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• Donald Trump in Iowa: Unstoppable force is slaying all before him as he looks more like a serious contender for the White House

  26-08-2015 23:44
  "Who is tougher than me?" The question, of course, was rhetorical, delivered by Donald Trump with characteristic, breast-beating bombast to prospective Iowa voters crammed into an exhibition hall on the banks of the Mississippi River. That’s his message: no one is tougher. And that’s why they adore him.
  
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• Serial: Convicted murderer Adnan Syed gets hope from mobile phone data document

  26-08-2015 23:38
  
  A lawyer for Adnan Syed, whose conviction for the murder of his former girlfriend was examined in the popular podcast Serial, says newly-discovered evidence could undermine a key evidence in the prosecution’s case.
  
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• Javier Hernandez: Great night for Manchester United, terrible night for Chicharito

  26-08-2015 23:33
  
  It was a great night for Manchester United in Belgium, but one that Javier Hernandez will want to forget.
  
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• India riots: Patel caste seeks 'backward' status to qualify for job quotas

  26-08-2015 23:22
  
  Violence has erupted in the Indian state of Gujaratafter a rally by the influential Patel community, who are demanding their caste status be altered to “backward” in order to access quotas for government jobs and college places.
  
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• Saudi Arabia executes four more people the day after Amnesty International calls for a moratorium

  26-08-2015 23:19
  
  The day after Saudi Arabia faced international condemnation for executing 175 people in the past year, four more people have been executed.
  
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• Mexico lost its war on drugs 75 years ago, author claims

  26-08-2015 23:19
  
  Mexico’s drug trade is synonymous with violence, corruption and cartel bosses battling for territory. But it could have been so different, it’s claimed in a new book, had the US not issued an ultimatum 75 years ago  which ignited the war on drugs – leading to death and destruction on both sides of the border.
  
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• Why is Interpol doing the work of Arab despots?

  26-08-2015 23:16
  
  We were taught that Interpol was on the front line against world crime. Then it became part of the battle against global terror. But these days, Interpol is getting a bad reputation for harassing those who have fled the terror of ruthless Arab dictatorships and for helping to arrest innocent men – on behalf of Middle East despots.
  
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• South Sudan's civil war: What has happened in the world's youngest nation?

  26-08-2015 23:05
  
  Like many conflicts, the start of the South Sudanese civil war began as little more than a row between two men, albeit two powerful leaders in the world’s newest nation.
  
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• South Sudan President signs peace deal to end bloody civil war

  26-08-2015 23:03
  
  South Sudan’s President has signed a peace accord designed to end a bloody 20-month civil war that has scarred the world’s youngest nation, and displaced more than two million people.
  
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• Rome's notorious mafia families are putting their rivalries aside to work together

  26-08-2015 23:01
  
  Families from different regions – and even different countries – are living and working together peacefully in Rome. It sounds like social nirvana as criminal clans from Italy’s most notorious mafia families dispense with turf wars and amicably carve up sections of Italy’s money-laundering capital.
  
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• Quebec Plane Crash: British Family 'Devastated'

  26-08-2015 22:54
  
  A coroner has named the British family-of-four killed in a plane crash while on holiday in Canada. The Hewitt family - Fiona, 52, Richard, 50, Felicity, 17, and Harry, 14 - were among five passengers who died along with the pilot, the Quebec coroner has confirmed. The Hewitt family - from Milton Keynes - were reportedly on the last day of their trip.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II to become Britain's longest reigning monarch, surpassing Queen Victoria

  26-08-2015 22:39
  
  Queen Elizabeth II is set to make history by becoming Britain’s longest reigning monarch.
  
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• Sheep rustling: Police are studying ancient methods of identification to help beat the thieves

  26-08-2015 22:30
  
  Pity the poor country coppers – if you thought they had enough on their plates with red diesel, dogging and bored teenagers necking horse tranquillisers, now they're having to get to grips with sheep markings designed by the Vikings.
  
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• 'Top Islamic State hacker' from UK believed killed in Syria drone attack

  26-08-2015 22:08
  
  A British computer hacker accused of being a prominent member of Islamic State (IS) is believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in Syria, according to reports.
  
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• The shame of walking into a women-only car by mistake

  26-08-2015 22:03
  
  As I boarded the Dubai Metro at the Business Bay station on my first day of work, I was struck by the large number of women in the compartment. A couple of them smiled at me; one started giggling. What a friendly place I thought.
  
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• 'Senior moments' awareness a 'good sign'

  26-08-2015 22:00
  
  Experiencing "senior moments" may be a good sign rather than a cause for concern, research suggests.
  
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• Dementia sufferers start losing their memory up to three years before disease takes hold

  26-08-2015 22:00
  
  Memory loss is not the only early sign of dementia according to scientists who have shown that people also lose the ability to judge how good their memories are prior to developing the full-blown disorder.
  
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• Labour to release details of trade union support for Jeremy Corbyn

  26-08-2015 21:59
  
  Figures that will show how much Jeremy Corbyn relied on trade union support in his campaign for the Labour leadership will be made public.
  
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• Flying Partner Of Crash Pilot: 'There Are Risks'

  26-08-2015 21:57
  
  The flying partner of the Shoreham jet crash pilot has told Sky News the disaster made him question whether he should continue flying. But Chris Heames, one of Britain's most experienced fast jet pilots with 6,000 flying hours, says performing aerobatics in vintage planes over land is safe and he will carry on flying within the rules. Mr Heames shared the flying rota of the Hawker Hunter jet with pilot Andy Hill who was at the controls when it crashed at the Shoreham airshow on Saturday killing
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn’s women-only train carriages ‘turn clock back’ on equality, says Yvette Cooper

  26-08-2015 21:54
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s female rivals for the Labour leadership have turned on his suggestion that women-only train carriages should be introduced at night to prevent sexual attacks.
  
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• Union leader has Labour vote rejected

  26-08-2015 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mark Serwotka, the leader of one of the UK's biggest trade unions, has his vote in the Labour leadership election rejected.
  
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• WHSmith chiefs to meet Labour MP Paula Sherriff after it was revealed retailer charged more in hospitals than on the high-street

  26-08-2015 21:46
  WHSmith bosses have bowed to pressure and agreed to meet a politician who attacked the retailer’s decision to charge more for products in hospital stores than its high street ones.
  
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• Steward attempts to tackle pitch invader during Manchester United's Champions League tie, it goes terribly wrong

  26-08-2015 21:43
  Wayne Rooney's first-half goal during the Champions League play-off with Club Brugge went a long way to killing off the tie - but there was still an unlikely source keeping the fans entertained in Belgium.
  
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• Schoolgirl from Manchester owned guide to making DIY bombs

  26-08-2015 21:39
  
  A 16-year-old schoolgirl has admitted owning terrorist instructions on how to build a bomb, as a court heard that she tried to contact the Isis murderer known as “Jihadi John” and possessed violent images of an execution.
  
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• TruthaboutIsis: Mystery site fighting Isis run by British ex-jihadi too scared to go public

  26-08-2015 21:33
  
  As multi-media campaigns go, it is slick, professional – and  above all – secretive.
  
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• The 'peepee ladies' of Paris fight back: Female toilet attendants in court battle to save their jobs from creeping modernity

  26-08-2015 21:30
  The survivors of a once numerous and feared profession – the dames pipi or "peepee ladies" who preside over public toilets in Paris – have been to court to defend their jobs from tourist-friendly modernity.
  
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• Pope Francis's visit to America: Souvenir makers are producing a heavenly host of tat

  26-08-2015 21:30
  
  Warren Royal dreamed of a classier bobblehead pope. The owner of Royal Bobbleheads, a Georgia-based figurine company, is one of the many manufacturers, vendors and artists producing a heavenly host of souvenirs to surround Pope Francis on his visit to Washington, New York and Philadelphia next month. The multitudes will include papal mugs, magnets, badges and T-shirts, along with popes rendered in plush, plastic and even mozzarella.
  
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• Virginia gunman Vester Flanagan said he acted in response to Charleston church shooting

  26-08-2015 21:26
  
  The man blamed by police for the shooting dead of two journalists in Virginia sent a lengthy “manifesto” to a new network in which he claimed he had been inspired to act by the shooting of nine church members in South Carolina.
  
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• Gunman Vester Flanagan said he acted in response to Charleston church shooting

  26-08-2015 21:26
  
  The man blamed by police for the shooting dead of two journalists in Virginia sent a lengthy “manifesto” to a new network in which he claimed he had been inspired to act by the shooting of nine church members in Virginia.
  
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• Campaigners want to ditch George Osborne's Yorkshire devolution plans and create Northern Powerhouse

  26-08-2015 21:09
  
  They call it God’s Own County. Yet for decades Yorkshire has been divided into four, with some outlying lands even granted to local rivals.
  
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• Armando Iannucci: Tampering with the BBC is 'madness'

  26-08-2015 21:08
  
  Writer and director Armando Iannucci has launched a passionate defence of the BBC and said British television needs support amid political attacks.
  
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• TTIP controversy: The European Commission and Big Tabacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released

  26-08-2015 20:57
  The European Commission has been accused of a cover-up after refusing to release details of talks between its officials and the tobacco industry during negotiations over the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) treaty.
  
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• Virginia shootings: Gunman Vester Flanagan confirmed dead after shooting two journalists live on air

  26-08-2015 20:49
  
  A community in Virginia is confronting horror and bewilderment after two journalists were shot and killed during a live broadcast – an act apparently carried out by a disgruntled former colleague.
  
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• Colorado shooting: James Holmes handed 12 life sentences and maximum 3,318 years in prison without parole over movie theatre massacre

  26-08-2015 20:24
  A gunman who murdered 12 people and injured 70 others when he carried out a carefully planned shooting at a movie theatre in Colorado has been handed life sentences for each fatality and the maximum 3,318 years in prison. 
  
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• Armando Iannucci urges BBC to monetise its programmes overseas and resist 'prejudiced' Tory attacks

  26-08-2015 20:15
  
  Armando Iannucci has urged the television industry to "argue back" against the "madness" of Government driven cuts to the BBC and demanded that the broadcaster takes a more aggressive commercial stance to fund its future from foreign revenue.
  
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• Gambling firms Betfair and Paddy Power set for 5 billion pound tie up

  26-08-2015 20:07
  
  DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) - Betfair and Irish rival Paddy Power have agreed in principle on a 5 billion pound merger to stake a claim to leadership of the online gambling market in Britain.
  
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• Australian man finds unexploded bomb, parades it around town on his truck for 'show and tell'

  26-08-2015 20:01
  
  An Australian mud crab fisherman from Australia's remote Northern Territory who found an unexploded World War Two bomb paraded it around town for "show and tell" before it was confiscated by police.
  
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• Blood test could offer early warning for returning breast cancer

  26-08-2015 20:00
  
  A simple blood test may in future provide breast cancer patients with an early warning of the disease returning after chemotherapy and surgery.
  
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• Shoreham air disaster pilot moved to specialist hospital

  26-08-2015 19:59
  
  The pilot of the Shoreham air crash jet has been moved to a specialist hospital for treatment, an NHS trust spokesman has confirmed.
  
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• August Bank Holiday: Hotels fear for 2016 bookings after washout UK summer

  26-08-2015 19:49
  
  Tourism is enduring a miserable summer. As almost two million holidaymakers prepare to flee the country for the August Bank Holiday, UK tourism chiefs fear the washout summer will hit the domestic travel industry over the weekend – and damage bookings for summer 2016.
  
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• Family of Quebec air crash victims 'devastated' by tragedy

  26-08-2015 19:39
  
  A relative of a British family of four killed in a seaplane crash while on holiday in Canada has said they are "devastated" by the tragedy.
  
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• Simon Cowell sports impressive facial hair at X Factor launch

  26-08-2015 19:25
  
  Simon Cowell was sporting some impressive new facial hair at the official launch of the The X Factor 2015, which he says was a symbol of his "sense of freedom".
  
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• Chilcot Inquiry: Sir John expected to be examined in court after failing to provide publication date

  26-08-2015 19:22
  
  Sir John Chilcot’s management of the Iraq Inquiry faces being examined in a court of law after he failed to provide British families of military personnel killed in the 2003 war with a clear and immediate publication date.
  
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• Virginia shooting: Ricky Gervais slams US gun laws after two journalists are killed in live broadcast

  26-08-2015 19:11
  
  Rickey Gervais has spoken out against US gun laws, after two journalists were shot dead live on air at a shopping plaza in Virginia.
  
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• Ulster Unionist Party announces intention to leave Northern Ireland's Executive

  26-08-2015 19:08
  
  Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government was brought to the brink of crisis when the Ulster Unionist Party announced its intention to withdraw over claims that the IRA remains active.
  
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• Ulster Unionist Party announce intention to leave Northern Ireland's Executive

  26-08-2015 19:08
  
  Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government was brought to the brink of crisis when the Ulster Unionist Party announced its intention to withdraw over claims that the IRA remains active.
  
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• Philip Hammond rejects calls to wait for Chilcot before Syria decision

  26-08-2015 19:03
  
  Britain does not need to wait for the publication of the Chilcot report before deciding whether to begin air strikes on Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said.
  
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• Battle against cancer: Scientists develop first 3D computer model of how a solid tumour grows

  26-08-2015 19:00
  
  The first three-dimensional computer model of how a solid tumour grows, mutates and evolves has been developed by scientists who say it will help them to understand how lethal cancers develop resistance to drugs and chemotherapy.
  
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• Investigation launched after hundreds receive 'distressing' illegal automated cold call at 2am

  26-08-2015 18:57
  
  The Information Commissioner has launched an investigation after hundreds of residents in Leicestershire were left scared after being woken by illegal automated cold calls in the dead of night, warning them that their homes were vulnerable to burglars.
  
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• Motorists boosted by further cuts to price of petrol

  26-08-2015 18:54
  
  Motorists hoping to get away for the Bank Holiday will be given a boost as fuel prices are being slashed ahead of the weekend.
  
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