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ecb3274f7bcd81852074fce449200c58fa0c3356 | Hippos are not usually known for their subtlety but this hulking beast appears to be using stealth techniques while he sets his sights on his prey. The large mammal submerged itself before seemingly gliding gracefully head first out of the water. For a moment, its large head appeared camouflaged in the brown water and ... | As about 30 hippos played with each other and enjoyed a quiet morning snooze on the Chobe River in Botswana .
One of them spotted a tourist boat and went into stealth-mode, appearing above the water's surface like a crocodile .
A tourist on board said the hippo chased their boat 'very gracefully', as the skipper sped t... |
ecb364371f2ccbc22d2ade4391f8ec13a860694b | By . Mark Prigg . They are beautiful images that reveal just how much we have come to rely on sea transport. The amazing images show the huge expansion of cargo routes around the world. As routes like the Suez Canal opened in 1869, they reveal just how much of the globe is now used to transport goods, with some estimat... | Images show routes recorded by the US authorities .
Reveal how changes such as the opening of the Suez canal have caused an explosion in routes . |
ecb3cc8919a47f12a8c26ba358aa3c0ab5f0a487 | Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel has arrested an Iranian-born man, accusing him of spying for Tehran. He was carrying photos of various sites, including the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, the Israeli government said Sunday. The announcement came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to the United States to address ... | NEW: Iranian Foreign Ministry says it is doing its own investigation .
Israel says a man admitted to spying for Iran .
Israel says the man had photos of U.S. Embassy, other sites when he was arrested .
Suspect's attorney says client had no intent to harm Israel . |
ecb41b83e24e4b4387ff3f5f45477024d94d06b4 | By . Rachel Quigley . Last updated at 3:17 PM on 26th October 2011 . Cate Edwards made sure everything at her wedding was just as her late mother would have wanted - and that included banning her father John Edwards' mistress from being a part of the ceremony. The disgraced presidential candidate's daughter made it cle... | Partied with 300 guests .
father walked her down the aisle to Trumpet Voluntary but tried to escape through back entrance later .
Altar lit in memory of her mother Elizabeth . |
ecb45b78f906393f86931afe57e5340f4b75131a | By . James Rush . Piercing through a thick blanket of white cloud, Chicago's skyscrapers rise above the dense fog which covers the city below. While pedestrians on the streets below were unable to see the sun, photographer Peter Tsai was able to capture these spectacular images of skyscrapers, including the Willis Towe... | Photographer Peter Tsai captured remarkable images of Chicago from vantage point of Hancock Observatory .
He captured the scene on June 26 as the Windy City's famous skyline emerged from fog which had blanketed the city .
From viewing deck 1,000ft above .
ground, the blue and yellow lights of the buildings .
light up t... |
ecb52a02af995062403440122b1f1d9fcc79041c | By . Snejana Farberov . PUBLISHED: . 23:12 EST, 20 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 05:24 EST, 21 November 2013 . A nearly two-year investigation into the death of a 19-year-old Ohio man has concluded that an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound killed him - even as his family continue to suspect that it was a murder... | Jacob Limberios, 19, died from gunshot wound to the head March 12, 2012 .
Coroner initially ruled it a suicide without examining Limberios' body .
Victim's parents had their son's remains exhumed and examined by different coroner, who concluded that teen's death was a homicide .
State Attorney General's office conclude... |
ecb54a9c2dd3d5068524048c592ae70a2b909347 | The Mormon church has admitted that its founder was a polygamist who married a 14-year-old girl, breaking a lengthy silence about its history. Joseph Smith, who wrote the Book of Mormon and established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is thought to have married as many as 50 women, but for years the sen... | Church acknowledges for the first time Joseph Smith had many wives .
Number unknown but has been estimated between 27 and 50 .
New essay published by Mormon leaders names 14-year-old Helen Kimball .
However adds that her type of union with Smith could have been non-sexual .
Also says Smith was reluctant to be polygamis... |
ecb61075ff9a75ddfd10bd7fbd072750d91d3495 | A series of striking photographs have shown the haunting beauty of abandoned places around the world. Many are in various states of disrepair and poor condition, but even here there can be found some eerie splendour. The likes of Lynch, Kentucky, was built as a company town in 1917 by US Coal and Coke, a subsidiary of ... | Photographs capture the beauty in some of the world's most desolate and abandoned places .
Simacem village in North Sumatra Indonesia was left for dead after its people were evacuated following the eruption of the volcano .
Naval Station Subic Bay used to be one of the largest US military bases outside the American mai... |
ecb6a07d2c40a5b69e5b6e4497be3390140c8bca | By . Mail Online Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 23:56 EST, 7 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 17:24 EST, 12 January 2014 . Lonely Planet has ignited a furious row after placing Sydney Opera House above the Great Barrier Reef in a top ten list of ten must-see destinations in its latest Australian edition. The decision provoked ou... | Great Barrier Reef comes in second while Uluru only makes it to fourth .
Anger in Queensland as Gold Coast is dubbed 'hedonistic and over-hyped'
But Brisbane is voted Australia's coolest city in latest edition of guide . |
ecb6f9b37d95b9cc03e4c91f077c2bf7e51008c2 | Freedom to jog naked: Andrew Lyall Pointon, 47, won his appeal against offensive behaviour (stock picture) The right to go jogging in the nude has been upheld by the High Court in New Zealand. Andrew Lyall Pointon, 47, was wearing only a pair of shoes when he was spotted by a woman while running at 8.30am in a forest n... | Shocked complainant said she would never walk her dog in Oropi Park, New Zealand, again .
Andrew Pointon, 47, was charged with offensive behaviour for his naked runs .
But appeal judge agrees that naked body by itself is not offensive . |
ecb72976d06d73ff3fdafbb51440c5f24e4487d3 | (CNN) -- Ferrari's team principal Stefano Domenicali has insisted there is no "political intention" in the Italian marque's decision to bear the country's naval flag on their cars at the Indian Grand Prix. Both Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa will carry the symbol on their livery, a move that has been interpreted as a... | Ferrari denies making a political statement having the Italian navy flag on its F1 cars .
Marque says flag is there in hope Italy and India can settle a political dispute .
Two Italian sailors were arrested after incident that left two Indian fisherman dead .
Sebastian Vettel goes quickest in practice ahead of Indian G... |
ecb7777c46600f14b9b6a8f5a04dfaf44bad371b | Fiorentina striker Giuseppe Rossi is set to return to Italy next month to continue his recovery from a knee ligament injury which has blighted his season. The former Manchester United youngster's problems with his right knee began in October 2011 when he missed 18 months after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament. In... | Prolific Italian striker has seen his career interrupted by injury of late .
Rossi has suffered problems with his knees since October 2011 .
Most recently, he suffered a recurrence of a ligament issue in September .
But now after treatment in America he is returning to Italy with Fiorentina . |
ecb7e51741b3f669fcc718b63cee5b9bac849783 | (CNN) -- From elephants getting pedicures to hipsters holding their own Olympics, here's a look at some recent stories from CNN's affiliates around the world that are interesting, unique or just plain bizarre. Half-a-billion dollar drug bust . In Australia, police have busted a major drug ring, seizing half a billion d... | Check out some interesting or just plain bizarre stories from around the world .
They range from rising flood waters in China to more creature comforts in Italy . |
ecb81a105a9bdd95c2a60d0da7253faeab7c4739 | More than three years after Steve Jobs passed away, it seems that his widow Laurene Powell has found love again. The 51-year-old billionaire business exec was seen enjoying a Caribbean vacation with former Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, 44, this weekend. The pair looked at ease as they laughed together aboard a lu... | Powell, 51, and Fenty, 44, were seen laughing and kissing aboard a luxury yacht in the Caribbean on Saturday .
Powell was left widowed when the Apple founder passed away in 2011 .
Fenty and his wife Michelle split in January 2013 and he was rumored to be dating Powell later that year . |
ecb820788e9d9f412d434e75c31485a61448d96c | By . Tom Gardner . PUBLISHED: . 05:10 EST, 18 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:39 EST, 18 May 2012 . Revelations: Details of an affair between Alison Levitt, QC, pictured, and a Lib Dem peer were covered in the press . Any claims charges against Rebekah Brooks over the phone hacking scandal may have been motivated by a tab... | Affair between Alison Levitt, QC, and a Lib Dem peer made national headlines in 2007 .
But Director of Pubic Prosecutions says 'preposterous' to question her judgement because of publicity . |
ecb835e499ba09df9ce2caf71b47fe918dd5937f | By . Kieran Corcoran . PUBLISHED: . 07:14 EST, 25 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:44 EST, 25 September 2013 . Probe: Lancashire PCC Clive Crunshaw is being investigated by the CPS over expense claims . A police and crime commissioner will have his expenses investigated after allegations he claimed twice as much mone... | Lancashire PCC Clive Grunshaw allegedly claimed mileage twice for a single journey .
Claims made while he was Labour councillor and chairman of Lancashire Police resources committee .
Police watchdog passed details of his expenses to the CPS, which is now investigating .
The investigation could lead to criminal charges... |
ecb84012a698d7b59a3d2535a9c1181cf98ee93d | Overhaul: Education secretary Michael Gove suggested exams could be graded one to ten rather than by A* to C . GCSE grades could be ditched in favour of a number-based system, Michael Gove suggested yesterday. The Education Secretary said the top grades of A* and A could be replaced by classifications ranging from one ... | Education secretary top grades could be replaced by score of one to four .
Mr Gove is overhauling GCSEs by replacing modules with exams .
Grading system for O-levels and A-levels was first used in 1965 . |
ecb88524ad4c2a1ae06b2e6d5aa57802933712a7 | Americans living in the eastern U.S. have certainly been feeling the cold this past week, but now they can see it. This weekend, NASA released a satellite photo which shows the Midwest and East Coast turned white with snow and ice thanks to a recent blast of Siberian and Arctic air. However, the blast has contributed t... | The NASA satellite photo was taken on Friday, when record low temperatures were set in several states .
Cold is expected to continue, with another 'Siberian Express' expected to hit on Sunday .
In frost-hit Tennessee 21 people died in the past week from the weather, while in Kentucky the death toll was 10 . |
ecb89cf075acccece6afffe2c36637a407435058 | A MILLIONAIRE’S daughter smashed into three houses in her BMW – and then told the shocked owners: ‘Do you know who my dad is? He’s rich.’ Laura Binch, 19, was drunk on champagne when she destroyed the fronts of the terrace homes while driving her luxury convertible. The crash left a safety barrier pole embedded into... | Laura Binch smashed through safety barrier and wrecked three house fronts .
'Arrogant' 19-year-old jailed for six months after crashing BMW convertible .
Binch pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at Derby Crown Court . |
ecb8d92cf8db616604154c885229557b519eb333 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 10:31 EST, 21 July 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:43 EST, 21 July 2012 . A traumatised father-of-two who lost his four-month-old son as he escaped the Dark Knight Rises shooting proposed to his girlfriend, and mother of his children, on Friday, just hours after the young family were re... | Jamie Rohrs put four-month-old son Ethan on the floor to hide from gunfire .
Lost the child in chaos as he leapt over balcony .
Mother who had been shot in the leg grabbed the boy and ran from cinema .
Rohrs proposed at hospital hours after shooting .
Patricia Legarreta said engagement is 'exciting' but tinged with sad... |
ecb980d42ae18d84774c8718949d5ded46ca039a | Flight delays to and from UK airports totaled 32 years and 8 months in 2014. Though an average delay of 40 minutes may not seem incredibly long, it definitely adds up - to the equivalent of the time it would take to make almost 4,000 trips to the moon. To be considered 'late' by the Civil Aviation Authority, a flight m... | In 2014, flight delays to and from UK airports totalled over 32 years .
On average, each flight was delayed just 40 minutes - but it adds up .
To be 'late,' the CAA says a flight must run 15 mins behind schedule . |
ecb9bcf300c4dcc8c27836ce821d9e636c316613 | (Rolling Stone) -- André 3000 is set to star in "All Is by My Side," the long-awaited Jimi Hendrix biopic, according to the Irish Film and Television Network. IFTN reports that the film is currently in preproduction in Wicklow, Ireland, and that the shoot will last six weeks. Principal photography is expected to start... | OutKast's André 3000 will star in a Jimi Hendrix biopic .
The film is currently in preproduction in Wicklow, Ireland .
The film will reportedly explore Hendrix's early career, tracking his times spent in England . |
ecba6f1847045e883287a1f5e7c4502d14896a54 | When police came to the door of Sandra Smith's suburban family home in East London, seven years ago she refused to believe what they were telling her. They broke the news that her partner, Martin, 43, who had said goodbye to her and their four children on his way to work that morning, had killed himself. Recalling that... | Sandra Smith was 44 when her partner, Martin, 43, killed himself .
She was left to raise their four children then aged 17, 10, seven and six .
Martin had been suffering from depression and work pressure .
Grieving Sandra said: 'I couldn't believe love of my life was gone'
She struggled to cope with her loss until she m... |
ecbac6d40bb27ea599860e30e092e0bdc7a73f31 | (CNN) -- A deadly earthquake that struck Taiwan on Wednesday may have occurred on a "blind fault" and that fault could produce a far stronger earthquake in the future, the head of the country's Seismology Center said. Wednesday's 6.1-magnitude temblor killed one person and left 19 others injured, according to reports f... | "Blind fault" may have produced 6.1 temblor .
Fault may be able to produce much stronger quake, Taiwanese official says .
Quake in area killed more than 2,400 in 1999 . |
ecbad912ce5286fe3925ab06ecb22e3c9b9badb6 | By . Gerrard Couzens . PUBLISHED: . 09:28 EST, 9 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 01:39 EST, 10 May 2012 . Argentine president Cristina Kirchner was left red-faced last night after it emerged the star of her controversial Falklands ad is set to miss the Olympics. Hockey player Fernando Zylberberg flew to the islands and worke... | Fernando Zylberberg will 'most certainly' not compete in the games .
The advertisement show the hockey player training on the Falklands with the tagline 'To compete on English soil, we are training on Argentine soil .
The ad has been condemned by Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond and Falklands survivor Simon Weston cal... |
ecbaf516f80d7c1fbd67f85ca5d2e8189c2c0a8d | Japanese researchers have revealed artificial intelligence software so smart it can beat most real students on a high school test. Known as To-Robo, the AI software scored higher on the English section of Japan's standardized college entrance test than the average Japanese high school senior, its developers said. It ha... | To-Robo software scored higher on the English section of Japan's standardized college entrance test than the average Japanese high school senior .
Developers hope it will eventually pass the entrance exam for Tokyo University . |
ecbb59c6afec98de4fc8fd66a111436b4c1b9022 | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Two Britons serving three-month prison terms for having sex on a public beach in Dubai have been released on bail pending their appeal, their lawyer said Tuesday. File image of one of the co-accused -- Vince Acors -- arriving at court in Dubai in September. Michelle Palmer, 36, and ... | Two Britons jailed for having sex on beach in Dubai bailed pending their appeal .
The pair were arrested at a Dubai beach shortly after midnight on July 5 .
They were charged with with illicit relations, public indecency, public intoxication .
Although a relatively moderate Gulf state, Dubai adheres to certain Islamic ... |
ecbbbed4fff977271a5bcc8996be2224b584ae1c | Pictured for the first time, these are the two teenage girls who were raped and murdered before their bodies were found swinging from a mango tree in northern India this week. Three brothers today confessed to attacking and killing the young cousins, named Murti and Pushpa, in a case which has horrified India. The crim... | Pappu, Awadhesh and Urvesh Yadav were arrested over the deaths of young cousins Murti and Pushpa .
Now they have admitted raping and killing the two girls but two other suspects are still being sought by police .
Residents of Katra village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh now fear they could be targeted too .
The... |
ecbbc9ed319f639c156e13b750817e5abaf3532e | Two of the sharpest dressers in football, Sky Sports’ new mega-signing, Thierry Henry, and the experienced Graeme Souness, were paired for the Frenchman’s much-anticipated Super Sunday debut. Nothing off the peg there, and after a fortnight of Henry’s arrival being heralded with a generous slab of on-screen fromage — a... | Thierry Henry made his debut as a Sky Sports pundit on Sunday afternoon .
He was insightful and honest in his opinions, leading on old club Arsenal .
Just like Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher before him, he passed his initial test with flying colours, pinpointing Arsenal's weaknesses .
Henry looks tailor-made for the ... |
ecbbf3a998dfd05851b867c23d7807ef0493f29b | By . James Nye . PUBLISHED: . 07:57 EST, 26 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:39 EST, 26 August 2013 . Senseless: Delbert Belton an 88-year-old veteran of World War II was beaten to death outside the Eagles Lodge in Spokane, and police have arrested two teens in connection with the murder . The fugitive teenager wanted i... | Kenan Adams Kinard, 16, was arrested on Monday morning for the murder of 88-year-old Delbert Belton .
Belton was set upon in the parking lot of the Eagles Lodge in Spokane, Washington on Wednesday night .
He died on Thursday morning in hospital after being admitted with serious head injuries .
His daughter-in-law says ... |
ecbcadb6918e932685e425fca0afe45b322b3515 | Facebook wants you to know it doesn't see customers as a mass of faceless moneymaking advertising targets. It understands that you, and the other billion individuals who log on to the social network, are flesh-and-blood humans with feelings. That's why the company no longer refers to members as "users" internally. Inst... | Facebook stops calling members "users" and switches to "people"
It also has an empathy team to help advertisers humanize customers .
Empathy team helps employees and advertisers see the site from users' point of view . |
ecbd4978e986928cd0a1a99cd2c3fe38467c5a5e | (CNN) -- "No turtle, no pay," says the boatman as we arrive at the Iztuzu jetty, where visitors are embarking on tours of the lagoon in search of loggerhead turtles. Iztuzu lies on Turkey's Dalyan Delta, an almost-tropical maze of river channels, pools and reed beds that once doubled for east Africa in the 1951 film "T... | Turkey's Dalyan Delta was used as the backdrop for the 1951 film "The African Queen"
June Haimoff, who came to Dalyan in the 1970s, was instrumental in blocking plans to build a hotel complex .
Haimoff, known as Kaptan June among locals, has dedicated her life to saving the local loggerhead turtles . |
ecbdd22d8bef0bbf6b5273dcef824175519826c9 | By . Associated Press Reporter and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 19:09 EST, 23 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:08 EST, 24 September 2013 . Authorities have found an old Studebaker believed to be related to the 1971 disappearance of two 17-year-old South Dakota girls, officials said Monday. South Dakota Attorney... | Pam Jackson and Cheryl Miller were last seen on May 29, 1971, driving a 1960 Studebaker Lark on their way to a party .
Officials have found the girls' car in a ditch in South Dakota .
A man already serving a prison sentence .
on unrelated charges was indicted for murder in the deaths of Miller and .
Jackson in 2007 .
T... |
ecbdd7623e9a9ca199e30003a36aa7d7cc8f5e15 | (CNN) -- Kashmiri separatist leaders on Monday slammed New Delhi's decision to call off talks with Pakistan, scheduled for August 25 in Islamabad. New Delhi called off the talks after Pakistan's New Delhi-based high commissioner, Abdul Basit, invited Kashmiri separatist leaders for consultations ahead of the summit. "T... | India and Pakistan had scheduled talks for next week in Islamabad .
Pakistani official invited Kashmiri separatist leaders for consultations .
New Delhi criticizes "continued efforts to interfere in India's internal affairs"
Separatists say they will meet with Pakistani high commissioner anyway . |
ecbe3f4310242d966208eb1be87a21227e35369b | The driver who killed a young couple in Boston in June will spend six months behind bars after he pleaded guilty to two counts of motor vehicle homicide in court on Friday. Mohamed Alfageeh, 30, was sentenced to two years in total behind bars for the deaths of Jessica Campbell, 27, and John Lanzillotti Jr., 28, after h... | Jessica Campbell, 27, and John Lanzillotti Jr., 28, died in June in Boston .
Struck by the SUV of Mohamed Alfageeh, 30, who ran a red light . |
ecbe5ebd0c01b8adaeccd9ea70c29cf2dd177842 | Washington (CNN) -- A woman arrested in connection with the splattering of paint in two locations inside the National Cathedral in Washington was ordered held without bond Tuesday. Jiamei Tian, 58, has been charged with felony destruction of property. When officers arrested her on Monday, she had green paint on her clo... | If found guilty, she could face up to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine .
Jiamei Tian, 58, has been charged with felony destruction of property .
She will be kept in custody at least until a second hearing Friday .
Her visa allowing her to be in the United States expired Saturday . |
ecbf84b5df6cbeff83d0904daae7de28a2d56483 | (CNN) -- On Monday the World Court in the Hague ruled that Japan's "scientific" whale-hunting was baloney. It ordered Japan to revoke its "scientific research" permits to all its ships, effectively tying Japan's fleet to the dock and silencing the cannons and exploding bombs that are the way whales die nowadays. Japan ... | World Court ruled Japan's "scientific" whale-hunting was baloney and it must stop .
Carl Safina: Japan ducks ban on whaling with "research' excuse: Court agrees it's for meat .
Safina: Using cannon and bombs, whaling empties oceans once teeming with whales .
He says arguing whaling is Japanese culture is no excuse: It'... |
ecbfa308a2905a24714e2d8dd9380971538eb09c | One member of the esteemed group feels like a "proverbial potted plant," while another resents sitting there "looking stupid." Their chief ponders the pageantry and politics of it all and wonders why they bother to go. For members of the Supreme Court, enduring the State of the Union address is a civic exercise in poke... | Not always easy for Supreme Court justices at annual address .
Obama irritated some with criticism of conservative members in 2010 .
Custom dictates the justices wear their robes during speech .
Chief Justice Roberts has never missed a State of the Union speech . |
ecbfcb67d2573b4beb1d95cf2b63d6123cc61cf9 | By . Ross Slater . PUBLISHED: . 16:05 EST, 19 May 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 05:54 EST, 20 May 2012 . Her career as an AIDS expert for the World Health Organisation had taken Hilary Hughes to many exotic locations, but the tiny island of St Lucia captured her heart. Divorced, and with her son James almost grown up, it seeme... | Hilary Hughes' calls home painted disturbing picture of her new life in the Caribbean .
Claims she had been defrauded over the purchase of land for £120,000 home and then blocked by the police from taking any action .
Parents told she was the victim of voodoo-style intimidation, with dead animals left outside her house... |
ecbfe4fee5cc3bf881a8531244cb46b6fb4b77d7 | Prince Andrew last night spoke out personally for the first time over allegations he slept with a woman who claims she was a teenage ‘sex slave’. In an unprecedented move, the strained-looking royal used a televised speech to repeat Buckingham Palace’s ‘emphatic’ denials that he had ever had ‘any form of sexual contact... | Prince Andrew speaks out personally for first time over sex allegations .
Used televised speech to repeat 'emphatic' Buckingham Palace denials .
Queen's son appeared at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland .
Follows weeks of claims about alleged relationship with Virginia Roberts . |
ecc13ad95f74256bd7a08b803324bbd605709354 | New York (CNN) -- The gate crashers Michaele and Tareq Salahi want to be famous as stars of reality television. I am all for that. Give them a reality television series and call it "Trial and Jailtime" in the D.C. criminal justice system. This despicable, desperate, duplicitous couple disgraced the Secret Service and e... | The White House said an uninvited couple crashed the state dinner .
Ed Rollins says the incident was a disgrace and isn't a laughing matter .
He says the Secret Service must be held accountable for the lapse .
Rollins says the couple should be charged criminally and jailed if convicted . |
ecc1a99511e2a944706dcd041a2560abd7def0cb | Tony Bellew bt Nathan Cleverly (points) Anthony Joshua bt Michael Sprott (TKO R1) George Groves bt Denis Douglin (TKO R7) James DeGale bt Marco Periban (TKO R3) Scott Quigg bt Hidenori Ohtake (points) Callum Smith bt Nikola Sjekloca (points) Jamie McDonnell bt Javier Chacon (TKO R10) Tony Bellew delivered on his promis... | Tony Bellew edged out Nathan Cleverly via split decision by the judges despite looking strong in later rounds .
The three judges scored fight 114-115 116-112 115-113 to Bellew .
The fight came 1,134 days after the first fight between the British rivals at the same venue .
Cleverly is keen on a third and final fight at ... |
ecc1b393dac7685d78b8d2aabc59612d0c8b56c4 | Fresh potatoes have suffered a slump in popularity - because people prefer rice. Sales fell by more than eight per cent over the past year – and they are now facing a 'fight for relevance' in Britain, according to the Potato Council. The disappointing performance mirrors the overall decline in sales of fruit and vegeta... | Fresh potatoes are facing a 'fight for relevance' in Britain .
Mirrors the overall decline in sales of fruit and vegetables .
Britons bought 130,000 tonnes less of fruit and veg in 2013 . |
ecc1b70f7bf252e4da2f23e672f495341621b1e2 | Fled: Paul Meekin (above) was the subject of a police investigation in India, where he was a teacher . A British teacher who once claimed he taught Daniel Radcliffe has reportedly left India, where police were investigating him over child abuse allegations. Paul Meekin, 40, was the principal of Trio World School in Ba... | Paul Meekin, 40, was principal of Trio World School in Bangalore, India .
He once said he briefly taught future Harry Potter star at a London school .
But police accused him of sending a boy lewd messages in 2012 .
Reports in Indian media suggested he had missed later court dates .
It is now claimed he has moved to Ku... |
ecc1f584540965b5336796f7ee43f04d9f450b99 | By . Becky Evans . PUBLISHED: . 08:43 EST, 11 March 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 11:39 EST, 11 March 2013 . A drowning boy was rescued by a group of beach-goers who formed a human chain to drag him from the powerful surf yesterday. Joshua McQuoid, 12, from Napier, New Zealand, was paddling when he was knocked off his feet and... | Joshua McQuoid almost drowned when he was floored by powerful waves .
Tourist and police officers tried to save him but the current was too strong .
Schoolboy was only saved when passers-by formed human chain .
'Touching' rescue was caught on camera by a bystander . |
ecc33bb7ce81c61462c05163c1aaed07cadce0dc | Pandemonium broke out at a Houston mall overnight as police were forced to control hundreds of teenagers queuing for tickets to buy the new Air Jordans. Around 50 officers were called to Willowbrook Mall in northwest Houston, Texas, on Saturday night as the youngsters waiting began to push and shove each other while wa... | Youngsters were forming a line outside the Willowbrook Mall overnight .
Cops were called when those waiting started to surge against barricade .
Pressure on the doors caused one of the window panes to shatter .
The chaos continued in the morning - during which the girl was tasered .
Shoppers were waiting to buy tickets... |
ecc34f49ad4e18451b44910a1cf4a5af573d5078 | By . Emily Davies . PUBLISHED: . 13:56 EST, 15 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 14:04 EST, 15 February 2013 . Robert Wilson was left badly injured after the accident . A scout leader who broke his back sliding down a fireman's pole in front of his troop has been awarded almost £170,000 compensation by a High Court judge.... | Robert Wilson, 49, left unable to work or care for son and disabled wife .
Instructor, 24, failed to give proper directions and told on how to use pole . |
ecc3563e1f1c69cf9a4f064519c46e473d3046c2 | By . Francesca Infante . PUBLISHED: . 14:39 EST, 20 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 02:13 EST, 21 August 2013 . Savvy homeowners are making more than £2,500 a year by renting out their driveways, new figures have revealed. And the average resident using their personal parking space as a money spinner is earning around £1,... | Average homeowner could earn £1000 a year renting their driveway to strangers .
In the capital that doubles to £2,040 a year .
Manchester, Edinburgh, Nottingham and Brighton make up the top 5 best places to makes some extra cash . |
ecc3f462c420f0c7d25388ff257ce488c4b42e4e | By . Jenny Hope . PUBLISHED: . 16:54 EST, 2 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 16:54 EST, 2 January 2014 . A bout of shingles puts you at higher risk of having a stroke or heart attack years later, a study shows. For people under 40, an attack of the viral infection led to the risk of stroke rising by 74 per cent and a hear... | According to NHS - 189,000 adults get shingles in the UK every year .
Shingles is caused by reactivation of the virus that causes chickenpox .
Experts say virus can spread to arteries, pushing up heart disease . |
ecc4519e0247753f029e9b90a72a6e4bddd8a384 | Doctors told Allan Taylor, 78, in April that his cancer couldn't be treated and had spread from his colon to his small intestine . In August the retired oil rig engineer from Middlesbrough got another letter - to say he was cancer-free . He puts the change down to his new diet, which he adopted after looking up 'colon ... | Doctors told Allan Taylor, 78, in April that his cancer couldn't be treated and had spread from his colon to his small intestine .
In August the retired oil rig engineer from Middlesbrough got another letter - to say he was cancer-free .
He puts the change down to his new diet, which he adopted after looking up 'colon ... |
ecc45c26aaddc9a709c78cac42cd541640157093 | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 16:02 EST, 7 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 16:02 EST, 7 October 2012 . A former school teacher and Bengals cheerleader charged with having sex with one of her 16-year-old students has accepted a plea deal. Sarah Jones, 27, is due in court on Monday to accept the deal and be sente... | Sarah Jones, 27, is due in court in Kentucky on Monday .
Her mother Cheryl Jones, who was charged over tampering with evidence, also expected to take deal . |
ecc47e7d9ab8f5386b598ef67a4ff1315c304e49 | (CNN) -- Barely holding back his sobs, a 13-year-old boy makes a heart-rending 911 call to the Grove City Police Department in Ohio. "My dad just killed my mom. He just told me to call you guys," the boy is heard telling a 911 dispatcher. "He just ran outside and killed my mom. And she's laying in the grass in front of... | Jeremy Roberts, 38, will be charged with murder in his ex-wife's death, police say .
"He just ran outside and killed my mom," Roberts' 13-year-old son told a 911 dispatcher .
Roberts got on the phone, calmly telling police he had stabbed his ex-wife .
The son who called 911 is haunted by what he saw, his older sister s... |
ecc4e64836e5fa7f7873472774836d6403efe761 | (CNN) -- She's an acerbic columnist who's made a living lighting up politicians and public figures in the opinion pages of The New York Times, but the only lighting up that Maureen Dowd did for her latest piece was the type typically done by her brethren over at High Times. (OK, fine, her story was about the kind of ma... | New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's experiment with legal pot didn't go well .
She says she was "curled up in a hallucinatory state" for eight hours .
Dowd is largely being mocked on social media . |
ecc55ecbeb792af0f7dc3e55814fcbb091c98ba8 | By . Paul Thompson . Professor Don A. Samuelson arrested for secretly videotaping students (mugshot pictured) A University professor has been arrested for allegedly filming up female students' skirts using a camera pen in his class. Don Samuelson, 65, also used the pen to allegedly film the cleavage of two girls at the... | Don Samuelson, 65, also allegedly filmed the cleavage of two girls in class .
He claimed he wanted to prove girls weren't wearing underwear because he thought it was inappropriate .
He faces two counts of voyeurism and losing his job . |
ecc5bb492c2f468aec608c4b73bd6bdb1b6ef2d6 | (CNN) -- Jazz has always been a popular form of music because its improvisatory nature is easily adapted by a community or nation to reflect its individual identity. Polish policemen watch a demonstration near the University in Warsaw in December 1981. In Poland, jazz has been intertwined with its politics and through ... | History of Polish jazz has been intertwined with its politics .
Born in democracy; banned by Communists; now evolving in new democracy .
Jazz is a popular, individual genre characterised by improvisation . |
ecc68d2b6fee1470aa164a2f48efcc7e8fbdc3c7 | It was third time lucky for SpaceX who today launched an observatory toward a solar-storm lookout point a million miles away. The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 6:03pm EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in perfect weather conditions. High seas, however, prompted SpaceX to cancel a test that ... | Liftoff took place at 6:03pm from Cape Canaveral Station in Florida .
Falcon 9 is sending the DSCOVR satellite on its $340 million mission .
Al Gore-inspired satellite is designed to keep tabs on solar storms .
SpaceX wanted to land the largest stage of its rocket back on Earth .
But this plan had to be scrapped due to... |
ecc6b65f662e922b76492ff15b3d4240fc8b6f2e | A woman whose mother abducted her as an infant and took her overseas more than 20 years ago stood in a courtroom Tuesday, fighting back tears, and told a judge she has had a good life even though she didn't know her birth father growing up. 'I was raised very fortunately. I was loved beyond belief,' Samantha Geldenhuys... | Dorothy Lee Barnett, 54, was found and arrested in Queensland in 2013 .
Disappeared with her 10-month-old daughter from South Carolina in 1994 .
Was extradited to the US to face abduction charges in Charleston .
Eventually pleaded guilty parental kidnapping and falsifying passports .
Sentenced to 21 months prison and t... |
ecc6fa7698934526e1446c898ebd235d7baf2012 | (CNN) -- The family of boxing great Joe Frazier on Wednesday announced details of his Philadelphia funeral services and said he died as "one of God's men." Frazier, who handed the legendary Muhammad Ali his first defeat, died Monday, just a month after being diagnosed with liver cancer. The 67-year-old athlete's remain... | Services are scheduled for Monday in Philadelphia .
Frazier was diagnosed with liver cancer only recently .
Public may view his remains Friday, Saturday . |
ecc74935db2f222eccada69f392f95cad400c295 | By . Richard Shears . An unlicenced helicopter pilot who frequently flew Hollywood star Russell Crowe from Sydney to his outback Australian home is on the run after being accused of conning a chopper company out of $450,000. Paul James Bennett, who has a number of aliases, and his partner Simone Anne Wright, are being ... | Paul James Bennett and his partner Simone Anne Wright are being hunted by police worldwide .
Both are known to have many aliases, and Bennett has worked as a helicopter pilot for Russell Crowe .
The pair are now wanted for a series of crimes including swindling company out of large amounts of money . |
ecc75f62f5df76a7d535950e2b5005baac08a556 | By . Harriet Arkell . PUBLISHED: . 08:06 EST, 3 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:43 EST, 3 July 2013 . High-street shoppers watched in disbelief as a 'frail pensioner' leapt over benches, did backflips and even performed a handstand on a moving escalator. The wrinkled man, who said he was 90-year-old Jim Cook, stunned pas... | Chase Armitage, 27, performed athletic stunts dressed as frail 90-year-old .
He wore £5,000 of prosthetics for convincing disguise that fooled shoppers .
Professional daredevil did backflips and bounced off walls in front of them .
Onlookers in Basingstoke shocked to see him do a handstand on escalator . |
ecc7784f2c8f719b6d87362812546020499bc48c | Mexico City (CNN) -- Delia Garcia traveled hundreds of miles to spend Mother's Day marching in Mexico's capital. It is her latest stop in the search for her son, who went missing more than two years ago after he was kidnapped by a group who drove up in trucks to the doors of her house in the northern city of Torreon. "... | Mothers and others march with pictures of their missing sons and daughters .
They say they came to Mexico's capital on Mother's Day with the hope of being heard .
"They took my son's life and they took mine," one mother says .
Human rights commission: More than 5,300 people have disappeared in five years . |
ecc7dc3c359ebd225330ec2b9b171ada5e669108 | By . Kerry Mcdermott and Sam Webb . PUBLISHED: . 14:29 EST, 14 November 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 12:06 EST, 15 November 2012 . Flood water covered swathes of central and northern Italy today after the region was battered by torrential rain. Devastating storms caused huge damage . at the weekend, washing out roads and isol... | The deluge-hit river has flooded Rome and the surrounding area .
Both Tiber and Aniene broke their banks, flooding the capital and towns and farmlands nearby .
Flooding follows death of four people died in southern Tuscany in the wake of rainstorms at the weekend . |
ecc8533ae787f506b91feca0aaf91dac0a787bfd | Despite years of research suggesting otherwise, a new study claims humans did not evolve to cooperate with one another as strongly as first thought. Previous theories claim that in nature, humans cooperate because it in everyone's interest to do so. But, given half the chance, people have a tendency to be selfish - esp... | University of Pennsylvania researchers studied human cooperation .
Their study focused on a game theory called the Prisoner's Dilemma .
In it, people are typically more likely to benefit if they betray not cooperate .
And previous studies found people would cooperate more than not .
However, the latest research increas... |
ecc85ac2eb2f9e874990eb2ccb5dcc7e90d8e4cf | By . Bianca London . A teenage couple who became world famous after both switched gender have split up - to the dismay of an army of online fans and followers. University student Katie Hill, 19, who was born 'Luke', and high school student Arin Andrews, 17, formerly 'Emerald', fell for each other after bonding through ... | Katie Hill and Arin Andrews were both born the opposite sex .
Katie, 19, and Arin, 17, met at a support group in Tulsa, Oklahoma .
Both have undergone hormone therapy and Katie had gender reassignment surgery shortly after her 18th birthday .
Couple now decided to split to focus on enjoying life .
Will remain close fri... |
ecc8b831431d2e7ce99731cbb371397b8cb1f0c1 | Washington (CNN) -- Actress Daryl Hannah was arrested Tuesday during a sit-in in front of the White House protesting a pipeline expansion project that would significantly increase the amount of oil the United States imports from Canada's controversial Alberta oil sands. The "Splash" actress was among more than 100 peop... | A sit-in was held in front of the White House on Tuesday .
Hannah was among demonstrators protesting plans for an oil pipeline expansion .
The State Department is expected to rule on the issue by the end of the year . |
ecc8ed5b5c7485f64746be908652a84e62fe530f | (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stepped to the sidelines for a private conversation at a security conference in Germany on Sunday, according to a senior State Department official. Their discussion marks another high-level contact between the United States an... | U.S. Secretary of State, Iranian foreign minister meet on sidelines at security conference .
They talked about Iran's agreement to halt its most sensitive nuclear operations .
In November, Iran said it would stop some in exchange for lessening of sanctions .
They also discussed Americans held by Iran, U.S. official say... |
ecc93a68a2af5b48febbb96a6b07a986a243a30c | A 15-year-old was stopped from joining the ever-growing band of British girls fleeing to Syria to join ISIS fighters after police stopped her plane on the runway seconds before it was about to take off. The young girl had secretly saved up to buy a ticket from London to Istanbul and planned to continue her journey th... | Teenager secretly saved for Turkey flight and onward journey to Syria .
Family reported her missing and police pulled over plane on take-off .
But officers missed another 15-year-old who has now gone to Syria .
Growing numbers of young women are fleeing home to marry ISIS fighters .
Manchester terror twins and Bristol ... |
ecc99a585ae1a3c1364d8c606f1d22cd84fda2e2 | We're more accustomed to seeing her waving from the back of a stately Rolls-Royce driven sedately by a chauffeur. But the Queen ditched her driver and was spotted behind the wheel yesterday as she joined the rest of the Royal family on a grouse shoot on the Balmoral estate. Looking relaxed in her Range Rover, the monar... | Members of the Royal family spotted driving separate cars to a grouse shoot .
The Queen looked relaxed as she ferried a car full across the Scottish estate .
Prince William was seen laughing with a friend at the wheel of his 4x4 . |
ecca03847ddeec18d1cbf287f5b0bb15f57da620 | (CNN) -- After emerging as victor in the long and bruising contest to seize the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential race, Barack Obama's next move is to choose a running mate. And that search for a vice president is getting some added support. Caroline Kennedy has joined Obama's vice presidential selection ... | NEW: Obama picks Caroline Kennedy, Eric Holder for search committee .
Obama faces tough choice of whom to pick for running mate .
Hillary Clinton has indicated that she is open to a joint ticket .
There is a wide field of contenders from across political spectrum . |
ecca509fa23edd05c8dba7c931897420ae16755c | Anderson has become the latest sportsperson of the ever-growing list to participate in the Ice Bucket challenge. The Manchester United midfielder was nominated by Brazilian compatriot Rafael da Silva, and wasted no time in doing the challenge. After completing it he nominated team-mates Marouane Fellaini and Shinji Kag... | The former Manchester United boss was nominated by Brazilian Anderson .
The 26-year-old was nominated by Brazilian compatriot Rafael da Silva .
Anderson also nominated team-mates Marouane Fellaini and Shinji Kagawa . |
ecca5ba634a477967b4ce16490e6ab3391481bc3 | By . Kerry Mcqueeney . PUBLISHED: . 04:56 EST, 26 September 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 07:20 EST, 26 September 2012 . It was inspired by a show famed for its sex and scandal. But it's safe to say the Mormon version of The Bachelor will more respectable than raunchy. Viewers can now tune in to a dating show featuring romance... | Dating show models itself on the ABC's raunchy programme - but without the sex and scandal . |
eccc4a34a2220eac48aeed8a20a6fc50bf29ad87 | By . James Daniel . PUBLISHED: . 19:50 EST, 18 July 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 00:36 EST, 19 July 2013 . On a Friday night out, you want to be looking your best, so imagine the embarrassment and humiliation one man felt when told he wouldn't be allowed into a local bar because of the color of his shorts. Daniel Parker from ... | Daniel Parker was told his gold shorts were like something from a 'costume' and was denied entry to the bar .
Mr Parker ranted about his treatment on Facebook claiming Grand Rapid, Michigan to be 'culturally behind'
The bar has now apologized citing a 'communication breakdown . |
ecccabd38fca1244caf546afdf04dd25d0939e24 | (CNN) -- The 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief marked a historic night in music, not only due to its lineup of music legends but also unique collaborations between artists over the course of the colossal six-hour concert. Bruce Springsteen sang alongside Bon Jovi at the top of the show, while former Beatle Paul McCartn... | 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief had historic lineup and collaborations .
Bruce Springsteen sang with Bon Jovi, Paul McCartney joined Nirvana .
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters sang praises of Eddie Vedder, even gave him a kiss . |
ecccb4b81f6a50972d68ecbb8e17d4272d6b4c8f | By . Martin Robinson . PUBLISHED: . 08:01 EST, 13 February 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 13:27 EST, 13 February 2013 . Eamonn Holmes was today forced to make a grovelling on-air apology after pictures showing the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge in her bikini were shown to millions of This Morning viewers. The photographs, labell... | Production error causes major problems for the popular ITV show .
An unpixelled version of Italy's Chi magazine page appeared on screen .
'This was a regrettable error and the programme apologises unreservedly to the Duke and Duchess', Eamonn Holmes said later .
Magazines in at least four countries have bought the pict... |
ecccc2347ee86cfbdc2021d08a18298b65abb5a7 | By . Snejana Farberov . PUBLISHED: . 10:38 EST, 6 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 10:45 EST, 6 August 2013 . Pen pal: Former Penn State coach and convicted child rapist Jerry Sandusky wrote two letters from prison to friends, revealing that his time behind bars has been 'very challenging' For convicted child molester Jerr... | Sandusky wrote two letters in May and June from Greene State Correctional Institute .
Former Penn State coach is serving 30 to 60 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 to 15 boys .
Called his conviction a 'grave injustice' and wrote that he is in process of appealing . |
eccd09d22db332ecb327b1795ebcd6703becd86a | By . Lizzie Edmonds . PUBLISHED: . 09:17 EST, 9 September 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 12:34 EST, 9 September 2013 . A woman was left traumatised after she was forced to tear her three-month-old puppy from the jaws of a fox after he was snatched from their garden patio. Stacey Willis, 21, and her mother Kerry saw their puppy ... | Stacey Willis, 21, and mother Kerry, 41, traumatised when King Charles Spaniel puppy Max was grabbed .
Fox took Max from garden patio and dragged him to nearby power station .
Owners plied puppy from fox's grasp while holding metal pole for protection .
Max rushed to vets in Sandwell, West Midlands, with teeth marks in... |
eccd1edc62a0c7cf58ee5a5d24f891f1c82b8121 | President Barack Obama met with controversial black pastor Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday at the White House, amid word that he would demand $263 million from Congress to put 50,000 body-worn cameras in U.S. police departments and train local cops to better use surplus military equipment. The moves came in response to the ... | Slain 18-year-old Michael Brown's parents have demanded the use of more body-cams by police forces to document violent encounters with suspects .
President met with 'young ... civil rights leaders' and law enforcement officials after he holds a cabinet meeting about the Ferguson unrest .
Civil rights meeting focused on... |
eccd23cd92e5ee54ed1414a1aa347f55786f3082 | By . David Kent . Rafa Benitez has indicated he may spend the next 10 years at Napoli and snub any move by Tottenham to lure him back to the Barclays Premier League. The former Liverpool and Chelsea manager led Napoli to the Italian Cup in his first season in charge but has been linked with a return to England. But the... | Rafa Benitez has been linked with Spurs after Tim Sherwood's sacking .
Ex-Liverpool manager led Napoli to the Italian Cup .
Spaniard insists he is happy to remain in Naples . |
eccd820ef9bc3ea786b0de936612640420811a2d | (CNN) -- Faced with a nationwide financial crisis, a volatile stock market and rising unemployment and inflation rates, many Americans are making changes in their personal spending habits. Single mother Ingrid Zaharris said financial woes forced her to take her daughter out of gymnastics classes. Ingrid Zaharris starte... | iReporters are forced to change lifestyles, give up luxuries in tough economic times .
One iReporter is giving up her "dream wedding" because of layoffs .
What are you giving up? Share it with iReport.com . |
eccea483bdefd6fece43d44e601ace794578f6ae | By . James Rush . PUBLISHED: . 22:53 EST, 21 August 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 08:13 EST, 22 August 2013 . A would-be doctor murdered in an apparently unprovoked stabbing achieved top grades in his GCSEs, his teacher has revealed. Ajmol Alom, 16, described as 'one of our brightest prospects' by his headmaster, died after he... | Ajmol Alom died after he was stabbed in the thigh in Poplar, east London .
He achieved eight grade As and three Bs in his GCSEs, his headmaster said .
Headteacher Chris Dunne said he had been considering career in medicine . |
eccea5862e4cb42b36f11d5269669e69409fdd3c | By . Eddie Wrenn . PUBLISHED: . 05:56 EST, 29 March 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:29 EST, 29 March 2012 . Busted: Kirsty Hartley outside Bristol Crown Court, following her arrest for cultivating cannabis . A mother-of-two was arrested after she turned her bedroom into a cannabis farm - so she could afford to pay for breast ... | Kirsty Hartley, 23, was offered £8,000 towards plastic surgery .
Mother-of-two cultivated 32 cannabis plants in Bristol .
'She desperately wanted a boob job' |
eccedf592a8ecef33a6810aed9aae83657ce1806 | In a recent opinion piece published in Uganda's New Vision newspaper, president Yower Museveni argued that the country's Tourism Promotion Board does little to market the country properly. According to Museveni, the east African nation is a 'better destination' than Spain for holidaymakers, but because of poor promotio... | Argued for better tourism promotion in New Vision newspaper op-ed .
Condemned tourism board, calling it the 'tourism suppression board'
Insists that Uganda is a 'better destination' than countries like Spain . |
eccee2ab8949322e68ba2eaf0b0835639c208d61 | By . Steve Nolan . PUBLISHED: . 06:13 EST, 23 October 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 10:36 EST, 23 October 2012 . A dream home for golf fanatics has gone on sale for £4 million complete with its own championship length 18-hole course. The unidentified owner designed the course himself after moving into historic Idehill Manor in... | The unidentified owner has enjoyed having the course to himself since he designed it a decade ago .
Picturesque course boasts the longest recorded golf hole in Britain .
Prospective owners will also get stables, a heated swimming pool and a separate two-bed cottage . |
eccf40666aaf172b705be0b21e2663baa947a5f1 | By . James Chapman . and Steve Doughty . Conservative MPs have stepped up a row with Britain’s leading aid charity over its ‘misleading’ assault on the Government’s austerity programme. Ministers are understood to share anger at Oxfam’s campaign accusing the Government of creating a ‘perfect storm’, including ‘benefit ... | Ministers understood to share anger over Oxfam campaign .
Charity advert accuses Government of creating a 'perfect storm'
Oxfam insists it has a 'duty to highlight hardship in the UK'
Tories cite official figures showing record increase in the number of workers . |
eccf9a1e0bd8c68717db68f53ed36c5488c80be8 | Their football is often the very definition of artistic but Barcelona have been playing like 'machines' this season, according to Monday's edition of Mundo Deportivo. The Catalan sports daily hails deadly duo Lionel Messi and Neymar, who astonishingly have played a hand in 19 of Barcelona's 22 goals this season. They w... | Barcelona beat Rayo Vallecano on Saturday to remain top of La Liga .
Lionel Messi and Neymar have played a hand in 19 of their 22 goals so far .
Messi is now within just two of the all-time La Liga scoring record .
Goalkeeper Claudio Bravo also broke a league record for clean sheets .
Real Madrid thrashed Athletic Bilb... |
ecd08c8eed1481f70058e0d4ad4cb1a0e0a8504f | (CNN)Remember Knut, the adorable polar bear who captured hearts in 2006? Now it's his baby half-brother's turn. Officials at the Rostock Zoo in Germany say the polar bear was born December 3 but has been cuddling up to his mother, Vilma, in the zoo's birth den for the past two months. This week, he made his first acqua... | A baby polar bear made his debut in Germany this weekend .
He is the half-brother of Knut, the famous polar bear who died in 2011 . |
ecd0c25d45f7601f3244e45d93e4c52a6c1fbae9 | Former POW Bowe Bergdahl is being allowed to wander off the Texas base where he is being held as part of his 'reintegration', it has emerged. While under supervision, the solider, who was released by the Taliban in May in exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees, has visited a library, a supermarket, stores and fast-... | Bergdahl was released by the Taliban .
and swapped for five Guantanamo Bay detainees on May 31 and continues to .
undergo treatment in Texas .
As part of his 'reintegration' he is allowed to venture outside to libraries, stores and restaurants while under supervision .
A new investigation has been launched by the milit... |
ecd109a59cc51aa8c2512c10b53cff0aaeb6b2ce | Here's how Dwight Gayle scored Crystal Palace's opener at Craven Cottage - CLICK HERE FOR MATCH ZONE . Felix Magath will look to youth to secure Fulham’s return to the Premier League next season after he was shocked to see his team abandon the fight for survival. ‘I saw Sunderland and Norwich playing at Craven... | Dwight Gayle scored twice for Palace, Cauley Woodrow with Fulham's other .
Felix Magath will turn to youth in bid to get Fulham back into Premier League .
Magath admits his side did not 'fight as a team against relegation'
West London side finished second bottom of Premier League .
Tony Pulis inspired-Palace finished 1... |
ecd1668f80538f9719e5087be36c8d23e45deede | A Peruvian football team took gamesmanship to another level on Sunday as five players went down injured at the same time in a bid to get a game abandoned. Club side Defensor Bolivar were losing 4-1, and had two men sent off, in the first leg of the Copa Peru semi-final against Defensor La Bocana before their histrionic... | Club side Defensor Bolivar were losing 4-1 in the first leg of the Copa Peru semi-final against Defensor La Bocana before the incident .
Bolivar also had two men sent off during the contest .
FIFA rules state a team must have at least seven players on the field for a game to continue .
Second leg of tie in doubt as aut... |
ecd1b61da35e6380d5bf4ba01a5c5326849e68ed | Ever wished you could clamber aboard your cumbersome luggage to zoom down a hill or coast through an airport? Driven by the same desire, Slovenian frequent flier Bostjan Zagar has come up with the answer -- a foot-powered scooter-suitcase known as Olaf. "The idea comes from having to catch the next connection flight in... | Slovenian frequent flier Bostjan Zagar's Olaf suitcase can also be ridden as a scooter .
Zagar has raised investment in his concept via the Kickstarter funding platform .
Olaf comes in three models: Business, Urban and a flexible version that can carry a variety of bags . |
ecd24e2ee2b7b48ea2b18390e854cf550278cf2b | (CNN) -- Five-year-old Jeremiah Oliver was last seen by his Massachusetts relatives on September 14. But the investigation into his disappearance didn't begin until last week when the authorities were first alerted to it. Now, the child is feared dead, his mother and her boyfriend are in custody, and everyone is left w... | Jeremiah Oliver was last seen in September .
The 5-year-old is still missing .
The young boy's mother and boyfriend have been arrested .
"This is a deeply concerning case of neglect," commissioner says . |
ecd2a2b36a327b8635391e4b0fecb26e2c9e5357 | Saying you love your friend's new (ugly) shoes can strengthen your bond . Lying to your loved ones may seem like a sure fire way to push them away. But new research says telling white lies - specifically for the right reasons - can actually strengthen social bonds. Fibbing about how good your friend looks in a (bad) dr... | Lying to cover up a misdeed or just get your way can harm relationships .
Lies told to help someone or protect their feelings tend to be good .
Facebook Likes are a bit like a white lie and are just as good for relationships .
Research by Robin Dunbar, evolutionary psychologist at Oxford University . |
ecd2c5b2987faa8086f2398fff9bdc93baf7ef6e | (CNN) -- A California jury Wednesday recommended the death penalty after convicting a man on murder and arson charges in the deaths of five U.S. Forest Service firefighters who died in a 2006 blaze outside Los Angeles. Smoke rises over a flag flying at half-staff for fallen firefighters October 27, 2006, in Banning, Ca... | Jury convicts man on five counts of first-degree murder, 11 counts of arson .
2006 fire outside Los Angeles, California, killed five firefighters .
Jury recommends death; sentencing set for June 5 . |
ecd2e1d18669180c59b23ccfdc1af485a05a8e5e | Protesters threw a grenade at a vehicle carrying anti-riot police in Mombasa Tuesday, killing one officer and wounding 13 others, a police official said. The violence came on the second day of protests after a radical Muslim cleric was killed in the same city Monday by assailants his wife claims were police. Provincial... | One police officer is killed when protesters throw a grenade in Mombasa .
Aboud Rogo Mohammed was accused of supporting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia .
Kenya Police are disappointed there will be no trial, a spokesman says .
Rogo's wife, Hania Said, claims the shooters were Kenyan police . |
ecd328eb76b770f3230d0813b99b336fdb9f86ac | (CNN) -- The arts are thriving around the Arabian peninsula. From Doha to the smallest state of the United Arab Emirates, museums and galleries are making an ambitious mark on the Middle East's cultural landscape. On display are not only artistic expressions ranging from the ancient to the contemporary but also a showc... | From Saudi Arabia to Kuwait, countries across the region are investing big in arts and culture .
In Doha, the Museum of Islamic Art stands on its own man-made island .
Sharjah has managed to establish one of the liveliest contemporary art scenes in the region .
Throughout the region, artists and galleries must still co... |
ecd32f83a031504f928f43290ec0344a6d92ce3e | Australian supermodel Robyn Lawley has accused the modelling industry of setting impossible standards for women, and is refusing to be called 'plus size'. The 25-year-old beauty said that she has seen too many of her fellow models starving themselves to meet the industry's standards. ‘I’ve seen so many models starve th... | Aussie beauty who has modeled for Ralph Lauren says that being called plus size is derogatory .
Lawley says she has seen too many models starve themselves to get work .
Has recently launched her book 'Robyn Lawley Eats' |
ecd42fbc2966194ce7315762876c2c2d01e02984 | Brain dead: Jahi McMath was declared brain dead on December 12 after she went into cardiac arrest following surgery to treat sleep apnea . It is exactly a year since 13-year-old Jahi McMath fell brain dead following a minor operation and doctors signed her death certificate. But she remains hooked to a ventilator. In a... | Jahi McMath had cardiac arrest after sleep apnea surgery on Dec 12, 2013 .
Doctors declared her brain dead and signed her death certificate .
Family refuses to unplug Jahi, they believe heartbeat shows she is alive .
In October Paul Fisher, a Stanford University pediatric neurologist, told a California judge that he se... |
ecd43da0971753e42a76667d987f012284708893 | MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Natalia Vodianova is the Russian supermodel and philanthropist described by designer Tom Ford as "the most beautiful woman in the world." Natalia Vodianova: "I think protecting your family and giving to them is the most important achievement." Natalia, 27, is a mother of three and has set up her... | Natalia Vodianova is a Russian supermodel and has started a children's charity .
"Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here," she says .
She says she had a tough childhood but learned from the experience .
"I want to fulfill my dream of building 500 play parks in Russia," says Natalia . |
ecd4d4f624c2aee9b855d3a739a9189ec2ef8a2f | ITV’s shock axing of Adrian Chiles allows the network to introduce Mark Pougatch as their new lead football presenter ahead of a fiercely fought TV auction for Premier League highlights. ITV Sport will bid strongly against BBC’s Match of the Day for TV rights to be awarded in around a week’s time and the commercial cha... | Adrian Chiles is replaced by Mark Pougatch, a broadcaster for BBC .
Chiles signed a two-year deal worth around £500,000 a year last summer .
Pougatch will present Chelsea's clash with Paris Saint-Germain in February .
ITV do not have the rights to live Champions League games next season .
READ: Chiles should have quit... |
ecd4e554506269b0700f06bc19cba0c23c28bcbb | Calais was at crisis point last night as French riot police prepared to raze a camp of East African migrants desperate to make their way to Britain. Police vans patrolled the town ahead of the imminent crackdown as a court deadline for migrants to leave the illegal camp known as Jungle 2 expired. It comes as the mayor ... | Court deadline for migrants to leave illegal camp expires this morning .
Water supplies at camp cut off and police move in to clear 1,000 migrants .
Migrants started camping at 'Jungle 2' near busy road three months ago .
Mayor of Calais calls for new Sangatte-style accommodation centre .
Original Red Cross camp at San... |
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