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• Indian magician's body found after tragic Houdini-style stunt

  17-06-2019 23:58
  Chanchal Lahiri’s still-chained body found 1km downstream on bank of river in KolkataIndian police have recovered the body of a magician who drowned when a Houdini-like stunt in a river went wrong.Chanchal Lahiri, 42, known by his stage name of Mandrake, went missing on Sunday after a ferry took him towards the broadest part of the Hooghly river in Kolkata at around noon. There, he was lowered by crane into the muddy waters with chains and ropes. Lahiri was inside a small, padlocked cage.
  
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• Global Population Could Hit 9.7 Billion By 2050, UN Predicts

  17-06-2019 23:43
  The world's population is getting older and growing at a slower pace but isstill expected to increase from 7
  
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• Arrests made as climate change campaigners bring protests to Edinburgh

  17-06-2019 23:31
  The Extinction Rebellion group blocked the Lothian Road and police carried out an 'enforcement action'.
  
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• James Maddison: ‘My trophy cabinet is empty. I am desperate to win’ | Andy Hunter

  17-06-2019 23:30
  Leicester midfielder is raring to go as England start their campaign in the Euro Under-21 finals against France in ItalyJames Maddison can pin-point the moment England enthralled him as accurately as a set piece for Leicester. It was almost 15 years ago to the day when, sitting at home in Coventry in a kit bearing the name Rooney, he watched the teenage sensation lead England into the European Championship quarter-finals with two goals against Croatia. The long wait to make his own mark on the i
  
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• England’s Toni Duggan is all praise for Phil Neville’s passing philosophy | Louise Taylor

  17-06-2019 23:30
  Barcelona winger says players are happy with their manager’s firm support for a Pep Guardiola-like playing strategyIt may be stretching a point to describe Phil Neville as the “new Pep Guardiola” but Toni Duggan has detected pronounced similarities between England’s manager and his Manchester City counterpart.Although the Lionesses’ much-vaunted stylistic evolution still has some way to go before it can be described as “Phil-tastic”, Barcelona’s Du
  
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• Thunderstorm warning in place as England braces for more bad weather

  17-06-2019 23:21
  The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for large parts of England, ending a brief interlude of sunny weather.Much of the South East, East Anglia and parts of the Midlands are covered under the warning, which has been issued from Tuesday through to Wednesday evening.It prompted a multi-agency response, including RAF helicopters dropping sandbags and the Environment Agency assembling pumps to redirect flood waters.
  
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• Sound of Hong Kong's defiance reverberates in Beijing

  17-06-2019 23:15
  Beijing’s public support for Hong Kong leader likely hides private fury, but letting her go would be another humiliationThe most obvious casualty of Hong Kong’s extraordinary uprising against chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her campaign to tie the city more closely to China, will be the bureaucrat-turned-politician’s own career. If she stays on, it will only be as a lame duck leader.But the city’s turmoil is also a major challenge to her boss and patron, Chinese presiden
  
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• Wendie Renard’s twice-taken penalty takes France past Nigeria

  17-06-2019 23:07
  Wendie Renard went from villain to hero in the space of two minutes, scoring her retaken penalty after a double VAR check to ensure France progress to the last-16 having topped Group A.With the sun setting the home team were given arguably their most vocal welcome of the tournament. The Rennes ultras – known for their flares, flags, coordinated celebrations, drums and constant singing – were out in force for Les Bleues, a constant loud presence at their usual home in the Tribune Mord
  
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• Wendie Renard’s twice-taken penalty pushes France past Nigeria

  17-06-2019 23:07
  A furious Nigeria manager, Thomas Dennerby, claimed the officials had ruined the match after Wendie Renard’s retaken penalty following a double VAR check ensured France progress to the last 16 having topped Group A. Nigeria’s hopes of a third-place finish now hang by a thread.“If I gave you honest opinions, they would probably send me home,” he said, bluntly. When asked about his team’s performance, he replied: “My players are heroes.”Continue reading...
  
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• US Open winner Gary Woodland testament to teaching of Pete Cowen | Ewan Murray

  17-06-2019 23:00
  Yorkshireman has coached most of the world’s top golfers at one time but maintains ‘it’s about the players’Sitting in a quiet corner of an airport lounge in San Francisco as the US Open hurtled towards its conclusion, Pete Cowen realised that he could not lose. The Yorkshireman took over full-time coaching duties for Gary Woodland at the end of last year. Brooks Koepka, who ultimately failed to catch Woodland at Pebble Beach, has been a long-term Cowen pupil.“I did
  
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• Thatcher: A Very British Revolution review – the Iron Lady's downfall in compelling detail

  17-06-2019 23:00
  The final part of this even-handed series covered Margaret Thatcher’s departure from Downing Street. I couldn’t feel sorry for her, but I did begin to understand her a little betterWatching the five-part documentary series Thatcher: A Very British Revolution (BBC Two), marking 40 years since the UK’s first female prime minister came to power, I realised how little I heard her speak at the time. My dad worked in the arts and my mum was an NHS doctor in a fairly deprived area of
  
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• Alex Jones sent Sandy Hook victims files with child sex abuse images, say lawyers

  17-06-2019 23:00
  Far-right conspiracy theorist denied the allegations and accused one of the lawyers of framing himLawyers for relatives of some victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting allege that far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones sent them documents relating to the court battle they are fighting that included electronic files containing images of child sexual abuse, as the latest twist in the defamation case against the Infowars website host.Jones denied the allegations during his web show l
  
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• Visitors to Greece told to take precautions against mosquitoes amid West Nile virus - Manchester Evening News

  17-06-2019 22:51 via manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  Visitors to Greece told to take precautions against mosquitoes amid West Nile virus  Manchester Evening NewsVisitors to Greece told to take precautions against West Nile virus  The GuardianGreece holiday warning: Tourists told 'take precautions' as West Nile Virus spreads  ExpressBrit holidaymakers visiting Greece told to take urgent precautions over sweeping deadly virus  Birmingham LiveTravellers visiting Greece are urged to protect themselves against de
  
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• Galápagos Islands: outcry after Ecuador allows US military to use airstrip

  17-06-2019 22:45
  Political row sparked after government gave US permission to use island for anti-narcotics flights
  The Galápagos Islands are at the centre of political row in Ecuador after the government agreed to allow US anti-narcotics planes to use an airstrip on the archipelago which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.Dozens of people demonstrated outside the main government office in Quito on Monday to protest against a plan they described as a threat to the world heritage site&rsqu
  
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• Yemen's Houthi rebels accused of diverting food aid from hungry

  17-06-2019 22:39
  Head of UN’s World Food Programme threatens suspension of food aid if safe delivery not assuredThe head of the United Nations food agency has accused Yemen’s Houthi rebels of diverting food from the country’s hungriest people and threatened to suspend food aid.David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), said the agency had found “serious evidence” that food supplies had been diverted in the capital, Sana’a and other Houthi-controlled a
  
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• Peterborough: Police investigate allegations of malpractice in by-election

  17-06-2019 22:27
  Five allegations of malpractice relating to the Peterborough by-election which Labour won by 683 votes are being investigated by police.Cambridgeshire Police said three relate to postal votes, one allegation is of bribery and corruption and the fifth is of a breach of the privacy of the vote.Labour candidate Lisa Forbes was elected after the by-election on 6 June, narrowly beating Nigel Farage's Brexit Party.
  
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• From ‘spare tyre’ to president: The rise and fall of Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi - The Independent

  17-06-2019 22:22 via independent.co.uk
  From ‘spare tyre’ to president: The rise and fall of Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi  The IndependentEgypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi dies during trial  BBC NewsMohammed Morsi: Former Egyptian president buried after collapse and death in court  Sky NewsMohamed Morsi, ousted president of Egypt, dies in court  The GuardianEgypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi is buried in a small ceremony after he died in court  Daily MailView full
  
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• Stella Creasy Says She Felt Pressure 'To Choose Between Being A Mum And An MP'

  17-06-2019 22:11
  Creasy revealed that IPSA fails to recognise any form of maternity leave andwill not automatically provide extra support for constituency work after shegives birth
  
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• “For All Mankind” provides a look into a different space race - The Space Review

  17-06-2019 22:06 via thespacereview.com
  “For All Mankind” provides a look into a different space race  The Space ReviewOne giant leap for womankind: NASA vows to land first female astronaut on the moon by 2024  Sky NewsMoon, Moonshot, Do We Really Need the Moon? Best movies, documentaries about the Moon  FirstpostApollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins shares unreleased photo he found 'at the bottom of a box'  USA TODAYFifty years later, watch 'Apollo 11,' and marvel  Washingto
  
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• Merthyr Tydfil boy, five, dies on family holiday on Greek island of Kos - ITV News

  17-06-2019 22:05 via itv.com
  Merthyr Tydfil boy, five, dies on family holiday on Greek island of Kos  ITV NewsBritish boy, 4, 'drowns in swimming pool as family sleep on holiday'  Metro.co.ukMerthyr Tydfil boy, five, dies on Greek island holiday  BBC NewsYoung boy from South Wales dies on family holiday in Greece  Wales OnlineBritish boy, 4, drowns in hotel pool in Kos after ‘wandering out of room while parents were asleep’  The SunView full coverage on Google Ne
  
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• Samsung Deletes Terrifying Tweet Warning That Its Smart TVs Can Get Viruses - Gizmodo UK

  17-06-2019 22:00 via gizmodo.co.uk
  Samsung Deletes Terrifying Tweet Warning That Its Smart TVs Can Get Viruses  Gizmodo UKSamsung says its QLED TVs should be scanned for viruses "every few weeks"  What Hi-Fi?Samsung TVs should be regularly virus-checked, the company says  BBC NewsSamsung reminds rabble to scan smart TVs for viruses – then tries to make them forget  The RegisterSamsung TVs should be scanned for VIRUSES ‘every few weeks’, the company warns  The Sun
  
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• South Korea v Norway, Nigeria v France: Women's World Cup clockwatch – live!

  17-06-2019 21:45
  Live updates from Group A, kick-off 8pm (BST)‘You can feel this surge’: how France caught World Cup fever
  Feel free to email John or tweet @JohnBrewin_ 8.45pm BST Korea’s Ji has another sighter for a free-kick, and again, it’s over the bar.8.44pm BST A clash of knees between Chikwelu and Bibault, with both players high in the challenge, but both will be OK to carry on. A drop-ball is awarded as neither was worse than the other.Continue reading...
  
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• Tom Watson on Brexit: ‘Me leave Labour? It’s leaving me’

  17-06-2019 21:37
  Deputy leader calls for party to back a second referendum and remaining in the EU. Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, has said he believes his party would be “leaving me” if it cannot fully endorse a second referendum, hours after giving a speech in which he said it should be the party of remain. Watson told the BBC that Labour “certainly might lose some votes” for backing a referendum, but would pay “a very high electoral price” for not taking a clear
  
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• Tom Watson on Brexit: I sometimes wonder if Labour is 'leaving me'

  17-06-2019 21:37
  Deputy leader calls for party to back a second referendum and remaining in the EULabour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, has said he believes his party would be “leaving me” if it cannot fully endorse a second referendum, hours after giving a speech in which he said it should be the party of remain.Watson told the BBC that Labour “certainly might lose some votes” for backing a referendum, but would pay “a very high electoral price” for not taking a clear pos
  
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• Chris Froome’s injuries ‘could have been hell of a lot worse’, says Thomas

  17-06-2019 21:36
  • Tour de France champion says Froome’s absence is ‘big blow’
  • ‘He was lucky to come away with the damage he’s done’Chris Froome was “lucky” not to have sustained even greater injuries following his crash last week, according to his teammate Geraint Thomas.Froome crashed into a wall at 37mph in the French town of Roanne last Wednesday, leaving him with multiple broken bones including a fractured neck, a fractured right femur, a broken hi
  
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• Matteo Salvini: Italy wants to be Washington's closest partner in Europe

  17-06-2019 21:27
  Hard-right leader speaks on arrival in US of ‘common vision’ with Trump administration amid EU turmoilMatteo Salvini has said Italy wants to be Washington’s closest partner in Europe during the hard-right leader’s visit to the US capital for talks with the Trump administration.Salvini made clear he sees an opportunity to forge a closer US-Italian relationship at a time of European turmoil and alignment between populist governments in both countries. Continue reading...
  
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• UK aims to resettle 5,000 refugees in 2020, Sajid Javid says

  17-06-2019 21:18
  A new global resettlement scheme will come in to replace the vulnerable persons resettlement scheme and others.
  
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• Independent and Standard urge state not to investigate Saudi ties

  17-06-2019 21:10
  ESI Media says it is editorially independent and investigation could affect future investmentThe Evening Standard and Independent have asked the government not to investigate the news outlets’ Saudi Arabian investors, saying the UK media industry could become financially unsustainable if officials probe the source of the offshore investments.Last week the culture secretary, Jeremy Wright, raised concerns that the investments, made through Cayman Islands companies controlled by a previously
  
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• Hong Kong protests show first dent in armour of Xi Jinping

  17-06-2019 21:09
  Crisis will provide ammunition for his elite enemies inside China’s Communist partyThe most obvious casualty of Hong Kong’s extraordinary uprising against chief executive, Carrie Lam, and her campaign to tie the city more closely to China, will be the bureaucrat-turned-politician’s own career. If she stays on, it will only be as a lame duck leader.But the city’s turmoil is also a major challenge to her boss and patron, Chinese president, Xi Jinping. Continue reading...
  
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• Colombia leader hits out at 'hypocrisy' of middle-class cocaine users

  17-06-2019 21:05
  Iván Duque decries social acceptability of drug that inflicts environmental and social damage on producersMiddle-class cocaine users are inconsistent hypocrites if they fail to recognise the environmental and social damage their drug use is inflicting on producer countries, the Colombian president has said during a visit to London.In an interview with the Guardian on Monday, Iván Duque said that cocaine’s social acceptability had to end. “There are many people who prese
  
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• More silence from Boris after rivals’ plain talking hits the buffers | John Crace

  17-06-2019 21:04
  At the lobby hustings, the candidates largely tried to give straight answers. It didn’t go wellThe Tory leadership circus rolls on. This time for a hustings arranged for lobby journalists in Westminster, where the format was more individual than group therapy, with each candidate free to explain – without interruption from the others – how their relationship with reality had irretrievably broken down.Though still without Boris Johnson, the Conservative party’s very own pr
  
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• More silence from Boris after rivals’ plain talking hits the buffers

  17-06-2019 21:04
  At the lobby hustings, the candidates largely tried to give straight answers. It didn’t go well. The Tory leadership circus rolls on. This time for a hustings arranged for lobby journalists in Westminster, where the format was more individual than group therapy, with each candidate free to explain – without interruption from the others – how their relationship with reality had irretrievably broken down. Though still without Boris Johnson, the Conservative party’s very own
  
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• Reversible superglue proves strong enough to hold average man

  17-06-2019 21:00
  Snail slime-like substance appears to solve problem of weak and reversible or strong and irreversible adhesiveA reversible superglue that mimics the under-appreciated properties of dried snail mucus has proved strong enough to bear the weight of an average man.Scientists who tested the slime-inspired product found that two sticky squares the size of postage stamps were sufficient to hold an 87kg (192lb) weight in the form of a volunteer engineering student. Continue reading...
  
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• How canines capture your heart: scientists explain puppy dog eyes

  17-06-2019 21:00
  Study finds animals developed a facial muscle to wield emotional power over humansIn a project that has all the makings of a Roald Dahl classic, scientists have hit on an answer to the mystery of how man’s best friend got its puppy dog eyes.The sad, imploring expression held such power over humans during 33,000 years of canine domestication that the preference for dogs that could pull off the look steered the evolution of their facial muscles, researchers have said. Continue reading...
  
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• Dogs evolved ‘sad puppy eyes’ to appeal to humans

  17-06-2019 21:00
  The facial anatomy of dogs has changed from that of wolves during thousands of years of evolution.
  
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• Boris Johnson accused of making MPs contradictory Brexit promises

  17-06-2019 20:58
  Eurosceptic backer warns that hardliners want frontrunner to rip up May’s dealBoris Johnson has been accused of giving MPs contradictory promises on Brexit to win their votes, as one of his highly Eurosceptic backers warned that hardliners want to see him effectively tear up Theresa May’s deal with the EU.The Conservative leadership frontrunner will face questions on his Brexit stance in a television grilling for the first time in the campaign on Tuesday, amid frustration among his r
  
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• Boris Johnson accused of making contradictory Brexit promises to MPs

  17-06-2019 20:58
  Eurosceptic backer warns that hardliners want frontrunner to rip up May’s dealBoris Johnson has been accused of giving MPs contradictory promises on Brexit to win their votes, as one of his highly Eurosceptic backers warned that hardliners want to see him effectively tear up Theresa May’s deal with the EU.The Conservative leadership frontrunner will face questions on his Brexit stance in a television grilling for the first time in the campaign on Tuesday, amid frustration among his r
  
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• Germany stroll into last 16 with comfortable win over South Africa

  17-06-2019 20:56
  Germany sealed top spot in Group B as they eased past South Africa with a 4-0 Women’s World Cup victory in Montpellier on Monday.Following 1-0 wins in their opening two matches against China and Spain, the reigning Olympic champions progressed to the last 16 in style while their opponents were sent home after three defeats. Continue reading...
  
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• Next prime minister will commit to crucial HS2, says Greg Clark

  17-06-2019 20:55
  Leadership candidates must realise controversial rail link is key to northern prosperityWhoever becomes the next prime minister will commit to HS2, the business secretary has said, despite the frontrunner Boris Johnson being opposed to the scheme.Greg Clark described the £56bn rail project as “crucially important” and said it would have a “transformational” impact on the economy and communities across England. Continue reading...
  
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• Cricket World Cup: Watch Bangladesh's brilliant batting in win over West Indies - BBC Sport

  17-06-2019 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Cricket World Cup: Watch Bangladesh's brilliant batting in win over West Indies  BBC SportWatch Shakib Al Hasan and Liton Das' best moments as they put on 189 to help Bangladesh pull off the second highest chase in World Cup history and beat ...
  
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• Martin Rowson on Tory MPs voting for a new leader – cartoon

  17-06-2019 20:38
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• Ruthless Shakib drives Bangladesh to victory over hapless West Indies

  17-06-2019 20:28
  • West Indies 321-8, Bangladesh 322-3
  • All-rounder outstanding in comfortable seven-wicket winA blistering innings of 124 from Shakib al Hasan led Bangladesh to a straightforward win against West Indies. The target was 322 and Bangladesh reached it with seven wickets and 8.3 overs to spare. This was a record-breaking performance, Bangladesh’s highest successful run chase in ODI cricket and the second highest – after Ireland’s triumphant pursuit against England in Ban
  
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• Nick Kyrgios leads latest outpouring of disrespect towards top players

  17-06-2019 20:28
  • ‘I probably don’t show them respect – they’re just good at tennis’
  • Daniil Medvedev says he always wanted Roger Federer to loseNick Kyrgios says he is happy to keep his feud with Novak Djokovic ticking over at Wimbledon next month – while Daniil Medvedev, another of the sport’s young rebels, uttered the ultimate heresy on Monday when he revealed he always wanted Roger Federer to lose.For the first time since 2013, when the Latvian loose cann
  
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• Theresa May could yet give us the ultimate parting gift: a Brexit referendum | Polly Toynbee

  17-06-2019 20:17
  The outgoing prime minister could blow away her detractors and say that too much is being decided by a tiny Tory electorateThe obscene sight of Tory leadership candidates splashing out cash by the bucketload is just one of the head-clutching, this-can’t-be-happening unbelievables of this extraordinary time. Spaffing it up the wall doesn’t begin to express the revolting spectacle of wild tax cuts and eye-catching gimmicks from the same austerians who garrotted every public service. Th
  
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• Health Secretary promises severe consequences if any wrongdoing over listeria

  17-06-2019 20:17
  Five people are suspected to have died after an outbreak of listeria in hospitals.
  
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• Bloody Sunday soldier expected in Londonderry court in August

  17-06-2019 20:15
  The Army veteran is known only as Soldier F.
  
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• MIT's new robot can identify things by sight and touch - Engadget

  17-06-2019 20:12 via youtube.com
  
  
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• The Wahaca row shows why workers need a new way to unite | Zoe Williams

  17-06-2019 20:11
  The perceived injustice of a waiter’s treatment tells us employers hold all the cards. But online outrage can become online solidarityA row recently erupted over workers’ conditions in the restaurant group Wahaca that turned out to be a little more complicated than it looked. Some diners had done a runner; another, law-abiding punter, Sarah Hayward, overheard the ensuing row and took to Twitter to complain: “Ppl next to us left without paying and their server is made to foot th
  
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• 'There's more knife crime, more drugs': east London frustration at latest stabbing

  17-06-2019 20:06
  Death of a man early on Monday followed three murders in city in 24 hoursResidents of Stratford, east London, have voiced their fears and frustration over rising violence in the area after the fatal stabbing of a man in his 40s in the early hours of Monday.The death in Whalebone Lane was one of four suspected murders to occur in four days in London. It followed three homicides in the space of 24 hours, including two teenagers who were killed on Friday evening. Continue reading...
  
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• 'There's more knife crime, more drugs': east London frustration at latest stabbing

  17-06-2019 20:06
  Police officers in east London after a man in his 40s was stabbed to death in the early hours of Monday. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAResidents of Stratford, east London, have voiced their fears and frustration over rising violence in the area after the fatal stabbing of a man in his 40s in the early hours of Monday. The death in Whalebone Lane was one of four suspected murders to occur in four days in London. It followed three homicides in the space of 24 hours, including two teenagers who were
  
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