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A demonstrator puts on a prison-style jumpsuit as she joins a protest beside a mock drone at the gates of Fort McNair where President Barack Obama will speak at the National Defense University in Washington

US President seeks to assauge anger – at home and abroad – over unmanned flight attacks

Ukip's overall ratings have risen four points in the past month, despite David Cameron's efforts to wrest back control of the crucial
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Ministers are working furiously to complete the ambitious and important Energy Bill

Alexander Lebedev's case has been delayed

Court hears evidence from people who only saw the alleged assault on television

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof pictured in 2009

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Julian Assange on the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy

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Dr Davinder Jeet Bains used a hidden camera inside a hi-tech watch to film abuse on female patients
Dr Davinder Jeet Bains sentenced to 12 years
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde leaves her apartment building before appearing in a Paris court
She is alleged to have paid off disgraced tycoon Bernard Tapie in 2008 in a 'sweetheart deal'
Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murphy meets the teenagers trapped on Yemen's death row (Channel 4)
Krishnan Guru-Murthy: Prisons are packed with children in the Middle Eastern state. But one survivor is fighting for those left behind
Kennedy declares ‘Ich bin ein Berliner’ in West Berlin in 1963
The young JFK praised 'superior' Nordic races during visits to Germany
A car burns in Stockholm last night
Gallery Groups from local mosques have been patrolling the streets of Husby, pleading with youths for calm
Scientists have discovered a key substance in the central nervous-system responsible for transmitting the sensation of an itch from the skin to the brain
Researchers found that removing natriuretic polypeptide b causes an itch to disappear
Bill Oddie is to question HSBC about connections to deforestation in Borneo

Bank launches audit as outcry grows over links to Malaysian logging companies

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Genson Courtney, who was executed by his uncle, was the stepson of Dave Courtney
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall in 1941 when he was arrested in Madrid dressed as a woman
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke set alarm bells ringing in Whitehall when he was arrested in Madrid dressed as a woman in 1941, according to newly-released official papers
Carlton House used to be Mukhtar Ablyazov 's main UK residence
Kazakh businessman Mukhtar Ablyazov alleged to have embezzled more than $6bn
Post Office workers are to strike for the fifth time since Easter
Crown branch employees will walk out on Tuesday over closures
One of 5,000 cave paintings uncovered in north Mexico
The mysterious markings were uncovered in Burgos

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Voices in Danger: 23 journalists were murdered in the past decade, without a single conviction
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Suli Breaks' poetry about the failings of the school system has struck a surprising chord online

Few people know more about restaurants than James Pembroke, who only spent five mealtimes at home during his entire childhood

If you want to get on board with the latest facial-hair fashion, you don’t need to spend hours on grooming
If you want to get on board with the latest facial-hair fashion, all you need is a cat
As he wheeled away, arms pumping, mouth open, it seemed appropriate that Thomas Müller, a boy from Bavaria, should have scored in a final in Munich

The Bayern Munich forward, Thomas Müller, on how his side have to shed chokers' tag after two recent European final defeats

Dig in for victory: food advice for cooks in the Second World War

Wartime pamphlets could teach us a thing or two about healthy, thrifty eating

Hippie days: India Salvor Menuez (centre) in 'Something in the Air'

Director Olivier Assayas' fictionalised memoir of youth in revolt is good on atmosphere, less so on plot and character

The violin which was played by Wallace Hartley on the sinking ship in 1912

Instrument thought to have been played by the band leader on the Titanic as it sank is genuine

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Nasa funding development of printed food
<b>John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, exhibited 1831, oil on canvas 151.8 x 189.9 mm.</b>
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Kill Mittal game allows users to play as workers fighting against steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal
Google co-founder Sergey Brin demonstrates Google Glass
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