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• Auschwitz museum defends mist showers installed during heat wave after visitor complains they are reminiscent of gas chambers

  31-08-2015 23:50
  The management at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has defended the installation of sprinkler showers at its entrance, after a visitor complained that the new facilities were a painful reminder of the gas chambers used to murder prisoners.
  
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• Secrecy over plan for new nuclear plant is 'disgraceful', says veteran campaigner

  31-08-2015 23:42
  
  The Government is putting the commercial interests of a French energy giant over the British taxpayer in a “disgraceful” decision not to release documents on the UK’s first new nuclear power station in 25 years, according to a veteran anti-nuclear campaigner.
  
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• The economics of the stock market is simple really: buy and hold

  31-08-2015 23:37
  
  Trillions get “wiped off” stock markets. But they never seem to get “wiped on”. That’s not true, of course. Stocks markets surge just as often as they plummet. It’s just that the surges tend not to get so widely reported.
  
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• Tesco softens pensions blow after flood of staff complaints

  31-08-2015 23:34
  
  Tesco has been forced to offer concessions to furious staff after the supermarket’s plans to close its final-salary pension scheme triggered a deluge of complaints.
  
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• Fireworks mark Edinburgh's festivals

  31-08-2015 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fireworks display marks the end of the Edinburgh Fringe and International festivals with both reporting increased sales.
  
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• Bono's group has made more money from Facebook investment than from all his music

  31-08-2015 22:54
  
  Bono has written dozens songs during his long and enduring career.
  
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• Bono has made more money from Facebook investment than from all his music

  31-08-2015 22:54
  
  Bono has written dozens songs during his long and enduring career.
  
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• Disabled man critical after attack

  31-08-2015 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An elderly, disabled man is in a critical condition after being attacked by a gang in his home in County Armagh
  
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• University of Texas removes statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis

  31-08-2015 22:29
  
  A statue of the Confederate president Jefferson Davis, which had long stood in a prominent location on the grounds of the University of Texas in Austin, has been removed after critics argued that it represented and celebrated racism.
  
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• Suspect kills Houston police officer after shooting 15 times during ambush

  31-08-2015 22:16
  
  A man charged with killing a Houston police officer allegedly fired a total of 15 times, CBS News reported.
  
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• Watson rues missed chance at US Open

  31-08-2015 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British number one Heather Watson says the tension got to her as she lost to world number 84 Lauren Davis at the US Open.
  
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• EU referendum: 'Brexit' would increase number of refugees entering UK, says ex-Tory minister

  31-08-2015 22:11
  
  Britain would face a mass influx of refugees from Calais if the country voted to pull out of the European Union, a former Conservative immigration minister has warned.
  
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• Ex-Rangers boss Green faces charges

  31-08-2015 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Rangers chief executive Charles Green is likely to face charges relating to his time at the club, BBC Scotland learns.
  
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• Lord Montagu dead: Fast cars and gay rights – an eclectic life in the public eye

  31-08-2015 22:02
  
  The aristocrat whose trial for consensual homosexual acts helped usher in the end of legal discrimination against gay people has died aged 88.
  
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• Vice News journalists detained in Turkey accused of 'aiding a terrorist organisation'

  31-08-2015 21:59
  
  Two Vice News journalists detained in Turkey have been charged with "aiding a terrorist organisation" while reporting on conflict in the country.
  
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• Vice News journalists arrested: Turkey charges British staff with 'aiding terrorist organisation'

  31-08-2015 21:59
  
  A Turkish court has charged two Vice News journalists and their assistant with “aiding a terrorist organization” and ordered them arrested pending trial. Their employer has called the charges “baseless and alarmingly false.”
  
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• Nazi 'gold train': Fire engulfs suspected location of vehicle

  31-08-2015 21:43
  
  The mystery of a Nazi gold train said to be buried in Poland has taken another strange turn, after the location where the armoured train is believed to be hidden was engulfed in flames - after the Polish government cast doubt over its existence.
  
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• Wes Craven dead: The king of low-budget horror films was once a university professor

  31-08-2015 21:38
  
  Lovers of scary movies are mourning the death of horror auteur Wes Craven, who terrified two generations of teenagers with his slasher franchises A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. The writer-director, who was 76, died on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. His family said the cause was brain cancer.
  
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• UK journalists arrested in Turkey

  31-08-2015 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two British Vice News reporters and a translator are arrested in Turkey, accused of helping an illegal armed group.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: Prime Minister says nationalist protesters are worse than the separatists following violence that left one dead

  31-08-2015 21:27
  The all-too-familiar sight of masked men, Molotov cocktails, wooden sticks and explosives returned to the streets of Kiev, as violence between police and the mostly nationalist protesters broke out after a contentious vote in the Ukrainian national parliament. More than 100 people were injured, and one national guardsmen died as a result of a grenade thrown during the clashes.
  
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• UK weather: Bank Holiday downpours set to make it wettest August on record

  31-08-2015 21:26
  
  Bank Holiday Monday has proved a complete washout for much of the country. On the last bank holiday until Christmas, nearly two weeks’ worth of rain fell in swathes of South-east England and East Anglia. The South-west of England also endured similarly miserable conditions; its beaches, rather than full of holidaying families, were more a picture of abandoned grey.
  
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• Energy companies more reliant on 'dirty' coal to produce electricity than they were a decade ago

  31-08-2015 21:16
  
  Two of Britain’s largest energy suppliers are more reliant on coal to produce the electricity they sell to customers than they were 10 years ago.
  
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• 225,000 Apple account credentials stolen from jailbroken devices

  31-08-2015 21:06
  
  More than 225,000 Apple accounts have been stolen from users of jailbroken Apple devices in a huge malware attack.
  
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• Woman raped in John Lewis car park in Cheadle

  31-08-2015 21:04
  
  A woman has been raped in the car park of a John Lewis store.
  
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• Barack Obama joins Bear Grylls for Running Wild Alaska climate change special

  31-08-2015 21:04
  
  Barack Obama is to venture into the Alaskan wilderness with British adventurer Bear Grylls for a television programme, it has been announced.
  
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• Enfield shooting: Gun suspect shot dead by police after armed officers storm block of flats

  31-08-2015 21:03
  
  The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation after a man was shot dead by officers in North London.
  
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• People with poor sleep 'four times more likely to catch a cold'

  31-08-2015 21:00
  
  Not getting enough sleep dramatically increases the chances of catching a cold, research has shown.
  
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• Morgan 'refreshed' after month break

  31-08-2015 21:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England one-day captain Eoin Morgan says his month-long break from cricket has left him feeling refreshed.
  
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• Britain's Atlantis: Scientific study beneath North Sea could revolutionise how we see the past

  31-08-2015 20:51
  
  Archaeologists are searching for the lost tribes of prehistoric Britain – at the bottom of the North Sea.
  
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• Tom Brady and NFL fail to reach settlement on Deflategate scandal

  31-08-2015 20:40
  
  Tom Brady and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell have failed to reach a settlement in the four-game suspension for his involvement in the Deflategate scandal, ESPN reports.
  
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• Washington DC police struggle to deal with soaring murder rate

  31-08-2015 20:35
  
  America’s capital city is struggling to respond to a soaring murder rate and a lack of confidence among officers in the top police official.
  
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• China trains monkeys to destroy birds nests ahead of WWII commemoration parade

  31-08-2015 20:33
  
  China's military has trained a troop of monkeys to clear birds from Beijing’s skies, ahead of a military parade to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.
  
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• TV's Griff Rhys Jones plays Football In The River

  31-08-2015 20:10
  
  Comedian Griff Rhys Jones is not renowned for his sporting prowess - but he proved doubters wrong with a game of football in the Cotswolds.
  
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• Almost every seabird 'will have eaten plastic by 2050' because of ocean pollution

  31-08-2015 20:00
  
  Almost every seabird – from the gregarious kittiwake to the wandering albatross – will have eaten some kind of plastic object by the middle of this century, a systematic survey of marine pollution has found.
  
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• Meeting the refugees in Kos: A first-hand account of the people behind the headlines

  31-08-2015 19:48
  
  The police station overlooks the sea. A crowd is queuing outside, spilling on to the street. A policeman, dressed in black, is shouting: "Get off the road!"
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival: Man fighting for his life after stabbing

  31-08-2015 19:42
  
  A man is fighting for his life after being stabbed at Notting Hill carnival in west London.
  
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• Notting Hill Carnival: Man fighting for his life after being stabbed

  31-08-2015 19:42
  
  A man is fighting for his life after being stabbed at Notting Hill carnival in west London.
  
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• Corbyn criticised for Bin Laden comment

  31-08-2015 19:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is criticised for saying it was a "tragedy" that Osama Bin Laden was killed by the United States rather than being put on trial.
  
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• Tory councillor under investigation for 'If Carlsberg did illegal immigrants...' naked women Facebook post

  31-08-2015 19:39
  
  A Conservative councillor is facing an internal investigation, after one of his social media posts showed a picture of a boat full of naked women with the caption: 'If Carlsberg did illegal immigrants...'
  
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• Tory councillor under investigation for 'If Carlsberg did illegal immigrants...' Facebook post

  31-08-2015 19:39
  
  A Conservative councillor is facing an investigation from the party over some of his social media posts, one of which showed a picture of a boat full of naked women with the caption: 'If Carlsberg did illegal immigrants...'
  
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• Gravy wrestlers savour winning

  31-08-2015 19:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Organisers have called the World Gravy Wrestling Championships "one of the world's craziest culinary competitions".
  
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• Obama to appear on Bear Grylls show

  31-08-2015 19:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Barack Obama is to appear on the Bear Grylls survival show to raise awareness of the effects of climate change in Alaska, NBC announces.
  
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• England beat Australia in Twenty20 thanks to brilliant final over from Ben Stokes in tight match in Cardiff

  31-08-2015 19:30
  
  A steely final over from Ben Stokes ensured England claimed NatWest Twenty20 bragging rights over Australia at Cardiff.
  
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• Japan seeks biggest defence budget ever amid concerns over growing strength of China

  31-08-2015 19:17
  
  Japan’s defence ministry has endorsed plans to buy an advanced destroyer, F35 fighters and drones in its largest military budget in history, amid protests in Tokyo over plans to change the country’s pacifist constitution.
  
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• Women given testosterone during sex change process 'start to think more like men'

  31-08-2015 19:11
  
  Women given testosterone while undergoing a sex change start to think more like men after the treatment, research suggests.
  
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• Enfield shooting: Residents react to armed police incident in north London

  31-08-2015 19:11
  
  Horrified residents have described seeing armed police swarm their block of flats moments before officers shot dead a man who had a gun and was threatening to kill someone.
  
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• Van Morrison's Cyprus Avenue 70th birthday gigs entertain thousands in Belfast

  31-08-2015 19:06
  
  Van Morrison has celebrated his 70th birthday with once-in-a-lifetime concerts on the east Belfast street he immortalised in his masterpiece Astral Weeks.
  
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• Head-on bus collision in Birmingham caught on CCTV

  31-08-2015 19:06
  
  The dramatic moment two buses crashed head-on sending passengers flying has been caught on camera.
  
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• Family's grief after Kent triathlete's body found in lake

  31-08-2015 19:06
  
  The family of a man who died while competing in the swimming leg of a triathlon have spoken of their devastation.
  
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• Bank holiday weekend a washout as inch of rain falls

  31-08-2015 19:06
  
  The last bank holiday until Christmas has been a washout for many parts of Britain.
  
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