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• Drunk driver praises police in 'heartwarming' letter to the Met commissioner

  29-06-2015 23:53
  
  A drunk driver sent a thank you note to the Metropolitan Police commissioner praising the officer who stopped him from going down “a path he was heading for.”
  
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• Lightning Rod: Man called Rod is hit by lightning for a second time

  29-06-2015 23:40
  
  It is hard to see why a man hit twice by lightning in one lifetime should be told he is lucky by his friends. But that was what happened to Rod Wolfe, after the lightning Rod was struck for the second time
  
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• UK slams Argentine plan to seize Falklands oil driller assets

  29-06-2015 23:25
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Monday accused Argentina of a politically motivated and illegal attack on the nascent oil industry around the disputed Falkland Islands, after Buenos Aires said it would seek to seize the assets of drillers operating in region.
  
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• Tunisia terror-link suspects held

  29-06-2015 23:17
  
  Seven suspected associates of the Tunisian beach gunman have been arrested, as it was announced Britain will observe a national minute's silence for the victims of the massacre.
  
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• In pictures: Spanish town soaked with wine in the annual 'Batalla de Vino' - or 'wine battle'

  29-06-2015 23:15
  
  The Spanish wine-making town of Haro, La Rioja, has played host to its annual 'wine fight', where thousands of locals and tourists celebrate St Peter's feast day by throwing thousands of litres of wine over each other.
  
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• New 'Iron Man' augmented reality technology could help surgeons and firefighters, say scientists

  29-06-2015 22:59
  
  Scientists have developed a method of projecting 3D holographic images into the field of view of an observer in an “augmented reality” breakthrough that could one day allow the likes of surgeons and firefighters to benefit from seeing the world through technology similar to that used by comic-book superhero Iron Man.
  
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• Glenda Jackson returns to acting

  29-06-2015 22:56
  
  Former screen star Glenda Jackson is returning to acting after 20 years, in a "mash-up" adaptation of novels by French writer Emile Zola.
  
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• Kim Jong-un shows off airport designed by architect he likely had executed

  29-06-2015 22:53
  
  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un toured Pyongyang Airport’s new terminal ahead of its opening, but reports claim Kim ordered the architect to be executed after he was unhappy with its design.
  
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• Songs that inspired Grey author

  29-06-2015 22:17
  
  Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James has revealed the unusual inspiration behind her latest book.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Portugal appears to weather storm from Athens, despite rise on bond yields

  29-06-2015 22:08
  
  Like its opposite numbers in neighbouring Spain, the Portuguese government has been at pains to say that its economy, which like Greece needed European assistance four years ago, is now on the mend: if disaster strikes in Athens, the Portuguese economy will not be next, officials insist.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Lack of jobs mars the bright outlook in Spain

  29-06-2015 21:58
  
  A common refrain in Madrid is that “Spain is not Greece”, meaning it is wrong to approximate Spain’s economic troubles with those of Greece in recent years. And it is a fair point. Spain is one of the fastest growing economies in the eurozone, while other indicators suggest that, albeit slowly, the Spanish economy is emerging from the credit crisis.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Italy fears contagion as Milan stock exchange drops 5 per cent

  29-06-2015 21:56
  
  As panic returned to the markets along with the C-word – contagion – Italian commentators feared a return to the bad days of late 2011, when Italy appeared itself to be heading for a financial cliff. By the afternoon on 29 June, Milan’s stock exchange was down almost 5 per cent and government borrowing costs surged.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Fears of contagion as Milan stock exchange drops 5 per cent

  29-06-2015 21:56
  
  As panic returned to the markets along with the C-word – contagion – Italian commentators feared a return to the bad days of late 2011, when Italy appeared itself to be heading for a financial cliff. By the afternoon on 29 June, Milan’s stock exchange was down almost 5 per cent and government borrowing costs surged.
  
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• The graphs that shows how the poor are paying more in tax than the rich

  29-06-2015 21:50
  
  The poorest families in the UK are losing more of their income in tax than any other income group, official statistics have revealed - and the gap between rich and poor is widening.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Athens has one day to find €1.6bn

  29-06-2015 21:41
  
  Greece is edging inexorably towards an exit from the euro as it is poised to become the first developed nation to default on money owed to the International Monetary Fund.
  
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• Donald Trump fired from NBC for 'derogatory' remarks about Mexican immigrants

  29-06-2015 21:41
  
  NBCUniversal has ended its relationship with Donald Trump after the billionaire and Republican presidential candidate made some inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants recently.
  
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• Donald Trump fired from NBC for ‘deragatory’ remarks about Mexican immigrants

  29-06-2015 21:41
  
  NBCUniversal has ended its relationship with Donald Trump after the billionaire and Republican presidential candidate made some inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants recently.
  
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• On Your Farm to visit Charles house

  29-06-2015 21:38
  
  The Prince of Wales is opening the doors of his private house in Transylvania for a Radio 4 series, On Your Farm.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Where next for Athens if it doesn’t pay?

  29-06-2015 21:33
  
  Q | Why is 30 June the moment of truth for Greece?
  
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• Iran nuclear deal: Gulf between Tehran and UN over inspections and sanctions mean deadline will be missed

  29-06-2015 21:31
  
  After 12 years of on-off negotiations tonight’s deadline for securing a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme will be missed as the talks stumble over Tehran’s willingness to allow inspectors into the country, and the lifting of sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
  
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• Tunisia hotel attack: 'Paralysed' police let gunman run amok for half an hour, says witness

  29-06-2015 21:20
  Armed policeman were “paralysed by fear” and allowed the Tunisian gunman Seifeddine Rezgui to freely massacre British tourists for more than half an hour before shooting him dead, witnesses claim.
  
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• Tunisia attack: Police allowed gunman to massacre British tourists for an hour before shooting him dead, witnesses claim

  29-06-2015 21:20
  Armed policeman were “paralysed by fear” and allowed the Tunisian gunman Seifeddine Rezgui to freely massacre British tourists for more than half hour before shooting him dead, witnesses claim.
  
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• Isis release final audio statement of suicide bomber who killed 27 in Kuwait attack

  29-06-2015 21:19
  
  Isis has released an audio clip of the final statement of Fahd Suliman Abdul-Muhsen al-Qabaa, the man who killed 27 people in a suicide attack at a Kuwait mosque on Friday.
  
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• Sugary drinks are killing 184,000 adults around the world every year, says study

  29-06-2015 21:18
  
  Sugary drinks are killing 184,000 adults around the world every year, and should be eliminated from people’s diets, medical experts have warned. The global death toll from sugar-laden drinks – ranging from soft drinks to fruit smoothies – has been revealed in a new paper published in the American Heart Association’s Circulation journal.
  
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• Chestnut-crowned babbler: Australian bird becomes first known non-human species to communicate using language

  29-06-2015 21:15
  
  A small gregarious bird that lives in the Australian outback has been found to communicate with one another using a simple form of language – the first species other than humans known to do so.
  
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• Jupp to host BBC's The News Quiz

  29-06-2015 21:13
  
  Rev star Miles Jupp has been announced as the new host of The News Quiz after Sandi Toksvig stepped down from the long-running radio show.
  
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• Hawking to deliver Reith Lecture

  29-06-2015 21:13
  
  Professor Stephen Hawking will deliver the BBC's flagship Reith Lecture this year - on the subject of black holes.
  
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• From an Islamic 'caliphate' to war with the West, just what is Isis' ideology?

  29-06-2015 21:11
  
  UK Prime Minister David Cameron spoke today about the importance of tackling the appeal of Isis by confronting an “ideology [that] stems from an extremist narrative which hijacks the religion of Islam.”
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: We need sympathy for Tunisia victims before the shaming begins

  29-06-2015 21:10
  
  Apart from the solemn one minute’s silence before David Cameron’s statement, what struck home in the Commons was the number of MPs from all parts of the country and across the party divide naming their constituents who died or were injured on the beach at Sousse on 26 June.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Workers in Athens’ historic meat market take stock as creditors sharpen their knives

  29-06-2015 21:03
  
  Stavros Koukiadakis, a diminutive trader who sells meat in Athens’ Varvakeion Agora markets, ponders the situation Greeks find themselves in today. His father, he says, worked in the meat market since the fall of the Greek junta in 1974. He says the only crisis that can compare to this is Chernobyl – a nuclear cloud threatening all of Europe. “At least back then people had money on them.”
  
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• Music 'bonds social groups'

  29-06-2015 21:00
  
  Music is not so much the food of love as nourishment for social cohesion, according to research.
  
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• Dylan Roof: Experts believe Charleston shooting suspect was author of racist manifesto and 'self-radicalised' online

  29-06-2015 20:59
  
  Experts examining the background of Dylann Roof and the racist ‘manifesto’ linked to him, believe he was ‘self-radicalised’ by reading online and that he wrote the document himself.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron rejects Tory pressure to disclose what would make him urge Britons to leave the European Union

  29-06-2015 20:48
  David Cameron rejected pressure from Conservative Eurosceptics to disclose what would make him urge the British people to vote to leave the European Union in the referendum to be held by 2017.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron 'optimistic' over European Union concessions – but refuses to spell out demands

  29-06-2015 20:48
  David Cameron rejected pressure from Conservative Eurosceptics to disclose what would make him urge the British people to vote to leave the European Union in the referendum to be held by 2017.
  
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• Pope Francis to chew coca leaves on Bolivia visit, says government minister

  29-06-2015 20:43
  
  Pope Francis will experiment with coca leaves, the natural source of cocaine, when he visits Bolivia in July, said a government minister in the South American country.
  
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• The poor are paying a bigger proportion of tax than the rich and the gap is widening

  29-06-2015 20:43
  
  The poorest families in the UK are losing more of their income in tax than any other income group, official statistics have revealed, putting pressure on the government not to risk exacerbating inequality by cutting tax credits in next week’s budget.
  
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• How to stop an asteroid hitting Earth: Would people cooperate to face a global peril?

  29-06-2015 20:41
  Earlier this year, while war and chaos continued to unfold further east, scientists gathered on the outskirts of Rome to discuss another sort of catastrophe. Astronomers and physicists from some of the world's top institutions grappled with a dire scenario: an asteroid up to 1,300ft in diameter – big enough to cause epochal damage – was hurtling towards Earth, and the countries likely to be hit included some of the poorest and most unstable in the world. Policymakers bickered over whether t
  
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• British government queries CBI lobby group's EU stance

  29-06-2015 20:40
  
  The British government on Monday questioned the approach it said one of the country's most influential lobbying groups was taking to Prime Minister David Cameron's European Union reform drive, urging it to rethink its stance.
  
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• Supreme Court strikes down Obama's key environmental plan to regulate cancer-causing air pollution

  29-06-2015 20:39
  
  The justices ruled 5-4 on Monday striking down the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant’s mercury, coal and oil fire-powered emissions.
  
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• Tunisia attack: Could David Cameron begin air strikes against Isis in Syria after tourist deaths?

  29-06-2015 20:39
  
  David Cameron said that Isis must be “crushed” in Syria as well as Iraq as he reopened the question of whether the UK should launch air strikes against the terrorist group in Syria following the killings of tourists in Tunisia.
  
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• French police arrest two top Uber executives after Paris cab riots

  29-06-2015 20:34
  
  French police have arrested two executives of Uber, the company whose “amateur cab” phone service provoked violent protests by Parisian taxi-drivers last week. The heads of the American company’s European and French operations were being held in custody last night by traffic police.
  
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• Puerto Rican debt 'unpayable' as country's economy stuck in 'death spiral', says Governor

  29-06-2015 20:30
  
  The Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla, has announced that the country will not be able to pay its £46 billion ($72 billion) of debt.
  
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• Walmart refused to make a Confederate flag cake, instead made Isis cake

  29-06-2015 20:29
  
  Walmart has made good on its pledge to eliminate the Confederate flag from its stores, even going as far as to refuse to make a cake featuring the flag.
  
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• Fuji TV subtitling error has South Koreans say they 'hate' Japan

  29-06-2015 20:21
  
  A Japanese TV station has apologised for putting words into the mouths of South Korean interviewees, saying there had been a mistake in the subtitling of one of its programmes.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Socialists join defeated austerity party in anti-Syriza coalition

  29-06-2015 20:18
  
  Three of Greece’s opposition parties have declared their support for remaining inside the eurozone on the terms proposed in next weekend’s snap referendum, thus effectively backing a plan the government itself had attempted to negotiate, but from which it eventually walked away.
  
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• Greek government reveals referendum question...and it's long and vague

  29-06-2015 20:16
  
  The Greek government has announced the question its citizens will be answering in the upcoming referendum. But the ballot paper, which isn’t exactly crystal clear, has sparked some head-scratching.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: History shows 'new drachma' is nothing to fear

  29-06-2015 20:13
  
  “Chaos” is the usual word ascribed to the prospect of Greece leaving the Eurozone and instituting a national currency once more, which, for the sake of this argument, we may call the “new drachma”.
  
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• Robert Mugabe: Don't try to choose my successor Zimbabwe's president, 93, warns Zanu-PF members

  29-06-2015 20:08
  
  Vice-presidential vultures are circling Robert Mugabe. First, his sacked VP Joice Mujuru formed a rival party to challenge the Zimbabwean leader. Now, his other VPs are said to be campaigning to take the reins when, or if, he relinquishes power.
  
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• Robert Mugabe: Don't try to choose my successor Zimbabwe's president, 91, warns Zanu-PF members

  29-06-2015 20:08
  
  Vice-presidential vultures are circling Robert Mugabe. First, his sacked VP Joice Mujuru formed a rival party to challenge the Zimbabwean leader. Now, his other VPs are said to be campaigning to take the reins when, or if, he relinquishes power.
  
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• Tunisia attack: To prevent more bloodshed we must accept that containment has not worked

  29-06-2015 20:06
  
  Effective action to prevent further attacks by Isis-inspired gunmen requires a recognition of the failure of the policy of containment of Isis pursued over the last year by the US, Britain and their allies. Isis is getting stronger not weaker. In the aftermath of an atrocity like Sousse, it would be naïve to expect David Cameron to admit to this failure and to recommend new and more effective policies.
  
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