Dominique Venner; Notre Dame Cathedral is evacuated by the police
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Tory rebels (clockwise from top right): Lord Tebbit, former Cabinet minister; Nadine Dorries, MP for Mid-Bedfordshire; Gerald Howarth, MP for Aldershot and former Defence minister; Edward Leigh, MP for Gainsborough

David Cameron could face a vote of confidence in an attempt to oust him as leader before 2015 general election

Education Secretary Michael Gove

Chief schools inspector says heads will be forced to choose – small pupil groups or well paid staff

Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire was one of the beaches which received the red flag for their water quality
Six per cent of UK beaches and other swimming spots fail to meet the minimum EU standards
18,300,190 people attended A&E units in England between February 2012 and January 2013

Doctors warn that the best they can do now is try to prevent patients waiting for 12 hours, not four

Jeremy Paxman of Newsnight is understood to be the redacted name in the Pollard report
Presenter's disclosure further undermines party's attempts to shut down affair

His indiscretions are finally catching up with him, writes his biographer Sonia Purnell

Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, Marks & Spencer CEO Marc Bolland, George Osborne, Henry Kissinger, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, historian Niall Ferguson, Kenneth Clarke, incoming Bank of England Governor Mark Carney, and Peter Mandelson
A meeting of global power brokers in a Hertfordshire hotel is exciting conspiracy theorists, but what are they really about?
China is the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide
Beijing’s thaw over greenhouse gases seen as major step in battling climate change
Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions

Keir Starmer defies Home Secretary with insistence that ‘blanket rule’ on arrest is wrong

The 37-year-old said she no longer trusted her husband and didn’t want to be a single mother

Emma Way's tweet that was posted on Sunday
Trainee accountant put her career at risk after tweets spark online backlash
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Take the shrimps off the barbie and put the stubbies back in the fridge: the Aussies are leaving the UK and the companies which used to serve them are going bust
Pope Francis appears to have been captured on video performing an exorcism in St Peter’s Square
Video The Pontiff appears to have been captured on camera performing the ritual in St Peter’s Square
Tim Cook has been having little luck keeping his backers sweet
Tech giant ‘avoided’ paying more than $1m every hour due to use of international loopholes
Members of the 18 Street gang pose with mobile phones and handmade weapons at Izalco prison near San Salvador
Rival gangs MS-13 and 18 Street could break a ceasefire orchestrated by ousted security minister David Mungia Payes
Cyril Smith, one of the best-known politicians of the 1970s and 1980s, escaped prosecution in 1970 for multiple indecent assaults on teenaged boys despite matching allegations against from eight men, according to prosecution filed released by the Crown Prosecution Service
The Royal Mail cashed in on its May increase in stamp prices
Roche's Tamiflu limits the spread of the swine flu virus within the body. It may also be taken preventatively after exposure to swine flu
Around 6.5 million units of Tamiflu bought by the Department of Health had to be written off because it could not guarantee the antiviral had been stored correctly

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The new Xbox One entertainment console
System will be able to switch instantaneously between games, films, television and the web
Injured singer George Michael fell from his vehicle on to the carriageway of the M1 motorway, an eyewitness has claimed.
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With 150 books to read, Natalie Haynes barely has time to sleep
Plenty of Fish’s free-to-use membership has made it the most popular internet dating website in the UK
Founder says only around 6,000 of 3.3m daily users on dating site are women looking for no-strings sex
Incredible footage has captured the moment a grinning Russian soldier had an AK-47 machine gun bullet removed from his head with a pair of pliers.
Video Man dubbed ‘the Russian Terminator’ for his ice-cool conduct as a friend appears to remove the bullet
Green and pleasant: a visitor to Chelsea

With the centennial RHS Chelsea Flower Show in full swing, Lucy Gillmore digs up the best locations for a green-fingered holiday

Jean Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere; William Shakespeare
France prepares to accept English teaching for university sciences
Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra
First review of Michael Douglas and Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh's Liberace love story
Cliff notes: the view from Villa Rufolo

On the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth, Linda Cookson heads to the Amalfi coast to visit the composer's favourite resort of Ravello

Spreading her wings: Akane Takada, Edward Watson and Sarah Lamb in 'Raven Girl'

Bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger on having her dark fable 'Raven Girl' brought to life by the Royal Ballet's choreographer

Tumblr founder David Karp with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer
Tumblr’s David Karp’s message of reassurance sounded very familiar
'Grown Woman' is not bad for a soft drink commercial soundtrack
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A soldier stands guard as security officials examine the site of a bomb explosion in Karachi, with election day being marred by bombings in in Karachi and Peshawar (Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images)
Voices in Danger Umar Cheema was abducted and attacked - but he was determined to tell his story
Rap battles seen in Eminem's semi-autobiographic film 8 Mile, where two or more artists trade rhyming insults, derived from the medieval Caledonian art of 'flyting' and travelled to the US via Scottish slave owners
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