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• Woman who gave birth alone in wilds of California says she started fire for rescue

  30-06-2015 23:58
  
  Amber Pangborn told her newborn daughter ‘I think mommy just started a forest fire’ after being stranded without provisions – both were rescued by firefightersA woman who gave birth alone and was stranded for days in a remote area of northern California survived the ordeal by starting a fire that roared out of control and drew firefighters to her rescue, local media reported. Officials with the Plumas National Forest confirmed on Tuesday that a fire broke out on Saturday at the park and th
  
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• Donald Trump speech: Mexico says it will not send contestant to tycoon's Miss Universe contest

  30-06-2015 23:50
  
  The fall-out from Donald Trump’s remarks about immigrants from Mexico continued on Tuesday as Mexico announced it will not send a contestant to the Miss Universe contest, which the tycoon partly owns.
  
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• Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck to divorce and end 10-year marriage

  30-06-2015 23:18
  
  Hollywood actress Jennifer Garner will divorce husband Ben Affleck after 10-years of marriage.
  
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• Tatum at premiere of Magic Mike XXL

  30-06-2015 23:16
  
  Temperatures soared but it was not just the weather that got fans hot and bothered as Channing Tatum and his Magic Mike co-stars attended the premiere of their latest film.
  
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• What not to miss on day three

  30-06-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Your essential guide to day three of the 2015 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Club.
  
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• John Lewis ends free collect orders

  30-06-2015 23:07
  
  John Lewis is to introduce a £2 charge for click and collect orders under £30 from the end of next month, saying the current free service is "unsustainable".
  
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• Airport report on expansion of Heathrow or Gatwick fails to settle debate after long delays

  30-06-2015 23:04
  
  A three-year inquiry into airport capacity in the South East, which reports on 1 July, will fail to settle the crucial issue of whether Heathrow or Gatwick should expand.
  
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• Liz Kendall: Labour should promise a budget surplus to regain voters' trust

  30-06-2015 23:02
  
  Labour should pledge that it would always run a government budget surplus in good times in order to regain voters’ trust on the economy, Liz Kendall has said.
  
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• Greece crisis: Nation defaults despite extraordinary last-minute bid for new bailout deal from EU

  30-06-2015 22:28
  
  Greece defaulted on its €1.55bn loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), despite an extraordinary attempt by the country’s Prime Minister to prevent it from tumbling out of the euro.
  
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• Greece crisis: Alexis Tsipras makes extraordinary last-minute bid for new bailout deal from EU

  30-06-2015 22:28
  
  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras made an extraordinary last-minute bid to prevent his country tumbling out of the euro as he appealed for a new bailout from his European and international partners.
  
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• Seifeddine Rezgui: What motivated a shy student to kill 38 holidaymakers in Tunisia

  30-06-2015 22:27
  
  At 11.53 on Friday morning, Seifeddine Rezgui stood on the beach at Port El Kantoui in Sousse and made a 10-second telephone call on his white Samsung Galaxy mobile phone. The tall, handsome young man knelt down, produced a Kalashnikov AK-47 from within a rolled-up beach umbrella and test-fired a couple of rounds into the sand. Then he began the task of killing Western tourists.
  
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• University could not afford Hillary Clinton’s appearance fee, hired Chelsea Clinton instead

  30-06-2015 22:20
  
  The University of Missouri at Kansas City wanted to make a splash when it was opening a women’s hall of fame, so they tried to get Hillary Clinton to speak at the event.
  
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• Blue Peter's John Noakes Found In Storm Drain

  30-06-2015 22:18
  
  Former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes has been found in a storm drain near his Majorca home several hours after going missing. Police began searching for Mr Noakes after his concerned wife Vicky appealed for information which could lead to his whereabouts. "They are taking him by helicopter to the main hospital in Palma.
  
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• If the EU can't restore prosperity to Europe, it's finished

  30-06-2015 22:17
  
  The noise drowns out the story. The din today included what seemed to be apparent about-turns by Wolfgang Schäuble, the German Finance Minister, and Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president. Schäuble told the German parliament that Greece would remain in the euro for the time being, even if the Greek people rejected austerity, while Juncker told Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime Minister, that a bailout accord could still be reached. Tsipras’ new request for a two-year programme
  
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• Temperatures Hit 2015 Record As UK Swelters

  30-06-2015 22:08
  
  The highest temperature for the year was recorded in West London on Tuesday as Britain was warned to prepare for for the mercury to soar even higher on Wednesday. 30.4C was recorded at Northolt and Kew Gardens, according to the Met Office. It could be 35C in London on Wednesday.
  
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• Magistrate courts and police stations could face 'absolute chaos' amid boycott of legal aid work

  30-06-2015 22:05
  
  Magistrates courts and police stations across England and Wales could face “absolute chaos” as the effects of a widespread boycott of new legal aid work kicks in.
  
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• UK Heatwave: Temperatures on the tube are going to exceed the legal limit for transporting cattle

  30-06-2015 22:05
  
  It's good news for cattle, but bad news for commuters, as the heatwave currently hitting London will mean the temperatures on some tube trains tomorrow will exceed the legal limit for transporting cattle.
  
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• Women's World Cup 2015: How England's semi-final success could do wonders for both sexes

  30-06-2015 21:55
  
  At midnight on 2 July more than two million people are expected to watch England play a football World Cup semi-final. Nothing unusual in that, except it will be women they are cheering on.
  
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• Oklahoma Supreme Court rules that Ten Commandments monument must be removed from Capitol

  30-06-2015 21:41
  
  Thou shalt not display the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol.
  
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• Florida restaurant worker fatally stabbed in argument over gumbo spice

  30-06-2015 21:37
  
  The whole point about gumbo is that it is supposed to get everyone feeling a little bit hot under the collar. Not so hot, however, that it might spark a fight or disagreement.
  
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• Tunisia attack: Bodies of Britons killed in massacre to begin returning home

  30-06-2015 21:33
  
  The bodies of Britons killed in the Tunisian beach massacre are to begin returning home, when an RAF flight lands at Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.
  
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• German man found living with 300 rats in tiny apartment

  30-06-2015 21:09
  
  A man has been found living with 300 rats in a tiny two-room flat.
  
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• VIDEO: Tunisia attack: 'We ran for our life'

  30-06-2015 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Special Correspondent Lucy Manning speaks to one family from Yorkshire, and hears their story of how they escaped the Tunisia gunman.
  
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• North York Moors: ‘Test case’ national park mining project gets go-ahead

  30-06-2015 20:59
  
  One of the world’s biggest potash mines is to be dug in the picturesque North York Moors National Park after the park’s planning committee placed commercial consideration over environmental concerns and gave the £1.7bn project the green light.
  
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• Yemen prison break: Al-Qaeda suspects among 1,200 escaped inmates, say officials

  30-06-2015 20:51
  
  Around 1,200 prisoners escaped during clashes at a jail in central Yemen on Tuesday, among them al Qaeda suspects, officials and security sources said.
  
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• In Pictures: Heatwave hits Britain

  30-06-2015 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britons enjoying the summer weather
  
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• Nigel Pearson sacked by Leicester City

  30-06-2015 20:43
  
  Nigel Pearson has been sacked by Leicester City Football Club.
  
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• Man charged over court guard attack

  30-06-2015 20:35
  
  A man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after a female prison officer was left fighting for her life following an attack at a crown court.
  
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• Josef Masopust: Gifted footballer who scored in the World Cup final and whose sportsmanship saw him described as 'The Knight'

  30-06-2015 20:32
  Josef Masopust, the 1962 European Footballer of the Year, was one of the world's most complete all-round performers during his imperious prime with Dukla Prague and the former Czechoslovakia. A sublimely gifted creative midfielder – or wing-half, as the role was described at the time – he occupied an equivalent niche in his nation's sporting consciousness to Bobby Charlton in England, fêted as an idol while receiving praise with an engaging modesty which never faltered.
  
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• Paris approves controversial triangle skyscraper for construction

  30-06-2015 20:31
  
  Paris will see its first new skyscraper in nearly 40 years after the city approved controversial construction plans which have divided Parisians since plans were unveiled in 2008. 
  
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• Paris approves controversial Tour Triangle skyscraper for construction

  30-06-2015 20:31
  
  Paris will see its first new skyscraper in nearly 40 years after the city approved controversial construction plans which have divided Parisians since plans were unveiled in 2008. 
  
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• Extremists barred from university and college campuses as part of renewed crackdown

  30-06-2015 20:31
  
  Universities and colleges will be forced to vet external speakers for “extremist” views as part of a renewed crackdown on radicalisation, ministers have indicated.
  
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• Harvey McGregor: Barrister and supporter of the arts who was acclaimed for his magisterial book 'McGregor on Damages'

  30-06-2015 20:28
  To few men is it given to become "the authority" on a given subject. One of the few is Harvey McGregor QC, esteemed Warden of New College Oxford from 1985 to 1996, and author of McGregor on Damages, now in its 19th edition. Members of Parliament in their surgeries receive many ill-tempered constituents highly indignant that they have been wronged. If their case seemed sensible, my reply was almost always the same: "You must go to a lawyer, but before you spill out too much of your money in lega
  
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• Mo Farah: Prove I'm A Cheat Or Leave Me Alone

  30-06-2015 20:23
  
  Mo Farah has called on his accusers to prove he is a cheat or leave him alone, in an interview with Sky Sports News. The double Olympic gold medal-winning track star made his comments in response to claims about his coach Alberto Salazar. The BBC's Panorama programme alleged that the Portland-based coach had overseen the use of banned substances by Galen Rupp, Farah's training partner and an Olympic silver medalist.
  
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• Tunisia Couple 'Still Hear Shots And Screams'

  30-06-2015 20:12
  
  A young couple have told Sky News how they ran for their lives from the Tunisian gunman as they holidayed abroad together for the first time without their parents. Oliver Hardy and Paige Finn have described the guilt they feel at being unable to do more to help fellow holidaymakers who were injured. Mr Hardy, who works as an estate agent, said: "The explosions, the shots, the people screaming I still hear it every night when I try to sleep.
  
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• Deaths of mother and daughter in Surrey linked to earlier death of a man in France, police say

  30-06-2015 20:12
  
  The deaths of a woman and her 14-year-old girl daughter, whose bodies were found in their home in Surrey, are thought to be linked to the death of a man in the south of France, police have said.
  
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• Tunisian hotel shooting: Police release photos of terror attacker's suspected accomplices

  30-06-2015 20:09
  
  Tunisian police have released images of two men being sought in connection with last week’s beach attack that left 39 people dead.
  
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• Potash mine plan approved for park

  30-06-2015 20:00
  
  A plan to build a huge potash mine in one of the UK's national parks has been approved.
  
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• How the rainbow became the symbol of gay pride

  30-06-2015 19:58
  
  Many people signed on to the Internet on 26 June to find their Twitter and Facebook feeds exploding with rainbows. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to make same-sex marriage a Constitutional right across the country sparked a huge volume of rainbow colored cartoons, .gifs and photos.
  
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• John Noakes found after search

  30-06-2015 19:57
  
  Missing former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes has been found near his home in Majorca after going missing for more than eight hours.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Commons breeding in the summer sunshine

  30-06-2015 19:51
  
  Tory MPs love to name-check their local entrepreneurs.
  
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• John Noakes In Hospital After Going Missing

  30-06-2015 19:49
  
  Former Blue Peter presenter John Noakes has been found after several hours missing in Majorca.
  
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• Apple launches music streaming

  30-06-2015 19:44
  
  Apple Music, the iPhone maker's attempt to take on music streaming service Spotify, has launched worldwide.
  
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• Katy Perry prevented from buying California convent for $14.5m after nuns sell to local businesswoman instead

  30-06-2015 19:41
  
  A legal firework has been set off in Los Feliz, California, after a group of elderly nuns sold their former convent to a local businesswoman against the wishes of the Los Angeles archdiocese – all to prevent the property being bought by the pop megastar, Katy Perry.
  
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• Major US churches could remove investments in Israel

  30-06-2015 19:40
  
  Three major US churches, with millions of members, are meeting this week and are expected to vote on whether they will divest from companies that support Israel’s occupation of Palestine, the New York Times reported.
  
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• Detroit mother who killed her kids and placed them in freezer pleads guilty: ‘I would do it again’

  30-06-2015 19:40
  
  The Detroit mother who killed her two children and placed their bodies in a freezer has pleaded guilty to both murders.
  
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• John Noakes: Missing former Blue Peter presenter recovering in hospital after being found close to Majorca home

  30-06-2015 19:32
  
  John Noakes, the former Blue Peter presenter, is recovering in hospital after being found close to his home in Majorca following a major police search.
  
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• Ajmer: The ancient Indian metropolis chosen to be a 'smart city' where residents would just be happy to have power and running water

  30-06-2015 19:32
  Ajmer’s famous 13th-century Sufi shrine draws millions of pilgrims from around the world every year. The city recently launched a new website called “Amazing Ajmer”. But life in this ancient city is anything but amazing.
  
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• Children who hold homophobic views more likely to become extremists, warns Nicky Morgan

  30-06-2015 19:30
  
  The Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, has said that children who hold homophobic views should be considered at greater risk of becoming radicalised.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: MPs’ nepotism vindicated - families who work together stay together

  30-06-2015 19:25
  
  There has been some comment over the revelation that 129 out of 650 MPs have declared in the Register of Interests that they use their parliamentary allowances to employ relatives. This practice is controversial.
  
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