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Assange appearing on the embassy's balcony in August
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TV grabs from France 2 footage taken during Israeli-Palestinian clashes
Netanyahu-commissioned report claims film was fake, but boy's family say they will exhume body to prove he was killed
The latest scandal to hit The Toronto Mayor, Rob Ford, is an alleged video of him smoking crack cocaine that’s been seen by three journalists who all identified the Mayor
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A new state-of-the art, ultra-luxurious underground station is being built in Saudi Arabia
Gallery Riyadh's King Abdullah Financial District metro station will be designed by British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid
Labour MP Tom Watson
Labour MP Tom Watson urges Theresa May to investigate 'suppressed' documents
Ed Davey wants Britain to play a key role in tackling climate change
Energy Secretary blames upturn in climate change scepticism on a sustained campaign by 'vested interests'
Voice of America staff prepare Burmese President Thein Sein before a Washington appearance
Obama rewards head of state with White House visit despite recent claims of violence
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Schmidt will not be grilled on corporate taxes at No 10, despite former executive saying 100,000 emails show UK taxpayers being 'cheated'
SEA hacktivists have made it their mission to humiliate those media outlets they perceive as hostile to Damascus
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Mark Bridger says he he accidentally killed April Jones
LATEST 47 year-old said he would have been 'lynched' if he had been seen taking the five-year-old out of his car
Sergei Magnitsky and Bill Browder
William Browder has led a campaign for 'justice' over alleged killing of whistle-blowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
The apartment building where the bodies of two children, aged 5 and 10, were discovered
Authorities 'not currently' charging Julian Stevenson with premeditated murder
The five members of Eisa’ family who died in the crash were all buried at Jannat Al-Baqi - a huge cemetery in Medina, close to the Masjid al-Nabawi mosque. The mosque, one of the largest in the world, is said to have been built on the site of the Prophet Mohamed’s house, and the cemetery is believed to be where he, and many other important early Islamic leaders, were buried. As a result the area is considered hugely significant, making it Islam’s second holiest site, behind the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca.
Ian McIntosh is determined to solve the mystery of the ancient coins
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Virtually Stephen Fry 'lets Stephen broadcast himself directly to your pocket, keeping you up to date with the goings-on of the actual Stephen Fry'
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Student Jason Kelly wears the new England shirt
New strip compared to that worn by the West German team in 1966
The new Gill Hornby novel, 'The Hive' is set mainly at the gates of a school, St Ambrose Primary, at which local mothers meet to drop off and pick up their uniformed charges, to gossip, bitch and invite each other to lunch
The Hive has kick-started the school gates mini-genre
'Thor' actor Tom Hiddleston

Tom Hiddleston heads new Donmar Warehouse season as Hollywood stars make way for homegrown

Jose Mourinho’s future appears to be back at Stamford Bridge
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Michael Jackson performing during his HIStory World Tour. The Jackson family is reportedly suing AEG LIve for $40bn in damages
Singer has made more money in death than he ever did alive
Sandra Fluke, left, the law student that Rush Limbaugh, right, attacked because of her stance on birth control

Rush Limbaugh calling Sandra Fluke a slut could spell the end for incendiary broadcasters

Expectations are high after Sony’s dispiriting launch of the new PS4 back in February
Expectations are high after Sony’s dispiriting launch of the new PS4
Agnetha Fältskog has released a new single for the first time since 1988
Album debuts at number six
James Bond's specially modified Breitling Top Time wristwatch used in Thunderball, 1965, the watch composed of a stainless steel chronograph timepiece, by Breitling, Ref. 2002, case no. 984343, manufactured in 1962 and then modified, the black dial with applied baton hour markers, luminous hands, sweep centre seconds, two subsidiary dials for constant seconds and 45 minute registers, and outer silvered tachymeter scale, in circular case with two chronograph buttons in the band, case 35mm wide, case and dial signed, mounted in glazed water resistant type case with screw down bezel and case reverse, by Valley Tool Company, 47mm wide, signed V.T.C., made for Sean Connery as James Bond in the 1965 United Artists/EON Productions film Thunderball. To be auctioned by Christie's on 26 June 2013. Estimate: £40,000 - 60,000
Seean Connery used it as a geiger counter in 1965 movie - now the £25 bargain could sell for £60,000
James Franco in As I Lay Dying
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