News in pictures
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Arsenal ban BBC drama by Any Means from using official kit after storyline insulted club and depicted fans as criminals
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Bites reported across London and Kent as south east sees influx of Britain's most poisonous spider
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Kenya shopping mall attack: Stories of the heroes and the victims - From a boy who took on terrorists to the off-duty SAS soldier
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Kenya shopping mall attack: Four-year-old British boy freed and given Mars bar after telling armed militant 'you’re a bad man'
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Kenya shopping mall attack: Hero former Royal Marine re-entered Westgate shopping centre 12 times to save 100 people from terrorists
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Bites reported across London and Kent as south east sees influx of Britain's most poisonous spider
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Kenya shopping mall attack: Four-year-old British boy freed and given Mars bar after telling armed militant 'you’re a bad man'
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Lovers to have sex in front of live audience on new Mariella Frostrup show
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Review: Downton Abbey season 4 premiere - A fascinating insight into the quiet violence of the class system
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Fake 'waterproof iPhone' ad tricks users into destroying their smartphones
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Two men in the conflict who didn’t deserve their fate
Waiting in Dubai to be freed to grieve: the man whose bride fell to honeymoon death
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The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery: A modern classic takes shape
Zaha Hadid's new creation is unveiled tomorrow. It shows how to update but not upstage a revered building
Dirty tricks and private parties marr elections at Delhi’s elite Gymkhana Club
Glamour and gutter politics clash as four candidates vie to head the 100-year-old high-life establishment
The Pussy Riot prison diaries
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Jimi Hendrix: 'The more famous he got, the less happy he became'
Leon Hendrix tells Kunal Dutta that even now there is bitterness in the family over his brother's legacy
Wait a minute, the children aren't in bed... (they’re watching TV on their tablet)
The BBC is mulling drastic action to drag children away from their computers
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Has Luis Suarez finally learnt his lesson?
Even manager Brendan Rodgers admits to being unsure if the explosive Uruguayan has changed but he knows that Liverpool depend on him
Dennis Bergkamp: Rows with Wenger were childish, but they came from the heart
The Arsenal legend recalls the disputes with his former manager that marred his latter days at the club
Wiggo has his mojo back
After injury and illness made it a year to forget, a rejuvenated Sir Bradley is now on a mission to bring home his first rainbow jersey in Wednesday's time trial
'I had five sons, now I have four'
Syria's senior cleric pardons the rebels who killed his son
Adoption parties: the best way to find a child a family?
Critics have called them 'beauty parades' – but do they work?
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