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• Two people missing after Base jumping accident in California

  26-01-2016 23:59
  
  Video from a helmet camera shows a woman being overtaken by waves after Base jumping in Big Sur, and her companion jumping in to try to save herA thrill-seeker who parachuted off a bridge in Big Sur overlooking the Pacific likely drowned, as did the man who jumped in to try to save her, authorities said.The Monterey County Herald reported on Tuesday that authorities first realized the two Base jumpers were missing on Saturday, although the jump is thought to have occurred days earlier.Continue r
  
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• Dad's Army review: who don't you think you are kidding?

  26-01-2016 23:57
  
  Do panic: the cast pull off a convincing impression – and Catherine Zeta-Jones adds sauce – but there’s something inescapably creaky about this strangest of sitcom revivals Related: Dad's Army film - first trailer reports for duty Dad’s Army is having a bit of a moment. A BBC drama entitled We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story recently gave us the behind-the-scenes story of this legendary, much-loved TV comedy which ran from 1968 to 1977, about the bumbling Home
  
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• Joe Allen fires Liverpool to Wembley in shootout win over Stoke City

  26-01-2016 23:49
  
  Liverpool completed their journey to Wembley as their Capital One Cup run began, with victory in a penalty shoot-out following another gruelling night at Anfield. In the third round it was Carlisle United who lost out in the lottery against a side managed by Brendan Rodgers. Now it was Jürgen Klopp’s turn to take the acclaim after Stoke City suffered an agonising defeat in the semi-final.Mark Hughes’ side deservedly took the second leg to extra time and penalties with a 1-0 win
  
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• San Diego naval hospital: no evidence of gunshots at center as lockdown is lifted

  26-01-2016 23:34
  
  Officials found ‘absolutely nothing’ that indicates there were gunshots after a witness said a gunman fired three shots inside, but the investigation continuedAuthorities in San Diego have found no evidence of gunshots or injuries at a naval medical center, but the investigation was continuing at the facility after the lockdown was lifted, the Associated Press reported.Police and military authorities swarmed the facility soon after the naval medical center posted a Facebook warning t
  
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• Liverpool 0-1 Stoke City - 1-1 on aggregate, Liverpool win 6-5 on penalties: Capital One Cup, semi-final second leg – as it happened

  26-01-2016 23:31
  
  Liverpool are through to the Capital One Cup final after beating Stoke City 6-5 on penalties, after the tie finished 1-1 on aggregate after extra-time 10.31pm GMTAnd that’s it for tonight. Cheers for reading - Liverpool fans enjoy making plans for Wembley. The final is on February 28th and will be against either Everton or Manchester City, who play each other tomorrow night. 10.29pm GMTAnd there you go. Not a classic performance by Liverpool - in fact they were comfortably second best over
  
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• Apple sets record for quarterly profit but expects sales decline

  26-01-2016 23:17
  Apple has reported the largest single quarter profit in corporate history, but is predicting the first ever decline in iPhone sales later this year.
  
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• Ban Ki-moon calls Israeli settlement expansion an 'affront' to the world

  26-01-2016 23:10
  
  Netanyahu says Ban giving ‘tailwind to terror’ as UN chief says violence born of Palestinians’ despair after ‘half-century of occupation and paralysis of peace’Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has accused UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, of giving a “tailwind to terror” after the UN head criticised Israel for continuing to build settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and describing it as an affront to the Palestinian peop
  
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• Google expected to reveal growth of offshore cash funds to $43bn

  26-01-2016 23:05
  
  Tech company’s 2015 earnings will be announced next week as governments aim to crack down on Google’s controversial tax avoidance arrangementsGoogle is poised to confirm next week that controversial tax structures in Ireland, the Netherlands and Bermuda have boosted its offshore cash mountain to more than $43bn (£30bn), figures from financial analysts suggest.Despite governments around the world promising to crack down on the tech company’s tax avoidance arrangements, Wal
  
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• Eddie Jones picks England squad to make a winning start in Six Nations

  26-01-2016 23:01
  
  • Paul Hill, Jack Clifford and Ollie Devoto selected in squad for Scotland game
  • Training has started with a bang, says James Haskell of Jones’s high standardsEddie Jones has resisted the temptation to blood the in-form duo of Elliot Daly and Maro Itoje but has included three uncapped players in his 23-man squad for England’s opening fixture of the Six Nations championship. Northampton’s 20-year-old tighthead prop Paul Hill, the inexperienced Harlequins back-row Jack
  
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• Brain circuit passed from mother to daughter may be factor in depression

  26-01-2016 23:00
  A brain circuit that governs emotion is passed down from mother to daughter and may be an inherited factor contributing to depression, research has shown.
  
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• Palace of Westminster refurbishment could see MPs and peers relocated

  26-01-2016 22:54
  
  ‘Full decant’ option would see oldest part of the Palace of Westminster entirely vacated for six years at a cost of £3.52bnThe House of Commons may have to relocate beyond its historic home at the Palace of Westminster to a temporary home in a nearby Whitehall courtyard as part of plans to refurbish parliament during the next decade.MPs would sit a few hundred metres up the road in a specially built chamber in the courtyard of the Department of Health in the most radical propos
  
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• Labour to elect new NEC member after Steve Rotheram ousted

  26-01-2016 22:50
  Labour MPs will choose a new member of the party's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) tomorrow after kicking out an aide to Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• Jo Brand braves 70mph winds on Hell of a Walk for Sport Relief

  26-01-2016 22:50
  Jo Brand has completed the most difficult section of her 150-mile coast-to-coast Sport Relief challenge, battling 70mph winds and horizontal rain to conquer the Pennines.
  
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• Children's author Frances Hardinge wins Costa Book prize for The Lie Tree

  26-01-2016 22:50
  Children's author Frances Hardinge has won the 2015 Costa Book of the Year for her supernatural tale The Lie Tree.
  
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• Apple iPhone sales flatline as growth falls well short of expectations

  26-01-2016 22:49
  
  Sales of its top-selling device grew by only 0.4% over the holidays, compared with 46% over same period last year, but company posts record revenuesApple’s iPhone sales are flatlining, the tech company said on Tuesday, as it announced a sharp slowdown in sales growth for its top-selling mobile device. The company sold 74.8m of its flagship devices in the final three months of 2015, below analysts’ expectations. In the same period in 2014 the company sold 74.46m iPhones, meaning sales
  
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• Third arrest made in hunt for killer of academic stabbed on way to work

  26-01-2016 22:47
  A third man has been arrested by police investigating the murder of a "brilliant" young academic who was stabbed in a "senseless" attack.
  
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• Sir Michael Gambon declares his support for UK to remain in EU

  26-01-2016 22:47
  Sir Michael Gambon said it would be "wrong" for Britain to vote to leave the EU.
  
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• Brother-in-law reveals dismay at death of Afghan refugee, 15, in bid to reach UK

  26-01-2016 22:47
  The brother-in-law of an Afghan refugee killed trying to make his way to the UK has recalled the "awful" moment he had to identify his body.
  
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• GoPro video footage can now be broadcast using Twitter's Periscope app

  26-01-2016 22:44
  
  The live-streaming app announced it is now integrated with the wearable cameras, meaning that sometimes insane footage can now find a larger audienceGoPro action camera users can now broadcast their daring adventures live through Twitter’s Periscope app, opening the door to a whole new dimension of real-time video sharing.The live-streaming app announced on Tuesday that it was now integrated with GoPro, meaning that the sometimes insane footage captured on wearable cameras can now find a m
  
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• Family leads tributes to Wonderful Life singer Colin Vearncombe

  26-01-2016 22:42
  Musician Colin Vearncombe, known as Black, has died after suffering head injuries in a car accident.
  
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• Canada pledges to overhaul broken welfare program for indigenous children

  26-01-2016 22:33
  
  Funds to be increased after human rights body found country was racially discriminating against aboriginal youth by underfunding the system in OttawaCanada’s federal government has pledged to overhaul its broken First Nation child welfare program after a human rights body found it was racially discriminating against aboriginal youth by underfunding the system.Tuesday’s ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is being called one of the most important rights decisions related to t
  
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• Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel fastest at F1’s wet tyre test for Pirelli

  26-01-2016 22:31
  
  • Four-times world champion runs quickest lap in 2015 car
  • Paul Ricard track artificially watered to gain tyre dataSebastian Vettel ended Pirelli’s two-day wet tyre test in France as the quickest driver. The four-times world champion, who took over testing duties from Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen on Tuesday, completed 134 laps at the Paul Ricard circuit.Pirelli, Formula One’s sole tyre supplier, called for the test in order to gather data on their wet tyre, and a total
  
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• Two arrested after Brighton hit-and-run incident

  26-01-2016 22:30
  
  Man, 31, and woman, 56, held after 53-year-old man was seriously injured after being hit by a Fiat 500 in KemptownTwo people have been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run in which a suspected stolen car careered into a pedestrian and flung him in to the air.The 53-year-old was left seriously injured after being hit by a Fiat 500 as he crossed Montague Place in the Kemptown area of Brighton. Continue reading...
  
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• Yoga Hosers review – Kevin Smith unleashes Nazi sausages in tired comedy

  26-01-2016 22:29
  
  The second in Smith’s planned True North trilogy, following Tusk, aims for inspired lunacy but comes up short in every departmentKevin Smith despises critics. He makes that crystal clear late in Yoga Hosers, his loose follow-up to his far superior Tusk, when a Nazi commands his grotesque creation to “crush all the critics who got to hate, hate, hate”. Johnny Depp, reprising his Tusk role, under a mound of prosthetics, as the bumbling French Canadian detective Guy Lapointe, utte
  
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• Catherine Zeta-Jones relishing homecoming for Dad's Army film

  26-01-2016 22:26
  Catherine Zeta-Jones said filming the new movie version of TV classic comedy Dad's Army reminded her how much she loves the UK.
  
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• Steve Bell on Denmark seizing refugees' assets – cartoon

  26-01-2016 22:15
  
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• Emmanuel Adebayor signs for Crystal Palace on short-term deal

  26-01-2016 22:07
  
  • Adebayor, 31, signs as a free agent until the end of the season
  • Palace’s strikers have only one goal between them this seasonEmmanuel Adebayor has returned to the Premier League after signing a contract with Crystal Palace initially until the end of next season, ending the Togolese forward’s five-month exile from the game.The striker, who has scored 96 goals in 230 league games, has been without a club since September when his deal with Tottenham Hotspur was terminated
  
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• Ex-World Sailing chief ‘voted out for trying to oust polluted Olympic venue’

  26-01-2016 22:05
  
  • Testing on Guanabara Bay shows disease-causing viruses linked to sewage
  • Peter Sowrey: I was told to gag myself on the subject and I did not resignThe former chief executive of World Sailing has claimed he was fired for pushing to get rid of the polluted Guanabara Bay as the venue for the sport at the Rio Olympics.Peter Sowrey tried to change the venue but was “told to gag myself on the subject”. Continue reading...
  
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• Canada to lift sanctions against Iran, foreign affairs minister says

  26-01-2016 22:02
  
  ‘We will change this policy,’ Stephane Dion said Tuesday without giving a timeline for economic action already taken by US and EUCanada will follow the US and EU lead and lift sanctions against Iran, foreign affairs minister Stephane Dion said Tuesday.Responding to questions in the House of Commons, Dion said: “Canada will remove those sanctions.” Continue reading...
  
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• Will the real snowy panda please stand up? Costumed man mimics clip – video

  26-01-2016 21:58
  
  Perhaps pandering to popular demand, an Instagram user dressed up as the Smithsonian national zoo’s giant panda Tian Tian on Tuesday, to re-enact the panda’s viral snow video. Tian Tian was filmed joyfully rolling around in snow dumped in Washington over the weekend, in a clip which quickly gained widespread coverage. Jperez501 captioned his video: ‘I challenge #tiantian to a snow battle!’Watch Jperez501’s videos on Instagram
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• Blair: Brexit Will Spark Scottish Independence

  26-01-2016 20:54
  
  Former PM Tony Blair has warned that Scotland will leave the United Kingdom if voters choose to quit the EU in the upcoming referendum. In an interview with French radio, Mr Blair said such a scenario would be followed by a second independence vote, with Scotland choosing to go it alone this time. Mr Blair told Europe 1: "There is a little-noticed dimension which is that, in my opinion, if the UK votes to leave Europe, Scotland will vote to leave the UK.
  
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• Wonderful Life singer Colin Vearncombe dies following car accident

  26-01-2016 20:20
  Musician Colin Vearncombe, known as Black, has died after suffering head injuries in a car accident.
  
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• 22-year-old charged with encouraging support for terrorism

  26-01-2016 20:19
  A 22-year-old man has been charged with encouraging support for a proscribed organisation contrary to the Terrorism Act.
  
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• Major conspiracy 'impossible to keep under wraps for long'

  26-01-2016 20:00
  
  Secrets have a way of escaping that makes it impossible to keep a major conspiracy under wraps for long, a study has found.
  
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• Worsley family tell of 'great comfort' over explorer's impact

  26-01-2016 19:53
  The family of polar explorer Henry Worsley have spoken of the "great comfort" they have taken following his death in knowing the huge impact he had on so many people.
  
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• Fresh floods fear following heavy rainfall

  26-01-2016 18:59
  A fresh deluge of rain is threatening to swamp parts of the UK still waterlogged from the floods that swept across the north of the country over Christmas.
  
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• Coleen Rooney to take placenta pills after birth of son Kit

  26-01-2016 18:53
  
  Coleen Rooney has decided to eat her own placenta following the recent birth of her son Kit.
  
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• Schools Could Fail Inspections Over Face Veils

  26-01-2016 18:38
  
  Schools that allow students and staff to wear face veils could be rated inadequate if they hinder learning, the chief of Ofsted has said. Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools in England, has expressed his "full support" to schools and colleges which "decide to take a stand against the inappropriate wearing of the veil". In the past, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has backed schools that want to ban Muslim girls from wearing face veils and suggested teachers should also be preven
  
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• Schools allowing face veils could be ruled 'inadequate' by Ofsted

  26-01-2016 18:22
  Schools that allow pupils and staff to wear face veils which hinder learning could be ruled "inadequate", the head of Ofsted has said.
  
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• EU deal renegotiation 'may be delayed beyond Brussels summit'

  26-01-2016 18:18
  
  Agreement on the UK's renegotiation of its relationship with the EU may be delayed beyond next month's Brussels summit by the pressure of other urgent problems facing the 28-nation bloc, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has suggested.
  
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• Sepsis tragedy baby's parents 'let down in worst possible way'

  26-01-2016 17:46
  
  The family of a baby who died following a string of NHS failings were let down in the "worst possible way", the Health Secretary has said.
  
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• Tesco rapped for mistreating suppliers to boost profits

  26-01-2016 17:33
  By James Davey and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's biggest supermarket group Tesco propped up its finances by short-changing suppliers when it began lagging rivals, the country's grocery watchdog ruled on Tuesday. Tesco had an endemic culture of making unilateral deductions from suppliers' bills and delaying payments, in one case taking more than two years to pay a multi-million pound sum owed, a probe by Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) Christine Tacon found. Tacon began investigating
  
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• EastEnders triple murder suspect says to return voluntarily from Ghana

  26-01-2016 17:32
  By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) - A British man wanted in connection with the killing of his actress partner and her two sons said he would voluntarily return to the United Kingdom to face trial after fleeing to Ghana last month, his lawyers told a court in Accra on Tuesday. Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, was arrested on Jan. 9 after a manhunt in western Ghana in connection with the murder of Sian Blake, 43, who once featured in the popular British soap opera EastEnders, and her two sons Zachary and Am
  
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• EU referendum ballot form proposal revealed

  26-01-2016 16:58
  
  Voters have been given their first sight of the European Union referendum ballot paper as the Government published detailed rules - keeping the door open to an in/out vote in June.
  
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• Litvinenko death: Claims of Putin link are 'slander', says Russia

  26-01-2016 16:57
  
  Russia has angrily hit back after an official inquiry found the killing of dissident ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko was probably authorised by President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• George Osborne faces questions over Google tax deal amid calls for 'clarity'

  26-01-2016 16:57
  George Osborne faces further questions over the Google tax deal, with calls for greater transparency about how the £130 million settlement was reached.
  
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• Schools which allow face veils 'could be ruled inadequate'

  26-01-2016 16:55
  Schools that allow pupils and staff to wear face veils could be ruled "inadequate" if they hinder learning, the head of Ofsted has said.
  
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• Explorer's Fundraising Page Doubles Target

  26-01-2016 16:54
  
  Contributions to the fundraising page set up by polar explorer Henry Worsley has raised more than double its target of £100,000. He set up the page to raise money for the Endeavour Fund, which helps wounded servicemen and women, and was trying to become the first adventurer to cross the South Pole entirely unsupported. He had been trying to finish the uncompleted journey of his lifelong hero Sir Ernest Shackleton, who started his attempt in 1914 and had to be rescued two years later.
  
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• Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky dies aged 88

  26-01-2016 16:47
  
  Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence who saw parallels in the functioning of the human brain and computers, has died aged 88.
  
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• Primary school bans chocolate to protect allergic pupil

  26-01-2016 16:42
  Chocolate has been banned at a primary school in south Wales because one pupil has an allergy to it.
  
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