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Hate attacks on Muslims increase tenfold since murder of Woolwich soldier
Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo: The two polite young men that met at university who would become known as the bloodied Woolwich murder ...
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Anti-Muslim Threats Rise in Britain After Soldiers Killing
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Root steadies England innings
Leeds, England – Joe Root's composed half-century steadied England after lunch on day two of the second and final Test against New Zealand at Headingley on ...
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Tiger Kills Worker In British Zoo
A zoo worker mauled by a tiger at a British zoo died of her injuries at the hospital yesterday. The worker, 24-year-old Sarah McClay was in the big cat enclosure when the tiger attacked her. She was airlifted to nearby Royal Preston Infirmary, but did not survive. She reportedly suffered numerous head and neck wounds. The zoo, South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness, closed early and ...
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Selena Gomez Jaden Smith Meet for Dinner Date in London
Selena Gomez and Jaden Smith met up for a dinner date in London. Selena Gomez and Jaden Smith met for dinner in London on Thursday, with the two close friends in England for their respective singing and acting duties respectively.Gomez, 20, and 14 year old Smith were seen together at Hakkasan restaurant, sparking a wave of fan activity as word got out that the two stars were out and about.Smith ...
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British spies tried to recruit Islamist attacker
Britain's intelligence agencies came under fresh scrutiny on Saturday over claims that MI5 tried to recruit one of two Islamists accused of butchering a soldier in ...
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Bayern Dortmund fans take over London
London – Thousands of German football fans gathered at Wembley Stadium early Saturday and packed into central London ahead of the Champions League final on ...
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German football fans bring festive spirit to London - in pictures
Sporadic fighting in London as German fans await Champions League final Majority of 100,000 supporters of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund behaving themselves before Wembley ...
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What made London Samaritan so brave
>Editor's note: Jason Marsh is the founding editor-in-chief of the online magazine Greater Good, published by The Greater Good Science Center, which focuses on the "science of a meaningful life" and is based at the University of California at Berkeley. (CNN) -- It's hard to imagine a scene more gruesome and disturbing than the one Londoners encountered on an inner-city street Wednesday. A ...
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Roots Composed Half-Century Steadies England
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Friend of London Hacking Murder Suspect Arrested
British police have arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism who was reportedly a friend of one of two suspects in Wednesday's brutal murder of a British soldier on a London ...
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One of Belfast’s ‘most prolific burglars caught for 99th time’
A judge has declared he was ';absolutely not'; releasing one of Belfast’s most prolific burglars after hearing how was allegedly caught for the 99th time. Appearing in the dock of Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday, 36-year-old Nathaniel Lee Sloss was charged with breaking into a property on Windsor Avenue North with intent to steal on April 19 this year. Constable McAuley ...
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Group of tourists are rescued after drifting out to sea on an ICEBERG
A group of tourists had to be rescued after they drifted out to sea on an ICEBERG. The five Americans had chosen a picnic spot on a piece of ice that then separated. They spent an hour floating in the freezing waters off Iceland before being found. A bizarre picture of the group showed them sat at a picnic table - on the iceberg. Rescuer Pll Sigurur Vignisson told NBC News the tourists had ...
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Zookeeper mauled and killed by tiger at Cumbria animal park
Police said Sarah McClay was attacked at the South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton in Furness. She was taken by air ambulance to Royal Preston Hospital following the attack, where she later ...
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Nigerian community marches in solidarity as Greenwich leaves tributes to murdered soldier Lee Rigby
Touching tributes continued to be paid to Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich today, as the community stood united in condemning the soldier's brutal ...
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Zookeeper at British wildlife park dies after being attacked by Sumatran tiger
LONDON - British police say a zookeeper who was injured in a tiger attack at an animal park has died. Police say the woman, 24-year-old Sarah McClay, was in the big cats' enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Cumbria when she was mauled by the Sumatran tiger on Friday. The park's owner, David Gill, told the BBC that he did not know why McClay entered the tiger enclosure. He ...
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Suspect in hacking death of British soldier was offered job by MI5
Michael Adebolajo, a suspect in the hacking death of a soldier, had been offered a job by a British intelligence service six months before, a friend says. Abu Nusaybah said Adebolajo had rejected the offer from MI5, the agency in charge of domestic security, the BBC reported Saturday. Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, have been arrested in the hacking death of Drummer Lee Rigby in the ...
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Prince William excited about impending fatherhood
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge attend the UK premiere of "African Cats" at BFI Southbank in London on April 25, 2012. UPI/Paul ...
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London Woolwich AttackLee Rigby family give an emotional tribute to the soldier UK News
Drummer Lee Rigby’s stepfather Ian Rigby told how they frantically tried to contact him after watching his brutal murder unfold on television saying his ';heart skipped a beat';. Speaking at a press conference, Mr Rigby said they tried to get hold of the 25-year-old but could not reach him. He said: ';Really as soon as it came on the news on television, obviously we ...
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Hartlepool Lad aged nine crashed stolen car moments after breaking into house to take keys
A boy aged just nine has admitted burgling a house and stealing the keys of a car that crashed moments later, police said. But the child was too young to be prosecuted because he was under the age of criminal responsibility. Cleveland Police investigated the break-in at a house in Miller Crescent, Hartlepool on May 16, after reports that a red Vauxhall Vectra had been taken and crashed soon ...
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Champions League final 2013 Watch German football fans clash at Wembley Stadium
Hundreds of rival German football fans have clashed at Wembley Stadium ahead of tonight's Champions League final. Video footage shows supporters of Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund fighting in the grounds of the home of English football. Fans hurled objects at each other and fought running battles in ugly scenes early this morning. The skirmishes took place in a car park next to ...
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Church of England Plans to Have Female Bishops by 2015
After about 20 years of a divisive debate on allowing women to be bishops, the Church of England published proposals on Friday to approve the ordination of female bishops by ...
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British Ad Campaign Uses Image Of Old Pregnant Woman To Scare Women Into Having Babies Younger
ad campaign in Britain is tackling the other side of the spectrum with an arresting image of a pregnant old woman. The campaign, sponsored by the pregnancy testing company First Response, purports to warn young women that their childbearing years are numbered. The average British woman bears her first child at age 30, 5 years later than American women. In the name of ';provok[ing] a debate ...
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‘My Reaction As a British Muslim to the Woolwich Attack’
Today is a very emotional and difficult day in London. Two days ago we witnessed an event of disgusting proportions. There are so many thoughts running through my head because there are so many aspects to this brutal killing. I feel horror at what has happened and shock that something so barbaric has taken place on our first world streets. I give my condolences for the families. I offer my ...
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England stutter after Cook Trott fall
Leeds – England lost Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook to successive balls just before lunch as New Zealand rallied on the second day of the second and final Test at Headingley on ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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