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• Hillary Clinton opposes the Keystone XL pipeline, calls it a distraction to climate change

  22-09-2015 23:55
  
  The front runner for the 2016 general and Democratic elections said on Tuesday that she is against the Keystone XL pipeline.
  
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• Hillary Clinton calls the Keystone XL pipeline a distraction to climate change

  22-09-2015 23:55
  
  The front runner for the 2016 general and Democratic elections said on Tuesday that she is against the Keystone XL pipeline.
  
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• Indian man killed after careless workmen build a road over him

  22-09-2015 23:26
  
  An Indian man died after drunkenly falling into a pothole and being covered in molten tar, during the construction of a road in the town of Katni.
  
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• First of 20,000 Syrians arrive in UK

  22-09-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The first Syrian refugees to be resettled in the UK since the government announced it was expanding its protection scheme have arrived.
  
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• Children 'could have found explosive'

  22-09-2015 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A bomb left on grassland on the outskirts of west Belfast could have been found by children and caused serious injury, police say.
  
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• Pope brings Italian cool to the USA by swapping the Popemobile for a Fiat 500

  22-09-2015 23:16
  
  After touching down at Joint Base Andrews and greeting President Barack Obama, the Pope hopped into a much different vehicle from his usual white 'Popemobile'.
  
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• William and Harry join DIY team in project for ex-service personnel

  22-09-2015 22:51
  
  The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry are to show off their DIY skills tomorrow as they help turn a derelict street into homes for ex-service personnel.
  
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• One Direction steal the show at Apple Music Festival

  22-09-2015 22:51
  
  One Direction were given a rapturous welcome by fans as they headlined the fourth night of the Apple Music Festival in London.
  
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• Hammond sees schedule tight for Britain to vote on EU next year

  22-09-2015 22:39
  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Foreign Secretary Phillip Hammond said on Tuesday that Britain's EU referendum could only happen next year if negotiations that are unlikely to turn fully serious after December are concluded by May or June. Speaking in Brussels, Hammond also suggested that Europe's refugee crisis, by raising awareness in eastern countries of the difficulties posed by immigration, could ease stiff opposition in the EU's poorer, ex-communist members to British proposals
  
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• Hilary Clinton joins outrage at hedge fund investor Martin Shkreli's 5,000% HIV drug price hike

  22-09-2015 22:19
  
  Martin Shkreli is not receiving visitors. At the midtown New York building where the 32-year-old – who this week ranks among the world’s least popular entrepreneurs – has his office on the 39th floor, security is tight. 
  
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• Commonwealth Games in Glasgow fail to inspire more people to exercise

  22-09-2015 22:12
  
  Last year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has had virtually no impact on the amount of physical activity undertaken by people in Scotland, according to newly-published figures published.
  
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• England vs Wales - RWC 2015: Who can fill Jonathan Joseph’s big boots?

  22-09-2015 22:09
  
  The No 13 position is among the most complex and demanding in the union game, which is why its masters – Brian O’Driscoll, Jeremy Guscott, Tana Umaga, Philippe Sella and Danie Gerber – have guaranteed places in the rugby pantheon.
  
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• Original Magna Carta copy has arrived in New York City

  22-09-2015 22:08
  
  An original version of the Magna Carta from 1217 has arrived in New York at the start of a world tour to mark the 800th anniversary of its drafting.
  
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• Pope Francis arrives in Washington for six-day US visit

  22-09-2015 22:03
  
  Pope Francis has arrived in the US for a six-day trip that will be historic but could likely be marked by political controversy.
  
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• Woman wins 'caste discrimination' case

  22-09-2015 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman recruited from India as a domestic servant for a family in the UK and paid 11p an hour is awarded nearly £184,000 in unpaid wages.
  
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• Chelsea Doctor Quits After Mourinho Row: Reports

  22-09-2015 21:49
  
  Eva Carneiro has quit as Chelsea club doctor after her touchline row with manager Jose Mourinho, according to unconfirmed reports. Dr Carneiro, 41, is also said to be taking legal action against the Premier League champions. She and her fellow medic Jon Fearn were heavily criticised by Mourinho when they went on the pitch at Stamford Bridge to treat star player Eden Hazard.
  
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• Trident: Labour set for ideological showdown after officials agree to debate scrapping nuclear programme

  22-09-2015 21:43
  
  Labour is set for its first big ideological showdown of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership after officials agreed to give members a vote on scrapping Trident at the party’s annual conference next week.
  
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• Daughter of man who killed himself after being declared fit for work warns many more people will die

  22-09-2015 21:42
  
  The daughter of a man with severe depression who killed himself after having been  declared fit for work says more people will die unless the Government changes the way benefits are assessed.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: It won’t be the easiest day for Tim Farron...

  22-09-2015 21:38
  
  Only in the Liberal Democrats. Understandably, Norman Lamb went through “internal torture”, as he explained on 22 September, before finally deciding to run for the leadership of a party which lost all but eight of its 56 seats.  And then he lost. This is not a winning streak. Yet he  made the whole experience sound like one of the most life enhancing of his career. He was “so glad” he had taken part in an “energetic” and “upbeat” contest.
  
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• Chelsea Club Doctor Has Quit, Say Reports

  22-09-2015 21:28
  
  Eva Carneiro has quit as Chelsea club doctor after her touchline row with manager Jose Mourinho, according to unconfirmed reports. Dr Carneiro, 41, is also said to be taking legal action against the Premier League champions. She and her fellow medic Jon Fearn were heavily criticised by Mourinho when they went on the pitch at Stamford Bridge to treat star player Eden Hazard.
  
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• Motorist receives $40,000 settlement after police officer tickets her for having HIV

  22-09-2015 21:24
  
  Shalandra Jones will receive $40,000 from the city of Dearborn, Michigan.
  
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• How to End Poverty in 15 Years: Dealing in facts, not rhetoric

  22-09-2015 21:09
  
  Professor Hans Rosling has become well known for harnessing the power of technology and design to present statistical information, but never before has he used bits of wool strung across on a wooden frame.
  
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• How to interview a celebrity: Go easy on the booze and make sure you have enough questions

  22-09-2015 21:03
  
  Not since Rhys Ifans told a journalist from The Times "I'm bored with you" and flounced out of a hotel room has a print interview been so widely, well, reported. Being quizzed by Emma Brockes for Radio Times, Robert De Niro became offended by being asked how he resists the temptation to go into "autopilot" on set. The actor asked Brockes to pause the tape recorder and accused her of delivering her questions with "negative inference." He ended the encounter by telling his questioner, "I'm not doi
  
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• New One Direction album Made In The A.M to be released in November

  22-09-2015 21:00
  
  One Direction have announced their fifth album Made In The A.M will be released on November 13.
  
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• Convicted murderer Richard Bracken in custody after going missing

  22-09-2015 21:00
  
  A convicted murderer who went missing from a psychiatric hospital has been found.
  
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• David Cameron attacked over foreign policy after second instalment of Lord Ashcroft's biography

  22-09-2015 20:56
  
  While it did not contain further salacious claims to match “pig-gate”, the second instalment of Lord Ashcroft’s biography of David Cameron in the Daily Mail will have made uncomfortable reading in Downing Street, raising questions over his competence in military matters and providing fresh evidence of his rarified social circle.
  
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• NHS staffing shortages: This new NHS contract may force me to quit the job I love

  22-09-2015 20:49
  
  I qualified in 2011 and have since worked as a junior doctor across a range of specialties, including geriatric medicine, critical care and surgery. 
  
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• Burkina Faso coup: Leaders ignore army's deadline to lay down their weapons

  22-09-2015 20:49
  
  Arms crossed and awaiting orders, four soldiers stood outside the État Major base in Ouagadougou on Tuesday.
  
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• University of Central Lancashire launches medical degree that is only open to overseas students

  22-09-2015 20:46
  
  Hospitals may be struggling to overcome immigration laws to recruit new nurses, but for the university sector it is a different story.
  
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• Sultan Esmail Kiram II: Leader of a sultanate that sparked a crisis with its invasion of the Malaysian state of Sabah in 2013

  22-09-2015 20:45
  Sultan Esmail Kiram II was the leader of a sultanate in the southern Philippines that staged a 2013 invasion of a bustling Malaysian state and sparked a deadly security crisis.
  
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• NHS crisis worsens after new figures show three-quarters of hospitals warned about dangerous staff shortages

  22-09-2015 20:42
  The severity of the staffing crisis engulfing the NHS has been revealed by new figures showing that three-quarters of hospitals have been warned about potentially dangerous staff shortages.
  
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• Rupert Hughes: Senior civil servant whose determination was vital in bringing the Children Act 1989 to the statute books

  22-09-2015 20:39
  Self-effacement and an apparent shyness masked the steely determination and persistence which enabled the senior civil servant Rupert Hughes to bring to the statue book the Children Act 1989, one of the most influential, respected and long-lasting pieces of postwar legislation.
  
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• Iran nuclear talks: Claims Israeli secret service 'bugged hotels' during decisive negotiations

  22-09-2015 20:33
  
  The Israeli secret service is suspected of being behind a series of mysterious yet highly sophisticated cyber-spying attacks on decisive negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme held at luxury hotels across Europe earlier this year, Swiss media has reported.
  
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• Hilary Benn urges critics of Jeremy Corbyn to fight within the party to help shape policy

  22-09-2015 20:30
  
  Blairite critics of Jeremy Corbyn will be warned not to “sit in their tents” and “wait for something to change” but fight within the party to formulate Labour’s policies.
  
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• Police investigating claims Tory activist was being bullied before he took his own life

  22-09-2015 20:27
  
  Police are investigating allegations that a young Conservative activist was being bullied by party members shortly before he was believed to have taken his own life.
  
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• Refugee crisis: EU ministers agree to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers

  22-09-2015 20:22
  
  Amid legal threats and over the objections of four eastern European nations, EU interior ministers meeting in Brussels have pushed through a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees across the continent.
  
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• VIDEO: Sewage works become wildlife habitat

  22-09-2015 20:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Strolling around your local sewage works might not be your idea of a good time, but that might be about to change in a County Antrim village.
  
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• Clashes break out in Croatia after hundreds of asylum seekers surge towards gate of temporary transit camp

  22-09-2015 20:15
  
  Clashes have broken out in Croatia after hundreds of people surged toward the gates of a transit camp providing temporary sanctuary for asylum-seekers who have flooded in since Hungary shut its border last week with Serbia.
  
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• Pete Doherty: Libertines frontman swaps Paris for life in the 'Croydon of France'

  22-09-2015 20:11
  
  Libertine, égalité, fraternité… Pete Doherty, the reformed bad boy of British Indie, has shocked the French. It’s not anything to do with bad language, drunkenness or incorrect use of the word tu.
  
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• Volkswagen emissions scandal spreads to Europe and threatens to embroil more models and rival carmakers

  22-09-2015 20:09
  The Volkswagen and Audi diesel emissions scandal which has thrown the global car industry into turmoil has spread to Europe and threatens to embroil more models and rival carmakers.
  
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• US man disembowels woman for 'uttering wrong name during sex'

  22-09-2015 20:05
  
  A man has been charged with first degree murder after telling police he disembowelled his girlfriend.
  
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• Lord Sewel: Met Police drop drug taking charges against former Labour minister over lack of evidence

  22-09-2015 19:57
  
  Lord Sewel will not face charges over allegations of drug taking after the Metropolitan Police said there was “insufficient evidence to proceed” with its investigation.
  
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• Fifty children and staff from Leeds school 'taken ill with food poisoning' on journey back from history trip to France and Belgium

  22-09-2015 19:57
  Fifty children and staff from a school in Leeds have been taken ill while returning home from a history trip to France and Belgium.
  
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• VIDEO: 'End of an era' for HMS Gloucester

  22-09-2015 19:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A former commanding officer of HMS Gloucester called it "the end of an era" as the ship left Portsmouth bound for the scrapyard.
  
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• Volkswagen 'endlessly sorry' over emission cheating software scandal

  22-09-2015 19:50
  
  Volkswagen has admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide are fitted with software to cheat emissions tests.
  
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• Chelsea doctor Carneiro leaves club

  22-09-2015 19:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea team doctor Eva Carneiro decides to leave the club - six weeks after she was criticised by manager Jose Mourinho.
  
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• Bloody aftermath of devastating Syria missile attack shown in video that reveals human impact of crisis

  22-09-2015 19:44
  
  Amid the ongoing refugee crisis dividing Europe, the suffering goes on inside war-torn Syria - whether it is at the hands of Isis fighters, or President Assad’s regime.
  
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• The first of the 20,000 Syrian refugees the UK has promised to take in have arrived

  22-09-2015 19:38
  
  The first Syrian refugees coming to Britain as part of the Government's new resettlement programme have arrived in Britain.
  
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• Martin Shkreli: How a hedge fund trader became the most controversial man in America

  22-09-2015 19:36
  
  And so where exactly was Martin Shkreli, the young hedge funder who has found himself at the centre of global outcry after the pharmaceutical company he bought raised overnight the cost of a life-saving treatment for people with HIV and weakened immune systems from $13.50 per pill to $750?
  
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• Mass cyanide attack plotter guilty

  22-09-2015 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A man who plotted a mass cyanide attack from his bedroom is found guilty by a majority verdict at a retrial.
  
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