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• Ukad fears false doping accusations

  10-08-2015 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Athletes could be falsely accused of cheating if blood data is not analysed correctly, warns the head of UK Anti-Doping.
  
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• New College Compact: Hillary Clinton's $350bn plan to help students

  10-08-2015 23:53
  
  Hillary Clinton, the Democrat front-runner in the race for the White House, has announced a sweeping plan to ease the financial burden on young Americans going to college and pull down interest rates on those who have already graduated with large loans still to pay off.
  
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• Clinton laughs off Trump to condemn 'radical' Republican views on women

  10-08-2015 23:51
  Democratic frontrunner dismisses Trump as ‘all entertainment’ and calls GOP candidates’ stances on women’s reproductive rights ‘troubling’ and ‘offensive’ Related: Trump may say misogynist things, but other Republican candidates do them | Jessica Valenti Hillary Clinton has seized on Donald Trump’s “offensive” and “outrageous” comments about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly to condemn the broader field of male Republican candidates for president, casting herself as the enfor
  
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• 'Hooded man' in court on IRA charge

  10-08-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Belfast man who was part of a group who say they were tortured in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, has appeared at a Dublin court charged with assisting the IRA.
  
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• Google is now Alphabet: Search giant changes name to avoid becoming a 'conventional company'

  10-08-2015 23:43
  
  Google is to change its name to Alphabet, alongside a major restructuring.
  
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• Families camped in school hall as experts defuse Bethnal Green war bomb

  10-08-2015 23:38
  
  Hundreds of families are spending the night in a school hall as army disposal experts work to defuse an unexploded Second World War bomb.
  
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• West Brom 0-3 Manchester City

  10-08-2015 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Yaya Toure inspires Manchester City to victory at West Brom as £49m signing Raheem Sterling makes his debut for the visitors.
  
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• Google to restructure into new company called Alphabet

  10-08-2015 23:35
  ‘Slimmed down’ Google will be largest subsidiary of parent company, whose structure is said to be similar to that of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Related: Meet Sundar Pichai: the man who will replace Larry Page as CEO of Google Google is dead. Long live Alphabet.Continue reading...
  
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• Scottish FA backs Michel Platini’s bid for Fifa presidency

  10-08-2015 23:34
  • SFA chief executive Stewart Regan gives formal support to Uefa president
  • SFA declares Platini’s bid ‘healthy for the game’The Scottish Football Association has formally backed Michel Platini’s bid for the Fifa presidency.Stewart Regan, the chief executive of the SFA, had already signalled the governing body would continue to support the Uefa president in his attempt to succeed Sepp Blatter. Continue reading...
  
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• Lucas Leiva could leave Liverpool after being left out against Stoke

  10-08-2015 23:30
  • Lucas has fallen out of favour with manager Brendan Rodgers• James Milner says Stoke win proved Liverpool’s adaptabilityLucas Leiva could be heading for a Liverpool exit after falling out of favour with Brendan Rodgers and being omitted from the squad who opened the season with a win at Stoke City.The Brazil midfielder did not travel to the Britannia Stadium having been informed by Rodgers he has dropped down the central midfield pecking order. Jordan Henderson and James Milner started t
  
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• Manchester City hope Kevin De Bruyne will ask Wolfsburg for transfer

  10-08-2015 23:30
  • City submit second bid worth £40m plus £7m in add-ons
  • Wolfsburg director says De Bruyne must listen to offersManchester City hope Kevin De Bruyne will push for a move by making clear to Wolfsburg his desire to join Manuel Pellegrini’s squad.The summer-long pursuit of the forward has now entered the last three weeks of the window. City are keen to try to seal the transfer as soon as possible with Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium the Etihad Stadium on Sunday. Continue reading...
  
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• Charlie Adam: Europe is Stoke’s target with Xherdan Shaqiri close to signing

  10-08-2015 23:30
  • ‘Loss to Liverpool was one game, there are 37 to go. We want to taste Europe’
  • Swiss forward has medical as move from Internazionale is resurrectedCharlie Adam believes European qualification is a realistic target for Stoke City this season as the club close in on the permanent transfer of Xherdan Shaqiri from Internazionale.Shaqiri would become Mark Hughes’ 10th summer signing should the forward agree to swap San Siro for the Britannia Stadium. A proposed £12m deal collapsed
  
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• Journalist Rasim Aliyev killed in Azerbaijan after criticising a football player on Facebook

  10-08-2015 23:23
  
  A journalist from Azerbaijan was killed after he was attacked by football fans for criticising a popular footballer.
  
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• West Brom vs Manchester City match report: Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure on target as David Silva pulls strings on Sterling debut

  10-08-2015 23:06
  The effect on Raheem Sterling’s career has been instantaneous: he wakes up this morning top of the Premier League and if the last six months were a war of attrition to get to Manchester City then coasting to victory on a warm August night will have been some recompense.
  
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• Sergio Ramos latest: Manchester United braced for blow as Real Madrid make preparations for contract announcement, David De Gea in limbo

  10-08-2015 22:42
  Manchester United were on Monday night facing an uphill struggle in their battle to secure Sergio Ramos from Real Madrid, with the 29-year-old defender thought to be tempted by a new deal at the Bernabeu in which bonuses would take him to the annual €10m (£7.1m) he has been demanding.
  
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• Eva Carneiro: Mourinho should be wary of criticising Chelsea's female medic for fear of encouraging bigots

  10-08-2015 22:28
  It was a speech made to a conference held by the Swedish football federation last year but when it came to nailing the inequalities that a high-profile, woman doctor encounters even now, 15 years into the 21st century, Eva Carneiro got to the root of the matter swiftly.
  
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• VIDEO: What is the future of Scottish Labour?

  10-08-2015 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  By the end of the week the Scottish Labour party will have a new leader.
  
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• Falling energy levels in galaxies mean the Universe is slowly dying, say astronomers

  10-08-2015 22:17
  
  The Universe is slowly dying according to astronomers who have made a study of the fall in energy levels resulting from the fusion of matter taking place in the nuclear furnaces of the stars of more than 200,000 galaxies.
  
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• St Louis officials declare State of Emergency as dozens reportedly arrested at downtown courthouse

  10-08-2015 22:17
  
  Officials in St Louis, Missouri issued a State of Emergency after a night of violence in Ferguson on Sunday night.
  
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• St Louis officials declare State of Emergency as dozens arrested at downtown courthouse

  10-08-2015 22:17
  
  Officials in St Louis, Missouri issued a State of Emergency after a night of violence in Ferguson on Sunday night.
  
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• St Louis officials declare State of Emergency as 57 arrested at downtown courthouse

  10-08-2015 22:17
  
  Officials in St Louis, Missouri issued a State of Emergency after a night of violence in Ferguson on Sunday night.
  
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• Ferguson protests: St Louis officials declare State of Emergency as 57 arrested at downtown courthouse

  10-08-2015 22:17
  
  Officials in St Louis, Missouri issued a State of Emergency after a night of violence in Ferguson on Sunday night.
  
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• Liz Kendall slams Jeremy Corbyn for suggesting Labour could call for EU exit under his leadership

  10-08-2015 22:17
  
  Liz Kendall is set to criticise Jeremy Corbyn for suggesting that Labour might call for Britain to leave the European Union if he wins the party leadership.
  
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• British farm produce could soon disappear from UK supermarkets if retailers keep driving down prices, says union president

  10-08-2015 22:12
  British farm produce could become a rare sight in UK supermarkets if major retailers keep driving down prices of staples such as milk and lamb, the president of the National Farmers Union has warned.
  
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• Joy Ballard: Head of Willows High School in Cardiff and star of new Channel 4 Educating series on her never-say-die attitude

  10-08-2015 22:09
  Her first job after leaving school was as a cleaner. Now Joy Ballard is helping Willows High School in Cardiff clean up its act in a very different role – as its head teacher.
  
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• Nica Burns: Edinburgh Comedy Awards director says comedians will find it harder to get noticed as comedies go to online-only BBC3

  10-08-2015 22:00
  Moving BBC3 online and turning off its television service will make it harder for up-and-coming comedians to translate success at the Edinburgh Fringe to their first gig on TV, according to the head of the festival’s biggest comedy award.
  
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• Universe is slowly dying, say astronomers

  10-08-2015 22:00
  
  Astronomers studying 200,000 galaxies have confirmed that the universe is slowly dying.
  
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• M56 tanker fire: Motorway closed in both directions between junctions 12 and 15

  10-08-2015 21:50
  
  Firefighters tackling a fire after a tanker carrying propane gas burst into flames, have now got the blaze under control.
  
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• Migrant crisis: It’s time to stop the politics of fear and treat these people like human beings

  10-08-2015 21:47
  
  First David Cameron called them a “swarm” heading for Britain. Now Philip Hammond has dubbed the thousands of desperate people gathered in Calais a “marauding” threat to Europe.
  
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• Bomb disposal experts to work overnight at Bethnal Green site

  10-08-2015 21:41
  
  Army disposal experts will work overnight to defuse an unexploded bomb, meaning 150 people will be forced to spend the night in a school hall.
  
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• Vincent Uzomah: Teacher stabbed in racist attack praised after forgiving his attacker

  10-08-2015 21:38
  
  A teacher who was stabbed in the stomach in a pre-planned racist attack by one of his pupils has been praised by police after forgiving his attacker.
  
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• WW2 bomb discovery prompts evacuation

  10-08-2015 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An unexploded World War Two bomb is uncovered in Bethnal Green, prompting an evacuation of some 130 residents.
  
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• Norman Baker: Former minister says the UK is becoming a 'one-party state'

  10-08-2015 21:15
  
  Britain is sleepwalking into a “one-party state” as Labour’s collapse combined with Conservative policies on the unions, boundary reform and BBC independence threaten the country’s claim to be a functioning democracy, a former minister has warned.
  
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• Jerry Hartfield retrial: Prisoner to get retrial 35 years after murder conviction was overturned

  10-08-2015 21:02
  
  For Texas inmate Jerry Hartfield, the wait for a second chance has been unfathomably long. Sent to death row for the 1976 murder of a bus-ticket agent, his conviction was overturned by a state appeals court in 1980, automatically entitling him at the time to a fresh trial. When did that new trial begin? Today.
  
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• Isis executes 10 men in Afghanistan for 'apostasy' by blowing them up

  10-08-2015 21:02
  
  Isis have released a video of a group of extremist fighters in Afghanistan executing 10 men, who may be Taliban members, by blowing them up with explosives.
  
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• Lohan Presencer: Chief Executive of Ministry of Sound says tuition fees among several factors that led to decline of UK nightclubs

  10-08-2015 21:02
  The rise of tuition fees are among several factors that have led to a decline in the amount of people going to nightclubs, according to the Chief Executive of Ministry of Sound.
  
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• Tadpole disease 'threatens world frog populations'

  10-08-2015 21:00
  
  A newly identified tadpole disease is threatening frog populations around the world, scientists have learned.
  
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• Air travellers refusing to show boarding passes at airport shops after news that the information is used by stores to avoid paying VAT

  10-08-2015 20:41
  Air travellers are refusing to show their boarding passes at airport shops after The Independent revealed that the information is used by stores to avoid paying VAT - without passing on the discount to customers.
  
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• Life in the Taliban after Mullah Omar: Afghan Islamist commanders reveal how the organisation has split and lost its roots

  10-08-2015 20:29
  Qari Baryal should have been dead long ago. The Taliban commander’s brother, wife and father were killed in a US air strike in 2008. By the time the bombs fell, Baryal, dressed as a shepherd, had slipped away.
  
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• Astronauts tuck into vegetables grown in space

  10-08-2015 20:23
  
  Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have, for the first time, eaten vegetables grown in space.
  
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• Labour contest 'should be paused'

  10-08-2015 20:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A senior Labour MP calls for the party's leadership contest to be "paused" over fears it has been infiltrated by supporters of other parties.
  
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• Huffington Post causes outrage after Arabic edition criticises gay people, atheists and selfies

  10-08-2015 20:10
  
  The Huffington Post has caused outrage among those readers who considered it a liberal left website by launching an Arabic edition which has promptly criticised gays, atheists and the practice of taking selfies.
  
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• Disney angers Japan with poorly-timed tweet on the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing

  10-08-2015 20:08
  
  Disney's branch in Japan has issued an apology after it wished its Twitter followers "congratulations on a trifling day" and a "very merry unbirthday" on 9 August - the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
  
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• Farmers announce milk 'action plan'

  10-08-2015 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Farming unions from across the UK agree an action plan on falling milk prices following an "urgent summit" in London to discuss the "crisis".
  
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• How is Labour vetting new members?

  10-08-2015 20:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How is Labour vetting new members joining with ill intent?
  
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• Black delivery driver replaced by white worker after customer complained about his race

  10-08-2015 20:00
  
  A Lowes delivery driver recently told reporters that his manager gave into a customer who requested no black workers be sent to her home.
  
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• Mexico missing students: Activist who led the hunt for missing 43 is found dead

  10-08-2015 19:57
  
  A Mexican activist who led the search for 43 missing students has been found dead, the latest episode in a string of abductions and murders allegedly involving the local government and powerful drug cartels in the south-western state of Guerrero.
  
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• The global population is predicted to soar to 11.2bn by 2100, and it will impact Africa most

  10-08-2015 19:52
  
  Economists and scientists are frequently at odds over the impact of a growing population. Growth is generally seen as good for an economy, but scientists view growth as potentially dangerous because it can lead to demand outstripping supply and the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources.
  
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• Crackdown on illegal migrant employers

  10-08-2015 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "Rogue employers" who give jobs to illegal migrants will feel "the full force of government machinery", immigration minister James Brokenshire warns.
  
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• Boy, 10, dies in tractor accident

  10-08-2015 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 10-year-old boy dies when he is hit by a tractor on a Cumbria road, police confirm.
  
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