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• Isis in Palmyra: Extremist fighters 'destroy temple' in ancient city

  23-08-2015 23:38
  
   Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria's ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar.
  
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• Isis in Palmyra: Extremist fighters 'destroy ancient city temple'

  23-08-2015 23:38
  
  Isis militants have destroyed an ancient temple at the ruins of Palmyra in Syria, activists said last night.
  
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• Isis fighters destroy temple in ancient city of Palmyra in Syria

  23-08-2015 23:38
  
   Islamic State militants have destroyed a temple at Syria's ancient ruins of Palmyra, activists said Sunday, realizing the worst fears archaeologists had for the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city after the extremists seized it and beheaded a local scholar.
  
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• Jimmy Carter teaches bible class, days after revealing cancer has spread to his brain

  23-08-2015 23:20
  
  It was – according to his grandson, Jason – the 689th occasion on which Jimmy Carter had delivered a lesson at his church in Georgia.
  
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• One Direction to 'work on own projects for at least a year' but 'definitely haven't split'

  23-08-2015 22:47
  
  One Direction (1D) are set to disband next spring, according to reports that will leave the band's fiercely devoted worldwide fan-base heartbroken.
  
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• One Direction to take break to 'work on own projects' but 'definitely haven't split'

  23-08-2015 22:47
  
  One Direction (1D) are set to disband next spring, according to reports that will leave the band's fiercely devoted worldwide fan-base heartbroken.
  
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• One Direction to take a break, but 'definitely not split'

  23-08-2015 22:47
  
  One Direction (1D) are set to disband next spring, according to reports that will leave the band's fiercely devoted worldwide fan-base heartbroken.
  
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• One Direction 'to break up in March'

  23-08-2015 22:36
  
  One Direction are set to break up in March, according to a report in The Sun.
  
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• Iain Duncan Smith calls for urgent ESA overhaul as part of drive to cut down welfare costs

  23-08-2015 22:16
  
  Disabled people and those too sick to work will be the next group feeling the impact of the Government’s drive to reduce the cost of welfare and the numbers out of work.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Jeremy Corbyn warned over threat to seize back assets

  23-08-2015 22:14
  
  Jeremy Corbyn would be breaking one of the “fundamental tenets of well-ordered states” if he carried out a threat to seize assets sold by the Conservative government without fully compensating their new owners, Labour’s shadow Chancellor has warned.
  
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• Trafalgar Square fingers showcase Mexican talent

  23-08-2015 22:03
  
  Two giant fingers have been installed in Trafalgar Square as part of four exhibitions taking place across the capital.
  
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• Shoreham Airshow crash: Floral tributes mark the scene as a grim recovery mission begins

  23-08-2015 21:56
  
  As the painstaking recovery work began over a stretch of A27 trunk road, where the Hunter jet scorched the earth, the people of Shoreham were trying to come to terms with the devastation the air crash left in its wake.
  
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• Shoreham plane crash: Airshows may face safety restrictions after regulator promises review

  23-08-2015 21:41
  
  Britain’s aviation regulator have pledged to review the rules governing airshows as police revealed that the death toll from the crash at a display in Shoreham is “highly likely” to reach at least 11 and may rise further.
  
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• Shoreham air disaster: 11 feared dead and death toll could rise

  23-08-2015 21:25
  
  Eleven people are feared to have died in the Shoreham air disaster and the death toll may yet rise further, police said.
  
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• Beirut rubbish protests end in violence as demonstrators face water cannons and tear gas

  23-08-2015 21:19
  
  Two days of protests in Beirut ended in violence over the weekend, after thousands of Lebanese citizens who took to the streets to demand better governance were met with water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas.
  
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• Met Office loses BBC contract: Broadcaster gives no reason for ending 100-year relationship

  23-08-2015 21:08
  
  A controversial BBC radio programme that questioned the scientific credentials of the Met Office is unlikely to have influenced the broadcaster’s decision to end its nearly 100-year relationship with Britain’s official weather service, it has been claimed.
  
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• France train gunman was known to intelligence services – but he denies terror links

  23-08-2015 21:08
  
  The gunman brought down by passengers on an Amsterdam to Paris train on Friday was known to intelligence services in three different countries, but yesterday maintained that he is “stunned” by accusations he is a terrorist.
  
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• Met Office loses BBC weather contract: Britain's peculiar climate means ending link is an extraordinary move

  23-08-2015 20:58
  
  I was shocked when I heard that the Met Office had lost its forecasting contract with the BBC, not least because many of the commercial weather forecasters are still using much of the Met Office data.
  
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• Court fee 'means crime victims miss payouts'

  23-08-2015 20:47
  
  Victims of crime are missing out on compensation because courts are forced to make criminals pay costs to the Government, campaigners have warned.
  
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• US serviceman tackled train gunman as he 'wanted to survive'

  23-08-2015 20:44
  
  A soldier whose thumb was nearly sliced off as he fought to disarm a gunman who opened fire on a train said he just wanted to "survive and for my friends and everyone else on the train to make it".
  
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• Grant Shapps unable to unmask mystery Wikipedia contributor

  23-08-2015 20:43
  
  A campaign by Grant Shapps, the former Conservative Party chairman, to unmask the mystery contributor who altered his Wikipedia entry has hit a blank, because the emails that might have told the story have been deleted.
  
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• Alton Towers crash: Smiler collision 'could have been caused by human error'

  23-08-2015 20:41
  
  Human error may have caused the Smiler crash at Alton Towers, which forced two women to have leg amputations, according to reports.
  
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• Tension grows over 'lost' North Korean submarines as South Korea searches for vessels

  23-08-2015 20:18
  
  The mystery of 50 missing North Korean submarines deepened fears yesterday over Pyongyang’s threat to fire across the border.
  
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• Ian Livingstone interview: Tomb Raider creator on Lara Croft 20 years on and claims that video games harm children

  23-08-2015 20:05
  Lara Croft, the most famous face in British computer gaming, will be 20 years old next year. Since she burst on to screens in Tomb Raider, the industry has changed out of all recognition. Console games have been joined by mobile apps; the rise of esports has taken a bedroom pastime into the live arena. But there is far more to come, and “in film industry terms we are still in the 1930s”, says Ian Livingstone, the former boss of Eidos, the company that launched Tomb Raider on the worl
  
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• Alex Salmond brands BBC referendum coverage 'disgrace'

  23-08-2015 19:58
  
  Alex Salmond has described the BBC's coverage of the Scottish independence referendum as a "disgrace" as he hit back at outgoing political editor Nick Robinson's attack on "Putin-like" protests against the corporation.
  
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• Inquiry as 30 dead whales wash up on Alaskan shores in less than four months

  23-08-2015 19:55
  
  US officials are to investigate why more than 30 large whales have washed up on Alaskan shores in less than four months, almost three times the annual historical average.
  
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• Egypt in crowd-funding campaign to save ancient statue sold by UK museum

  23-08-2015 19:44
  
  It is a prized treasure from ancient Egypt, spirited away from its home country in the 19th century to grace the stately home of a British aristocrat and recently acquired by a mystery buyer in controversial circumstances.
  
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• North Korea mobilises its submarines as one million volunteers pledge to defend nation against South Korea

  23-08-2015 19:38
  
  One million people have volunteered to defend North Korea if war breaks out with South Korea.
  
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• Philip Hammond hails Tehran embassy move 'milestone'

  23-08-2015 19:37
  
  The reopening of Britain's embassy in Iran is an "important milestone" in the diplomatic thaw between London and Tehran, the Foreign Secretary has said.
  
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• Macedonian police stop tear-gassing migrants - and let them cross the border instead

  23-08-2015 19:34
  
  Thousands of migrants have been allowed to walk through police lines into Macedonia at the country's border with Greece.
  
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• Shoreham plane crash: Police plea over 'graphic' images of air show accident

  23-08-2015 19:33
  
  Witnesses have taken a huge number of photographs and video and some of it "may be of use to investigators", Sussex Police said.
  
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• Martin Scorsese backs call for directors to destroy a gun every time a fake appears on film

  23-08-2015 19:27
  
  A British artist who called on the world’s most successful film-makers to destroy a real gun every time a fake one appears in their movies has had his idea embraced by Hollywood director Martin Scorsese.
  
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• Italy's secret 'slave' labourers: Unskilled fruit pickers working for a pittance to supply tourists with wine – sometimes with fatal consequences

  23-08-2015 19:22
  Paola Clemente, a 49-year-old mother of three, rose at 2am, on 13 July as she usually did. She took the coach from her little town of San Giorgio Jonico to arrive at the vineyard near Andria after 5am. But she never came home.
  
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• Shoreham air crash pilot skilled with 12,000 hours of flying

  23-08-2015 19:11
  
  The pilot of the Hawker Hunter jet that crashed at Shoreham is a skilled aerobatic flyer who is a regular at air shows up and down the country.
  
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• Former Harrow pupil Archie Lloyd dies after 'attack' outside Malia nightclub

  23-08-2015 19:06
  
  A teenager has died after he was attacked outside a club in the Greek party town of Malia, on the island of Crete.
  
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• Migrants force Eurotunnel delays by boarding freight train

  23-08-2015 19:01
  
  Eurotunnel services have been hit by delays after migrants managed to sneak on to a freight train headed for the UK.
  
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• Karen Danczuk says she is bisexual in response to 'threat to expose her'

  23-08-2015 18:55
  
  Former Labour councillor Karen Danczuk has said she is bisexual, after an ex-girlfriend allegedly threatened to out her by selling her story.
  
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• Tourist, 63, saved from Australian bush after scrawling message in sand

  23-08-2015 18:36
  
  A British tourist who became hopelessly lost in the Australian bush was saved after he scrawled a desperate plea for help in the sand.
  
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• The Media Column: Culture Secretary John Whittingdale will be the centre of attention as telly types gather in Edinburgh

  23-08-2015 18:34
  Armando Iannucci might be the star turn at this year’s Edinburgh Television Festival, which opens on Wednesday, but the name on the lips of most of the delegates appears elsewhere on the bill.
  
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• Thousands of redheads celebrate their recessive gene at festival in Ireland

  23-08-2015 18:33
  
  Redheads from around the world have gathered to celebrate their love of the much-maligned hair colour.
  
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• Hurricane Katrina 10th anniversary: New Orleans is haunted by the death of Vera Smith

  23-08-2015 18:33
  
  For five days after Hurricane Katrina struck, the body of Vera Smith lay where it fell, alone on the roadside, partly covered by a tarpaulin.
  
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• Video captures birth of endangered Asian elephant at Chester Zoo

  23-08-2015 18:31
  
  A zoo has released footage showing the moment an engendered Asian elephant gave birth to a calf.
  
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• Swiss army completes 31-day mission to save thirsty cows

  23-08-2015 18:24
  
  The Swiss army has successfully completed a 31-day mission to save cows from dying of thirst in parched alpine pastures.
  
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• Briton arrested in Cambodia for 'violent rape' of British woman at backpackers hotel

  23-08-2015 18:23
  
  A young British man has been arrested for the rape and assault of a female tourist – also British – at a guesthouse in Cambodia.
  
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• Ed Sheeran 'to take a break from music and work in charity shop'

  23-08-2015 18:16
  
  Ed Sheeran is reportedly planning to put his domination of the music world on hold to volunteer at a charity shop.
  
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• V Festival: Man arrested on suspicion of rape at Hylands Park in Chelmsford

  23-08-2015 18:07
  
  A man has been arrested on suspicion of raping a woman in her forties at V Festival.
  
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• Donald Trump thinks Kim Jong-un is either 'mad' or a 'genius'

  23-08-2015 18:00
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is either "mad" or a "genius" on a US radio show.
  
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• Protesters trolled a far-right group by blasting house music at a neo-Nazi march in Manchester

  23-08-2015 17:57
  
  Anti-fascist protesters in Manchester have used house music to drown out far-right protestors.
  
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• Empire of 'Star Wars' fans strike back after little girl bullied about her love of R2-D2

  23-08-2015 17:29
  
  Layla Murphy had fallen in love with the wonderful world of Star Wars after she discovered some of her father’s toys at their Virginia home.
  
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• Shoreham Airshow Crash: 11 People Feared Dead

  23-08-2015 17:18
  
  Police say 11 people are "highly likely" to have died when a vintage plane crashed into a busy road outside the Shoreham Airshow. It was previously reported that seven people were killed when the Hawker Hunter jet nosedived onto the A27 at Shoreham, West Sussex.
  
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