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• Greek debt crisis: Alexis Tsipras speaks to 25,000 at 'No' rally in Syntagma Square, urging voters to deny 'those who terrorise you'

  03-07-2015 23:56
  
  Syntagma Square in Athens has once again played host to a huge political rally of 25,000 people supporting a 'No' vote in Sunday's referendum.
  
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• Euromillions results: Winning numbers for Friday July 3 2015

  03-07-2015 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THESE are the winning Euromillions numbers for the draw on Friday July 3 2015.
  
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• Astana’s Lars Boom could be thrown off Tour for low cortisol levels

  03-07-2015 23:50
  
  • Astana say cyclist will start if he cannot be replaced
  • Boom is a key lieutenant of the champion, Vincenzo NibaliLars Boom, one of the reigning Tour de France champion Vicenzo Nibali’s most experienced lieutenants on the Astana team, could be excluded from this year’s race after returning cortisol levels below the normal level.The Dutchman, 29, was revealed to have posted an abnormally low cortisol level after tests by the governing body, the UCI, on all riders competing in the 2015 r
  
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• Brendon McCullum hits record 158 for Birmingham against Derbyshire

  03-07-2015 23:35
  
  • McCullum’s 64-ball knock the highest in English Twenty20 history
  • New Zealand captain equalled his own highest score in T20Brendon McCullum scored 158 not out, the highest total in English Twenty20 history, as Birmingham Bears crushed Derbyshire in the NatWest T20 Blast.New Zealand’s captain, McCullum, clubbed 13 fours and 11 sixes in a thrilling 64-ball knock at Edgbaston, to lead the North Division leaders to 242 for two. Continue reading...
  
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• Iranian foreign minister raises prospect of joint action against Islamic State

  03-07-2015 23:30
  
  Zarif says there will be opportunities for Iran and the US to cooperate if a deal is cut on the nuclear issue Sealing a nuclear deal will allow the west and Iran to face the common challenge of violent extremism, the Iranian foreign minister said in a video message on Friday evening.Mohammad Javad Zarif released the video at a crucial moment in long-running negotiations in Vienna aimed at concluding a comprehensive and enduring agreement on the future of Iran’s nuclear programme. Iran and six
  
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• Tories Set To Cut Inheritance Tax In Budget

  03-07-2015 23:29
  
  A Tory election pledge to remove homes worth up to £1m from inheritance tax is expected to be one of the big announcements in the Budget next week. Signalling the Budget announcement, in a joint article in The Times, David Cameron and George Osborne say: "As we promised in our manifesto, we’ll take the family home out of inheritance tax for all but the richest - and it’s a promise we will keep. "As we said we would, we’ll pay for this reform by limiting the pension tax relief to
  
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• Hulk Hogan vs Gawker: Wrestling legend takes on website in $100m sex-tape legal battle

  03-07-2015 23:14
  
  During a long and storied career in the ring, Hulk Hogan defeated many formidable challengers, taking on and trouncing The Undertaker, Andre the Giant, “Macho Man” Randy Savage and more. But now the 61-year-old former wrestler is approaching what could be the biggest win of his career, in a Florida courtroom.
  
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• Minecon2015: 10,000 Minecraft fans to gather in London for video game convention

  03-07-2015 23:05
  
  To the untrained eye, Minecraft is as a headache-inducing video game for children. But to the 10,000 fans descending on London for the game's official convention, it’s worth a lot of their time and money.
  
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• James Ward relishes big Wimbledon stage for Vasek Pospisil duel but stays grounded

  03-07-2015 23:00
  
  • ‘A lot of people rise to the occasion. I am one of them’
  • Ward still hopeful of progressing to Andy Murray meetingJames Ward and Andy Murray are as close as any players dare to be in the cut-throat world of elite tennis, sharing a love of Arsenal, a dry sense of humour and a passion for the Great Britain Davis Cup team. And they know that if they collide in the quarter-finals at Wimbledon all of that will be forgotten, at least for an afternoon.There is a little way to go before then,
  
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• Inheritance tax giveaway to feature in first Tory budget alongside welfare cuts

  03-07-2015 23:00
  
  Chancellor George Osborne set to unveil policy most likely to benefit higher earners on same day as setting out £12bn benefit reductionsGeorge Osborne is planning to use his first Conservative budget to lift all but the very richest households out of inheritance tax on the same day he sets out billions of pounds in welfare cuts.The move will allow a couple to pass a house worth up to £1m to their children or grandchildren. The chancellor will create a £175,000, tax-free allowance pe
  
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• Budget 2015: George Osborne to raise levels for inheritance tax in first Tory-only Budget

  03-07-2015 23:00
  
  Most family homes will be exempt from inheritance tax under a plan to be announced by George Osborne in his Budget next Wednesday.
  
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• Syrian civil war: Islamist rebel alliance launches major attack on Assad-held Aleppo

  03-07-2015 22:57
  
  Rebel groups fighting Syrian government forces have launched a large assault on Aleppo, hoping to deal a fatal blow to Bashar al-Assad’s grip on the key battleground.
  
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• Alexis Tsipras profile: A charismatic gambler with his nation's future

  03-07-2015 22:55
  
  Alexis Tsipras may well be a Pied Piper leading Greece out of the euro and bringing Europe’s single currency crashing down with it, but, if so, he is doing it with extraordinary poise and flair. In his many TV appearances over the past fortnight, Tsipras has displayed charisma and chutzpah as he has railed against the EU establishment that he claims is trying to debase his country, while reassuring voters that he has the answer to Greece’s abysmal predicament.
  
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• Eric Vercoutre: The controversial Calais union leader who has divided opinion while causing major cross-Channel disruption

  03-07-2015 22:52
  He is the bearded face and the strident voice of the dispute that threatens to cause recurrent misery for cross-Channel travellers this summer. To his followers, Eric Vercoutre is a courageous guerrilla fighter against big business and the British and French governments. To his enemies, however, he is an old-fashioned union gang boss – a reincarnation of the aggressive docklands trades-unionism portrayed in the movie On the Waterfront.
  
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• Boris Backs Campaign For Last Guantanamo Brit

  03-07-2015 22:45
  
  London Mayor Boris Johnson has become the latest politician to join the campaign to free the last British resident still held at Guantanamo Bay. Shaker Aamer has been held for more than 13 years without charge, and is still detained despite twice being cleared for transfer by both presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama.
  
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• Death duty to be scrapped: Express victory for families hit by hated inheritance tax

  03-07-2015 22:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THOUSANDS of families will be lifted out of the inheritance tax net in next week’s Budget.
  
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• Migrants more likely to have a job than Britons, figures reveal

  03-07-2015 22:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FOREIGNERS are more likely to have a job in Britain than native-born workers, figures show.
  
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• Max Clifford is charged with indecently assaulting a woman

  03-07-2015 22:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FORMER publicist Max Clifford has been charged with molesting a woman.
  
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• Darts champ Phil Taylor's two estranged daughters 'on benefits'

  03-07-2015 22:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE children of Phil 'The Power' Taylor, the world’s best darts player, are reportedly living a life on benefits.
  
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• Tunisia Victims' Gunshot Wounds Revealed

  03-07-2015 22:08
  
  Details of the fatal wounds suffered by several Britons killed in the Tunisia massacre have been revealed as the bodies of eight more victims returned to the UK. A London court heard confirmation of the cause of death of the first eight British nationals to be repatriated on the opening day of inquests into last week's terrorist attack. It was confirmed that promising football referee and the youngest-known victim of the attack, Joel Richards, 19, died of gunshot wounds to the head.
  
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• Linda Robson nephew faces jail for Rolex and Prada raids

  03-07-2015 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SMASH and grab thieves led by the nephew of actress Linda Robson are facing long jail sentences after high street raids worth £3million.
  
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• Call of the wild: How science is learning to decode the way animals communicate

  03-07-2015 22:03
  
  The deathwatch beetle goes “tick, tick, tick” in the dead of night as it bangs its head against an old oak beam. A lone wolf howls eerily from the forest depths, while the skylark ascending sings its uplifting chorus from the majestic height of a blue summer sky. These are just some of the myriad of sounds made by animals in their quest to communicate with fellow members of their species. The world really is alive to the sound of living creatures – which can, in turns, feel like music or m
  
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• VIDEO: Building a Spitfire with eBay parts

  03-07-2015 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John Romain explains to BBC News how he and his team spent three years restoring a 1940s Spitfire to flying condition once again.
  
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• Man arrested over 1984 murder of Melanie Road

  03-07-2015 21:51
  
  A 63-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a teenager that occurred in Bath more than 30 years ago.
  
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• Curse of Brink's Mat: Death of John 'Goldfinger' Palmer the latest killing related to 1983 heist

  03-07-2015 21:50
  
  “He who has the gold, makes the rules,” was a favourite saying of John “Goldfinger” Palmer. He who had the gold was also fond of breaking them, he might easily have added.
  
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• VIDEO: Shaun the Sheep trail in city

  03-07-2015 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bristol's new sculpture trail featuring Shaun the Sheep is set to kick off on Monday.
  
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• Martin Rowson on Jeremy Hunt's price-label plan – cartoon

  03-07-2015 21:29
  
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• People all over the world are getting semicolon tattoos to draw attention to mental health

  03-07-2015 21:23
  People all over the world who have struggled with addiction, suicidal thoughts, and depression are tattooing themselves with semicolons as part of an online movement.
  
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• The Eden Project seeks a new head gardener: Must be able to manage plants, people and pests

  03-07-2015 21:16
  
  The Eden Project, the world-famous garden in Cornwall, is looking for a new head gardener. Horticultural expertise, of course, is a requirement, but so is the ability to manage people – and pests.
  
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• Winnipeg explosion: Woman seriously injured by explosion at Petersen King law office

  03-07-2015 21:03
  
  A woman has been hospitalised with serious injuries after a bomb exploded at a law firm in Winnipeg, south east Canada.
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: 'Heather Watson deserved to win the match,' concedes world No 1 Serena Williams after gruelling contest

  03-07-2015 21:02
  
  Serena Williams was full of praise for her brave British opponent Heather Watson after beating her in an epic third-round contest, conceding that Watson deserved to win the match.Williams eventually won across three sets after 2 hours and 15 mins of action on Centre Court.
  
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• Gaza, a year on from Operation Protective Edge: Families still living among the rubble of 18,000 homes destroyed in a 50-day war

  03-07-2015 20:59
  Spray painted in blue, eight letters and numbers are all that indicate K60-1-1009, a vast pile of concrete and twisted steel, was once a six-storey home. There, some 32 members of one family lived in what they thought was heaven.
  
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• Gang who stole £1.5m worth of watches from Selfridges while wearing burkas convicted

  03-07-2015 20:39
  
  Members of a gang of “smash and grab” robbers, whose string of operations included a £1.5million raid at London’s Selfridges department store while dressed in burkas, have been convicted according to police.
  
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• 9/11 firefighter wins $5 million lottery jackpot

  03-07-2015 20:38
  
  A New York City firefighter who responded to the terror attacks on the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001, has just hit a lottery jackpot.
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: World No 1 Serena Williams overcomes brave Briton Heather Watson

  03-07-2015 20:31
  
  What a contest. What a performance. What a shame. Heather Watson played the greatest match of her life here only to suffer the same fate as countless players before her as Serena Williams dug deep to win a thrilling third-round contest on Centre Court. The British No 1 served for the match at 5-4 in the final set before Williams recovered to win 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.
  
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• Are plastic planes the future of flight? Heathrow expansion reopens debate over aviation's effects on the environment

  03-07-2015 20:24
  Battery-powered plastic aircraft without flight decks – could that be the clean, green future of flight?
  
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• The US records its first measles death in 12 years

  03-07-2015 20:20
  
  Health officials in the US have revealed that a woman in Washington state did from measles – the first such death in the country for 12 years.
  
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• Silvio Berlusconi faces more questions over lavish presents and cash worth €7m given to 'Ruby the Heart Stealer'

  03-07-2015 20:15
  
  Even as his political career wanes there has been no let up for Silvio Berlusconi in his war of attrition with Italy’s prosecutors.
  
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• Postscript: Tony Nicklinson, the right-to-die campaigner whose widow continues the fight

  03-07-2015 20:06
  
  On 22 August 2012 Tony Nicklinson died. He had become a prominent right-to-die campaigner who wanted to end his life – but when he did pass away aged 58 after contracting pneumonia it was not in the manner he or his family hoped.
  
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• Stray seagull causes huge pile-up on Istanbul motorway

  03-07-2015 20:02
  
  A stray seagull ambling across a major motorway caused a nine-vehicle pile-up on a motoroway in Istanbul.
  
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• How remarkable that John Noakes still has the power to affect me so

  03-07-2015 19:58
  
  Even in a country that is cleaved to its past with the desperation of a befuddled and irrelevant post-imperial power, there can have been few weeks for nostalgia like this one. Since you need to be of a certain age to appreciate the poignancy, readers aged below 45 are excused and given permission to move on. But for those who recall the year with special affection (however misplaced that has come to seem), it felt for a while as if Britain slipped through the space-time continuum and stumbled
  
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• Solar powered plane reaches Hawaii

  03-07-2015 19:56
  
  A solar powered plane has landed in Hawaii after a record-breaking flight across the Pacific.
  
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• Cars and pedestrians don't mix well, concludes study into shared-space schemes

  03-07-2015 19:50
  
  Traffic and pedestrians should no longer be made to share street space, as the modern trend for removing kerbs and road surface markings has turned town centres into “dangerous Third World traffic free-for-alls”, a former Paralympian has warned after conducting a review.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton's tirade against 'terrible' Formula One trophies backed by designers

  03-07-2015 19:42
  
  British Formula One fans will hope to see home favourite Lewis Hamilton on the podium at Silverstone tomorrow  holding the winner’s trophy aloft. Yet after the star racing driver launched a tirade against the “terrible” quality of winners’ prizes he has been handed on podiums over the past year – with garish plastic awards often being used instead of traditional gold cups – some offended statuette designers could not be blamed if they were rooting for him to fail.
  
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• Tunisia attack: Officials were warned of an imminent terrorist attack in Sousse – but did nothing

  03-07-2015 19:42
  
  The Tunisian interior ministry received an alert in May of an imminent attack in Sousse, but failed to act on the information, the head of a security watchdog has told The Independent.
  
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• Silence held to honour Tunisia dead

  03-07-2015 19:30
  
  Britain has paid a solemn tribute to those killed in the Tunisian beach massacre with a minute's silence.
  
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• Details of gunshot wounds revealed

  03-07-2015 19:30
  
  The deadly wounds inflicted on eight Britons killed in the Tunisia terror attack were confirmed today as inquests were opened into their deaths.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: 'The ministers talk to us about miracles' – why Greeks are cynical ahead of the bailout referendum

  03-07-2015 19:26
  Not a poster. Not a flag. Given its 25 per cent unemployment rate, its ring roads of empty factories – marble steps overgrown with grass, courtyards piled with garbage – this ancient Ottoman city should be more angry than Athens, certainly tinged with a fear of the violence which journalists in the capital talk about. But Thessaloniki is no revolutionary city. Take a walk along the tree-lined avenues and there’s only one sentence that comes to mind: there will be no civil war in Greece.
  
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• Kendrick Lamar asks Fox News: 'How can you take a song about hope and turn it into hatred?'

  03-07-2015 19:21
  
  Kendrick Lamar responded to the Fox News criticism of his recent BET performance, where he stood rapping on vandalised police car.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Tsipras calls on Greeks to defy 'blackmail' as nation remains divided and fearful

  03-07-2015 19:20
  
  The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has urged voters to reject "blackmail" ahead of Sunday's bailout referendum.
  
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