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67 per cent of the mothers had levels of iodine below that recommended by the World Health Organisation

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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

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Dominique Venner; Notre Dame Cathedral is evacuated by the police
German side Hannover 96's stadium. Rows of rail seats adapt to allow safe-standing areas when required

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Jeremy Paxman of Newsnight is understood to be the redacted name in the Pollard report
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David McGreavy, photographed in his 20s
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Liz Hurley and Gerard Depardieu are seen being shown around Grozny by Ramzan Kadyrov in the Instagram photos he put online
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Education Secretary Michael Gove

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

Hamid Karzai, left, is on a two-day visit to India during which he has sought to build on an agreement signed in 2011. Pictured right is Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh
Request is likely to spark anxiety in neighbouring Parkistan
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?
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
Emma Way's tweet that was posted on Sunday
Trainee accountant put her career at risk after tweets spark online backlash
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

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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
Dan Brown attends his An Evening With Dan Brown event, to promote his new novel Inferno, at the Freemason's Hall, London.
Inferno author Dan Brown reveals the message that told him door to the lodge is open
Sotheby's director of the department of printed books and manuscripts Dr Philip Errington poses for photographers with a first edition copy of the first Harry Potter book
Books contains JK Rowling's original illustrations as well as comments scrawled in the margins
A mobile phone studded with jewels is one of the exhibits from Moeko Ishida, Deco Loco, 2009
Hamburg gallery holds exhibition exposing crimes against design
Steve Wilhite, inventor of the GIF file, poses with an award backstage at the Webby Awards. He says the file should be pronounced 'jif' not 'gif' with a hard 'G'.
Internet has its mind blown as Gif inventor says it's been saying it wrong all these years
Lady, a 15-month-old shih tzu, fell ill after eating the wooden stick but was saved after owner Sarah Anderson rushed her to a vet
Queen guitarist calls BBC talent programme “poisonous”
The new Xbox One entertainment console
System will be able to switch instantaneously between games, films, television and the web
Sergio Garcia at the European Tour gala dinner on Tuesday
Ryder Cup winner made 'silly remark' about world No 1 at European Tour gala dinner
Michael Douglas as Liberace in Behind the Candelabra
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Andy Murray receives treatment on his back during his game in Rome against Marcel Granollers last week

Injured singer George Michael fell from his vehicle on to the carriageway of the M1 motorway, an eyewitness has claimed.
Brought to book: Natalie Haynes at home, surrounded by Booker contenders
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France prepares to accept English teaching for university sciences
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'Grown Woman' is not bad for a soft drink commercial soundtrack
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