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• Apple Watch awarded 'gadget of the year'

  17-09-2015 23:53
  
  The Apple Watch has held off rivals Samsung and Microsoft to pick up the coveted T3 magazine gadget of the year award.
  
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• Labour's John McDonnell apologises for his 'honouring IRA' comments

  17-09-2015 23:48
  
  Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has apologised "from the bottom of my heart" for the offence caused by calling for Irish republican terrorists to be honoured but suggested his comments may have helped the peace process.
  
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• 12 pictures that capture the heartache caused by Europe's refugee crisis

  17-09-2015 23:34
  As the story of Europe's refugee crisis goes on, and after a summer that saw hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives to enter the continent, the sheer human cost of the crisis is becoming bigger.
  
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• 12 pictures that capture the chaos caused by Europe's refugee crisis

  17-09-2015 23:34
  As the story of Europe's refugee crisis goes on, and after a summer that saw hundreds of thousands of people risking their lives to enter the continent, the sheer human cost of the crisis is becoming bigger.
  
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• New York Fashion Week: The city's catwalks don't always inspire, but a few strong shows make up for it

  17-09-2015 23:00
  New York has a tough deal when it comes to fashion weeks: it has to go first. Which means its designers frequently scramble, blindly, for ideas to anchor their clothes to, worried that if they back the wrong horse, they'll lose everything. That can lead to a paucity of innovation, to safe bets, to a sense that designers are looking over their shoulders and picking over other people's ideas to try and fit in, rather than stand out. We've seen lots of drippy slips this spring/summer 2016 week: sma
  
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• First woman in space reveals what crucial piece of kit was missing on her 1963 mission

  17-09-2015 22:34
  
  To send a woman into space for the first time in the 1960s, the Russians spent months perfecting the design of the craft and selecting the right candidate out of hundreds of applicants. They forgot to pack one vital piece of kit though: a toothbrush for the pioneering cosmonaut.
  
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• Soas hits back at David Cameron's accusations that it played host to 'hate preachers'

  17-09-2015 22:29
  
  The School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) has accused No 10 of “inaccuracies” after it was named by David Cameron for hosting “extremist preachers”, as it emerged that only one of the named speakers had visited the college, and only to address students on Islamic finance.
  
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• Blairite Labour MPs bank on obscure committee to halt purge by Jeremy Corbyn supporters

  17-09-2015 22:13
  
  Blairite Labour MPs are pinning their hopes on an obscure internal party committee to prevent left-wing activists from purging them ahead of the next general election.
  
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• Fifa corruption scandal: Secretary General Jérôme Valcke 'put on leave' after Brazil 2014 World Cup allegation

  17-09-2015 22:11
  
  Fifa’s Secretary General Jérôme Valcke has been suspended after he was accused of agreeing to help sell Brazil 2014 World Cup tickets on the black market to generate millions of dollars in personal profit.
  
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• Burkina Faso: Military takes over after presidential guards detain President, PM - CNN International

  17-09-2015 22:10 via
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  (CNN) Elements of Burkina Faso's military declared they were in control of the nation after presidential guards stormed a Cabinet meeting and seized the President and the Prime Minister -- days before the general elections. Guards detained interim ...and more »
  

• Army Recruit Who Died During Training Named

  17-09-2015 22:04
  
  An Army recruit who died during initial training has been named as Megan Park. The Army has launched an investigation into her death. "It is with deepest regret that Megan's family must announce that she has sadly passed on, doing the thing she loved," they said in a statement.
  
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• Teenager facing life sentence after murdering 15-year-old Alan Cartwright for his bike

  17-09-2015 22:02
  
  An 18-year-old is facing a life sentence after he murdered 15-year-old boy Alan Cartwright for his bike in north London.
  
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• How to repel spiders: Could pale blue paint, peppermint and conkers help arachnophobes?

  17-09-2015 22:00
  
  "Brace yourself!" screamed The Sun, for they are "seemingly taking over Britain" according to The Daily Telegraph. Meanwhile, the Daily Mail warned that an "influx are heading for your home". No, not refugees, Isis or Corbynites, it's spiders that have tangled them in a web of hysteria. We're now in "spider season", which means stories about arachnids seem as plentiful as any we might spot shimmying round the bath or scuttling across the carpet.
  
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• Alex Salmond interview: 'If Scotland voted on independence again today, we would win'

  17-09-2015 22:00
  
  Alex Salmond is well known for enjoying a flutter, but he did not bet on the outcome of last year’s referendum on Scottish independence because, in his words: “I was too close to it. I don’t think you should bet on something if you’re too close to it.”
  
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• Alex Salmond: BBC bias was 'significant factor' in deciding Scottish independence referendum

  17-09-2015 22:00
  
  Biased reporting by the BBC in the lead up to Scotland’s independence referendum last year was a “significant factor” in the country deciding to remain part of the Union, Alex Salmond has claimed.
  
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• Operation Sea Lion: Hitler's plan to invade Britain marked with publication of Nazi war charts

  17-09-2015 21:42
  
  It was the most fearful moment in the history of modern Britain – when Adolf Hitler’s shock troops lined up along the coast of France and prepared to launch an invasion.
  
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• The Rugby World Cup has never been bigger - and nor have its huge players

  17-09-2015 21:30
  
  The prize for the most unintentionally ironic name of anyone taking part in the 2015 Rugby World Cup goes to French prop forward Uini Atonio. This formidable hulk of man answers to "Weeny" but stands 197cm tall, and at 155kg is the second heaviest player ever to play international rugby. As England prepare to take on Fiji this evening in the opening game of the tournament, much of the talk centres around Fiji's Nemani Nadolo, the 130kg "demolition man" who has predicted a "jaw-dropping" performa
  
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• Army recruit who died training at Pirbright base is named

  17-09-2015 21:26
  
  A recruit who has died while undergoing initial Army training was named tonight as Megan Park.
  
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• Atlantropa: One man's colossal answer to Europe's post-WWI refugee crisis

  17-09-2015 21:24
  
  Perpetual war, grinding poverty and a time bomb of overpopulation resulting in millions of refugees crossing continents. A fitting description perhaps for the emergency facing Europe today – but those problems also fuelled a German architect’s extraordinary 1920s scheme to resettle millions of Europeans in Africa.
  
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• Greece election: Syriza outflanked by hard left as lead melts away ahead of vote

  17-09-2015 21:15
  
  The party led Greece’s last government and claims to be on course to form its next one. But with three days remaining before voting in Greece’s fifth general election in three years, the life seems to have drained from Syriza, whose radical opposition to austerity once propelled it to power.
  
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• Lib Dem post-mortem blames general election meltdown on 'utterly ruthless' Tory tactics

  17-09-2015 21:00
  
  An “utterly ruthless” operation by the Conservatives to gobble up seats held by their coalition partners caused the Liberal Democrats’ meltdown at the May general election, the Lib Dems’ inquest into their disaster will find.
  
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• Fawlty Towers 40th anniversary: Britain's finest sitcom was TV's most perfectly constructed farce

  17-09-2015 21:00
  
  Great artists tend not to wear their influences lightly: it's how they assert pedigree. When Dante wrote the finest work of medieval literature, The Divine Comedy, his epic account of an imagined journey through the afterlife, he chose the Roman poet Virgil as his fictional guide. When Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant wrote the finest British sitcom of the past 40 years, The Office, their epic account of an imagined paper merchants' in Slough, they had the protagonist David Brent identify John
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: MI5 boss has no licence to thrill

  17-09-2015 21:00
  
  At the end of her BBC Radio 4 Today interview with Andrew Parker, Mishal Husain asked the MI5 head if he would be seeing the new Bond film. Obviously, he didn’t answer. That would be far too much to give away for a man in his position. He did, however, say: “I love Bond films because they are so distant from reality so we can all enjoy the fiction.”
  
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• Corbyn Pressured Into Making Pro-EU Pledge

  17-09-2015 20:56
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has been bludgeoned by his shadow cabinet into pledging that Labour will campaign to stay in the European Union. After failing to back EU membership at his first meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party as leader, Mr Corbyn has now told Labour MPs the party will be pro-EU in David Cameron's referendum. His refusal to give a pledge at Monday’s meeting with his MPs, Mr Corbyn came under pressure at a meeting of his shadow cabinet, in which he and his left-wing allies are outnu
  
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• Horrifying parasite found living in a woman's brain

  17-09-2015 20:41
  
  Doctors removed multiple tapeworm eggs from inside a woman's brain after she complained of suffering from severe headaches for nine months.
  
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• Burma's forests under threat from illegal logging fuelled by China's demand for precious wood

  17-09-2015 20:32
  
  Illegal logging in Burma’s forests is a burgeoning trade worth hundreds of millions of pounds as demand for precious wood grows in China, a new report claims.
  
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• Bowe Bergdahl 'snuck off the post', say military prosecutors

  17-09-2015 20:28
  
  Bowe Bergdahl, the former army sergeant who was held by the Taliban for five years, deliberately walked off his post, military prosecutors have claimed.
  
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• Tax tribunal charges would deter the poorest from getting justice, lawyers warn

  17-09-2015 20:27
  
  Plans to impose court fees on anyone opposing the tax office at tribunal would deter the poorest from getting justice, leading lawyers say - amid a growing outcry against an array of Government-imposed court charges.
  
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• Fed Rate leaves interest rates unchanged

  17-09-2015 20:09
  
  The US Federal Reserve announced on Thursday it was leaving interest rates unchanged - citing concerns about global economic developments.
  
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• Woman gave birth to baby in bath and then left it on neighbour's doorstep

  17-09-2015 20:04
  
  A woman gave birth to her baby in a bath and then abandoned it on a neighbour’s doorstep because she believed it was the result of an extramarital affair.
  
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• American Airlines flights grounded across US after 'computer problems'

  17-09-2015 19:50
  
  American Airlines grounded flights in and out of three airport hubs on Thursday due to computer issues.
  
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• American Airlines flights grounded across US

  17-09-2015 19:50
  
  American Airlines grounded flights in and out of three airport hubs on Thursday due to technical issues.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour is clear that we should remain in the EU

  17-09-2015 19:46
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has given his clearest indication yet that Labour will campaign in favour of continued European Union membership in the in/out referendum promised by David Cameron by the end of 2017.
  
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• 8 charts that reveal what people think about Jeremy Corbyn on the issues that really matter

  17-09-2015 19:42
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has had a rocky first few days as Labour leader since his historic landslide victory on Saturday.
  
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• BBC iPlayer to launch in America – but viewers will have to pay

  17-09-2015 19:39
  
  The BBC is to launch a paid-for version of iPlayer in America as part of a major expansion in the organisation's commercial operations, the Director-General has announced.
  
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• BBC iPlayer to launch in America

  17-09-2015 19:39
  
  The BBC is to launch a paid-for version of iPlayer in America as part of a major expansion in the organisation's commercial operations, the Director-General has announced.
  
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• Bar fined £100,000 after teenager who drank liquid nitrogen cocktail had stomach removed

  17-09-2015 19:33
  
  A bar has been fined £100,000 after a teenager had her stomach removed after drinking a smoking liquid nitrogen cocktail handed to her for free.
  
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• EU referendum: David Cameron 'confident' of recommending Yes vote

  17-09-2015 19:26
  
  The UK will vote to stay in a reformed Europe if legitimate concerns about the way Brussels operates are addressed in the renegotiation process, David Cameron has predicted.
  
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• Islamic extremist shot dead in Berlin after stabbing police officer

  17-09-2015 19:19
  
  An Islamic extremist has been killed by police in the German capital of Berlin after he stabbed an officer in an apparent terror attack.
  
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• Jeb Bush admits smoking weed in high school at GOP debate... then apologises to his mother

  17-09-2015 19:01
  
  Jeb Bush has admitted during a televised debate to smoking weed as a young man - before offering a public apology to his mother.
  
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• Teenager faces life after conviction for stabbing murder of bike boy

  17-09-2015 18:53
  
  A teenager is facing life behind bars for stabbing a 15-year-old boy to death as he tried to steal his bicycle.
  
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• Missing Claudia: File To Be Sent To Prosecutors

  17-09-2015 18:48
  
  Police say the Crown Prosecution Service will consider bringing charges against four men arrested on suspicion of murdering missing Claudia Lawrence. Police say that while the CPS considers the case, the four - all in their 50s and from the York area - have been released from bail. There has been no sign of Ms Lawrence, a university chef, since she disappeared on her way to work in York in March 2009.
  
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• Study shows what men and women look for in the perfect partner

  17-09-2015 18:47
  
  Scientists say they have cracked the code as to what the most "desirable" and "essential" traits are in a partner - for men and women.
  
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• Richard Engel stops broadcast to help pregnant refugee who collapses in front of him

  17-09-2015 18:46
  
  The US journalist Richard Engel ran to the aid of a pregnant woman who collapsed in front of him as he reported on the refugee crisis at the Hungarian border.
  
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• Over a million people tuned in to watch Jeremy Corbyn's first PMQs

  17-09-2015 18:40
  
  Over a million people watched Jeremy Corbyn’s first Prime Minister’s Questions with David Cameron, the BBC has said.
  
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• Pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre approved despite Alan Partridge opposition

  17-09-2015 18:21
  
  The pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre - a plan famously opposed by Alan Partridge - has been given the go-ahead.
  
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• Jet2 plane forced to make emergency landing at Manchester airport after reported bird strike

  17-09-2015 18:10
  
  A plane from the budget airline Jet2 has been forced to make an emergency landing at Manchester Airport after a bird was reportedly sucked into one of the engines.
  
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• James O'Brien stuns caller angry at Corbyn for not singing the national anthem

  17-09-2015 18:09
  
  James O'Brien left a caller who claimed Jeremy Corbyn's decision not to sing the national anthem was disrespectful speechless after highlighting the hypocrisy of his argument.
  
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• Foxes spreading parasite that threatens Britain's dogs, say scientists

  17-09-2015 18:00
  
  Foxes are helping to spread a potentially fatal parasite that is threatening Britain's dog population, researchers have warned.
  
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• Apes 'remember and anticipate shocking movie scenes just like humans'

  17-09-2015 18:00
  
  Dramatic movie scenes make as big an impression on chimpanzees as they do on humans - especially if they feature a King Kong character, scientists have discovered.
  
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