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Stop war drills and we'll stop nuclear tests, North Korea tells US after missile launchForeign minister makes remarks in western interview after regime tested submarine-launched missile off east coast in breach of UN sanctions -
Cremation and funeral held as death baffles those who witnessed a clean lifePrivate farewell ceremony held, says publicist, as friends, colleagues and Minnesota people say he was healthy in his habits contrary to drug speculation
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Beyoncé launches new 'visual album' on HBO and TidalSixth album is broadcast in full on Saturday night, with a video for each song, and then made available on streaming service Tidal
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The gun owner who developed his own count of gun violence in the USAfter finding holes in national gun statistics in the wake of Sandy Hook, Mark Bryant, who has been shooting guns since he was five, decided to keep track himself
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Immigrant who lied to join marines is naturalizedDaniel Torres, once an undocumented immigrant who ‘wanted to earn my place in the United States’, used a fake birth certificate to serve in Iraq
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Study on Game of Thrones nudity backs Emilia Clarke's callResearch reveals that there have been 60 flashes of female breasts in the HBO show so far, but only a pair of penises
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Listening to Obama makes me want to be American for a dayListening to the US president, you feel like he believes what he’s saying and he’s committed to achieving change
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Every album ratedThe Purple One’s discography rarely dipped below sublime sex-funk. We rank all 37 LPs from his polymathic 80s masterwork Sign O’ The Times to 2003’s saxophone-heavy N.E.W.S.
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When I saw Prince, I saw a vital new black masculinityUnlike many rappers, he embodied a sensuality that made room for vulnerability, ambiguity and fluidity
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UFC 197: Jon Jones defeats Ovince Saint Preux – as it happenedRound-by-round report: Will Jon Jones make a winning return to the octagon after a 15-month layoff? Follow all the action from Las Vegas with Josh Gross
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GGG defends titles with two-round destruction of Dominic WadeGolovkin defends middleweight titles with dominant performance against mandatory challenger
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Orlando Pride shine before record crowd, auguring well for women's gameSimon Veness: An crowd of 23,403 turned up for the expansion Orlando Pride’s inaugural home match, a sign the women’s game is discovering real traction
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Martial takes Manchester United past Everton to final at the lastA moment’s hesitation by Phil Jagielka allowed Anthony Martial to score in stoppage time as Manchester United beat Everton 2-1 in their FA Cup semi-final at Wembley
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President Hillary Clinton would be historic. Let's not lose sight of thatFor her detractors on the left who say they want a woman, just not this one, I have to ask: how long are you willing to wait?
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Prince, the purple unicornA rare creature who could sing, play instruments, write hits, produce albums, dance and all the while look great doing it: I don’t think we’ll see his like again
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Father was 'ticking time bomb', says daughter, after six die in murder-suicideDaughter says Wayne Anthony Hawes, whose body was recovered in his home, ‘made threats before but we never thought it would be at this capacity’
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Drivers' union hopes dashed by two big setbacksAs a lawsuit against the company was settled, a lawmaker said she would suspend a push for collective bargaining among independent contractors
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London cat killer mystery deepens as charities investigate 100 animal deathsPet owners warned as widespread series of mutilations continues across London region, with foxes, rabbits and birds found killed in similar fashion
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Ecuador earthquake death toll rises to nearly 650President Rafael Correa describes ‘sad days for the homeland’ in TV broadcast as 130 remain missing following 7.8 magnitude quake
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in brief
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The myths debunkedFroom boosting your IQ level to lowering your blood pressure, how much do you really know about sex?
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The au pairOne friend knows her host father is having an affair, another says the teenage daughter and mother haven’t spoken in months
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Yotam Ottolenghi on his new food heroesBeing a judge for the BBC Food & Farming awards has introduced me to a whole new world of food products, from Hebridean smoked fish to Welsh chorizo and cheshire cheese
in depth
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Palestinians create seed bank to save their farming heritageIn the birthplace of agriculture, traditional crops are dying out. But one woman has a plan to preserve them
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10 epic long-distance walks around the worldFrom the Highlands to the Himalayas, these hikes take in some of the most spectacular landscapes
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Cooling market may get icier thanks to 'dirty money' crackdownThere are warning signs that the luxury property market is coming down from a high, and calls for greater transparency of ownership may topple it further
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Is this it, for the rest of my days?He plays the violent lead in Peaky Blinders. But as he turns 40, the actor is starting to contemplate what comes next
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Could your marriage last 80 years?Getting married used to mean a promise of 40 years, if you were lucky – increased life expectancy means it could be much longer. Will your relationship go the distance?
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MIA's Black Lives Matter faux pas shows she doesn't know her historyMuslim and African American struggles have been aligned for years, yet MIA setting them up as binary opposites is a falsehood that’s been exploited before
Millions saved: studies in global health
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Eradicating an illness requires tremendous effort from healthcare experts, government leaders and local communities. How close are we to wiping out sickness worldwide?Disappearing diseases: the global fight against polio, guinea worm and measles -
Ambitious projects in African and Asian countries have seen success, thanks to improved information-gathering processesHow smartphones and data are helping the world’s disease-troubled areas -
We can learn from programs that practically wiped out meningitis A in regions of Africa, greatly reduced traffic casualties in Vietnam and kept Kenyan orphans in schoolsMotorcycle safety and more signs of a global health revolution – podcast -
The Meningitis Belt, composed of 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, experiences an outbreak of meningitis A every five to eight years. African leaders had to unite to find an affordable solutionFighting disease in Africa's Meningitis Belt – video
video & pictures
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The collages of New Hampshire artist Vivienne StraussNew Hampshire-based artist Vivienne Strauss’s unusual series of collages combines birds with vintage motors
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Sun worshippers in the MedFrench photographer Anaïs Boileau shows women living the good life in southern France and Spain, amid brightly coloured architecture and azure skies
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Barack Obama's visit to the UKParties, princes and politics feature during the president and first lady's three-day visit
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Humvees fall from sky after failed US army airdropThree Humvees belonging to the 173rd airborne brigade crash to earth in a drop by US aircraft on 11 April
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Watch weekend two liveThe acts head back to the desert, but you can watch from the comfort of home on our livestream. LCD Soundsystem headline Friday night, Guns N’ Roses take top billing on Saturday, and Calvin Harris will drop his EDM bombs on Sunday
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Photographs of the weekThe death of Prince, the Ecuador earthquake, the continuing refugee crisis in Europe - the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
what to watch
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Dud follow-up to a film no one likedNow Snow White is awol, this dreary and incoherent CGI mashup of plots from Frozen, Narnia and The Incredibles really cannot justify its existence
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Michael Shannon resurrects the KingThe actor underplays Presley to great effect in Liza Johnson’s entertaining imagining of the legendary meeting between the president and the rock icon
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Tom Hanks presides over meandering messHanks is stellar playing an exasperated businessman waiting in Saudi Arabia to meet with the region’s king in hectic adaptation of Dave Eggers’s novel
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At the shallow endFrom the hi-tech iPad art to the paintings of shimmering swimming pools, this film portrait is an amiable celebration of David Hockney, but it never goes quite deep enough, writes Peter Bradshaw
people
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Pearl Mackie announced as new companionThe 41st guest in the Tardis, who has previously appeared in daytime soap Doctors, says she is ‘incredibly excited’ to be joining the show
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Success is gossamer, it's luckThe actor discussed his most memorable roles and the minefield that is the making of a feature film during a Q&A session with John Oliver
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The songs try to say important things with lightnessThe singer, who is about to be 70, on bardic poetry, a drugs sting and ‘Mellow Yellow’ sung by kids
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Award-winning Guardian reporter David Beresford dies aged 68Beresford, known for his writing about the Northern Ireland Troubles and the end of apartheid, has died in Johannesburg
the big picture
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The 20 photographs of the weekThe death of Prince, the Ecuador earthquake, the continuing refugee crisis in Europe - the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
The splinter is coming Republican race is a real life Game of Thrones plot
Bernie Sanders Bid for Baltimore black vote highlights struggles
Trump, cliques, success Demise of a secretive Hollywood club
Utah Why online voting in state that Cruz swept was so flawed