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• UK committed to 'deep and special EU partnership'

  26-04-2017 23:54
  Britain wants a "deep and special partnership" with the EU after Brexit, Theresa May has told Brussels chiefs in talks at 10 Downing Street.The Prime Minister held a "working dinner" lasting an hour and 45 minutes with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker and the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.After the meeting, a No 10 spokesperson said: "The PM had a constructive meeting this evening with President Juncker of the European Commission.
  
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• Zac Goldsmith to stand again for Conservatives in Richmond Park

  26-04-2017 23:49
  
  Zac Goldsmith lost his seat to Liberal Democrats’ Sarah Olney in December 2016.Zac Goldsmith has been selected to stand again for the Conservatives in Richmond Park just a few months after resigning over Heathrow expansion, while former cabinet minister Esther McVey has been picked to run in George Osborne’s old seat of Tatton.The two Conservatives were picked by their local parties despite having previously lost their seats.
  
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• London Underground bomb was a 'prank', student tells court

  26-04-2017 23:33
  A university student with an interest in Islam planted a homemade ball-bearing bomb on a tube train in central London, a court has heard.Damon Smith, 20, from Newton Abbott, left a bomb in a rucksack in the front carriage of a Jubilee Line tube train on a weekday morning in October last year.The court heard that Smith had a keen interest in Islam, guns, explosives and gambling, and collected pictures of extremists, including Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the 2015 Paris terror att
  
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• May tries to warm the Brexit atmosphere with EU

  26-04-2017 23:23
  
  British Prime Minister Theresa May told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday she wanted a "deep and special relationship" with the European Union, trying to warm the atmosphere before Brexit talks begin.After a dinner at her Downing Street official residence with the EU's main Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, and his British counterpart, David Davis, both sides said the meeting was "constructive" but offered few details.
  
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• Boris Johnson backs Theresa May's Brexit credentials

  26-04-2017 23:22
  
  Boris Johnson has burst on to the General Election campaign stage declaring that Theresa May will "pull it off" in Brexit negotiations.After claims that some Cabinet ministers want the Prime Minister to sideline him, the Foreign Secretary has made a powerful speech praising her leadership.In his first major intervention in the campaign, at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in the City of London, Mr Johnson strongly endorsed Mrs May's Brexit strategy.
  
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• 'It’s going to be a bloodbath': Tories target high-profile Labour seats

  26-04-2017 22:53
  
  Tom Watson’s seat of West Bromwich East and Liz Kendall’s of Leicester West could both be targeted by Tory campaigners.Conservative campaigners are planning to target high-profile Labour MPs, some with large majorities, in the hope of unseating current and former shadow ministers including Liz Kendall, Tom Watson and Vernon Coaker.Labour is set to send resources for election battles in seats that the party would normally consider to be safe, including campaigns to shore up MPs who ha
  
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• May tells EU's Juncker she wants 'deep and special partnership'

  26-04-2017 22:41
  Britain is committed "to achieving a deep and special partnership with the European Union", British Prime Minister Theresa May told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday, her spokesperson said."The PM had a constructive meeting this evening with President Juncker of the European Commission," the spokesperson said in a statement.
  
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• Boris on Brexit: 'Every reason to be confident'

  26-04-2017 22:10
  
  The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has said the UK has "every reason to be very very confident about the (Brexit) outcome".
  
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• Boris Johnson: Brexit will usher in new era of free trade deals

  26-04-2017 22:00
  
  Boris Johnson said the Brexit process might cause ‘some plaster to fall off the ceiling’.Boris Johnson has used his first major speech of the general election campaign to say that Brexit will allow Theresa May to strike new trade deals that could allow the sale of haggis to the US and lower tariffs on whisky to India.The foreign secretary waded into the campaign as Conservative sources sought to dismiss the idea he would be sidelined by May to minimise the potential for gaffes and en
  
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• Crystal Palace v Tottenham: Premier League – live!

  26-04-2017 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Updates from the Premier League 8pm BST kick-offFollow Arsenal v Leicester – live!Feel free to email [email protected] 7.51pm BSTSam Allardyce talks! “It’s our catch-up game. Anything we get out of this will be a massive bonus for us. It will be hugely difficult as they are in magnificent form. It’s a big ask again. We’ve exceeded expectation recently but let’s not get carried away, this will be a hugely tough match. If we can achieve anything it wo
  
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• Arsenal v Leicester City: Premier League – live!

  26-04-2017 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Click here for the latest scores from all Wednesday’s gamesFollow Crystal Palace v Tottenham – live!Email [email protected] or tweet @timmyhilleh 7.50pm BST4 min Gibbs crosses from the left, and Fuchs heads clear. No one in a red and white shirt attacked it. 7.48pm BST2 min Arsenal have lined up with three in defence: Gabriel, Koscielny and Monreal. Bellerin and Gibbs are wide, and Coquelin and Xhaka patrolling the midfield. Leicester in conventional 4-4-2. Continue reading...
  
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• Trump unveils 'most significant tax reforms since 1986', but experts sceptical -- business live

  26-04-2017 20:49 via theguardian.com
  
  US president’s team outlines ‘massive’ tax cuts and reforms, but won’t say whether Donald Trump pay more or less under the planLatest: Announcement highlights start hereCohn: Most significant tax reforms since 1986Plan will deliver growth and jobs, advisors claimBut there’s not much detail - just one sheet of paperMnuchin: Trump won’t release tax returnsTax brackets to be cut to three, Death Tax to goCorporation tax would be cut to 15%ActionAid: It’s a r
  
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• United Airlines 'saddened' by death of giant rabbit after transatlantic flight

  26-04-2017 20:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Airline launches investigation after rabbit expected to be the world’s biggest found dead after travelling from London to Chicago United Airlines has said that a potentially record-breaking giant rabbit died in its care, but only after the transatlantic flight it was travelling on had landed.The 3ft (90cm) continental giant rabbit named Simon, which was 10 months old, perished while travelling from London Heathrow to O’Hare airport in Chicago. Continue reading...
  
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• Orbán on offensive after EU takes legal action over Soros university

  26-04-2017 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  PM in truculent mood as he rejects claims Hungary’s education laws designed to close institution founded by US billionaireViktor Orbán, Hungary’s rightwing prime minister, has come out fighting against legal action launched by the EU because of his treatment of a leading university founded by George Soros, claiming Brussels was supporting a financial speculator who had destroyed the lives of millions of Europeans.Related: University chief appeals for EU help to fight Hungarian
  
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• The Guardian view on Apple-Uber affair: reasons to tame Silicon Valley | Editorial

  26-04-2017 20:23 via theguardian.com
  
  The dealings of two of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies shows that there remains an urgent political task to bring a rogue culture to heelThe taxi-hailing company Uber brings into very sharp focus the question of whether corporations can be said to have a moral character. If any human being were to behave with the single-minded and ruthless greed of the company, we would consider them sociopathic. Uber wanted to know as much as possible about the people who use its service, and those who
  
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• Lib Dems will stand on their own merits | Letters

  26-04-2017 20:09
  
  Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron campaigning in St Albans. ‘Only by electing more Liberal Democrat MPs can we gain the influence needed to stop a hard Brexit,’ write Tom Brake MP and others.As for the current Labour party under Corbyn, it has little chance of immediate major success.Its members need to wake up to the fact that giving Corbyn their enthusiastic support in leadership contests is quite different from the business of pulling in votes during parliamentary elections.
  
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• Why is the quiet life in Britain reserved for the rich? | Mary Dejevsky

  26-04-2017 20:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Celebrity complaints about building disruption hog the headlines. But with regulations not fit for purpose, the rest of us have to suffer in silenceCritics of the royals have found another stick to beat the Cambridges with. Residents of their select corner of London are reportedly up in arms over plans for a double-storey extension beneath the Orangery at Kensington Palace, citing the noise, the pollution and the general inappropriateness of the whole idea. Defenders of the scheme insist that it
  
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• Deutsche Bank: 4,000 jobs at risk of being moved out of UK after Brexit

  26-04-2017 20:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Bank says 2,000 front office people could be moved, with another 2,000 posts to be reviewed depending on new regulationsDeutsche Bank has warned that up to 4,000 UK jobs could be moved to Frankfurt and other locations in the European Union as a result of Brexit.Germany’s biggest bank employs 9,000 staff across the UK, including 7,000 in the City, and has called for clarity about how transactions worth billions of euros will be dealt with after the UK leaves the EU. Continue reading...
  
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• In support of the Stonehenge tunnel | Letters

  26-04-2017 19:51
  
  Despite attempts to remove it, the A303 continues to cut through the world heritage site.Attempts to agree a proposal to remove the A303 surface road from the Stonehenge world heritage site have been made regularly since 1989 (A monstrous act of desecration is brewing, 26 April).Despite attempts to remove it, the A303 continues to cut through the world heritage site, making exploration of two-thirds of the site unsafe, causing pollution and damaging the ancient landscape.
  
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• Flat-pack fashion: Ikea takes swipe at Balenciaga's $2,150 shopping bag

  26-04-2017 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Swedish furniture giant issues a guide to identifying a genuine Frakta bag after influential fashion house launches uncannily similar toteRemember the last time you lugged a bag of stuff around Ikea? Remember how your back strained; how the scratchy handles tore at the skin on your palms and turned your fingers blue? Well here’s some interesting news from the world of fashion: that, right there, was you living your best, most aspirational life. That was your big style moment. Because Ikea
  
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• HMRC officials raid West Ham United's offices

  26-04-2017 19:50
  
  HMRC officials have raided West Ham United's London Stadium ground as part of a huge football transfer tax fraud investigation.
  
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• Alice Ruggles murder: Soldier Trimaan 'Harry' Dhillon jailed for 22 years

  26-04-2017 19:48
  Lance Corporal Trimaan "Harry" Dhillon left Alice Ruggles to bleed to death on her bathroom floor after breaking into her flat in Gateshead and slashing her neck.Sentencing Dhillon to life with a minimum of 22 years, Judge Paul Sloan said the murder was an act of "utter barbarism".Miss Ruggles, from Leicestershire, had met Dhillon online, while he was serving in Afghanistan.
  
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• Wales should not fear going independent | Brief letters

  26-04-2017 19:46
  
  • This £30,000 fine is an outrageous attack on free speech (Greenpeace fined after refusing to obey controversial lobbying law, 19 April).It is also an attack on those who, like me, regularly give money to Greenpeace.• I was disappointed to learn that some at the Women’s Summit booed Ivanka Trump (Report, 26 April).
  
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• Isis faces exodus of foreign fighters as its 'caliphate' crumbles

  26-04-2017 19:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Two Britons and one US citizen are among dozens who have surrendered or been caught at Turkish borderLarge numbers of foreign fighters are abandoning Islamic State and trying to enter Turkey, with at least two British nationals and a US citizen joining an exodus that is depleting the ranks of the terror group.Stefan Aristidou, from Enfield in north London, his British wife and Kary Paul Kleman, a resident of Florida, last week surrendered to Turkish border police after more than two y
  
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• Second man held over murder of car theft victim Mike Samwell in Manchester

  26-04-2017 19:39
  The suspect, 20, was detained on Wednesday by police hunting those behind the death of Mike Samwell, 35, who died in the early hours of Sunday morning.Mr Samwell had been chasing intruders from his £500,000 home in Chorlton, Manchester, after they broke in while he and his wife Jess were asleep upstairs.The second suspect, from south Manchester, remains in police custody for questioning, Greater Manchester Police said.
  
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• Medieval Jewish papers tell vivid stories in Cambridge exhibition

  26-04-2017 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  11th-century documents from Genizah store in Old Cairo synagogue cover whole range of human life, co-curator says
  From the faded brown ink on the yellowed paper of a document going on display this week in Cambridge, a startling picture emerges of a young man who lived and loved in 11th-century Cairo. Toviyya wanted to marry Faiza, but he evidently had quite a reputation. The document, translated into English and on show for the first time in an exhibition at Cambridge University Library, records
  
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• Second man arrested over death of ex-navy officer Mike Samwell

  26-04-2017 19:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Greater Manchester police say second suspect, 20, arrested on suspicion of murder after Samwell was run over with own carA second man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the death of a former Royal Navy officer who is believed to have been run over with his own car.A 20-year-old man from south Manchester was taken into custody on Wednesday by police investigating the death of Mike Samwell. A 21-year-old man arrested on Monday was released on bail the next day. Continue re
  
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• Marine Le Pen springs surprise visit on Macron during picket line campaign trip

  26-04-2017 19:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Presidential frontrunner was meeting with striking factory workers but far-right candidate rushed to her heartlands to try to show up rivalThe French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron was met with boos and jeers at a factory picket line in northern France after he was upstaged by a surprise appearance by his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen.The political standoff amid the striking workers highlighted not only the plight of deindustrialisation in France but also the bitter public relations b
  
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• On Saudi women’s rights, the UN has it shockingly wrong | Peter Bradshaw

  26-04-2017 19:18 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s absurd that a country whose women are ‘empowered’ to be submissive to men has been elected to the UN’s new equality commissionThere is a great scene in the HBO comedy Veep, in which Selina Meyer, the US vice-president played by Julia-Louis Dreyfus, sets up a “symposium on race” in order to make her look more serious and concerned. As she is introduced one by one to the individual panel members, Meyer makes a heart-sinking discovery. “Why are they al
  
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• US commander not confident North Korea will refrain from nuclear assault

  26-04-2017 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Adm Harry Harris testifies before House, indicating a preference for a US show of military force in order to deter North Korea from launching a devastating assaultThe US admiral in charge of a potential conflict with North Korea has said his goal is to bring Kim Jong-un “to his senses, not to his knees”.Tensions between the US and North Korea are white-hot ahead of an anticipated sixth nuclear test from Pyongyang and its accelerating long-range missile development. Donald Trump has i
  
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• Swinton Insurance to axe 900 UK jobs as 84 branches under review

  26-04-2017 19:17
  UK insurance broker Swinton has announced it plans to axe 900 jobs by the end of this year as more people choose to renew their policies online.The company is putting 84 of its 194 high street branches under review, as well as a call centre in Norwich.Swinton currently employs around 3,000 people in the UK, meaning roughly a third of its workforce is likely to go.
  
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• Super-parties: the hot, new youth craze that never was

  26-04-2017 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  According to Newcastle city council and the national press, the student house party has spiralled into an extra-strength cocktail of dangerous drugs, overcrowding and injury. So, what do the partymakers say? You may have been to a regular house party, complete with the blue plastic bag of paint-stripper Bulgarian wine and the constant YouTube-ing of the same DJ Pied Piper deep cut. Workaday. But have you ever been to a super-party?Well, wise up grandaddy-o. Super-partying is a hot, new youth cra
  
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• Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’

  26-04-2017 19:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Twenty-five years after the LA riots, Spike Lee has made a film about Rodney King, whose beating by the police triggered the uprising. Does he think things have improved in the US? ‘Race is always going to be an issue in this country’Spike Lee can’t recall the first time he saw the grainy video of Rodney King being beaten by LAPD officers in March 1991. Those shaky, now infamous images shot by then 31-year-old plumber George Holliday reverberated first around the United States,
  
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• Fire at Manchester cancer hospital declared 'major incident'

  26-04-2017 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Fire service says blaze is contained but it will maintain a significant presence at the scene for at least a further 24 hoursFirefighters have declared a blaze at a leading cancer research hospital in Manchester to be a “major incident”, warning that it would leave the fire service less able to attend other incidents until it was put out.Crews were called to the cancer centre at 10.36am on Wednesday after fire broke out in a three-storey building housing offices and laboratories at t
  
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• Pincer-wielding 507m-year-old fossil sheds light on evolution of crabs

  26-04-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mandibulates, a group that includes crustaceans and insects, show huge diversity – Tokummia katalepsis could be the missing link that explains whyA fossilised ancient creature boasting huge pincers resembling can-openers, a hinged two-piece shell and more than 50 pairs of legs has been discovered, shedding light on the evolutionary past of a huge and diverse group of animals.Researchers say the creature, thought to have lived about 507 million years ago during the Cambrian period, offers i
  
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• John Downing's best photograph: Mujahideen posing in an Afghanistan safe house

  26-04-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘They smuggled me over the border in an old ambulance. I was wearing a burqa, hunching down, pretending to be a woman’In the early 1980s, I was travelling in Afghanistan with the mujahideen, the rebels who were fighting the Russians with the only weapons they had: AK47 rifles and a few rocket launchers. They were tremendously dramatic looking and made for fantastic photographs.
  Nobody was getting into the country at the time, but a reporter and I went to Peshawar on the Pakistan bord
  
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• DNA-based test can spot cancer recurrence a year before conventional scans

  26-04-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Liquid biopsy’ diagnosed cancer recurrence up to a year before CT scans are able to in major lung cancer trial, and could buy crucial time for doctorsA revolutionary blood test has been shown to diagnose the recurrence of cancer up to a year in advance of conventional scans in a major lung cancer trial.The test, known as a liquid biopsy, could buy crucial time for doctors by indicating that cancer is growing in the body when tumours are not yet detectable on CT scans and long before
  
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• Could history of humans in North America be rewritten by broken bones?

  26-04-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Smashed mastodon bones show humans arrived over 100,000 years earlier than previously thought say researchers, although other experts are scepticalThe history of the people of America, a story that dates back to the last ice age, has been upended by the battered bones of a mastodon found under a freeway construction site in California.Archaeological sites in North America have led most researchers to believe that the continent was first reached by humans like us, Homo sapiens, about 15,000 years
  
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• Lib Dems drop 'anti-Semitic' candidate David Ward

  26-04-2017 18:55
  
  A former Liberal Democrat MP branded "anti-Semitic" has been dramatically sacked as a candidate only hours after being condemned by Theresa May in the Commons.David Ward, MP for Bradford East from 2010-15, was selected by party activists in the constituency as their General Election candidate in a bid to win back the seat from Labour."I believe in a politics that is open, tolerant and united," said Mr Farron.
  
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• Ex-Knights of Malta leader to defy papal order and attend succession meeting

  26-04-2017 18:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Matthew Festing, who resigned in January, could reignite conflict with Vatican by disobeying direct order from Pope Francis to stay away from meetingThe ousted grand master of the Catholic charity Knights of Malta will attend a meeting that could elect his successor, the group has said, in direct defiance of Pope Francis’s order for him to stay away. A spokesperson for the Knights said Matthew Festing, who resigned on 24 January, had informed the group that he would come to the meeting thi
  
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• Jonathan Demme: 'A storyteller of bold and muscular force' | Peter Bradshaw

  26-04-2017 18:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The Silence of the Lambs director, who has died aged 73, was an artist of brilliance and intuition as well as a master craftsman of great character dramasThe colossally talented and productive Jonathan Demme never assumed or wanted the status of an auteur, and in fact his one consciously cinephile project, The Truth About Charlie in 2002 – a remake of the 1960s caper Charade with nods to Truffaut – was not much liked. But Demme was a ceaselessly inventive and creative film-maker, a s
  
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• ‘Kraftwerk is great for toilet training’ – how to use music to raise your kids

  26-04-2017 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  From teaching them to count with Springsteen to commuting to your teen’s grime playlist, streaming has pushed music into previously hushed corners of family life
  Which 10 songs help your family life run smoothly? Share your playlist to win a 12-month Spotify Family subscriptionLong before I was an overwhelmed music fan and an even more overwhelmed mum, the idea of sharing music with my parents was as embarrassing as admitting to fancying the weird one from a-ha. My Bangles album played in
  
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• Banned Russian singer to perform in Crimea as Eurovision starts

  26-04-2017 18:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Yulia Samoilova will give a concert in the annexed territory after Ukraine banned her from competing in the 2017 contest in KievThe Russian singer banned from this year’s Eurovision song contest is to give a concert in annexed Crimea on the same day the music tournament starts in Kiev. Ukrainian authorities banned Yulia Samoilova from entering the country because she had travelled to Crimea without receiving permission from the Ukrainian government.Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, a move tha
  
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• Kendrick Lamar v Pope Francis – the importance of being humble

  26-04-2017 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The rapper and the pontiff have been singing from the same hymn sheet lately: egos are out and humility is in. But who is best at practising what they preach?
  Humility, apparently, is the new megalomania. Maybe it’s the effect of Kanye West blethering on about being a genius, but it’s no longer cool to be half-crazed by your perceived brilliance. You have to be polite, deferential and, crucially, not a dick. The poster boy of this new anti-braggadocio is Kendrick Lamar, who, ironical
  
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• It's not a perk when big employers offer egg-freezing – it's a bogus bribe

  26-04-2017 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Companies such as Apple and Facebook are helping female employees put off motherhood in the name of empowerment. But these women are being dealt a dodgy hand Although you may want one, you do not need a relationship with a man to have a baby. You need money and time. You can buy sperm; sometimes it even comes for free. These are the new facts of life. Or, rather, the alternative facts that we are sold in the name of that moronic catch-all “empowerment”. You can empower yourself as a
  
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• It's not a perk when big employers offer egg-freezing – it's a bogus bribe

  26-04-2017 18:29
  
  Currently, British companies are talking to IVF clinics about offering “egg-freezing” as a perk for female employees.Care Fertility, the UK’s largest private chain of clinics, says this can benefit women in their 20s and 30s, allowing them to focus on their careers.Both Facebook and Apple have offered subsidised freezing for some staff, up to a cost of £16,000.
  
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• TfL to spend £18m on preparing London for new electric black cabs

  26-04-2017 18:24
  
  From January 2018, all new black cabs must be battery powered, such as the model pictured.Transport for London is spending £18m on upgrading the capital’s power grids to charge the first generation of battery-powered black cabs.From 1 January 2018, all new black cabs will have to be battery-powered electric models by law as part of TfL’s effort to reduce toxic pollution from diesel engines.
  
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• UK to take 130 more lone refugee children in Dubs scheme climbdown

  26-04-2017 18:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Peer criticises ‘shocking mistake’ as ministers say ‘administrative error’ meant they underestimated available placesBritain is to take an extra 130 unaccompanied child refugees from within Europe under the Dubs scheme after ministers blamed “an administrative error” for not taking up all the offers of places pledged by local councils.The admission by ministers that they could have taken more children under the scheme is particularly embarrassing as they stron
  
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• 'Have a little swagger', CEOs tell May in bid to make Brexit pay

  26-04-2017 18:19
  
  By Kylie MacLellan and Huw JonesLONDON (Reuters) - Global chief executives and investors had some sharp advice for Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday: Make Brexit a success by looking beyond the European Union and adopting a little swagger about the benefits of the world's fifth largest economy.While repeatedly calling for a close relationship with the EU after Britain's divorce, May has also pitched what she calls a more "global Britain" by reaching out to new trade partners as well as boo
  
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• Amazon unveils Echo Look, a selfie camera to help you choose what to wear

  26-04-2017 18:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Hands-free, voice-powered smart selfie camera takes photos and videos on command while its virtual assistant Alexa gives fashion advice Amazon has unveiled the Echo Look, a new voice-controlled selfie camera pitched as the ultimate bedroom companion that allows AI assistant Alexa to give you fashion tips and tell you what to wear.The camera, which is available by invitation only in the US costing $200 (£156), stands on a shelf armed with four LEDs for lighting, a depth-sensing system and a
  
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