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• Djokovic Says Sorry To Ball Girl After Outburst

  08-07-2015 23:54
  
  Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic says he has apologised to a ball girl left "trembling" after his outburst during a tense match. He won the match and after setting up a semi-final meeting with Frenchman Richard Gasquet on Wednesday he explained that he had spoken to the girl about his lapse in a "moment of battle". A spectator had described the ball girl as "trembling" after the incident, but Djokovic, 28, insisted she was "completely OK".
  
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• Ashes 2015: Mitchell Johnson lacks old rhythm as Australia struggle to revive former hits

  08-07-2015 23:51
  
  They have put a soundtrack to the video of what Mitchell Johnson did to Englishmen at the Gabba in 2013. It was chin music – Michael Carberry dancing and ducking around a crease as hard as concrete, Kevin Pietersen trying to smile, Johnson scowling with menace. These are the images that the Australians have been trying to conjure up in the last few days with stories of their man putting the fear of God in them in their recent net sessions.
  
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• Federal judge rules against 'disparaging' Redskins trademark

  08-07-2015 23:47
  
  A federal judge has agreed that the Washington Redskins should lose legal protection of their team name became the term is “disparaging” to Native Americans.
  
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• Wimbledon 2015: Nick Bollettieri - To beat Serena Williams in the battle of the grunters Maria Sharapova needs to hit homers from the off

  08-07-2015 23:39
  If you have a ticket for Centre Court, bring your earplugs, it is the battle of the grunters. As usual, some people are making a fuss about the noise Maria Sharapova makes when playing. Well, Serena Williams does it as well, and so do plenty of the other players, male and female. Is it a problem for players? That’s  up to the umpires, not me. They are in charge.
  
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• VIDEO: Artists create music for masterpieces

  08-07-2015 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Musicians and composers have been given the chance to create music to works of art from the National Gallery
  
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• Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi given three years in prison for bribing a senator - but he won't serve any of it

  08-07-2015 23:34
  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been found guilty of bribing a senator, but will not serve his three year sentence as the statue of limitations on his crime will kick in before the appeals process can be completed.
  
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• Budget 2015: Everything you need to know

  08-07-2015 23:29
  
  George Osborne has delivered one of the most radical Budgets in years, announcing a landmark national living wage, a host of tax giveaways for the middle classes alongside severe cuts to the welfare budget in the first all-Conservative Budget in nearly two decades.
  
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• Officials catch young alligator in suburban New Jersey river

  08-07-2015 23:08
  
  It created something of a stir, to say the very least.
  
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• Heartwarming social experiment proves Londoners aren't rude after all - video

  08-07-2015 23:06
  
  As far as city-wide stereotypes go, Londoners get a raw deal. Parisians are lovers, Berliners are unshakably cool, but Londoners are simply regarded as miserable curmudgeons in bowler hats.
  
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• Police probe MP campaign expenditure

  08-07-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police investigate the expenses of a Devon MP following "a number of complaints" about his election campaign.
  
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• Victims' families target extremism

  08-07-2015 23:02
  
  The grieving families of British aid workers beheaded by Islamic State terrorists have called on the nation to reclaim the country from the clutches of extremism.
  
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• Haute Couture Paris: John Galliano, Jean Paul Gaultier and a tale of two distinct signatures

  08-07-2015 22:50
  
  John Galliano is trying to establish a new signature, and a new handwriting, for his Maison Margiela. It’s fascinating to watch it unfold - in part, because it’s quite unexpected. This, his autumn/winter 2015 collection, was his first on-schedule haute couture show in Paris helping the house. Although Margiela call it ‘Artisanal,’ in part, I suspect, because it doesn’t look anything like the rest of the haute couture, precious of fabric and painstaking of workmanship. Margiela do stuf
  
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• Diverted flight Briton arrested

  08-07-2015 22:48
  
  A British Airways flight bound for Houston had to be diverted today after a British man allegedly assaulted a woman.
  
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• Douglas family affair for Ant-Man

  08-07-2015 22:47
  
  Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas made the European premiere of Ant-Man a family affair as he brought his wife and children back to London.
  
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• 'England offer cause for optimism'

  08-07-2015 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England encourage on the first day of the 2015 Ashes but history teaches us to be cautious, says Tom Fordyce.
  
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• Budget 2015 reaction: How will people be affected by George Osborne's measures?

  08-07-2015 22:34
  
  ‘It’s a negative message’
  
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• Root shows the way for England

  08-07-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Day one Ashes century sets tone for England
  
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• Baltimore mayor fires police chief as murders continue to spike

  08-07-2015 22:20
  
  Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired the city's police commissioner as murders continue to climb in the troubled town.
  
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• Tube Strike Action Brings Underground To Halt

  08-07-2015 22:20
  
  Tube services have ground to a halt with the start of a 24-hour strike which has been branded "illegitimate" by the boss of London Underground. Commuters in the capital left work early in a bid to beat the walkout which will cause widespread travel disruption until Friday morning. And tennis fans at Wimbledon, many dependent on the Tube to get home, were advised to leave before the end of Andy Murray's match because of the strike.
  
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• Police Investigate 'Bad Bank' NI Loans Sale

  08-07-2015 22:13
  
  Police are to launch a criminal investigation into the sale of Northern Ireland property loans by the Republic's so-called "bad bank". Last week, an independent MP alleged in the Irish Parliament that £7m had ended up in an Isle of Man bank account, "reportedly earmarked for a Northern Ireland politician". Mick Wallace was expressing his concern about how the sale of the Northern Ireland portfolio of the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) had been handled.
  
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• Fans in tears at Deirdre's death

  08-07-2015 22:13
  
  Coronation Street fans were left in tears as the soap said goodbye to one of its longest-serving characters, Deirdre Barlow.
  
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• Tube strike today: Delays at London Bridge come on top of industrial action across the London Underground

  08-07-2015 22:11
  
  The travel chaos commuters are facing due to a Tube strike across the capital is being compounded by delays at London Bridge station.
  
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• Budget 2015: Rent reforms 'will massively constrain' efforts to build affordable homes

  08-07-2015 22:09
  
  Housing associations will build nearly 30,000 fewer affordable homes as a result of George Osborne’s decision to enforce rent reductions for the next four years, it has been claimed.
  
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• Diesel price cut 'could spark war'

  08-07-2015 22:04
  
  Decisions by Tesco and Sainsbury's to cut the pump price of diesel by 2p per litre could spark a price war, according to the RAC.
  
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• Budget 2015: 'Non-doms' will be forced to pay full tax on foreign earnings

  08-07-2015 22:01
  
  Wealthy foreigners who live permanently in Britain will be forced to pay full tax on their foreign earnings, although George Osborne stopped short of abolishing the “non-dom” tax status altogether.
  
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• Greece crisis: The Inconsequential Referendum

  08-07-2015 21:50
  
  The Greek Referendum was always going to be a Rorschach inkblot test, with everybody projecting their own perceptions onto the result.
  
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• Budget 2015 Q&A: How George Osborne eased the great Whitehall spending squeeze

  08-07-2015 21:39
  
  So has the Chancellor slashed again?
  
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• Budget 2015: You think you'll be paying less tax? Think again...

  08-07-2015 21:37
  
  Budgets are frequently not quite what they seem. Try this: listening to Mr Osborne talking about tax breaks for millions of people, would you assume that the tax take in this Parliament is going to go up or go down?
  
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• Greece debt crisis: With no trust in banks, Greeks are investing in designer bags and shoes

  08-07-2015 21:28
  
  In Greece’s new economic order, Chanel is becoming more valuable than cash.
  
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• Kawasaki disease: an unknown illness with no definitive medical diagnosis and no known cause - but it may all be in the wind

  08-07-2015 21:27
  A child’s death from scarlet fever wouldn’t have raised any eyebrows during the devastating epidemics that swept Europe and North America in the 1800s. But Samuel Gee, a highly regarded doctor in England, found something very strange while cutting open the corpse of a seven-year-old boy in London in 1870. Gee’s post-mortem examination findings, preserved in a single paragraph written in 1871, recorded signs of damage called aneurysms in the coronary arteries running across the surface of
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Athens blinks first as Alexis Tsipras promises to 'immediately implement' reforms in return for loan from bailout fund

  08-07-2015 21:22
  Greek leaders appeared to blink first in the eurozone stand-off with Germany, promising to “immediately implement” tax and pension-related measures in return for a three-year loan from Europe’s bailout fund.
  
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• Good news for Ophidiophobics: snakes are out but there's nothing to fear

  08-07-2015 21:21
  
  A boa constrictor's audacious slide for freedom along a telephone wire in Anglesey is enough to send shivers down any ophidiophobe's spine. And he's not the only escapologist around: a week ago a 10ft python named Zombie was seen slithering through the streets of Maidstone, Kent, while last summer a Sri Lankan pit viper slipped out of London Zoo’s reptile building.
  
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• Budget 2015: Five things you need to know about the 'living' wage

  08-07-2015 21:20
  
  Q | What is the plan?
  
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• Former trader Hayes ignored 2009 warning, Libor trial hears

  08-07-2015 21:18
  
  It was just people doing their jobs," Hayes said     Hayes is the first person to face trial by jury over allegations of conspiring to rig Libor rates, a scandal which has cost banks billions of dollars in fines from regulators.     Conspiracy to defraud can carry a 10 year jail sentence.     Hayes traded in yen-denominated derivatives tied to Libor.
  
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• Woman arrested for calling 911 to complain about her Chinese food

  08-07-2015 21:18
  
  An Ohio woman was arrested for allegedly misusing the 911 emergency response system to complain about her Chinese food.
  
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• Budget 2015: Decade of commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence praised by US

  08-07-2015 21:12
  
  Britain will maintain defence spending at Nato’s  target for member states of 2 per cent of gross domestic product for the next decade.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's Sketch: Iain Duncan Smith head cheerleader as Tories roar on their hero

  08-07-2015 21:08
  
  A tsunami of joy – a hurricane of happiness – coursed through the quivering bodies of the Order Paper: brandishing, cheering, stomping, gesticulating Tory backbenchers.
  
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• Budget 2015: Scotland will be battered with harsh austerity despite not voting Tory, say SNP

  08-07-2015 21:04
  
  Harsh austerity measures were being imposed on Scotland by a Conservative government which was overwhelmingly rejected north of the border, the Scottish National Party have protested.
  
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• Amnesty International uses 'The Gaza Platform' map to visualise every Israeli strike on Gaza

  08-07-2015 21:00
  
  An interactive map created by human rights group Amnesty International has shown every attack on Gaza by Israeli forces during the 2014 Gaza conflict.
  
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• Isis 'kills four children' as it 'destroys' ancient church in Iraqi city of Mosul

  08-07-2015 20:49
  
  Isis extremists have reportedly killed four children as they destroyed an historic Christian church in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
  
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• Budget 2015: Millions of low paid workers to see pay rise by more than a third by 2020

  08-07-2015 20:49
  
  George Osborne masked £12bn of welfare cuts with the surprise introduction of a national living wage under which 2.5m low paid workers will see their pay rise by more than a third by the 2020 election.
  
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• US House votes to ban Confederate flags from cemeteries in the South

  08-07-2015 20:43
  
  The US House of Representatives has voted to ban Confederate flags from being displayed at federal cemeteries in the South, according to a report from the Charleston Post and Courier.
  
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• Budget 2015: How a new haircut made George Osborne aware of the plight of low earners

  08-07-2015 20:40
  
  Whether it’s all those extra hours spent at the hairdressers that have suddenly made George Osborne aware of the plight of Britain’s low earners is a question that can only be answered by the Chancellor himself, and his extensive team of stylists.
  
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• Budget 2015: New deal for Cornwall fails to impress nationalists

  08-07-2015 20:40
  
  Anyone would have thought the Chancellor knew this was Seythen Kews Kernewek (Speak Cornish Week.)
  
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• Budget 2015: The winners and losers

  08-07-2015 20:40
  
  Almost everyone in the country will lose out directly or indirectly through the increase in insurance premium tax that comes into effect in November. Experts reckon it will add around £20 to the average motor policy and £12.50 to a typical home insurance.
  
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• Budget 2015: Tax up on insurance for cars, homes and holidays

  08-07-2015 20:29
  
  People will be soon paying more to insure their cars, homes and holidays after the Chancellor raised insurance premium tax to 9.5 per cent.
  
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• Budget 2015: Investors balk at George Osborne's tightening of buy-to-let tax restrictions

  08-07-2015 20:22
  
  A new government measure restricting tax relief for buy-to-let landlords has spooked a number of investors, pushing shares down in property companies.
  
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• Paris supermarket hostage reveals killer Amedy Coulibaly told him: 'It's nothing personal'

  08-07-2015 20:20
  
  One of the hostages taken captive in a Paris supermarket following the Charlie Hebdo massacre in January has spoken of how he made it his “mission” to ensure no one else died.
  
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• Under a cloud: How volcanic ash brought civilisation to its knees

  08-07-2015 20:19
  
  One of the greatest blows to human civilisation in the first millennium was probably triggered by not one but two separate volcanic eruptions in different parts of the world, a study has found.
  
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• Russia criticised for vetoing UN Security Council resolution to condemn 1995 Srebrenica massacre as 'genocide'

  08-07-2015 20:13
  
  Russia has been condemned by British politicians after it vetoed a UN Security Council resolution drafted by the UK that would have condemned the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as “genocide”.
  
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