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Swimming: Katie Ledecky shatters 1500m freestyle world record
Tuesday 30 July 2013
Katie Ledecky took six seconds off the 1500 metres freestyle world record as she claimed her second gold of the World Championships in Barcelona.
Ex-CIA Milan chief detained in Panama
Thursday 18 July 2013
Robert Seldon Lady was detained after Costa Rica sent him back to Panama
Hearts go into administration
Monday 17 June 2013
The club was faced with a winding-up order last week
Sheffield United appoint Everton coach David Weir as manager
Monday 10 June 2013
The 43-year-old had been working as a coach at Everton
Great two-wheeled breaks this summer
Wednesday 05 June 2013
Will the Tour de France inspire you to ride off on a cycling holiday?
Violence and prejudice against gay people common, says EU study
Friday 17 May 2013
One in four gay people in the European Union say they have faced violence because of their sexuality, according to a new report.
Cycling: Chris Froome stays out in front on Tour of Romandie
Thursday 25 April 2013
Team Sky's Chris Froome stayed safely out of trouble to hold on to the overall lead in the Tour of Romandie.
Davis Cup: GB reward for Russia victory may be tie against Rafael Nadal or Roger Federer
Tuesday 09 April 2013
Leon Smith's team will learn their next opponents on Wednesday
Pound climbs after MPC holds off printing money
Friday 08 March 2013
Sterling rallied yesterday as the Bank of England shrugged off fears of a triple-dip recession and held fire on pumping billions extra into the UK's flatlining recovery.
Wanted: Police reveal list of 17 high-risk foreign criminals believed to be hiding in UK
Monday 04 February 2013
A wanted list including a rapist, robbers and pimps all thought to be on the run in Britain was revealed today.
'Don't come to Britain, it's horrible and wet': New advertising campaign aims to put Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants off a new life in the UK
Monday 28 January 2013
Government ministers are contemplating running a negative ad campaign to put off eastern European immigrants who plan on coming to Britain, reports have claimed.
Lithuanian prosecutors open investigation into multi-million dollar tax fraud by Russian organised crime group
Monday 21 January 2013
Prosecutors in Lithuania have opened an investigation into a multi-million dollar tax fraud carried out by a Russian organised crime group which used the Baltic nation’s banks to launder some of their money.
New immigrant total impossible to predict, says David Cameron
Monday 14 January 2013
David Cameron insisted today that it was currently impossible to predict immigration levels from Bulgaria and Romania when access restrictions are lifted at the end of this year.
Jonas Mekas, Serpentine Gallery, London
Thursday 06 December 2012
"Just images, just images," murmurs the narrator of Jonas Mekas’ new 80 minute film Out-takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012).
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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