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• Mexico dismiss Herrera as coach

  28-07-2015 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mexico sack coach Miguel Herrera after allegations that he punched a journalist two days after the country's Gold Cup win.
  
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• Dentist who illegally killed Cecil the lion blames local guides for scandal

  28-07-2015 22:50
  
  A Minnesota man has been accused of illegally killing a famed lion in Zimbabe.
  
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• Members back Lord Elis-Thomas

  28-07-2015 22:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plaid Cymru AM Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas receives backing of local members at special meeting amid growing concern at his criticism of the party's leadership and strategy.
  
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• Yvette Cooper: Our choice is years of Tory rule under Jeremy Corbyn or a return to a Labour government

  28-07-2015 22:13
  
  Yvette Cooper has issued a stark warning to Labour members that they have “a choice of two futures” – many years of Conservative rule if the left-winger Jeremy Corbyn wins the Labour leadership or a return to power if she gets the job.
  
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• Cook seeking Edgbaston inspiration

  28-07-2015 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England captain Alastair Cook wants inspiration from the 2005 Edgbaston Ashes win before the third Test against Australia.
  
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• Burnham suggests new social care tax

  28-07-2015 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour should ignore "difficult headlines" and consider extra taxes to cover the rising cost of social care, leadership contender Andy Burnham says.
  
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• Disneyland Paris faces pricing probe

  28-07-2015 22:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Disneyland Paris is facing a pricing probe following accusations that UK and German customers are being frozen out of promotions available in other European member states.
  
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• Showdown by Shirley Jackson: A previously unpublished short story from the queen of American Gothic

  28-07-2015 22:00
  Visitors, if there had ever been any, would have said that the little town of Mansfield was haunted. It didn't look haunted, hidden comfortably away among green hills, with its placid houses and cheerful-looking inhabitants, but nevertheless a visitor, if there had ever been any, would have said that it was definitely, but definitely, haunted.
  
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• '2,000 migrants' tried Tunnel entry

  28-07-2015 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais on Monday night in an attempt to reach the UK, operator Eurotunnel says.
  
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• American dentist wanted by police after protected lion Cecil is shot dead

  28-07-2015 21:50
  
  An American dentist is wanted by police after a well-known protected lion was shot dead.
  
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• Britain is no country for the young – in jobs, income or housing

  28-07-2015 21:44
  
  One year ago, there a silly kerfuffle when economic output finally crawled back to the level previously achieved on the eve of the 2008 recession. The Chancellor hailed this as a “major milestone” and much of the media took up this line in their reports, presenting the data as a sign of economic success.
  
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• Calais migrants: UK to spend extra £7m on security boost

  28-07-2015 21:32
  
  Britain has agreed to spend an extra £7 million to tackle the Calais migrant crisis amid criticism of its handling of the tunnel invasions.
  
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• Owl given library card by university

  28-07-2015 21:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yoda the Eagle Owl is given his own University of Bath library card in recognition of his work on campus scaring off seagulls.
  
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• Burglary victims set to no longer receive home visits as police focus on sex offences and online fraud

  28-07-2015 21:17
  
  Burglary victims will no longer receive routine home visits from police because of spending cuts and the need to concentrate on crimes such as sex offences and online fraud, one of Britain’s most senior officers has said.
  
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• David Cameron told to end plans for new Tory peers after Lord Sewel resigns over drugs video

  28-07-2015 21:10
  
  David Cameron has been challenged to abandon plans to appoint a tranche of new Tory peers as demands grew for reform for the House of Lords after Lord Sewel resigned over allegations he snorted cocaine while in the company of prostitutes.
  
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• Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to be released in November

  28-07-2015 21:06
  
  Lawyers for Jonathan Pollard, the former US Navy Intelligence officer convicted of spying for Israel, has been granted parole will be set free from prison in North Carolina on 21 November after serving the required 30-year minimum of his life sentence.
  
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• VIDEO: UK offers £7m for Calais security

  28-07-2015 21:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Home Secretary Teresa May has promised up to £7m to boost security at Calais, in the wake of the migrant crisis.
  
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• The five worst airports in the world

  28-07-2015 20:59
  
  5: Jomo Kenyatta, Nairobi
  
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• Husband found guilty of murdering mother-in-law in Pakistan after his wife left him

  28-07-2015 20:51
  
  An abusive husband has been found guilty of murder – after travelling thousands of miles to Pakistan to shoot his mother-in-law in a revenge killing after his wife left him.
  
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• Britain to spend £7m on security in Calais after 2,000 migrants storm Eurotunnel

  28-07-2015 20:32
  
  Britain has agreed to provide an extra £7m towards efforts to tackle the Calais migrant crisis, after thousands of migrants stormed Eurotunnel’s French terminal in Calais late on 28 July, with 2,000 estimated to have attempted to breach the fences during the night.
  
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• Turkey-Kurdish conflict: President Erdogan's double-edged war against the PKK and Isis brings accusations of electioneering

  28-07-2015 20:28
  President Recep Erdogan’s war on two fronts against Isis and Kurdish militia drew guarded backing from “united” ministers attending a rare Nato emergency summit.
  
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• Calais crisis: More than 2,000 migrants attempted to enter the Channel Tunnel overnight

  28-07-2015 20:27
  
  More than 2,000 migrants attempted to storm the Channel Tunnel last night in an attempt to reach the UK, operator Eurotunnel has announced.
  
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• Ennis-Hill in GB squad for Worlds

  28-07-2015 20:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill is named in Great Britain's squad for the World Athletics Championships in August.
  
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• Calais migrants crisis: Theresa May announces £7m security boost

  28-07-2015 20:15
  
  Britain has agreed to provide an extra £7 million towards efforts to tackle the Calais migrant crisis, Theresa May has announced.
  
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• Anger at Peta calls to pension off Jolly Fisherman of Skegness

  28-07-2015 20:15
  
  Calls for Skegness to pension off its century-old Jolly Fisherman mascot in favour of an "animal-friendly" replacement have been rubbished by local councillors.
  
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• Fears for cubs after US dentist kills Zimbabwe's Cecil the Lion with crossbow

  28-07-2015 20:14
  
  An American who shot dead a famous lion with a crossbow before skinning and beheading the creature has been slated for his actions.
  
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• New York's LaGuardia Airport to be rebuilt: It could become the best gateway to America

  28-07-2015 20:11
  
  From the British traveller’s perspective, the best thing about New York’s LaGuardia Airport is that you can’t fly there direct from the UK. This 20th-century muddle has enough trouble coping with domestic flights in the new millennium without adding the complication of international arrivals. Flights from Britain instead touch down at JFK and Newark, which suffer from much the same problems as “LGA”.
  
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• Turkey's conflict with Kurdish guerrillas in Iraq can benefit Isis in Syria

  28-07-2015 20:03
  
  So far the Turkish offensive against “terrorism” has been directed primarily against the PKK Kurdish guerrillas in the mountains of northern Iraq rather than Isis in Syria.
  
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• Swarm of Uber on-screen taxis often 'phantoms', says investigation

  28-07-2015 20:03
  
  A swarm of vehicles apparently circling your location is intended to act as an incentive to book an Uber car. But the little black on-screen symbols are sometimes “phantoms” that bear little relation to actual Uber drivers in the vicinity, an investigation into the $50bn company has alleged.
  
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• Bus lane error wipes out 700 fines

  28-07-2015 20:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 700 fines handed to motorists using Belfast bus lanes are cancelled because of a "timing issue" with detection cameras.
  
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• Ann Rule: Author who was asked to write about a serial killer before discovering that it was her friend, Ted Bundy

  28-07-2015 20:01
  Ann Rule was a true-crime writer who signed a contract to write a book about an unknown Seattle serial killer. Six months later he was identified as her co-worker Ted Bundy, who had shared the night shift on a suicide helpline.
  
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• New York's LaGuardia Airport to be razed and completely rebuilt

  28-07-2015 19:56
  
  Air travellers who love to hate New York’s crummy LaGuardia Airport are digesting unexpected news: long debated plans to upgrade its facilities, especially its dilapidated central terminal, have been shelved in favour of simply razing the existing benighted mess and starting all over again.
  
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• Apparently the top fantasy job is being a Minion

  28-07-2015 19:56
  
  Being a minion is the top fantasy job which Britons secretly hanker after.
  
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• Virgin Galactic crash: SpaceShipTwo accident in Mojave Desert blamed on human error, gaps in pilot training and braking issues

  28-07-2015 19:53
  When Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo broke apart and plummeted from 50,000ft to the Mojave Desert during a test flight on 31 October 2014, Sir Richard Branson’s dream of a smooth ride to recreational spaceflight seemed to come crashing down with it.
  
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• Clive Rice: Inspirational cricketer who was denied an international career by apartheid but led Nottinghamshire to glory

  28-07-2015 19:53
  Clive Rice, who has died at 66, four months after undergoing pioneering treatment for a brain tumour, would almost certainly be remembered as one of Test cricket's greatest players had his career reached its peak in a different political climate. An aggressive, right-handed middle order batsman and a deceptively quick right-arm bowler, he was, by a common consensus backed up by statistics, on a par at least with the great Test all-rounders of his era.
  
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• European Maccabi Games 2015: Nazi-built stadium in Berlin to host 'Jewish Olympics'

  28-07-2015 19:43
  
  It might have been a throwback to Nazi Berlin as more than 2,000 athletes filed past a grim statue of “Germania” into an austere, stone amphitheatre built for Hitler’s 1936 Olympics.
  
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• VIDEO: Migrants scale Channel Tunnel fence

  28-07-2015 19:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Some 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais on Monday night in an attempt to reach the UK, operator Eurotunnel has said.
  
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• Man dies after attempted sea rescue

  28-07-2015 19:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man dies after being pulled from the sea off the south coast of Wales while a nine-year-old boy is taken to hospital.
  
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• Police left message for M9 victim

  28-07-2015 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police apologise to the family of a woman left dying in a car for several days after an officer left her a voicemail 10 days after her death.
  
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• Coroners must send bodies for scans rather than autopsies if religion demands they stay intact, High Court rules

  28-07-2015 19:34
  Coroners must send bodies for scans or blood tests rather than carry out invasive autopsies if the deceased's religion demands the corpse must stay intact, the High Court has ruled, in a landmark legal victory for the religious rights of Jews and Muslims.
  
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• Coroners must send bodies for scans rather than autopsies if religion demands they stay in tact, High Court rules

  28-07-2015 19:34
  Coroners must send bodies for scans or blood tests rather than carry out invasive autopsies if the deceased's religion demands the corpse must stay intact, the High Court has ruled, in a landmark legal victory for the religious rights of Jews and Muslims.
  
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• Edinburgh’s famous Camera Obscura in spying row after adopting new high-definition cameras

  28-07-2015 19:30
  
  As one of Scotland’s oldest and most popular tourist attractions, the lenses of Edinburgh’s famous Camera Obscura have long provided a window on the life of the capital’s citizens from its prominent position on Castle Hill.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn takes 22-point lead in Labour leadership race

  28-07-2015 19:26
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has opened up a huge 22-point lead in the Labour leadership race according to private Labour party polling.
  
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• Singapore's domestic workers routinely exploited and often abused in the service of rich nationals

  28-07-2015 19:22
  
  Christine’s eyes narrow and her bottom lip shakes when she talks about her former Singapore employer who beat her for taking a biscuit from the kitchen. “She got really angry with me, and after that point she started to hit me every time I irritated her,” she says.
  
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• Police stopped Rihanna from performing a free concert and marching with protesters in Baltimore

  28-07-2015 19:17
  
  R&B artist Rihanna was reportedly blocked by police from holding a free concert and march in Baltimore during unrest early this year.
  
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• US talks on Stormont 'encouraging'

  28-07-2015 19:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness says his meeting White House officials about the Stormont crisis was positive and encouraging, despite DUP claims it was a waste of time.
  
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• Baby left sitting at back of McDonald's kitchen as mum serves up Big Macs and fries

  28-07-2015 19:11
  
  A baby was left sitting behind the counter of a McDonald’s while his mother served customers because his childminder had cancelled.
  
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• Andy Burnham confirms Labour under him would support levy on people's estates to fund social care

  28-07-2015 19:02
  
  Labour would support a levy on people’s estates when they die to fund social care if Andy Burnham wins the party’s leadership.
  
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• 'Let children erase online past'

  28-07-2015 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A campaign promotes the idea that children should be able to delete their online past.
  
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• Ribena reassurance as Tesco bans lunch box cartons of sugary drinks

  28-07-2015 18:45
  
  Ribena has reassured consumers that they can still buy some of its products from Tesco after the supermarket giant announced it will ban sugary cartons aimed at children.
  
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