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'A populist spasm worthy of Trump': Government adviser quits with stinging attack on May over Brexit
Lord Adonis says the PM lacks 'credible plan' and is 'allying with Ukip and the Tory hard right'
Apple apologises for slowing old phones as firm faces fresh lawsuit
More legal fallout for the tech giant
NHS considering 'drunk tank' schemes to relieve pressure on A&E
Health chief Simon Stevens tells public to end reliance on ‘National Hangover Service’
Showbiz legend Rose Marie dies, aged 94
Former child star and actress enjoyed a career in showbiz for almost a century
Two men charged over 'Christmas terror attack plot'
They were among four suspects apprehended in Sheffield and Chesterfield
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How proud parents go without so their children can eat at Christmas
At least 36 per cent of children live in poverty in Leicester, but these parents, with the help of our Christmas appeal, are determined to give their children a fighting start
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Felix Project takes fight against food poverty to Leicester school
Thanks to the generosity of The Independent’s readers, children at Hazel Community Primary School won’t go hungry this Christmas
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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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The Cadillac Three: 'A lot of people see us as a rock band'
Country rock trio's frontman Jaren Johnston on their booming UK audience, playing Download, and why country artists are finally speaking out on political issues
Mary Dejevsky How humanitarian aid for kids can make the Syrian conflict worse
There is almost no assistance, humanitarian or otherwise, that will not affect comparative power in some way – and the combatants on all sides know this full well
Daisy Benson Nick Clegg’s knighthood won’t save the Lib Dems
As a political party we can and should be proud of our achievements in government – but it’s addressing the present and changing the future that matters, not celebrating our past glories
The National Archives are a reminder of how divisive Europe has been
Analysis: Arguments between Leavers and Remainers in the Tory party, and now between the so-called hard and soft Brexiteers, are pretty much the same arguments as those that have raged for the past couple of decades
Robert Fisk The Boustani house encompasses both the tragedy and faith of Lebanon
Boustani owned a magnificent house only 400m from the Mar Mikhael station. His residence, his kindness and the memory of those trains is being honoured this month with paintings by the British artist Tom Young
Danny Dorling A million years of life could disappear by 2058 – why?
On 16 November, an article in the British Medical Journal Open concluded that severe public spending cuts in the UK were associated with 120,000 deaths between 2010 and 2017
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Similar texting habits could boost relationship satisfaction
Texting is ubiquitous in modern day dating culture.
Boy George defends Lewis Hamilton over princess video
‘People make mistakes and that's how they learn!’
What to do on St Helena, one of the world's most remote islands
'Hikers and old people' have traditionally visited St Helena, but the island's first airport is opening it up to a new type of traveller
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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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1/40 29 December 2017
A New York apartment fire killed at least 12 people, including a baby, with four more critically injured. Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference from the scene that 'it is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century.'
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Afghan women mourn inside a hospital compound after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan
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Pope Francis greets newlyweds during his weekly general audience at Aula Paolo VI in The Vatican
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Rohingya refugees walk next to a pond in the early morning at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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Members of ice swimming club "Berliner Seehunde" (Berlin Seals) take a dip in the Orankesee lake in Berlin as part of their traditional Christmas ice swimming session, in Berlin, Germany
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Mourners carry the body of 19-year-old Mohamed Sami al-Dahdouh, a Palestinian youth from Jabalia who was killed in clashes with Israeli forces east of Gaza City
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Policemen evacuate a baby after the Cagayan River swelled caused by heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Tembin. People have died and others are missing as the storm struck the southern Philippines unleashing floods and landslides across a region of 20 million people.
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Carles Puigdemont gives a thumbs up after the Catalonia Regional Election results
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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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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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South Korean and U.S. Marines take part in a winter military drill in Pyeongchang, South Korea
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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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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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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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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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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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Wenger stands alone on a mountain that no one else will ever climb
The Frenchman will manage his 811th game on Sunday - one more than Sir Alex Ferguson managed
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Austrian footballer apologises after throwing beer bottles at mosque
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Klopp's a hypocrite - but in this market so is everyone else
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The stakes couldn't be higher as Hughton returns to Newcastle
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Why Valverde is doing the best managerial job of the year at Barcelona
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Liverpool to add to Van Dijk, United offer player swap for Dybala
The Barmy Army is an invasion of patriotism which cannot be ignored
'Everywhere we go,' runs the famous Barmy Army chant, with each line repeated at deafening volume. 'People want to know. Who we are. Where we come from.' No, they don’t
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Cook happy with 200 despite it coming 'three or four weeks too late'
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Cook's supreme double-century gives England chance to win fourth Test
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Consistently inconsistent, Cook once again shows class is permanent
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Cook finally finds form as England enjoy best day of Ashes series
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Curran rues miss chance to dismiss Warner and claim first Ashes wicket
Editorial Donald Trump's comments on climate change aren't funny
Natural disasters caused by climate change often affect the world's poorest people, so the fact that the leader of one of the most powerful countries in the world can dismiss global warming so flippantly is alarming
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John Rentoul Mea Culpa: A Christmas dip into German
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Editorial Heseltine betrays no one when he talks about the risks of Brexit
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Jo Harrison If one of your New Year's resolutions is to go on a diet, read this
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Letters Prince Harry should invite whoever he likes to his wedding
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Editorial Universities should promote free speech, but respectfully
Bataclan romance film dramatising terrorist attack delayed
A petition circulating about the movie has halted its broadcast
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi set to pass $1bn mark by New Year's Eve
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Deleted scene from The Breakfast Club with Molly Ringwald emerges
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Aaron Sorkin finds a heroine after his own heart in 'Molly's Game'
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Hollywood needs to recompense the victims of its sex abuse scandal
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Chance the Rapper critiques racism metaphors in 'Bright'
Francis And The Lights releases surprise new album
Project is a follow-up to the group’s 2016 full-length debut Farewell, Starlite!
How the new 'Black Mirror' episodes match up with reality
It's hard to distinguish what's real and what's not in the latest series trailer
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Book review, Don’t Save Anything, James Salter: Compelling
The musings of the great American writer, admired by Susan Sontag and Richard Ford, may focus on the virile, but this collection is a welcome introduction to Salter’s writing, says Alasdair Lees
How to dress between Christmas and New Year
What should you wear once the celebratory feast has ceased?
The 'pearl of the Red Sea' that's now a ghost town
Sharm el Sheikh's tourist industry has been devastated in recent years. Nick Redmayne pays a visit
The glass cube set to become London's new US embassy
Ken Livingstone said he expected 'something more exciting'
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10 buys you'll never guess are from Ikea as it celebrates 30 years
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Walking house and 'creature' on wheels among quirkiest nomadic homes
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Top tips to transform your bedroom into a cosy sanctuary this winter
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How to make your table setting Instagram-worthy on Christmas Day
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Everything you need to throw a New Year's Eve party in style
Google bans people from posting negative reviews of former employers
Internet giant says it is a 'conflict of interest'
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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