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• EU jitters as victorious Tsipras hints at showdown

  21-09-2015 23:53
  
  Triumphantly returned to power in Athens, Alexis Tsipras has shed his most troublesome radicals. What gives Europe the jitters now is the fear he will use his new-found authority not to persuade Greece that Brussels must be obeyed, but to try to find ways around its stringent bailout terms.
  
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• Burkina Faso coup: Hope fades for peaceful end to tense days following removal of President Kafando

  21-09-2015 23:46
  
  Outside the capital, as residents were confined to their homes under a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Monday night, the army was preparing to seize back power. Hopes for a peaceful end to the coup in Burkina Faso seemed lost.
  
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• Scott Walker to pull out of US presidential race, say reports

  21-09-2015 22:44
  
  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is preparing to drop out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, according to a report by the New York Times.
  
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• Scott Walker pulls out of US presidential race

  21-09-2015 22:44
  
  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has dropped his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, saying that the race has “drifted into personal attacks”, and suggesting that front-runner Donald Trump is to blame.
  
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• US soldiers say they’re ordered to ignore Afghan soldiers who sexually abuse young boys

  21-09-2015 22:38
  
  The last time Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr spoke to his father, the Marine told him in 2012 that he could hear Afghan police sexually abusing children.
  
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• Britons Shocked After 'Burglar' Dies In Villa

  21-09-2015 22:38
  
  A suspected burglar has died after he was restrained by a British father and son who allegedly caught him breaking into their £1.5m villa on the Algarve in Portugal. Officers found the father and son - named locally as Trevor and Scott Taylor - grappling with the suspect while Jill Taylor was in the garden, according to sources. It is alleged Mrs Taylor, 59, had heard a noise in the house, went to investigate and found a man with family possessions in his hands including their car keys.
  
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• Shelley Saxton-Cooper: Woman who died in house fire with husband was murdered, police say

  21-09-2015 21:35
  
  A 45-year-old woman found dead with her husband after an explosion at their home was murdered, police said.
  
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• Russia has deployed more than 28 military planes to Syria in recent days, claims US

  21-09-2015 21:30
  
  Russia has deployed at least 28 combat aircraft to Syria and has started flying unmanned surveillance drones as part of a steady military build-up, US officials have claimed.
  
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• Refugee crisis: British universities should create scholarships and bursaries for students fleeing violence, say academics

  21-09-2015 21:29
  Every university in Britain is being urged to play its part in tackling the migrant crisis by helping make it easier for refugees and asylum-seekers to access higher education.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Ex-leader Nick Clegg looks more like leader the Lib Dems need

  21-09-2015 21:12
  
  Given Lord Ashcroft’s version of David Cameron’s version of why Lord Ashcroft didn’t get his “not insignificant” government job, Nick Clegg’s conference speech could have had a sensational climax: As in “yes, Liberal Democrats: I did block the Ashcroft job, just like I blocked all the other crackpot mean-spirited things the government is doing now we’re no longer in coalition.”  
  
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• Christopher 'Moot' Poole sells anarchic imageboard 4chan to 2channel owner Hiroyuki Nishimura

  21-09-2015 21:07
  
  4chan, the dark, anarchic imageboard credited with giving birth to countless internet memes, has been sold to Japanese businessman Hiroyuki Nishimura, the owner of 2channel.
  
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• Social media 'rehab': Is a 24/7 texting helpline really the best method?

  21-09-2015 21:01
  
  Social media has created dependency issues; research has proven it. Academic studies have linked apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to symptoms of depression, anxiety and general dissatisfaction.
  
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• Sex Abuse Probe: Met Backs Away From Comment

  21-09-2015 21:01
  
  The Metropolitan Police has conceded that an officer should not have described an account from an alleged sex abuse survivor as "credible and true". The statement was made by DS Kenny McDonald at a press briefing last December as he outlined Operation Midland - a complex police investigation into claims of murder and sexual abuse of young boys. The investigation is centred on allegations that high-profile men were involved in abusing and even killing youngsters in and around Westminster in the 1
  
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• The PM, the pig, and student initiation rituals

  21-09-2015 20:57
  
  After the early shock of the mental image of a Prime Minister inside a pig, the purported physical act itself, picked over on Monday like a hog roast for starved vultures, seems progressively less disturbing the deeper one sinks into the world of the university initiation ceremony.
  
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• David Cameron knew about my non-dom status, Lord Ashcroft claims

  21-09-2015 20:56
  
  David Cameron faced pressure over when he knew about Lord Ashcroft’s controversial tax arrangements as the Conservative peer made a succession of lurid claims about the Prime Minister’s past.
  
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• Numbers of NHS doctors registering to work overseas could reach unprecedented record

  21-09-2015 20:45
  
  The Government’s decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors may risk an exodus of young medics, after figures revealed an unprecedented spike in NHS doctors registering to work overseas.
  
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• WatchOS 2 review: New Apple update makes an outstanding smart watch even more useful

  21-09-2015 20:40
  
  So, what is the Apple Watch for? Six months on since the Watch first appeared, the answers you’ll hear to this question are as varied as ever.
  
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• Nazi war crime charges: 91-year-old woman charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder while working at Auschwitz

  21-09-2015 20:39
  German prosecutors have charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS who served in the Auschwitz death camp complex.
  
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• PM Must 'Clarify' Peer's Tax Status Claims

  21-09-2015 20:37
  
  The Labour Party has said David Cameron's statements on Lord Ashcroft's tax status raise a "serious question mark". The Opposition called on the Prime Minister to clarify when he found out about the peer's non-dom tax status. Lord Ashcroft says in a new book that Mr Cameron knew in 2009 that he had not given up his tax privileges, while the Prime Minister has said he did not know until 2010.
  
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• Labour will languish under new leader, Italian PM says

  21-09-2015 20:32
  
  The opposition Labour party has committed electoral suicide by picking left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Monday, in a highly unusual attack on an allied group. "The Labour party remains the only party that likes losing after the demise of the Washington Generals," Renzi said. Renzi is head of Italy's largest centre-left group, the Democratic Party (PD), which is in the same political family as Britain's Labour in the European Parliament.
  
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• Met Police admits it was wrong to describe claims that an Establishment paedophile ring murdered three boys as 'true'

  21-09-2015 20:31
  The Metropolitan Police have admitted that it was wrong to describe claims that an Establishment paedophile ring had murdered three boys as “credible and true”.
  
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• Met Police admits it was wrong to describe claims Establishment paedophile ring murdered three boys as 'true'

  21-09-2015 20:31
  
  The Metropolitan Police have admitted that it was wrong to describe claims that an Establishment paedophile ring had murdered three boys as “credible and true”.
  
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• Met Police admit it was wrong to describe claims that an Establishment paedophile ring murdered three boys were 'true'

  21-09-2015 20:31
  The Metropolitan Police have admitted that it was wrong to describe claims that an Establishment paedophile ring had murdered three boys as “credible and true”.
  
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• Hollande to hear Cameron out on EU reform - diplomat

  21-09-2015 20:30
  
  French President Francois Hollande will lend an ear to British Prime Minister David Cameron's ideas for European Union reform when the two leaders meet on Tuesday, a French diplomat said. Hollande and Cameron will discuss the refugee crisis as well as potential changes to Britain's European Union membership terms before Britain holds a referendum on whether to leave the EU, the official said. Britain's Conservative government has promised a vote on EU membership by the end of 2017.
  
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• Police officers blame lack of kit for ignoring plea for help in robbery

  21-09-2015 20:26
  
  Four police officers who were flagged down by a store manager as his colleague detained a thief just a matter of feet away, allegedly said they were “not kitted up” to help and drove away.
  
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• 'Burglar' Dies At UK Couple's Villa In Portugal

  21-09-2015 20:22
  
  A suspected burglar has died at a British couple's villa in Portugal after apparently being put in a head lock during a break-in.
  
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• Russian Agents 'May Have Killed Whistleblower'

  21-09-2015 20:15
  
  The Russian state security service may have been involved in the death of a whistleblower who was working on a multimillion-pound fraud case, an inquest has heard. Alexander Perepilichny died while jogging near his home in a private Surrey estate in November 2012. The Russian businessman was first thought to have died of natural causes, but traces of a chemical found in a poisonous plant, gelsemium elegans, were detected in his body.
  
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• David Cameron accused of drug-taking, sexual promiscuity and an obscene act with a pig - but how much of it is true?

  21-09-2015 20:12
  From allegations of drug-taking, sexual promiscuity and even a lurid tale of an obscene act with a pig, Lord Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron does not pull its punches.
  
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• Met Defends Child Sex Abuse Investigation

  21-09-2015 20:09
  
  The Metropolitan Police has conceded that an officer should not have described an account from an alleged sex abuse survivor as "credible and true". The statement was made by DS Kenny McDonald at a press briefing last December as he outlined Operation Midland - a complex police investigation into claims of murder and sexual abuse of young boys. The investigation is centred on allegations that high profile men were involved in abusing and even killing youngsters in and around Westminster in the 1
  
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• Syrian Kurdish leaders planning to capture last border crossing with Turkey held by Isis

  21-09-2015 19:54
  
  Syrian Kurdish leaders plan to capture the last border crossing point between Syria and Turkey held by Isis, making it impossible for jihadist volunteers from Europe and elsewhere to reach Isis-held territories.
  
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• William urges Wales to beat England - to keep Harry quiet

  21-09-2015 19:52
  
  The Duke of Cambridge has urged the Welsh rugby team to beat England on Saturday - to keep his brother quiet.
  
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• Michael Fallon pressured to order leak inquiry after Jeremy Corbyn 'mutiny' threat

  21-09-2015 19:52
  
  Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, is under mounting pressure to order a leak inquiry after a serving general reportedly threatened that Jeremy Corbyn could face an Armed Forces “mutiny” if he became Prime Minister.
  
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• Chris Moyles picks a fight with his new bosses as he hosts comeback Radio X show

  21-09-2015 19:50
  
  Explaining his three-year absence as a spell in a “women’s-only prison”, Chris Moyles has returned to the airwaves with his new breakfast show on Radio X and has promptly picked a squabble with his new bosses.
  
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• Husband serenades wife of 73 years as she lies on her deathbed

  21-09-2015 19:45
  
  A video has emerged of a man serenading his wife of 73 years on her deathbed with a song she sang to him as he went fight in the Second World War.
  
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• Hedge funder buys rights to drug used by AIDS patients and raises price from $13.50 to $750 per pill

  21-09-2015 19:34
  
  A hedge fund trader is at the centre of mounting controversy after the pharmaceutical company he bought raised overnight the cost of a life-saving treatment for people with Aids and weakened immune systems from $13.50 per pill to $750.
  
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• John Kerry says US will accept 100,000 refugees in 2017

  21-09-2015 19:29
  
  US Secretary of State John Kerry announced on Sunday that the US would be upping their response to the worldwide refugee crisis over the next two years.
  
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• New Zealand zoo decides to not euthanise Sumatran tiger that killed veteran zookeeper

  21-09-2015 19:25
  
  A New Zealand zoo has decided to not euthanise a Sumatran tiger that attacked and killed a veteran zookeeper.
  
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• Jagmohan Dalmiya: Cricket administrator who played a crucial role in making India a financial power in the world game

  21-09-2015 19:20
  Jagmohan Dalmiya was a leading sports administrator credited with making India a major financial power in world cricket. He brought big money into Indian cricket in the 1990s, when as secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India he began selling television rights to private sports channels. He was also twice pivotal in taking the World Cup to India, in 1987 and 1996.
  
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• Italian engineers are using a huge 3D printer to print a house

  21-09-2015 19:19
  
  An Italian engineering company is attempting to 3D-print a basic house, with their end goal being to provide a solution to housing and shelter problems in crisis-stricken areas.
  
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• Roland Rees: Theatre director who occupied a central role on the fringe and was hailed for his production of 'The Elephant Man'

  21-09-2015 19:16
  In the fervent years of British fringe theatre from the late 1960s to the icier realpolitik of the later 1980s few figures were more vital than the director Roland Rees. The companies – Inter-Action, Foco Novo, Freehold, Belt and Braces, and the period's venues – Oval House, The Place, the ICA Theatre, all in their day potent names, may no longer survive or buzz as before, but Rees and many of his collaborators left no mean legacy.
  
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• VW shares dive €15bn after revelations of faked emissions data in US

  21-09-2015 19:15
  
  The fall of Europe’s biggest car producer Volkswagen has continued as some €15bn was wiped off its market value after revelations that the German carmaker rigged US emissions tests for about 500,000 diesel cars.
  
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• Nottinghamshire Police 'took two days to investigate Amber Peat sighting'

  21-09-2015 19:14
  
  Police took two days to investigate a sighting of missing 13-year-old schoolgirl Amber Peat close to where she was found dead, a report has found.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon calls for more refugees to be admitted to UK

  21-09-2015 19:14
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has urged the Foreign Secretary to admit an even greater number of refugees to the UK - and also give Scotland more say in the negotiations over European Union (EU) reform.
  
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• The correct way to pronounce Nutella in the UK is 'nut-ella', 'new-tell-uh' is just for America

  21-09-2015 19:06
  
  Nutella: is it pronounced ‘new-tell-uh’ or ‘nut-ella’? The answer depends on what country you're in.
  
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• Ben Carson stands by his opposition to a Muslim president, despite backlash

  21-09-2015 18:46
  
  On 20 September, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said he would not support a Muslim president.
  
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• William lists enviable support network in fight against bullying

  21-09-2015 18:26
  
  The Duke of Cambridge has thrown his support behind an organisation's fight against bullying - and listed an enviable support network.
  
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• Registered sex offender admits kidnapping and sex charges concerning girl, 6

  21-09-2015 18:26
  
  A sex offender who snatched a six-year-old girl off the street and bundled her into the boot of his car is facing a jail sentence.
  
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• The 10 towns where Britons are most likely to go bust

  21-09-2015 18:24
  
  Torquay has the highest rate of personal insolvencies in the UK, new research has found.
  
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• Isis recruits are defecting because aren't getting the luxury goods and cars they were promised, report claims

  21-09-2015 18:24
  Dozens of Isis recruits have left the Islamic militant group partly because the luxury goods and cars they were promised before they joined failed to materialise, a new paper has found.
  
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• Carol Vorderman explains how she injured herself during naked treadmill incident

  21-09-2015 18:18
  
  Carol Vorderman has explained how she injured herself while exercising naked on a treadmill.
  
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