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• Jürgen Klopp’s defence will give him confidence for Manchester City return | Paul Wilson

  07-04-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  After two seasons the Liverpool manager has found a system that works, led by the £75m signing Virgil van Dijk“If we have to score five goals to win, then so be it,” Vincent Kompany said when it was put to him that a single Liverpool goal at the Etihad on Tuesday would surely leave Manchester City with too much to do to progress in the Champions League. “We won’t stop believing. We will still take a positive attitude into the game and try to get through.”
  
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• Singing as if you're straight... when you're gay

  07-04-2018 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  More and more artists are openly singing about the gay experience after years of warbling love songs aimed at the opposite sex.
  
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• Gender pay gap: Six things we've learnt

  07-04-2018 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  For the first time, the extent of pay differences between men and women in the UK has been exposed.
  
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• Troy: Fall of a City recap – series 1, episode 8: The Offering

  07-04-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The finale of the BBC’s big-budget – but often lumpy – show finally give us a love story and a tragedy worthy of the nameTrue to form, Troy: Fall of a City bowed out with an episode that was bleakly brilliant and frustratingly uneven. This was one of the few takes on Troy that got the role of the gods right and the invented stories involving ordinary citizens were sympathetic and well told. Most of all, Chloe Pirrie and Joseph Mawle were outstanding as Andromache and Odysseus,
  
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• More elderly are dying after falls as care crisis deepens

  07-04-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Shortages of nurses and healthcare assistants in hospitals and care homes are blamed for a sharp rise in deathsThe number of Britons dying after suffering a fall is rising sharply, especially among the very old, raising fresh concern about the lack of social care and understaffing in hospitals and care homes.Doctors are warning that while the trend is linked to the ageing population, the fact that the increase in deaths is outstripping the growth in numbers of people aged over 65 is a cause for
  
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• How Facebook got into a mess – and why it can’t get out of it

  07-04-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Mark Zuckerberg will be hauled before Congress this week. He’ll apologise – but his company doesn’t know how to change its brand of ‘surveillance capitalism’Ponder this … and weep. The United States, theoretically a mature democracy of 327 million souls, is ruled by a 71-year-old unstable narcissist with a serious social media habit. And the lawmakers of this republic have hauled up before them a 34-year-old white male, one Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, the sole an
  
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• Who can solve London’s knife crime crisis?

  07-04-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  After a week when knife crime hit the headlines we ask campaigners, experts and ex-gang members how to stem the tidePatsy McKie, founding member of Mothers Against Violence, Manchester Continue reading...
  
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• Violent youths ‘should face social media ban’

  07-04-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Chair of all-party knife crime group wants courts to stop young offenders using YouTubeYoung people who commit violence offences should be banned from using social media such as YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram, according to the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on knife crime.Speaking before the launch of the government’s new serious violence strategy, the MP Sarah Jones urged the extension of criminal behaviour orders (CBOs) to give courts the power to ban individuals from using
  
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• Christopher Wylie: Why I broke the Facebook data story – and what should happen now

  07-04-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  The whistleblower at the centre of the Cambridge Analytica storm asks if Britain will now address the hard issues which it has raisedIn January, I told the British authorities that the app that was used to harvest data for Cambridge Analytica was likely to have pulled the profiles of British Facebook users. Last week Facebook confirmed it: it told the world that as many as 87 million profiles were collected. This included more than one million British records.A couple of days later, early on Sat
  
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• Opportunity knocks for a new party. But will anybody dare open the door? | Andrew Rawnsley

  07-04-2018 21:48 via theguardian.com
  What is so far lacking is a critical mass of MPs prepared to take the large risks involved in making it happenIt is easy to set up a political party. You just have to register with the Electoral Commission and raise some cash to fund the deposits of your candidates. Then you are at the races. In the first three months of this year, 34 novel political outfits were formed, among them the Aspire party, the Legacy party, Save Us Now, the For Britain Movement and the Psychedelic Future party. Related
  
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• New party gets £50m backing to ‘break mould’ of UK politics

  07-04-2018 21:34 via theguardian.com
  Plans secretly made by donors since 2016 for a new political party drawing from both left and rightA new political party with access to up to £50m in funding has been secretly under development for more than a year by a network of entrepreneurs, philanthropists and donors keen to “break the Westminster mould”, the Observer can reveal.The movement, spearheaded by a former Labour benefactor, is understood to have been drawn up by a group frustrated by the tribal nature of politic
  
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• Homophobic laws in Caribbean could roll back in landmark case

  07-04-2018 21:30 via theguardian.com
  Verdict due on LGBT activist Jason Jones’s attempt to strike down colonial-era lawTrinidad and Tobago could make legal history in the Caribbean this week by rolling back long-standing homophobic laws.On Thursday, a high court judge, Devindra Rampersad, will deliver his verdict in a landmark case brought by a private citizen which, if successful, would set a legal precedent for removing similar laws in countries across the region. Continue reading...
  
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• José Mourinho the ultimate party pooper rains on Guardiola’s parade | Jonathan Wilson

  07-04-2018 21:18 via theguardian.com
  Manchester United manager pulls off a great escape to leave the champions elect, Manchester City, blushing after 3-2 home defeatThe ice melts sadly around the unopened champagne. The fireworks remain unfired, the streamers tightly furled. José Mourinho, perhaps the greatest wet blanket in football history, had done it again.Manchester City’s celebrations will come but they are deferred, and that was Mourinho’s primary objective. But he has offered further evidence of this City
  
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• Vatican arrests own diplomat on suspicion of child abuse images

  07-04-2018 21:16 via theguardian.com
  Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella, who served the Vatican in US and Canada, faces 12 years in prison if convictedThe Vatican said on Saturday its police had arrested one of its Washington diplomats who is suspected of possessing images of child sexual abuse in the US and Canada. A statement identified the accused as Monsignor Carlo Alberto Capella and said he was arrested on Saturday in the Vatican after a warrant was issued by the Holy See’s chief magistrate at the end of an investigation.
  
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• Two dead after vehicle hits crowd in Münster, Germany

  07-04-2018 21:08 via theguardian.com
  Driver also dead after shooting himself after incident in historic part of German city, which also left 20 people injured Two people were killed and about 30 injured after a van drove into a crowd in the western German city of Münster. The driver of the vehicle, who had not yet been officially identified on Saturday night, also died after shooting himself at the scene. Authorities have said that there is no indication that it was an Islamist attack.
  State interior minister Herbet Reuel said
  
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• The spirit of 1968 rises again: can French students and workers triumph?

  07-04-2018 21:00 via theguardian.com
  President Macron faces his biggest challenge as strikes and protests recall the epic struggle that rocked France to its core. We can win, insist this generation…At Nanterre university, on the outskirts of Paris, militant students have a dilemma: how can they pass their end-of-year exams while simultaneously fighting to derail the French government’s education reforms?“It’s a worry, but we’ll find a way,” says Annaël Lombe, a student union leader who is t
  
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• The free-love cult that terrorised America – and became Netflix’s latest must-watch

  07-04-2018 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Wild Wild Country, a documentary about a guru’s sinister commune in 1980s Oregon, is shocking viewers with tales of poison and paranoiaAnyone who has ever dipped a toe in the pool of new-age mysticism is likely to have come across Osho. The bearded Indian mystic has had his books translated into more than 60 languages, published by more than 200 publishing houses – you’re likely to find his works next to the crystals and yoga mats in your local hippy shop.Yet if you go on the O
  
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• Teenager Charged With Murder Of 18-Year-Old Israel Ogunsola Amid Spate Of Violence

  07-04-2018 20:56
  A 17-year-old youth has been charged with murder after a teenager was stabbed
  
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• Pogba inspires dramatic comeback win as Manchester United spoil City’s party

  07-04-2018 20:35 via theguardian.com
  For a long while Manchester City had it sewn up. Or, at least, they thought they had. Blue smoke bombs were being let off. The first euphoric chants of “championees”, could be heard and the Etihad was overdosing on schadenfreude given the history of these teams and the prospect of a title-winning victory that would have meant so much in this divided city.What followed was extraordinary. Manchester United scored, quickly added another and then one more to complete an improbable feat o
  
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• 'First luxury space hotel' plans to offer zero gravity living – for $792,000 a night

  07-04-2018 20:13 via theguardian.com
  Self-described ‘serial entrepreneur’ behind the Aurora Station says it is selling the astronaut experience and plans to open in 2021
  A Houston-based company said this week it plans to open the “first luxury hotel in space” by late 2021.Orion Span’s compact Aurora Station – at 35ft-by-14ft its interior will be comparable to that of a Gulfstream jet, the company said – is projected to accommodate four travellers and two crew members for 12-day stays 200 mi
  
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• Russian envoy seeks meeting with Britain's Johnson over poisoning

  07-04-2018 20:06
  The Russian embassy in London has sent a request for a meeting of its envoy with British foreign minister Boris Johnson to discuss the case of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter poisoned in Salisbury, the RIA news agency reported on Saturday."We hope for a constructive response from the British side and are counting on such a meeting in the very nearest future," the agency cited a spokesman for the Russian embassy saying.The Foreign Office confirmed it had received the request for ambassador Ale
  
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• Entebbe reminds us that we now live in a world without heroes | Nick Cohen

  07-04-2018 19:15 via theguardian.com
  A drama about the 1976 Israeli raid to free hostages at Entebbe treats the politics with admirable nuanceWhen Entebbe is released next month, most cinema audiences will enjoy an exceptional drama documentary. With luck, it should also annoy all the right people for all the right reasons. Supporters of the Israeli government will protest at how a great act of daring – the 1976 Entebbe airport rescue by Israeli special forces of Jewish passengers held by the Popular Front for the Liberation
  
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• The big picture: Shop assistant, Orlando West, Soweto, 1972

  07-04-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  David Goldblatt captures a defiant private moment in apartheid-era South AfricaDavid Goldblatt once described himself as “a self-appointed observer and critic of the society into which I was born”. That society was apartheid-era South Africa, which he chronicled with meticulous patience and a certain formal detachment, his acutely observational gaze illuminating the lives of ordinary people living under a system that separated and controlled them according to skin colour.From the ear
  
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• David Reich: ‘Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern human behaviours’

  07-04-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  In recent years, genome sequencing has changed everything we thought about our origins and how we relate to early human speciesFor David Reich, research can be a harrowing experience. The 44-year-old Harvard University geneticist says he now goes to bed terrified he will wake up to find his team’s recent, stunning discoveries about human ancestry have been proved wrong. “We are now making so many startling insights I sometimes fear it must all be incorrect,” he says.To be fair
  
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• Sebastian Vettel takes pole for resurgent Ferrari at F1’s Bahrain GP

  07-04-2018 18:55 via theguardian.com
  • Vettel and Räikkônen lock out front of grid at Sakhir circuit
  • Lewis Hamilton fourth fastest but will start ninth after penaltyThe overriding concern for Lewis Hamilton in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix would have been just how much damage limitation he would have to perform. With a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change hanging over him he knew that even with a superlative run he would be starting the race on the back foot. The damage transpired to be consid
  
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• Hundreds attend funeral of Palestinian journalist shot in Gaza

  07-04-2018 18:53 via theguardian.com
  Yasser Murtaja, 31, was shot by Israeli forces while covering Friday’s protests at the Gaza borderHundreds of colleagues and friends have attended the funeral of a popular and widely respected Palestinian video journalist who was killed as he covered Friday’s mass border protests in the Gaza Strip.
  Yasser Murtaja, 31, was shot despite wearing a flak jacket with clear press markings as he filmed in thick black smoke from burning tyres set alight by protesters in Khuzaa, east of Khan Y
  
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• The mane attraction: hair-tossing horses – in pictures

  07-04-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  “Horses can be hilarious!” says German photographer Wiebke Haas. “It’s my greatest passion to tease out nearly human expressions from them.” She has turned this passion into a delightful series called Horsestyle (shortlisted for a 2018 Sony World Photography award) featuring stallion Pauli with his lovely Elvis lip-curl, and Linus with a big, bouncy mane to rival Farrah Fawcett’s.
  Haas grew up around animals, which perhaps explains why her horses look so at ea
  
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• Russian embassy seeks meeting with Johnson over Skripal attack

  07-04-2018 17:50 via theguardian.com
  Foreign Office acknowledges request to discuss Salisbury poisoning case, but accuses Russian diplomats of diversionary tacticsThe Russian embassy has requested a meeting with Boris Johnson to discuss the attack on the former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, saying that its dealings with Britain over the issue had been “utterly unsatisfactory”.The Foreign Office confirmed that a request had been received, but a spokeswoman countered that it was Russia’s respo
  
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• Canada: 14 dead after junior hockey team bus collides with truck - The Guardian

  07-04-2018 17:40 via theguardian.com
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  Canada: 14 dead after junior hockey team bus collides with truck
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  An emergency vehicle blocks the road to traffic after a hockey team bus collided with a truck in Canada. Photograph: Matthew Smith/Reuters. The president of a junior hockey team involved in a major road crash in the rural Canadian province of ...
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• Sam Allardyce tells Wayne Rooney to keep frustrations behind closed doors

  07-04-2018 17:24 via theguardian.com
  • Everton manager unhappy with his reaction to being substituted
  • ‘He can say whatever he wants to me in the office’Sam Allardyce has told Wayne Rooney to vent his frustrations within the confines of the Everton manager’s office after the forward reacted furiously to his early substitution against Liverpool.Rooney was withdrawn in the 57th minute at Goodison Park for the second game in succession as Allardyce sought “more legs” in midfield and an improvem
  
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• Car crashes into crowd in Munster: How safe is it to travel to Germany after vehicle 'hits pedestrians'? - ChronicleLive

  07-04-2018 17:24 via chroniclelive.co.uk
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  Car crashes into crowd in Munster: How safe is it to travel to Germany after vehicle 'hits pedestrians'?
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  Enter your postcode to see news and information near you Community updates, Crime Statistics, Local News & Events and much more... Police secure the area of a suicide bomb attack at a music festival on July 25, 2016 in Ansbach, Germany. Share; Comments ...
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• Britain accuses Russia of 'diversionary tactic' over Salisbury

  07-04-2018 17:09
  Britain has accused Russia of "pursuing a diversionary tactic" after the country's London embassy requested a meeting with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to discuss the Salisbury poisonings.The request came just a day after former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was revealed to be "responding well to treatment".There is growing speculation that Mr Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, who is also recovering, may now be able to help the investigation.
  
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• 'He talked about jobs': Trump comes out fighting – and touts ally in Roseanne

  07-04-2018 17:03 via theguardian.com
  Ann Coulter has warned of a backlash but a sitcom’s success with ‘ordinary Americans’ prompted the president to throw away the scriptDonald Trump grabbed the page with his right hand and showed it to the audience. “You know, this was going to be my remarks. It would have taken about two minutes but …” He tossed the sheet into the air then ducked as it came fluttering down, waving his hands with contempt.Related: What is the Donald Trump v Jeff Bezos feud real
  
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• Two Killed And 20 Injured After Van Drives Into People In German City Of Muenster

  07-04-2018 17:00
  German investigators were trying to work out why a man drove a camper van into
  
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• Two Killed And 20 Injured After Van Drives Into People In German City Of Münster

  07-04-2018 17:00
  A German man drove a van into a group of people sitting outside a restaurant
  
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• Three Killed And 20 Injured After Van Drives Into People In German City Of Münster

  07-04-2018 17:00
  Three people were killed and 20 injured when a van crashed into a crowd
  
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• Several Killed After Car Drives Into People In German City Of Münster

  07-04-2018 17:00
  A vehicle drove into a group of people in the western German city of Muenster
  
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• Far Right British National Party Loses Its Last District Councillor

  07-04-2018 16:54
  Anti-racist campaigners are celebrating that the far right British National
  
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• Russian envoy seeks meeting with Johnson over poisoning

  07-04-2018 16:50
  The Russian embassy in London has sent a request for a meeting of its envoy with British foreign minister Boris Johnson to discuss the case of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter poisoned in Salisbury, the RIA news agency reported on Saturday."We hope for a constructive response from the British side and are counting on such a meeting in the very nearest future," the agency cited a spokesman for the Russian embassy saying.The Foreign Office confirmed it had received the request for ambassador Ale
  
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• ‘The spirit will be lost’: residents fight eviction from their prefab homes

  07-04-2018 16:16 via theguardian.com
  People in the former mining village of Oulton fear the demolition of their historic ‘Airey houses’ will lead to the loss of their communityThe first that the residents of Wordsworth Drive and Sugar Hill Close knew of the possibility they could be turfed out of their homes was when flyers dropped through letter boxes last autumn.The leaflets, lost among the doormat detritus of takeaway menus, invited them to a consultation “to give us your ideas on how the [redevelopment] scheme
  
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• Bollywood star Salman Khan granted bail after poaching conviction

  07-04-2018 15:59 via theguardian.com
  Actor released pending appeal of five-year prison sentence for hunting blackbuck antelopesThe Bollywood actor Salman Khan has been granted bail by a Rajasthan court on a poaching conviction that led the superstar to be sentenced to five years in prison this week.Khan, 52, was convicted on Thursday of illegally hunting two blackbucks, a protected species of Indian antelope, while shooting a film in Jodhpur city in 1998. Continue reading...
  
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• Paddy's Pointers: Five observations from Norwich City's thrilling 3-1 Championship win against Aston Villa - Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

  07-04-2018 15:53 via edp24.co.uk
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  Paddy's Pointers: Five observations from Norwich City's thrilling 3-1 Championship win against Aston Villa
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  Dennis Srbeny opened his goal account for Norwich City against Aston Villla. Picture: Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd. ©Focus Images Limited www.focus-images.co.uk +447814 482222. Our Norwich City correspondent Paddy Davitt delivers his verdict from ...
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• Everton rue late misses as winless derby run against Liverpool goes on - The Guardian

  07-04-2018 15:52 via theguardian.com
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  Everton rue late misses as winless derby run against Liverpool goes on
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  Liverpool's Loris Karius makes a save as his team-mate James Milner (right) and Everton's Theo Walcott look on. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA. Liverpool emerged from a forgettable match with their record unbeaten derby run and their Champions League ...
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• Ministers told to expect backlash as millions lose out from universal credit

  07-04-2018 15:40
  The Department for Work and Pensions is rolling out universal credit across the country to replace a raft of other benefits.Ministers will face a backlash against reform to the benefits system when millions of claimants moving on to universal credit realise their income will be cut, the government’s most senior welfare adviser has warned.Paul Gray, chairman of the independent social security advisory committee, said that the decision to take a “substantial chunk” of funding out
  
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• UK records hottest day of 2018 under a belated spring sun

  07-04-2018 15:39 via theguardian.com
  Warm southerly wind sends temperatures past 19C, marking warmest day since late October
  Spring sunshine has brought Britain its hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures passing 19C.
  A warm wind from the south sent the mercury rising, with parts of the country enjoying fine and bright weather. Continue reading...
  
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• Prince Charles admits he may never fit into 'budgie smugglers' again as he approaches 70th birthday

  07-04-2018 15:32
  Prince Charles has admitted he may never fit into a pair of "budgie smugglers" again as he approaches his 70th birthday.The Duke of Cornwall was speaking in Brisbane during his week-long tour of Australia when he joked: "I do know only too well, and understand, the strange feeling of disbelief that this is actually happening and that never again, for instance, will it be possible to squeeze into a pair of budgie smugglers.The Australian slang term "budgie smugglers" refers to tight-fitting swimm
  
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• More police on London streets as murder spike worries locals - Arab News

  07-04-2018 15:30 via arabnews.com
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  More police on London streets as murder spike worries locals
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  London's murder rate in February and March was higher than New York's for the first time in modern history, and more killings this week have taken the total to 50. Most of the killings were stabbings. Updated 32 sec ago. AP. April 07, 2018 03:00. 45678 ...
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• Russia demands showdown meeting with Boris Johnson over Sergei Skripal poisoning - Evening Standard

  07-04-2018 15:29 via standard.co.uk
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  Russia demands showdown meeting with Boris Johnson over Sergei Skripal poisoning
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  Russia's embassy in London has called for a showdown meeting with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal. In the latest of a series of provocative statements by Russian officials about the Novichok poisoning affair ...
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• Molly Ringwald says The Breakfast Club is troubling in #MeToo era

  07-04-2018 15:23 via theguardian.com
  Actor who starred in popular 1980s film advocates critical stance towards art of past
  Molly Ringwald, who starred in The Breakfast Club, has admitted she now finds the cult 1980s film “troubling”.Writing in the New Yorker, the actor who was 16 when she starred in the high school drama in 1985, describes rewatching the film with her daughter and reflecting on some of the scenes in the age of #MeToo. Continue reading...
  
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• David Tennant: ‘Organised religion gave me a good moral compass’

  07-04-2018 14:59 via theguardian.com
  The actor, 46, on Scottish football tribalism, optimism and mountaineering up banistersA good friend once told me: “You’re not as nice as you think you are.” I was stunned because it seemed quite harsh at the time, but she was actually right. She was being cruel to be kind. However, sometimes allowing yourself to be honest about how you’re feeling can be more useful than pretending you’re such a nice person that you can’t ever have a negative thought. Niceness
  
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