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38,205,746 | It appears to tell a simple story from an American high school, but also has a hidden meaning revealed at the end.
The unexpected message has propelled the short film to more than two and a half million views on YouTube in just three days.
Spoilers follow below - you may want to watch the video to the end first.
It was... | A video telling the story of two schoolchildren forming a friendship - with a twist - has gone viral online. |
34,050,874 | Replays showed the Wales international was onside when he struck during Monday's 0-0 Premier League draw.
Rugby officials have access to instant replays of incidents during matches.
"To look at a video for 20 seconds would maybe have changed the outcome of the game," said Ramsey, 24.
He added: "We can take a leaf out o... | Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey wants football to follow rugby's lead on video technology after he had a goal controversially disallowed for offside against Liverpool. |
35,243,789 | The 23-year-old has scored six goals in 25 games since initially joining Wycombe on loan in July and has now signed a three-and-a-half-year deal.
Harriman, who is equally capable in defence or midfield, made just three first-team appearances for the R's.
"He's got everything you want from a professional," boss Gareth A... | League Two side Wycombe Wanderers have signed utility man Michael Harriman from QPR for an undisclosed fee. |
40,912,523 | Argentina said dialogue and diplomacy were the only ways to promote democracy in Venezuela.
Venezuela's foreign minister said Mr Trump's words had been hostile and disrespectful and risked destablising Latin America.
Violent demonstrations since April have left more than 120 people dead.
President Nicolas Maduro's new ... | The South American trading bloc Mercosur has condemned President Trump for saying he was considering military action in the Venezuela crisis. |
36,079,445 | A suicide attacker detonated a vehicle and a fierce gun battle followed. Officials say the attack is now over and the area has been cleared.
A Taliban spokesman said the group carried out the attack.
It comes a week after it said it was launching its "spring offensive", warning of large-scale attacks.
Tuesday's bombing... | At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say. |
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Carey's penalty in the second period of extra-time sealed a 1-0 win at Newport County in a dour second round replay.
"We're going to go there and try and get a result," 27-year-old Carey said.
"No-one will give us a shot at getting a result, but we've showed we can battle ... | Liverpool-supporting Plymouth Argyle midfielder Graham Carey hopes they can cause an FA Cup upset when they visit Anfield in round three. |
33,648,110 | DJ Derek, whose real name is Derek Morris, also appeared at the Big Chill and numerous gigs across the UK.
Avon and Somerset Police confirmed Mr Morris was reported missing on Thursday and a search for him is under way.
Mr Morris's niece, Jennifer Amy, said his disappearance is "completely out of character".
She said: ... | A 73-year-old DJ who played sets at Glastonbury has gone missing, his family has said. |
32,879,571 | The bank earned €69.3m (£49m) last year, compared to just €2.9m in 2013, when it was hit by bad investments and clean-up costs.
Last year the management was replaced as part of an overhaul ordered by the Pope to stamp out corruption.
The bank has promised to improve its returns to customers.
"The main focus is on ... | The Vatican bank, officially known as the Institute for Religious Works (IOR), has seen a sharp jump in its profits for 2014. |
37,200,007 | It will feature in Sunday's first episode of the new series of the long-running programme, which was recorded at Tewkesbury Abbey in Gloucestershire.
Expert Fergus Gambon said it was "unique" and "one of the most important English baby houses in existence".
The doll's house was built in 1705 and is extremely well prese... | An early 18th Century doll's house, described as "of national importance", has been valued by the BBC's Antiques Roadshow at more than £150,000. |
32,710,641 | Denis McAinsh, of Glasgow, will stand trial alongside Alexander Chaplin, 51; Barry Jeffrey, 32; and Michael Chaplin, 50, all of Dundee; and James McGing, 50, also of Glasgow.
All deny charges of supplying cannabis over a period of more than a year.
A warrant was issued for a sixth man - Dean Holmes, 46, of Dundee - aft... | A 75-year-old is one of six men set to stand trial in Dundee accused of dealing drugs in Scotland and England. |
35,430,333 | The department, which employs 247 staff, said it plans to shut the office by 2018 but has not said how many, if any, redundancies there may be.
It said the decision was aimed at cutting costs by creating a combined central HQ and policy centre in London.
PCS, the union, say a further 100 jobs in the UK are threatened b... | Nearly 250 jobs have been put at risk after the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announced it will close its office in Sheffield. |
37,541,488 | The result meant The Bees are without a win in their last four matches and they have slipped to 18th in League Two.
Allen told BBC Radio London: "I thought it was a slow start but Orient started very well. As the game grew, we got stronger and stronger.
"Second half we were the dominant team, but I don't think we creat... | Barmet manager Martin Allen says his side did not create enough chances in their 0-0 draw with Orient. |
27,883,937 | About 76 properties at Lakeminster Park, near Beverley, were granted planning permission as holiday homes.
Retrospective permission for people to live there all year-round was refused in 2012 by East Riding Council.
That decision was upheld at an inquiry in 2013 but an error by a planning inspector meant the government... | A second inquiry into the future of people living in holiday chalets all year round in East Yorkshire has begun. |
33,362,414 | Acting Insp Marlene MacDonald said residents of the town had complained of reckless driving, including racing, noisy exhausts and horns being blared.
Officers will monitor for speeding and use a decibel meter to check car exhausts do not breach noise levels.
Police said Operation Route would involve officers going out ... | Police are to begin a month-long operation against anti-social behaviour by some drivers in Thurso. |
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Seventeen-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer did not face a single break point as he beat Frenchman Gasquet 6-3 6-3 6-1 in just 87 minutes.
Wawrinka made almost as short work of Andy Murray's conqueror Kevin Anderson, beating the South African 6-4 6-4 6-0.
Top seed Nov... | Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka will meet in an all-Swiss semi-final at the US Open after impressive wins over Richard Gasquet and Kevin Anderson. |
39,470,315 | The protesters stormed the Congress and set fire to the building.
The authorities have arrested four police officers after a protester, Rodrigo Quintana, was killed.
Political leaders on Saturday paid their respects to the dead man.
His body was laid out at the headquarters of the opposition Liberal party in the capita... | Paraguay's President Horacio Cartes has sacked the interior minister and the chief of police after violent protests on Friday against a bill that would allow the president to run for a second term in office. |
35,248,235 | Phil Gormley said he would be "foolish" to rule out more armed police following the Paris terror attacks
He suggested armed police on routine duties may be appropriate in certain circumstances.
The current UK threat level for international terrorism is "severe" meaning an attack is highly likely.
Mr Gormley's predecess... | Scotland's new chief constable has said he will deploy more armed police officers if the threat from terrorism or serious crime renders it necessary. |
32,126,839 | But the town, in northern China's Hebei province, is actually devoted to waste recycling. Mountains of glass bottles and scraps of plastic crowd every available space.
Sitting in the middle of it all is a boarding school. Not one for the wealthy but, like many boarding schools in China, a school for the sons and daught... | At first glance, Erliban village appears to be covered in rubbish. |
36,171,867 | The defending champions have been criticised in recent times for a series of uninspiring displays.
Victory at Hearts on Saturday will seal a fifth straight title, should Aberdeen fail to secure maximum points.
"The players know there is a good game coming up and of course we want to do it tomorrow," said Deila.
"We are... | Manager Ronny Deila says he expects the lure of securing the Premiership title this weekend will help raise the performance of his Celtic players. |
37,295,567 | She wore it to his 45th birthday celebration at Madison Square Garden in New York, but the garment was so tight she had to be sewn into it.
Monroe died less than three months later, and the president died in 1963.
The dress was sold in 1999 for $1.26m but Julien's Auctions thinks it could fetch up to $3m (£2.2m) this ... | The flesh-coloured dress Marilyn Monroe wore when she breathlessly sang Happy Birthday to President John F Kennedy in 1962, is to be auctioned. |
34,890,231 | In the year to October 2015, 135 transgender hate offences were recorded, compared with 108 last year.
The Met said the rise was partly explained by more people reporting such crimes, and urged any victims of transphobia to come forward.
One London-based LGBT charity said the real number of offences was higher.
The Met... | A 25% increase in hate crimes against transgender people has been recorded in London this year, according to figures released by the Met Police. |
35,049,434 | The International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive board approved moving the track cycling and mountain bike events to an existing venue in Izu.
Both were due to be in temporary venues - track cycling in the Ariake district and mountain biking at Sea Forest.
The changes to the programme will bring savings of £66m to t... | Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be held 75 miles away from the city as part of a £1.2bn programme of cuts. |
35,388,472 | The Ivorian's agent, Dimitri Seluk, said this week that he would "listen to any offers on the table" this summer.
Pellegrini dismissed the speculation, suggesting the 32-year-old midfielder should "think in the present".
"Yaya is mentally absolutely involved in this season, and not thinking about his future," he said.
... | Yaya Toure is focused on Manchester City's season and will not be distracted by transfer speculation, according to manager Manuel Pellegrini. |
35,542,749 | Paul Doyle, a Translink Metro driver based at the Falls Road depot, stopped in November to give the man a winter coat he had bought for him.
He received the special award from the National Campaign for Courtesy.
The charity described him as a true inspiration whose generosity had touched the hearts of the nation.
Mr Do... | A Belfast bus driver who stopped his bus to give a homeless man a winter coat has won a national award for his kindness. |
40,339,138 | On Monday, thermometers reached 32.5C (90.5F) in north-west London - hotter than Rome, Ibiza or Miami.
But on Tuesday, while much of the country continued to bake, a weather front cutting across the British Isles meant temperatures in Newcastle struggled to get above 16C.
The Met Office has issued a level three amber h... | A weather warning has been issued as temperatures are predicted to reach 34C (93F) in parts of England on Wednesday. |
31,725,243 | They only confirmed 23 deaths at the Zasyadko coal mine. Ukraine's officials say as many as 33 people may have died.
There are fears the rebels lack the resources to deal with the disaster, the BBC's Tom Burridge reports.
Zasyadko was the scene of Ukraine's worst mine disaster nearly eight years ago, when 101 people we... | A suspected methane gas blast at a mine in a rebel-held area of east Ukraine is believed to have killed at least 30 people, the rebels told the BBC. |
38,314,431 | After seizing alleged collaborators of the gang, including the mother of the leader "El Tequilero", the locals have recorded video messages for the gang.
"In return for my husband's life, I will deliver your mother," says the kidnap victim's wife in one video, which has been broadcast on local TV.
Police have been sent... | Vigilantes in a Mexican village have seized the mother of a local gang leader and proposed swapping her for a kidnap victim taken on Monday. |
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Thieves broke into the family's home in Bangor just days after the burial of eight year old Chloe who suffered from a rare condition.
Christmas presents were also stolen when the robbers gained entry to the house in the Sinclair Av... | A young mother has appealed for the return of a laptop containing the last photographs of her terminally ill child. |
32,928,568 | Flight testing suffered a tragic setback last October when Virgin's Enterprise spaceship broke up in flight over California's Mojave desert, killing one of its test pilots.
Newsnight has spoken to several Virgin customers or "future astronauts", two of them on camera.
One, Norwich-based Richard Burr, says he was origin... | Virgin Galactic's planned commercial space service may still be years away from taking flight, and its chief executive admits, "we've got work to do, that's for sure", in a Newsnight report on the project. |
37,042,904 | The former astronaut cheered as the United States won the women's gymnastics team title on Tuesday and saluted the special quintet, one of whom was the extraordinary Simone Biles.
Biles, the innovator, the ground-breaker, is a gymnast who comes along every other generation or so - a 19-year-old hailed as the most talen... | It made sense that Buzz Aldrin, a man who has walked on the moon and lived without gravity, was in Rio to watch a teenage compatriot defy the earth's forces like no other athlete in history. |
40,380,520 | The man was wearing headphones as he worked in his home in Westfield Street in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, when the attacker struck on Wednesday.
He managed to call police when he regained consciousness and nothing was taken from the house.
Police said he was hit on the back of the head and treated in hospital for a ... | A man knocked unconscious while he was doing DIY at his home came round to find racist graffiti on the wall. |
39,157,887 | The announcement came at the annual meeting of the International Football Association Board (Ifab) on Friday.
Ifab is also reviewing the order of penalty shootouts, as there is a "clear advantage" to going first.
It also confirmed that clubs will be allowed to use a fourth substitute during extra time from the quarter-... | The Football Association wants to test a video assistant referee system from next season's FA Cup third round. |
26,278,237 | European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has said it would be "extremely difficult, if not impossible" for Scotland to join.
Jim Currie, a former European Commission director general, said Scotland had a right to membership.
Mr Currie was giving evidence to the Scottish Parliament Europe committee.
He also war... | Claims that an independent Scotland may not be able to join the EU were "unwise and inaccurate", a former senior European official has said. |
36,734,673 | The Crues commence the defence of their title against Ballymena United on 6 August, with the Blues travelling away to play Ballinamallard United.
Newly-promoted Ards host Cliftonville in their opening fixture of the season.
Also on 6 August, Glenavon play Carrick Rangers, Glentoran host Dungannon Swifts and Coleraine p... | Irish Premiership champions Crusaders will face last year's runners-up Linfield in the third round of fixtures of the 2016-17 campaign on 13 August. |
38,674,515 | Boxer Hasan Karkardi was banned for six months for taking part but will not appeal against his punishment.
Blackwell had retired after suffering a bleed on the skull in March and spending a week in an induced coma.
But he subsequently sparred with Karkadi and was again left in a coma.
The British Boxing Board of Contro... | Trainer Liam Wilkins will appeal against his licence being withdrawn for the sparring session in November that left retired fighter Nick Blackwell in a coma for the second time in a year. |
37,322,586 | In a personal interview with blog Humans of New York, she said she was told at the admissions exam she should forfeit her place so a man would not be drafted and sent to Vietnam.
She also revealed that as a young woman she learned to "control her emotions".
The Democratic candidate was criticised this week by the Repub... | Hillary Clinton has said she was singled out as one of the only women applying to go to Harvard law school. |
40,305,580 | Dr Alan Parker, a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, will lead a team to examine and alter the Ad5 virus.
In its original form it can can cause airways infections and is usually spread through coughing and sneezing.
But Dr Parker will use new technology to see if it can be genetically modified to destroy cancer cel... | A Cardiff scientist is to explore whether viruses can be "trained" to tackle ovarian cancer after being given a £250,000 Cancer Research UK grant. |
32,202,516 | RSPB Scotland said video footage shot at the Perthshire estate showed an osprey attempting to rebuild a nest.
However, festival organiser DF Concerts said the video did not correspond with reports from their ornithologist monitoring the site.
Police were called to the scene on Monday and are investigating.
Consultation... | Police and nature groups are examining a video purporting to show an osprey attempting to nest near the proposed T in the Park site at Strathallan Castle. |
39,742,549 | MP Damian Collins has asked the body to investigate whether the payment breached bribery laws.
The £3.9m payment was made to the FIA for entering into an agreement with the teams and sport's commercial arm.
The FIA says the payment was remuneration "for its regulatory role" and denies wrongdoing.
Collins, chairman of t... | The Serious Fraud Office is "reviewing material" relating to a payment made by Formula 1's commercial rights holder to the sport's governing body the FIA. |
38,452,913 | Maria Pridmore, 36, was jailed for three years in August after she admitted a string of frauds.
They included obtaining more than £16,000 in housing benefit, council tax benefit and income support.
Pridmore, who was described in court as a "Walter Mitty" fraudster, also stole over £30,000 from four women.
She appeared ... | A woman who pocketed over £50,000 by claiming false benefits and targeting vulnerable people has been ordered to pay back a token amount of £1. |
40,013,726 | The 40-year-old German replaces Alex Neil, who left the club in March.
Farke, who spent his playing career in Germany's lower leagues, replaced Huddersfield boss David Wagner at Dortmund's second team in 2015.
Norwich's sporting director Stuart Webber was part of the Terriers' backroom team when Wagner joined.
Edmund R... | Championship club Norwich City have appointed Borussia Dortmund reserve-team coach Daniel Farke as their new head coach on a two-year deal. |
39,023,901 | New South Wales on Tuesday unveiled changes to its high school syllabus for the first time in 18 years.
The new focus eschews "social context" teaching - which had drawn criticism - for more in-depth, critical thinking.
It comes after an international study in December showed Australia's maths and science ranking had t... | Australia's most populous state will focus on better preparing students for university and employment in a major overhaul of its school curriculum. |
28,674,140 | The board of Walgreens will now seek shareholder approval for the £9bn deal to go through.
Walgreens bought a 45% stake in the company in 2012 and now wants to buy the remaining 55% stake.
The firm said it would not use the deal to alter its current tax structure, and expects the merged company to be based in Chicago.... | High Street chemist Alliance Boots is to be bought up by US pharmacy giant Walgreens. |
31,575,322 | The latest march, in central Istanbul, was one of the demonstrations prompted by the recent murder of a 20-year-old Turkish woman.
Ozgecan Aslan, a university student, was killed in an attempted rape.
"The way of thinking that 'a woman wearing a miniskirt deserves rape' is sick," said Ali Erkazan, who represented the m... | Groups of men in Turkey are wearing skirts to protest against violence towards women. |
37,309,706 | That is the finding of a survey carried out by the pollsters, Ipsos Mori, for BBC Northern Ireland's political programme, The View.
In the wake of June's EU referendum result, Sinn Féin demanded that the secretary of state should call a border poll as provided for under the Good Friday Agreement.
The Department of Fore... | More than eight out of 10 people in Northern Ireland say the UK's decision to leave the European Union has not changed the way they would vote in a future border poll. |
39,792,126 | The two sides meet on Saturday with Wasps on top of the Premiership and Saracens two points behind in third, with Exeter sandwiched between them.
The winner will guarantee themselves a home semi-final in the play-offs.
"When the fixtures came out, I looked at this one and thought 'this will have a prize on it'," said t... | Wasps director of rugby Dai Young says he always expected their final game of the league campaign against Saracens to have special significance. |
34,832,755 | Dujardin, 30, and Valegro won individual and team dressage gold for Britain at London 2012 and have since won World and European titles.
But, she says, the Olympics in Brazil next summer will be the horse's last.
"This will be Valegro's retirement after Rio so I want to go out there and want to enjoy every last minute,... | Double Olympic champion Charlotte Dujardin says her horse Valegro will retire after the Rio Games in 2016. |
34,219,944 | About 12,000 people attended Saturday's Ar Waith Ar Daith (Work On Tour) performance in Cardiff Bay.
Walk the Plank's production involved dance, aerial artistry, storytelling and pyrotechnics.
Before the performance, two slate plaques will were unveiled.
The plaques had been engraved with poetic lines created by two sc... | The 10th birthday of Wales Millennium Centre has been celebrated with an "outdoor theatrical spectacle" involving 700 people. |
36,909,862 | Labour donor and ex-parliamentary candidate Michael Foster was challenging Mr Corbyn's inclusion without having to get MPs' nominations.
Mr Corbyn called the court case a "waste of time and resources".
Mr Foster said he would not be challenging the decision: "We wanted the courts to adjudicate... they have."
It means t... | A judge has rejected a challenge to Labour's decision to allow Jeremy Corbyn to automatically stand for re-election as leader. |
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The 16-year-old beat Anne Keothavong's record as the youngest British player to play in the Fed Cup in February.
Swan won her first two titles on the second-tier ITF tour in 2015, and made her WTA debut at Birmingham in June.
"There's a few big grass tournaments before Wim... | British world number 512 Katie Swan says she hopes to earn a wildcard entry into the main Wimbledon draw this year. |
36,977,135 | The Sky Blues had warned the academy would be under threat if the rugby club got council permission for the facility at the Alan Higgs Centre.
The football club said it was "not against" Wasps having a facility in the city, but was "bitterly disappointed".
Wasps has said the football club could share the proposed centr... | Plans for rugby club Wasps to build a training centre on the site of Coventry City FC's youth academy have been approved. |
11,828,130 | The 57-year-old, from Montrose, was killed north of Dunkeld, near Jubilee Bridge, in Perthshire.
Several other stretches of the A9 have been the scene of fatal and serious accidents this year.
November was marked by the death of a couple in a two-car crash near Dalwhinnie.
Care assistant Dennish Michael and nurse Manju... | The death of lorry driver Gordon Cooper in a crash involving three articulated lorries on Thursday was the latest in a series on the A9 this year. |
32,023,204 | Dominic Colella was called out on 9 March 2013 when the 85-year-old man collapsed in a queue at a London branch of the store.
A colleague told a disciplinary hearing Mr Colella had returned to the ambulance with two "full bags of shopping" after 20 minutes.
He did not attend the hearing.
Giving evidence to the Health a... | A paramedic shopped in Marks and Spencer while an elderly patient with severe blood poisoning waited in an ambulance, a conduct panel has heard. |
37,337,073 | The searchable digital collection will include images taken using glass plate photography 160 years ago.
Glasgow-born climber, keen photographer and founder of Rab mountain clothing, Rab Carrington, has been helping to head up the project.
It will be officially unveiled at the Kendal Mountain Festival in November.
Amon... | A National Archive of Historic Mountaineering Images is to be launched by the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) later this year. |
36,717,000 | Wales will appear in their first semi-final of a major tournament when they play Portugal in Lyon at 20:00 BST.
The winners of that game will face either France or Germany in Sunday's Euro 2016 final.
Fan zones have been set up around Wales, including at Cardiff's Principality Stadium which will hold 27,500 fans who ob... | Thousands of Wales fans have travelled to France for the biggest football match in the nation's history. |
40,581,737 | Simon Brown, 24, from East Grinstead, West Sussex, hit his head on a signal gantry on 7 August.
The hearing in London was told that passenger Kirstin Duffield heard a "loud thud".
In a statement read by the coroner, she said she found Mr Brown with an injury that was "not survivable".
The train from Gatwick to London V... | A man who died on the Gatwick Express was found by another passenger with a "massive trauma" to his head, an inquest has heard. |
32,326,228 | Stephen Dodd tweeted an image of solicitors Asif Bodi and Abubakar Bhula on prayer mats in a stairwell.
He captioned the tweet: "Muslims praying at half time at the match yesterday. Disgrace."
The Premier League club reported the tweet to Merseyside Police following a number of complaints.
A number of social media user... | Liverpool FC is considering what action to take against a supporter who branded two Muslim fans "a disgrace" for praying during half-time at a match. |
22,487,099 | But you get to appreciate the area's natural beauty whilst wading across lily covered creeks and trekking deep into the forest, accompanied by birdsong.
Welcome to the Niger Delta before the oil.
"I'm on the plank now so walk right behind me," a guide said as we squelched across a muddy swamp trying not to sink in too ... | A pristine paradise - these are not words you often hear to describe the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria. |
34,054,322 | Surfing began somewhere in the distant past of Polynesian culture and by the mid eighteenth century, Captain James Cook sailed to Hawaii and saw locals climbing onto wooden boards and speeding along the waves.
Eventually, a craze for wave riding spread and now it's thought at least 36 million people worldwide identify ... | For centuries, people have been lured in by the thundering power of surf. |
34,910,378 | John Jones, 50, from Rhos, Neath Port Talbot, was given 16 pints at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, after losing a leg in a forklift accident in 1990.
But one of the donors had hepatitis C, and Mr Jones died in 2012.
Recording a narrative verdict, assistant coroner Paul Bennett said infection and cirrhosis killed Mr Jones... | A father-of-three died more than 20 years after receiving infected blood, an inquest hears. |
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Inspired to get back on your bike? Take a look at this handy guide to find ways to get into cycling. | Not having the right bike can be very uncomfortable - and potentially damaging, so finding the correct bike fit is very important, especially if you cycle regularly. |
33,790,465 | These are the words of judge Karin Jung, who gave two 1860 Munich fans the choice to buy Bayern merchandise for a fan they attacked - or spend 15 months in jail.
The defendants, who refused to name a third person involved when they ripped the jacket, shirt and straw hat off the Bayern fan last year, opted for the pride... | "I wanted to show that football is football and not a battlefield." |
38,400,222 | Alibaba was taken off the list four years ago, but US authorities say the firm's online platform Taobao is used to sell "high levels" of fake goods.
The company has rejected the allegations, insisting it polices its market place better than in the past.
The firm also suggested the "current political climate" in the US ... | Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is back on the US's "notorious markets" list over counterfeit goods sales. |
36,053,058 | Patients who suffered persecutory delusions were encouraged to step into a computer-generated Underground train carriage and a lift.
The simulations allowed the study's 30 patients to learn social situations they feared were actually safe.
The research at Oxford University, published in the British Journal of Psychiatr... | Virtual reality has been used to help treat severe paranoia. |
33,270,070 | Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras came to power on a wave of public anger over austerity measures, and he is urging the Greek people to vote against austerity once more in a snap referendum on the country's debt crisis to be held on Sunday.
Meanwhile tens of thousands of people took part in anti-austerity demonstrati... | At the heart of the current Greek debt crisis is an old debate - is it better to cut spending and raise taxes in an economic downturn, or spend your way out of it? |
36,550,406 | Keith Barrow quit as leader of the Conservative-run Shropshire Council and as a councillor when an allegation was made in November.
He later admitted to failing to comply with the council's code of conduct by not declaring a conflict of interest.
However, West Mercia Police said a "thorough and detailed investigation" ... | A complaint against a former council leader has been disregarded by police. |
26,049,332 | The direct funding scheme for school sport, announced last year, is going to be extended for a further five years.
Each year primary schools will continue to receive £8,000, plus £5 per pupil.
As well as promoting good health, Mr Cameron says, school sport has an important role in building "confidence and a sense of ac... | Primary schools in England are going to share an extra £150m per year sports funding until 2020, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. |
24,362,817 | They were among a 30-strong crew on a Greenpeace ship that was protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic.
The group was arrested last month after two of the protesters tried to board an oil platform owned by the Russian state-controlled firm Gazprom.
Greenpeace has called the charges "irrational, absurd and an outr... | Fourteen Greenpeace activists, including at least four from the UK, have been charged with piracy by the Russian authorities. |
37,281,807 | The experiment will begin when the first round takes place on Saturday 24 September.
It is an initiative being introduced by the Scottish FA after recent talks with the International Football Association Board.
Previously, teams could only use three of seven substitutes in Scotland's premier cup competition.
The fourth... | A fourth substitute will be available in extra time for the first time in this season's Scottish Cup. |
27,469,674 | Harrison played the 1962 Rickenbacker 425 guitar on British TV shows like Ready Steady Go! in 1963, prior to the band's US invasion in 1964.
The Beatle, who died in 2001, also used the instrument during the recording of I Want to Hold Your Hand and This Boy.
He bought the guitar during a visit to the US.
Its pre-sale e... | An electric guitar played by The Beatles' George Harrison has sold for $657,000 (£390,000) at an auction in New York. |
38,180,456 | Residents living near Queens Park in Bolton reported hearing a repetitive "loud tapping" in the early hours this week leaving council officials baffled.
One resident even recorded the sound, the Bolton News reported.
Police officers called to investigate "suspicious banging" eventually traced the noise to construction ... | A mystery surrounding a "banging noise" heard coming from a Greater Manchester park at night has been solved. |
19,318,591 | The woman, 20, of Brecon, Powys, admitted neglect of the 15-month old while she went out at Christmas.
Neighbours raised the alarm when they heard cries, Merthyr Crown Court heard.
Judge John Curran said: "You may have gone back to the house on occasions but the fact is you neglected her for a very long time."
The cour... | A mother has been jailed for 15 months for leaving her baby daughter at home alone every day for a week while she went out drinking. |
38,207,100 | The case - which has seen the faces of the judges involved splashed across newspaper front pages - began its proceedings through the Supreme Court on Monday.
There, the UK government will appeal against the ruling of the High Court, which said MPs should be able to vote on the starting-whistle to leave the European Un... | It is difficult to think of a court case in recent years as politically charged and controversial as the legal row over whether MPs should vote to trigger Article 50 - the process to start Brexit. |
34,627,189 | About 250 people have been allowed to travel from the south for three days of meetings at Mount Kumgang resort.
Another group attended reunions earlier this week.
For most of those attending it is the first time that they have had any contact in over 60 years.
Millions of people ended up separated from loved ones by th... | A group of mainly elderly South Koreans have met relatives in the North, in the second of two organised reunions for family members separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. |
33,206,084 | Dylann Roof, 21, appeared in court in Charleston to face nine murder charges.
He showed no emotion as relatives of the victims addressed him directly. "I forgive you" said one victim's daughter, fighting back tears.
Police are treating the killings at the African-American church on Wednesday night as a hate crime.
And ... | Relatives of some of the nine churchgoers shot dead in South Carolina have addressed the suspected gunman in court and said they forgive him. |
39,653,672 | The US tennis player's announcement that she is 20 weeks pregnant means she won her record-breaking 23rd and most recent Grand Slam singles title at the Australian Open while eight weeks into her pregnancy, at the age of 35.
On social media, the revelation has prompted both men and women to claim she is the GOAT - grea... | As one male tweeter put it: "Serena Williams won a grand slam while she was pregnant so every man should probably shut up about everything forever." |
35,430,950 | Former Priory Federation chief executive Richard Gilliland, 64, was accused of misusing school credit cards to buy personal items and suppressing the results of a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) check on his son.
The group's ex-finance director Stephen Davies, 58, faced three fraud charges.
The pair were found not guilty... | Two former senior members of staff at a Lincolnshire schools academy group have been cleared of fraud charges. |
37,587,539 | It comes after shopkeepers claimed their trade was being affected by the abuse of regulations.
They have blamed the removal of the police traffic warden service more than two years ago.
A council report on the possibility of introducing its own wardens will be considered next month.
Councillors were told this week that... | Letters are to be sent to businesses and residents on Hawick High Street reminding them of the 30-minute parking limit in the area. |
31,425,104 | The 24-year-old, who's doing a PhD in astronomy and space at the University of Birmingham, is down to the last 600 of 200,000 applicants for the Mars One mission.
If she gets through, she'll spend the next 10 years training for the project.
The mission aims to send teams of four to the red planet every two years from 2... | Next week, Maggie Lieu will find out if she'll have to give up EVERYTHING for a one-way trip to Mars. |
37,700,029 | The Spaniard pounced to drive low into the corner from Zlatan Ibrahimovic's pull-back as United set up a home tie with West Ham.
Paul Pogba had hit a post moments earlier as the game came alive in the second period, following a first half in which neither of the bitter rivals managed a shot on target.
City boss Pep Gua... | Juan Mata struck to win a tight Manchester derby as United knocked out EFL Cup holders City to reach the quarter-finals. |
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Georgina Harwood took to the sky above Cape Town, watched by her family and friends.
She did the skydive to raised money for charity.
"It was definitely a very special, exhilarating experience", she said.
It's not the first time Georgi... | A daredevil gran has celebrated her 100th birthday by going skydiving in South Africa. |
37,344,394 | The 29-year-old's feat - a rare "hat-trick" for any goalkeeper - was key in the Terrors' 3-1 away win at East End Park on Saturday.
"I think judging the run-ups is a massive thing these days," said United's summer signing from Rangers.
"You can kind of sound out players the way they're going with their run-up."
Grimsby... | Studying his opponents' penalty style and run-ups helped Dundee United's Cammy Bell save three spot-kicks in one half against Dunfermline Athletic. |
28,465,110 | At £233bn the new stealth fighter is the most expensive weapons order ever placed, due to fly with the RAF and on the new British Navy carriers.
British test pilots have already been putting it through its paces, but the hotly awaited first appearance in UK skies was cancelled after an engine fire grounded the whole f... | A major disappointment for the crowds flocking to Hampshire for the Farnborough Airshow was the non-appearance of the new American-built F35 fighter plane. |
27,992,387 | Ms Coyle said it would be "daft" for the show to be a "perfect replica" of the real world.
But she added it was "important to ask whether the BBC can do more in its popular output to provide an authentic portrayal of life in modern Britain".
The population of EastEnders was also younger than in real life, she said.
Ms ... | BBC soap EastEnders is "almost twice" as white as the real east London, Diane Coyle, the acting head of the BBC Trust, said in a speech in on Monday. |
32,492,693 | "I've been sitting on these banks for the last 25 years and this is the most bodies I've ever seen," says 53-year-old Krishna Ghimire, one of the temple's many priests.
Pashputinath, which spans the banks of the Bagmati River, is the most revered Hindu temple in Nepal.
This is where the dead are cremated - on ghats (cr... | At Kathmandu's Pashputinath temple, the morning air is heavy with birdsong and the smoke from funeral pyres. |
30,422,729 | The $620m (£395m) he made before tax means he has topped Forbes' list of the biggest earners in music in 2014.
Not only that, but he has now also got the Forbes record for the highest earnings in a single year by any musician.
The majority of his cash has come not from record sales but from Apple's purchase of Beats, ... | Dr Dre has taken home an enormous amount of money this year. |
40,669,559 | The 28-year-old joined the U's from Rotherham United in February of 2016 after an initial six-week loan spell.
Maguire, who has played for Scotland twice, scored 17 goals in 54 appearances for Oxford last season.
"He had many offers to consider so we are delighted he has chosen us," boss Lee Clark told the club website... | Bury have signed Scotland international striker Chris Maguire from fellow League One side Oxford United on a two-year contract. |
35,056,848 | Peter Allott, the 36-year-old deputy head at St Benedict's, has been charged with possessing, showing and making category A indecent images of children.
He is also accused of two counts of possession of extreme pornography, the National Crime Agency said.
He appeared before Ealing magistrates earlier and was remanded i... | The deputy head of a fee-paying Catholic school in Ealing has been accused of possessing the most extreme category of indecent child images. |
38,460,770 | The error was made by RingGo payment system, which is managed by City of Edinburgh Council's contractor NSL.
Motorists who tried to use RingGo on Tuesday will have their tickets cancelled.
The council said it clearly stated on its website and parking machines that 27 December was a paid parking day.
The council said ab... | Hundreds of drivers have been issued parking tickets after an app wrongly told them they could park for free in Edinburgh on the day after Boxing Day. |
37,629,383 | The organisations behind the complaint say it is the biggest constitutional complaint in German history.
They say the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) deal violates democratic principles and will give too much power to multinational companies.
But the German economy minister says a ruling in favour of ... | Germany's highest court is hearing a challenge to a planned EU-Canada free trade deal from some 125,000 citizens. |
40,252,990 | Shirley Taylor said the bees took residence in her Nissan car parked outside her front door in Watt Street, on Sunday.
Chairman of the Beverley Beekeepers' Association, Chris Coulson, has been trying to lure the swarm out of the vehicle since.
He said it was not clear what had attracted the bees to the vehicle and it c... | A swarm of up to 20,000 bees has taken over a car in Hull. |
40,698,382 | And what a missed opportunity.
This is a fairytale accomplishment, a final happy ending after decades of trying to write their own chapter into rugby league's history book.
But it is also a sad tale of rugby league manufacturing its own bad timing.
Classy Cas - a phrase first coined in the 1960s because of their playin... | Castleford will be handed rugby league's League Leaders Shield in just a few weeks' time - what a story! |
40,526,096 | The 38-year-old, who lifted the One-Day Cup at Lord's last weekend, is retiring at the end of the season.
Notts says the decision will allow the club to look to the future.
"Chris and I have had a chat. We agree that this a great fit for everyone as we prepare for a T20 campaign", said head coach Peter Moores.
Moores' ... | Notts Outlaws wicketkeeper Chris Read will be part of the club's coaching staff rather than play in this season's T20 Blast, which begins on Friday. |
39,815,499 | An incident happened at Premier Stores on Union Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Police Scotland said both men had also been charged in relation to an alleged assault and robbery of a 35-year-old man on Justice Street.
They were expected to appear at Aberdeen Sheriff Court later. | Two men, both aged 22, have been charged in connection with an alleged attempted robbery at a convenience store in Aberdeen. |
37,789,638 | The bill, which will give the Senedd new powers, has been revised from its original draft amid worries it may reduce assembly powers.
But Mr Jones has expressed "considerable concern" that four months after the law's publication a number of issues have not been resolved.
The Wales Office said discussions would continue... | The Welsh Government is not yet ready to commend the Wales Bill to AMs, First Minister Carwyn Jones has said. |
35,856,170 | Thanet Council began work two weeks ago at All Saints Church in Birchington but some stones have been left broken.
One resident, Janice Taylor, said it looked as if "hooligans and demolished the place".
Thanet Council admitted the work could be "upsetting" but said it was in line with national guidelines.
These are det... | A Kent council has been accused of leaving gravestones and memorials looking as if they have been vandalised after carrying out safety checks. |
32,722,891 | The 37-year-old and two girls aged 13 were found at a property in Grove Road, Chadwell Heath at 13:10 BST on Tuesday.
Shighi Kotuvala and sisters Niya and Neha Rethishkumar had not been seen since Sunday.
Their father, Pullarkattil Rethish Kumar, 44, who was missing from the address, was found hanging at Woodford Reser... | A mother and her twin daughters have been found dead at a house in east London, police have said. |
39,242,293 | NASUWT NI president Susan Parlour made the comments during a speech to members at the union's annual conference.
She also said the Education and Training Inspectorate, which carries out school inspections, was "not fit for purpose".
The NASUWT is one of the largest teaching unions in Northern Ireland.
Its members are c... | Further cuts to the education budget will make Northern Ireland's education system "unsustainable," a teachers' union leader has said. |
28,404,020 | South Yorkshire Police inspector Stephen Ellis told how a crush started outside the stadium on 15 April 1989.
He told the jury he feared someone would be killed before a gate was opened relieving the throng outside.
Ninety-six fans died following the crush at the FA Cup semi-final game.
Insp Ellis, who was in charge of... | Liverpool supporters at Hillsborough were "gripped by mania" and "frantic" to get into the ground as kick off approached on the day of the disaster, the jury at the new inquests has heard. |
37,606,747 | The programme, coming a decade after the original Planet Earth was broadcast, has been, by all accounts, a truly extraordinary series.
Ratings show the series has been watched by all age groups, with surprisingly large numbers of young people tuning in to watch the programme live every week.
The series has become Inter... | About 10 million of us have been tuning in to BBC One's Planet Earth II every Sunday for the past six weeks. |
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