Prof James Hansen rebukes oil firms and Canadian government over stance on exploiting fossil fuel, which he says would make climate problem unsolvableMajor international oil companies are buying off governments, according to the world's most prominent...
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Rising private rents, lack of affordable housing, benefit cuts and low levels of home-building force costly short-term solution, investigation findsThe UK has spent almost £2bn housing vulnerable homeless families in short-term temporary accommodation,...
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People with conditions such as heart disease or Parkinson's could benefit from tissue grown with their own DNALorraine Barnes suffered a heart attack in 2005 and has lived with the consequences – extreme exhaustion and breathlessness – ever since....
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Dispensaries selling cannabis bath salts, 'bud-tenders' advising on blends, even a marijuana university. As Colorado gears up for legalisation, we get the dope on Denver's 'green rush'I'm being driven around Denver by America's first professional stoner....
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Profile of Francis Horner created by regency sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey is found by volunteers at Livorno cemeteryAmid rampant weeds and crumbling stones, Matteo Giunti makes his way to the tomb of Francis Horner MP, a Scottish Whig who co-founded...
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Foreign correspondent and editor of 30 years standing witnessed events in world's troublespots from Chechnya to HalabjaRichard Beeston, foreign correspondent and later foreign editor of The Times, has died of cancer aged 50.Known as "Rick", Beeston spent...
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Move to ensure olive oil is served in non-refillable bottles condemned as weirdest decision since curvy cucumber rulingEU bureaucrats have been ridiculed for shifting their focus from fighting the eurozone's debt crisis to impose strict rules on how...
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After intense protests, law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children is approved, but key issues still unresolvedThe French president, François Hollande, has signed a law authorising same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, after months...
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Daft Punk's new album is astoundingly ambitious, creating a frenzy even before it has appeared. On the eve of its release – and 20 years since they made their first record in their bedroom as teenagers – Dorian Lynskey gets beyond the helmets to...
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Concerns that firms' rights to hold patents on genes linked to breast cancer is pushing up cost of testing for diseaseAngelina Jolie's decision to speak out about her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy was intended to highlight the terrible...
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Organisers in Kiev determined to go ahead after cancellation of last year's event, despite rise in homophobic attacksEfforts are going ahead in Ukraine's capital Kiev to stage a gay pride march next week in the face of data showing a sharp rise in the...
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More than $1m worth of Chopard jewellery stolen from Novotel Suites in Cannes ahead of Cannes film festivalIt could have been the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster: a thief creeps into a Cannes hotel room after dark and effortlessly makes off with over...
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Chopard jewels worth $1m, to be worn by celebrities at the Cannes film festival, have been snatched from hotel roomA million dollars' worth of jewellery to be worn by celebrities at the Cannes film festival has been stolen, according to French police.The...
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Authorities push forward plans for 314 metre-high dam on Dadu river which would affect rare plants and fishChinese environmental authorities have approved construction plans for what could become the world's tallest dam, while acknowledging that the...
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Party board's involvement likely to dismay No 10, which has spent weekend rubbishing reports in Times and Daily TelegraphLord Feldman, the Conservative co-chairman, is to be challenged at a meeting of the party board on Monday over allegations that he...
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Khan, leader of Tehreek-e-Insaf party, says Altaf Hussain's Muttahida Qaumi Movement behind death of Zahra ShahidImran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, on Sunday blamed the killing of a political activist on the eve of a partial...
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Tory rebellion on amendment to grant civil partnerships to heterosexual couples will 'cost £4bn and take two years'Downing Street issued a stark warning that the bill to legalise gay marriage will run into grave trouble – and cost the taxpayer an...
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Man, 48, reportedly held over deaths of children aged five and 10 after ex-wife saw him rollerskating away covered in bloodA British man has been arrested after two children were found with their throats cut, and he was seen fleeing on rollerskates from...
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Minute-by-minute report: Follow Arsenal and Spurs's battle for Champions League football with Barry Glendenning's updatesBarry Glendenning ...
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Government banned annual rally of Ansar al-Sharia, which openly supports al-Qaida, saying it posed a threat to societySupporters of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clashed with Tunisian police on Sunday after the government banned its annual...
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Health secretary says he does not believe Tory co-chairman made disparaging remarks about grassroots ToriesJeremy Hunt, the health secretary, has offered strong support for the Conservative co-chairman Lord Feldman, who is fighting allegations that he...
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Single winning ticket sold at supermarket in Zephyrhills near Tampa, but officials waiting to identify lottery winner publiclyIt's all about the odds, and one lone ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching each of the numbers drawn for the highest...
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Leader of France's far-right Front National tweets to say she is fine after falling into empty pool and fracturing backboneMarine Le Pen has rushed to reassure party activists and supporters of the far-right Front National that she is fine after her...
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Outgoing Bank of England governor blames regulatory failure for banking crisis and not individualsThe outgoing governor of the Bank of England has called on the British people not to "demonise" bankers for the financial crisis.Sir Mervyn King said on...
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Mandelson says anti-EU Tories are threatening to 'burn down the house' unless David Cameron caves into their demandsTory Eurosceptics are running a "Soprano-style protection racket" in the Conservative party in which they are threatening to burn down...
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Jabhat al-Nusra, which is affiliated to al-Qaida, consolidates position as scramble for control over wells acceleratesThe EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions in an effort to aid the opposition has accelerated a scramble for control over wells and...
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Over-by-over report: Can New Zealand chase down England's total? Find out with Rob BagchiRob BagchiJohn Ashdown ...
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Former chancellor launches scathing attack on David Cameron and says Euroscepticism is 'infecting party soul'Lord Howe, the former Conservative chancellor who triggered the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, has launched a scathing attack on the prime minister,...
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Review by Organisation of American States on illicit drugs 'could mark beginning of the end' of prohibitionEuropean governments and the Obama administration are this weekend studying a "gamechanging" report on global drugs policy that is being seen in...
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Labour leader urges David Cameron to work with G8 countries to force corporate giants to pay their fair shareEd Miliband has vowed to rip up the rule book as prime minister and go it alone if there is no international consensus to tackle multinationals...
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In an exclusive interview with Chris McGreal in Kigali, Rwanda's president denies backing an accused Congolese war criminal and says challenge to senior US official proves his innocenceRwanda's president, Paul Kagame, has rejected accusations from Washington...
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NHS Direct staff 1,200 smaller in number than in 2009-10, resulting in 120,000 more hospital referrals in the past yearThe NHS Direct health advice service referred an extra 120,000 patients to accident and emergency departments in the past year, compared...
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Police say member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party ambushed by two bikersA senior female member of Imran Khan's Movement for Justice party (PTI) was shot dead outside her home in Karachi on Saturday.Reports suggested that Zahra Shahid Hussain,...
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Investigation launched after pilot makes successful emergency landing as plane's landing gear fails to deployA US Airways flight made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark Liberty International Airport early on Saturday, after the plane's landing...
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Stuart Heritage: Ukrainian giants! Romanian vampires! Greek men in skirts! Yes, it's time to stop bickering with our European neighbours and start ridiculing them instead. Join us here from 7.30pm, ready for an 8pm kick-offStuart Heritage ...
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The Syrian president says that the opposition could not uphold any peace deal, and blames the west for supporting themSyria's embattled leader Bashar al-Assad has used a rare interview – carried out amid the sound of artillery fire resounding through...
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Over-by-over report: Can England's bowlers get their side back into the first Test? Find out with Andy BullAndy BullTom Davies ...
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Downing Street remains silent on identity of Conservative who made remarks and is described as close ally of David CameronDowning Street is under growing pressure to name the close ally of David Cameron who allegedly described Tory activists as "mad,...
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NAHT president Bernadette Hunter attacks education secretary for urging schools to jump higher and run fasterThe education secretary is like a fanatical personal trainer who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, the leader of the headteachers'...
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Maggie Boyle to leave post months after operations at LGI children's heart unit were suspended over high death ratesAn NHS trust at the centre of a row over death rates for children's heart surgery is to replace its chief executive.Maggie Boyle will...
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Move could reignite tensions that flared up after Pyongyang's nuclear test earlier this year, which led to tighter UN sanctionsNorth Korea has fired three short-range Scud missiles from its east coast, amid diplomatic efforts to ease tensions over the...
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Cheznye Emmons, 23, has life support machine turned off after drinking methanol from a bottle labelled as ginA British backpacker has died after drinking poisoned alcohol in the Indonesian jungle.Cheznye Emmons, 23, had bought a bottle labelled "gin"...
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London five-year-old Chloe Johnson dies in water park of Coral Sea Waterworld hotel in Sharm el-SheikhA five-year-old girl from south London has drowned in a hotel pool at an Egyptian resort in Sharm el-Sheikh.Chloe Johnson, from Forest Hill in south...
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Amsterdam to Wolf Hall, Booker winners and bestsellers – authors including JK Rowling, Hilary Mantel, Philip Pullman, Nick Hornby and Ian McEwan annotate their own first editions. The books will be auctioned at Sotheby's next week in aid of English...
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Michael Morpurgo, Ian Rankin, JK Rowling, Iain Sinclair, Ralph Steadman, Jeanette Winterson, Garry Blight, Lisa Allardice, Karin Andreasson, Ginny Hooker, Kit Buchan, Lydia Smears | Saturday, May 18, 2013
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Senior Tory made remarks in response to question about MPs who voted for EU referendum amendment in Queen's speechDowning Street is wrestling with a dilemma over how to respond after a close ally of David Cameron was alleged to have described Tory activists...
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Marina Litvinenko speaks out after coroner agrees to exclude material suggesting Russian agencies were involved in killingThe widow of Alexander Litvinenko has launched a blistering attack on William Hague and David Cameron, accusing them of sabotaging...
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Number of primary schools with more than 1,000 pupils has risen by 60% in past three yearThe number of supersize primary schools – some of which have more than 1,000 pupils – has soared by 60% in three years, triggering a fierce debate among educationists...
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SNP leader accuses Farage of touting obnoxious policies after Ukip leader labels protesters 'fascist scum'The two most influential political leaders reshaping British politics outside Westminster traded insults after the Ukip leader Nigel Farage labelled...
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Foreign secretary accused of sabotaging inquest into 2006 death of former Russian spy as coroner says proceeding might now end up 'incomplete and misleading'William Hague has been accused of sabotaging the inquest into the death of the Russian Alexander...
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Norman Lamb will argue the case to stick to policy but Tory MPs say David Cameron has been persuaded to drop itA health minister has urged the coalition to press ahead with forcing cigarettes to be sold in plain packets to reduce sales, despite the plan...
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