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NHS reorganisations are not very popular - but Tom Locke probably owes his life to one. The 41-year-old was inspecting pigeon nests on his roof at home in Hythe on the Kent coast last October when disaster struck. He fell from his…
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Leaders around the world paid tribute to former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kofi Annan, who died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of Saturday aged 80. The International Icon died…
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Following the bitter divorce of movie stars Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Mirror is reporting that the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ actor is blaming it all on a shocking payback by Heard for arriving at her 30th birthday 2 hours late. Depp…
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Saudi Arabia on Thursday said more than 1.6 million pilgrims from all over the world have arrived Mecca to perform the 2018 Hajj. The success of receiving foreign pilgrims was as a result of coordination between concerned authorities,…
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Aretha Franklin, the "queen of soul" known for hits like Respect and Think, has died in Detroit at the age of 76. The legendary singer was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and announced last year she was retiring from music. Franklin had…
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Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has won Sunday's heavily disputed run-off election with 67.17% of the vote, official results show. Opposition candidate Soumaila Cisse, who won 32.83% of the vote, said on Monday that he would…
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Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from 3,700-3,500 BC revealed the recipe and…
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Two women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea's leader have been told there is sufficient evidence for them to go on trial in Malaysia. Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Thuong are accused of smearing the toxic nerve agent VX on Kim…
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A court in Burundi has sentenced a head teacher to five years in prison for trying to disguise himself as a student and sit a national exam on another person's behalf. Benjamin Manirambona was also banned from teaching or holding any…
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Cameroon's government has announced the arrest of six soldiers following a probe into a video released a few weeks ago that documented the abuse of civilians, the privately-owned Cameroon Info news site reports. It marks a U-turn from…
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