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• America's Cup 2017: Sir Ben Ainslie goes full speed ahead as Team BAR begin bid for glory

  25-07-2015 23:57
  
  Cheered on by the crowds lining the Solent, Sir Ben Ainslie made a successful start to his multimillion-pound attempt to claim the world’s most prestigious sailing trophy for Britain.
  
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• Labour leadership race should be halted over 'infiltrators', MP John Mann says

  25-07-2015 23:54
  
  Harriet Harman has been urged to suspend the Labour leadership race amid fears it is being warped by a wave of hard-left "infiltrators".
  
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• Sandra Bland: Sorrow mixes with fury as mourners gather for black woman's funeral

  25-07-2015 23:34
  
  Those in mourning for Sandra Bland come in a trickle to the shrine of candles, bouquets and teddy bears laid at the spot where she was pulled over for failing to indicate while changing lanes. It’s a different kind of grief, one that has recently been the special experience of many in black America: sorrow mixed with fury.
  
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• Sandra Bland: Sorrow mixes with fury as mourners gather for black activist's funeral

  25-07-2015 23:34
  
  Those in mourning for Sandra Bland come in a trickle to the shrine of candles, bouquets and teddy bears laid at the spot where she was pulled over for failing to indicate while changing lanes. It’s a different kind of grief, one that has recently been the special experience of many in black America: sorrow mixed with fury.
  
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• Pilot killed in crash was due at Foynes Air Show

  25-07-2015 23:13
  
  A pilot who died in a light aircraft crash in southern Ireland had been due to appear at an air show tomorrow.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron fast-tracks vote on Britain's membership of European Union to June 2016

  25-07-2015 23:10
  
  David Cameron is set to hold the in-or-out referendum on Britain’s future membership of the European Union in June next year and will announce the fast-tracked date as the centrepiece of his party’s annual conference in October.
  
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• Tom Cruise: Stunts mission possible due to long working hours

  25-07-2015 22:31
  
  Tom Cruise put his eye-watering stunts down to long working hours as he attended the UK premiere of Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
  
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• Man dies after light aircraft crash in County Waterford

  25-07-2015 22:31
  
  A man has died after a light aircraft crashed in southern Ireland.
  
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• Turkish airstrikes against PKK in Iraq throw two-year ceasefire with Kurds into jeopardy

  25-07-2015 22:28
  
  Turkey has launched airstrikes against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, with more said to be on the way, threatening to bring to an end a two-year ceasefire between the group, which is outlawed in Turkey, and the government.
  
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• Barack Obama takes Kenya to task over corruption and gay rights record

  25-07-2015 22:06
  
  President Barack Obama has chided Kenya on its gay rights record and urged the government in Nairobi to take greater steps to tackle corruption, describing it as “the single biggest impediment to Kenya growing even faster”.
  
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• Mavi Marmara: Judges call for new investigation into deaths of activists on Gaza blockade ship

  25-07-2015 22:06
  
  The International Criminal Court has asked its chief prosecutor to reopen an investigation into the interception of the Mavi Marmara, the ship on which nine human rights activists were killed in 2010 after it was stormed by the Israeli Defence Force during an attempt to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
  
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• Calais migrant crisis 'could impact on British economy' amid summer of travel chaos

  25-07-2015 22:05
  
  The British economy could be hit by a summer of travel chaos stemming from the Calais migrant crisis, warn Eurotunnel and the UK freight industry, as holidaymakers faced a weekend of gridlock on the South-east’s roads.
  
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• Rail staffing cuts blamed for 'shocking' increase in passengers being attacked on Britain's trains

  25-07-2015 22:04
  
  It’s a crime wave that has shocked safety campaigners and spurred British Transport Police (BTP) to start a major trial of body cameras, as the number of passengers attacked on Britain’s trains hits its highest figure in a decade.
  
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• Supersonic flight: Concorde's successors are in the works 15 years on from the Paris crash

  25-07-2015 22:03
  
  Shortly before 4pm on 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590 began to roll down the runway with all the majesty and decibels that had become the signature of a Concorde take-off. Within 120 seconds, the plane had returned to earth in a sheet of flame, killing 113 people as it sliced into the hinterland of Charles de Gaulle airport.
  
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• Concorde: How the supersonic jet zoomed from boom to bust

  25-07-2015 22:03
  
  For the residents of west London and of the New York borough of Queens, the greatest act of noise abatement in history was the grounding of Concorde in 2003. By the end of its deafening career, a route network that had ranged from Rio to Singapore had shrunk to just one link: the world’s premier intercontinental air route, between Heathrow and New York.
  
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• The long goodbyes of Obama, Blair and Cameron, and the curse of political lame-duckery

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  The most remarkable thing a politician said last week was: “As I wind down my presidency...”. Barack Obama, interviewed by Jon Sopel for the BBC, began by listing his reasons for visiting Kenya this weekend. “As I wind down my presidency, I’ve already had a number of visits to Africa, but this gives me an opportunity to focus on a region that I have not been visiting as President,” he said. 
  
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• Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and the catfight that completely missed the point

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  The Labour leadership contest rolls onwards and occasionally presents an absolute gift to Photoshop enthusiasts, such as Yvette Cooper’s recent comment during the LBC radio debate, comparing the four contenders to the 1970s group Abba. As far as pop music analogies go, however, there is one that might have been more contemporary and apt. Is Cooper the Taylor Swift of British politics, and Liz Kendall the Nicki Minaj? Does that make Andy Burnham Ed Sheeran? And has Jeremy Corbyn even charted?
  
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• Labour leadership election: Ed Miliband's era of magical fabulism is over

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  Having lost an election that was there to be won, the scale and scope of the defeat inflicted by Ed Miliband upon the Labour Party – and, more importantly, those for whom the party exists to serve – continues to be revealed in excruciating detail.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Battle of emotions within the party evokes Inside Out

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  You don’t have to be a psychologist to realise that the Labour Party’s turmoil at the moment is genuine and it runs deep. If the definition of being alive is the ability to feel emotion and pain, then Labour is living its life to the full, to put it mildly. Talk of its extinction, therefore, is wide of the mark. A wave of monumental indifference would kill it off right now, but instead every party figure that I talk to is so emotionally fraught about the future of Labour they are prepared t
  
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• Greece debt crisis threatens 70 years of peace

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  Political crises in the Middle East and North Africa since 2011 have either produced extreme violence or caused countries to dissolve into civil war. The territorial settlement that followed the defeat of the Ottomans in 1918 is collapsing, but there is no clear sign of what will replace it, other than conflicts which nobody knows how to end.
  
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• EU vote is best done quickly: Most Conservative MPs are unenthusiastic but, like the general public, seem persuadable

  25-07-2015 22:00
  
  David Cameron’s motives are entirely cynical, but his decision to go for an early referendum on our membership of the European Union in June next year should be welcomed. We report that the Prime Minister intends to hold the vote 18 months before the deadline that he set himself in January 2013 and which he repeated in the Conservative manifesto.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn victory could split Labour, warns Andy Burnham

  25-07-2015 21:50
  
  Andy Burnham has warned there is a "real risk" Labour could split if he does not defeat left-winger Jeremy Corbyn for the leadership.
  
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• Motorcycle stunt rider hurt in wall of death accident

  25-07-2015 21:45
  
  A motorcycle stunt rider is in hospital after being injured in an accident on a wall of death carnival show.
  
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• Motorcyclist injured in wall of death carnival accident

  25-07-2015 21:22
  
  A motorcyclist is in hospital after an accident on a wall of death carnival show.
  
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• Anniversary Games 2015: Jessica Ennis-Hill hits form for world stage

  25-07-2015 20:52
  
  Will she stay or will she go? On Saturday's evidence, Jessica Ennis-Hill's involvement in next month's World Championships in Beijing would appear to be a formality.
  
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• Bafta hails young computer game designers

  25-07-2015 20:33
  
  Young game designers have been recognised for their dazzling innovation at a glittering awards ceremony held by Bafta, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
  
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• Pearson holds talks on sale of Economist magazine stake

  25-07-2015 20:15
  
  Publisher Pearson has confirmed it is involved in talks to sell its 50% stake in the Economist Group, publisher of the Economist magazine.
  
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• Arsenal vs Lyon match report: Gunners hit French for six as four goals in nine-minute demolition lights up the Emirates Cup

  25-07-2015 19:49
  Four goals in nine first-half minutes saw Arsenal canter to victory in their opening Emirates Cup match against Lyon.
  
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• Woman killed and four injured in head-on car crash

  25-07-2015 19:37
  
  An elderly woman has died and four other people, including girls aged five and two, are in hospital after a head-on car crash on a country road.
  
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• England In World Cup Qualifiers With Scotland

  25-07-2015 19:23
  
  England will face Scotland in the qualifying round for the next World Cup finals in Russia in 2018. Northern Ireland, in Group C, will face Germany, San Marino, Norway, Azerbaijan and the Czech Republic. The names were drawn out during a ceremony in St Petersburg organised by hosts Russia and world football body FIFA.
  
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• World Cup 2018 draw: England drawn with Scotland in Group F for qualifying stage to reach Russia 2018

  25-07-2015 19:14
  England and Scotland will meet in the qualifying stage for the 2018 Fifa World Cup after being placed in Group F during the draw in St Petersburg in Russia.
  
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• Ex-Tibetan monk plays O2 at Dalai Lama-hosted event

  25-07-2015 19:00
  
  A former Tibetan monk talent spotted by BBC Radio 3 will perform for thousands of people at an event hosted by the Dalai Lama more than 10 years after fleeing his native country.
  
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• Muslim boarding school rated 'good' by Ofsted threatens to expel pupils for mixing with 'outsiders'

  25-07-2015 18:53
  
  A Muslim boarding school that threaten to expel students for mixing with "outsiders" has been rated "good" by Ofsted.
  
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• Shoplifting is increasing in Russia as Western sanctions and low wages damage the economy

  25-07-2015 18:52
  
  Russia saw 930 million rubles' (£10.4m) worth of goods stolen from shops last year.
  
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• World Cup 2018 draw live: Find out who England will meet in qualifying on the Road to Russia

  25-07-2015 18:39
  
  The draw for the 2018 World Cup qualifying stage is taking place in St Petersburg in Russia.● England are in pot one alongside Wales● Hosts Russia are the only nation guaranteed to be in the tournament● The draw for the Uefa confederation is due to take place from 5.35pm● Pot 1: Germany, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Romania, England, Wales, Spain, Croatia● Pot 2: Slovakia, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, France, Iceland, Denmark, Bosnia-Herzegovina● Pot 3: Ukraine, Scotl
  
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• World Cup 2018 draw live: England to face Scotland in Group F during qualifying for Russia 2018

  25-07-2015 18:39
  
  The draw for the 2018 World Cup qualifying stage is taking place in St Petersburg in Russia.● England are in pot one alongside Wales● Hosts Russia are the only nation guaranteed to be in the tournament● The draw for the Uefa confederation is due to take place from 5.35pm● Pot 1: Germany, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Romania, England, Wales, Spain, Croatia● Pot 2: Slovakia, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, France, Iceland, Denmark, Bosnia-Herzegovina● Pot 3: Ukraine, Scotl
  
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• Competitor hurt at Armoy Road Races

  25-07-2015 18:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A motorcyclist competing in the Armoy Road Races in County Antrim is airlifted to hospital after sustaining a head injury in a crash.
  
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• Froome Set To Win Second Tour De France Title

  25-07-2015 18:34
  
  Chris Froome will win the Tour de France for a second time tomorrow, after managing to defend his overall lead in the 20th stage. The Team Sky cyclist finished 72 seconds ahead of Nairo Quintana - and wound up in fifth place on today's 69-mile journey from Modane Valfréjus to Alpe d'Huez. With just a processional ride into Paris remaining on Sunday, Froome has all but won the competition.
  
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• These are your choices if you want a Tory to be London Mayor

  25-07-2015 18:28
  
  The four Conservative candidates for Mayor of London were announced on Saturday after a hard fought race.
  
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• London mayoral election: Who are the Tory candidates?

  25-07-2015 18:28
  
  The four Conservative candidates for Mayor of London have been announced after a hard fought race.
  
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• Tories reveal four-man mayor list

  25-07-2015 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Conservative Party shortlists four men to stand in an open primary to become the party's candidate for London mayor to replace Boris Johnson.
  
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• Sweden right-wingers plan LGBT march through Stockholm's Muslim-majority neighbourhoods

  25-07-2015 18:26
  
  Right wing nationalists in Sweden are planning a gay pride event to take place in Muslim-majority neighbourhoods of Stockholm.
  
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• House blaze pair rescued by firefighters

  25-07-2015 18:21
  
  Two people have been treated in hospital after being rescued from a house fire.
  
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• German far-right extremists clash with police in protest outside Dresden refugee camp

  25-07-2015 18:21
  
  There have been violent clashes between police and a far-right extremist group after a protest against a tent camp for refugees in Germany.
  
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• Sol Campbell heads out of Tory race to be London mayor

  25-07-2015 18:18
  
  Former footballer Sol Campbell has missed out in his bid to become the Tory candidate for Mayor of London.
  
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• Australian police believe child skeleton in suitcase was a little girl who may have died 'some time ago'

  25-07-2015 18:13
  
  The skeletal remains of a young child found in a suitcase in South Australia are believed to be of a little girl, police have announced.
  
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• Asher-Smith goes under 11 seconds

  25-07-2015 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dina Asher-Smith beats 11-second barrier and Shara Proctor also sets a new British record at the Anniversary Games in London.
  
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• Austria crash victims 'like brothers'

  25-07-2015 18:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two British men who were killed when their car fell off a mountain road in Austria were "like brothers", one of their mothers says.
  
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• Froome set to win Tour de France

  25-07-2015 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chris Froome is on the brink of becoming the first Briton to win the Tour de France for a second time.
  
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• Mhairi Black criticises MPs who 'bray like donkeys' and calls for Westminster 'guff' to be modernised

  25-07-2015 18:03
  
  The UK’s youngest MP, Mhairi Black, has criticised Westminster’s out-of-touch politicians and called for parliamentary modernisation; including electronic voting.
  
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