Madonna explains Brits stage fall
The crowd winced in unison as the pop legend took a heavy fall thanks to a costume malfunction. Her message to fans »
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BRIT Awards 2015: Kim Kardashian Has Epic Selfie Fail With Ant And Dec
The Queen of selfies suffered an awkward moment when her phone lock got in the way of her photo with Ant & Dec.
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Stop blaming Richard Osman! Deal Or No Deal banker's identity was revealed nine years ago
Turns out yesterday’s “exclusive” was almost a decade too late.
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BRITs 2015: Ed Sheeran Looks Worse For Wear And Causes Twitter To Explode
The star celebrated his BRIT wins in style
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Welcome to Britain's most unaffordable spot - it's not London
A new study of house prices to earnings ratios across the UK reveals the top 5 most unaffordable places to live
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'Jihadi John' Identified As Computer Programmer
The Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" has been identified as a Londoner called Mohammed Emwazi. Emwazi was born in Kuwait and comes from a well-to-do family, according to the Washington Post. He grew up in northwest London and graduated from the University of Westminster with a degree in computer programming. Aged 27, he is believed to have travelled to Syria in 2012 and to have joined Islamic State (IS) later.
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Madonna says 'Intolerance' in Europe 'feels like Nazi Germany'
Rebounding from her stage tumble at the Brit awards, pop star Madonna told French radio Thursday that "intolerance" was now so high in France and Europe that "it feels like Nazi Germany."
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Labour Candidate Steps Down After 72 Hours
The Labour candidate selected to fight Respect's George Galloway in Bradford West has stepped down just 72 hours after she was selected. Amina Ali, who had been a councillor from Tower Hamlets in London, tweeted: "I would like to stop the rumour mill, I have stepped down".
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J. Lo & Ben Affleck Had A Moment At The Oscars
If you thought John Travolta's stunt was this year's biggest Oscar scene, you may be wrong. The AP reports Jennifer Lopez and former fiancé Ben Affleck shared a moment at the awards show. The moment reportedly took place just after Citizenfour won the award for Best Documentary, according to the
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Beware, the sheep-eating plants of Chile
Was The Day of the Triffids in fact a documentary based on the life cycle of the Puya chilensis? The macabre desert plant appears to have a knack for luring sheep to their deaths and then feasting on the remains. The Puya chilensis grows in arid climates along hillsides in Chile. The Puya chilensis traps the animals in the sharp spikes that protrude from its base.
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Justices appear to favor Muslim denied job over headscarf
WASHINGTON (AP) — Have you heard the one about the Sikh, the Hasidic Jew, the Muslim and the nun who walked into a job interview?
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Comet to be visible from Earth after surviving encounter with sun
An unusual comet that is unlike anything seen before by scientists is expected to become visible from Earth in the coming weeks. Nasa and the European Space Agency's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also called SOHO, spotted the comet as it skimmed past the sun. The is not thought to belong to any known family of comets and scientists have been left baffled as to how it survived its close encounter with the sun.
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Train returns to China from Spain on the world's longest rail route
The railways, dubbed the new 'silk route' connects the coastal Chinese town of Yiwu with Madrid, passing through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France.
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Windows 10: release date, price, news and features
Update: Following the January 21 event, check out our post-event chats with Microsoft execs, like CEO Satya Nadella sharing his thoughts on the nitty gritty of Windows 10, which you can read below. With Windows 8 and now Windows 8.1, Microsoft tried – not entirely successfully – to make tablets part of a continuum that goes from number-crunching workstations and high-end gaming rigs through all-in-one touchscreen media systems and thin-and light notebooks down to slender touch tablets. Recently, Microsoft publicly made the first steps to doing just that, with Windows 10. Microsoft's Windows 10 Technical Preview is available through its Windows Insider Program website.
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Inside Beyonce and Jay-Z's seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom LA mansion
Take a tour around the power-couple's current living space. It's everything you imagined it would be.
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How to Spot a Pickpocket
In recent years, Barcelona has earned a reputation as a pickpocket’s paradise. Just ask members of the Guardia Urbana, Barcelona’s street-level task force devoted to stopping petty theft. Keep your bag around your neck, and your wallet in your front pocket. This sounds obvious, but you’d be surprised at how many tourists you can spot on a crowded street with a bulging wallet peeking out of a back pocket or a purse draped lazily on one shoulder.
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Accountant told to demolish leisure centre he built in his back garden
The luxury 'playhouse' with bowling alley was built without planning permission
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Prosecutor: Mom craved attention, poisoned child with salt
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A woman accused of force feeding her 5-year-old son salt through a stomach tube reveled in the attention that a sickly child brought her, a prosecutor said Thursday at her trial.
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Paul Hollywood's wife Alex proves she's the hottest cook in the kitchen
ALEX Hollywood – wife of Great British Bake Off’s Paul - is reminiscing about how the pair first met in Cyprus where she was working as a scuba diving instructor and he as head baker at a five star hotel. It was summer 1996 and, too early for most holidaymakers, Paul would frequently be Alex’s only charge on the first dive boat to leave for sea each morning. Keen to impress her with more than his deep sea diving prowess, Paul would arrive on his bike bearing gifts of warm, buttery croissants straight from the oven. “They were filled with a wonderful ganache made from champagne, melted chocolate, cream, and about two zillion calories,” Alex recalls.
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Taylor Swift: She's the woman of the year
Sam Smith handed Taylor Swift her gong at the Elle Style Awards.
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The United States of America Questions the Credibility of the European Union
Vladimir Putin's manoeuvres cast a new light on the state of EU-US relations. If you are American you do not have to be Senator John McCain, who wants to arm the Ukrainians, to question the validity of Europe's fond belief that reliance on soft power fits the bill for the 21st century. The EU's efforts to apply pressure on Moscow through a mix of diplomacy and sanctions are being watched quizzically in Washington. On a recent visit to DC I was struck by how the Ukraine is seen as an embattled classic nation state on the front line of Western interests.
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