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The trail of misery behind the 'designer' fake you're getting for Christmas
How buying fake designer goods can help modern slavery and gangsters whose other activities involve 'a pump action shotgun, dum-dum bullets and amphetamines'
More than 100 people die in Philippines storm devastation
'The floodwaters from the mountain came down so fast and swept away people and houses'
Deadly wildfire now biggest ever in Californian history
Blaze has scorched more than 700 homes and is 154 acres larger than previous record-holder
More than 9,000 people 'to wake up on Christmas Day in tents and cars'
Crisis highlights 'horrifying situations' and says number of 'hidden homeless' will rise by a further 47 per cent in next decade
Santa 'likely to have Lyme disease, gout and alcoholism'
Father Christmas 'almost certainly living with multiple morbidities which, if left untreated, can become increasingly distressing and debilitating'
The early warning signs of dementia you should be aware of this Christmas
Struggling with tasks which are usually routine is a major warning sign, experts warn
Interacted with a Russian troll? A new Facebook tool will tell you
More than 120 million people were exposed to posts by Russian-linked actors
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Charity appeal smashes £1m mark days before Christmas
'Children will be having a happier Christmas thanks to readers' generosity. Having enough healthy food is vital for children'
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Uber launches app feature to donate to Christmas appeal
'Whether travelling to work, home or to Christmas parties today, we hope Londoners will take a minute or two to donate to this great cause'
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Alexander Lebedev cooks up Russian feast for our Christmas appeal
Dishes included vegetable consommé, vegetable salad and buckwheat porridge, as well as buckwheat bread and rye crackers
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School of Rock stars raise money for Christmas appeal at Trafalgar gig
Cast and crew will also raise money with bucket collections after their performances at the New London Theatre between Boxing Day and New Year
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Andrew Buncombe Trump has given his supporters what they want. But they will suffer
The President considers this a 'signature' piece of legislation
Mary Dejevsky Boris is travelling to Russia this week – but you won't hear about it
The Government knows that however Boris’s trip goes, it’ll be ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’. But relations have changed in an unforeseen way of late
Five forms of festivity taking place in December that aren't Christmas
Google's latest Doodles commemorate a range of winter festivities
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Burnley, Brexit and Britishness: How a club reflects society's split
A demographic outlier, Sean Dyche's side represent an enclave of footballing ‘Britishness’ in a sport where national borders can seem largely fluid
Ben Chu Why City bankers are warming to Jeremy Corbyn
‘There’s an evolving view among our clients that Corbyn and McDonnell can’t be much worse than the current mob,' one stockbroker told me. The reality is that Labour has a manifestly more City-friendly Brexit position than the Tory party
The Commonwealth Games are nothing but an exercise in broken promises
Forget the medals, forget a tourism boom and forget the legacy. Perhaps the real triumph that Birmingham 2022 should hope for is just to keep costs down
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The best design hotels in Paris
Parisian chic doesn't have to cost the earth, as our France expert shows
Trans dad explains how pregnancy feels when you identify as a man
'Nothing about my first pregnancy felt hopeful or within my control'
Anna Kendrick just made a very important point about relationships
The actor reveals how she broke up with someone because he didn't respect her boundaries
What not to do in Prague
A stroll over the Charles Bridge, a trip to the castle, a love lock... stop right there, says Auburn Scallon, and do as the locals do in Prague
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10 best single malt scotch whiskies
Grab an antidote to the winter chill with a warming bottle from north of the border
11 best new fragrances for women
Stuck for gift ideas, or looking to treat yourself? Try one of these sumptuous scents
8 best Christmas cheese boards
Crazy for camembert? Wild for wensleydale? Rather partial to parmigiano reggiano? It's time for a festive feast
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World news in pictures
World news in pictures
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1/35 22 December 2017
Carles Puigdemont gives a thumbs up after the Catalonia Regional Election results
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2/35 21 December 2017
A white SUV sits in the middle of the road as police and emergency personnel work at the scene of where it ran over pedestrians in Flinders Street in Melbourne.
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3/35 20 December 2017
This combination of pictures shows Syrians covering one eye with their hands, in the rebel-held town of Douma, as part of a campaign in solidarity with a baby boy, Karim Abdallah, who lost an eye, as well as his mother, in government shelling on the nearby town of Hammouria.
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4/35 19 December 2017
South Korean and U.S. Marines take part in a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, South Korea
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5/35 18 December 2017
Belgian police officers stand guard outside the trial of Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in the 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris, at a courthouse in Brussels, Belgium
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6/35 17 December 2017
Members of the International Space Station expedition 54/55, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov (C), NASA astronaut Scott Tingle (R) and Norishige Kanai (L) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) during the send-off ceremony after checking their space suits before the launch of the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan
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7/35 16 December 2017
The former wife of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela (R), and the candidate for the African National Congress presidency and ex-wife of the incumbent South African president, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma greet each other as they attend the 54th ANC National Conference at the NASREC Expo Centre in Johannesburg on December 16, 2017. Thousands of delegates from South Africa's ANC party gathered on December 16, 2017 for a five-day meeting to elect their new leader in a divisive race seen as a pivotal moment in the country's post-apartheid history. he winner will be well placed to be the next president, but the ANC has lost much popularity since Nelson Mandela led it to power in the euphoric 1994 election that marked the end of white-minority rule.
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8/35 15 December 2017
Palestinian protesters wave the national flag during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border fence with Israel, east of Gaza City as demonstrations continue over US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital
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9/35 14 December 2017
Hamas supporters take part in a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Islamist movement, in Gaza City
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Democratic candidate for US Senate Doug Jones thanks supporters as he holds his wife Louise's hand
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather during the funeral ceremony of prominent spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, who died on Tuesday at the age of 104, in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, Israel.
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A Palestinian protester kicks a flaming tire during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah
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Demonstrators set US and Israeli flags on fire during a protest against Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, in Istanbul
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People gather to watch the bikers' procession during the funeral ceremony in tribute to late French singer Johnny Hallyday in Paris
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A Palestinian protester uses a sling to hurl stones towards Israeli troops
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Firefighters monitor a section of the Thomas Fire along the 101 freeway, north of Ventura, California.
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Palestinians burn an Israeli and a U.S. flag during a protest against the U.S. intention to move its embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City
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Former Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, flashes a victory sign after he was freed by his supporters in Kiev
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A man exercises in a park on a winter morning in Kolkata, India
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A supporter of Salvador Nasralla, presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship, puts a balloon on the shield of a soldier in a protest while the country is still mired in chaos over a contested presidential election in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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A man dressed as Santa Claus skiis down a mountain during the Saint Nicholas Day at the Alpine ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland
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A nurse takes blood for a HIV test for French President Emmanuel Macron as he visits the Delafontaine Hospital on World Aids Day
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An activist pours gasoline as an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Donald Trump burns during a protest action against Duterte's plan to set up a Revolutionary Government, along a street in metro Manila, Philippines
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South Korea's Hyunmoo II missile is fired during an exercise at an undefined location in the east coast of South Korea
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People fall as police fire tear gas to try control the crowd trying to force their way into Kasarani Stadium to attend the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi
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Rohingya refugee Amina Khatun, 55, rests at the bank of the Naf river after crossing it on an improvised raft to reach Bangladesh, in Teknaf. Two of her sons were killed by gun fire when her village was attacked by Myanmar military, she says
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Mount Agung volcano is seen spewing smoke and ash in Bali
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A Pakistani protester throws a tear gas shell back towards police during a clash in Islamabad
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Zimbabwe's former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives ahead of his inauguration ceremony to be sworn in as president in Harare
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Comrades of missing crew members express their grief after the Argentine Navy announced that the sound detected in the missing submarine search is consistent with an explosion
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Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic shouts at the presiding judge during the verdict hearing in his genocide trial, in The Hague, Netherlands
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People and soldiers celebrate after the resignation of Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe
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Israeli security forces carry away an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrator as they disperse a protest against Israeli army conscription in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv
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Participants crossing the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge as they compete in the 2017 Qingdao International Marathon on the Sea in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province
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Women shout pro-freedom slogans as people carry the remains of Mugees Mir, a suspected militant who according to local media was killed in an encounter with the Indian security forces in Zakura, during his funeral in Srinagar
Reuters/Danish Ismail
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Everton's revival continues as they hold Chelsea to a goalless draw
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No white Christmas for Real as Barcelona leave Zidane in deep trouble
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Player ratings from Real Madrid 0-3 Barcelona
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Five things we learned from Barcelona's win over Real Madrid
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Real Madrid vs Barcelona: Live updates from el clásico!
Crane hoping to be the answer to England's all-too familiar problem
The 20-year-old is the latest potential solution to an issue that has been vexing England ever since the sudden retirement of Graeme Swann four years ago
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Crane unfazed by potential England debut in the Boxing Day Ashes Test
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Threats and broken bones are unavoidable in Australian club cricket
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What will England's 2021/22 Ashes squad look like?
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Smith dismisses Atherton's call for umpires to protect England's tail
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Stoneman looking to hit back in Melbourne - for his own sake
John Rentoul Damian Green’s departure shows how hard it is to predict politics
There is talk of wider Cabinet changes in January. Such things are always touted as a chance for a government to regain the initiative. It won’t do any good. Reshuffles never do
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Sarah Ferdinands New gene therapy might change my daughter's Christmas day
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James Moore Let's hope 2018 is the year that tech companies face the facts
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John Rentoul Top 10 more Twitter jokes
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Editorial Catalonia: Spain needs a revised constitution
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Shappi Khorsandi Why I never officially came out as bisexual
The Home Alone booby traps would kill you in real life
A crowbar to the chest would likely puncture your internal organs
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The Post screenwriter defies 'one in a million' odds to get film made
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How Jim Carrey became involved with Netflix documentary 'Jim & Andy'
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Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek movie finds its writer
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$90m Netflix film is slammed as 'worst movie of the year'
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People call for Matt Damon to be cut from Ocean's 8'
The 2017 Christmas number one has been revealed
The track has been number one for the entirety of December
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Barry Manilow on running for president: 'Everybody will be happy again
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Lorde considers pulling out of Israel show after backlash from fans
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Watch Kendrick Lamar's new music video for 'LOVE.'
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Kendrick Lamar album DAMN. named best of 2017 in BBC's 'poll of polls'
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Stormzy performs at funeral of fan's dad after being asked on Twitter
The best new TV shows to look out for in 2018
All the shows to have on your radar going into the new year
David Walliams’ 'Bad Dad' most wanted children's book this Christmas
Little Britain star's novel released last month and has already sold over 60,000 copies
Brunch on Saturday: Chutney Mary and North African spiced baked eggs
This week, Megan Townsend heads to one of London’s premier Indian restaurants and we take inspiration from Africa at home
Why rail strikes are only getting worse
The Man Who Pays His Way: The driver-only trains dispute definitely won't be over by Christmas
Rebuilding Alexandria: a city that yearns for its lost elegance
Fouad Street is the most potent symbol of the city’s grand history, with its sophisticated villas and antique shops
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Inspiring home of the week: Victorian townhouse renovation in London
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Le Creuset release limited edition berry collection cookware
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Last-minute luxury: 15 ultimate gift ideas for Christmas
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Post-Irma, Art Basel at Miami Beach is still swinging
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How one couple transformed an old London house — by moving the stairs
Cryptocurrency mining bot spreading through Facebook Messenger
'Like many cybercriminal schemes, numbers are crucial — bigger victim pools equate to potentially bigger profits', researchers say
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How to access Netflix's library of hidden genres, films and TV shows
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High-speed broadband for homes and businesses to be legal right
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Tips to improve your iPhone battery life
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Samsung Galaxy S9 leak suggests phone will go on sale in February
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Facebook may need to be regulated, says ex-government official
How Apple finally made your wrist talk to your treadmill
Apple announced GymKit in the summer and now, the first examples of smarter gym equipment are finding their way into gyms in Sydney, London and elsewhere
The best video games of 2017
From shooting Nazis to exploring Egypt, 2017 has been an excellent year for games
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Call of Duty: WW2 review: A weak imitation
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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp launch hit by server errors
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Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon review: Should have been DLC
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Microtransactions system used in world's biggest games could be banned
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Skyrim Switch review: One of the best games ever made, now portable
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