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Thursday
28
April
2016
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One of last paediatricians in rebel-held area of Syrian city among the dead, as UN envoy says ceasefire is now ‘barely alive’
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US president has introduced federal-level reforms, but without getting states to do likewise their impact will be minimal
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The Drug Enforcement Agency has been called in by the county sheriff to investigate Prince’s recent presciption history. Meanwhile, with no will existing, an administrator has taken charge of the singer’s $300m estate
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The Canadian artist’s success at spreading both his sound and self far and wide owes much to his desire to be everything to everybody
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Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon are all superb as the family tearing one another apart in a dark production of Eugene O’Neill’s finest play
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Fishing for feminists?
Eva WisemanA hoaxer is caught just in time – but it could have been so different -
She stunned the world with her magnum opus Lemonade and now Beyoncé’s new world tour puts the furious politics of black womanhood centre stage
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The Golden State Warriors made light work of Houston while their were vital wins for the Hornets and Trail Blazers
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On Thursday, Wentz and Goff will be picked either first or second by the Rams or the Eagles. Now they’ll be forever connected as a rare quarterback tandem
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Former MLB star Curt Schilling has attacked ESPN for double standards after he was fired over a transphobic Facebook post
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David Lengel: A healthy cynicism of Arrieta’s otherworldly achievements is good for the game. Plus, Maeda-mania draws near, Rob Manfred takes on the Goose and Thor takes Manhattan
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Ted Cruz and Fiorina are university-bred titans who excel at academic theory, but they are out of their depth when it comes to relating to other people
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Despite all the feminist progress we’ve made, women and girls are still subject to mixed messages about how their bodies must be perfect
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Three aides unable to get home for the holiday hosted the future president at a hotel ceremony in 2008. It became a yearly ritual, leading to the first White House Seder
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Police say the boy, who is expected to recover, was carrying a ‘a replica gun’; shooting happened one year on from Freddie Gray funeral and ensuing riot
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Deaths of eight prisoners, including two Australians, prompted a huge outcry – and a pause in executions. But now foreigners on death row fear their own sentences could be just weeks away
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Despite weak inflation and household spending, central bank decides against fresh measures to stimulate economy, pushing the yen up
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in brief
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Comedy set in 1984 centres on ambitious intern who must convince Reagan he is playing the US president in a movie after the politician is affected by Alzheimer’s
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Toy company chiefs say order was blocked by employee who misinterpreted rule on political neutrality, but deny they were influenced by China concerns
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The proliferation of television has brought more extreme sex, the invention of ‘sexposition’ and portrayals of sexuality that haven’t been seen before
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On the 20th anniversary of the film starring Tom Cruise, the director publishes the exhaustive 5,000-word mission statement he wrote for his crisis-hit sports agent
in depth
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India is trying to stop surrogacy for foreign couples – purportedly to prevent the exploitation of poor women. But will this make matters worse?
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When city planner Robert Moses proposed a road through Greenwich Village in 1955, he was fought by local resident Jane Jacobs. It was the start of a decades-long struggle for swaths of the city
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Why so many Iranians have come to hate the hijab
Denise Hassanzade Ajiri for Tehran BureauOver the years the state crackdown on women’s dress has become more of a show to placate the country’s hardline base. Our correspondent shares stories from her personal repertoire illustrating the point -
Bloods and Crips say a truce formed a year ago continues to inspire them to reduce violence in the city
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A remarkable exhibition in a church in Roeselare, West Flanders, compares cycling to religion
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A year after officials announced that chronic homelessness had been nearly wiped out, a battle is brewing over the future of the largest shelter in the state
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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?Polio, guinea worm and measles: the fight to make diseases disappear
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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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A group of disparate artists have all found something eerie and unknowable in apparently benign landscapes – even when the sun is shining
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Carly Fiorina appears so happy to be announced as Ted Cruz’s potential presidential running mate that she breaks into song during her acceptance speech.
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With works by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Peter Lindbergh and Guy Bourdin, as well as contemporary photographers such as Miles Aldridge and David LaChapelle, these are arguably the images which defined modern fashion photography as we know it
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Russian president Vladimir Putin watches the first rocket launch from the new Vosochny cosmodrome in the country’s far east on Thursday
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Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clash at a rally in Anaheim, California on Tuesday, with pepper spray being used against each other
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On a visit to a US gun range, photographer Jane Hilton decided to do some shooting of a different sort. But rather than focusing in on the people wielding the weapons, she concentrated on the targets
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Tom Hanks says that he bet £100 on Leicester City for Premier League glory at the start of the season
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She was London’s Young Poet Laureate, becoming a voice for its marginalised people – now her work has been recited by the queen of pop
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Video games pioneer Nolan Bushnell is planning to revive the ‘hardcore fundamental game design’ of arcades to make mobile titles worth playing
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The General will be a gritty take on the former US president’s time as leader of the colonial forces during the revolutionary war
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Having conquered pop and musical theatre, Lauper went to Nashville to record a country album, Detour. She talked about working with legends and why she chose to perform in a state with anti-LGBT laws
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