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ff9ac0c4f04db127979d14872086078ef19652a8 | By . Sam Webb . Thief: Amanda Mann, an estate agent lettings manager, denied 17 charges of theft involving £7,500. She spent some of the cash on breast reduction surgery and designer shoes . A woman who stole from her employers and spent some of the cash on breast reduction surgery and designer shoes has been jailed fo... | Amanda Mann may have stolen up to £90,000, a court heard .
She was siphoning cash from tenants, deposits and commission payments .
Mann stole the money over three-and-a-half years . |
ff9ad312d23755b97b89b6efc7aa912cd51e8d7d | Thousands of tech, finance, and manufacturing companies have secret agreements with U.S. security agencies to swap sensitive data in return for classified intelligence, sources have claimed. U.S. intelligence organizations, including the NSA, CIA and FBI and branches of the U.S. military, call the firms 'trusted partne... | U.S intelligence organizations including the NSA, CIA and FBI 'have secret agreements with companies including Microsoft and McAfee'
Companies 'believe they are helping to protect the nation'
In return for their help, 'firms are lavished with gratitude and attention' |
ff9add1b037fe69b72f1cd7b9da70f89729fe4dd | South Korean forensics officials say they are sure the body found in a plum orchard last month is Yoo Byung Eun, a billionaire fugitive who was wanted in connection to the fatal Sewol ferry crash that claimed nearly 300 lives. But the country's forensics service said there was no way to determine the cause of death of ... | South Korean forensics: Body found in June is Yoo Byung Eun .
Authorities: Yoo's cause of death cannot be determined .
Yoo was wanted by prosecutors in connection to Sewol ferry crash .
Two autopsies performed and results matched, says official . |
ff9b80c06947bf85fd964f445140e3d3c008f0ed | Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a longtime friend of the Clinton family, thinks the former Secretary of State will decide whether she'll run for president in 60 days. "She's got to make that decision and she's got to spend the next 60 days making that decision ... I'm really hoping she runs, but I'm leaving that decision to her,... | Terry McAuliffe says Hillary Clinton will decide if she will run for president in the next 60 days .
The time frame points to a January decision date .
In September, Clinton said she would decide by that time . |
ff9b97f9de72c114bce8f584a6572f79bbb1ac31 | (CNN) -- Kurbanjan Samat, a 32-year-old Uyghur photographer, wants to dispel the stereotypes he says many Chinese hold about people from his home region -- an ethnically diverse province in China's far west. He traveled to more than 20 cities to interview and photograph more than 500 people as part of a photography pro... | Uyghur photographer wants to dispel stereotypes about Xinjiang.
The Chinese province has become associated with Islamic terrorism.
Kurbanjan Samat has taken more than 500 portraits.
He hopes to reflect the real lives of people from the province. |
ff9ba1ee319ec944946d0301d1db213effc4fc79 | By . Reuters Reporter . Last updated at 9:42 PM on 16th February 2012 . The careworn house not far from Santa Monica Boulevard resembles millions of other homes that have been foreclosed on since the calamitous U.S. housing crash four years ago. Garbage spews from trash bags behind the property. A smashed television le... | Majority of delinquent homeowners in Beverly Hills owe over $1million .
'Strategic default' popular as in California mortgages can be secured just by the home and banks cannot go after other assets . |
ff9bb6135086a3cb02e284c1618a3d235be50369 | An adorable toddler is stealing hearts on the internet after a video showing her performing a traditional Tahitian dance went viral. Filmed in a dance studio the 22-month-old girl named Vaihere can be seen swinging her hips while dancing along to a drum beat. Striking poses in between her movements, the young girl stay... | The 22-month-old toddler named Vaihere is filmed dancing at a studio .
Youngster shows no fear as she swings hips in front of a crowd of people .
Tahitian dance is traditionally coupled with percussion music . |
ff9c1b7a682cb20a1dcfe0f42f19c9159e6188ba | A food factory worker was killed when a 'wall' of frozen fish pallets fell on top of him as he tried to rebuild a stack that had already toppled over once, an inquest heard. Tomas Suchy, 22, was helping colleagues re-stack a pile of boxes which had fallen over in the store room of Interfish in Plymouth, Devon, when the... | Tomas Suchy was helping colleagues re-stack pile of boxes at food factory .
22-year-old suffered 'catastrophic' head injuries when pallets fell on him .
Co-workers shouted 'run away' but the Slovakian-born worker was crushed .
The pallets which hit Mr Suchy contained 52 boxes each weighing 25 kilos .
Inquest heard from... |
ff9c68692e0b1e0fe41a1602d25904825652fdf6 | By . Fiona Keating . PUBLISHED: . 04:22 EST, 28 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:18 EST, 28 March 2013 . A mobile phone charger said to be the world's smallest aims to save users in a pinch when their battery is dying. The key-ring size Fuel Micro Charger provides 20 to 30 minutes of extra talk time, or up to a few hours... | Charger is 1.3 inches long and can provide an extra 30 minutes' talk-time .
Handy for emergencies such as using GPS and maps to find your way home . |
ff9c69abef226a0b8b312dca48b7dbb49772cea6 | By . Tom Leonard and David Gardner . PUBLISHED: . 21:47 EST, 8 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:00 EST, 9 February 2013 . Fear gripped a large swathe of the US last night as the hunt went on for a rogue ex-police officer whose revenge killing spree has claimed three lives. Police and federal agents seeking heavily arm... | Christopher Dorner has sparked manhunt in three states and Mexico .
Dorner is also a decorated former Navy reservist who won award for shooting skills .
Has vowed revenge against those he believes got him fired from LAPD .
Police found his truck on fire near Big Bear, California Thursday evening .
But trail has gone co... |
ff9c6e92c2744de61c62f81ff43a6997d6598af6 | (CNN) -- Syrian opposition groups said Saturday that they have formed a breakaway government, but many details were yet to emerge. The Local Coordination Committees, which organizes and documents protests against the Syrian regime, said 188 seats have so far been assigned to the council, but it may be 24 hours before t... | NEW: Syrian opposition say they have formed breakaway government council .
NEW: Many details have yet to emerge on the new Syrian National Council.
NEW: Activists say eight people die in clashes and random gunfire on Saturday .
Syrian ambassador summoned over attack against U.S. ambassador, an official says . |
ff9cc7656670d601db14b4a757ab74961698caab | SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- More than a dozen uncontained wildfires raged Monday across Southern California, threatening thousands of structures and forcing people to flee homes from San Diego to Malibu to Lake Arrowhead. This photo taken from space Monday afternoon shows smoke rising from the wildfires in Southern ... | NEW: 123 structures destroyed by wildfires in Lake Arrowhead .
NEW: White House: Federal Agriculture Department will provide fire crews .
Fires threaten San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park; animals evacuated .
Malibu Canyon fire is 10 percent contained, officials say . |
ff9ccc35a88892d81cc8db144d5d7e7769fb22e0 | By . Mark Prigg . Creating water from thin air may seem a tall order - but US researchers have unveiled a system that could bring drinking water to remote areas. MIT researchers have developed a special mesh that can extract the water from morning fog, channeling it into reservoirs. They have already trialled the syste... | Mesh can extract water from fog .
System already being trialled in Chile to provide drinking water . |
ff9d44524f810c5ed4d2ce35de0d0d0377cadff2 | Dakar, Senegal (CNN) -- Jazz, soul and a blend of rock and roll combine to make Senegalese music sound quite familiar, while the sound of the sabar, a traditional Senegalese drum, keeps the music true to its West African roots. I'm listening to the mbalax style of music for my latest "Inside Africa" assignment: to expe... | Mbalax, combining jazz, soul, and rock with traditional beats, is the dance music of Senegal .
The godfather of the scene is the 82-year-old drummer Doudou N'Diaye Rose .
His instrument is the sabar, the traditional drum played with the hand and a stick .
Younger generations are fusing the sound with new influences to ... |
ff9d6845f09ffd6ff2d2b82fb59bf0caf006d5e4 | A 23-year-old university student was allegedly strangled to death by her 32-year-old boyfriend on Thanksgiving Day after the pair got into a 'heated' argument. Shannon Jones, from Potomac, Maryland, was choked by Benjamin Cayea until 'her face was blue and she had no pulse' at an apartment near Cornell University in It... | Shannon Jones, 23, allegedly strangled to death by Benjamin Cayea, 32 .
She was choked 'until her face was blue and she had no pulse', it is said .
Police arrived at apartment near Cornell University Thanksgiving night .
They found Miss Jones lying dead on the ground and later arrested Cayea .
Boyfriend charged with se... |
ff9e0bf5392f97df3ca7b6b3435e06829a270086 | KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghanistan's reputation as the world's leading narcotics supplier is well-known, but in a squalid ruin in Kabul, the country hides a darker secret -- a huge home grown drug addiction problem now on the brink of fueling an HIV/AIDS epidemic. Junkies smoking heroin can get high for $4. Here ... | Government officials say 1.2 million Afghans are now addicted to drugs .
United Nations says growing drug use could lead to HIV/AIDS crisis .
Efforts to combat drug use suffering from chronic lack of funds . |
ff9e3edc6c57b379178015afe164269920673965 | By . Kieran Corcoran . PUBLISHED: . 15:32 EST, 14 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 15:40 EST, 14 November 2013 . A woman who famously pledged to 'spend, spend, spend' after winning big betting on football is holding a charity sale of memorabilia from her life. Viv Nicholson, 77, won £152,000 in 1961 alongside her husband... | Viv Nicholson, 77, won £152,000 in 1961 with her husband Keith .
She famously declared that she would 'spend, spend, spend' after the win .
But she soon lost all the money, which would be worth £2,870,000 today .
Mrs Nicholson, who now lives in a care home, will auction old possessions kept by her brother to raise mone... |
ff9e6f4510f27f8a26f4b13c960ccf3d3330ce58 | By . Joshua Gardner . PUBLISHED: . 13:41 EST, 8 December 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:43 EST, 8 December 2013 . A California man whose truck flipped over and crashed into a tree Thursday fled the scene, leaving his girlfriend trapped upside down in the vehicle. Police say 24-year-old Jon Holley was driving in Glen Ellen, C... | Police say Jon Holley of Santa Rosa, California fled the scene after he took a turn to fast and upended his truck while driving on a suspended license .
Holley left behind his girlfriend Sada Washington, 23, as she hung upside down from her seatbelt .
Holley remained at large Sunday and wanted on a hit and run charge a... |
ff9f08dbf81ff48d3d12960a2d15f80c7a631574 | By . Emma Innes . A mother-of-two has a sleep condition which means she has fallen asleep next to loud speakers, on the back of a moped and even on the bus holding her newborn baby. Claire Metters, 38, from Conwy, North Wales, says she suffers with narcolepsy and faces a daily battle to stay awake for her children. She... | Claire Metters has narcolepsy, a condition that effects sleep-wake cycles .
She experiences nightmares and does not sleep restfully at night .
As a result, she is exhausted during the day and has to nap frequently .
She sleeps for two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon .
She is not able to work but org... |
ff9fa1571358f019dd42f41d618a894754fe27d2 | By . Bianca London . All eyes may be on the Duchess of Cambridge's wardrobe choice today as she visits a primary school in London but another royal family member is quietly holding her own in the fashion stakes. It seems that with each public appearance she attends, Princess Beatrice pushes the style boundaries further... | Princess, 25, wore colourful boxy skirt and white blouse .
Joined Clive Owen and humanitarians at The Masterpiece Marie Curie Party . |
ffa1546fb67d401b451deaf2435e2804773425b2 | (CNN) -- It's happened. The build-up and anxiety over whether folks like Chris Christie and Sarah Palin are going to throw their hats in the ring for the GOP presidential primary has reached critical mass. And now, the will-they-or-won't-they game has flipped from fun and energizing to damaging to the party. Christie a... | Are Chris Christie and Sarah Palin running for president, or aren't they?
Their refusal to answer definitively is damaging to the GOP, said S.E. Cupp .
Conservatives haven't been able to invest fully in the candidates who are running, Cupp said .
Cupp: Palin just has to decide, and Christie just has to endorse someone ... |
ffa1a73c9e86ede650f9735f41d226921ef8b09a | By . Peter Rugg . An Arkansas man in custody for allegedly killing his pregnant girlfriend claims he has no memory of assaulting her. Douglas True, 21, reportedly dialed 911 for Fort Smith Police at around 11:52 a.m. on Sunday, asking that they come to a home on the 2900 block of South 66th Street. He waved them into t... | Douglas True, 21, called police Sunday to report a crime .
Upon arriving at the residence, police discovered the body of Briana Butler, 22, in the bathroom .
True claimed the two argued while he was drunk but that he had no memory of an assault .
Butler's toddler daughter was found asleep in nearby room . |
ffa1facb1ea645320525705e8bc723bd6b0809c6 | (CNN) -- London experienced protests in the both the east and center of the capital just hours before the Olympic opening ceremony. Taxi drivers gathered at Hyde Park corner as part of a demonstration against Olympic traffic lanes, while protestors held a "die-in" against major sponsor Dow Chemicals outside the Olympic... | London cab drivers cause gridlock in Olympic lanes protest .
Bhopal Medical Association demonstrate outside Olympic park .
BMA campaigners claim Dow has responsibility for 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy .
Dow denies claims, buying Union Carbide 16 years after disaster . |
ffa2cceb6ce4327fe114947d8c63b29cc7d8032e | George Groves has taken to the streets of London to help raise money for the Royal British Legion’s poppy appeal. The super middleweight boxer has taken time out of his preparation for the fight against American Denis Douglin next month to collect money for the appeal. He has also visited Buckingham Palace to meet Prin... | George Groves has been out in the streets of London collecting money for the Royal British Legion’s poppy appeal .
Super middleweight is training for a November fight against Denis Douglin .
British boxer is on the comeback trail after two epic defeats to Carl Froch . |
ffa3038472c656cb0b655693d3de3a253da94cfb | The last few days have been something of a whirlwind for Joey Prusak whose story has been all over the internet. The Hopskins, Minnesota Dairy Queen employee saw 'an older lady' steal a $20 bill from a blind customer after unknowingly dropping it on the floor. Joey ended up confronting the thief and asked her to return... | Blind customer dropped $20 bill in Dairy Queen store .
Another customer picked up the cash but kept the money instead of returning it .
Manager of Dairy Queen, Joey Prusak, asked customer to hand cash back but she refused .
$20 of employee's own money was given to the blind customer .
Another customer saw the good deed... |
ffa36c405c3007bb5bd7d15fbd8a1d6df2ef314d | (CNN) -- They were standing near the finish line, cheering the runners in the Boston Marathon. It was a beautiful, cool day when two bombs unleashed chaos and killed three people. Friends of those killed say they are devastated by the senseless deaths. Here is some of what we know about each of the victims: . Krystle C... | Three people were killed when two homemade explosives went off at the Boston Marathon .
One of the victims was Krystle Campbell, 29, who went to the race every year .
Another was 8-year-old Martin Richard, who was known as bright and energetic .
One victim was a Chinese national, China's consulate in New York says . |
ffa3a91d8603e4af7b39795365e49c8e44b9e4ab | For nine centuries almost everything about the life of Swedish King Erik IX has remained a mystery. No historical records of the 12th century monarch have survived and the only clues to his existence are his skull, bones and burial crown kept in a small gilded box in his home country. Now, researchers from Uppsala Univ... | The remains of King Erik IX of Sweden have been kept in a box since 1160 .
Uppsala University has opened this box to display the relics to the public .
They plan to use .
DNA and X-rays to reveal more about the king's origins .
No historical records of the 12th century monarch have survived .
Legend claims his was murd... |
ffa3aa405d7aaef70821f167cc47c11a353c6a77 | A toddler who had more than 100 blood transfusions and a bone marrow transplant before her first birthday is back at home after an amazing recovery. Ava Maye Riley-Maher, now 14 months, was diagnosed with a rare cancer-like disease – called Langerhan's Cell Histiocytosis (LCH) - aged just five months. Ava had to underg... | Ava Maye Riley-Maher was diagnosed with a rare cancer-like condition, called Langerhan's Cell Histiocytosis, when she was just five-months-old .
LCH develops in skin cells and only affects 50 children in the UK each year .
Ava had 15 weeks of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant .
She was released from hospital tw... |
ffa4a9c03e0e1e3b7edc42eadf89f6e7c1069d01 | Universities have been accused of social engineering after drawing up admissions schemes that favour applicants from poorer backgrounds. Instead of selecting students solely on merit, four institutions – Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol and Birmingham – have devised systems which boost the grades of children from low-income h... | Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol and Birmingham have drawn up the plans .
It could see disadvantaged child with three Bs getting a place over .
privately-educated child with three A*s . |
ffa4ce48cc658216c0fc39094b9fbafee89afc6d | (CNN) -- Up to 37 people died Friday after a fire tor through a psychiatric institution in Russia, a regional branch of the country's Investigative Committee said, according to the state-run RIA Novosti news agency. A representative of Russia's Emergencies Ministry gave a different toll, telling the news agency that 15... | NEW: As many as 37 people are dead in the fire, state media cite local investigators as saying .
The fire broke out at the psychiatric institution in the early hours, reports say .
The Emergencies Ministry says 23 people have been rescued, state media say .
A fire at a psychiatric clinic in April killed 38 people, spar... |
ffa5081b0356ed6a0dc15de3178258f6740785e6 | (CNN) -- Madonna will hear Friday whether she will be allowed to adopt a child from Malawi, a spokeswoman for the African nation's attorney general told CNN Monday. Madonna holds her adopted Malawian son, David Banda, in 2007. The singer was in court in Malawi, one of the poorest nations in the world, on Monday for a h... | Madonna will learn Friday if she can adopt another Malawian child .
She reportedly wants to adopt a young girl named Chifundo James .
Save the Children spokesman says Madonna should reconsider the move . |
ffa59bafd1294eebfe7ac76932bc8711a4e305f0 | By . Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 20:01 EST, 2 December 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 09:13 EST, 4 December 2012 . An American magician was recuperating Sunday in the Dominican Republic after a local television show host lit his head on fire with a flammable cologne. Chico, California-native Wayne Ho... | Presenter douses performer's head in flammable liquid, then ignites it .
Magician Wayne Houchin suffers burns to head, face, neck and hand . |
ffa5a51459893bee30ad333d97d84dfaa92a5ffd | By . Rik Sharma . PUBLISHED: . 10:39 EST, 3 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:39 EST, 3 November 2012 . Switzerland will have a national referendum on immigration after an environmental group collected enough support to force it through. The Ecopop group gathered 120,700 certified signatures which is well over the 100,... | Group say they are not racist but need a limit to curb urbanisation and preserve agricultural land .
Switzerland has a population of eight million with over a quarter of them from abroad . |
ffa5b94b88011503aea40a939795963b64d95c6d | (CNN)The death of a 14-year-old shot by police just blocks from his school is the latest flashpoint as political tensions mount in Venezuela and pockets of anti-government protests erupt throughout the country. Kluibert Roa Nuñez, a high school student, was killed Tuesday when he got caught between protesters and natio... | Anti-government protests erupt over the death of a 14-year-old .
The high school student was killed by police during a protest Tuesday .
Tensions and polarization in Venezuela remain high . |
ffa67cdbd1412124b32f9b1697898e242489cb8b | By . Victoria Woollaston . PUBLISHED: . 10:21 EST, 12 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:38 EST, 12 July 2013 . Movie and TV streaming site Wuaki has launched in the UK looking to rival the likes of Netflix, Lovefilm and Blinkbox. It claims to be the first site to offer monthly subscriptions with unlimited streaming as well... | Wuaki.tv currently costs £2.99 a month for unlimited streaming .
The site also offers new movie and TV releases to rent from £3.49 .
Films and TV shows can also be bought and prices start at £7.99 . |
ffa67df0ff944a9b63fcc1d52f8756757af80b60 | CCTV footage at the Costcutter store in Essex captured the would-be thief who was wearing the Rod Stewart style mask . A shop worker was left terrified after a man wearing a Rod Stewart mask pulled a gun out on her during a daylight robbery – but ended up leaving empty handed after botching the raid. Trina Arthur, 31, ... | Shop worker Trina Arthur, 31, was left terrified after incident at Costcutter .
Would-be thief pointed handgun at mother-of-one and tried to grab cash .
However, he ended up fleeing empty handed after she pressed panic alarm .
Police arrested and bailed man, 51, in connection with attempted robbery . |
ffa7fee49d822a04622bfdcf66d4bb736b88b727 | Homeland Security . Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday defended to Congress the Obama . administration's decision to allow millions of illegal immigrants relief from deportation even as conservatives on Capitol Hill aggressively pushed to defund parts of his department. Johnson spoke at a hearing before the House Committ... | Department of Homeland Security head Jeh Johnson spoke at a hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security .
He begged lawmakers not to take out express their anger at the president and the administration over immigration through appropriations .
Johnson told them he could not run his department with the type ... |
ffa88312530a6cbbdfc38458344ac7477281413d | Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- New U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus arrived in Afghanistan Friday, a day marred by violence in a part of the troubled nation that was relatively peaceful a year ago. Petraeus arrived at NATO headquarters in Kabul in the evening, the International Security Assistance Force said. Earlier in... | NEW: Two of the wounded are Americans .
The top U.S. commander arrives in Afghanistan on a day of more violence .
Attack serves as reminder of a brazen insurgency, ISAF says .
Pre-dawn attack targets subcontractor of U.S. aid agency . |
ffa8e2b0f630e94c5030aa3fbd999e2cbc69298b | (CNN) -- Author John Updike, regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific writers in modern American letters, died Tuesday, his publicist said. He was 76. John Updike won many literary awards. His books, such as "The Witches of Eastwick," were also best-sellers. Updike passed away Tuesday morning after battling lu... | John Updike, author of "Rabbit" books and "The Witches of Eastwick," dies .
Updike, 76, had been suffering from lung cancer .
Pulitzer Prize winner was titan of American letters . |
ffa8f7f4cf3241f47d20d41fa38a0b69fe71ceef | Washington (CNN) -- The 2014 elections will continue what has become a staple in American politics: the survival of powerful political families. Bush. Carter. Nunn. Udall. Cheney. These are familiar names from a previous generation -- but also for a new one. When Liz Cheney announced her intention to become the next se... | A new generation from well-known political families will show up on the 2014 ballot .
From Bush to Carter to Cheney to Nunn, children and grandchildren are seeking office .
"You grow up around a business, you learn the ropes early," CNN contributor says .
Accessibility to fund-raising networks and tough skin among bene... |
ffa974431e81636beb03a53edfceb1d79ce005ab | Washington (CNN) -- As e-book readers and tablet computers become more common, one prominent tech mogul says that physical books could disappear sooner than expected. In an interview with CNN's Howard Kurtz on "Reliable Sources," author Nicholas Negroponte, founder of One Laptop per Child, said the physical book's days... | The physical book's days are numbered, author Nicholas Negroponte says .
"The physical medium cannot be distributed to enough people," he says .
Negroponte founded One Laptop per Child in 2005 . |
ffaa0d4e97465cd65dcfbdcdd813bd0ad31b06af | By . Simon Tomlinson . Russia may be stripped of assets around the world after an international court ruled it must pay $50billion in compensation for the government's role in destroying the country's largest oil company. Yesterday's verdict by the Permanent Court for Arbitration increases the economic and diplomatic i... | Russia used outsized tax claims to bankrupt country's largest oil firm .
Yukos was broken up after anti-Kremlin owner was arrested in 2003 .
Putin had earlier warned Russian oligarchs not to meddle in politics .
Shareholders can apply to seize planes, art, property, gas lines and oil rigs .
Foreign minister said Russia... |
ffaa12b10c37191b72a4f3d4e9087293be04eb21 | Liverpool centre back Dejan Lovren has given his club manager Brendan Rodgers a potential defensive headache after withdrawing from Croatia's squad with an abdominal injury. The defender was due to play in Euro 2016 qualifiers against Bulgaria on Friday and Azerbaijan on Monday but sustained a problem in training which... | Dejan Lovren suffers abdominal tear on international duty with Croatia .
Liverpool defender will return to Melwood in coming days to be assessed .
Martin Skrtel and Kolo Toure only remaining fit central backs for Liverpool . |
ffaa4e9f99ecc29800d56df30065404db7c483d1 | By . Erin Clements . Forget Toddlers & Tiaras: Married career women in their 30s and 40s are the latest stars of the pageant world. Game of Crowns, a new reality series that premieres Sunday on Bravo, follows six wives with families who vie for beauty queen status on the 'Mrs' circuit. Cast members, including a lawyer,... | Most cast members of Bravo's new series, Game of Crowns, are in their 30s and 40s, compared to the 20-somethings of traditional 'Miss' pageants . |
ffaa688d4f44279b3806dbe7e6d0f91489d31157 | By . Matt Blake . When this tourist visited a South African game reserve, she was warned of the dangers ... but nobody told her she'd actually have to put her neck on the lion. Lina Jek, 42, stopped for a selfie at Lion Park, in Johannesburg, when one of the locals photobombed the snap in terrifying - but adorable - st... | Lina Jek, 42, from Johannesburg, took picture at Lion Park near her home .
She was posing for husband when lioness crept into frame and hugged her .
The animal even stuck out her tongue and started licking Lina's left ear . |
ffaadbc15ee46a3e34ce6fba04fb67fa2b3bcc37 | Complaint: Ashley Jessica posted a video claiming she was touched inappropriately by a TSA agent . A video has been posted on the internet by a woman who claims she was 'violated' by a TSA agent during a full body check. Ashley Jessica, 25, from Toronto, Canada, claims the clip shows the female agent touching her unnec... | Ashley Jessica is a a PhD student and researcher from Toronto, Canada .
Filmed the clip at San Diego International Airport and posted it online .
The video, which lasts just over three minutes, captures incident on 23 May . |
ffab1caa38bfe3d5bd6740471ff2eac5d7b011b0 | By . Sanchez Manning . For the sophisticated palates of the Chipping Norton Set, you might expect that nothing less than Waitrose would do. But now locals including David Cameron and Rebekah Brooks are poised to welcome a surprising addition to their town – Aldi. The budget foodstore has won planning permission to buil... | Budget chain given go-ahead to build a store in exclusive Chipping Norton .
Town is home to the Prime Minister and Rebekah Brooks .
Store will be built on scrubland, 500 metres from genteel High Street .
Comes as David Cameron admitted he prefers to shop in Waitrose . |
ffab306c36c145d7f705fdafd034b9f33d42dd54 | Aboard Development Driller III, Gulf of Mexico (CNN) -- The news? They can't watch it anymore. Outsiders criticizing their progress, saying they're not working fast enough or smart enough -- it's too much to bear. They understand how awful the situation is. They are, after all, working on the waters where friends and r... | CNN's Kyra Phillips gets exclusive access to rig drilling relief well to stop gushing oil .
Workers put in 12-hour days and feel weight of world watching and criticizing them .
The men and women feel the loss of friends and family who died in waters there .
"We're doing everything we possibly can," but must stay safe, ... |
ffac2980b6540913e397cb3b25b8730ee7eab4f9 | Being chased by a giant mutant spider is enough to send most people into a fit of terror. So it's not surprising that this pooch caused quite a stir when she was let loose disguised as a terrifying eight-legged beast. Chica the DogSpider is the work of Polish prankster Sylwester Wardega, who dressed up his pooch in the... | Video shows passersby coming face-to-face with Chica the DogSpider .
Fear not - it's simply the work of Polish prankster Sylwester Wardega . |
ffac6c7d0e6761a31e0a023db9d60fa7f4f41b4b | By . James Nye . PUBLISHED: . 17:25 EST, 12 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:25 EST, 12 November 2013 . Miss Teen USA California Cassidy Wolf arrives to the Premiere of "Wiener Dog Nationals" at Pacific Theatre at The Grove on June 18, 2013 in Los Angeles, California . A 19-year-old Southern California computer scienc... | Jared James Abrahams, a 19-year-old Southern California computer science student pleaded guilty to hacking the computer of Miss Teen USA .
Abrahams pleaded guilty to three counts of extortion and one count of unauthorized access of a computer .
He faces up to 11 years in prison and fines of up to $1 million when he's s... |
ffaca270bf912cf9fccb541617173f307e8cf4bd | By . Bianca London . The school leavers' ball - or prom, as they are increasingly called - is one of the landmark events in a teenage . girl's life, marking the end of years of hard work. It has become a crucial rite of passage for teenagers everywhere. But for 16-year-old Terri Calvesbert her school prom was even more... | Terri Calvesbert was scarred for life in house fire aged two .
Firefighters thought little girl was a 'charred doll' when they found her .
Lost face and hands in the blaze and has undergone multiple operations .
Terri, 16, from Ipswich celebrated school prom with friends .
Said it was a wonderful evening. 'She loved it... |
ffacbfe622ca2f9c6f067bd77af0af2c27aea25d | Facebook, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, has been accused of 'refusing to listen' to the voice of the British public . Facebook 'refused to listen to the voice' of the British public by channelling profits through Ireland to avoid the taxman in the UK, an MP said last night. The move by the social network meant it paid jus... | Facebook paid £1.8million in Irish tax on more than £2.3billion global sales .
Social network has been accused of channelling profits through Ireland .
This has allowed the company to avoid tax in the UK for two years running .
Facebook 'refused to listen' to British public by not paying UK tax, MP says .
Margaret Hodg... |
ffaedd25691fd45c43ff625cd6798f78685c6eaf | Former figure skater Johnny Weir has announced that he and his husband Victor Voronov have broken up after two years of marriage. The Olympics commentator, 29, revealed the split on Twitter on Wednesday, writing: 'It is with great sadness that I announce that my husband and I are no longer together. My heart hurts and ... | The former figure skater and Olympics commentator, 29, announced the break up with Victor Voronov on Twitter on Wednesday .
'My heart hurts and I wish him well,' Weir wrote .
Sources claim that Weir's busy schedule meant they never got time together and that a planned vacation was repeatedly stalled .
The couple, who m... |
ffaee6878346b07aebc0dc2b5d3d6fb2bb2f7694 | Claims: Aurelie Filippetti, 40, France's glamorous Culture and Media Minister alleges that her relationship with Thomas Piketty came to a violent end . His glamorous media image and radical ideas have seen him dubbed the ‘rock star’ economist. But Thomas Piketty – whose bestselling book, Capital In The Twenty-First Cen... | Aurelie Filippetti claims her relationship with Piketty came to a violent end .
Records show she lodged a complaint with police in February 2009 .
Economist was investigated for 'violence between domestic partners'
He was formally charged before she asked for the charges to be dropped .
Piketty confirmed he was arreste... |
ffaf253d80ab828a2d68c1432213862aae9b751d | By . Jack Doyle . PUBLISHED: . 19:20 EST, 6 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 19:41 EST, 6 November 2013 . Damaging: Oliver Robbins, the deputy national security adviser, said articles based on confidential files leaked by US fugitive Edward Snowden, pictured, exposed the capabilities of the intelligence and security agen... | Deputy national security adviser said security agencies were compromised .
Oliver Robbins said Snowden articles endangered British service personnel . |
ffaf2815fbd8e39a3da5a0d0d6c27a54f3c56fbe | World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson presented the jerseys to Wigan on the eve of Saturday's Super League Grand Final. The former England fly-half, who retired at Toulon the end of last season, was invited to perform the honours by ex-Great Britain full-back Kris Radlinski, the Warriors' rugby general manager. 'Privileged ... | Former England Rugby Union star on hand to inspire league stars .
Dan Sarginson 'privileged' to receive shirt from Wilkinson .
Wigan meet St Helen's at Old Trafford in Saturday's Grand Final . |
ffaf543a85f184924875612822f9811f021d18b1 | Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- After the Republicans and Democrats met at the White House summit on health care, it was clear that the parties are very far away from a bipartisan agreement. Indeed, few participants walked away with the sense that they were any closer to a deal. The White House did make clear that it wa... | Democrats are considering using method to pass health bill with 50, not 60 Senate votes .
Julian Zelizer says the process has been used many times in recent decades .
He says Democrats have difficult political choice of whether to move ahead .
Zelizer: If they don't, they will be on the defensive anyway and have no acc... |
ffaf77af5258d301a53071a5fa321c2d0c7b69ba | By . Ian Parkes, Press Association . Niki Lauda has apologised in person to all at Ferrari following his derogatory remarks made in the wake of Sunday's German Grand Prix. Mercedes non-executive chairman and three-times Formula One champion, with two of those titles won with Ferrari in 1975 and 1977, described the Mara... | Lauda made the remark following the German Grand Prix .
Three-time world champion, and former Ferrari driver, has since apologised .
Austrian said: 'I was wrong' and 'I do not make any excuses'
Lauda has spoken with Ferrari team principal Marco Mattiacci in Hungary . |
ffaf87434ec292480b9b2283a379e4af47c9b259 | By . Christopher Stevens . PUBLISHED: . 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:54 EST, 7 March 2014 . When it comes to 'corporate firefighting' and 'pan-functional team-building', there's only one man for the job - Ian Fletcher, Hugh Bonneville's hilariously incompetent Head of Deliverance in the Olympics comedy T... | The award winning comedy - Twenty Twelve - returns to our screens .
The new series, W1A will focus on the bigwigs of the BBC .
Writer - John Morton - says it may ruffle a few feathers at the BBC . |
ffb00d8c516572880acbbfdfd9a31bd9bc0da719 | Karl Rominger, 41, has been charged with stealing $535,135 of his clients' money, which he used to fund gambling trips at casinos . The former attorney for Penn state football coach Jerry Sandusky has been charged with stealing $535,135 of his clients' money, which he used to fund gambling trips at casinos and other pe... | Karl Rominger, 41, misappropriated funds from clients including a car accident victim, a spouse in a divorce case, and survivors from an estate .
Came under investigation last year after he failed to materialize over $147,000 from the sale of a marital home during the divorce case .
Rominger apologized to his victims a... |
ffb03453a69b38ff974d0064ea184817a44cce7e | One misplaced step brought her hopes of gold crashing down. Zara Phillips and her horse High Kingdom clipped a fence in the equestrian eventing final yesterday. In that split second, the Queen’s granddaughter and her teammates narrowly lost out on the first British gold of the London Olympics. Scroll down for video . O... | Team GB comes second to Germany in equestrian team event .
Zara, Tina Cook, Nicola Wilson, William Fox-Pitt and Mary King win Britain's second silver of London 2012, following cyclist Lizzie Armitstead .
Zara's father, Captain Mark Phillips, won gold in the event at the Munich Olympics of 1972 .
Zara supported by Princ... |
ffb13c16d82d57cc0e49b487e429478b0e583fc5 | By . Sam Webb . and Mark Duell . A stag weekend reveller suffered serious burns in a seafront nightclub after being doused in Brut aftershave and set ablaze in a prank, it was claimed today. The 34-year-old victim was drinking with friends when they started throwing the aftershave over each other as a joke at Long John... | The 34-year-old suffered burns to his hands, back and chest in incident .
Shirt was set alight at club on Brittania Pier in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk .
Four men arrested after incident at 1.30am yesterday at Long John's Bar .
Unidentified man said to be in stable condition after 'prank' went wrong . |
ffb1f5d4b8c8d809ebf7d5ae345eabdc2c89224a | By . Lydia Warren . and Daily Mail Reporters . Hired! Justine Sacco has landed a new job six months after she was fired for a racist tweet . The . PR executive who was fired last year after her racist Tweet sparked a . revolt on social media has landed a new job - working for a revamped . version of the app Hot or Not.... | Justine Sacco was fired from IAC in December after she tweeted: 'Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm White!'
It sparked anger across the internet - as well as memes and fake account .
She went to Ethiopia for a month to carry out volunteer consulting and now she will help with the promotion and re... |
ffb2da2af3fea128e9de90d4c4e56d8c1854e19f | By . Elliott Bretland . Follow @@EllBretland . West Ham fell to their second defeat of their pre-season tour of New Zealand as the Hammers were beaten 3-1 by Sydney. Sam Allardyce's side were 2-0 down at half-time before wideman Matt Jarvis saw his left-wing cross deflect off Sydney captain Nikola Petkovic and into the... | West Ham end tour of New Zealand with 3-1 defeat to Sydney .
Sam Allardyce's men trailed 2-0 at half-time before Matt Jarivs' deflected cross gave Hammers hope five minutes after interval .
However, Sydney striker Corey Gameiro extended A-League side's lead on 64 minutes .
Defender Guy Demel had to be substituted after... |
ffb2f68ad0b900467856dd5f0b0d4cc03f36bfec | Javier Ballesteros, son of late Spanish golf great Seve, has expressed his joy after turning professional. Ballesteros senior won the Masters twice and The Open Championship three times, but died in 2011 at the age of just 54 after suffering complications following a brain tumour. But the Spaniard's name will live on i... | Seve Ballesteros died in 2011 from a cancerous brain tumour .
His son, Javier, has now turned professional .
Javier said it was something he had always wanted to do . |
ffb39eec5e13398ba87e68f25199e9510061ced2 | By . Anna Edwards . PUBLISHED: . 09:00 EST, 27 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:53 EST, 27 March 2013 . In an age where it seems every man, woman and child has an iPad, one man has struck a chord by singing about the simpler times of his childhood. And his nostalgic lyrics about the 1980s have made his track a YouTube se... | Gardener recalls childhood of moon boots, shell suits, and shoulder pads .
Chorus sings 'We didn't own an iPad, never heard of texting only Teletexting we didn't own an iPad, never heard of SatNavs only used AA maps'
Millions have linked to the song, which has now gone viral . |
ffb3af85236e4651eebfa129cbd26d5c17f4239c | With a level of detail usually reserved for globes in a classroom, it's hard to believe these replicas of Earth and Jupiter are completely edible. Rhiannon Michell, 26, created the planet cakes complete with core, mantle and crust after her school teacher sister, Sarah, asked her to make a delicious science model for h... | Rhiannon Michell, 26, has baked edible replicas of Jupiter and Earth .
The food blogger created the planet cakes using three layers of sponge .
Earth was made using almond butter sponge and lemon Madeira cake .
The inner layer of Jupiter was mudcake followed by almond butter sponge .
She painted the planets' distinct... |
ffb3d5dc57617fb3d3acc983293c6055e33e935a | By . Emily Crane For Daily Mail Australia . When she looks back at photos of herself dressed up in costumes and cutting birthday cakes, Jessica Masuglia admits she had a 'pretty happy' childhood. But under the surface it was a little more complicated. The 24-year-old from Melbourne was raised by her heroin-addicted mot... | Jessica Masuglia was raised by her drug addicted mum in Melbourne .
Her mum Kim MacKenzie died from a heroin overdose a few years ago .
The 24-year-old said despite her mum being in and out of sobriety for her entire life, she was a loving and hands on mother .
She said she was oblivious to the addiction when she was y... |
ffb44b0ad86f0b59721a70c2d4be27eba1a4f2fa | SARGODA, Pakistan (CNN) -- Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney. This man's landlord forced him to pay off money he borrowed for his children's medical bills. For the 50-yea... | A law passed in late 2007 bans selling organs for money .
Still, many poor Pakistanis have no choice but to sell their kidneys .
At one time, there were about 2,000 transplants a years .
Law aims to end Pakistan's status as one of the world's leading organ bazaars . |
ffb4f5096f5797ba191ec090d77a3feb4d9d4e12 | (CNN) -- YouTube: It's not just for cute cats anymore. The Web's leading video site is now the home of a new kind of interactive visual journalism, where "citizen witnesses" are reaching millions of people with the news of the day, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. A prime example was the tsunami ... | Report: YouTube is becoming home to a new kind of visual journalism .
Pew Research Center says news events are some of YouTube's most popular clips .
Much of the news videos are from users, not traditional news sites .
Japanese tsunami, Russian elections and Middle East unrest were big on the site . |
ffb517f9af3fdb6bc19022ec7bc4e2c4b77ad376 | By . James Nye . Pedophile: James Napier seen here in one of his booking photographs was sentenced to 240-years in jail for horrific sexual abuse . A Cincinnati man described as an 'enthusiastic participant' in child pornography involving an 11-month-old and a nine-year-old showed no remorse on Tuesday as he was sente... | James O. Napier, 40, was sentenced on Tuesday for the horrific attacks on the two girls three years apart .
Napier was ordered to pay $95,009 in restitution for each victim .
Filmed both molestations and put the footage online .
Committed both acts inside the homes of his victim's families .
Was discovered in possessio... |
ffb54985f1394c7402dafa196f247996a7cf9843 | By . David Kent . Neymar has once again endeared himself to the Brazilian public after his heartwarming gesture in training on Sunday. Ahead of Brazil's World Cup opener against Croatia on June 12, a young fan ran on to meet his heroes as they attempt to win the tournament for a record sixth time. Nice touch: Neymar (l... | Neymar allowed a young fan on to the pitch during Brazil's training session .
Neymar, David Luiz, Thiago Silva, Luis Gustavo, Marcelo and Willian all took a group selfie with the young man .
After Brazil's 5-0 friendly win at South Africa in March, Neymar and his team-mates hoisted up a young Bafana Bafana fan in good ... |
ffb5bd7ed6ff7c82d3e08fbf758a73fe5a3b68f9 | Adnan Januzaj will not be leaving Manchester United before the transfer window closes, Sportsmail understands. The Belgian playmaker had been linked with a move to Roberto Martinez's Everton for the rest of the season, but remains firmly in Louis van Gaal's plans. Toffees boss Martinez is an admirer but the talented 19... | Adnan Januzaj will not be leaving Manchester United in January window .
Everton were interested in taking the 19-year-old on loan until May .
Paris Saint-Germain and Real Sociedad were also interested in Januzaj .
Januzaj started for Manchester United against Leicester at the weekend .
CLICK HERE for all the latest tra... |
ffb629854b296dc2f77565a168ff28068612b5ea | By . Nick Pisa . Mafia boss Domenico Rancadore (pictured) targeted Father Gino Sacchetti because he encouraged residents to oppose the local mafia in Palermo . A brave anti Mafia priest has spoken of how he was targeted by an on-the-run Mob Godfather found hiding in a British suburb after 19 years. Former prison chapli... | Father Gino Sacchetti targeted by crime family run by Domenico Rancadore .
Angered mob bosses while he worked as a prison chaplain in Sicily by refusing to sell up prime land for development .
Spoke out against organised crime and told residents not to be intimidated . |
ffb66344f2d5cb8c0d39b0a5ef5aeb96560de55a | By . Dan Bloom . A knife-wielding robber fashioned a disguise for himself by cutting eye holes into a carrier bag and putting it on his head. The man wore a white Londis plastic bag during the bizarre raid, which was caught on CCTV and terrified a lone female shop worker in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Police have n... | Man donned Londis bag with eye holes in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire .
Female worker left shocked but unhurt after being threatened with knife .
Police appealed for witnesses over bizarre robbery on BBC's Crimewatch . |
ffb67539ff4bfa641c5ef2f43f883b919eb706ff | Patients are being denied minor treatments because they smoke, The Mail on Sunday has found. In one case a healthy middle-aged man was told he could not have a ten-minute operation to cut a small benign growth off the side of his head, because of his habit. Paul Merrett thought it would be no problem to get the inch-l... | Paul Merrett, 46, needed to have a growth from the side of his removed .
Was told at King George Surgery in Stevenage, Herts., he could not have the procedure because he smoked ten roll-ups a day .
'It's my right to be able to use it when I need it,’ Mr Merrett says .
East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning... |
ffb6b7b608cbdc6b61ce8a6c517d3c0a8a5060b7 | By . Leon Watson . A tree trimmer died in a freak accident when a stray branch hit him on the head and led to him suffocating 60ft off the ground. Father-to-be Tim June, 21, from Roswell, Georgia, died of asphyxiation caused by 'head and neck compression' on Saturday while working on a pine tree in Fairburn. Sergeant A... | Father-to-be Tim June, from Roswell, Georgia, died of asphyxiation .
Police in Fairburn at first thought the blow from the branch killed him .
But a pathologist later ruled it was 'head and neck compression'
The 21-year-old's girlfriend, Sarah Docekal, is nine months pregnant . |
ffb75c28da74f832246b2314cfbace7ce34121a2 | U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services waited less than one day to launch a hiring drive – seeking 1,000 new federal workers – after President Obama announced November 20 that he would act on his own to provide legal papers for millions of illegal immigrants. A new USCIS facility in Crystal City, Virginia is poised ... | Facility in Crystal City, Virginia will house 1,000 new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees .
USCIS intragovernmental bulletin announced the move Dec. 1 but job listings were created Nov. 21 .
Obama announced Nov. 20 that he would mainstream millions of illegal immigrants without permission from Congres... |
ffb78f241d3fad6ac08e50517134523ffb5efa55 | (CNN) -- Seth Meyers had big shoes to fill on Monday night. Meyers took over the "Late Night" chair from former "Saturday Night Live" alum Jimmy Fallon, who arguably had a great run as that show's host as he crafted now-pop culture favorites like "Slow-jamming the News" and "The History of Rap." So how did Meyers do wi... | Seth Meyers took over from Jimmy Fallon on "Late Night"
Meyers got off to a slow start .
One writer says Meyers will get better . |
ffb7cdd5019c22b62661f5d9d24f9df8b1a0b677 | A Muslim woman is suing an Ohio jail for forcing her to attend a Christian prayer service while behind bars. Sakeena Majeed, 24, was locked up in Cuyahoga County Corrections Center for 60 days in April after having an altercation with a police officer in Cleveland. She claims that corrections officers made her go to th... | Sakeena Majeed, 24, was locked up in Cuyahoga County Corrections Center for 60 days in April .
She plead guilty to assaulting a police officer .
Claims she was forced to attend prayer meets run by a baptist minister .
Also claims corrections officers chastised her .
Seeking unspecified damages . |
ffb7e5e4bf55e9fef97eb0b34b1c72fb87a2f61b | Astronomical: One call to a 118 directory inquiries number had been charged at £5 a minute . Looking through my latest mobile phone bill, I almost had a cardiac arrest. It was three times the usual amount — all thanks to one item. A call I’d made to a 118 directory inquiries number had been charged at £5 a minute. And ... | One call to 118 directory inquiries number had been charged at £5 a minute .
Vodafone billed Melissa £137.08 for calling rival firm’s directory number .
Complex 118 system is so complained-about that Ofcom is set to overhaul . |
ffb8aa9e14392d3751e536b03b18a35ffe33fc25 | Kmart has launched its Christmas advertising campaign more than 100 days before the holiday in a desperate bid to beat off the competition. But the extra-early ad blitz has infuriated shoppers who've taken to the retailer's Facebook page to slam the out-of-season commercial. Industry analysts say the unprecedented move... | Kmart aired its first Christmas advertisement on September 8 .
Customers are infuriated at the out-of-season ad .
The retailer said it wants to help consumers plan their holiday shopping . |
ffb8b5c6ef1b7f38ea151817b308130a2c27da06 | By . Jaymi Mccann . PUBLISHED: . 10:58 EST, 25 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:21 EST, 25 April 2013 . Kurdish men in Iran have dressed in drag after a court ordered a man to walk down the street in women's clothing in an attempt to humiliate him. More than 150 men have posted photographs of themselves in traditional fe... | Facebook campaign for gender equality gathered 9,000 fans .
More than 150 men have posted pictures of themselves in women's clothes .
Comes after court 'punished' a man by making him wear women's clothes in public . |
ffb96f0e468f16316b9c174a4bb9be7b288238fe | (CNN) -- The pilots of the commercial jetliner that last week overshot its destination by about 150 miles have said they were using their laptops and lost track of time and location, federal safety officials said Monday. The Airbus A320 was flying at 37,000 feet over the Denver, Colorado, area at 5:56 p.m. Wednesday w... | NEW: Delta statement: "Using laptops ... will result in termination"
NEW: Pilots have been suspended until investigations conclude .
Northwest says it's offering $500 travel vouchers to passengers .
Flight overshot Minneapolis by 150 miles; Feds interview flight attendants . |
ffb9df05e844870cadb31fa93badea328d5e0548 | By . Paul Harris . PUBLISHED: . 18:40 EST, 11 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 03:40 EST, 12 March 2013 . Ten years of lies and betrayal came to a dramatic conclusion last night when Chris Huhne was finally put behind bars. The former Cabinet minister’s spectacular fall was complete when a prison guard led him in handcuffs ... | Decade-long saga ends as disgraced politician is jailed for eight months .
His former wife Vicky Pryce gets the same sentence .
Judge says legal defence was 'scandalous' |
ffba12bee606847d71687ae05c8967441c2e03fc | The fiancee of a man on trial for murdering a black teenager in cold blood has told how they went back to their hotel, ordered a pizza and drank rum and Cokes straight after the killing. Michael Dunn, 47, is accused of murdering Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old, after he refused to turn down loud rap music he and his friend... | Michael Dunn 47, accused of murdering Jordan Davis, 17, in cold blood .
Fired his gun at a car Davis was riding in after an argument about rap music .
Told Davis and his friends to turn it down outside store in Jacksonville, FL .
His fiancee, Rhonda Rouer, told court she was inside the store at the time .
Told how Dunn... |
ffba3c325d93ad3a71c2ba71bf2e0f3c712cf686 | (CNN) -- Chris Brown has some words of advice for suspended NFL player Ray Rice. In an interview with MTV's Sway Calloway Thursday, Brown opened up about his own history with domestic violence in light of Rice being cut from the Baltimore Ravens and suspended from the league after a leaked video depicted the player pun... | Chris Brown spoke about domestic violence in light of the Ray Rice incident .
The artist has his own history with the issue .
The key for Brown has been consistent therapy .
Brown: "It's all about choices" |
ffbb3168eabfd142acb5ef672cb708c4cd1e1bb9 | By . Kerry Mcqueeney . UPDATED: . 06:56 EST, 25 January 2012 . When it comes to the art of creating collages, the work of this artist is first class. In fact, John Bottomley has got the world’s . most iconic celebrities licked after he created portraits of them - using only postage stamps. The . 64-year old former butl... | Each picture consists of 1,500 stamps - which would cost £700 if bought new .
John Bottomley, 64, has 'one million' stamps in his collection . |
ffbb6111e9164a7cfca951fb710ec9a473459440 | By . Angela Levin . PUBLISHED: . 17:33 EST, 2 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 17:51 EST, 2 March 2013 . Identical twins Andrew and Christopher Watson shared an extraordinary intuition. Throughout their schooldays, their interests and talents were as indistinguishable as their looks. So when, tragically, Christopher was lef... | Twins Andrew and Christopher Watson were in the same car accident .
Christopher wore no seat belt and was left in a coma from age of 16 .
Andrew let him go after three years and is only now able to talk of trauma . |
ffbc93f4d010a538ee3fb0e22b0404353ef2a277 | (CNN) -- It was around 6:30 in the morning. The air was crisp, the farmers had just watered their fields -- corn perhaps, Omar doesn't entirely recall -- and the ground was muddy, slippery and uneven. There was a pack on his back, a bag slung over each shoulder, and cradled in his arms, the frail body of his 11-year-ol... | 11-year-old Abdulrahman lost his leg during a rocket attack is Syria .
Abdulrahman's brother Omar promised his younger brother that he would walk again .
The two brothers navigated the dangerous trek across the Turkish border to get help .
U.S.-based group is working to get Abdulrahman the medical care he needs . |
ffbd5e9659edc9dd71f23da87243ff97bf7c43db | (CNN) -- Zainab Alhusni was a simple seamstress in Syria, well-loved by all her neighbors and friends. Now, in a tragic turn of events, she has become a symbol of the cruelty gripping that conflict-wracked nation. Alhusni was only 18 when she stepped away from her Homs residence last month to buy groceries. Her family ... | Syrian girl Zainab Alhusni dreamed of owning her own tailor shop, a neighbor says .
Instead, she has become in death a symbol of the cruelty gripping Syria .
"They were chosen to be at the front lines of the Syrian revolution," neighbor says . |
ffbdc9a16007508d73f3742c02230c77ad78f29a | By . Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor . PUBLISHED: . 04:58 EST, 18 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:02 EST, 18 November 2013 . Thousands of workers blacklisted by construction firms are to receive up to £100,000 each in compensation, it emerged today. More than 3,200 names, mainly of building workers, were ke... | More than 3,200 names, mainly of .
building workers, were kept blacklisted .
List was drawn up by .
organisation called The Consulting Association .
Victims were denied work after raising .
legitimate concerns about safety .
Balfour .
Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, .
Skanska UK a... |
ffbdcee752ad0fc643a45ac8eefbd8f1af2b9050 | A graphic designer accused of poisoning her mother in a Breaking Bad-inspired murder plot fantasised about being Walter White or a 'Mexican drug warlord', a court has heard. Kuntal Patel allegedly became 'obsessed' with killing her mother Meena and bought deadly poison online after the 60-year-old 'forbade' her from ma... | Kuntal Patel, 37, thought she was main character from show, Walter White .
Bought poison from U.S dealer but claims she 'panicked' and threw it away .
But emailed saying it had 'gone wrong' when 'target' still alive, court heard .
She is accused of lacing her mother Meena's Diet Coke with poison .
But she told jury em... |
ffbde53920df8cc87a4b3dd9a101c77d778fa32e | (EW.com) -- "Savages" is Oliver Stone doing what he should have done a long time ago: making a tricky, amoral, down-and-dirty crime thriller that's blessedly free of any social, topical or political relevance. How liberated from an agenda is this movie? It's about two marijuana dealers in Laguna Beach who run afoul of ... | "Savages" is a tricky, amoral, down-and-dirty crime thriller .
It's about two marijuana dealers in Laguna Beach who run afoul of a Mexican drug cartel .
Although it's action-packed, "Savages" does slide off the rails during the last half hour . |
ffbe30e4667d6c04e1ffb0bef1f56d9fdf2740da | A motorist has been caught speeding at 149mph – more than twice the legal motorway limit and a record for the past year . Others have been caught doing three times the legal limit in 30mph zones – one near a rural primary school. The motorway offence, on the M25 near Swanley in Kent, was captured by a speed camera and ... | The Institute of Advanced Motorists sent a Freedom of Information request seeking speeding details .
One motorist was caught at 94mph while passing a primary school .
Fastest speed was recorded in Swanley in Kent on the M25 when driver clocked at 149mph . |
ffbe882f58714412e20fe112199b8727de239e51 | West Ham manager Sam Allardyce will leave it until the last possible minute before making a decision on Diafra Sakho’s fitness for the clash against Stoke. The forward, who has scored seven goals in as many starts for the Hammers since his arrival from Metz, is struggling with a shoulder injury. Allardyce is desperate ... | Diafra Sakho has 48 hours recovery time before a decision will be made .
Allardyce revealed Sakho is still in pain his shoulder is not dislocated .
Sakho has scored seven goals in as many starts for the Hammers . |
ffbe9dbd592717221313ac81dee65348cd829c7a | (CNN) -- The long-anticipated Apple smartwatch became a reality this week when the tech giant unveiled its entry into the growing wearable-tech field. The Apple Watch, which comes in three styles and two sizes with multiple options for colors and wristbands, was expected to energize a market that's been slow to catch o... | Apple unveils entry into wearable tech with long-anticipated smartwatch .
Analysts say device could catch on in a way other smartwatches haven't .
Apple focused on design, with multiple sizes, styles and colors .
Smartwatches remain "nice to have," not "need to have" -- for now, one analyst says . |
ffbedd619ca1fa03a455b464a0dd2123b473a93c | Downpours are expected to drench parts of Britain again today as autumn appears to have arrived early bringing gale force winds and temperatures as low as 2C. Summer is almost certainly over as chilly winds blowing in from Scandinavia could send the mercury to as low as 2C in parts of Scotland while the Lake District a... | Unsettled weather is set to continue across the country while mercury could drop to 2C in parts of Scotland .
Northern coast is expected to be hit by gale force winds over weekend with chilly gusts coming in from Scandinavia .
V Festival in Chelmsford, Essex, will also be hit by heavy showers throughout the next three ... |
ffbef8c07bd822ceba36237f102d98d18292027b | By . Leon Watson . PUBLISHED: . 11:49 EST, 16 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:36 EST, 16 November 2013 . It's normally him who's doing the spinning - but this time David Cameron was on the receiving end. The PM was at Sri Lanka's National Cricket Academy where he faced up to one of the sport's greatest ever bowlers f... | The Prime Minister was at Sri Lanka's National Cricket Academy .
He faced some vicious deliveries from spin king Muttiah Muralitharan .
But Mr Cameron acquitted himself well, according to onlookers . |
ffbfb59bf7195d10c369ad040eb124f4e84fd9df | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:10 EST, 16 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 02:24 EST, 17 July 2012 . Groundbreaking: Truvada will be available as a preventive measure for people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV through sexual activity . A drug that protects people at risk of HIV from infection has been appro... | Public health advocates say pill could slow spread of HIV .
AIDS Healthcare Foundation warn drug could give patients a false sense of security . |
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