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• Corbyn rewards McDonnell with shadow chancellor role

  13-09-2015 23:54
  
  Left-wing veteran John McDonnell has been appointed shadow chancellor by Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn win: Conservative Party warning that new Labour leader is 'threat to national security' mocked on Twitter

  13-09-2015 23:48
  The Conservative Party is facing ridicule after it responded to Jeremy Corbyn’s landslide Labour leadership victory by warning that he is a “threat to national security”.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn makes first appointments in new shadow cabinet

  13-09-2015 23:31
  
  Andy Burnham becomes shadow home secretary, with Hilary Benn, Heidi Alexander and Lord Falconer also given frontbench rolesJeremy Corbyn has made his first key appointments, asking his leadership rival Andy Burnham to be shadow home secretary and Hilary Benn to stay on as shadow foreign secretary.In an announcement from the Labour party on Sunday night, it was confirmed that Lord Falconer would stay on as shadow justice secretary, while Heidi Alexander would be shadow health secretary. Continue
  
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• Northern California wildfire destroys at least 100 homes as thousands flee

  13-09-2015 23:28
  
  Governor Jerry Brown declares states of emergency to free resources
  ‘Nothing but burned houses, burned cars’ reported in Middletown At least 100 homes were destroyed by a wildfire in northern California’s Lake County that raced through dry brush and exploded in size within hours, officials said on Sunday. The devastation comes after a separate wildfire to the south-east destroyed at least 81 homes. Related: California wildfires threaten mountain towns as blaze intensifiesContin
  
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• India train crash woman died on 'once-in-a-lifetime holiday'

  13-09-2015 23:21
  
  A British great-grandmother who died in a train crash in north India was on a "once-in-a-lifetime holiday", her family said.
  
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• Internazionale maintain perfect Serie A start with derby win over Milan

  13-09-2015 23:11
  
  Internazionale beat local rivals Milan 1-0 to move top of Serie A on Sunday, as Mario Balotelli failed to make an immediate impact against his old club on his comeback for the Rossoneri.Fredy Guarín celebrated his 100th league appearance with a stunning goal after Milan had wasted a number of chances. Balotelli, who rejoined Milan on loan from Liverpool last month, hit the post and went close with a free kick. Continue reading...
  
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• Manus Island: refugee assaulted by guard and told to find his own medicine

  13-09-2015 23:08
  
  An asylum seeker wrongly sent to the men-only centre when still a child was allegedly punched by a PNG detention centre guard last weekOne of the youngest refugees on Manus Island – erroneously sent to the adult-only detention centre when he was still a child – has been assaulted by a guard at his detention centre and, when injured, was forced to borrow and buy his own pain medication. Related: A life in limbo: the refugees who fled torture only to end up trapped indefinitely on Manu
  
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• John Hardie: ITN chief gives his take on the BBC and explains why TV news is here to stay

  13-09-2015 23:03
  
  Some breaking news from the chief executive of ITN: the TV news bulletin is here to stay.
  
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• This Is England '90 recap – episode one, Spring

  13-09-2015 23:00
  
  We rejoin Lol, Milky, Woody and the rest of Shane Meadows’s gang as Mrs Thatcher vacates No 10 and Madchester fever kicks inThere’s a lot of love out there for these characters. It’s partly because they feel so familiar – Shane Meadows captures the tone and temper of done-down but defiant provincial English life unerringly. It’s partly thanks to This Is England’s uncanny sense of balance – there are amazingly few dramas that so convincingly combine warmt
  
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• This Is England '90, Channel 4 – TV review: Goodbye, Maggie – hello, Madchester: Everything's sorted in Shane's world

  13-09-2015 23:00
  The latest exploits of a group of disaffected British youths exploded on to the small screen last night in a haze of cigarettes, alcohol, glow sticks and Madchester-inspired music.
  
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• Marijuana users may be more likely to develop diabetes, research finds

  13-09-2015 23:00
  
  People who use marijuana may be more likely to develop prediabetes than those who have never smoked it, according to new research.
  
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• Corbyn Ally: Shadow Cabinet A 'Broad Church'

  13-09-2015 22:50
  
  Jeremy Corbyn's closest ally has told Sky News the new Labour leader will announce a shadow cabinet that is "as big a tent as possible" and a "broad church" like the Cabinets of Attlee, Wilson and Callaghan. In his first TV interview since masterminding Mr Corbyn's victory, his campaign manager John McDonnell said it was in the new leader's character to seek consensus in the Labour Party. Although he refused to be drawn on his own job in the Shadow Cabinet, Mr McDonnell also urged those shadow c
  
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• Internazionale 1-0 Milan: Serie A – as it happened!

  13-09-2015 22:40
  
  Mario Balotelli did his best when sprung off the bench to get Milan back in to it but Fredy Guarin’s second half stunner was enough to give Internazionale the bragging rights 9.40pm BST90 min +5: The free-kick is cleared and Inter take the first derby of the season to continue their 100% start and climb to the top of the embryonic Serie A table. Milan sit in 12th, this their second defeat from three games. Thanks for reading. Bye! 9.39pm BST90 min + 5: Telles commits another foul, this tim
  
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• Refugee crisis: Theresa May under pressure to increase number of refugees taken by Britain

  13-09-2015 22:36
  
  Theresa May is under pressure to increase the number of refugees Britain will accept ahead of an EU summit on Monday to deal with the crisis.
  
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• Michael Moore: I convinced Quentin Tarantino to vote for the first time

  13-09-2015 22:29
  
  The documentarian has revealed that Quentin Tarantino was persuaded by Moore’s 2004 film Fahrenheit 9/11 to register and cast his ballot paper Related: Where to Invade Next review – Michael Moore gets happy with a sugar-binge idea-stealing session The director Michael Moore has revealed that Quentin Tarantino only voted after watching the documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. Speaking at the Toronto film festival – where his new film, Where To Invade Next, is the subject of a bidding wa
  
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• Ethan Hawke: drugs deal with anxiety, they don't give you talent

  13-09-2015 22:26
  
  The actor discusses the effect of addiction on artistry while promoting his new Chet Baker biopic at the Toronto film festivalEthan Hawke talked about the effect of drugs and alcohol on acting while promoting his lead role in a Chet Baker biopic at the Toronto film festival. Related: Boyhood: we were selfish, heartless kids and we never even knew itContinue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet: Which Labour MPs might fill the key positions?

  13-09-2015 22:18
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is now selecting the team he will take into battle with him in the coming years. Several prominent figures have said they will not serve under him while others are heading for the sack.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet: The appointments so far

  13-09-2015 22:18
  
  Jeremy Corbyn is now selecting the team he will take into battle with him in the coming years. Several prominent figures have said they will not serve under him while others are heading for the sack.
  
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• US Open 2015: Novak Djokovic v Roger Federer, men's singles final – live!

  13-09-2015 22:13
  
  Tweet Bryan at @BryanAGrahamOr email him at [email protected] No1 and No2 meet for US Open men’s singles title 9.13pm BSTHere’s a view of Arthur Ashe Stadium right now. Current status: wet.Arthur Ashe Stadium right now. One last rain delay before next year's roof. pic.twitter.com/6VuSH1DQSi 8.55pm BSTMatches on the outer courts have indeed been suspended. Keep fingers crossed! Continue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's wife Laura Alvarez expected to adopt the lowest of profiles

  13-09-2015 22:09
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s wife, Laura Alvarez, is likely to adopt the lowest profile of any UK political leader’s spouse in recent memory.
  
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• Northern California wildfires destroy 100 homes as thousands flee

  13-09-2015 22:06
  
  Four firefighters hospitalized with second-degree burns
  Governor Jerry Brown declares states of emergencyA wildfire that raced through dry brush in northern California on Sunday heavily damaged the small town of Middletown, burning buildings in the downtown and reducing other parts of the town to ash.Related: California wildfires threaten mountain towns as blaze intensifiesContinue reading...
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Even an American with Republican Party ties was swept up in the euphoria of Jeremy Corbyn's victory

  13-09-2015 22:05
  The beer hardly flowed because the heaving Sanctuary pub in Westminster had stopped serving just after 2pm.
  
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• Chuka Umunna quits over Jeremy Corbyn’s EU stance

  13-09-2015 21:57
  
  Shadow business secretary’s decision widens Labour split as leader also faces resistance over appointing John McDonnell as shadow chancellorThe political divide inside the Labour party has deepened, after shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna quit the front bench.He claimed on Sunday night that the decision was made because he had not been given unambiguous assurances that a Corbyn leadership would continue to support Britain’s continued membership of the European Union in the comin
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Q&A: What happens next for the new Labour leader?

  13-09-2015 21:53
  
  Q | How will Corbyn tackle Prime Minister’s Questions?
  
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• Hawaii to experience worst-ever coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures

  13-09-2015 21:49
  
  Corals are recovering from last year’s bleaching but warmer-than-normal ocean temperatures this year will likely lead to a more deadly year for coral reefWarmer-than-normal ocean temperatures around Hawaii this year will likely lead to the worst coral bleaching the islands have ever seen, scientists said.Many corals are only just recovering from last year’s bleaching, which occurs when warm waters prompt coral to expel the algae they rely on for food, said Ruth Gates, the director of
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's Labour leadership win emboldens trade unions to defy Tory sanctions

  13-09-2015 21:48
  
  One of Britain’s most powerful union bosses has declared that he is ready to go to prison if the Conservatives pass a new law that would curtail the right to strike.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn shadow Cabinet: Chuka Umunna leaves front bench over 'key points of difference' with new leader

  13-09-2015 21:44
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s attempt to assemble a top team reflecting the spread of opinion in Labour ranks suffered a severe setback when Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna quit the shadow Cabinet.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn assembles shadow Cabinet: Andy Burnham, John McDonnell and Lord Falconer appointed but Chuka Umunna quits

  13-09-2015 21:44
  
  Jeremy Corbyn’s attempt to assemble a top team reflecting the spread of opinion in Labour ranks suffered a severe setback when Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna quit the shadow Cabinet.
  
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• Northern Ireland crisis: Martin McGuinness claims 'state agents' may have been behind murders that brought Stormont to the brink

  13-09-2015 21:37
  Northern Ireland’s political crisis has escalated after Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness claimed that state “agents” may have been involved in two murders that have brought the power-sharing Stormont government to the brink of collapse.
  
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• Chuka Umunna leaves shadow cabinet amid 'key points of difference on policy'

  13-09-2015 21:28
  
  Chuka Umunna has left the shadow cabinet, he announced - blaming "key points of difference on policy" on areas such as Europe with new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Maggie’s Plan review: Julianne Moore steals agreeably messy comedy

  13-09-2015 21:15
  
  Greta Gerwig and Ethan Hawke make for a winning couple in Rebecca Miller’s unpredictable New York-set lark, but Moore’s brazen Danish professor is the picture’s real highlightThe titular heroine of Maggie’s Plan, played by Greta Gerwig, is intent on living out a meticulously planned life. To conquer that goal, Maggie controls the lives of others to help meet her needs. Writer/director Rebecca Miller’s film is tonally the complete opposite of its lead – true to
  
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• For good or ill, Jeremy Corbyn becoming Labour leader has brought the party back to life

  13-09-2015 21:15
  
  The dangers for Labour that arise from Jeremy Corbyn’s overwhelming victory are obvious. There is no need to predict what they are. They are taking shape already. The onslaught of the right-wing newspapers has started and is as nothing compared with what is to come. More fundamentally the divisions within the parliamentary party over some policies are immediately visible. 
  
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• Father describes 'guilt' after unwittingly hitting 15-month-old son with car and sparking police investigation

  13-09-2015 21:13
  
  A father who unwittingly knocked over his 15-month-old son in his car and sparked a hit-and-run police investigation has said “the guilt will be with me forever”.
  
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• Russian opposition party claims success in regional election

  13-09-2015 21:08
  
  Parnas said its exit polling shows it won 6% of vote in Kostroma, surpassing threshold of 5%, but state pollster says it won only 2.6%A Russian opposition party has said it has won enough votes to make it into a regional parliament, but a state pollster said it had not passed the 5% threshold.
  The opposition party Parnas said its exit polling on Sunday evening showed that it had won 6% of the vote in the province of Kostroma, enough to give its candidate Ilya Yashin a seat in the regional parlia
  
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• The Guardian view on Yemen: remember the forgotten war | Editorial

  13-09-2015 21:02
  
  Diplomatic balancing acts should not prevent western nations telling the truth about war crimes and atrocities being committed in the Middle East’s less high-profile conflictsWhile so much international attention is again focused on Syria because of the refugee crisis in Europe, another less noticed war, less commented on, yet equally vicious, especially for the civilians who bear its brunt, continues to tear at the Middle East. Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe shows no sign of relen
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn already at odds with deputy Tom Watson over Trident, Nato and the EU

  13-09-2015 21:02
  
  As Jeremy Corbyn began work on appointing his Shadow Cabinet, policy tensions within Labour’s top team were laid bare by the new deputy leader, Tom Watson, who admitted they were at odds over the replacement of Trident, Nato membership and whether to leave the European Union.
  
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• Voodoo supreme chief Max Beauvoir, of Haiti, dies at 79 after illness

  13-09-2015 20:56
  
  Haitian president calls leader’s death a ‘great loss for the country’
  Beauvoir was biochemical engineer who became supreme chief in 2008
  The Voodoo supreme chief Max Beauvoir has died in his homeland of Haiti, where the mixture of beliefs from West Africa and Catholicism is recognized as an official religion. He was 79.A government statement said Beauvoir died on Saturday in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince after an illness. The cause of death was not immediately known.
  
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• Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko: We're inching towards peace with Russia

  13-09-2015 20:53
  
  Fifteen months into Ukraine’s bitter conflict, some have begun to hope that the region’s first effective ceasefire just might turn into a longer peace.
  
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• Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko: We're inching towards peace

  13-09-2015 20:53
  
  Fifteen months into Ukraine’s bitter conflict, some have begun to hope that the region’s first effective ceasefire just might turn into a longer peace.
  
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• Internazionale v Milan: Serie A – live!

  13-09-2015 20:51
  
  Latest updates from the Milan derby at the San Siro Mario Balotelli is a reformed character, says Milan CEO Adriano GallianiEmail [email protected] or tweet @alansmith90 7.51pm BST5 min: Adriano loses the ball to Kondogbia. He picks out Jovetic about 25 yards out. The former Man City man turns and shoots low and wide, failing to trouble Diego Lopez. 7.50pm BST4 min: Quite a frantic start, unsurprisingly. Jovetic tries to find Icardi but he is met by a wall of red, black and white and In
  
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• Treve odds on for third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after Vermeille win

  13-09-2015 20:49
  
  • Criquette Head-Maarek says her brilliant mare ‘is better than ever’
  • Aidan O’Brien wins three Group Ones in IrelandWrecking crews are due to start demolishing Longchamp’s magnificent stands a few hours after this year’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe but at least it now seems certain that the old place will go out in style. Treve, who will be attempting to win the race for an unprecedented third time, produced an astonishing performance to win the Prix
  
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• Hunt for new railway regulator as shake-up of ailing industry goes on

  13-09-2015 20:34
  
  The Department for Transport is looking for a new chairman for the rail and roads regulator, the latest sweeping change to the leadership of the beleaguered rail industry.
  
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• Unions pledge to fight reforms 'tooth and nail'

  13-09-2015 20:32
  
  The Government is facing a storm of protest over controversial trade union reforms as it was revealed that a partnership agreement affecting hundreds of thousands of NHS workers will collapse if a proposed law is passed.
  
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• State of emergency declared over California Lake County wildfire

  13-09-2015 20:30
  
  Fire which exploded on Saturday grows by 23 square miles overnight
  Residents of Middletown report severe damage in path of fireThe governor of California, Jerry Brown, on Sunday declared a state of emergency for two counties at the centre of a fast-moving wildfire. Residents of Middletown, in the path of the fire, said the blaze had heavily damaged the town.Related: California wildfires threaten mountain towns as blaze intensifiesContinue reading...
  
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• Analysts attack 'bonkers' bunching of retailers' results

  13-09-2015 20:30
  
  Analysts have warned that retailers’ refusal to compromise on their financial reporting days will lead to increasing numbers of “fixture pile-ups” like last week’s “Super Thursday”, that made it all but impossible for them to effectively cover the results of several important companies.
  
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• Libyan civil war: UN envoy says rival governments reach 'consensus'

  13-09-2015 20:28
  
  Libya's rival governments have reached a “consensus” on the main elements of a political agreement, a UN special envoy told reporters.
  
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• Mecca crane crash shows dangers of city's construction boom

  13-09-2015 20:27
  
  Reports of incidents of worker deaths and dangerous lack of safety precautions on building work in the cityThe deadly Saudi crane accident that killed more than 100 people at the weekend has exposed a shoddy breakneck construction boom in Mecca that some Saudis complain is ruining the holy city.For years, Meccans have had to live with rampant building and development work as Saudi leaders seek to expand not just a holy site that received more than 2 million visitors during hajj last year, but th
  
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• Mecca crane collapse shows dangers of city's construction boom

  13-09-2015 20:27
  
  Reports of incidents of worker deaths and dangerous lack of safety precautions on building work in the cityThe deadly Saudi crane collapse that killed more than 100 people in Mecca at the weekend has exposed a shoddy breakneck construction boom that some Saudis complain is ruining the holy city.For years, Mecca’s residents have lived with rampant building and development work as Saudi leaders seek to expand not just a holy site that received more than 2 million visitors during hajj last ye
  
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• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn begins shake-up of shadow cabinet

  13-09-2015 20:19
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has begun a shake-up of the shadow cabinet with shadow Northern Ireland secretary Ivan Lewis the first confirmed casualty.
  
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• New York Fashion Week: Victoria Beckham soaks up her sources to produce a canny cocktail of a collection

  13-09-2015 20:10
  
  Like every fashion editor worth his or her knicker elastic, I’ve spent most of the past three days with iPhone clenched insweaty hand fitfully trying to snap at interminably perambulating objects - namely clothes, on models. It’s mostly an aide-memoire - that crocodile coat you may forget amongst the creased linens of Altuzarra, the booty-call ensemble of oversized trench over satin night-gown at Alexander Wang. Part of it is simply because it’s what everyone does. It’s b
  
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