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British PM London Killing Appears to be Terrorism
British Prime Minister David Cameron says the daylight killing of a man on a south London street near an army barracks appears to be a terrorist ...
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London attack Britain probes possible Nigerian link
Britain is investigating a possible Nigerian link to attackers suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London while shouting Islamic slogans, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters on condition of ...
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British Litvinenko Coroner Goes Rogue
London coroner Robert Owen is fiercely pursuing a mission of his own. He wants to know who murdered Alexander Litvinenko. There's just one problem with his crusade. It's never been officially established that homicide was involved in the death. Litvinenko is the reputed Russian spy who died suspiciously in London in 2006. It is perhaps equally suspicious that now almost seven ...
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Woolwich beheading How brave woman faced down killers to tend to dying victim
carnage unfolded on a busy street in Woolwich , one brave woman faced down the killers.She calmly asked the two men brandishing knifes and cleavers if she could tend to the decapitated victim."Let me comfort him," she pleaded.The crazed attackers, blood dripping from their hands, shouted that no man could pass before allowing her to kneel beside the headless corpse, where she appeared ...
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James Bulgers mum tells parole board My sons killer Jon Venables still a danger to society
murdered toddler James Bulger has urged a parole board not to release killer Jon Venables - branding him a continuing danger to society.Denise Fergus today gave a personal statement begging the government to keep the 30-year-old behind bars.She argued the killer's twisted mind has not been fully examined and wants evidence reviewed that her son, aged two when he was battered, was sexually ...
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Woolwich attack Watch shocking video of suspect with bloodied hands wielding knives issue warning
Woolwich attackers .The video, obtained by ITV News, shows a bloodied man after the brutal attack on a man in the street.It shows the suspect, wearing a dark jacket, jeans and a beanie hat, calmly walking towards the camera with what appears to be two large knives clasped by the handles in his bloodied left hand.Gesticulating with both hands - while gripping the weapons - the man points to his ...
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Woolwich attack echoes 2008 terrorist plot to kidnap and behead British soldier
Islamic fanatic Parviz Khan, 37, was jailed for life after he admitted planning to lure the British Muslim soldier off the streets with the promise of drugs then film his ...
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Surgeons remove 4-pound hairball from tiger
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from Tampa Bay area surgeons when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself.A 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Clearwater, the clinic said in a news release. Dr. Mike Reems, of BluePearl Veterinary Partners, ...
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Eyewitness gives extraordinary account of her confrontation with Woolwich attackers
A passer by has given a shocking first hand account of her encounter with the two men who allegedly murdered a soldier in Woolwich ...
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Angela Merkel is Forbes top woman again
Angela Merkel for the third year running.The German chancellor is ranked ahead of Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff, Melinda Gates, who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Michelle Obama, ...
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British firms face ethical dilemmas in Bangladesh
For the first time, Tesco, one of the largest retailers in the world, opened the doors to its factory in Bangladesh. ITV News visited a production center said to be ethically run. It manufactures many of the 40 million garments made in Bangladesh every year for the supermarket giant Tesco. ITV's Laura Kuennsberg ...
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British soldier hacked to death in apparent act of terrorism
british soldier wearing a charity help for heroes t-shirt was walking along this sidewalk when two men in a car apparently drove into him, then got out and started stabbing him with multiple large ...
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The Pound plunged in a line with a soft PPI report
The appetite for risk improved in the US session on Tuesday. Most foreign currencies reversed at least some of their losses after pausing on Monday on profit taking. The pound plunged in a line with a soft PPI report, which effectively annihilated hopes for additional quantitative easing. The yen remains near a 4 1/-year low. The US stock indexes closed down. Gold and oil are lower. The ...
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Richard Branson To Class Of 2013 Create Your Own Opportunities
you may want to pay attention to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson's advice . "Be ambitious. There probably won't be another time in your life when you have such freedom of opportunity. Grasp it with both hands," Branson wrote. "If you can't find an opening that fits what you want to do, why not try to create one yourself?" Branson was writing ...
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Wartime MI6 had secret plans for liquidation or kidnapping of targets
August 1945: British wartime prime minister Clement Attlee, seated right, with US president Harry Truman, and Stalin. Foreign secretary Ernest Bevin stands behind, centre. Photograph: Yevgeny ...
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Government accused of using anti-GP rhetoric to mask its own failings
Doctors ' leaders and the health secretary are on a collision course over claims the government is using "anti-GP rhetoric" to mask its own failure to effectively reform ...
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Police and crime commissioners budgets soaring say MPs
police authorities they were elected to replace last November, according to parliamentary research.The Commons home affairs select committee says six months after their election, 17 out of the 41 PCCs have set budgets higher than the police authorities they replaced. The largest increase so far is a rise of 133% in Hampshire where the police authority budget of 1.5m last year has risen to 3.5m ...
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Anti-Muslim reprisals after Woolwich attack
Members of the English Defence League congregated near Woolwich Arsenal station on Wednesday night after plans for a protest were circulated on social media. Photograph: Rick Findler/Barcroft ...
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When Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin suckling pigs and savage brews
Joseph Stalin in Moscow during a wartime meeting is contained in a letter from Sir Alexander Cadogan, a top official at the Foreign Office, contained in a highly classified document released on Thursday.He described how at mealtimes between the meetings in August 1942, Churchill "engaged the company in irreverent and irresponsible discourse".Cadogan's account is contained in a ...
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Woolwich beheading Security tightened at all London army barracks
Woolwich after today's barbaric beheading. The Home Secretary was briefed on the incident at a COBRA meeting - the government's emergency committee - which lasted just under an hour. Others attending were Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, London Mayor Boris Johnson, Met Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe and Assistant Commissioner, Cressida Dick as well as the intelligence agencies. ...
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April Jones murder trial Mark Bridger admits he did take her dead body into his cottage
five-year-old April Jones today confessed for the first time to bringing her dead body into his cottage and "laying her down in his front room".Mark Bridger told the jury he woke up in the middle of the night after the alleged abduction presuming "it was a nightmare or a dream".The 47-year-old, who has consistently denied any recollection over the past seven months of April ...
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Dale Cregan admits murdering father and son as court hears he will die in jail
Cop killer Dale Cregan dramatically admitted murdering a father and son at his trial today.One-eyed Cregan had already pleaded guilty to the murders of unarmed police women Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone.But he had denied killing Mark Short and his dad David in separate attacks. After changing his pleas today he now faces four life sentences.,The jury was told by his own barrister: "He will ...
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Woolwich attack Courageous mum tells how she confronted knifeman and tried to persuade him to hand over weapons
A mum-of-two has told how she confronted one of the Woolwich attackers and tried to persuade him to hand over his weapons. Courageous Ingrid Loyau-Kennett was passing the scene on a bus but jumped off to rush to the aid of the victim. The 48-year-old told The Daily Telegraph: ""Being a cub leader I have my first aid so when I saw this guy on the floor I thought it was an accident ...
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IRA Hyde Park bombing John Anthony Downey in court charged over 1982 attack
A man appeared in court today charged with blasting four soldiers to death in a 1982 Hyde Park bomb attack.John Anthony Downey, 61, made a 10 minute appearance before Westminster magistrates in Central London. Speaking in an Irish accent, Downey confirmed his name and date of birth.Silver-haired and sporting a scruffy beard, he was flanked by two prison guards and wore a checked, open necked ...
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Pregnant Kate Middleton shines brightest at Queens garden party in summery yellow dress
The Duchess of Cambridge shone brightest at the Queen's garden party today. At seven months pregnant, Kate, 31, was radiant in this season's hottest colour at the Buckingham Palace bash. The expectant Duchess proved pregnancy did not mean an end to her style-setting ...
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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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