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Nigerian husband-and-wife team Augustine and Gift Abu speak out against female genital mutilation and educate cutters in new ways to make a living
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Nigerian husband-and-wife team Augustine and Gift Abu speak out against female genital mutilation and educate cutters in new ways to make a living
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A passenger train plunged into a swollen creek after a fallen tree reportedly derailed carriages in California on Monday night
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Kesha accepted the Human Rights Campaign’s Visibility Award at the 2016 Nashville Equality Dinner, telling her audience: ‘Don’t be afraid to speak up’
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The minister for women found herself outnumbered on Q&A with even the right-wing radio host Alan Jones saying ‘I certainly hope so’ when asked if he was a feminist
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The political success of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not uniquely American, argues Gary Younge
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Matthew Taylor argues that social mobility in unequal society makes us miserable
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We are in danger of making censorship the standard response to anything that offends, argues Julie Bindel
spotlight
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Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews the week’s TV, fearing for his job after the launch of pundit-and-an-autocue TV review show Too Much TV on BBC2
sport
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Former tennis world No1 Maria Sharapova announced on Monday that she had failed a drug test at this year’s Australian Open
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Victoria Pendleton says she will be taking part in Cheltenham festival’s St James’s Place Foxhunters Chase on Monday
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Peyton Manning officially announced his retirement from pro football on Monday after 18 years in the NFL, saying ‘there’s something about 18 years … 18 is a good number’
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Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Noosa Festival of Surfing in Queensland sees professional surfers, amateurs and dogs taming the waves
technology
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Britain’s trails mapped with Google Trekker – video
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Apple’s general counsel Bruce Sewell reads from a paper copy of his testimony in front of the US Congress, after his iPad appears to fail
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Apple’s general counsel spoke to the House judiciary committee on Tuesday about the ongoing disagreement with the FBI over phone encryption
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Speaking to an audience in Berlin, the Facebook founder and CEO discussed the harder approach the social network is taking to hate speech on the platform
culture
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Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews the week’s TV, fearing for his job after the launch of pundit-and-an-autocue TV review show Too Much TV on BBC2
interviews
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Actor Jonas Nay, who plays spy Martin Rauch in Channel 4’s cold war drama Deutschland 83, talks to Owen Jones about how much Germany has changed in a generation and his concerns about the rise of the far right in Europe
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The star of Truth, a biopic about the CBS journalists who questioned George W Bush’s military service record and were vilified by right-wing bloggers, talks to Catherine Shoard about the slippery nature of truth on the internet
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The Yorta Yorta rapper and the Bangladeshi-Australian comedian explain while they won’t be taking part in any Australia Day celebrations
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Sir David Attenborough tells George Monbiot that the British public is better informed about the environment than ever before
life & style
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Stella McCartney’s latest fashion collection reaches the catwalk on Monday at Paris fashion week
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After all the hubbub about the new Barbie Fashionista dolls, the Guardian ordered a few and asked some kids what they thought of the variety in look and body shape of the dolls
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The year of the monkey is celebrated in Hong Kong on Monday, as residents see in the Lunar New Year at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
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A Perth cyclist’s on-bike camera has captured footage of a driver in a four-wheel-drive reversing towards a group of riders in the Perth Hills suburb of Glen Forrest
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A refugee in Istanbul, astronaut Muhammed Faris reflects on his exile from the beloved country he once saw from space
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