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• Euromillions results: Winning numbers for Friday July 17 2015

  17-07-2015 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THESE are the winning Euromillions numbers for the draw on Friday July 17 2015.
  
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• Palace defends footage of child Queen's Nazi salute

  17-07-2015 23:57
  
  Buckingham Palace has defended footage from 1933 that shows a young Queen performing a Nazi salute with her family at Balmoral.
  
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• VW camper van catches fire and almost brings M62 to standstill

  17-07-2015 23:49
  
  A VW camper van nearly ground a major motorway near Leeds to a hault, after it caught alight.
  
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• Jordan Spieth outshone by Dustin Johnson amid failing light at Open

  17-07-2015 23:44
  
  • Trio, also including Hideki Matsuyama, will resume on Saturday morning
  • US Open champion Spieth on level-par after 13 completed holesShortly before 6pm there was a changing of the guard at St Andrews, with Sir Nick Faldo waving his farewells to the Old Course galleries from the Swilcan Bridge on the 18th fairway while the threeball of Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Hideki Matsuyama were all lining up birdie putts on the 1st green. Related: Sunshine and rainbows salute Nick Faldo as the
  
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• Four Dead As Blazing Car Lands In Garden

  17-07-2015 23:35
  
  Four people have died in a car accident which left a vehicle on fire in the front garden of a Suffolk home. Police said that after the crash, one vehicle left the road, ended up in a front garden and caught fire. Officers from Suffolk Fire and Rescue service and East of England Ambulance Service also attended.
  
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• Manchester United poised to trigger Pedro’s £22m Barcelona release clause

  17-07-2015 23:30
  
  • Barça forward targeted by Louis van Gaal despite signing new contract
  • Player has struggled for games at La Liga champions since Luis Suárez’s arrivalLouis van Gaal is hopeful of buying Pedro from Barcelona to increase Manchester United’s attacking options, with the manager poised to trigger the forward’s release clause of £22m. Related: Manchester United will not allow David de Gea to force Real Madrid moveContinue reading...
  
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• Four dead as car crashes into garden

  17-07-2015 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Four people are killed in a road crash in Suffolk in which one vehicle ends up in a garden and catches fire.
  
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• Isis claims responsibility for Iraq car bomb blast that kills dozens

  17-07-2015 23:25
  
  Children among dead after explosion at busy market in Khan Bani Saad north of Baghdad that happened while Muslims were celebrating end of RamadanA car bomb has killed at least 80 people, both adults and children, at a busy market near Baghdad in one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since Islamic State militants overran large parts of the country. The force of the blast in Khan Bani Saad, about 20 miles (30 km) north-east of the capital, brought down several buildings, crushing people who had bee
  
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• Dad-of-three had near miss after picking up venomous false widow spider with his bare hand

  17-07-2015 23:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A FATHER-of-three had a near miss after he picked up Britain's most venomous spider with his bare hands.
  
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• Fury at soft jail sentence for 'scumbag' who stole suicide leap gran's handbag

  17-07-2015 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A GRIEVING family criticised the soft sentence given to a heartless thief who stole a grandmother’s handbag seconds after watching her plummet to her death.
  
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• David Cameron: we will not relax pressure on Iran

  17-07-2015 23:08
  
  Prime minister says western nations who struck deal with Tehran ‘have no starry-eyed naivety’ about regime and would remain tough on its support for terrorism
  The Iran nuclear deal will not result in any lessening of pressure on Tehran over its support for terrorism and its destabilising influence in the region, the British prime minister, David Cameron, said as he sought to reassure Gulf allies. Cameron said the UK and international allies who struck the historic accord to restrict Iran’s
  
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• Aurora jury to consider James Holmes's mental illness in death penalty decision

  17-07-2015 23:04
  
  Even though jury found Holmes to be legally sane, his mental illness will still be among the factors they will consider in sentencing phase starting next weekAfter a jury found James Holmes guilty on Thursday of 165 charges related to the 2012 theater shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado – including 24 counts of first-degree murder – the question jurors now face is whether Holmes should be sentenced to death for his crimes.The jury will begin considering Holmes’s fate on Wednesday. Court o
  
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• New Lib Dem leader Tim Farron confident of comeback for party

  17-07-2015 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE Liberal Democrats could take a generation to recover from their devastating election defeat, the party’s new leader admitted.
  
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• Pluto's vast frozen plans revealed by spacecraft

  17-07-2015 23:00
  
  Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto's big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, US scientists said, three days after humanity's first ever fly-by of the dwarf planet.
  
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• Andy Burnham: men convicted for being gay should get automatic pardons

  17-07-2015 23:00
  
  Labour leadership contender’s proposal would mean up to 50,000 convictions for acts that would be not be illegal today could be quashedAn automatic legal pardon should be given to all men convicted under historical homosexuality laws without the need for families or individuals to apply to the government, the Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham has proposed. His pledge, following consultation with Sir Keir Starmer, the former director of public prosecutions and current Labour MP, means it
  
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• The Open 2015: day two – as it happened | Scott Murray

  17-07-2015 22:59
  
  A long day at St Andrews, which ended with the Open saying farewell to the legendary Tom Watson. 9.59pm BST No valedictory birdie for Tom Watson, in the style of Jack Nicklaus back in 2005. The emotion was a little too much for the old soldier, as he struggled to keep it all in. A bogey, but who cares? The end of a 40-year story. It’s been emotional. There’ll be a few balls of malt rolled around tumblers in the old town tonight. Slàinte!Meanwhile the 2015 Open story continues tomorrow
  
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• SNP 'launch secret plan' to meddle in England's issues that have NO impact on Scotland

  17-07-2015 22:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE Scottish National Party have 'ordered' MPs to engage with England's communities in order to interfere with issues of NO relevance to Scotland, it has been claimed today.
  
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• More than 300 injured in train crash near Johannesburg

  17-07-2015 22:54
  
  Paramedics at scene report ‘absolutely horrific incident’ after two trains collide in rush hour close to Booysens station At least 300 people have been injured in a train crash near South Africa’s biggest city, emergency services said. The rush-hour accident happened close to Booysens station south of Johannesburg as commuters made their way home for the weekend. There were no immediate reports of fatalities.Santi Steinmann, spokesperson for the ambulance and hospital service Netcare 911,
  
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• Distraction of Greece aside, is all well with the world economy?

  17-07-2015 22:54
  
  By Jeremy Gaunt LONDON (Reuters) - The race is on between the U.S. and British central banks to be the first major economy to raise interest rates after a long period of unprecedented monetary generosity. It won't happen immediately but both Janet Yellen, who chairs the U.S. Federal Reserve, and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney signalled in the past week that higher rates are close. Not everything in the world economy, however, is as sanguine as the U.S. and British economies would appe
  
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• PM urged to explain RAF Syria action

  17-07-2015 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Cameron is under pressure to explain why RAF personnel have taken part in bombing Islamic State militants in Syria without the approval of Parliament.
  
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• Pitch choice assists Aussies - Agnew

  17-07-2015 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jonathan Agnew considers how the Lord's pitch has helped Australia
  
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• Spurs told to move in with Arsenal – not go to Wembley

  17-07-2015 22:31
  
  The Premier League will block any attempt by Tottenham to use Wembley and Milton Keynes while White Hart Lane is being redeveloped. They would also prevent Chelsea using Wembley during the three years it will take Stamford Bridge to be turned into what the Premier League champions are calling “a cathedral of football” if any fixtures are shifted from the stadium.
  
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• Isis car bomb kills at least 100 including children in Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad

  17-07-2015 22:28
  
  Isis militants claim to have killed at least 100 people, including children, with a car bomb in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad, where people had gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.
  
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• Car bomb kills at least 80 including children in Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad

  17-07-2015 22:28
  
  A car bomb killed at least 80 people including children in a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, in one of the deadliest attacks since Islamic State militants overran large parts of the country.
  
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• Faldo bids emotional Open farewell

  17-07-2015 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sir Nick Faldo marks his retirement from competitive golf
  
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• Protesters seek answers in the controversial death of Sandra Bland

  17-07-2015 22:21
  
  Activists, friends and family members marched in the streets of Waller County, Texas on Friday after the untimely death of Sandra Bland.
  
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• When village life turns nasty: An author reveals the dark heart of the English countryside

  17-07-2015 22:00
  
  We moved from the town to the countryside after our parents divorced.
  
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• Teenage asylum seeker who confronted Merkel allowed to stay in Germany

  17-07-2015 21:52
  
  German chancellor had said ‘Politics is sometimes hard’ after Palestinian teenager burst into tears over deportation fears during televised debate A teenage Palestinian asylum seeker who burst into tears in front of Angela Merkel during a televised debate will be allowed to stay in Germany, officials said on Friday. Merkel’s encounter with the teenager named Reem – who speaks perfect German – went viral on the internet. The debate, entitled Good Life in Germany, took place in the north
  
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• Britain's weekend workers: Meet the men and women who show that the five-day working week could be an obsolete concept

  17-07-2015 21:51
  Who wants to work on weekends? Doctors certainly don’t. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, effectively declared war on the British Medical Association this week – warning them he was willing to impose a new contract on consultants that would see more of them working at the weekend to deliver the Government’s vision of a “seven-day NHS”.
  
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• Racist public symbols in the US go far beyond the Confederate flag

  17-07-2015 21:38
  
  From Confederate statues to images of Native Americans, Guardian readers helped us map places and spaces denounced as racist. Here’s what we foundHelp us track public symbols or landmarks denounced as racist Related: Help us track public symbols or landmarks denounced as racist “Hey, hey, hey, goodbye!” Continue reading...
  
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• In search of the real Jeremy Corbyn – the man threatening to wrench Labour to the left

  17-07-2015 21:29
  
  To see him cycling through the streets of London, bearded, trousers safely tucked into bicycle clips, jacket allegedly from circa 1983, is surely to wonder whether somewhere, a school might be missing its head of geography.
  
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• Hitchhiking robot embarks on coast-to-coast US tour

  17-07-2015 21:27
  
  A humanoid robot has embarked on a hitchhiking journey across the US.
  
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• Google adds $68 billion to its market value without doing a thing

  17-07-2015 21:18
  
  Google’s shares have soared by 16.8 per cent, adding an eye-watering $68billion to the tech giant’s market value.
  
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• Bijan Ebrahimi: How the murder of an Iranian immigrant wrongly accused of being a paedophile has inspired a film

  17-07-2015 21:18
  The murder of an Iranian immigrant who was wrongly thought to be a paedophile is to be the subject of a film.
  
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• New Pluto animation shows mountains and plains – video

  17-07-2015 21:15
  
  Nasa's New Horizons team displays a 'flyover' graphic animation of what the mountains and plains of Pluto look like from high above. Principal investigator Alan Stern unveiled the images of 'the icy frozen plains of Pluto" adjacent to 11,000ft-high mountains• Pluto pictures: new high-resolution image delights and intrigues scientists Continue reading...
  
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• Farron calls for progressive left groups to unite on key issues

  17-07-2015 21:14
  
  New Liberal Democrat leader says civil liberties, social housing and EU membership will be his defining causesTim Farron, the Liberal Democrat leader, began his first day in office by calling for progressive groups on the left to come together to forge a joint agenda on key constitutional issues such as electoral and Lords reform. He also revealed that defence of civil liberties, more social housing, climate change and continued UK membership of the European Union will be the primary issues on w
  
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• Michael Clarke not managing his decline as Australia cruise at Lord’s | Barney Ronay

  17-07-2015 21:10
  
  Tourists’ captain may no longer be fantastic but with Steve Smith in such imperious form could yet preside over a winning end to his reignWhat’s good for Australia is, of course, good for Michael Clarke. On an overcast day at Lord’s Australia’s batsmen cruised to tea and beyond, losing wickets at intervals, but with the air at all times of a team that has wrestled its opponent on to the living room carpet and is now simply feeling around patiently with its spare hand for the coal scuttle
  
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• Forced marriage: Calls to helpline double in the past five years

  17-07-2015 21:09
  
  Calls to a helpline for victims of forced marriage and honour-based abuse have doubled in the past five years, The Independent has learnt.
  
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• Forced marriage: One British woman's story shows how much it matters to step up the fight

  17-07-2015 21:05
  
  As part of The Independent's series of articles on the tradition, here is the story of a British woman who escaped forced marriage and sexual abuse.
  
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• Forced marriage: 'I just want to test you for my brother and see if you're good enough'

  17-07-2015 21:05
  
  As part of The Independent's series of articles on the tradition, here is the story of a British woman who escaped forced marriage and sexual abuse.
  
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• Marks & Spencer's: Marc Bolland has kept the City happy. Customers may be another story

  17-07-2015 21:03
  
  When it was revealed late on Thursday night that Marks & Spencer’s respected clothes and non-food boss John Dixon was leaving the retailer, the time-honoured tradition of predicting chief executive Marc Bolland’s departure cranked into life once again.
  
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• Pluto pictures: new high-resolution image delights and intrigues scientists

  17-07-2015 21:00
  
  ‘I think the solar system saved the best till last’ says lead investigator as Nasa states only 1-2% of data from mission to dwarf planet has been downloaded so farPluto has giant plains threaded with trenches and studded with hills, Nasa revealed on Friday, as researchers of the New Horizons mission released a new image of the surface and discussed the findings of the growing data they are gathering from the dwarf planet.
  Principal investigator Alan Stern, who has devoted much of the past 20
  
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• The end of FoI? 9 things we only know because of the Freedom of Information Act

  17-07-2015 20:54
  
  In the past 10 years, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FoI), the British public has become aware of many important facts of which we would otherwise have remained ignorant.
  
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• The death of FoI? 9 things we only know because of the Freedom of Information Act

  17-07-2015 20:54
  
  In the past 10 years, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act (FoI), the British public has become aware of many important facts of which we would otherwise have remained ignorant.
  
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• VIDEO: Drugs boss ran operation from prison

  17-07-2015 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One of the "biggest criminal enterprises" ever seen in north Wales is dismantled with 29 members of a drugs gang sentenced by a judge.
  
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• Universities will be allowed to host extremist speakers – within limits

  17-07-2015 20:48
  
  External speakers at campuses must share platform with opponents under compromise on government’s Prevent counter-extremism strategy University campus meetings which give a platform to extremist speakers will only be allowed to go ahead if they are to be directly challenged by somebody with opposing views at the same event, under compromise counter-extremism proposals agreed by the government.The new redrawn statutory duty on universities to prevent staff and students being drawn into terroris
  
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• Michael Fallon forced to face MPs over Syria strike

  17-07-2015 20:48
  
  Defence secretary to make urgent Commons statement after details of British personnel’s involvement in military action revealedThe UK defence secretary, Michael Fallon, will be forced to make an urgent Commons statement next week after it was revealed he failed to tell MPs that he and the prime minister had secretly allowed UK pilots to take part in US-led bombing missions of Isis targets in Syria even though parliament had expressly rejected British military involvement in the country.The Hou
  
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• Ofgem warns of blackouts as it predicts grid's spare capacity could fall to zero

  17-07-2015 20:42
  
  Regulator says demand-supply cushion risks being wiped out in 18 months, prompting consultation on further subsidies to keep power stations open
  The energy regulator has issued a new and more alarming warning about the potential for blackouts, saying Britain’s spare capacity margin could dwindle to zero as early as next year. The prediction from Ofgem has forced the infrastructure operator, National Grid, to consult on another round of subsidies to encourage companies to keep power stations op
  
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• Eric Garner's family releases white dove to mark one year anniversary of his death

  17-07-2015 20:42
  
  A year after his death at the hands of police in New York City sparked national outcry, Eric Garner’s family marked the anniversary by releasing a white dove at the spot he died.
  
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• Blazing VW camper van causes chaos on M62

  17-07-2015 20:39
  
  This blazing VW camper van reduced traffic to a crawl on a major motorway today.
  
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