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London's new Crossrail network hit by huge delay before it even opens
The multi-billion-pound project was due to open in December, but a spokesman has said services will not begin until next autumn
The multi-billion-pound project was due to open in December, but a spokesman has said services will not begin until next autumn
The prime minister managed an expression that may never have been given before at Robben Island: awkward and utterly unmoved, the face someone over 70 pulls when a teenager hands them controls of a PS4 for a game of 'Call of Duty'
Leisure group Whitbread says sale 'in best interests of shareholders'
The government doesn't know yet whether it will retry Paul Manafort on 10 counts of fraud
The ongoing construction of the new stadium has seen Tottenham ask to stage their game at MK Dons' Stadium MK
Customers told they are still required to repay any outstanding money despite collapse
'Once you focus on people, it is hard to step away from the emotions. I think all of the cases are upsetting in a different way'
Met Police say they are 'incredibly proud' of Ernie who, along with officers, chased and apprehended the suspect
‘It’s unacceptable that many families could face the anxiety of not securing a school place’
It's a 13-track response to the criticism he received for previous record Revival
Human rights experts received reports around a million Uighurs are held in what resembles a 'massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy'
Former vice-president and political rival calls late senator a brother - although admits they had 'a hell of a lot of family fights'
Firms in the wholesale, hospitality and leisure, and public sectors were most concerned about leaving the EU, according to the findings
Extending the retirement age will reduce the 'informal and unpaid carer pool' who have traditionally provided for older family members and heap pressure on social care, experts warn
Property experts warned no-deal Brexit could hit London market 'like a sledgehammer'
Heated probe inserted into the bronchi that take air into the lungs burns off smooth muscle circling the airways to reduce constriction which can close off airways
Insults aimed at politicians rose from about 10,000 during the 2015 general election to just under 25,000 during the snap 2017 poll
Liverpool drawn alongside Paris Saint-Germain, Napoli and Red Star, while Tottenham will have to play five-time champions Barcelona
Despite selecting what appears to be a conservative squad, Southgate is clearly acutely aware of the need to pick for the future as well as the present
Luka Modric got the nod after helping Madrid win a third straight Champions League title, and fourth in five seasons, before leading his country to the World Cup final
Defeat at Turf Moor would confirm beyond doubt that United are caught in a crisis under the Portuguese
Chancellor said to believe charge will hurt consumers and small business
Theresa May smiled after Uhuru Kenyatta mocked her leadership rival
India (19-0) trail England (246) by 227 runs
Inspectors find almost 100 visits to sex offenders overdue and managers vastly outnumbered
French president expected to outline vision of close post-Brexit relationship as he fears no-deal scenario would 'poison relations' between countries
Idris Elba's film is the latest to go beyond the stereotypes of black citizens and the law
The prospect of street demonstrations continuing through the autumn – which still cannot be ruled out – is something he surely wants to avoid at all costs
Temperatures set to climb to 25C as September begins with blue skies and dry conditions
It is an open secret that the prime minister will not lead her party into another general election, but with an influx of right-wingers the Conservatives after May risk turning into a Trump-lite gaggle of Little Englanders
Sometimes the state does have to step in and say: sorry but no, this business is engaged in an activity that is damaging and thus requires intervention
Isn’t it nice to spend 75 minutes ignoring these big, difficult issues and instead think about pie for a bit?
The French government is one that, for many, is indeed not 'on top of things'. While the president remains master of all he surveys, he appears powerless to push for European reform during twin economic and political crises
I take full responsibility for the things I've done in the past, of course, but I lay a lot of blame at the feet of people like our ol' pal Francis who still tell me on a daily basis that the life I live isn't natural
There is a suggestion that even when a woman is powering serves at 120mph, she still has to look pretty and feminine by male standards
As a mixed race British girl, I grew up seeing very little representation of people who looked like me in the films I was watching, but this may be changing
Gathering this type of information is incredibly challenging in the wild, so many species are never classified, making them more vulnerable to climate change, habitat loss and other threats
One year on from the culmination of this man made crisis, I want to say thank you to those Britons who are enabling us to alleviate the suffering of Rohingya people and ensure their most basic needs are met
If Lebanon needs Syria more than Syria needs Lebanon, I suppose that Lebanon needs America more than America needs Lebanon. Either way, the country’s neutrality still protects it from itself
Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez claims there have been 'thousands of requests for help' since the president's plea
Judge forced to dismiss case because District Attorney's office failed to schedule court hearing to prove probable cause within 10 days
'The President can instantly start the joint exercises again with South Korea, and Japan, if he so chooses'
Southern and eastern parts of the continent set to more than double their hydropower capacity in coming decade
'We’re going to remember this forever,' says Carmen Yulín Cruz
Moscow officials vow to 'liquidate' militants and rebels in northern Syria, after witnesses report 'largest' Russian naval deployment in Mediterranean since start of seven-year conflict
US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana
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Firefighters watch on as flames leap from a giant factory fire in the inner Melbourne suburb of West Footscray - More than 120 firefighters are fighting the fire, with 30 trucks and cherry picker aerial appliances on the scene which is sending large plumes of smoke across the city.
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People are evacuated after flooding in Swar township, Myanmar
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President Hassan Rouhani speaks at the Iranian Parliament in the capital Tehran. It was the first time Rouhani had been summoned by parliament in his five years in power, with MPs demanding answers on unemployment, rising prices and the collapsing value of the rial, which has lost more than half its value since April
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A police officer walks by the front of a Chicago Pizza and GLHF Game Bar at the scene of fatal shooting at The Jacksonville Landing. A gunman opened fire at a video game tournament killing multiple people and then fatally shooting himself in a rampage that wounded several others
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Migrants disembark from the Italian Coast Guard ship 'Diciotti' in the port of Catania, Italy. The vessel arrived with 177 migrants on board, but the Italian Interior Ministry denied them to disembark, calling EU member states to find a solution on how to distribute them. On 22 August, 27 unaccompanied minors were let off from the ship, assisted by Red Cross, UNHCR and Save the Children
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Rohingya refugees during a protest march after attending a ceremony to remember the first anniversary of a military crackdown that prompted a massive exodus of people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia
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US President Donald Trump sits with children during a tour of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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High waves hit Jeju Island, South Korea, as powerful Typhoon Soulik gradually approaches the Korean Peninsula
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A Palestinian man throws his child in the air following morning prayers marking the first day of Eid al-Adha celebrations on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem's Old City. Eid al-Adha is the holiest of the two Muslims holidays celebrated each year, it marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage (Hajj) to visit Mecca, the holiest place in Islam. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts, one for the family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy
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South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, meets with her North Korean son Ri Sung Chol, 71, during a separated family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast. Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans met their Northern relatives for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago
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The flag of the United Nations flying at half-mast to mark the death of former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, at the European headquarters in Geneva. Kofi Annan died on 18 August, aged 80
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Newly appointed Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan inspects the guard of honor on his arrival in the Prime Minister House during a ceremony in Islamabad. Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony in Islamabad, ushering in a new political era as the World Cup cricket hero officially took the reins of power in the nuclear-armed country
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Muslim pilgrims walk out after the Friday prayer at the Grand mosque ahead of annual Haj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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A man wades through flooded water in Kochi, Kerala state, India. According to reports, the region is on a high alert with schools and offices been closed due to the rising water levels of Periyar river after the gates of the Idukki reservoir were opened. The area has been hit by heavy rains that caused floods and reportedly killed at least 65 people
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets schoolchildren after his speech as part of India's 72nd Independence Day celebrations which marks the 71st anniversary of the end of British colonial rule, at the Red Fort in New Delhi
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A large section of the Morandi viaduct upon which the A10 motorway runs collapsed in Genoa, Italy. Both sides of the highway fell. Around 10 vehicles are involved in the collapse, rescue sources said. The viaduct gave way amid torrential rain. It runs over shopping centres, factories, some homes, the Genoa-Milan railway line and the Polcevera river
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Turkish President Erdogan addresses the 10th annual Ambassadors' Conference in Ankara. Global markets have reacted fearfully to Turkey's financial crash, which Turkish President Erdogan blames on a "political, underhand plot" by Donald Trump's USA. Last week the US doubled steel and aluminium tariffs against Turkey amidst diplomatic tensions over the latter's detaining of an American pastor
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NASA, The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity's first-ever mission into a part of the Suns atmosphere called the corona. The probe will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
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An activist confronts Virginia State Troopers in riot gear during a rally on the campus of The University of Virginia one-year after the violent white nationalist rally that left one person dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville, Virginia
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A man holds his son before Friday prayers at an evacuation centre in Sambik Bangkol village, in northern Lombok on West Nusa Tenggara province
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A rescuers stands next to a damaged tent in a flooded camping as storms and heavy rains sweep across France on August 9, 2018 in Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas, southern France. - The bad weather caused large power cuts and a man who was working in a summer camp went missing according to the gendarmerie
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A Palestinian girl smiles as she waits to receive aids at a United Nations food distribution centre in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza
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An Israeli soldier rides an armoured vehicle during an army drill after the visit of Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israel
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Usable items are salvaged from a home destroyed in an earthquake in North Lombok, Indonesia. The powerful earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, killing a number of people and shaking neighboring Bali, as authorities on Monday said thousands of houses were damaged and the death toll could climb
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Accident investigators and rescue personnel work at the wreckage of a Junkers JU52 aircraft in Flims, after it crashed into Piz Segnas, a 3,000-metre (10,000-foot) peak in eastern Switzerland. Twenty people were confirmed dead after the vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountainside, police reports said. The Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, built in Germany in 1939 and now a collectors item, belongs to JU-Air, a company with links to the Swiss air force, the ATS news agency reported
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Members of different security forces stand guard and take evidence after an explosion targeted President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. The Venezuelan Information Minister, Jorge Rodriguez, confirmed that President Nicolas Maduro was the victim of an attack with 'drone-type flying devices that contained an explosive charge', and that he escaped unharmed from the incident, which occurred during a military ceremony in Caracas
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People in Mbare celebrate after officials announced the re-election of President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) in Harare, Zimbabwe. The election was the first since Robert Mugabe was ousted in a military coup last year, and featured a close race between Mnangagwa and opposition candidate Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC Alliance). Deadly clashes broke out earlier in the week following the release of parliamentary election results, amid allegations of fraud by Chamisa and MDC supporters
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A supporter of the ruling ZANU-PF walks past a burnt vehicle at the party's offices a day after the clashes between security forces and opposition protesters in Harare, Zimbabwe
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A ceremony takes place in a hangar, to mark the return of 55 sets of remains of American troops killed during the 1950-53 Korean War, at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. The ceremony was held five days after a US airplane transported the remains to South Korea from North Korea in a move expected to facilitate ongoing efforts to promote peace on the peninsula
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Veronika Nikulshina, one of four members of Russia's Pussy Riot protest group who were jailed for 15 days for staging a pitch invasion during the football World Cup final and were detained again after their release on July 30, is escorted by a police officer before a court hearing in Moscow
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A relative of a passenger of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 reads the safety report that has concluded that the planes controls were deliberately manipulated and that illegal interference by a third party cannot be ruled out. Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on 8 March 2014
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Palestinian activist and campaigner Ahed Tamimi kisses the tombstone of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his mausoleum in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, after she was released from prison following an eight-month sentence for slapping two Israeli soldiers
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Zimbabwe's incumbent President and candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa arrives for his closing presidential campaign rally in Harare, two days ahead of the elections
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A house burns during the Carr fire in Redding, California. One firefighter has died and at least two others have been injured as wind-whipped flames tore through the region
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Supporters of Pakistan's cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan, and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) party, celebrate in Karachi, a day after a general election. Imran Khan claimed victory in the country's tense general election marred by allegations of "blatant" rigging by rival parties. A visibly tired Khan cut a conciliatory tone in a wide-ranging address to the nation following the controversial contest
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A man who was injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack outside a polling station, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Quetta. At least 25 people were killed and 30 injured in the incident. Polling stations in Pakistan opened for the general election for around 105 million constituents. Voters will have to choose from 11,000 candidates to elect 272 members of the Parliament for the next term. These elections are the second in Pakistan's history in which a government was able to complete its term to make way for another government after being ruled by military dictators for half of the 71 years of its existence since its founding in 1947
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A woman reacts as she tries to find her dog, following a wildfire at the village of Mati, near Athens, Greece. At least 60 people are thought to have been killed
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A house is threatened by a huge blaze during a wildfire in Kineta, near Athens. More than 300 firefighters, five aircraft and two helicopters were mobilised to tackle the "extremely difficult" situation due to strong gusts of wind, Athens fire chief Achille Tzouvaras said
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Israeli-annexed Golan Heights shows a smoke plume rising across the border in Quneitra in southwestern Syria, as rebels destroy their arms stocks prior to their departure
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A Syrian child looks through the window of a bus as displaced people from the Quneitra province wait at the Morek crossing point to be transfered in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, northwestern Syria. The transfers come under a surrender deal agreed this week between Russia and Syrian rebels in Quneitra province that will see the sensitive zone fall back under state control. Rebels will hand over territory they control in Quneitra and the neighbouring buffer zone with the Israeli-occupied Golan, a war monitor and a rebel
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Men push a car past a flooded street in Ahmadabad, India. Hundreds of people have been rescued from flood affected areas in the past week as incessant rains continue to lash Gujarat state
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Arab lawmakers stand up in protest during a Knesset session in Jerusalem. Israel's parliament approved a controversial piece of legislation that defines the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people but which critics warn sidelines minorities
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The 12 boys and their soccer coach who were rescued from a flooded cave arrive for a news conference in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand
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President Barack Obama delivers the 16th Nelson Mandela annual lecture, marking the centenary of the anti-apartheid leader's birth, in Johannesburg, South Africa
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French supporters celebrate on the Champs Elysees their team's victory after the World Cup 2018 final between France and Croatia
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Hugo Lloris lifts the trophy after France beat Croatia 4-2 in the World Cup final in the Luzhniki Stadium in Russia
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Germany's Angelique Kerber beat seven-time champion US player Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final. Kerber won her first Wimbledon title
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Firefighters using fire helicopters fighting wildfires in Sordal in Setesdalen in the southern part of Norway. The fires are thought to be caused by lightning in the very dry landscape
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The Syrian national flag rises in the midst of damaged buildings in Daraa-al-Balad an opposition-held part of the southern city of Daraa. Syria's army entered rebel-held parts of Daraa city, state media said, raising the national flag in the cradle of the uprising that sparked the country's seven-year war, following a deal for rebels to hand over their heavy weapons in Daraa al-Balad and other opposition-held parts of the city
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Snacpchat blamed third party mapping data from its partner Mapbox
Leader of Myanmar government criticised for failing to speak out against military crackdown
The candidates are meeting just once on a debate stage before the state's primary in September
'It's very clear that [my opponent] is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump,' says Andrew Gillum
Troops aim to restore order as refugees fleeing financial collapse and gang crime stoke violence
Crucially, the former leader of the opposition party, Kem Sokha, was not among the 14
'This is a transformative day for our justice system. Our old system of money bail was outdated, unsafe, and unfair,' says state's chief judge
James Mattis says the problem is with 'the Iranian regime, not Iranian people'
Human rights organisations call on UK and US to stop supplying weapons in the conflict
‘Airbrushing and changing my ethnicity is bad for my mental health’
Mayonnaise, sesame oil, and saffron were all on the list
Getting behind the wheel is the best way to explore the country’s most dramatic backdrops, finds Nicola Brady
With temperatures forecast to stay unusually high until October, it's time to instal a pergola – or even plant some deciduous trees to sit under.
Follow live coverage of the draw from Monte Carlo, Monaco
Curran defended England’s faltering top order, arguing that England’s late burst with the bat had given them the momentum going into day two
'I got to actually kind of learn how to act'
The tour supports the band's latest hit album 'Pray For The Wicked'
Loose Women feud belongs alongside Harry Redknapp's 'wheeler dealer' fury and The Bee Gees leaving Clive Anderson speechless
The reason behind the superstar Norwegian writer titling his six-part autobiographical sensation My Struggle finally becomes clear in the final work in the series
Algorithm that decides what people see is still mostly secretive
Contactless cards at your fingertips sounds like a dystopian future, but not for biohackers in Sweden. Moa Petersén asks: does convenience trump privacy?
Xbox players can currently play with those on Switch, for instance – but nobody can play with those on PlayStation
The game 'aims to create a living world that's not simply open, but deeper'