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• Facebook fires engineer accused of stalking, possibly by abusing data access

  02-05-2018 21:03 via theguardian.com
  Employee allegedly called himself ‘professional stalker’ on Tinder as site seeks to launch dating app and faces privacy scandalFacebook has fired a security engineer after he was accused of stalking women online possibly by abusing his “privileged access” to data, raising renewed concerns about users’ privacy at the social network. The controversy, which came to light after the employee allegedly called himself a “professional stalker” in a message to a
  
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• Interest rates cut to 3.75% but further reductions to be 'closer call'

  18-12-2025 13:12 via bbc.com
  The decision to lower borrowing costs was widely expected, after inflation slowed in the year to November.
  
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• BP names new boss as current CEO leaves after less than two years

  18-12-2025 12:58 via bbc.com
  BP has appointed Meg O'Neill as its chief executive, making her the first female boss of a major oil giant.
  
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• Boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools

  18-12-2025 12:29 via bbc.com
  The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls in England.
  
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• Starmer faces rebellion over plan to cut jury trials

  18-12-2025 12:27 via bbc.com
  Nearly 40 Labour MPs send a letter to Sir Keir Starmer warning the proposal will "limit a fundamental right".
  
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• William and Catherine release annual Christmas card portrait

  18-12-2025 12:10 via bbc.com
  A post shared on Kensington Palace's social media reads: "Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas."
  
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• Duke of Marlborough strangulation case adjourned

  18-12-2025 12:05 via bbc.com
  The 70-year-old is accused of attacking the same person in Oxfordshire between 2022 and 2024.
  
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• Parents of sextortion victim sue Instagram owner Meta

  18-12-2025 11:25 via bbc.com
  Murray Dowey from Dunblane was 16 when he became a victim of sextortion in 2023.
  
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• 'The truth is kids are sharing intimate pictures all the time'

  18-12-2025 11:21 via bbc.com
  Mother of teenage sextortion victim Murray Dowey encourages parents to have uncomfortable conversations with their children.
  
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• The surprising truth about the generations that suffer loneliness the most

  18-12-2025 07:44 via bbc.com
  Conversations around it often focus on the elderly. But by some measures, people in their 20s are the loneliest group in Britain
  
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• Teacher discussed cocaine with pupils and called Islam 'satanic'

  18-12-2025 07:08 via bbc.com
  Patrick Lawler previously featured in a BBC undercover investigation into far-right views.
  
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• Police turned me from victim to offender after I reported school assault

  18-12-2025 07:06 via bbc.com
  Theo Rose was "misled" by police into accepting a sanction for violence he didn't admit, review finds.
  
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• 'I can't believe 1956 Christmas lights still work'

  18-12-2025 07:01 via bbc.com
  John King, 79, from Scunthorpe, recalls his mother buying the lights when he was 10 years old.
  
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• Antony Price, designer for Bowie and Duran Duran, dies at 80

  18-12-2025 05:45 via bbc.com
  Hailed as a visionary, the Yorkshireman will be remembered for his sculptured silhouettes and theatricality.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell asks court to vacate her 20-year prison sentence

  18-12-2025 04:43 via bbc.com
  It comes as the US justice department faces a 19 December deadline to release all files related the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Parents told to lead by example and turn off phones this Christmas

  18-12-2025 03:28 via bbc.com
  The children's commissioner says children are "cryingout" for family time over the festive break.
  
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• King's Speech set for week after crunch elections

  18-12-2025 03:14 via bbc.com
  Sir Keir Starmer is set to unveil the agenda for the next phase of his government in the aftermath of May's elections.
  
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• Will it be cold enough to snow this Christmas?

  18-12-2025 02:27 via bbc.com
  With the weather set to turn much colder for Christmas, will it be cold enough to snow? Chris Fawkes has a festive update.
  
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• Don't feel awkward - How to handle festive fallouts with neighbours

  18-12-2025 01:11 via bbc.com
  Neighbourly tensions often rise during the festive season. Here's how to deal with fallouts without a row.
  
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• Former JD Sports employee awarded £65k after male boss sexually harassed her

  18-12-2025 01:00 via bbc.com
  A student has settled a sexual harassment case against her former employer JD Sports Fashion PLC for £65,000.
  
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• Two Palestine Action hunger strikers end protest

  18-12-2025 00:38 via bbc.com
  Five more people awaiting trial over alleged offences are said to be continuing to refuse food.
  
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• Two arrested after police say they will act against intifada chants

  17-12-2025 22:44 via bbc.com
  The Metropolitan and Greater Manchester forces earlier said they would make arrests over "globalise the intifada" chants.
  
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• Labour lifts council tax cap in six southern areas

  17-12-2025 19:38 via bbc.com
  The councils are among those expected to lose out under a move to shift funding to more deprived areas.
  
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• 'I learned languages and travelled Europe through Erasmus'

  17-12-2025 19:04 via bbc.com
  Several years after it was scrapped, the UK is now set to rejoin the Erasmus scheme in 2027.
  
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• £570m cost of Erasmus is ‘money coming back to UK’, says minister – UK politics live

  17-12-2025 17:18 via theguardian.com
  Nick Thomas-Symonds says a 30% discount for the UK’s participation in EU scheme has been agreedStreeting says he does not want people to stay away from hospitals today if they need emergency medical help.The most important message that I want us all to convey collectively as, as parliament and the NHS, is to the public’ I do not want people who need to access health care to think [they’d] better not try.So if it’s an accident or an emergency, people should have access. Co
  
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• Venezuela condemns ‘warmongering threats’ as Trump orders oil blockade – US politics live

  17-12-2025 17:13 via theguardian.com
  Trump has ordered a ‘total and complete’ blockade of sanctioned oil tankers to and from the countryThe Donald Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr will soon make his first appearance before Congress since sparking an uproar with comments seen as pressuring ABC to temporarily pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel from the air.ABC indefinitely suspended Kimmel’s show over statements he made following the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, wh
  
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• Even Happy Birthday has a dark side: my quest to tell the history of the world in 50 pieces of music

  17-12-2025 17:04 via theguardian.com
  The Nazis adopted Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of corporate greed. And Putin uses Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony as a call to arms. That’s why I put them in my soundtrack to the complexities of human existenceThe idea was always a ludicrous one: to reduce millennia of human musical history – not to mention billennia of the Earth’s sonic geology – into a book of 50 pieces of music. And yet that’s the challenge I decided to take o
  
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• Melania: first trailer released for Amazon’s documentary on the first lady

  17-12-2025 17:02 via theguardian.com
  The $40m film – directed by Brett Ratner, who has been accused of sexual misconduct – follows Melania Trump in the days before the 2025 inaugurationAmazon has released the first trailer for next year’s documentary on Melania Trump.The film will follow the first lady in the 20 days before the 2025 inauguration and has “unprecedented access” with promises of “exclusive footage capturing critical meetings, private conversations, and never-before-seen environments
  
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• Peter Greene obituary

  17-12-2025 16:46 via theguardian.com
  Actor who gave memorable, sometimes unnerving, performances in films such as Pulp Fiction, The Mask and The Usual Suspects“A giant exposed nerve ending” is how Entertainment Weekly described the actor Peter Greene in 1995. Greene, who has died suddenly aged 60, brought his unnerving intensity to a handful of high-profile films in the 1990s, including Quentin Tarantino’s brash comic thriller Pulp Fiction (1994).Greene appears in the small but memorable role of a depraved securit
  
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• Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?

  17-12-2025 16:41 via theguardian.com
  In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?In the decade leading up to the pandemic, nonfiction seemed unstoppable. Readers flocked to books that explained a world upended by Brexit, Trump, #MeToo and climate upheaval. Titles such as Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny, Caroline Criado-Perez’s Invisible Women, and Robin D’Angelo’s White Fragility s
  
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