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Cameron will NOT challenge Google over evil tax avoidance at Downing Street summit
Bizarrely the Prime Minister will brief business advisors on his plans for tackling global tax dodging but will not challenge Eric Schmidt over its arrangements which were last week branded ‘evil’ by ...
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Lord Ashcroft warns Tories on verge of spiral of irrelevance as Cameron faces revolt
The Tories risk being plunged into a 'spiral of irrelevance', former donor Lord Ashcroft warned today as David Cameron faced battles with his party on several ...
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Hate preacher Abu Qatada complains his five-bedroom taxpayer funded home is not big enough due to lack of storage space
cleric Abu Qatada's family will leave Britain with him if he returns to Jordan because the taxpayer-funded home they moved into last Christmas is too small, a tribunal heard ...
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Havent we met before Angler catches same giant carp he hooked 14 years ago but this time its DOUBLE the size
Angler Tim Cosens was surprised to see an ‘old friend’ on the end of his fishing reel when he caught the same common carp at Strawberry Fields fishery in Tunbridge Wells, Kent that he had reeled in back in ...
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Gay Man Shot In Face In New York Hate Crime
A gunman who allegedly used homophobic insults before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face in New York is facing charges of murder as a hate crime. "It was a quickie. He shot him and he went straight to the ground," a bouncer at a nearby club told the New York Post. "Half his body was lying on the sidewalk and half was on the street." Authorities ...
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FBI Hostage Rescue Agents Die In Training
Two FBI special agents from the elite Hostage Rescue Team have been killed in a training accident in Virginia. The accident happened off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday, the FBI's national press office announced in a statement. No other details were given and the cause is under investigation. The special agents were identified as Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, ...
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Severe weather predicted for Midwest and Plains
>Are you experiencing severe weather in your area? Send photos and videos to CNN iReport. But please remember to stay safe. (CNN) -- A rash of tornadoes wreaked havoc in Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and Monday, destroying homes and tossing trees around like toothpicks. But the destructive weather isn't ...
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Bungled bank heist in Israel leaves gunman 4 more dead
Israeli security and rescue forces gather following a bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation in the Israeli city of Beersheba on May 20, 2013. Four people were killed and three others wounded in a botched bank heist in southern Israel which ended when a robber who had held a hostage shot himself dead, police ...
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Hobson Yahoo buys itself some cool with Tumblr deal
Yahoo announced the acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr , after the Yahoo board approved the $1.1 billion purchase on Sunday. The Tumblr acquisition is said to be part of Yahoo CEO Marissa ...
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Lotto winners with tragic story thank guardian angel
Isn't it funny how so many of the lottery winners are about to lose everything!! Buying lottery tickets is probably one of the reasons, along with the other foolish ways they spend money. I get sick of hearing ...
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Star Trek Into Darkness wins weekend box office
"Star Trek Into Darkness" has warped its way to a $70.6 million domestic launch from Friday to Sunday, though it's not setting any light-speed records with a debut that's lower than the studio's expectations. The latest voyage of the starship Enterprise fell short of its predecessor, 2009's "Star Trek," which opened with $75.2 million. Since premiering ...
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Eight Dead In Daghestani Car Bombings
Two car bombs have exploded with deadly effect in front of the Court Bailiffs' Directorate in Makhachkala, the capital of Russia's North Caucasus republic of Daghestan. Daghestan's Interior Ministry officials say nobody was hurt when the first car exploded near the building. However, a second blast hit 15 minutes after the first explosion, killing at least eight people. ...
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Lawmakers Urge Kyiv Mayor To Ban Gay Parades
Sixty-one Ukrainian lawmakers have signed a petition urging Kyiv's mayor to ban a gay-pride parade in the Ukrainian capital scheduled for May 25. Ukraine's Family Movement leader Pavlo Unhuryan, who is also a parliamentary, announced on May 20 that the petition requests a total ban on gay-pride parades "and similar events in Kyiv in May-June 2013." The petition states ...
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Gunmen Attack Pakistani Polio Team Kill Policeman
Pakistani officials say gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in the country's northwest, killing a policeman who was escorting the health workers. The group was assaulted on May 20 in the Bajur tribal area, one of Pakistan's seven tribal areas along the Afghan border. A local official said more than 600 teams are taking part in the latest campaign in Bajur to vaccinate ...
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Have fun with fennel
This week's flavor is fennel, and young chef Itzik Asulin of the Italian trattoria Lulu Kitchen and Bar in Neveh Tzedek suggests using this aromatic vegetable to add freshness and flavor to a light seasonal ...
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Hashimoto’s sex comments rejected - poll
Tokyo - A large majority of Japanese people disagree with a high-profile politician who said women forced to provide sex during World War 2 were a military necessity, according to polls issued on ...
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Steven Rolfe Ex-soldier told to repaint his St Georges flag front door by housing association after it was deemed offensive and distressing
Steven Rolfe painted the red and white colours of the English flag upon on his rented home in 2003 but was told ten years later he had to cover it up as it could be considered ...
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Montys return Pictures emerge of Field Marshal Montgomery visiting pivotal El Alamein battlefield 25 years after he defeated the Germans
The candid images show Montgomery as an old man setting foot at El Alamein in Egypt to mark the anniversary of the Allies' first major triumph against Germans in World War ...
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Kate Middleton does a Marilyn Gust of wind that lifted Duchess of Cambridges dress
But windy weather and her flimsy outfit had other ideas. Kate was left red-faced after the gusts lifted up ...
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Suspected drink driver 41 sexually assaulted policeman while offering him and a colleague a threesome
Celina Hodge, 41, groped a police officer's groin and buttocks while offering him and a colleague a threesome as they tried to give her a breath ...
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Grandmother 71 died of dehydration at care home because of gross neglect by staff
Norma Spear, 71, died in Moseley Hall Hospital on November 6, 2011, three days after she was admitted from Druids Meadow residential home in Highter's Heath, ...
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Law firm faces paying out to trainee lawyer denied a permanent role because she became pregnant
Trainee lawyer in line for payout after being denied a permanent role at City firm which discriminated against her over pregnancy in final stages of ...
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Cyprus-style crash could hit independent Scotland because banking sector is 1250 bigger than its economy Treasury warns
If Scotland goes it alone its banking sector would be 1,250% bigger than its national economy, leaving the government powerless to act in the event of a financial ...
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Social worker who cared for disabled people sues NHS after a bungled hip operation left him permanently paralysed
The grandfather, who had spent years working with disabled people, asked staff not to use an epidural to numb the area because he was aware of the risk of spinal ...
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Engineers shock as he finds nest of SNAKES in cable box
The engineer found a nest of what he believed to be snakes when he opened the Virgin cable box to investigate interference with television, internet and telephone ...
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Silicon Valley's Expo ambitions
Moffet Field, a fairly unknown former military airbase in Silicon Valley near Mountain View and Sunnyvale, may become the centerpiece of the 2020 World Expo if Governor Schwarzenegger and other advocated of a California bid get their way.
California wants one of its cities to host the 2020 World Expo, the event is a seminal one on the world calendar and is expected to draw in over 70 million visitors to Shanghai, the city currently hosting the exhibition, which last six months. Read more
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