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• Lava bubbles out of vents as Kilauea volcano eruption continues in Hawaii

  05-05-2018 23:17 via theguardian.com
  More than 1,700 people evacuated from two neighborhoodsAt least two homes burned as two more vents countedLava was bubbling out of two vents in a residential neighborhood on Hawaii’s Big Island on Saturday, as Kilauea volcano erupted. Related: Kilauea volcano: earthquakes follow eruption as Hawaii orders evacuationsContinue reading...
  
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• Sir Alex Ferguson has emergency surgery for brain haemorrhage

  05-05-2018 22:51
  Sir Alex Ferguson has had emergency surgery after suffering a brain haemorrhage."We will keep Sir Alex and his loved ones in our thoughts during this time, and we are united in our wish to see him make a comfortable, speedy recovery," a club statement said.Sir Alex's son Darren Ferguson, who is manager of Doncaster Rovers, missed his team's match against Wigan on Saturday due to "family reasons".
  
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• Parkland victim's father: 'I haven't heard Trump mention the name of my son'

  05-05-2018 22:37 via theguardian.com
  Manuel Oliver paints new protest mural and urges demonstrators outside NRA summit in Dallas to keep going in push for stricter lawsThe father of a teenager killed in the Parkland high school shooting challenged Donald Trump to return to Florida and “spend five minutes of [his] time in Joaquin’s empty room”. Related: Why is the National Rifle Association so powerful?Continue reading...
  
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• Toasting UK royals with a 'Markle Sparkle?' It's an American thing

  05-05-2018 22:36
  Looking to give Americans a taste of something they rejected more than 240 years ago, a Washington bar is going with a British royal family theme in honour of the wedding."You know, we're pretty excited as Americans," said Andy Raibins as he waited in line outside the bar's photo opportunity room.Harry, Queen Elizabeth's grandson and sixth in line to the throne, will tie the knot with Markle on May 19 at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, the home of British kings and queens for almost 1,000
  
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• Labour peers accuse Corbyn of Brexit cowardice

  05-05-2018 22:30 via theguardian.com
  Party is blocking efforts in Lords to call for membership of the European Economic AreaLabour peers launched an attack on the party leadership last night, accusing it of “paralysis” and “cowardice” over Brexit policy, as bitter recriminations over disappointing local election results burst into the open.The row exploded as calls grew for a full post-mortem into why Labour failed to make more decisive progress in key council battlegrounds and lost control in others, despit
  
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• Shock figures from top thinktank reveal extent of NHS crisis

  05-05-2018 22:22
  The UK was found to have a third the number of hospital beds per head compared with Germany.The NHS has among the lowest per capita numbers of doctors, nurses and hospital beds in the western world, a new study of international health spending has revealed.The stark findings come from a new King’s Fund analysis of health data from 21 countries, collected by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
  
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• Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal

  05-05-2018 22:00 via theguardian.com
  Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with TehranAides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” campaign against key individuals from the Obama administration who helped negotiate the Iran nuclear deal, the Observer can reveal.People in the Trump camp contacted private investigators in May last year to “get dirt” on Ben Rhodes, who had been one of Barack
  
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• Trump friend Tom Barrack has been questioned by Mueller, sources say

  05-05-2018 21:57 via theguardian.com
  Real-estate developer was chair of inaugural committeeOne source says questioning included financial campaign mattersInvestigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller have interviewed one of Donald Trump’s closest friends and confidants, California real estate investor Tom Barrack, the Associated Press has learned.Related: 'We're not changing any stories': Trump's week of contradictionContinue reading...
  
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• Mark Williams wins thriller to join John Higgins in world snooker final

  05-05-2018 21:49 via theguardian.com
  • Williams beats Barry Hawkins 17-15 for first world final since 2003
  • Higgins beats Kyren Wilson 17-13 for his seventh finalJohn Higgins and Mark Williams will for the first time in their remarkable careers go head to head for the World Snooker Championship title.After coming through to the professional ranks together in the early 1990s, both have tasted glory at the Crucible and enjoyed spells at No 1 in the world rankings. But a World final showdown between two of snooker’s g
  
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• Harry Brook outshines big names to give Yorkshire hope against Essex

  05-05-2018 21:10 via theguardian.com
  • Brook scores maiden century to revive Yorkshire’s hopes• Essex to resume on 97 for four, needing 141 runs to winJonny Bairstow, Alastair Cook and Joe Root are all on show here at one of the more extraordinary Championship matches in recent memory. But it is a star in the making, the teenager Harry Brook, who shone brightest with his maiden century as Yorkshire kept their hopes of a remarkable comeback win alive by setting Essex a target of 238 on day two and restricting them to
  
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• Sir Alex Ferguson Seriously Ill In Hospital After Suffering Brain Haemorrhage

  05-05-2018 21:02
  Well wishes from across the worlds of sport, politics and television have
  
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• Sir Alex Ferguson Seriously Ill In Hospital

  05-05-2018 21:02
  Sir Alex Ferguson has undergone emergency surgery today for a brain
  
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• What to expect at the 2018 Kentucky Derby

  05-05-2018 20:43
  The 144th Kentucky Derby will be held at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Millions of people will tune in to watch 20 horses compete in the "Run for the Roses" and a shot at the illusive Triple Crown. Ahead of the race, CBS Sports writer Cody Benjamin gives us a preview of what to expect in the historic event.
  
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• Ramona Bachmann at the double as Chelsea seal FA Cup triumph over Arsenal

  05-05-2018 20:37 via theguardian.com
  • Arsenal 1-3 Chelsea
  • Miedema 73 | Bachmann 48 60, Kirby 76Emma Hayes hailed the in-form striker Fran Kirby and said her Chelsea side gave “some dominant performance” in their second FA Cup win. The manager, due to give birth to twins this month, said her side’s superiority meant it was the “most relaxed I’ve felt in a final in my entire career” and joked it was a “bonus” given her condition.A Ramona Bachmann double and a goal from Kirb
  
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• Anger in the UK and France over Trump's NRA speech

  05-05-2018 19:59
  Trauma surgeons in London said U.S. President Donald Trump had missed the point after he linked a wave of knife crime in the British capital to a ban on handguns.Anger also flared in France after Trump, in a speech to the National Rifle Association (NRA), used his hands in a gesture to mimic the shooting of victims in Paris in 2015.Trump, who is due to visit Britain on July 13, told members of the NRA in Dallas, Texas on Friday that a "once very prestigious" London hospital, which he did not nam
  
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• Diane Abbott joins Windrush protest march on Whitehall

  05-05-2018 19:53
  ‘We will judge them by what they actually do,’ said Labour MP Diane Abbott.Members of the Windrush generation, their families and supporters have been joined by the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, at a rally outside Downing Street.The demonstration on Whitehall, which called for the end of the “hostile environment” deportation policy, was organised by campaign group Stand Up to Racism.
  
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• Donald Trump Mocked By The British Surgeon He 'Misquoted' During US Gun Rally

  05-05-2018 19:34
  The British surgeon who today unwittingly found himself at the centre of yet
  
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• Exeter’s Alec Hepburn finishes off a six-try victory over Harlequins

  05-05-2018 19:15 via theguardian.com
  • Harlequins 17-41 Exeter
  • Harlequins slump in final quarter on John Kingston’s farewellAnother match meant another horrible defeat for Quins. At home they may have been, with the sun on their backs as they have always liked it, but they could not contain a rampant Exeter who show no signs of faltering in defence of their title. The Chiefs gave run-outs to more of their squad, the way they change players in and out as indicative of their quality as the six tries here and, indeed
  
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• Windrush scandal: Diane Abbott says 'all roads lead back to Theresa May'

  05-05-2018 19:02
  Diane Abbott has accused Theresa May of being personally responsible for the Windrush scandal by declaring that "all roads lead back" to her.Labour's shadow home secretary addressed a crowd of protesters opposite Downing Street to say it "happened on her watch".Ms Abbott told campaigners the scandal "doesn't end here", slamming the prime minister for "bringing in the hostile environment".
  
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• Windrush: portrait of a generation – in pictures

  05-05-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Next month marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival of Empire Windrush and the beginnings of Britain’s first Caribbean communities, now in the news following scandalous treatment by the Home Office. For a year, photographer Jim Grover has captured the lives of south London’s Windrush generation – at the domino club, in church and ‘still rocking to ska in our chairs’Windrush: Portrait of a Generation is at gallery@Oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, London SE1, 23 May-10 June&bul
  
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• 'I was capturing living history': Jim Grover on his photographs of south London's Windrushers

  05-05-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  For a year, photographer Jim Grover immersed himself in the world of south London’s Windrush generation – at home, in church and at the domino club• See a gallery of Jim Grover’s photographs of the Windrush generationAmid the furore surrounding the mistreatment of Caribbean-born British citizens by the Home Office appears an exhibition, Windrush: Portrait of a Generation, to be shown in central London, just across the water from Westminster.Jim Grover, a documentary photog
  
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• Thousands of Scottish independence supporters march through Glasgow

  05-05-2018 18:34
  Police Scotland estimated that 35,000 supporters turned out for the march.Tens of thousands of independence supporters marched through the streets of Glasgow, aiming to bring Scotland’s largest city to a standstill.Marchers draped in Saltires waved flags and played bagpipes and drums as they walked from Kelvingrove to Glasgow Green on Saturday.
  
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• Donald Trump's remarks on tackling knife crime in London 'ridiculous', surgeon says

  05-05-2018 18:13
  Donald Trump's suggestion that guns could help tackle violent crime in London is "ridiculous", a surgeon in the capital has said.Speaking at a pro-gun rally in Dallas, the US president compared a London hospital to a "war zone" and said there was "blood all over the floors" because of the spate of fatal stabbings in the capital this year.Mr Trump told the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention: "I recently read a story that in London, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prest
  
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• Putin Answers Anti-Corruption Protests With Arrests And Police Crackdown

  05-05-2018 18:04
  Russian police have detained opposition leader Alexei Navalny and over 1000
  
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• Three hundred years of false teeth – in pictures

  05-05-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  A new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection covers the past 300 years of dentistry: from blacksmiths removing rotten teeth with pliers, and dentures made with teeth stolen from corpses or – for the very wealthy – out of walrus ivory, to the pure white Hollywood smiles of Cary Grant and Shirley Temple. Objects on display include Napoleon’s toothbrush, a Mayan tooth inlaid with a jade stone, and a cockerel head into which surgeon John Hunter transplanted a human tooth. “The
  
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• Junot Díaz withdraws from Sydney Writers' festival following sexual harassment allegations

  05-05-2018 17:27 via theguardian.com
  The Pulitzer prize-winning author was accused of sexual misconduct by author Zinzi Clemmons after revealing last month he had been raped as a childThe acclaimed Dominican American novelist Junot Díaz has been feted for his powerful literary expression of the pain of sexual violence. In 2008 he was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the story of a young boy growing up amid abuse in New Jersey, and last month he was widely applauded for writing a c
  
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• A Brief History Of Donald Trump's Dubious Relationship With Facts About The UK

  05-05-2018 17:24
  The President of the United States has once again exploited a crisis in the UK
  
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• Exclusive: Kay Burley interviews Jacob Rees-Mogg

  05-05-2018 16:55
  Kay Burley exclusively interviews Jacob Rees-Mogg for Sky News.
  
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• This Is What It's Like To Be Released From Captivity In North Korea

  05-05-2018 16:21
  (Reuters) - Freedom can come with remarkable swiftness for US citizens held
  
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• Trump knife crime comments ridiculous, says London surgeon

  05-05-2018 16:19
  Karim Brohi said gunshot wounds were at least twice as lethal as knife injuries.The suggestion by Donald Trump that guns are part of the solution to knife crime in London is ridiculous, a trauma surgeon in the capital has said.The US president told the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas on Friday that a “once very prestigious hospital” in London was like a “war zone”.
  
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• First NASA Lander To Study Mars' Interior Launches From California

  05-05-2018 15:46
  An Atlas 5 rocket soared into space early on Saturday carrying NASA's first
  
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• Alastair Campbell: Labour is a long way from power

  05-05-2018 15:42
  Labour does not "deserve" to win a general election if it refuses to admit it should have done better in local results, according to Alastair Campbell.The former Downing Street spin doctor told Sky News that he "didn't think anybody could take comfort" from the party's performance this week.Labour made some gains in the local elections on Thursday, taking Plymouth from the Tories, but failed to win other key target seats.
  
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• Thousands protest against Macron under heavy security in Paris

  05-05-2018 15:36 via theguardian.com
  Police out in force for demonstration over reforms after May Day disturbances Police were out in force in central Paris on Saturday as thousands of people protested against Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping reforms a year after he assumed the presidency. Continue reading...
  
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• Bank Holiday Monday weather to break records, with 27C forecast

  05-05-2018 15:31
  Bank Holiday Monday is forecast to be the hottest since records began.Temperatures could hit 29C (84.2F) as people round off their three-day weekend - making it the hottest in 40 years, according to Sky weather presenter Jo Edwards."The first, for hottest spring Bank Holiday Monday, is almost a dead cert now! The figure to beat is 23.6C (74.5F) while the figure forecast for the day is 27C (80.6F).
  
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• UK regulator orders Cambridge Analytica to release data on US voter

  05-05-2018 15:13
  Cambridge Analytica has been ordered to hand over all the data and personal information it has on an American voter, including details of where it got the data and what it did with it, or face a criminal prosecution.The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) served the enforcement notice to the company on Friday in a landmark legal decision that opens the way for up to 240 million other American voters to request their data back from the firm under British data protection laws.The test
  
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• UK basks as temperatures climb towards record levels

  05-05-2018 15:03
  People watch a game of beach volleyball on Boscombe beach in Dorset.The bank holiday weekend has got off to a fine and dry start as most of the UK enjoys sunshine and blue skies.Around 10m vehicles were expected to hit the road over the next three days in what is expected to be one of the hottest May bank holidays on record.
  
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• Strabane: Woman's Head Drilled In Possible 'Homophonic' Attack In Northern Ireland

  05-05-2018 14:55
  A 38-year-old woman is in a critical but stable condition after being attacked
  
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• Strabane: Woman Attacked With Drill In Possible 'Homophobic' Incident

  05-05-2018 14:55
  A 38-year-old woman is in a critical but stable condition after being attacked
  
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• Alastair Campbell: Labour does not deserve to win an election unless it admits mistakes

  05-05-2018 14:23
  Labour does not "deserve" to win a general election if it refuses to admit it should have done better in local results, according to Alastair Campbell.The former Downing Street spin doctor told Sky News that he "didn't think anybody could take comfort" from the party's performance this week.Labour made some gains in the local elections on Thursday, taking Plymouth from the Tories, but failed to win other key target seats.
  
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• Woman critically hurt in 'homophobic' drill attack

  05-05-2018 14:22
  A woman is in a critical condition after being attacked with a drill in Strabane, Northern Ireland.The 38-year-old victim sustained a serious head injury, and police are continuing to examine the scene of the attack which they believe may have had a homophobic motive.Detective Sergeant Brian Reid said: "This was a brutal attack and the injuries sustained by the victim are extremely grave.
  
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• Russian police arrest more than 200 anti-Putin protesters

  05-05-2018 14:09 via theguardian.com
  Authorities in Siberia detain opposition supporters before Moscow rally to protest against president’s inaugurationPolice in Siberia detained more than 200 people at protests against Vladimir Putin’s rule in the run-up to an opposition rally in central Moscow on Saturday.Alexei Navalny, the opposition figurehead, has called for nationwide rallies to protest against inauguration on 7 May to a fourth presidential term. “Putin is not our tsar,” Navalny said in a video addres
  
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• Tories control council by reinstating 'racist' candidate

  05-05-2018 13:46
  The Conservatives have been accused of "appalling cynicism" for winning a council by reinstating a councillor who was suspended for a "racist" Facebook post.Rosemary Carroll, who made a post comparing an Asian with a dog last June, rejoined "as the votes were being counted" in Pendle, Lancashire, on Friday.It gave the Conservatives 25 seats - just enough to take control of the council.
  
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• Alastair Campbell berates Labour over local election results

  05-05-2018 13:11
  Alastair Campbell said his Labour tribalism was being pushed to the limit.The former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell has hit out at the state of the party after this week’s local elections.“If we cannot beat this shambles of a Tory party, we don’t deserve to be in the game,” he told the centre-left pressure group Progress.
  
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• Jacob Rees-Mogg: I support Theresa May on her Brexit promises

  05-05-2018 12:49
  Jacob Rees-Mogg has hit back at accusations that he and other MPs have been behaving like Russia by vetoing Theresa May's post-Brexit customs plans.In an exclusive interview with Sky News, the leader of the European Research Group, which has up to 60 MPs, said they were simply encouraging the government to keep its promises."The Conservative manifesto said that we would leave the customs union and we would leave the single market.
  
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• Indian police arrest 14 after teenage girl raped and burned to death

  05-05-2018 12:45 via theguardian.com
  Suspects accused of attacking victim after abducting her while family were away at weddingA 16-year-old girl has been kidnapped and gang raped, then burned to death when her family tried to seek justice, in the latest case of horrific sexual violence to emerge in India.Police have arrested 14 men in connection with the assault and murder in eastern Jharkhand state, but the main suspect is still on the run. Continue reading...
  
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• Bank Holiday Weather: UK Set To Sizzle In Record-Breaking Heatwave

  05-05-2018 12:42
  Sun worshippers are set to sizzle in the spring heatwave, with Bank Holiday
  
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• Breast cancer screening scandal: Doctors warn against catch-up scans

  05-05-2018 12:12
  Women who did not undergo routine breast cancer screening because of a computer glitch should not attend catch-up appointments, a group of doctors say.In a letter published in The Times, 15 medical professionals including GPs and university professors said women aged 70 to 79 who have been offered the checks "would be well advised to look this gift horse in the mouth" and should only seek medical help if they notice symptoms.The letter, which includes the signatures of Susan Bewley, professor of
  
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• Trump: London hospital a 'war zone' for victims of knife crime

  05-05-2018 12:04
  Donald Trump has compared a London hospital to a "war zone" because of knife crime, as he defended the use of guns in America.Speaking at the National Rifle Convention (NRA) in Dallas, the US president claimed there was blood all over a unnamed hospital's floors while he referenced the knife murders in the capital this year."I recently read a story that in London, which has unbelievably tough gun laws, a once very prestigious hospital right in the middle is like a war zone for horrible stab
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Labour In Position To Fight And Win Next General Election

  05-05-2018 11:43
  Jeremy Corbyn has claimed the local election results left Labour "well placed"
  
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• Stone legacy for terminally ill girl Isla Tansey

  05-05-2018 11:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Isla Tansey, 7, can no longer walk and doctors have told her she has weeks to live.
  
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