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• Cyprus vs Wales match report: Gareth Bale's bullet header has Welsh on brink of Euro 2016

  03-09-2015 23:58
  
  Gareth Bale did it again and Wales are now on the brink of making history. Victory here in Nicosia courtesy of his bullet header in the 82nd minute means Chris Coleman’s side can clinch their ticket to the European Championship in France next year with a win over Israel in Cardiff on Sunday.
  
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• Police dog attack: Phoebe Malone, 6, bitten in chase for suspected car thief

  03-09-2015 23:57
  
  A six-year-old girl has been hospitalised after a police dog bit her repeatedly.
  
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• ODI international: Matthew Wade and Mitchell Marsh combine to give Australia first blood as England surrender advantage

  03-09-2015 23:54
  There is something about playing Australia in one-day cricket that gives England the jitters. Twice the home side seemed to be cruising to victory here, only to surrender the advantage as the world champions drew first blood in the five-match contest.
  
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• President Obama leaves thoughtful comment on Humans of New York photo from Iran

  03-09-2015 23:38
  
  Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton is currently blogging in Iran.
  
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• Labour leadership debate: Jeremy Corbyn's opponents fail to land the blows in final televised hustings

  03-09-2015 23:20
  
  After three months on the road, nearly two dozen debates and countless meetings with the party faithful in Labour clubs up and down the country, the end is in sight.
  
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• Diplomacy board game: Treachery is the way to win - which makes it just like the real thing

  03-09-2015 22:30
  
  A month ago, I threatened to divorce my wife if she didn't invade Tyrolia. "Would you and my father please just form an alliance against me," she begged. "It would make my life easier." I am not an idiot. My father-in-law is hopelessly partisan; there is no chance he would betray his daughter for me. Three times, already, we'd agreed mutual non-aggression pacts in the Balkans, and three times he'd gone ahead and tried to invade Serbia.
  
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• Britain's 24-hour culture: With the 'leisured society' a distant dream we're working longer and less regular hours than ever

  03-09-2015 22:00
  Unless a lot changes in the next 13 years, a lecture John Maynard Keynes delivered in 1928 will sadly go down as one of the more learned pipe dreams in history. At a school in Hampshire, the big-thinking British economist told some kids that, 100 years later, we would all be enjoying lives of such abundance that we would work 15 hours a week at most.
  
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• Corbyn Offering 'False Hope' Says Cooper

  03-09-2015 21:59
  
  Labour leadership hopeful Yvette Cooper has turned on frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn, saying he is giving people "false hope".
  
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• Tom Hardy takes dog Woodstock to world premiere of Legend

  03-09-2015 21:48
  
  Actor Tom Hardy showed dogs are a man's best friend when he brought his canine companion to the world premiere of his new film Legend.
  
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• Bully for lifeboat crew as calf rescued from cave

  03-09-2015 21:45
  
  A calf was saved by a lifeboat crew after falling down a cliff and getting wedged in a cave.
  
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• Labour leadership: Landslide Corbyn victory looks certain after MP secures 80 per cent in polls following final debate

  03-09-2015 21:44
  Jeremy Corbyn looks set to secure a landslide victory in the Labour leadership race, as a Sky News poll following the final debate in the election saw him storming ahead with more than 80 per cent of the vote.
  
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• Labour leadership: Jeremy Corbyn looks set to secure landslide victory after securing 80 per cent in polls following final debate

  03-09-2015 21:44
  Jeremy Corbyn looks set to secure a landslide victory in the Labour leadership race, as a Sky News poll following the final debate in the election saw him storming ahead with more than 80 per cent of the vote.
  
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• Labour leadership debate: Cameron accused of being 'heartless and powerless' in approach to refugee crisis

  03-09-2015 21:44
  As pressure on European politicians to solve the refugee crisis intensified after an image of a drowned three-year-old Syrian boy emerged on Wednesday, Labour leadership candidates grappled with the issue at the final debate before the election ended.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Terror on the tracks as Hungarian police try to force refugees into camp

  03-09-2015 21:40
  
  Refugees and migrants threw themselves onto railway lines and scuffled with helmeted riot police trying to take them to a reception centre in Hungary, forced from a train in desperate scenes symbolic of a European asylum system brought to breaking point.
  
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• Donald Trump bows to pressure and signs Republican 'loyalty pledge'

  03-09-2015 21:33
  
  The name on the building's gold-plated sign said Trump.
  
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• Refugee crisis: EU faultlines revealed as Hungary's PM warns of risk to 'Christian' culture

  03-09-2015 21:32
  
  The growing European Union divide over how to respond to the refugee crisis was thrown into stark relief when Hungary’s Prime Minister castigated critics of his hard-line policies for putting “Christian” Europe at risk.
  
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• UK refugee response 'under review' as David Cameron faces calls to change policy

  03-09-2015 21:25
  
  Expectations are growing that Britain may open its doors to more Syrian refugees, after Prime Minister David Cameron said that the UK's response was "under review".
  
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• Abdullah Kurdi: Father of drowned son Aylan describes the moment his two children 'slipped away'

  03-09-2015 21:25
  
  Not far from where a sobbing Abdullah al-Kurdi described the moment his two children “slipped away” into the inky blackness of the Aegean Sea, plans were being hatched. Aylan Kurdi, his brother Galip, five, and mother Rehan, 35, will not be the last Syrian bodies to wash up on the Turkish coast.
  
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• Vince Cable and Chuka Umunna unite to criticise Business Secretary Sajid Javid for failing to promote British industry

  03-09-2015 21:19
  Labour’s Chuka Umunna and veteran Liberal Democrat Vince Cable have united to criticise the Business Secretary Sajid Javid for failing to promote British industry.
  
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• Dylann Roof: Prosecutors to seek the death penalty for young man charged over Charleston church killings

  03-09-2015 21:19
  
  Prosecutors have indicated they will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, the young man charged with nine counts of murder over the shooting at a black church in South Carolina.
  
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• Syria's Kurds have little choice but to flee amid the desolution, ruins and danger they face

  03-09-2015 21:06
  
  The Kurdish enclave of Kobani in north-east Syria, once the home of Aylan al-Kurdi and his family, is largely in ruins after a four-and-a-half month siege by Isis fighters that ended in January. It was one of the greatest victories in Kurdish history, but a Pyrrhic one that saw 300,000 Syrian Kurds flee into Turkey from Kobani, a city just south of the Turkish border, and from the 250 villages surrounding it.
  
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• Refugee crisis banner campaign: Premier League under pressure from Labour to allow fans to show support for those seeking help in Britain

  03-09-2015 20:55
  Labour leadership candidate Yvette Cooper and MP Chris Bryant are writing to every Premier League club to urge them to allow supporters to unfurl #refugeeswelcome banners in a show of solidarity with those seeking help in Britain.
  
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• British Red Cross launches major fundraising appeal after thousands contact charity to help combat refugee crisis

  03-09-2015 20:50
  The British Red Cross has launched a major fundraising appeal, after the heart-breaking image of a drowned Syrian child prompted thousands of people to contact the charity to help combat the refugee crisis.
  
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• Live: Labour Leader Candidates Go Head To Head

  03-09-2015 20:43
  
  The four MPs hoping to lead the Labour Party have made passionate pleas for the Government to solve the refugee crisis in the last televised hustings of the campaign. In an event broadcast live from The Sage in Gateshead, members of the public have the chance to question Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn, and Yvette Cooper. The first question came from a local councillor who wanted to know how the candidates would deal with the current refugee crisis.
  
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• 15 charged after inquiry into '£12 million fraud'

  03-09-2015 20:41
  
  Fifteen suspects have been charged after an inquiry into an alleged £12 million fraud against public and private bodies, including NHS trusts and the government of Guernsey.
  
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• China's President Xi Jinping dedicates himself to peace as astonishing demonstration of military might marks 70th anniversary of end of WWII

  03-09-2015 20:30
  It was the kind of contradiction that seems to come naturally in China: expressions of peace as thousands of doves were let loose into the skies amidst an astonishing demonstration of military might.
  
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• Glasgow bin lorry crash: Disciplinary investigation into driver Harry Clarke 'postponed because of his ill-health'

  03-09-2015 20:20
  
  An investigation into possible gross misconduct by the driver of a bin lorry who killed six people in Glasgow last year has reportedly been postponed due to his ill-health.
  
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• Refugee crisis casts shadow over David Cameron's attempts to renegotiate EU membership terms

  03-09-2015 20:14
  
  The migration crisis engulfing Europe has cast a shadow over David Cameron’s attempt to renegotiate the terms of Britain’s EU membership, making an already difficult task even more problematic.
  
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• Rachel Atherton: British mountain biker on the dangers involved in trying to win back the downhill world title

  03-09-2015 20:11
  
  Click your fingers and that is the margin by which Rachel Atherton lost a world title – 0.088 of a second. She says she spent a winter thinking about it. Well you would, wouldn’t you?
  
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• Islamists have returned to Mali - and the people are fleeing

  03-09-2015 19:49
  
  Usman Keita had vivid memories of the day in February two years ago when François Hollande came to Timbuktu.
  
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• Refugee crisis: David Cameron lowered the flag for the dead king of Saudi Arabia - will he do the same honour for little Aylan Kurdi?

  03-09-2015 19:44
  Little Aylan al-Kurdi was part of Dave’s “swarm”. A bit difficult to brush that one off for PR Dave, of course, because Aylan wasn’t black or brown or “blobbed” out by television’s techie-taste dictators, but looked – let’s face it, for this is what it is about – rather like our three-year-olds. He could have been an Alan or a John – or a David. Washed up at Hastings or Bexhill, you can just imagine the demands for a public inquir
  
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• Rajavarothiam Sampanthan becomes first Tamil politician to lead Sri Lanka's opposition in 32 years

  03-09-2015 19:42
  
  Sri Lanka’s parliament named an ethnic minority Tamil politician as the main opposition leader for the first time in 32 years, a sign of growing reconciliation after a prolonged civil war.
  
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• Nazi 'gold train': Tourist's descend on Polish town of Wasbrzych despite lack of evidence that its discovery is genuine

  03-09-2015 19:34
  Officials have been doing their best to keep the prospect of a Third Reich Klondyke at the top of the agenda in the run-down town of Walbrzych, ever since treasure hunters claimed to have discovered a lost “Nazi Gold train” in a secret tunnel last month.
  
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• Kentucky clerk jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples

  03-09-2015 19:34
  
  A judge has ordered a Kentucky clerk to jail after she refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: David Cameron's 'walk on by on the other side' response to Syrian refugee crisis has reduced me to tears

  03-09-2015 19:25
  Nicola Sturgeon has attacked David Cameron's continued refusal to take in Britain's fair share of refugees fleeing Syria, saying the Government's "walk on by on the other side" approach had reduced her to tears.
  
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• Explosion in gang violence expected in Japan after break-up of notorious Yakuza group the Yamaguchi-gumi

  03-09-2015 19:19
  
  The Japanese police force is bracing itself for an onslaught of violence following the break-up of one of the country’s most infamous gangs.
  
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• Samsung's Gear S2 circular smartwatch will make contactless payments

  03-09-2015 19:18
  
  Samsung's first circular smartwatch will carry Samsung Pay so wearers can use it to make contactless payments.
  
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• Britain to take more refugees as Cameron bows to pressure after more than 100,000 thousand back our campaign

  03-09-2015 19:17
  
  David Cameron will bow to public pressure and is expected to say that the UK is prepared to accept thousands more refugees, The Independent understands.
  
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• Joe Biden's 'tease tour': Could the US Vice-President be testing the water for a presidential run?

  03-09-2015 19:12
  
  There is little that deters Joe Biden once he starts. The enormous butterfly that had somehow fluttered into the room wasn’t going to distract him, nor the giant phalanx of cameras and reporters at the back.
  
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• 8 best children's clocks

  03-09-2015 19:09
  
  Teach them a valuable life skill, encourage good behaviour with a schedule or just jazz up a nursery or bedroom wall with one of our favourite kids' clocks, whether you're looking for an ethically-made fair trade piece or something cheap and cheerful.
  
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• Girl, Six, Injured In Attack By Police Dog

  03-09-2015 19:08
  
  A six-year-old girl has been bitten by a police dog after it was set loose to catch a suspected car thief. An internal police investigation has been launched into the attack after the youngster needed hospital treatment. The Greater Manchester Police dog team had been called to Briscoe Lane in Newton Heath, Manchester, at around 8pm when a stolen Fiat Punto ploughed into a wall.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Abdullah Kurdi, father of Aylan, says 'we want the world’s attention' so his family's tragedy is 'the last'

  03-09-2015 18:59
  Abdullah Kurdi, the father of 3-year-old Aylan whose death has fuelled outrage over the on-going refugee crisis, has welcomed the “world’s attention” so further tragedy can be prevented.
  
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• Don't criminalise teenagers for 'sexting', say children's campaigners

  03-09-2015 18:57
  
  Teenagers should not be criminalised for ‘sexting’, children’s campaigners warned after it emerged that a boy who sent a naked selfie to a classmate will be on a police database for 10 years.
  
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• French farmers invade Paris with 1,700 tractors to protest low pork and milk prices

  03-09-2015 18:49
  
  Like a medieval peasant army besieging the capital, six giant columns of tractors have invaded Paris to demand government help for French farmers threatened by low prices for pork and milk.
  
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• British schoolgirl Lydia Sebastian beats Einstein to get best possible score in Mensa IQ test

  03-09-2015 18:48
  
  A 12-year-old girl has beaten Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in a Mensa IQ test that she described as "easy".
  
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• British schoolgirl aged 12 beats Einstein to get best possible score in Mensa IQ test

  03-09-2015 18:48
  
  A 12-year-old girl has beaten Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in a Mensa IQ test that she described as "easy".
  
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• Guatemala President Perez Molina resigns as political crisis grips the country

  03-09-2015 18:41
  
  Guatemala is facing a political crisis after its president resigned amid a corruption scandal that has brought his government to the edge of collapse and arrived at court to hear charges against him.
  
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• United Utilities faces £15m compensation bill after Lancashire water bug

  03-09-2015 18:30
  
  Water firm United Utilities faces a compensation bill of at least £15 million to Lancashire households affected by the outbreak of a parasitic bug in supplies.
  
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• Beheaded scientist found in Cambridgeshire home named as Samantha Ho

  03-09-2015 18:24
  
  The scientist found beheaded in her home has been named by police as Samantha Ho.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II to become Britain's longest reigning monarch: The many things the Queen can do that the rest of us can’t

  03-09-2015 18:23
  Being Queen Elizabeth II opens you up to certain privileges that the rest of us can only dream of. Not only does she get to live in Buckingham Palace, milling between 700 odd rooms on a daily basis, but there are a few other actions that the Queen and only the Queen can pull off.
  
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