conditions are surprisingly good for tea.Despite its reputation for growing in a balmy climate, the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, can survive temperatures as low as -11C for long periods. And with plenty of rain, good so
  
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• Italy, France Play Down Migrant Border Drama - NDTV

  21-06-2015 22:29 via ndtv.com
  
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  French President Francois Hollande (L) shakes hands with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the end of a joint press conference following a visit at the Expo Milano 2015 in Milan on June 21, 2015.(Agence France-Presse) ...
  Italy's Renzi says no tension with France over migrant crisisThe Star Online
  French president offers words of support to Italy over migrant crisis in Milaneuronews
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• UK needs over one million new engineers and technicians, says Royal Academy of Engineering

  21-06-2015 22:28
  
  The UK will need more than a million new engineers and technicians in the next five years, but despite the skills shortage women still account for less than 10 per cent of the sector’s workforce.
  
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• New York prison break manhunt follows 'credible sighting' 350 miles away

  21-06-2015 22:20
  
  Authorities say they do not yet have confirmed sighting but put residents near Friendship in south-west New York on high alert as they channel officers to area Related: New York prison break - how two murderers escaped An intense manhunt for two escaped convicts continued on Sunday around the tiny town of Friendship in south-western New York state, following what police described as a “credible sighting” of men resembling the fugitives.Continue reading...
  
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• Detroit police chief pleads for details on fatal shooting: 'Silence is not acceptable'

  21-06-2015 22:06
  
  Hail of bullets fired at barbecue gathering on basketball courts on SaturdayOne killed and 11 injured in what police believe was a retaliation shootingA wall of silence surrounds a shootout at a block party on Detroit’s west side that left a 19-year-old gunman dead and 11 other people wounded, police chief James Craig said Sunday from the site where about 300 people had barbecued and celebrated hours earlier.Standing on basketball courts where the shooting happened about 8.30 pm on Saturday, c
  
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• Jelly wrestling banned by former Archbishop of Canterbury for being sexist

  21-06-2015 22:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A BID to bring jelly wrestling to a Cambridge University drinking society has been scuppered by Dr Rowan Williams.
  
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• Martin Rowson on George Osborne and cuts – cartoon

  21-06-2015 21:50
  
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• Europol web unit to hunt extremists behind Isis social media propaganda

  21-06-2015 21:37
  
  Europe-wide police team aims to find key figures in campaign producing 100,000 tweets daily linked to terror group, seeking to recruit foreign fightersA new Europe-wide police unit is being set up to scour the internet for the ring leaders behind Islamic State’s social media propaganda campaign, which it has used to recruit foreign fighters and jihadi brides.The police team will seek to track down the key figures behind the estimated 100,000 tweets a day pumped out from 45,000 to 50,000 accoun
  
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• TripAdvisor attacked by users after they notice negative reviews disappearing from site

  21-06-2015 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TRAVEL website TripAdvisor has come under fire for deleting hundreds of critical reviews about a country estate.
  
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• 'Dozens of Saudi, Gulf Arab students visited Israeli embassy in Washington' - Jerusalem Post Israel News

  21-06-2015 21:29 via jpost.com
  
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  'Dozens of Saudi, Gulf Arab students visited Israeli embassy in Washington'
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  The students were given diplomatic briefings by embassy staff and even had their pictures taken with them, the documents unveiled by WikiLeaks revealed. Flag of Saudi Arabia. (photo credit:Courtesy). Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Dozens of ...
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• EU referendum: Cabinet ministers may quit over European Union vote, says Liam Fox

  21-06-2015 21:20
  
  David Cameron is under pressure from Tory right-wingers to spell out more details of his plans to wrest back powers from Brussels to Britain by the autumn.
  
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• Prada determined to enjoy summer despite guillotines

  21-06-2015 21:15
  
  One couldn’t help but connect the see-through panels of sheeting preciously positioned, like plexiglass guillotine blades, above the heads of the guests at Prada with a new financial transparency currently heavily in fashion.
  
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• VE Day: Land Girls identified 70 years after taking a quick dip

  21-06-2015 20:59
  
  It is an image that captures the joy of VE Day – two women arm-in-arm with sailors in the Trafalgar Square fountain as the nation celebrates the end of six long years of war.
  
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• Aussie Cricketers Bowled Out By Schoolboys

  21-06-2015 20:56
  
  Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke has admitted getting bowled out by London schoolboys is "not a good sign" for his team ahead of the Ashes next month. The test match side played alongside boys from Merchant Taylor's School in North London, where they are training as part of their Ashes build-up. The team are training at the school for three days and invited the youngsters to field and bowl with the likes of Brad Haddin and Josh Hazlewood.
  
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• Horror as mum and four children hit by car 'doing 100mph' on residential street

  21-06-2015 20:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A MUM and her four four children are fighting for their lives after being mowed down by a car which one eyewitness said was travelling at 100mph.
  
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• Lib Dem's Tim Farron calls for changes to arms export laws to halt sales to repressive regimes

  21-06-2015 20:36
  
  A major overhaul of arms exports policy to prevent British-made weapons being used for internal repression and military aggression is being demanded by the frontrunner in the contest for the Liberal Democrat leadership.
  
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• Police 'complicit' in radicalising Bradford sisters who fled to Syria, say solicitors

  21-06-2015 20:33
  
  British police were “complicit  in the grooming and radicalising” of the three sisters who are believed to have taken their nine children to join Isis in Syria, according to solicitors for their families.
  
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• Pool cool: The swimwear season has arrived

  21-06-2015 20:30
  
  Swimwear season is here, so suit up in style with bold shapes and bright colours that  will pack a punch at the poolside.
  
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• Derbyshire flat fire: 'Flames were going up the stairs' - BBC News

  21-06-2015 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
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  Three people have died and five have been injured in a flat fire in Derbyshire. A man, a woman, and a young girl were pronounced dead at the scene, in North Street, Langley Mill. Eyewitness Craig McFarlane described the scene as people gathered, trying to ...
  Teenage mother and baby die as blaze sweeps houseThe Times (subscription)
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• Could the European Union end up going the way of Arab unity?

  21-06-2015 20:05
  
  Arab unity has been the most hopeless aspiration of the Middle East. The idea that the Arab world – the Arabic-speaking, largely Muslim land mass between the Atlantic and the borders of Iraq and Iran – could turn into one confederated nation whose wealth, political power and armies would dominate the most strategic area of the globe, has proved to be as delusional as the European Union has turned out to be real. Until now.
  
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• England U-21 vs Sweden U-21 match report: Jesse Lingard's brilliant late volley rescues Gareth Southgate's lacklustre Lions

  21-06-2015 20:02
  
  It was in danger of turning into another one of those groundhog summers for England Under-21s, the kind when the pre-tournament anticipation and hope goes on a lot longer than the dismal reality of the tournament itself, and then Gareth Southgate’s team rescued it at the death.
  
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• Greece crisis: PM Alexis Tsipras makes proposals to EU leaders ahead of crunch debt summit

  21-06-2015 20:02
  
  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has presented European Union leaders with a new set of proposals ahead of Monday's emergency Eurozone summit in a bid to avert a Greek default and possible exit from the euro.
  
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• Migrants legally living in UK being deprived of chance to go to university, says teachers' leader

  21-06-2015 20:02
  
  Migrants who have lived in the UK legally for years are being deprived of the chance to go to university, a teachers’ leader has revealed.
  
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• Now Russia and Ukraine are at war over the ownership of St Vladimir the Great

  21-06-2015 19:57
  
  A millennium ago, grand prince Vladimir of Kiev cast a civilisational fault line across Eastern Europe – one that divided the states of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from the rest of the continent.
  
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• 'Good script' would lure McGregor

  21-06-2015 19:56
  
  Ewan McGregor has said he would return to film in Scotland "in a flash" if the right script came his way.
  
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• Children seriously injured in crash

  21-06-2015 19:56
  
  Four children and a woman in her 30s have received life-threatening injuries in a road crash.
  
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• Al Jazeera demands release of journalist held by Germany on an Egyptian arrest warrant weeks after Cairo signs £5.7bn deal

  21-06-2015 19:50
  The Arabic news channel has Al Jazeera demanded that Germany immediately release one of its senior journalists, mysteriously held in Berlin since Saturday on what police said was an Egyptian arrest warrant.
  
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• Israel withdraws cartoon that mocked reporters' coverage of last summer's Gaza war

  21-06-2015 19:40
  
  The Israeli government has withdrawn a cartoon it produced that mocked foreign journalists’ purportedly clueless coverage of last summer’s Gaza war, but it steered clear of any apology or admission it had made a mistake by issuing the broadside.
  
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• Swift slams Apple Music pay stance

  21-06-2015 19:33
  
  Pop star Taylor Swift has branded Apple "shocking and disappointing" for refusing to pay artists during the first three months of the company's new music streaming service.
  
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• Calais' migrant shanty town to be provided with water and electricity by French government

  21-06-2015 19:30
  
  The French government is to make a migrant shanty town near Calais “official” with plans for investment in its infrastructure.
  
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• George Osborne: We'll push ahead with plans to slash £12bn a year from benefits bill

  21-06-2015 19:28
  
  George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith have insisted they will push ahead with plans to slash another £12bn a year from the benefits bill.
  
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• British business leaders plan campaign for EU exit

  21-06-2015 19:15
  
  A group of British business leaders and entrepreneurs are preparing to launch a campaign for Britain to leave the European Union at a planned membership referendum, a major donor to the UK Independence Party said. Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to renegotiate Britain's relationship with the EU ahead of a vote by the end of 2017, and is this week due to set out his reform plans in more detail at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels. The group, which the Sunday Telegraph reported wou
  
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• WATCH: Hate preacher Anjem Choudary 'bullies' PC for wearing Help for Heroes wristband

  21-06-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THIS is the moment Muslim extremist Anjem Choudary bullies a police officer - because he is wearing a wristband supporting a charity for injured soldiers.
  
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• Britain braces for political showdown over long-awaited airport decision

  21-06-2015 19:01
  
  By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) - A decades-long battle to expand Britain's overcrowded airports is set for a crunch decision in the coming weeks, as the world's fifth-largest economy seeks to resolve a row that has bedevilled successive governments and risks choking economic growth. Now a government-appointed Airports Commission will emerge from three years of consideration to say in the next few weeks whether the necessary capacity should be built at Heathrow or Gatwick. It's a
  
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• Charleston shooting: Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church holds first service since the killing of nine of its members

  21-06-2015 18:55
  Half way up the blue-painted steps of the whitewashed church, the police announced there really was no more room inside.
  
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• Kevin Garside: Positive thinking has transformed cricketers, so why not Roy Hodgson’s England?

  21-06-2015 18:50
  
  Trophies won and pound notes banked are the standard measures of achievement in sport. There is another: the impressions left behind, priceless memories that ensure the significance of winning moments are classified eternal and shared by all.
  
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• Battle of Waterloo: 200th anniversary victory 'news' reaches London

  21-06-2015 18:33
  
  He may have been defeated in the Battle of Waterloo on Saturday, but modern communications being what they are, news of Napoleon’s surrender in Belgium only reached London yesterday afternoon.
  
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• Man critical after brothers attacked

  21-06-2015 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man in his 20s is in a critical condition after being assaulted in south Belfast on Saturday night.
  
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