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• Shoreham crash: The list of casualties grows

  24-08-2015 23:22
  
  Missing: Daniele Polito
  
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• 'Serial's suspect Adnan Syed's lawyer says prosecution evidence used in murder trial was unreliable

  24-08-2015 23:18
  
  The lawyer for a man jailed in a case that earned international publicity after being featured in the Serial podcast has filed a new motion – claiming cell phone evidence used against him was deemed unreliable by the phone company.
  
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• 'Serial' suspect Adnan Syed's lawyer says prosecution evidence used in murder trial was unreliable

  24-08-2015 23:18
  
  The lawyer for a man jailed in a case that earned international publicity after being featured in the Serial podcast has filed a new motion – claiming cell phone evidence used against him was deemed unreliable by the phone company.
  
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• Arsenal vs Liverpool match report: Pure frustration for Arsene Wenger after Aaron Ramsey goal is disallowed

  24-08-2015 23:07
  As a man who spent the summer no doubt reliving the horrors of his team’s six-goal demolition at the Britannia Stadium in May, it will surely be enough for now for Brendan Rodgers that Liverpool have not conceded a goal three games into a season that he desperately needed to start well.
  
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• Black Monday: Warning issued to pensioners trying to cash out

  24-08-2015 22:57
  
  Retirees planning on drawing cash from their pension pots have been warned of the effect the Chinese stock market crash will have on their financial plans.
  
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• Black Monday in China casts shadow over stock markets around the world

  24-08-2015 22:50
  
  Financial markets have suffered their most brutal day since the global credit meltdown, as a “Black Monday” for stocks in Shanghai set off mass share sales across the world.
  
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• British man now fights cancer alone – after wife of 45 years is denied UK residency visa

  24-08-2015 21:42
  A British man was separated from his wife of 45 years while in hospital for cancer treatment – after she was refused a UK residency visa.
  
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• Labour accuses Jack Straw of conniving with Tories to dismantle Freedom of Information Act

  24-08-2015 21:33
  
  The Labour Party has turned on its former Home Secretary Jack Straw, accusing him of conniving with the Tories to dismantle the Freedom of Information Act.
  
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• Trafficking in Italy: Teenage migrants forced into prostitution and pay captors 'rent' to work in streets of largest cities, says charity

  24-08-2015 21:32
  Teenage migrants from Africa are being forced into prostitution in Italy, and even pay their captors “rent” for the use of the pavements on which they work, according to Save the Children.
  
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• Germany opens its gates: Berlin says all Syrian asylum-seekers are welcome to remain, as Britain is urged to make a 'similar statement'

  24-08-2015 21:25
  Berlin took the lead in efforts to resolve the European refugee crisis yesterday by declaring all Syrian asylum-seekers welcome to remain in Germany – no matter which EU country they had first entered.
  
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• Victims of 2012 Colorado shooting say James Holmes deserved the death penalty

  24-08-2015 21:24
  
  Victims of 2012 Colorado theatre shooting have made impact statements before a judge on Monday morning.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Party now fears infiltration by BNP supporters

  24-08-2015 21:23
  
  Candidates in Labour’s leadership election will demand assurances on Tuesday that all 310,000 people who have signed up to vote will be vetted before the contest ends on 10 September – amid claims of infiltration by British National Party supporters.
  
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• Shoreham crash: Chauffeur Maurice Abrahams, 76, is fourth victim to be named

  24-08-2015 21:14
  
  76-year-old Maurice Abrahams, from Brighton, has been named as one of the victims of the Shoreham Airshow crash.
  
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• Turkey-Kurdish conflict: State cracks down as Kurds fear return to scorched earth

  24-08-2015 21:13
  
  The roads into the mountains of Tunceli are lined with burnt-down houses and abandoned schools, remnants of a conflict many here had hoped to leave behind.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Caroline Lucas proposes electoral pact with Jeremy Corbyn

  24-08-2015 21:13
  
  The Green Party has opened the door to an electoral pact with Labour if Jeremy Corbyn wins the party’s leadership race.
  
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• British IndyCar driver Justin Wilson remains in coma after wreck

  24-08-2015 21:13
  
  (Reuters) - British IndyCar driver Justin Wilson remained in a coma on Monday after suffering a severe head injury during a wreck in the closing laps of a race on Sunday at Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania, IndyCar officials said. Wilson, a former Formula One driver and seven-time winner in IndyCar racing, was in critical condition at a hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, according to an IndyCar statement. "IndyCar continues to send its thoughts and prayers to the family and thanks the entire mot
  
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• Ieng Thirith: Scholar who became the highest-ranked woman in the Khmer Rouge and was later charged with genocide

  24-08-2015 21:11
  
  Ieng Thirith was the highest-ranking woman in the Khmer Rouge, the genocidal regime that oversaw the death of nearly 2m Cambodians. Sister-in-law of the movement's leader, Pol Pot, she was a Sorbonne-educated Shakespeare scholar but went on to serve as minister of social affairs, and was married to Ieng Sary, the regime's former foreign minister, who died in 2013.
  
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• Vicente Aranda: Director whose work dealt with the postwar miseries of his native Spain and the turbulence of erotic passion

  24-08-2015 21:07
  The film-maker Vicente Aranda had two great obsessions: the miseries of Spain's postwar period, and erotic passion. For nearly 50 years he combined the two in a prolific, exasperatingly uneven, but always interesting career.
  
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• WHSmith accused of exploiting vulnerable patients over prices in its hospital stores

  24-08-2015 21:05
  
  WHSmith has been accused of exploiting vulnerable patients by charging significantly more for some products at its hospital stores. The retailer, which has come under fire this month for demanding boarding cards at airports without passing on VAT savings to passengers, has been found to charge extra for water and notepads at hospitals.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: New party leader to be warned Ukip could prevent 2020 election win

  24-08-2015 21:00
  
  Ukip could deny Labour victory at the 2020 general election, the new leader of the party will be warned in a “lessons learned” review of the May general election.
  
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• What We Know About Air Show Disaster Victims

  24-08-2015 20:52
  
  Police have said at least 11 people were killed in the Shoreham Airshow disaster but have warned there may be more victims. A vintage jet attempting a loop-the-loop stunt ploughed into cars on a busy road outside the show in Shoreham, West Sussex, and exploded into a huge fireball. The scene of devastation on the A27 between Worthing and Brighton was around 400 yards wide, with crushed cars strewn on the carriageway.
  
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• Shoreham plane crash: The possible causes

  24-08-2015 20:43
  
  Pilot error
  
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• Retiring from work 'is good for your health'

  24-08-2015 20:39
  
  Retiring from work is good for your health, chiefly due to the benefits of more exercise, less stress, and greater sleep enjoyed by people who stop working, according to a major study being presented tomorrow.
  
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• Government plan to project #TimeToAct onto Big Ben for sexual violence summit was shelved over fears it would 'open the floodgates'

  24-08-2015 20:38
  For the Government, it promised to be a spectacular way of galvanising public support for a major global summit on the issue of wartime sexual violence: projecting giant slogans onto the Big Ben clock tower and the Tate Modern.
  
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• Shoreham crash: Fighter jet wreckage removed from the crash site

  24-08-2015 20:12
  
  The wreckage of the fighter jet that crashed in Shoreham has been removed by crane, as police warn that the final death toll could rise to 20.
  
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• Shoreham Crash: 200 Missing Person Calls

  24-08-2015 20:04
  
  Up to 200 people have raised concerns over missing friends or relatives since the Shoreham tragedy, police have said. Officers revealed they have been deluged with calls after Saturday's plane crash but their estimate of 11 deaths "remains in place". No new bodies were found under plane wreckage moved by a crane on the A27 on Monday - but police warned the number of dead could yet rise.
  
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• Murder probe as pensioner stabbed to death and children injured

  24-08-2015 20:04
  
  Police have launched a murder investigation after a pensioner was stabbed to death and two children also suffered stab wounds.
  
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• Migrants crisis: Thousands of migrants cross from Macedonia into Serbia

  24-08-2015 20:03
  
  In a new human wave surging through the Balkans, thousands of exhausted migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa crossed on foot yesterday from Macedonia into Serbia on their way to Western Europe.
  
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• Police prevent 'potential tragedy' at Pokemon World Championships in Boston

  24-08-2015 19:54
  
  Police believe they may have averted a bloodbath at the Pokémon World Championships in Boston at the weekend, after they arrested two gamers who had driven from Iowa to play in the event, allegedly with a stash of guns and ammunition in the boot of their car.
  
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• Yemen conflict: Is there a glimmer of hope for Yemeni civilians as Iran enters a new era?

  24-08-2015 19:38
  
  The bloodshed in Yemen, now going on for a year with thousands killed and injured and millions facing famine, has been portrayed as a conflict between Shias and Sunnis. The Gulf States, especially the Saudis, declare that it is the result of a Houthi rebellion orchestrated by Iran.
  
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• Hurricane Katrina: Ten years on from the disaster, there is a new order in New Orleans

  24-08-2015 19:28
  
  It has been ten years since Jennifer Hill and her mother were “evacuated” from New Orleans and flown to West Virginia.
  
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• British female diplomat opens new embassy in Iran without head covering – and sparks outrage

  24-08-2015 19:27
  
  Iran’s foreign minister has been heavily criticised for allowing a female British Foreign Office official to enter the Iranian Embassy in London without a hijab.
  
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• Everything you need to know about China's stock market collapse

  24-08-2015 19:17
  
  Is this really all about the Chinese stock market then?
  
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• Why do we hear the work of so few female classical composers?

  24-08-2015 19:14
  
  "I once thought that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose – not one has been able to do it, and why should I expect to?"
  
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• The world's top 20 countries to raise a family

  24-08-2015 19:13
  
  Austria is the best country in the world to raise a family, according to the 2015 Family Life Index published by InterNations.
  
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• No further victims found so far as Shoreham crash jet lifted

  24-08-2015 19:11
  
  No further victims have so far been found following the lifting of the jet involved in the fatal Shoreham air disaster, police said.
  
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• China censoring Black Monday on country’s biggest search engine, Baidu, stopping citizens looking for information about financial chaos

  24-08-2015 19:09
  China has been accused of censoring reports about the financial chaos in the country, stopping its citizens from looking for reports about what’s going on.
  
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• Tube strike: Unions announce new dates for walkout by London Underground workers

  24-08-2015 18:58
  
  New dates have been set by workers' unions for the Tube strikes that were due to take place this week.
  
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• Labour MP Alison McGovern accused of deliberately exposing cleavage as a 'strategy' to get attention during a Channel 4 debate

  24-08-2015 18:58
  A Labour MP said she didn’t know whether to “laugh or cry” after receiving a letter from a party supporter accusing her of showing her cleavage on television in order to attract attention.
  
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• Unions suspend London underground strike action

  24-08-2015 18:51
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The prospect of travel chaos in London this week was averted on Monday when three unions said they had suspended their plans for two, 24-hour strikes on the underground rail network for now after progress in talks over the introduction of night shifts.
  
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• Met Office lost BBC contract due to 'arguments over dumbing down and their bad weather app'

  24-08-2015 18:47
  
  The Met Office's weather forecasting contract with the BBC was lost over arguments about the 'dumbing down' of weather forecasts and problems with the Met Office's mobile app, according to BBC sources.
  
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• HSBC Poised To Shun Revival Of Midland Brand

  24-08-2015 18:46
  
  HSBC is poised to reject a revival of the Midland Bank name as it weighs a rebranding of its UK branch network prompted by a wide-ranging industry restructuring. Sky News has learnt that executives at HSBC are close to deciding against reintroducing the Midland name they acquired more than two decades ago, and which was phased out in 1999. Research undertaken among HSBC employees and customers has suggested that there is relatively little affinity for the Midland name.
  
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• Unions Call Off This Week's Tube Strikes

  24-08-2015 18:41
  
  Two 24-hour strikes on the Tube planned by Unite members for this week have been suspended. The union said it made the decision as a "gesture of goodwill" to allow further talks to be held with London Underground (LU) management but admitted there were "sticking points". The Rail, Maritime and Transport union, and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association have yet to announce whether they are also suspending the industrial action.
  
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• £240,000 reward to catch Ashley Madison hackers

  24-08-2015 18:41
  
  The adultery website targeted by hackers is offering a 500,000 Canadian dollar (£240,000) reward for information about those behind the leak.
  
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• All-night Tube row: Unions suspend planned strikes

  24-08-2015 18:38
  
  Planned strikes by London Underground workers in a row over an all-night Tube service have been suspended.
  
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• Donald Trump offers his take on China's 'Black Monday' – he knew it could happen all along

  24-08-2015 18:36
  
  It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to give his opinion on the China’s ‘Black Monday’ – and tell everyone he’d been warning them all along it could happen.
  
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• Jon Oliver inundated with donations after setting up fake church to make a point about tax-dodging televangelists

  24-08-2015 18:30
  
  John Oliver set up his own church after ridiculing the state of tax-dodging televangelists, but ended up getting more than he bargained for when he was flooded with donations from viewers.
  
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• John Oliver inundated with donations after setting up fake church to make a point about tax-dodging televangelists

  24-08-2015 18:30
  
  John Oliver set up his own church after ridiculing the state of tax-dodging televangelists, but ended up getting more than he bargained for when he was flooded with donations from viewers.
  
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• The five charts that show markets are tanking – and no one knows how bad it will get

  24-08-2015 18:27
  A selloff dubbed the 'Great Fall of China' reverberated around global markets on Monday, adding to fears of economic meltdown amid the chaos.
  
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• North Korea and South Korea 'agree deal to defuse tensions'

  24-08-2015 18:27
  
  North Korea and South Korea have reportedly reached an agreement to defuse mounting tensions between the countries.
  
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