Current-Affairs
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Vicar and teacher murder charges22 February 2012, 6:16 pm
A man is charged with murdering a clergyman at his South Gloucestershire vicarage and a retired teacher in Worcestershire....
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VIDEO: Conroy's wife 'feared he was dead'22 February 2012, 6:07 pm
The wife of a British photographer working in Homs has said that she believed he had been killed when she heard news that two western journalists had died in the city....
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Cherie Blair starts hacking case22 February 2012, 6:05 pm
Cherie Blair has started legal proceedings over phone hacking, her solicitor confirms....
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Bank members voted for £75bn QE22 February 2012, 5:49 pm
Minutes show two of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee wanted more money pumped into the economy, sending sterling down on the currency markets....
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Olympics security test is staged22 February 2012, 5:35 pm
A major exercise testing security and emergency services in the event of a terror attack during the Olympic and Paralympic Games is held in London....
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St Paul's camp appeal bid refused22 February 2012, 5:25 pm
A legal challenge by Occupy protesters to keep a camp outside St Paul's Cathedral is thrown out by the Court of Appeal....
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VIDEO: 'Occupy will make a difference"22 February 2012, 5:17 pm
Protesters have been refused permission to appeal against orders to evict their camp outside St Paul's Cathedral....
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Nine cleared of UDA man's murder22 February 2012, 5:16 pm
Nine men involved in the UVF supergrass trial in Belfast are acquitted of the murder of UDA leader Tommy English....
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Tributes to reporter Marie Colvin22 February 2012, 5:12 pm
Tributes pour in for Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin, who has been killed in Syria....
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Baby P duo made 'serious errors'22 February 2012, 5:12 pm
Two of Baby Peter's social workers committed a "serious error of judgement" during an incident which saw him "disappear" for 12 days, a tribunal hears....
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Vicar and teacher murder charges22 February 2012, 6:16 pm
A man is charged with murdering a clergyman at his South Gloucestershire vicarage and a retired teacher in Worcestershire....
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Strauss-Kahn released by police22 February 2012, 6:11 pm
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring....
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Western journalists die in Homs22 February 2012, 5:48 pm
American Marie Colvin of the UK's Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik are among 60 people killed as Syria intensifies its clampdown on protests....
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Greek MPs consider bailout laws22 February 2012, 5:38 pm
Protests take place outside parliament in Greece, as MPs consider emergency laws after a 130bn-euro bailout deal....
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Argentina train crash 'kills 49'22 February 2012, 5:37 pm
A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say....
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Obama seeks US corporate tax cut22 February 2012, 5:36 pm
US President Barack Obama proposes a cut in corporate tax and an end to tax loopholes, as part of his election-year strategy on the economy....
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Tributes to reporter Marie Colvin22 February 2012, 5:12 pm
Tributes pour in for Sunday Times foreign correspondent Marie Colvin, who has been killed in Syria....
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Peugeot boosted by alliance talks22 February 2012, 5:03 pm
Peugeot shares jump 12% after the carmaker confirms it is in talks about possible "co-operations and alliances"....
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Brit ratings 'biggest since 2005'22 February 2012, 5:02 pm
The average audience to have watched the Brits ceremony on ITV1 and catch-up channel ITV1+1 comes in at 6.2 million - the event's highest audience since 2005....
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Verdict on Mubarak set for 2 June22 February 2012, 5:02 pm
A trial verdict for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of protesters in the revolution that ousted him, is set for 2 June....
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Man quizzed over women's murders22 February 2012, 6:16 pm
A man is being questioned on suspicion of the murder of two elderly women who were found dead in their homes....
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Adele turns tables on TV execs with finger gesture22 February 2012, 6:03 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Adele had the tabloid press up in arms on Wednesday and TV executives running for cover over a middle finger gesture after her moment in the sun at British pop's biggest awards was cut short for programming reasons. The 23-year-old was midway through an acceptance speech at the packed O2 Arena in her native London after picking up the big prize -- best British album for her chart-conquering "21". But because the show was running late, and being broadcast live on ITV, pr...
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Reporter 'wanted to finish story'22 February 2012, 5:45 pm
Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was killed after defying an order to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs because she wanted to finish "one more story", her mother has said....
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Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'22 February 2012, 5:43 pm
A teenager was repeatedly raped by members of a gang who used alcohol and threats of violence to force her to comply with their demands, a court has heard....
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Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim22 February 2012, 5:43 pm
Cherie Blair has lodged a claim over hacking of her phone, her lawyers said....
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Loner jailed for rape and murder22 February 2012, 5:25 pm
A cocaine-addicted former nightclub bouncer has been jailed for at least 35 years for the rape and murder of heavily pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender....
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Britain can crush racism in sport, Cameron says22 February 2012, 5:23 pm
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to act swiftly to crush any return of racism in football, after several high-profile cases, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday. Cameron said Britain should be proud of the achievements of the campaign to rid the sport of racism over the past two decades, adding that other countries had failed to take similar action. "But we have some problems still today," Cameron said at the opening of an anti-discrimination summit with former players and football of...
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'Aggressive' charity collectors banned from town centre22 February 2012, 5:19 pm
A Lancashire town has banned charity collectors who employ 'aggressive tactics' towards shoppers....
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'Exceptionally' mild weather on way22 February 2012, 5:18 pm
Thursday is expected to be "exceptionally" mild, with temperatures up to 10 degrees Celsius above average for the time of year, forecasters said....
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Corden 'upset' at Adele speech halt22 February 2012, 5:13 pm
Brit Awards host James Corden has revealed he held out as long as possible before cutting short big winner Adele's crowning moment - and said he had actually been told to move in after she had said "thank you"....
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On The Road With...: The Chief Beefeater22 February 2012, 4:44 pm
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HARDtalk: George Papandreou - Prime Minister of Greece, 2009-201122 February 2012, 11:47 am
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HARDtalk: Fawzia Koofi20 February 2012, 10:29 am
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21 February 2012, 1:40 pm
The monuments and the museums, the pulsing crowds on Fifth Avenue, opera at the Met and stickball in Spanish Harlem, sardines on the subway and the romantic urban vistas of Central Park: Over the years LIFE’s photographers explored every corner [...]...
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21 February 2012, 1:10 pm
In the midst of the strangest primary season in memory, LIFE looks at candidates — the revered, the reviled and the long-forgotten — on the campaign trail, and pays fond tribute to the perpetual carnival that is American politics....
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21 February 2012, 1:00 pm
Shortly before Berlin fell in the spring of '45, marking the end of WWII in Europe, LIFE photographer William Vandivert made his way to the German capital -- and to the ruined bunker where Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun spent their last, desperate hours....
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20 February 2012, 5:57 pm
In 1938, LIFE sent photographer William Vandivert to New Orleans to cover the debauchery, whimsy and unalloyed fun of Mardi Gras. Seven decades later, LIFE.com presents unpublished pictures from the Big Easy....
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15 February 2012, 4:14 pm
From Jesse James and Butch Cassidy to Scarface and Tony Soprano, outlaws have always held a singularly ambiguous place in America’s popular imagination: we fear and loathe gangsters’ appetite for violence; we envy and covet their freedom. In early 1965, [...]...
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15 February 2012, 1:00 am
Alfred Eisenstaedt's photographic vision wasn't limited to the intimate pictures he made of the 20th century's most famous faces. Here, a celebration of the great photographer's unexpected and singularly charming self-portraits....
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14 February 2012, 1:30 pm
On the anniversary of Malcolm X's 1965 assassination, LIFE.com presents Eve Arnold's photographs of the intensely charismatic street thug-turned-devout Muslim and activist, in public and in private....
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14 February 2012, 12:28 pm
In the spring of 1963, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom, already popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months away from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the [...]...
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13 February 2012, 10:36 am
On a spring night in May 1958, LIFE photographer Robert W. Kelley shot a few rolls of film at an intimate jazz gig in New York City. Those photographs, featuring musical legends-in-the-making, were never published. Until now....
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13 February 2012, 10:12 am
In September 1945 a beloved movie star — now a decorated WWII hero — returned to his quiet hometown in Pennsylvania. LIFE was there to chronicle the utterly wholesome goings on....
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