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• Kinky Boots cast and Cyndi Lauper receive standing ovation on opening night

  15-09-2015 23:01
  
  The cast of Kinky Boots received a standing ovation as the musical celebrated a spectacular opening night.
  
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• Bernie Sanders slams 'vicious' attack from Clinton super PAC over support for UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

  15-09-2015 23:01
  Bernie Sanders, the rising presidential hopeful, has hit back at a donor to his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton after the group launched a 'vicious attack' over his support for the new British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Degree holders 'more likely to participate in the arts'

  15-09-2015 23:00
  
  A sociologist believes he has unravelled the reason why middle-class people are more likely to play music, paint and act.
  
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• PSV vs Manchester United report: Misery for United as PSV fight back after horror Luke Shaw injury in Champions League opener

  15-09-2015 22:58
  
  Luke Shaw suffered an horrific suspected broken leg as Manchester United's return to the Champions League ended in a disappointing 2-1 defeat to PSV Eindhoven.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Enemies confounded by Jeremy Corbyn's display of respect

  15-09-2015 22:53
  
  So he didn’t join in the national anthem. The top button of his shirt looked undone, a bit of a trademark reminder that he prefers going open-necked. The jacket and trousers may not have exactly matched. Was the new Labour leader revelling provocatively in unrespectability? There’s something, if not reckless, at least fearless, about his willingness to wind up the more hostile tabloids.
  
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• They cheered, but unions have their doubts about Jeremy Corbyn

  15-09-2015 22:44
  
  Jeremy Corbyn managed the unusual achievement of turning up on the rostrum at the TUC conference so late that he missed his own standing ovation. Hundreds of delegates rose as one as he was announced. They clapped, they cheered, some chanted “Jez we can”. And they clapped and cheered. And clapped and cheered some more until the tumult peetered into disappointed silence.
  
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• City traders saw women as 'sex objects' in 'culture of discrimination', tribunal hears

  15-09-2015 22:30
  
  City traders at a leading investment bank saw women as sex objects and called “bid” for those they considered attractive and “offer only” for those they disliked, according to evidence submitted to an employment tribunal.  
  
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• Strangeways inmates are 'treated like animals', claims former prisoner as protest continues

  15-09-2015 22:22
  
  Inmates at Strangeways jail are being “treated like animals”, with some locked up for 23 hours a day and forced to beg for basic supplies such as toilet paper, a former inmate has said.
  
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• Security guard ordered to give up drones after admitting to flying them over football matches

  15-09-2015 22:16
  
  A security guard has been banned from operating drone aircraft after admitting flying them over the Palace of Westminster, football stadiums and Buckingham Palace.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn's vow to fight Tory 'poverty deniers' undermined by symbolic blunders

  15-09-2015 22:08
  
  The challenges facing Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership have been illustrated after his first major speech setting out the party’s new anti-austerity agenda was overshadowed by a series of small but symbolic blunders.
  
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• Ben Carson closes in on Donald Trump in latest poll

  15-09-2015 22:04
  
  Ben Carson has come within four points of Donald Trump in the latest New York Times/CBS News national poll.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Thousands left stranded with the way into Hungary blocked by razor wire

  15-09-2015 21:52
  
  For the less-well informed people arriving to the Serbian border, the day started relatively well. Raffi Halabi, 42, a lift manufacturer from Damascus, accompanied by his two sons and leading a group of eight other refugees, walked up to the old train tracks in the village of Horgos which, until today, was the route most favoured by refugees entering Hungary. “I am the president here,” he said. “Everybody listens to what I say!”
  
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• Refugee crisis: The EU's deep divisions are becoming part of the problem

  15-09-2015 21:43
  What a miserable spectacle. There was never going to be an easy solution to Europe’s worst refugee crisis for 70 years. The EU has somehow contrived to make itself part of the problem. 
  
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• Snapchat update lets users pay to see disappeared snaps, adds bright rainbow filters

  15-09-2015 21:38
  
  Snapchat has added a new feature that lets people pay to watch snaps that had apparently disappeared.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Divisions leave Europe paralysed as borders close to refugees

  15-09-2015 21:36
  
  The razor fences, closed borders and detention of refugees have been met with a chorus of mutual recrimination among Europe’s leaders. Today, the continent is more divided than ever by the crisis, unable to agree on quotas, and unwilling to allow free movement between its member states.
  
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• Refugee crisis timeline: How the crisis has grown

  15-09-2015 21:25
  
  13 July: Hungary starts to erect a razor-wire fence along its border with Serbia, to halt an unprecedented flow of refugees seeking entry to the EU.
  
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• The West is culpable for the bloodshed in Ukraine and Syria – and Vladimir Putin holds the key to any breakthrough

  15-09-2015 21:15
  
  There are significant developments in two proxy wars in which the West is involved. The ceasefire in eastern Ukraine now appears to be holding, with flickering hopes of a future peace. New efforts are meanwhile under way to reach a settlement in Syria’s savage strife, but that is unlikely to be for some considerable time.
  
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• Kinky Boots opening night sees stars come out to support Cyndi Lauper

  15-09-2015 21:15
  
  Stars of stage and screen showed up in style at the opening night of Kinky Boots in London's West End, as Cyndi Lauper hailed it a glittering homecoming.
  
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• John Kerry to visit London for talks on Syria crisis

  15-09-2015 21:15
  
  US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting London this week for talks on the Syria crisis.
  
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• Facebook is to get a 'dislike' button, says Mark Zuckerberg

  15-09-2015 21:12
  
  Facebook is set to get a "dislike" button, the social media network’s CEO has announced.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: 10 challenges the Labour leader faces in his first 100 days

  15-09-2015 21:05
  
  Winning the Labour leadership contest may have been the biggest achievement of Jeremy Corbyn’s political life but a bigger one is yet to come if he is to make his position secure and his party once again a credible alternative to the Conservatives and, in Scotland, the SNP.
  
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• Steven Gerrard denies racism claims allegedly made by former Liverpool team-mate El-Hadji Diouf

  15-09-2015 21:02
  
  Steven Gerrard has denied alleged claims of racism reportedly made by former Liverpool team-mate El-Hadji Diouf.
  
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• Television contest shows: Looking for the next generation of TV hits

  15-09-2015 20:54
  
  As broadcasting bosses gather today for The Royal Television Society's annual Cambridge Convention, so do the storm clouds. The TV VIPs are facing what is being described as a "creative crisis".
  
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• Elegy for Aleppo: 'The ancient religious harmony of Syria was not a myth'

  15-09-2015 20:47
  
  On my last visit to Syria, five years ago, the restoration of the Great Mosque in Aleppo was finally complete after many years' work.
  
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• Egyptian billionaire approaches Greek island owners with offer to buy land for refugees

  15-09-2015 20:41
  
  An Egyptian billionaire has approached the owners of two Greek islands with an offer to buy their land as a space to accommodate desperate refugees fleeing conflicts and oppression.
  
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• British-Bahraini asks Swiss to probe Bahrain attorney general for torture

  15-09-2015 20:39
  ZURICH (Reuters) - A British-Bahraini man who says he was tortured in Bahrain in 2010 has filed a criminal complaint in Switzerland against Bahrain's attorney general, who was visiting Zurich for an international conference, the man's supporters said on Tuesday.
  
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• Marcus Bent: Former Premier League striker 'charged with affray and possession of a Class A drug' and 'Tasered' at home

  15-09-2015 20:38
  
  Former Premier League striker Marcus Bent has been charged with affray and possession of a Class A drug, it is being claimed.
  
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• Shannon Lamb left note saying ‘I am so sorry’ for killing girlfriend before Delta State University shooting

  15-09-2015 20:37
  
  Police in Mississippi have released a note they say Dr Shannon Lamb left at his Gautier home on Monday.
  
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• Kenya police 'murdering terror suspects' as they battle menace of al-Shabaab Islamist group

  15-09-2015 20:35
  
  Kenya’s security forces, including a police anti-terror unit which receives funding from Britain and the US, have abducted and murdered scores of terror suspects in recent months, activists and relatives of those missing have told The Independent.
  
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• Barbara Brecht-Schall: Actress with the Berliner Ensemble who zealously guarded the literary legacy of her father, Bertolt Brecht

  15-09-2015 20:29
  Literary estates are renowned for switching on and switching off the flow and availability of works. It might involve permissions and vetoing, contracts and copyright duration changes, and how to irrigate the estate's finances. Bertolt Brecht's estate, with the writer's daughter Maria Barbara Brecht-Schall at the tiller, steered a remarkable course through those stormy seas. For her it was never a simple matter of maximising revenue and royalties. When it came to protecting her father's legacy &
  
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• Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull: Australia's new PM and his wife are their nations answer to Bill and Hillary Clinton

  15-09-2015 20:25
  Two women warmly embraced Australia’s new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, after he dethroned Tony Abbott in a late-night coup. One was his deputy, Julie Bishop. The other was his wife, Lucy, a former Lord Mayor of Sydney with a formidable reputation as a lawyer, writer, businesswoman and philanthropist.
  
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• Ron Springett: Brave and agile goalkeeper who shone for England and became part of the World Cup-winning squad of 1966

  15-09-2015 20:23
  Sheffield Wednesday's Ron Springett was the leading English goalkeeper of the early 1960s before Gordon Banks took over the mantle and earned footballing immortality as a World Cup winner. Small for a net-minder at 5ft 9 and a half inches but whose agility, courage and positional work were exceptional throughout a nine-year Hillsborough sojourn, he peaked in 1960-61 for both club and country. He excelled consistently as the Owls finished as League title runners-up to Tottenham Hotspur, who also
  
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• Alabama councilman says God told him to ban saggy pants

  15-09-2015 20:10
  
  God will not allow you into heaven if you’re wearing saggy pants, short skirts or any type of revealing clothing, says a few local officials in Dadeville, Alabama.
  
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• Greece election: Party leaders trade blows as nation prepares to go to the polls for third time in a year

  15-09-2015 20:05
  
  The final leaders’ televised debate in Athens started cordially enough. But it didn’t last. “I don’t envisage you as prime minister nor deputy prime minister, nor would I ever want you to be prime minister again,” veteran right-winger Vangelis Meimarakis spat at his rival, Alexis Tsipras, the leader of the hard-left Syriza party whose resignation triggered Greece’s third poll, including a referendum, in a year. “You are on your way out (and you) brought
  
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• UK could pull out of European Convention on Human Rights - Attorney General

  15-09-2015 20:04
  
  The UK could pull out of Europe-wide human rights laws within the next five years unless reforms are made, the Government's senior law officer has indicated.
  
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• Abby Shapiro: Lessons from the 16-year-old's 'on fleek' life – and extraordinary death

  15-09-2015 20:04
  
  Abby Shapiro’s death can teach us one simple thing: The small ways you live your life every day are what matter.
  
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• Guard Fined For Flying Drones Over Stadiums

  15-09-2015 20:03
  
  A security guard has been convicted of flying drones over football grounds and London landmarks in what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind. Nigel Wilson, 42, illegally used unmanned aircraft to film aerial views of Liverpool's Anfield venue as well as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and Derby's iPro Stadium. Wilson also flew the devices over or near various buildings in the capital, including the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, HM
  
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• Antidepressants 'linked to increased risk of violent behaviour in young people'

  15-09-2015 20:00
  
  Common antidepressants have been linked to an increased risk of young people committing violent crimes.
  
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• Guard Convicted For Flying Drones Over Stadiums

  15-09-2015 19:41
  
  A security guard has been convicted of flying drones over football grounds and London landmarks in what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind. Nigel Wilson, 42, illegally used unmanned aircraft to film aerial views of Liverpool's Anfield venue as well as Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, Manchester City's Etihad Stadium and Derby's iPro Stadium. Wilson also flew the devices over or near various buildings in the capital, including the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, HM
  
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• Government pressure? I'd tell them to buzz off, says UK budget watchdog

  15-09-2015 19:13
  
  The head of Britain's independent budget forecasting office said he had not come under pressure from finance ministry officials to tone down descriptions of the government's deep spending cuts, and that he would stand up to them if they tried. The Times newspaper said on Monday that a Treasury official appeared to have broken rules that are supposed to prevent the government from trying to change anything other than factual errors in work by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). "If I was
  
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• For Sale: £2m Collection Of Farm Tractors

  15-09-2015 18:49
  
  A 79-year-old farmer from Norfolk has put his collection of 230 tractors up for sale rather than leave them to his family when he dies.
  
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• DSEI exhibition: Showcase of battlefield medicine casts a sobering shadow at the world's biggest arms fair

  15-09-2015 18:48
  
  For a man with a bloody stump where his left leg was and a gory pulp of a right foot barely attached to his body by a few tendons as a team of crack British Army medics fought to save his life, Ashley Samms was surprisingly talkative. He said: "I love doing this. It's a brilliant way to earn a living."
  
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• Terrence Howard thinks 1x1 = 2, has a secret system called 'Terryology' and spends 17 hours a day making nameless plastic structures

  15-09-2015 18:40
  Terrence Howard has revealed his bizarre take on the world, and at the centre of it is the summation that one times one does not equal one, but two.
  
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• SNP reform plans 'could cost Scotland's oldest universities tens of millions a year'

  15-09-2015 18:28
  
  Some of the Scotland’s oldest and most respected universities stand to lose tens of millions of pounds a year under the SNP’s plans to change the way they are governed, MSPs will be told on Wednesday.
  
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• Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor to walk through London to raise awareness of refugee crisis

  15-09-2015 18:16
  
  Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor will join forces for a 7 mile walk through London to mark the refugee crisis.
  
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• Teenage girl jailed for murdering mother after watching Isis beheading videos online

  15-09-2015 18:13
  
  A 15-year-old girl has been jailed for murdering her mother after becoming obsessed with Isis beheading videos.
  
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• Prince Harry gives up Spitfire seat at Battle of Britain event

  15-09-2015 18:09
  
  Prince Harry "counted them out and counted them back in" after giving up his seat in a Spitfire in the biggest gathering of Battle of Britain aircraft since the Second World War.
  
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• Bill Cosby’s sexual assault accusers to appear on ‘Cosby: The Women Speak’

  15-09-2015 18:05
  
  A new one-hour television special will provide a platform for 12 women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault.
  
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• The secret billionaire that gives $15,000 to hundreds of New York teachers

  15-09-2015 18:03
  
  The founder of a $22-billion hedge fund, James Harris Simons, has supported the next generation of math teachers and scholars by donating money through his philanthropic organisation.
  
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• Vanity Fair ignites sexism debate over men-only feature about 'titans of late-night television'

  15-09-2015 18:02
  
  Vanity Fair magazine has ignited a debate about sexism after sharing an image celebrating the reigning “titans” of late night television that was completely devoid of women.
  
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