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Night of the blunt knives: ministers wreck reshuffle
Tory MPs dismiss botched job as ‘opposite of a show of power’
BBC goes full W1A trying to report on gender pay row
Carrie Gracie quit over unequal pay, then had to sit and listen to her (much higher paid, male) co-host interview someone else about what she'd done
EU would help UK abandon Brexit, says Chuka Umunna
Labour MP holds private talks with member states' governments on hypothetical aftermath of Article 50 being revoked
'Lock them all in a room': commuter’s advice to end the rail strikes
As RMT members stop work on five big train operators, the union demands meeting with new transport secretary – then finds Chris Grayling still has the job
Joke bitcoin alternative surges in value but creator issues warning
'It says a lot about the state of the cryptocurrency space in general that a currency with a dog on it which hasn’t released a software update in over 2 years has a $1B+ market cap'
Isis-supporting couple planned Christmas terror attack
Police say 'significant loss of life' was averted with arrests in December 2016
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Chuka Umunna This is what 27 EU representatives really think of Brexit
No diplomat I have spoken to thinks that Theresa May and her Cabinet can reach a bespoke deal in time – and most of them have said they'd be willing to take Britain back if we revoked Article 50
Josie Cox Carrie Grace is just the beginning – prepare for mass walkouts
As a business, having a substantial chunk of your female workforce throw in the towel would be bad – and could happen – but having those newly demoralised women continue on in their roles could be equally devastating
Lucas Cumiskey Brexit will be a disaster for university students
With EU academics leaving the country and opportunities such as Erasmus becoming no loger available to British students, we're limiting the potential of younger generations
Nearly two thirds of UK adults don't have a will, research finds
Among over-55s, 42 per cent don’t have a will, a survey of 2,000 people survey revealed
Richard Godwin The takeaway from Michael Wolff's book is that Trump lost by winning
The cosmic boo-boo at the centre of ‘Fire and Fury’ inadvertently illuminates what’s happened in our country post-Brexit, too
Biba Kang Lack of consent needs to be taken much more seriously
The internal dynamics of sex should be discussed more openly – and the fact people may have different boundaries
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Why you should run year's half marathon, according to Olympic athlete
I was shocked to read in The Independent that one in 10 families rely on food banks to help feed their children, but it is also alarming how many children do not get regular exercise
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Sir Mo Farah urges readers to run the Big Half with Team Felix
'I’m a dad with four kids and it’s absolutely heartbreaking to think of children going hungry in our capital city'
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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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Heathrow backs Independent appeal with new van for The Felix Project
'I am delighted to see The Felix Project going from strength to strength, and we are pleased to support such a worthwhile cause,' says CEO
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How much can six weeks of weight training change your body?
Can you really transform your physique in six weeks?
Woman who took iconic royal photo speaks out about global attention
‘This photo will form part of history’
Golden Globes 2018: Best dressed guests at this year's awards
It was all black everything at this year's ceremony
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World news in pictures
World news in pictures
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Migrants in a dinghy are rescued by Libyan coast guards off the coast of Garabulli, east of Tripoli
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French President Emmanuel Macron observes a minute of silence in front of the plaque commemorating late police officer Ahmed Merabet to mark the third anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack, in Paris
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Nicolaos Solis from Greece kisses the wooden cross which was thrown into the waters by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, during the Epiphany ceremony to bless the waters at the Golden Horn in Istanbul
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Women mourn the death of a family member following a landslide in Kinshasa. Thirty-seven people died overnight when torrential rain and mudslides swept though shanty homes.
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Mourners carry the body of Palestinian Mosab al-Tamimi, 17, who was shot and killed by Israeli troops, during his funeral near the West Bank city of Ramallah
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People take part in pro-government rallies, Iran
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Indonesian bus passengers watch as Mount Sinabung spews thick smoke in Karo, North Sumatra
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People take part in the traditional New Year's Day swim in Scheveningen, Netherlands
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Fireworks explode over Sydney Harbour during New Year's Eve celebrations
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An Indian muslim lifts a stool with a metal rod pierced through his cheeks to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Rafai Papa Miyan Sai at the Shah-E-Alam Dargah shrine in Ahmedabad
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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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Barcelona unveil £142m signing Coutinho - LIVE
Follow the latest from Coutinho's first press conference as a Barcelona player
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Investigation into allegations against Newcastle's Beardsley continues
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A closer look at Lee Johnson and his success at Bristol City
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Pellegrino eyes forwards to fire him back into fans' good books
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Nottingham Forest confirm Karanka as new manager
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FA Cup fourth-round draw: Yeovil face United, Liverpool meet West Brom
ICC criticised for lack of policy on playing in excessive heat
Tony Irish, executive chairman of FICA, believes that events at the SCG should be a deafening wake-up call to world cricket’s governing body
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England aren't whitewashed but leave Australia with deja-vu
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Australia turn up heat as England's Ashes reaches sweat-soaked nadir
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Bairstow hits out at DRS for 'messing with people's livelihoods'
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Benign inevitability on day three as Australia trundle towards victory
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How far should the media go to overtly support its national teams?
Tom Peck Come on Theresa May, not even January is meant to be this dry
Like all good January detoxes, Theresa May's reshuffle was a meaningless token gesture in no way sufficient to undo the damage done
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Letters It's not young people’s responsibility to care for their ailing elder
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Robert Buckland It’s time to build on defence spending, says Robert Buckland MP
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Letters Latte levy is only one step in the right direction
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David Usborne Don't be fooled by Trump dropping his commission on 'voter fraud'
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Josie Cox A latte levy is only the start to coffee cup waste
Star Wars: The Last Jedi stumbles at China box office
Coming behind The Ex-File: The Return of the Exes
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Ridley Scott talks All the Money in the World, Spacey and Plummer
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7 major talking points from the Golden Globes 2018
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Kirk Douglas, 101, gets standing ovation at Golden Globes
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Hugh Jackman looked baffled by James Franco's Golden Globes win
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Guillermo Del Toro refuses to leave stage despite time being up
David Bowie demo released to commemorate 71st Birthday
Nile Rodgers has spoken about the recording
Aziz Ansari makes history with Golden Globe win for Master of None
'I genuinely didn't think I was going to win because all of the websites said I was going to lose'
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Top BBC journalist quits over 'secretive and illegal pay culture'
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Stephen Colbert on Trump: 'Everything you imagine? You’re right!'
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Betty White's secret to a long life? 'Vodka and hotdogs'
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Showtime boss says 'door is always' for Twin Peaks season 4
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The next American Horror Story will be set in the future
20 Years of Penguin Essentials: How artists reimagined book covers
From to Banksy, who created the cover of Nick Cave’s 'And the Ass Saw the Angel' to the Israeli skateboarders known as UNGA (Broken Fingaz), who designed the cover of Jonathan Coe’s 'What a Carve Up!', we look at the collection of re-branded classics, Penguin Essentials, since 1998
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White House says Michael Wolff 'made up facts to sell a lot of books'
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Trump's Jr took Russian lawyer to meet his father, claims Steve Bannon
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Bannon says Donald Trump Jr's Russian lawyer meeting was 'treasonous'
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Sarah Vaughan's Anatomy of a Scandal, review: Full of twists and turns
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Princes in Snow White and Sleeping Beauty 'are sex offenders'
Golden Globes 2018: The actresses who didn’t wear black
'The issue is bigger than my dress colour'
Restaurant fined £50,000 for serving food on unhygienic wooden boards
The restaurant was warned to improve the sanitation of its premises
Inside the UK's new paddleboarding destination
Paddleboarding in Snowdonia is one thing; night-time paddleboarding in Snowdonia is quite another. Kirsty Major is won over
How tech giants have transformed San Francisco's skyline
The Salesforce tower, which at 1,070ft is the tallest and most expensive building in the city, signals tech's triumph in the city
Uber and Volkswagen team up with AI firm for self-driving cars
The carmakers look to develop sensory technology helping autonomous cars make split-second decisions
How the ‘Original Internet Godfather’ walked away from crime
His first marriage was paid for courtesy of insurance fraud and by 2006 he was on America’s most wanted list. Now he’s helping firms to tackle cybercrime
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New app might finally stop you giving up halfway through a season
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The truth behind the biggest iPhone X controversies
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How to find an iPhone X, 8 and 7 for the lowest price on Black Friday
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What to buy if you were waiting for Apple's new smart speaker
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Why your smart TV could be listening to you – or worse
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
5 best smartphone gimbals
Take your phone-based photography and videos to the next level with one of these handheld devices