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• Donald Trump a conquering hero for bikers at Rolling Thunder rally

  29-05-2016 23:59
  
  Republican nominee promises to pay bills for veterans’ healthcareSpeaker says Trump’s comments about McCain ‘totally justified’Among thousands of blue-collar bikers wearing patches that called Jane Fonda a traitor, Donald Trump was received rapturously.Related: Endless war: Trump and the fantasy of cost-free conflictContinue reading...
  
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• Cristiano Ronaldo to miss England friendly but ‘fit for Euro 2016’

  29-05-2016 23:30
  
  • Portugal forward needs rest after Real Madrid’s Champions League triumph
  • ‘I am very tired. I have played more than 4,000 minutes this season’Cristiano Ronaldo said he will not play against England on Thursday and admitted he needs a rest before joining the Portugal squad for Euro 2016 but he said he will be ready for that despite finishing the season with fitness concerns.Ronaldo scored the decisive penalty in Milan as Real Madrid won their 11th European Cup by be
  
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• German rightwing party apologises for Jérôme Boateng comments

  29-05-2016 23:27
  
  Alternative für Deutschland’s Alexander Gauland had said Germans like footballer but would not want him living next doorGermany’s anti-immigration party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has apologised after its deputy leader was quoted as saying that, while most people admired the international footballer Jérôme Boateng, they wouldn’t want to live next door to him.The newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung quoted AfD politician Alexander Gaulan
  
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• Marcus Rashford earns £20,000-a-week long-term deal from Manchester United

  29-05-2016 23:24
  
  • Teenage England striker rewarded for remarkable debut season• He scored eight times in 18 appearances for UnitedMarcus Rashford has been rewarded for his breakthrough season at Manchester United with a £20,000-a-week contract. The striker, 18, has one year left on his current deal and United have acted swiftly, offering him a long‑term extension. Related: José Mourinho more of a risk for Manchester United than three years ago | Paul WilsonContinue reading...
  
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• Con Artist Steals £20,000 From 91-Year-Old Man

  29-05-2016 23:24
  
  A 91-year-old man had £20,000 stolen after a fraudster tricked him into letting him into his house by pretending to be from a water company. The elderly victim had been been distracted by the man, who claimed the mains supply was contaminated, while an accomplice entered the house and snatched the cash. A Hampshire Police spokesman said: "The 91-year-old victim answered his door to a man who claimed to be from a water company and said the water supply was contaminated.
  
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• Don't give your workers a red card for watching football, Acas tells firms

  29-05-2016 23:13
  
  Conciliation service urges businesses to work with staff to avoid football-related absenteeism during Euro 2016 tournamentFirms in England and Wales are being urged to be flexible with staffing as workers plan how to watch the Euro 2016 football tournament, which starts on 10 June. Conciliation service Acas has published guidance to help employers prepare for potential disputes and avoid workers being penalised for sloping off.Continue reading...
  
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• Sunrisers Hyderabad win first Indian Premier League title after tense final

  29-05-2016 23:10
  
  • Sunrisers Hyderabad 208-7; Royal Challengers Bangalore 200-7
  • David Warner plays captain’s role in Hyderabad’s eight-run winDavid Warner led Sunrisers Hyderabad to a maiden Indian Premier League title on Sunday after the bowlers derailed Royal Challengers Bangalore’s chase to fashion an eight-run victory.Warner (69) led from the front, top-scoring for his side to steer Hyderabad to 208 for seven after opting to bat at Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium. T
  
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• England bowlers bat Yorkshire out of trouble against Lancashire

  29-05-2016 23:10
  
  • Yorkshire 301-9 v Lancashire
  • Adil Rashid and Tim Bresnan ride their luck in Roses recoveryOn a brilliantly topsy-turvy day it was fitting that two men whose bowling skills have earned them a fair number of Test appearances for England turned this Roses match on its head with a bat in their hands instead of a ball.Both Adil Rashid and Tim Bresnan will press their claims as genuine all-rounders and it was hard to disagree after the pair dragged Yorkshire back into a game they had los
  
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• Mexican footballer Alan Pulido's kidnapping sets off massive manhunt

  29-05-2016 22:52
  
  Official says Olympiakos forward was taken after a party near Ciudad Victoria, the capital of a state that has been plagued by organized crimeA Mexican international footballer was kidnapped in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas over the weekend, triggering a massive manhunt in territory that has been a battleground of warring drug cartels.Related: Lionel Messi limps off to give Argentina an injury scare before Copa AmericaContinue reading...
  
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• CIA ex-boss: secretive spooks tolerated in UK more than in US

  29-05-2016 22:49
  
  Michael Hayden talks at Hay festival about Edward Snowden and how Facebook, not government, is new privacy battleground British people are not demanding more transparency from the intelligence services as loudly as Americans, the former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA has said.Michael Hayden played a pivotal, leading role in American intelligence until he was replaced as director of the CIA shortly into the presidency of Barack Obama. Continue reading...
  
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• IndyCar rookie Alexander Rossi pulls off shock win at 100th Indianapolis 500

  29-05-2016 22:32
  
  Californian had returned to US after stint in Formula OneDriver runs out of fuel shortly after crossing finish lineAlexander Rossi was the surprise winner of the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 when he stretched his fuel to the finish on Sunday to pull off an upset victory. He ran out of gas after taking the checkered flag.“I have no idea how we pulled that off,” Rossi said. “It’s an amazing result for Andretti Autosport.” Continue reading...
  
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• World tennis chief calls for end of secrecy over players who fail drug tests

  29-05-2016 22:21
  
  • ITF president, David Haggerty, says players should be named• Adds that the sport’s authorities believed in a zero tolerance approachPlayers who fail a drug test and receive a provisional ban – such as Maria Sharapova in March – should be named, the International Tennis Federation president, David Haggerty, has told the Guardian.This would help eradicate suspicions about players who mysteriously disappear from the Tour while the suspension is played out before an off
  
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• Most coral dead in central section of Great Barrier Reef, surveys reveal

  29-05-2016 22:00
  
  As mass bleaching sweeps the world heritage site, scientists also find an average of 35% of coral dead or dying in the northern and central sections of the reefThe majority of coral is now dead on many reefs in the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, according to an underwater survey of 84 reefs, in the worst mass bleaching event to hit the world heritage site.An average of 35% of coral was now dead or dying in the northern and central sections, according to the surveys led by the Austral
  
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• Mount Everest death: Maria Strydom fell ill just 15 minutes from summit

  29-05-2016 21:52
  
  Husband Robert Gropel reached the top as Strydom waited for him, but she died in his arms on the descentAustralian university lecturer Maria Strydom fell ill just 15 minutes’ climb from the summit of Mount Everest and waited while her husband Robert Gropel reached the top.She died on the way back down the mountain in his arms on 20 May. Continue reading...
  
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• Lewis Hamilton: I thanked Nico Rosberg for being a gentleman in Monaco GP

  29-05-2016 21:29
  
  • Mercedes instructed German to let his team-mate by in Monte Carlo
  • ‘I knew when I was behind him that I was much, much quicker than him’Lewis Hamilton hugged his Mercedes rival Nico Rosberg and thanked him for “being a gentleman” after he won the Monaco Grand Prix, his first success since October last year. An ecstatic Hamilton, who cut Rosberg’s lead in the championship from 43 points to 24, started third on the grid but went past his slower team-mate
  
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• Martin Rowson on the Conservative party's divisions – cartoon

  29-05-2016 21:27
  
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• Brexit 'dummies' blamed for anti-German motorway poster

  29-05-2016 20:51
  
  Second world war smear on billboards along the M40 was not part of official campaign, claims Vote LeaveHomemade posters proclaiming: “Halt Ze German Advance: Vote Leave” and placed in fields overlooking one of the busiest motorways in England have forced the official Brexit campaign team to disown them and claim they were put up by “dummies on our side”.The billboard-size posters on grass banks overlooking the east and westbound carriageways of the M40, between the M25 an
  
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• Ashley Bryant’s Olympic hopes in doubt after airline loses his pole vaults

  29-05-2016 20:38
  
  • Decathlete’s equipment went missing after original flight was cancelled
  • Bryant borrows poles but 44 points short of Rio qualifying score in GötzisThe Rio Olympic ambitions of Great Britain’s top decathlete Ashley Bryant could be dashed because his pole vaults failed to arrive in Götzis due to an airline cock-up.The 25-year-old finished the two days of competition in Austria with 8,056 points – an agonising 44 short of the 8,100 required to make it to Rio
  
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• Andy Murray eases past John Isner after rain hitch to reach last eight

  29-05-2016 20:38
  
  • World No2 reaches British record sixth quarter-final at French Open
  • He next faces France’s Richard Gasquet who beat Kei NishikoriThe skies were grey but the air around the Prince of Perversity, Andy Murray, was oddly blue for much of a rain-split win in straight sets against John Isner to reach the quarter-finals of the French Open for a record sixth time.It was Fred Perry – naturally – who held the previous British highwater mark here, way in the distant past, an
  
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• Monaco Grand Prix - in pictures

  29-05-2016 20:19
  
  The best images from the Monaco Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton wins in Monte Carlo after starting third on the grid in the rain, his 44th victory and his favourite number Continue reading...
  
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• Kaushal Silva and Angelo Mathews lead Sri Lanka fightback against England

  29-05-2016 20:03
  
  • England 498-9 dec v Sri Lanka 101 & 309-5
  • Sri Lanka trail by 88 runs with five wickets remainingAgainst what seemed to be the odds, Sri Lanka have survived to take the second Test into a fourth day. Faced with a massive first-innings deficit of 397, and following-on for the second successive match, they showed a determination that had been far from evident in their three previous innings in this series.There was an excellent 60, spread over almost four hours, from the compact,
  
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• Scuffles At Millwall-Barnsley Play-Off Final

  29-05-2016 19:55
  
  Scuffles have broken out at Wembley between fans at the League One play-off final betrween Millwall and Barnsley. Trouble flared just moments before Barnsley secured promotion to the Championship, with a 3-1 win over the London side. The Football Association tweeted: "The FA condemns the disorder caused by a small number of fans at today’s League One Play Off final between Barnsley and Millwall.
  
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• Christopher Hitchens and the Christian conversion that wasn’t | Matthew d’Ancona

  29-05-2016 19:51
  
  A new book suggesting that the author of God is not Great was halfway to Christianity follows a long tradition of appropriationAs fans of David Bowie, Prince and Lemmy can attest, death is not the end in contemporary culture. Those who achieve true fame are waved through the pearly gates of marketing heaven, immortalised as a product, a brand – and, on occasion, a spectral arbiter in the battles of the terrestrial plane.In 2016, the ultimate celebrity endorsement is posthumous. The remain
  
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• Tata Steel must commit for the long haul, says Stephen Kinnock

  29-05-2016 19:40
  
  MP says news Indian company considering keeping UK business will be welcomed but will be treated with scepticismTata Steel must give guarantees it would be committed to the British steel industry for the long haul if it abandons the planned sale of its UK business, the Labour MP Stephen Kinnock has said.Last week it emerged the Indian company was considering keeping its UK steelmaking arm after putting the loss-making business up for sale in March. The development raised further hopes the Port T
  
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• Most economists say Brexit will harm economy - poll

  29-05-2016 19:37
  Nine out of 10 of Britain's top economists working in London's City financial district, small business and academia believe the economy will be harmed if Britain leaves the European Union, a poll said on Sunday. The poll, which the Observer newspaper said was the biggest of its kind drawing responses from more than 600 economists, is a boost for Prime Minister David Cameron, who is leading the campaign for Britain to stay in the 28-member bloc at a referendum on June 23 despite opposition from s
  
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• Richard Jones – new Britain's Got Talent winner, old tricks?

  29-05-2016 19:12
  
  Magic experts suggest Richard Jones performed tricks similar to those made famous by past talent-show contestantsFor many, the magician’s classics of rabbits pulled out of top hats, glamorous assistants sawn in half and the never-ending handkerchief are simply too predictable to stun the modern audience. The ascendancy of Richard Jones, the soldier-turned-showman who won Britain’s Got Talent on Saturday after a series of magical performances, therefore came as something of a surprise
  
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• Irish prime minister says border controls could return if Britain exits EU

  29-05-2016 19:10
  
  Enda Kenny urges Irish voters in Britain to back remain campaign as pro-EU group launches bid to mobilise Irish votersThe Irish prime minister, Enda Kenny, has raised the prospect of border controls being reimposed between Northern Ireland and the Republic as he directly appealed to hundreds of thousands of Irish people living in Britain to vote to remain in the EU.Risking the wrath of leave campaigners by becoming the third foreign leader after Barack Obama and the Japanese prime minister, Shin
  
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• Politicians shun EU TV debates but women and minorities left out

  29-05-2016 19:04
  
  Tensions are running high between two campaigns and broadcasters in male-dominated coverageOne veteran political pundit calls it a “complete shambles”, while another says it is “an utter mess”. With just weeks left before the EU referendum, tensions are running high between broadcasters and the politicians they want to wrangle on to our television screens to make sense of it all.It already seems a tad farcical even before David Cameron appears on Sky next weekend for his
  
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• Economist editor: ‘We don’t want to be the grandpa at the disco’

  29-05-2016 19:03
  
  Zanny Minton Beddoes on new owners, battling Brexit, and making a 173-year-old title work onlineZanny Minton Beddoes’ office may have a worn and old-fashioned feel, indeed it wouldn’t be surprising if it turned out it hasn’t had a makeover since the Economist’s arrival in 1964, but she couldn’t be more focused on the shiny digital future.“We don’t want to be the grandpa at the disco,” says Minton Beddoes, the first female editor in the business mag
  
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• Pope reveals fondness for beauty vlogs in meeting with YouTubers

  29-05-2016 19:01
  
  Pontiff tells social media stars they create virtual circles to which followers belong, laying ‘paths of optimism and hope’Pope Francis demonstrated his digital credentials on Sunday by holding an intimate meeting with YouTube stars, throwing his support behind popular beauty videos and encouraging his celebrity guests to help young people create virtual identities.Immediately after the meeting Pope Francis addressed participants of an educational conference at the Vatican, attended
  
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• French unions threaten to disrupt Euro 2016 with strikes

  29-05-2016 18:53
  
  Industrial action planned throughout month-long football tournament over divisive employment legislationFrench unions have called for strikes in cities across the country to disrupt the Euro 2016 tournament.After weeks of clashes between police and protesters demanding the government withdraw a divisive labour bill, union leaders have called for transport strikes in 10 cities where the tournament is being held. Continue reading...
  
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• Chris Wood holds nerve to claim PGA Championship and enter Ryder Cup race

  29-05-2016 18:48
  
  • Bristolian shoots 69 on final day to finish one shot ahead of Rikard Karlberg
  • Masters champion Danny Willett finishes third after closing 71 at WentworthChris Wood once had cause to bemoan his golfing progress as going somewhat unnoticed. How that changed on a sun‑kissed Surrey afternoon as the Englishman held his nerve over a knee-knocking putt on Wentworth’s 18th green to claim the BMW PGA Championship.The biggest win of Wood’s career will catapult him inside th
  
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• Device used in Nazi coding machine found for sale on eBay

  29-05-2016 18:38
  
  Rare Lorenz teleprinter, part of Hitler’s encryption equipment, snapped up by National Museum of ComputingFor codebreakers with the allied forces, it was more important a discovery than the Enigma machine, offering encryption for the Nazi command that, when cracked, would hasten the end of the second world war and lead to huge breakthroughs in modern computing.
  Less than 80 years later, for a thrifty woman in Essex, the “telegram machine” was little more than a dusty old gadget
  
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• Time to introduce the Pepe Rule after his Champions League final antics | Sean Ingle

  29-05-2016 18:27
  
  Outcry over Real Madrid defender’s behaviour against Atlético might convince the game to pay more than lip service to punishing those who flout rulesDuring the Champions League final Gary Lineker posted a simple five-word tweet: “Pepe is such a dick!” It did not so much strike a chord as create global symphonic harmony on social media. More than 50,000 retweets and likes later, and following yet more devious behaviour by the Real Madrid defender, Lineker clarified his po
  
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• How a Nottinghamshire hamlet wages quiet battle against fracking

  29-05-2016 18:13
  
  After North Yorkshire allows test drilling, villagers in Misson are determined to stop the same happening in former bomber pilot testing ground When councillors in North Yorkshire ignored widespread public opposition and granted planning permission for the fracking company Third Energy to carry out test drilling, there were groans around the Nottinghamshire village of Misson.For the last two years, tenacious locals in this quiet fenland hamlet have been fighting attempts by another energy firm t
  
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• Barnsley promoted to Championship with play-off final win over Millwall

  29-05-2016 18:09
  
  In any other season, Barnsley’s promotion from League One, achieved after they defeated Millwall 3-1 in the play-off final at Wembley, might be considered the most implausible and remarkable story it is possible to imagine. They were bottom of the table in November, in February lost the manager who started their revival and now they are in the Championship. Our credulity has been recalibrated by Leicester City – but do not let that obscure what an extraordinary achievement this is. R
  
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• Should I sleep-train my child?

  29-05-2016 18:00
  
  New research suggests letting infants cry for short periods until they settle can help both parent and child sleep better. But is it emotionally harmful?I am confident that one day our six-year-old will sleep through the night. It may not be this week; it may take until secondary school. If we had sleep trained her, it might have been different, but I just couldn’t bear the tears. This makes me eligible to join the latest guilt trip after research in pediatrics showed that delaying bedtime
  
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• England hopefuls give Eddie Jones much to ponder in defeat of Wales

  29-05-2016 17:52
  
  • England 27-13 WalesEngland may still be a work in progress but the concept of defeat under Eddie Jones remains entirely alien. They can set out for Australia this week in optimistic mood, having scored five tries against well-beaten opponents who faded badly after a bright start. Wales, on the other hand, will leave for New Zealand in deeply contemplative mood, having also had their experienced flanker Dan Lydiate invalided out of the tour.The final margin of defeat could have been even w
  
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• Kurdish forces in big push against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

  29-05-2016 17:46
  
  Peshmerga fighters tighten noose around Mosul as Iraqi forces target Falluja and Syrians advance north of Raqqa strongholdKurdish peshmerga forces backed by the US-led coalition have launched attacks on Islamic State east of Mosul as the campaign to oust the militants stepped up with three offensives across Iraq and Syria.Related: Isis may face Falluja bloodbath, but new offensive shows power to spread terrorContinue reading...
  
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• Iranian pilgrims won't attend hajj amid row with Saudi Arabia

  29-05-2016 17:22
  
  Riyadh rejects Tehran’s claims of sabotage in latest disagreement between the rival countriesIran has said its pilgrims would not attend the annual hajj pilgrimage, blaming regional rival Saudi Arabia for “sabotage” and failing to guarantee the safety of pilgrims.Saudi Arabia, which oversees the pilgrimage to Mecca by more than 2 million Muslims from around the world, accused Iran of depriving its citizens of the religious duty by refusing to sign a memorandum reached after tal
  
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• GMP Refers Itself To Watchdog Over Woman's Death

  29-05-2016 16:59
  
  Greater Manchester Police has referred itself to the Independent Police Complaints Commission after the death of a 42-year-old woman. Detective Chief Inspector Howard Millington said the referral to the IPCC was "in line with our usual policy when an incident such as this occurs".
  
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• Posting photos online is not living. You are producing your own obituary | Rana Dasgupta

  29-05-2016 16:55
  
  As you point your phone at everything from Notre Dame to a slice of chocolate cake, remember these images will take on significance only after you have goneSummer begins again. Millions of people are packing their bags to get away from it all. Their eyes are ready for fresh sights: sun-drenched beaches, famous museums, parasolled cafes.More eyes than ever before will, however, see nothing fresher than the screens of their own smartphones. They will not need to look at sunsets and palm trees, for
  
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• Inmarsat faces relegation from FTSE 100

  29-05-2016 16:30
  
  Satellite communications group’s technical problems and profit warning may push it into FTSE 250 just a year after joining top flight indexInmarsat, the satellite communications group, is on course to lose its place in the FTSE 100 less than a year after joining the top flight index.The company has run into a number of obstacles in recent months, including delays in completing its Global Xpress satellite network – which offers high-speed broadband services to customers such as airlin
  
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about vertigo (but were too dizzy to ask)

  29-05-2016 16:00
  
  Is it the result of stress? Or an ear infection? And will it actually go away if rest is avoided?Up to one in 10 people will experience vertigo, dizziness or unsteadiness in any given year. In the vast majority of cases, the symptoms are unpleasant but harmless, and get better without treatment. Vertigo is used by health profressionals to describe the feeling that you, or the world around you, is moving when it is not: Alfred Hitchock’s masterpiece Vertigo is actually about a man’s m
  
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• Greater Manchester police force refers itself to IPCC over woman's death

  29-05-2016 15:48
  
  Referral comes after a woman spoken to by officers following abandoned 999 call is found dead a short while laterThe Greater Manchester police force has referred itself to the police watchdog over the death of a 42-year-old woman.Officers spoke to the woman, who had minor facial injuries, when they attended an address in Failsworth, Oldham, after they received an abandoned emergency call.Continue reading...
  
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• Bitter Tory EU Row Sparks Leadership Warning

  29-05-2016 15:48
  
  David Cameron has been put on notice by his own MPs who have warned he is "finished" after the EU referendum - even if his side wins. Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen escalated hostilities in the party by saying a challenge to the Prime Minister’s leadership was “highly likely” after 23 June. A vote of confidence in Mr Cameron’s leadership could be held if 50 MPs called for it, but half of the parliamentary party would need to vote to depose him as leader.
  
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• Cincinnati zoo visitors leave flowers for gorilla fatally shot after grabbing boy

  29-05-2016 15:45
  
  The 17-year-old endangered gorilla was put down after picking up and dragging four-year-old boy who fell into exhibit after climbing over barrier on SaturdayVisitors are leaving flowers at a gorilla statue inside the Cincinnati zoo one day after security officers killed a gorilla that had grabbed a boy who fell into the exhibit.Panicked zoo visitors watched helplessly and shouted “Stay calm!” while one woman yelled, “Mommy loves you!” as a 400lbs gorilla loomed over a fou
  
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• Family of driver killed in US strike on Taliban leader file criminal case

  29-05-2016 15:37
  
  Relatives of Mohammad Azam, killed while driving Mullah Mansoor across Pakistan, lodge a first investigation report for murderThe family of a taxi driver who was killed in a drone strike while driving the leader of the Afghan Taliban across Pakistan have lodged a criminal case against the US government.Mohammad Azam was killed on 21 May while unwittingly taking Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor from the Iranian border to Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.Continue reading...
  
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• Pete Souza: photographing the real Barack Obama

  29-05-2016 15:00
  
  Over two historic terms, official White House photographer Pete Souza has chronicled the most intimate, candid and comical moments of Barack Obama’s presidencyIt was a tale of two Americas. In Las Vegas the casinos were humming with a hell-yes tide that was about to sweep the manic Donald Trump to his most pumped-up victory yet. In Washington DC, civilisation still existed. In the week Trump’s xenophobic bid to be the Republican presidential candidate began to look unstoppable, the m
  
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• The Battle of Jutland: the Chilcot shambles of its day

  29-05-2016 14:37
  
  The mist and confusion surrounding the May 1916 naval battle is a reminder of the fearsome cost of military miscalculationAs the summer’s sporting calendar again comes into view, another familiar ritual of the season is an anguished backward look at the Battle of the Somme, which the British army launched against the Kaiser’s Germany on 1 July 1916. But should it share some of the anniversary attention?At the Somme, Britain suffered 20,000 dead on the first day alone, beginning a gri
  
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