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• Daniel Baldwin evicted from Celebrity Big Brother

  04-09-2015 23:34
  
  Daniel Baldwin has become the first person to be evicted from Celebrity Big Brother.
  
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• Girl, 7, Was Shot Dead By Dad For 'Revenge'

  04-09-2015 22:47
  
  Yasser Alromisse had spent months trying to find where his ex-wife and child were living before committing the "thoroughly despicable act of violence". Mary Shipstone, also known as Maryam Alromisse, was gunned down as she returned from school after her first music lesson, and was clutching a new violin. She was standing next to her mother, Lyndsey Shipstone, who was unlocking the front door of their house in Northiam in East Sussex at the time.
  
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• Bernie Sanders has got his own set of emojis

  04-09-2015 22:44
  
  Need to express your enduring love for Bernie Sanders and a particular emotion at the same time?
  
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• Gang leader sentenced to death for role in notorious soccer tournament shooting deaths

  04-09-2015 22:21
  
  A street gang member has been sentenced to death for his role in a notorious soccer tournament shooting attack that left three people dead.
  
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• 'Empire' releases new songs ahead of season 2 premiere

  04-09-2015 22:14
  
  Real-life chart-toppers Pitbull and Ne-Yo collaborate on the latest music from the sensational show.
  
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• Sea sickness could be cured by a mobile phone app

  04-09-2015 22:05
  
  A mobile phone app that applies a small electric current to the scalp through a headset could soon be used to alleviate sea sickness and other kinds of motion nausea, scientists believe.
  
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• Scholars split by claim that Koran scrap rewrites story of Islam

  04-09-2015 21:43
  
  When chocolate magnate Edward Cadbury funded the acquisition of some 3,000 Middle Eastern manuscripts in the 1920s, he did so in the hope that it would turn Birmingham into a global focal point for religious research.
  
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• 'Britain's FBI' target more than 20 of the world's most corrupt politicians laundering millions of pounds through City of London

  04-09-2015 21:40
  British police are targeting more than 20 of the world’s most corrupt politicians involved in laundering millions of pounds through the City in a major expansion of the UK’s international anti-graft operations.
  
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• Gun-maker creates ‘anti-Muslim’ gun complete with Bible verse

  04-09-2015 21:17
  
  A Florida-based gun-maker with an apparent expertise in bigotry has created an AR-15 “Crusader” Rifle that’s designed to prevent “Muslim terrorists” from using it.
  
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• Soldier Dies In Shooting At Army Barracks

  04-09-2015 21:12
  
  A soldier has died in a shooting incident at an Army barracks in Oxfordshire, the Ministry of Defence has said. A spokesman for Thames Valley Police said police and ambulance services were called at 11.52am where they found the man in a critical condition.
  
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• Refugee crisis: European leaders preparing EU-wide protection force to deal with unfolding humanitarian catastrophe

  04-09-2015 21:05
  
  European leaders are preparing to create a powerful EU-wide border protection force to deal with the refugee crisis engulfing the continent, The Independent understands.
  
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• Life-Extending Drugs Cut From NHS Cancer Fund

  04-09-2015 21:02
  
  Thousands of patients are going to miss out on life-extending drugs – after NHS England announced it was removing 16 medicines from the Cancer Drugs Fund. Some of the delisted drugs were being used in treatments for bowel cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, pancreatic cancer and leukaemia. The move follows concerns that the Cancer Drugs Fund has continually overspent on its annual budget – despite a recent increase from £200m to £340m a year.
  
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• Northern regions willing to take share of refugees - provided Whitehall foots the bill

  04-09-2015 21:01
  
  The leaders of some of Britain’s biggest cities have told David Cameron they will welcome extra Syrian refugees. But they have warned that Whitehall must provide them with proper funding.
  
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• David Cameron bows to public opinion with pledge to take 'thousands' of extra refugees - but is the promise a diversion?

  04-09-2015 20:55
  David Cameron has pledged that the UK will take “thousands” of extra refugees from Syria, accepting Britain has a moral responsibility to act after previously suggesting that “taking more and more” would not help.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Hungary to bus people to Austrian border after over 1,200 people start 135km walk after international trains blocked

  04-09-2015 20:45
  
  Hungary has made the unexpected decision to bus refugees to the Austrian border, after over a thousand people blocked from boarding international trains from the capital took matters into their own hands and embarked on the 135km (85mile) journey on foot.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Hungary to bus people to Austrian border after hundreds start 135km walk after international trains blocked

  04-09-2015 20:45
  
  Hungary has made the unexpected decision to bus refugees to the Austrian border, after hundreds of people blocked from boarding international trains from the capital took matters into their own hands and embarked on the 135km (85mile) journey by foot.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Hundreds walking from Hungary to Austria after international trains blocked

  04-09-2015 20:45
  
  As Hungarian officials continue to stop refugees from boarding international trains from the capital, hundreds of people have taken matters into their own hands and embarked on the 135km (85mile) walk to Austria.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Why Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban sticks to his anti-Muslim script

  04-09-2015 20:40
  
  The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been much on display this week as he raged against the hordes who  “are threatening Europe’s Christian culture”. His crude language is matched by even cruder policies, as the stand-offs between police and refugees in Budapest show.
  
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• They fled war in Syria, only to get stuck and sidetracked in Hungary – now hundreds of refugees have set off on foot for Austria

  04-09-2015 20:33
  
  As the sun sets on the grand 19th-century hall of Keleti station in Budapest, Amira gets ready to spend another night on the street. She is one of roughly 2,000 people sleeping rough outside the station.
  
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• They fled war in Syria, only to get stuck and sidetracked in Hungary - Now hundreds of migrants have set off on foot for Austria

  04-09-2015 20:33
  
  As the sun sets on the grand 19th-century hall of Keleti station in Budapest, Amira gets ready to spend another night on the street. She is one of roughly 2,000 people sleeping rough outside the station.
  
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• The 7,000-mile trip Britain's stolen cars are now taking... all the way to Uganda

  04-09-2015 20:30
  
  The black Audi Q7 vanished when heavy snow covered Britain’s South-east, shortly before Christmas in 2010. Four-and-a-half years later it appeared again, in a parking lot in the outskirts of the Ugandan capital, Kampala.
  
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• Hugo Boss fined £1.2 million after four-year-old boy killed by mirror

  04-09-2015 20:22
  
  Designer brand Hugo Boss has been fined £1.2 million over the death of a four-year-old boy who was killed when an 18-stone mirror crushed him in a shop changing room.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Sweden the only European country with a majority favourable towards non-EU immigration

  04-09-2015 20:11
  
  If statistics alone are the judge, then the staggering 800,000 to one million refugees who are expected to apply for asylum in Germany this year have put the country streets ahead of all its neighbours in the EU’s response to the worst refugee crisis to hit Europe since the Second World War.
  
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• Soldier Dies In Shooting At Barracks

  04-09-2015 20:08
  
  A soldier has died in a shooting incident at an Army barracks in Oxfordshire, the Ministry of Defence has said.
  
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• Tennessee judge rejects couple's divorce petition because of same-sex marriage bill

  04-09-2015 20:05
  
  A US judge has rejected a couple’s divorce petition, arguing that the country’s recently introduced same-sex marriage laws have confused the social institution.
  
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• 'Beasts of No Nation': Netflix releases trailer of first feature film, starring Idris Elba

  04-09-2015 20:01
  
  Netflix is once again turning the traditional world of film and television on its head.
  
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• Ken Livingstone interview: Why I think Jeremy Corbyn could lead Britain

  04-09-2015 19:52
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has all the qualities he needs not just to lead the Labour Party but to be prime minster, according to another left-wing veteran of Labour’s internal battles.
  
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• Virginia cop who fatally shot unarmed William Chapman indicted for murder

  04-09-2015 19:48
  
  A Virginia police officer was indicted on first-degree murder charges on Thursday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
  
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• 'Hammer blow' as NHS England removes 16 drugs from Cancer Drugs Fund

  04-09-2015 19:45
  
  Thousands of patients will miss out on life-extending drugs after NHS England removed some from the Cancer Drugs Fund.
  
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• Seven-year-old girl shot dead by her estranged father, inquest hears

  04-09-2015 19:42
  
  A seven-year-old girl was shot in the head on the doorstep of her home by her estranged father, before he turned the gun on himself, an inquest has heard.
  
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• Millennials most likely generation to criticise themselves, says study

  04-09-2015 19:42
  
  Millennials, or 18 to 34-year-olds, are the most likely generation to criticise themselves, a new study by the Pew Research Centre has shown.
  
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• Millenials most likely generation to criticise themselves, says study

  04-09-2015 19:42
  
  Millennials, or 18 to 34-year-olds, are the most likely generation to criticise themselves, a new study by the Pew Research Centre has shown.
  
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• 5 questions 'Mr. Robot' must answer in season 2

  04-09-2015 19:37
  
  “Mr. Robot” built its critically-acclaimed, beloved first season on a complex web of mysteries, shadowy conspiracies and unreliable narration. The finale, which aired 2 September, answered a few questions fans have grappled with for the previous nine episodes. But it left us with even more uncertainty.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn is here to stay and the Labour Party is never going to look the same again

  04-09-2015 19:36
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour opponents are resigned to him being elected leader of their party on 12 September. No one will know for sure until the votes are counted, and the Corbyn camp plays down expectations of a knockout --winning more than 50 per cent of the first preference votes of the 550,000 members, registered supporters and trade unionists taking part. “We think it will go to penalties,” said one Corbynista –a reference to the preferential voting system in which the
  
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• Estranged father gunned down girl, 7, at 'safe house'

  04-09-2015 19:33
  
  An estranged father tracked down his seven-year-old daughter and shot her in the head on her doorstep before turning the gun on himself, an inquest has heard.
  
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• Sam Smith's debut album makes history

  04-09-2015 19:29
  
  Sam Smith has revealed he is "completely and utterly moved" as his debut album makes history, with the longest unbroken run in the UK albums charts.
  
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• Police question mother of four amid Syria travel fears

  04-09-2015 19:29
  
  A woman feared to have been planning to travel to Syria with her four children is being questioned by police after returning to Britain.
  
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• Adolph Alfred Taubman: $500m private art collection of US tycoon to be sold at auction

  04-09-2015 19:22
  
  The late Adolph Alfred Taubman was a billionaire developer and philanthropist who was convicted of price-fixing when he served as the chairman of the Sotheby’s auction house.
  
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• St David's barracks death: Soldier dies in Oxfordshire

  04-09-2015 19:20
  
  A soldier has died following an incident at an Army barracks in Oxfordshire.
  
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• Soldier dies after 'incident' at St David's Barracks in Oxfordshire

  04-09-2015 19:20
  
  A soldier has died following an incident at an Army barracks in Oxfordshire.
  
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• 'World's worst waitress' Larissa Dubecki dishes dirt on rude Aussie diners in memoir

  04-09-2015 19:15
  
  Was it the man who clicked his fingers at Larissa Dubecki once too often? The woman who took a call just as she was reciting the day’s specials? The three-year-old boy who groped her behind, egged on by his drunk father?
  
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• The Queen's private secretary planned to name the Loch Ness Monster after her

  04-09-2015 19:13
  
  From the royal stable of thoroughbreds to her loft of racing pigeons, the Queen’s fascination with creatures great and small is a lifelong affair. But until now nothing has been known of the monarch’s passion for another sizeable beast of her dominion - the Loch Ness Monster.
  
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• Loch Ness Monster: How the Queen's private secretary planned to name Nessie after her

  04-09-2015 19:13
  
  From the royal stable of thoroughbreds to her loft of racing pigeons, the Queen’s fascination with creatures great and small is a lifelong affair. But until now nothing has been known of the monarch’s passion for another sizeable beast of her dominion - the Loch Ness Monster.
  
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• Mexican social services official accused of trafficking babies to US for adoption

  04-09-2015 19:07
  
  Maria Garcia has not seen her daughter since Mexico’s social services took her away more than three years ago. The same social services branch has now been implicated in a baby-trafficking scandal. And Ms Garcia fears her child could have been sold to another family. “I don’t know if they sold her or what happened,” she told The Independent. “I just want my daughter back.”
  
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• Florida school murder: 'Lord of the Flies' machete killing at Homestead school for at-risk teenagers

  04-09-2015 19:00
  
  Just like the vocational school itself in Homestead, Florida, much of the land around it used to be part of the local Air Force base. But no longer. Disused roads lead to long-ago abandoned car parks filled with flotsam – tyres, an open sofa-bed – with nature, dense trees and grasses, encroaching from all sides.
  
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• Fine For Man Who Filmed Himself Kicking Rabbit

  04-09-2015 18:48
  
  A man who filmed himself drunkenly kicking a rabbit across a field has been handed a suspended jail sentence, along with a £7,000 fine. Zamual Mallinson was investigated by the RSPCA after boasting on Facebook that he had trained his dogs to fight badgers and foxes. The 24-year-old's phone was seized during the search, and this was where the distressing footage of the wild rabbit was found.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn responds to reports he made 'f*** the rich' speech in 1997: The only 'f' word I use is fairness'

  04-09-2015 18:47
  
  Jeremy Corbyn was quoted in 1997 giving a "f*** the rich" speech in central London, it emerged today.
  
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• NHS cuts to drugs fund means thousands of cancer patients in England will be denied life-extending treatments

  04-09-2015 18:40
  Thousands of cancer patients in England will no longer have access to a group of life-extending but highly expensive drugs, after the NHS announced new cuts to the controversial Cancer Drugs Fund.
  
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• NHS cuts to drugs fund mean thousands of cancer patients in England will be denied life-extending treatments

  04-09-2015 18:40
  Thousands of cancer patients in England will no longer have access to a group of life-extending but highly expensive drugs, after the NHS announced new cuts to the controversial Cancer Drugs Fund.
  
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• Paris will go car-free for one day this month

  04-09-2015 18:37
  
  Paris is due to go car-free for one day later this month in a bid to fight congestion and pollution.
  
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