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• Jordan Henderson praises work rate of Liverpool’s ‘world-class’ forwards

  07-11-2016 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  • Captain lauds Philippe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mané
  • Club are top of Premier League for the first time since May 2014Jordan Henderson has described the Liverpool forward line of Philippe Coutinho, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mané as world-class and insisted their work rate is responsible for the team’s rise. Related: Roberto Firmino personifies Jürgen Klopp’s impact in Liverpool’s rise to top | Andy HunterContinue reading...
  
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• Gareth Southgate: ‘Only Gazza could have done that celebration’

  07-11-2016 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  England’s interim manager played in the 2-0 Euro 96 defeat of Scotland at Wembley and wants similar emotion from his players in Friday’s World Cup qualifierIt was while Gareth Southgate was looking ahead to England’s game against Scotland and reiterating the importance of “emotional control” in these fixtures that his mind went back to Euro 96 and the kind of sketch that probably felt perfectly normal then bearing in mind the identity of the man around whom the stor
  
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• Canada to offer gender-neutral ‘other’ option for visitors

  07-11-2016 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Ability to designate ‘other’ gender option on identity documents such as travel, residency or employment papers has become a cause among many LGBT groups
  Some foreign visitors to Canada will be allowed to identify themselves as male, female or other in a border document being introduced this week, as Canada joins a handful of countries offering gender-neutral options. The new Electronic Travel Authorizations (eTAs) with three gender options will be introduced on Thursday for traveler
  
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• Raid on 20,000 Tesco Bank accounts fuels cybercrime fears

  07-11-2016 22:45
  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco Bank, owned by Britain's biggest retailer Tesco , halted online transactions from all current accounts on Monday after money was stolen from 20,000 of them in the country's first such cyber heist. The bank, which manages 136,000 current accounts, said it would repay people who had lost money in the attack, which targeted 40,000 accounts in all and fuelled fears about the British financial sector's vulnerability. Tesco Bank's Chief Executive Benny Higgi
  
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• Kurdish forces enter town near Mosul as Iraqi troops find mass grave

  07-11-2016 22:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Forces advancing south of Mosul uncover evidence of Isis brutality while peshmerga goes on offensive to recapture BashiqaIraqi Kurdish fighters have exchanged heavy fire with militants as they entered a town held by Islamic State east of Mosul, while troops advancing south of the city discovered a mass grave containing an estimated 100 or so decapitated bodies.The offensive to reclaim the town of Bashiqa is part of the broader push to drive Isis out of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, re
  
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• José Mourinho and injuries: a long, public, darkly productive relationship | Barney Ronay

  07-11-2016 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  The Manchester United manager has always demanded a level of athletic masochism from his players and not everyone at Old Trafford is appreciating it“I do not like talking about injured players,” José Mourinho announced a few months before he left Real Madrid – shortly before going on to talk, rather darkly, about assorted injured players and provide in the process another in a series of similar digressions through the sullen, dying autumn of his time at the Bernabé
  
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• RBS to set up compensation fund for small businesses

  07-11-2016 22:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Royal Bank of Scotland has faced repeated claims that it pushed SME customers to the brink of collapseRoyal Bank of Scotland is to set up a compensation fund for small business customers who claim they were badly treated by the bailed-out bank, in an attempt to draw a line under the long-running scandal.The bank, 73% owned by the taxpayer, has repeatedly defended itself against persistent claims from small businesses that they were deliberately pushed to the brink of collapse to enable it to mak
  
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• Veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young dies

  07-11-2016 22:32
  The veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young has died "peacefully at home", aged 95. In a radio broadcasting career spanning almost 30 years, Sir Jimmy became known as the "housewives' choice" and counted prime ministers and the Queen among his many millions of faithful listeners. The presenter interviewed every PM since Harold Macmillan, with Baroness Thatcher a guest no fewer than 14 times.
  
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• MPs claim to have found a pretty terribly hidden recording device in Sports Direct's warehouse

  07-11-2016 22:28
  
  They were meant to be having a private discussion there.
  
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• Theresa May demands answers from Baroness Scotland over expenses reports

  07-11-2016 21:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Commonwealth secretary general spent large sums refurbishing a grace and favour home in Mayfair, London, according to allegationsTheresa May has called for Baroness Scotland, the Commonwealth secretary general, to answer allegations that she spent large sums to refurbish a grace and favour home, saying the Labour peer would be judged on how she reformed her institution.Speaking to reporters on a visit to India, the prime minister was asked about several days of reports connected to Scotland, who
  
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• Steve Bell on Theresa May's trip to India – cartoon

  07-11-2016 21:44 via theguardian.com
  
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• Tesco Bank to complete hack refunds for customers on Tuesday

  07-11-2016 21:38
  
  Tesco Bank has pledged to reimburse by Tuesday night all customers who lost out following a weekend cyber heist on current accounts. The bank temporarily suspended all online transactions following the weekend hacking attack which affected thousands of people - with at least 20,000 understood to have fallen victim to thefts from their balances. Chief executive Benny Higgins confirmed on Monday that some current accounts were subjected to "online criminal activity", with "some cases" resulti
  
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• FA Cup second-round draw: Bolton home to Sheffield United

  07-11-2016 21:27 via theguardian.com
  
  • Westfields will host Bury or AFC Wimbledon if they can beat Curzon Ashton
  • Charlton v MK Dons; Woking v Accrington Stanley; Chesterfield v WycombeBolton have been handed a tough FA Cup second-round draw at home to Sheffield United. Bolton beat United 1-0 on the opening day of the season, with both teams chasing promotion in League One.Westfields, who play in the ninth tier and are the lowest ranked side left in the competition, will host Bury or AFC Wimbledon, if they can beat Curzo
  
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• A million love songs later ... Robbie Williams is ready for Take That reunion

  07-11-2016 21:24
  Pop star Robbie Williams has admitted he sees a Take That reunion "at some point". Take That will tour Britain next year and when asked if he could join them, Williams said: "It might happen, who knows, but right now I don't think so. Four of the members - Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Mark Owen and Jason Orange - got back together a decade later, before Orange left in 2014.
  
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• Arsenal’s Héctor Bellerín close to agreeing new contract extension

  07-11-2016 21:22 via theguardian.com
  
  • Agent has held talks with Arsenal officials
  • Defender has three years left and has been linked with BarcelonaHéctor Bellerín is close to agreeing a contract extension at Arsenal after his agent held productive talks in London last week.The Spain defender has been in sparkling form for Arsène Wenger’s side this season, helping them remain unbeaten since the opening day of the Premier League season. Catalonia-born Bellerín, who joined Arsenal in 2011
  
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• A look back at the life of Sir Jimmy Young

  07-11-2016 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The long-serving DJ, who spent almost three decades at BBC Radio 2, died "peacefully at home" on Monday afternoon with his wife Alicia by his side, a family spokesman said.
  
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• MoD to sell tenth of UK defence sites including D-day training ground

  07-11-2016 21:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Sites with space for 55,000 houses to be sold off including Fort George in Scotland, two York barracks and five golf coursesThe British government is to sell off almost a tenth of its defence sites worth up to £1bn by 2040, with the estate currently too large and costly to maintain, the defence secretary has told MPs.Michael Fallon said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) now plans to dispose of 56 more defence sites, in addition to the 35 sites which it had previously announced. The MoD owns ar
  
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• 'Quizzing government is trying to thwart people's will' says Grumpy | John Crace

  07-11-2016 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  David Davis, the Brexit minister, got grumpier the more reasonable the questions asked of him becameThis time last week, the last thing Theresa May really fancied was a trade mission to India. All that travel, all those meetings spent not discussing Tata steel and coming to speculative decisions that would be entirely dependent on Britain’s not-yet-started Brexit negotiations. But after the embarrassment of last Thursday’s high court ruling that the government couldn’t invoke a
  
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• Study reveals huge acceleration in erosion of England's white cliffs

  07-11-2016 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Iconic southern coastline is eroding 10 times faster than the past few thousand years due to human management and changes in storm intensityThe iconic white cliffs of southern England are eroding 10 times faster than they have over the past few thousand years, a new study has revealed. The cause of the huge acceleration is likely to be human management of the coastline, which has stripped some cliffs of their protective beaches, as well as changes in storm intensity. Climate change, which is bri
  
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• Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo says five-year contract is not his last

  07-11-2016 20:58 via theguardian.com
  
  • Thirty-one-year-old wants ‘to go on until I’m 41’
  • ‘I want to win more and more for the best club’Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a new five-year deal with Real Madrid but insists it will not be his last as he targets another decade at the top. Related: Cristiano Ronaldo signs new five-year Real Madrid contractContinue reading...
  
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• Obituary: Jimmy Young

  07-11-2016 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Veteran disc jockey who began his showbiz career as a crooner.
  
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• MP accuses Sports Direct of hiding a camera in a tray of sandwiches

  07-11-2016 20:58
  
  An MP has accused Sports Direct of hiding a camera in a tray of sandwiches to record a private meeting. Redcar MP Anna Turley, who was on the visit, said: "We had a positive tour around, we got to speak to a lot of the workforce and we got to see a lot of people who were very positive about the brand. "Then at the end of the meeting we sat down to have a private conversation in a room by ourselves, a lady came in with some sandwiches - which was very kind - and I saw her put a recording dev
  
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• Someone's put a whopping £200,000 bet on Donald Trump winning the US election

  07-11-2016 20:57
  
  As you do.
  
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• McDonald's claims $20m from Florence over piazza restaurant rebuff

  07-11-2016 20:57 via theguardian.com
  
  The fast-food chain is taking legal action over the ancient city’s refusal to allow it to open an outlet in the Piazza del DuomoMcDonald’s has filed a $20m lawsuit against Florence for blocking a proposed outlet in the city’s most revered square.The US fast-food chain said on Monday that it was claiming €17.8m ($19.65m) in damages after the city rejected an application to open an outlet in the historic Piazza del Duomo, one of the most visited places in Europe. Continue re
  
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• Broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young dies aged 95

  07-11-2016 20:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Radio veteran, who was one of original Radio 1 DJs and worked at BBC Radio 2 for almost 30 years, died ‘peacefully at home’The broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young has died aged 95, a family spokesman has said.The long-serving DJ, who spent almost three decades at BBC Radio 2, died “peacefully at home” with his wife Alicia by his side on Monday afternoon.Continue reading...
  
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• Veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young dies aged 95

  07-11-2016 20:55
  The veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young has died "peacefully at home," aged 95.
  
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• What's more terrifying than one Donald Trump? Two, that's what

  07-11-2016 20:47
  
  The Donald has a Hamlet moment with a mask of himself.
  
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• UFC's Jon Jones given one-year ban after taking pill to boost sexual performance

  07-11-2016 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  US Anti-Doping Agency rules Jones was careless rather than a cheatPanel says interim light heavyweight champion could lose $9m in earnings
  Jon Jones, the UFC’s interim light heavyweight champion, and one of the organization’s biggest draws, has been given a one-year suspension by the US Anti-Doping Agency.The 29 year-old had entered arbitration with Usada last month over an out of competition test in June. The test showed Jones had used the prohibited substances clomiphene and letroz
  
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• Top French offices stop work in support of gender pay gap protest

  07-11-2016 20:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Institutions including Paris City Hall stop work amid spontaneous demonstations to highlight wage disparity between men and womenStaff at some of Paris’s most high-profile political and cultural offices stopped work at 4.34pm on Monday in solidarity with a protest against women being paid less than men. Women’s rights campaigners at the feminist newsletter Les Glorieuses had urged female workers to down tools from that time. They suggested that doing so until the end of the year &nda
  
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• Tesco Bank attack's knock-on effects could be severe

  07-11-2016 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As well as a possible fine for a security breach, the retail giant could face intervention from a range of regulatorsTesco Bank’s chief executive Benny Higgins isn’t paid £2.2m a year (plus fabulous taxi expenses) on a whim. He commands a banker’s princely pay packet because the supermarket chain intends to be big in banking.Expanding in financial services is a sensible strategy if, like Tesco, you think you have three factors in your favour. First, your brand enjoys grea
  
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• Theresa May finds free movement for trade an issue outside EU as well

  07-11-2016 20:22 via theguardian.com
  
  As visas and migration dominate talks in India, the PM must be realising the mountain she has to climb in a post-Brexit world Theresa May came to India for her first bilateral meeting outside of Europe arguing that she wanted to lay the groundwork for a significant post-Brexit trade deal.India, with its historic and cultural ties to Britain, is exactly the sort of country that “hello world” Brexiters claimed the UK could do business with after leaving the European Union. It’s i
  
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• Sadiq Khan to draft new London police and crime plan by Christmas

  07-11-2016 20:21 via theguardian.com
  
  The capital’s mayor is seeking Londoners’ views on their priorities for the Met and its performance as he develops his policing policyThe first Police and Crime Plan for London had a crowd-pleasing quality, as might have been expected from the mayoralty of Boris Johnson. The document, which the capital’s mayors must produce through their office for policing and crime (MOPAC), set a list of six targets for the period 2013-2016, all of which which featured the figure 20%. It prom
  
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• BHA ‘considers urgently what action is warranted’ after three jockeys accused of rape

  07-11-2016 20:19 via theguardian.com
  
  • The men were arrested by Wiltshire police in connection with alleged incident
  • Professional Jockeys Association reminds members to ‘respect formal process’The British Horseracing Authority is considering whether immediate action is required in the case of three jockeys accused of rape.The men were arrested by Wiltshire Police on Friday and Saturday in connection with an alleged incident at a home in Chiseldon, Swindon, on Thursday night. Continue reading...
  
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• Lib Dem leader Tim Farron is pretty miffed that Theresa May has wished both Trump and Clinton good luck

  07-11-2016 20:11
  
  The PM is sticking to the Government’s position of not expressing a preference.
  
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• Two prisoners escape from Pentonville as governors warn of growing jail crisis

  07-11-2016 20:08 via theguardian.com
  
  James Whitlock and Matthew Baker break out of London jail, and PGA says blame should be directed at governmentTwo prisoners, one of whom was recently found guilty of attempted murder, have escaped from Pentonville prison in London, triggering a stark warning from prison governors that worse is to come.The fugitives, who reportedly fooled prison staff by leaving makeshift mannequins in their beds, were named by Scotland Yard as Matthew Baker, 28, convicted two weeks ago of attempted murder, and J
  
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• Treasury tries to thwart EU plans for tax haven blacklist

  07-11-2016 20:07 via theguardian.com
  
  UK territories such as Jersey, Guernsey and Cayman Islands should not be singled out because of zero-rate tax, argues David GaukeThe UK government is fighting a rearguard action to prevent Guernsey, Jersey and British overseas territories from going on an EU blacklist of tax havens.At a meeting of EU finance ministers on Tuesday in Brussels, David Gauke, chief secretary to the Treasury, will tell his counterparts that the UK opposes attempts to put territories with a zero rate of corporation tax
  
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• UK privacy watchdog says Facebook agrees to suspend using WhatsApp users' data

  07-11-2016 20:04
  By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain's privacy watchdog said on Monday that Facebook has agreed to suspend using data from UK users of its WhatsApp messaging app after the watchdog said consumers weren't properly protected. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) had said in August that it would monitor WhatsApp's new privacy policy, after WhatsApp, acquired by Facebook in 2014, said it would share user data with its parent company. "We're pleased that they've agreed to pause using
  
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• Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip

  07-11-2016 19:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Will Allied be remembered as a war classic – or for the feverish speculation about the relationship between Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard? From Burton and Taylor to Titanic, here’s what happens when Hollywood loses control
  The film world approaches its awards season, and is experiencing a recurrent phenomenon concerning the way press promotional comment becomes dangerously unhelpful and unmanaged. The errant publicity takes up as much cultural space as the film, a distracting altern
  
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• Fact proves stranger than fiction when it comes to the HMP Pentonville prisoner escape

  07-11-2016 19:44
  
  It sounds like something from a movie script – except it’s not, it’s totally real.
  
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• British-run cafe named France's best village bistro by Le Fooding

  07-11-2016 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The Epicerie de Dienne run by Manchester-born Chris Wright takes top prize for ‘unstuffy and cosmopolitan approach’A small cafe run almost singlehandedly by a British chef has been named France’s best village bistro.Manchester-born Chris Wright set up the Epicerie de Dienne as a shop-cum-cafe in a remote village in the mountainous Cantal region of central France in June. Continue reading...
  
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• Sports Direct accused of secretly recording MPs during warehouse visit

  07-11-2016 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Business select committee members toured site after company was accused in July of running business like Victorian workhouse Sports Direct’s efforts to rehabilitate its reputation after a year-long scandal over working practices took a farcical turn on Monday when the retailer was accused of secretly recording a group of MPs visiting its controversial warehouse.Six MPs from the business select committee, which in the summer published a scathing report into company, also claimed the company
  
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• Sports Direct accused of recording MPs during surprise warehouse visit

  07-11-2016 19:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Business select committee members toured site after company was accused in July of running business like Victorian workhouse Sports Direct’s efforts to rehabilitate its reputation after a year-long scandal over working practices took a farcical turn on Monday when the retailer was accused of secretly recording a group of MPs visiting its controversial warehouse.Six MPs from the business select committee, which in the summer published a scathing report into company, also claimed the company
  
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• David Davis: supreme court may not rule on article 50 until January

  07-11-2016 19:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Decision early next year could leave government with tight timetable for a vote of MPs before self-imposed March deadlineDavid Davis has confirmed that the government may have to wait until January for a supreme court ruling on whether it can press ahead with the formal process of exiting the EU without a parliamentary vote.The Brexit secretary told the House of Commons that the supreme court would hear the government’s appeal against last week’s high court decision early next month;
  
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• Women swear as much as men – so here’s to equal-opportunity cursing

  07-11-2016 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  British women now use expletives more than ever, according to a new survey. But who gives a f...?Congratulations to women for shattering another glass ceiling this week: British women now swear more often than British men, and they say the F-word almost five times as much as they did in the 1990s, according to a study. Like that pillar of Britishness Adele – who described her Glastonbury triumph earlier this year as “fucking amazing” despite the BBC’s request that she kee
  
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• Marriage tax break taken up by fewer than one in four eligible couples

  07-11-2016 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  HMRC says it is stepping up marketing campaign for the allowance, but Lib Dems urge Tories to abandon ‘flop’ schemeFewer than one in four eligible married couples have applied for an allowance that could reduce their tax bill by up to £220 a year, HMRC figures show.The slow take-up is understood to be a source of great frustration at HMRC, which has promoted the scheme extensively on consumer websites and in national media. Continue reading...
  
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• I'm supposed to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman. Well, I won't | LaSha

  07-11-2016 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Identity politics led me to vote for Barack Obama. But Clinton’s past – and the gulf between her experience as a woman and mine – mean I can’t back herBecause of the color of my skin, I am forced into playing identity politics. I didn’t vote for Barack Obama because I liked his policy positions. I saw a black man with a black wife and children and I needed to believe he would work better for me than his predecessors. I have no intentions of defending my choice to he
  
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• Animality review – a cacophonous gathering of art's jungle VIPs

  07-11-2016 19:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Marian Goodman Gallery, London
  A pink octopus, an albino camel, a bronze slug … a menagerie of curious creatures slyly evoke the mysteries of the animal kingdomBird song, or something like it, fills the air. “Art! Art! Aaaartschwager! Beuys. Beuys. Schnaaaabel!” The names of big-time boy artists, screeched and cackled by Louise Lawler in her 1972-81 sound-work Birdcalls, greet visitors to Animality, a funny and thoughtful exhibition about our relationship with the animal kingd
  
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• Who is to blame for this awful US election?

  07-11-2016 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Fox News? The four horsemen of the Republican apocalypse? The FBI? Whatever the outcome, historians will judge harshly those who did not stop Trump when they couldThe US election might not end tomorrow. Anyone who lived through the photo-finish of 2000, when it took until mid-December for a winner to be declared – and only then by a ruling of the supreme court – will know that a presidential contest does not always produce a president, at least not right away. But one thing will cert
  
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• Why don't some people like Hillary Clinton?

  07-11-2016 18:59
  
  Plenty of people have legitimate concerns about a Hillary Clinton presidency.
  
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• Raid on 20,000 Tesco Bank accounts fuels UK cyber crime fears

  07-11-2016 18:54
  By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) - Tesco Bank, owned by Britain's biggest retailer Tesco , halted all online transactions on Monday after money was stolen from 20,000 accounts in the country's first such cyber heist. The bank, which manages 136,000 current accounts, did not explain how the thefts had happened but said it would repay people who had lost money in the online bank heist, which targeted 40,000 accounts in all and fuelled fears about the British financial sector's vulnerability. Te
  
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