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Cannes jewel heist Notorious Pink Panthers gang suspected of million-dollar raid
million-dollar jewel heist at the Cannes Film Festival .Detectives in the South of France believe a mob called the Pink Panthers - who have targeted the awards ceremony before - were ...
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Alton Towers The Smiler breaks down on preview night leaving thrill-seekers dangling
Thrill-seekers screamed with terror while they were trapped on a new Alton Towers rollercoaster when it broke down yesterday.A group of 16 journalists was stranded on the 18million ride, which has a world record 14 loops, for around 30 minutes.They were left dangling at a steep angle as they tried out the 50mph rollercoaster - called The Smiler - before it opens to the public next week.Octavia ...
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Andrew Moran Most wanted fugitive to face Spain court before extradition UK
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Cat sneaks inside prison and gives birth to six kittens
A cat sneaked inside a prison - and gave birth to six kittens.A jail employee found the new mum inside a truck normally used to transport inmates.Animal centre staff arrived to collect the family but the frightened cat ran off before it could be caught and left the kittens behind.The litter had to be bottle-fed every two hours until they were reunited with the cat, which was captured inside Parc ...
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Liam Atherton Parents face jail for letting sick baby die in cold while they hosted house party
A couple who let their sick baby die in the cold as they hosted a drunken all-night house party are facing jail.Four-month-old Liam Atherton succumbed to pneumonia while Matthew Atherton, 23, girlfriend Anne Turnbull, 30, and three pals guzzled 60 cans of lager, Jack Daniel's whiskey and wine, a court was told.The tot, who had a cold, had been put near an outside door left open during a ...
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Machete murderer who admits killing up to 400 people cant be booted out of UK
A murderer who admits killing up to 400 people - many in bloody machete attacks - is living in the UK after being granted asylum.John Thuo has been living in a taxpayer funded home since sneaking in illegally from Africa in 2003, and his neighbours are totally oblivious to his grisly past.For seven years he worked for the Mungiki in Kenya, a criminal mob behind some of the continent's worst ...
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Jacob Barnett Experts said boy would never be able to read but now hes brainier than Einstein
Born with Asperger's syndrome, Jacob Barnett was written off by experts who insisted he would grow up locked in a world of his own.They said the youngster would never be able to read, write or even tie his own shoelaces. But his mum Kristine refused to accept their word and set about transforming his life.Since then, she has watched him flourish into a child genius with an IQ of 189 - ...
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Bicester death Fathers tribute to “uniquely beautiful” daughter found dead
Daily Mirror Exclusive Last night Sarah's dad, Nabil Dahane, 33, laid flowers at the house in Bicester, Oxon, where the body of his "uniquely beautiful" daughter was found on Thursday morning.His new partner, Nicki Playford, 49, lives across the road.In a moving tribute, the grieving dad, of Banbury, Oxon, wrote: "You have meant the world to me."The time spent with you, ...
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Madeleine McCann may still be alive Police identify list of new abduction suspects
handed the names to their Portuguese counterparts and begged them to reopen the investigation into the three-year-old's abduction.The man leading the Metropolitan Police's 2million review into the kidnapping, Operation Grange, insisted Madeleine could still be alive and believes it is "perfectly probable" information which could identify her abductor lies within local crime ...
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Anderson bowls England back into first Test
England James Anderson took his 300th Test wicket and then ended a bold counter-attack by New Zealand's Ross Taylor as England fought back in the first Test at Lord's.The two players lit up a Lord's bathed in artificial floodlight to counter the overhead gloom of Friday's second day, which ended with New Zealand 4 for 153 in reply to England's first innings 232 - a ...
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British Girl Drowns In Pool At Egyptian Resort
A six-year-old British girl has drowned in a pool at an Egyptian resort in Sharm el Sheikh. The Foreign Office confirmed the death and said it was "providing consular assistance to the family at this difficult time". More ...
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Notes from a small island Is Sealand an independent micronation or an illegal fortress
We embarked from the Thames Estuary in the dead of night. This, I was assured, was in order to catch the tide, but it gave our journey a whiff of mystery. Soon we were swathed in fog, as seagulls rose from the surface of the water, ghostly in the light cast by our 45ft fishing boat, the Charlotte Joan.Four-and-a-half hours after we left, looming out of the darkness, there it was: the Independent ...
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Alexander Litvinenko widow accuses William Hague of sabotaging inquest
David Cameron , accusing them of sabotaging the inquest into her husband's murder and hiding the Russian state's role in his death.Marina Litvinenko said she was "utterly dismayed" ...
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Small number of autism cases linked to depression medications
In utero exposure to the medications that treat depression may increase the risk of autism spectrum disorders in less than 1 percent of cases. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Shelby Miller talks with friends during a fund raiser for the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders in St. Louis on May 16, 2013. UPI/Bill ...
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Need A Tattoo Translated Forget The British Foreign Office
A man gets a tattoo in Bangkok, Thailand. The British Foreign Office says its citizens abroad have some odd requests. The British Foreign Office is happy to assist its citizens, but officials want to make clear that there are some requests they won't fulfill. Such as supplying Olympic tickets or doing a background check on that Swedish woman you met online. Those are just a few ...
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Ryanair accused of exploiting its staff by Labour MP Luciana Berger
Budget airline Ryanair was accused of exploiting its staff today after it was claimed that its cabin crew are paid for only part of the time they are on duty. MP Luciana Berger told the Commons that the airline had bumped up profits by forcing staff to take three months' compulsory unpaid leave a year - and banning them from other jobs during the lay-off. She said: "This is ...
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Call for ban on cold calls after Ofcom research finds we receive average two per week
Consumer groups want cold calls banned after Ofcom found homes are pestered on average with two a week.Four out of five people who took part in a four-week study by the regulator said they had received nuisance calls.Research by government watchdog Ofcom found Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) firms accounted for a fifth of them.In the first study of its kind, the regulator asked almost 1,000 ...
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England given boost with Chelsea willing to release trio from US tour
Chelsea's Frank Lampard celebrates winning the Europa League in Amsterdam and could captain England against the Republic of Ireland at Wembley. Photograph: Imago / Barcroft ...
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Alex McCarthy I never thought Id end season being picked for England
'I'm looking forward to the summer even more now,' says Alex McCarthy after his call-up to the England squad for the summer friendlies. Photograph: Alan Walter/Action ...
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Book auction to shine light on the secrets of quidditch
JK Rowling's notes reveal that she invented quidditch in a hotel in Manchester whilst 'pondering the things that hold a society together.' Photograph: ...
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Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity
Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...
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Prague to dedicate train cars to singles seeking relationships
Transport officials in the Czech capital said Prague's trains will soon offer cars geared exclusively toward singles seeking to meet a special someone. Ropid, Prague's transport company, said the details of the scheme are still being worked out, but the idea is to have designated train cars for singles seeking to meet a special someone without having to sacrifice the time demanded by ...
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Police announce new leads in case of missing British girl
British police said Friday they are investigating new leads in the case of Madeleine McCann, the girl who disappeared six years ago in Portugal at the age of ...
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Emotional moment as Englands James Anderson reaches 300-wicket landmark
New Zealand at Lord's on Friday. Kiwi opener Peter Fulton was Anderson's 300th wicket - making him only the fourth Englishman to reach the landmark alongside Fred Trueman, Bob Willis and Ian Botham. When Anderson's friend Graeme Swann held on to the catch low at second slip to complete Fulton's dismissal, New Zealand were seven for two on the second day of the first Test. ...
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Michael Gove given lesson in grammar by schoolgirl who spotted errors in exam paper
A schoolgirl has given Education Secretary Michael Gove a lesson in grammar after spotting errors in an examination he ordered youngsters to take last week to raise standards. Rebecca Lee, 11, has written to the stickler for grammar to point out the errors and urge his department to set a "better example". Rebecca, of Christchurch School in Bristol, noticed the text for the spelling ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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