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• Volkswagen: a history of boardroom clashes and controversy - The Guardian

  23-09-2015 23:50 via
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  Volkswagen: a history of boardroom clashes and controversy
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  Adolf Hitler inspects the new Volkswagen Beetle at the Fallersleben factory in 1938. He had commissioned Ferdinand Porsche to design a 'people's car' for Germany. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images. Graham Ruddick. Wednesday 23 September 2015 ...
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• Father And Son Suspects In Burglar Death

  23-09-2015 23:00
  
  A British father and son have been made formal police suspects after restraining a burglar who later died in their Portuguese villa. Trevor Taylor, 60, and his son Scott, 31, confronted Paulo Brito on their premises at 4am and grappled with him until police arrived. Attorney-General Joana Marques Vidal didn't name the two men, but said in a statement to British media: "The Public Prosecution Service opened an Inquiry, in the scope of which two persons have acquired the status of defendant.
  
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• Shukee Begum: British woman who fled Isis says everything takes ages in Syria - 'except killing'

  23-09-2015 22:56
  
  A mother who took her five children to Isis-controlled territory in Syria to see her husband has warned: “Everything here takes ages. Except killing. That’s done very quickly.”
  
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• Ashya King's Parents Put Him 'At Risk' - Report

  23-09-2015 22:53
  
  Brain tumour patient Ashya King was put "at risk" by his parents, who took him out of the country because they believed he was not receiving the right treatment, a report has found. The five-year-old was removed from Southampton General Hospital by Brett and Naghmeh King without doctors' consent and taken to Prague for proton beam therapy in August 2012. A report by Portsmouth Safeguarding Children Board into how agencies dealt with the case said he was placed "at risk of serious harm if anythin
  
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• 23 injured, some of them seriously, after bus crashes into steam engine in Essex

  23-09-2015 22:36
  
  23 people have been hurt, seven of them seriously, when a bus crashed into a lorry carrying an old-fashioned steam engine in Essex.
  
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• Scotland becomes first council in the country to collect rubbish once every four weeks

  23-09-2015 22:33
  
  A new frontline in the battle of the bin collections opened this week as a council in Scotland became the first in the country to start collecting household rubbish only once every four weeks.
  
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• Donald Trump says he will not appear on Fox News for 'foreseeable future'

  23-09-2015 22:33
  
  Donald Trump’s not a man known to turn down free publicity.
  
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• Cannabis is on the menu in America - so who will be the Starbucks of marijuana?

  23-09-2015 22:31
  
  Picture the scene: it's been a long day, you're feeling a little wired and have some time to kill. You drop into Dutchie's, a popular chain café, and place your order: "I'll have a skinny Morroccan and a gluten-free hash brownie, please." And you sit down among the business suits and chill...
  
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• Refugee crisis: EU takes first steps to bring order to its asylum policy

  23-09-2015 22:24
  
  European Union leaders meeting in Brussels for an emergency summit struggled to maintain a united front as they tried to forge a co-ordinated strategy to deal with the refugee crisis.
  
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• Burglar Death At Villa: Suspects Identified

  23-09-2015 22:14
  
  Police in Portugal say they have identified two suspects in connection with the death of a burglar at a villa in the Algarve. Paulo Brito died after breaking into the villa, which is occupied by British couple Trevor and Jill Taylor, early on Sunday morning. It happened as police called to the property in Vilamoura by Mrs Taylor went to handcuff him.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Small talk, big ideas – might Tim Farron have the X-Factor?

  23-09-2015 21:57
  
  Not having hitherto been exactly a household name, Tim Farron obviously needed to come over close-up and personal. But was there as a danger of over-sharing here? Good to know, obviously, that “time with our children is pretty much my top priority” or that that “the one good thing” about the photos of him in a teenage band are that they’re “so low resolution find that you can’t make out the eye-liner.” Or that up there on the Westmorland fells he i
  
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• Allegations of social cleansing as disabled man is evicted from London home to make way for re-development

  23-09-2015 21:56
  
  A disabled man sat in his barricaded home last night and told of his despair at losing a High Court case, which means he can now be evicted without notice from his north London home to make way for a redevelopment dubbed as “social cleansing” by protesters.
  
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• Family's relief after mother and five children rescued by Syria rebel group

  23-09-2015 21:42
  
  The family of a British woman who fled Islamic State with her five children, and was later kidnapped, have spoken of their relief at her being rescued by a Syrian rebel group.
  
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• Ashya King's parents 'put him at risk', says safeguarding board

  23-09-2015 21:42
  
  Brain cancer patient Ashya King's parents "put him at risk" by removing him from hospital without consent and taking him abroad for treatment, a report has found.
  
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• Q Awards 2015: Blur and Noel Gallagher renew rivalry as African refugee band Songhoy Blues breaks through

  23-09-2015 21:40
  A desert blues punk band from Timbuktu, forced to flee their homes when Islamic radicals took over Northern Mali, have been nominated for Best New Act at the Q Magazine awards.
  
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• Callum Logan out for the count as Coronation Street live episode wows viewers

  23-09-2015 21:19
  
  Coronation Street's highly anticipated live special episode opened with a bang with drug dealer Callum Logan getting a blow to the head.
  
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• Redcar steelworks: Owners SSI pause production, putting 3,000 jobs at risk

  23-09-2015 21:05
  
  The Redcar steelworks dominates the town’s skyline, towering above the people who stroll along the beach – as it has done since it was founded in 1917.
  
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• David Cameron pledges another £115m as divided EU leaders meet

  23-09-2015 21:00
  
  David Cameron committed an extra £115 million to tackle the migration crisis as European leaders attempted to overcome bitter divisions to agree a unified response.
  
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• Arms race fears as Russia considers stationing ballistic missiles in Kaliningrad in response to increased US nuclear threat in Germany

  23-09-2015 21:00
  In a move that prompted fears of a return to a nuclear arms race in Europe, Moscow has announced that it could be forced to take “countermeasures” to a strengthened US nuclear threat in Germany by stationing ballistic missiles in Kaliningrad.
  
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• Pope Francis in America: Pontiff's message on climate change and immigration leaves Republicans wrong-footed

  23-09-2015 20:55
  
  For a couple of days at least, the world’s lone superpower has a new master. Not an embattled Democratic president, nor a bickering Republican-led Congress, but a 78-year-old Argentine, visibly suffering from a touch of sciatica and with a fragile command of the local language, the latest ruler of an earthly kingdom of just 109 acres on the other side of the Atlantic.
  
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• Buzzfeed moves into local news by hiring new regional reporters

  23-09-2015 20:41
  
  Buzzfeed is looking to take on local and regional papers at their own game, by recruiting more regional reporters to cover the north of England, Scotland and Wales.
  
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• Government has no idea how many houses have been built on publicly owned land that has been sold to developers

  23-09-2015 20:36
  The Government has no idea how many houses have been built on publicly owned land that has been sold off to developers – or how much money has been raised for the taxpayer, a damning new Parliamentary report has revealed.
  
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• Chief medical officer 'attempted to discredit' Alzheimer's study

  23-09-2015 20:32
  
  Dame Sally Davies, the Government's chief medical officer has been accused of attempting to soften the impact of controversial Alzheimer's study before the findings were published by the leading journal Nature.
  
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• Burkina Faso coup: Confusion surrounds African nation's return to civilian rule

  23-09-2015 20:27
  Burkina Faso’s President Michel Kafando said he and his government are back in power, a week after his transitional administration was toppled in a coup. On Wednesday night, however, it was unclear who was really in charge, after the rebellion’s leader attended a state function.
  
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• Democratic presidential race: Hillary Clinton campaign struggles to keep policy in the spotlight in wake of email row

  23-09-2015 20:21
  Declining to be distracted by the racket around her past email arrangements or Vice-President Joe Biden possibly taking her on, Hillary Clinton is popping out policy proposals like peas from a pod. The latest: opposing a new oil pipeline from Canada and limiting medical prescription costs.
  
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• Canberra's racy past: New exhibition tells the story of how 'Pornberra' became the throbbing heart of Australia's sex industry

  23-09-2015 20:14
  To outsiders, Canberra seems a soulless, grey city populated by politicians and bureaucrats. But to those in the know, the Australian capital was – until relatively recently – “Pornberra”, the throbbing heart of the nation’s sex industry.
  
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• Breastfeeding 'does little to improve a child's IQ'

  23-09-2015 20:00
  
  Breastfeeding does little to improve a child's intelligence, despite the widespread belief that "breast is best" for IQ, research has shown.
  
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• Brain game demonstrates telepathic link based on nerve impulses

  23-09-2015 20:00
  
  A question-and-answer game has been conducted by sending brain signals over the internet between two players a mile apart.
  
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• Palestinians increasingly support war with Israel as confidence in peace process fails - survey

  23-09-2015 19:59
  
  Support for a new war with Israel is growing among Palestinians as they lose confidence in politicians and the peace process, a survey has found.
  
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• New TTIP scandal: Car industry buried report revealing US car safety flaws

  23-09-2015 19:59
  
  The motor industry has been accused of withholding a report that reveals US cars are substantially less safe than European vehicles - for fear that the findings would hamper the drive to harmonise safety standards as part of the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal.
  
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• Former Tory parliamentary candidate named as one of three party activists barred over bullying claims

  23-09-2015 19:55
  One of the three Conservative activists who have had their party conference accreditation rescinded pending an investigation into bullying allegations was a former Tory parliamentary candidate, it has emerged.
  
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• Refugee crisis: The Iraqi men whose pursuit of a better life in Europe ended in mass suffocation

  23-09-2015 19:46
  
  “Are you the father of Shwan?” Jamal Hussein did not recognise the voice on the phone.
  
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• Supermoon lunar eclipse could threaten one of Nasa’s most important pieces of technology

  23-09-2015 19:24
  
  The Supermoon and lunar eclipse that are set to happen together on Sunday night might not be the end of the world, as some have claimed — but they are set to pose a threat to one of Nasa’s most important pieces of kit.
  
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• Serial: Podcast sensation returns for a second series investigating capture of US soldier in Afghanistan

  23-09-2015 19:22
  
  The podcast sensation Serial is to return for a second series and investigate the mysterious disappearance in Afghanistan of an American soldier who was then held captive by the Taliban for five years.
  
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• Police constable sacked for failing to help security guard with shoplifter

  23-09-2015 19:20
  
  A police constable has been sacked and three others disciplined after they failed to help a supermarket security guard as he grappled with a shoplifter in the street a few feet away.
  
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• Cameron Pledges £100m For Syrian Refugee Camps

  23-09-2015 19:18
  
  David Cameron has pledged £100m for Syrian refugee camps as leaders gathered for an emergency meeting on the migration crisis. Arriving in Brussels for the talks, he stressed the EU needed to take a "comprehensive" approach to the crisis - which has sparked a row with four Eastern bloc states over a quota system deal. At the summit, Mr Cameron will also urge his counterparts to deport economic migrants who do not have a genuine claim to asylum.
  
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• Kids Ask Astronaut If He'll Be Lonely In Space

  23-09-2015 19:17
  
  These are some of the questions that primary school children asked European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake in a special news conference streamed live into their west London school from NASA in Houston, Texas. On December 15, Mr Peake will become the first British astronaut to travel to, and live on board, the International Space Station. The video link up with Queen’s Park Primary School is part of a large outreach project to get children interested in space and the scientific subje
  
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• BBC confirms it will broadcast delayed Panorama investigation into alleged VIP paedophile ring

  23-09-2015 19:12
  
  The BBC has confirmed it will broadcast a delayed Panorama investigation into allegations of a VIP paedophile ring next month.
  
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• Michigan woman wins $1 million lottery prize after losing ticket for months

  23-09-2015 19:11
  Linda Tuttle of Kentwood, Michigan is a newly minted millionaire.
  
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• Wolfsburg: Volkswagen workers from company's birthplace furious and worried over emissions scandal

  23-09-2015 19:09
  
  Wolfsburg was founded by Hitler in 1938 as the home of the famous Nazi “Peoples Car” or Volkswagen. Today, its 193,000 inhabitants are almost entirely dependent on the fortunes of the giant red brick VW car plant which dominates the skyline and almost every aspect of the town.
  
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• Police thanks after boy missing after 'incident' at school found 'safe and well'

  23-09-2015 19:06
  
  A 12-year-old boy who went missing after an " incident" at school has been found safe and well, police have said.
  
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• Police apology to teenager's family over nitrous oxide statement

  23-09-2015 19:06
  
  Police have apologised to the family of a teenager after suggesting his death was connected to the use of nitrous oxide.
  
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• David Cameron's vow to take in just 12 refugees a day is 'embarrassing' and 'completely out of touch with public opinion'

  23-09-2015 18:51
  David Cameron has been accused of pursuing an "embarrassing" and "completely out of touch" response to the refugee crisis by promising to take in just 12 refugees a day until 2020.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn reveals his favourite things: From 1960s band The Animals to footballer Ian Wright

  23-09-2015 18:49
  
  His best-loved book is the tragic tale of a woman driven to despair by her dreary provincial life, while his favourite band had a top-three hit with Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.
  
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• France urges Saudi Arabia to cancel death penalty for young Shi'ite - Reuters UK

  23-09-2015 18:46 via
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  France urges Saudi Arabia to cancel death penalty for young Shi'ite
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  PARIS France called on Saudi Arabia on Wednesday not to execute a Shi'ite Muslim sentenced to death over his role in anti-government protests, saying he was a minor when he was arrested. Ali al-Nimr was given the death penalty in May after taking part ...
  The young Saudi who could be executed at any timeBBC News
  Looming crucifixion sparks global calls to spare life of young Saudi Ali ...Sydney Mor
  

• Missing Boy Found Safe After Police Search

  23-09-2015 18:36
  
  A missing 12-year-old boy who police said they were "increasingly concerned" about has been found safe and well.
  
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• Deutsche Bank holds conference on women in business - and names it 'Men Matter'

  23-09-2015 18:25
  
  Deutsche Bank has faced some criticism after it made the theme of its annual Women in Business conference 'Men Matter'.
  
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• British astronaut Tim Peake: We spend a lot of time fixing the space station loo

  23-09-2015 18:00
  
  In the weightlessness of space there is one piece of equipment you really do not want to malfunction.
  
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• NI First Minister Named In Property Deal Inquiry

  23-09-2015 17:56
  
  A Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly has heard an allegation that the First Minister was set to benefit financially from the country's largest-ever property deal. Last year, the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA) – the Republic’s so-called “bad bank” - sold its Northern Ireland portfolio, worth an estimated £4.5bn, for £1.2bn. Giving evidence to the Finance Committee investigating the sale, a loyalist blogger claimed £7m had been placed in
  
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• David Cameron pledges another £100m for Syria refugee camps

  23-09-2015 17:34
  
  David Cameron has said Britain is to commit another £100 million to supporting refugees in camps bordering Syria as he arrived for an emergency EU summit on the migrant crisis.
  
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