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Government announce climb down on plan to curb BBC power in face of stars’ revolt
Move comes after actors, including Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and James Nesbitt, publically condemned the proposals that will form the basis of the corporation’s next Royal Charter
Did a young schoolboy really find a lost Mayan city - or just a field?
Sceptics cast doubt on 15-year-old William Gadoury's discovery
Hannah Fearn Why Emma Watson isn't a hypocrite
If you speak out on one issue, you're expected to be whiter than white in all areas of life. It's another way of silencing her
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Azealia Banks targets Zayn Malik with 'racist' and 'homophobic' abuse
The controversial rapper also made a series of derogatory comments about a 14-year-old actress and her mother
French minister sorry over 'inappropriate' conduct towards journalist
Minister accused of 'twanging a female journalist's knickers'
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1/29 12 May 2016
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World news in pictures
World news in pictures
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1/30 11 May 2016
Indian father Mohinder Singh Gill, 79, and his wife Daljinder Kaur, 70, pose for a photograph as they hold their newborn baby boy Arman at their home in Amritsar. An Indian woman who gave birth at the age of 70 said she was not too old to become a first-time mother, adding that her life was now complete
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2/30 11 May 2016
People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shia district of Sadr City, Iraq
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3/30 10 May 2016
Performers take part in a torchlight parade on Kim Il-Sung square during festivities marking the end of the 7th Workers Party Congress in Kim Il-Sung square in Pyongyang
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4/30 10 May 2016
Tea garden workers carry sacks of tea leaves at Fatikchera tea garden estate on the outskirts of Agartala, India
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5/30 10 May 2016
A police officer takes pictures at the train station after an attack in Munich. One person has been killed and several injured after suspected Islamist stabbed passers-by at a railway station in Grafing
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6/30 10 May 2016
People react as they see North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a mass rally and parade in the capital's main ceremonial square, a day after the ruling party wrapped up its first congress in 36 years by elevating him to party chairman in Pyongyang
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7/30 9 May 2016
A tornado rips through a residential area after touching down south of Wynnewood, Oklahoma
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8/30 9 May 2016
A Jordanian Bedouin sits on a camel in front of the Treasury Building in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. Established as the capital city of the Nabataeans, the rose rock city is Jordan's most popular touristic site and was chosen as one of the seven New Wonders of the World in 2007
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9/30 9 May 2016
Russian servicemen march at Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in Moscow. Russia marks the 71st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II
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10/30 9 May 2016
Egyptian firefighters extinguish fire at the popular market area of al-Atabaa in downtown Cairo. At least 50 people including firefighters suffered minor injuries when a fire spread quickly through a commercial area in downtown Cairo. The fire erupted in a small hotel in the Al-Mosky neighbourhood and moved rapidly to four nearby buildings
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11/30 8 May 2016
Women take part in a procession during the celebration of the Palms and Flowers Festival in Panchimalco, El Salvador
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12/30 8 May 2016
An injured man arrives to a hospital after two buses collided with a fuel tanker on a highway in the central province of Ghazni, Afghanistan
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13/30 7 May 2016
The wildfires glow underneath The Northern Lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, near Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
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14/30 7 May 2016
A competitor walks on tightrope during a performance in Taizhou, China
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15/30 6 May 2016
Mother giant panda Aibang is seen with her newborn cub at a giant panda breeding centre in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
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16/30 6 May 2016
Supporters of India's main opposition Congress party break police barricades during what the party calls as a "Save Democracy" march to parliament in New Delhi, India
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17/30 6 May 2016
A woman is having her hair done during a government organised visit for foreign reporters to the Pyongyang 326 Electric Cable Factory in Pyongyang, North Korea
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18/30 5 May 2016
A woman is carried on a stretcher by medical personnel after she was rescued alive after being trapped in the rubble of a residential house that collapsed during torrential rain in Kenyan capital. The woman was pulled out hours after being located by rescuers who gave her oxygen while they continued efforts to extract her from the ruins of the six-storey building
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19/30 5 May 2016
Lovi Poe, center, the sister of Presidential candidate Grace Poe, leads the symbolic throwing of colored powder as her sister is endorsed by "Kabataan" partylist group, a youth organization trying to campaign for a seat in the Lower House at suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. Poe is running second to front-running candidate Rodrigo Duterte in recent poll surveys leading to Presidential elections
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20/30 4 May 2016
A wildfire moves towards the town of Anzac from Fort McMurray, Alberta. Alberta declared a state of emergency as crews frantically held back wind-whipped wildfires. Unseasonably hot temperatures combined with dry conditions have transformed the boreal forest in much of Alberta into a tinder box
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21/30 4 May 2016
Villarrica Volcano is seen at night from Villarrica national park in Pucon, Chile
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22/30 4 May 2016
Turkish plain clothes police officers clash with protesters during a protests against the fights between ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP) at the parlement last week in Istanbul. Ruling party and opposition Turkish lawmakers exchanged punches and hurled water bottles at each other as a new mass brawl erupted in parliament over changes to the constitution, television broadcasts showed
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23/30 4 May 2016
Sheep skins dry in the sun in Guediawaye on the outskirts of Dakar. The artisanal tanneries contribute to the local leather market
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24/30 4 May 2016
A flamingo rests in the sun in their enclosure at the zoo in Cologne, western German
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25/30 3 May 2016
A youth holds a flare during a protest against the government's planned labour law reforms in Nantes, western France
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26/30 3 May 2016
A boy rides a robot style vehicle outside a shopping mall in Daqing in China
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27/30 3 May 2016
Cubans watch the Chanel performance at the Prado promenade in Havana
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28/30 3 May 2016
A Belgian soldier stands guard outside the partially reopened departure hall of Zaventem international airport near Brussels, Belgium
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29/30 3 May 2016
An activist shouts slogan in front of French Gendarmes during a demonstration against the French labour law proposal in Paris, as the labour reforms law reaches parliament today with 5,000 amendments to be discussed
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30/30 2 May 2016
A child sleeps under a table at the Jorkpan market in Sinkor district in Monrovia
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Benteke gifted equaliser as Reds rescue point against Chelsea
Liverpool 1 Chelsea 1: Hazard's wonderful opener levelled at Anfield after a late Begovic mistake in Klopp's 50th Reds match
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Live updates from Wednesday's three Premier League matches
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Welbeck out for nine months and will miss England's Euro 2016 charge
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The striker hoping to repay Brentford by living up to Vardy billing
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The most valuable football clubs in the world have been announced
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Arsenal have just done something for the 20th consecutive year
Halfpenny misses out as Wales announce squad to tour New Zealand
Sam Warburton is fit to lead the side that will face England in May before embarking on a three-Test tour of New Zealand
John Rentoul PMQs: If I were a Corbyn supporter, I might have my doubts
David Cameron did not satisfactorily answer many of the questions he was asked, but the Labour leader couldn't embarrass him
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Ben Chu If you want to anger China criticise its human rights record
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Hamish McRae There are some surprises on the list of most corrupt countries
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Letters Letters: we abolished Sats and implemented our own methods
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Kate Allen The world turns a blind eye to refugees by calling them terrorists
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Sophia Besch If you're voting Brexit to avoid an EU army, you've been misled
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Cafe Society: Gentle, whimsical and sumptuously-shot
Even if Allen’s energy levels may be dipping, he still knows just how to mix the comedy and the pathos
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Tim Burton has finally commented on the rumoured Beetlejuice sequel
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Get excited for Ben Wheatley’s next film Free Fire
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Deadpool crashed Deadpool's honest trailer because he is that meta
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Johnny Depp fights Nazi sausages in Kevin Smith's Yoga Hosers trailer
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Dwayne Johnson promises Jumanji reboot will 'honour' Robin Williams
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Skepta: Konnichiwa Review
The north London emcee has finally dropped his long-awaited fourth studio album.
Chris Evans's Top Gear finally has a start date
Announced an hour after Jeremy Clarkson revealed his new car show's name
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Peaky Blinders season 3 episode 2 trailer sees return of Tom Hardy
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Rickon Stark actor confirms the fate of Shaggydog in Game of Thrones
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Why is Australia taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest again?
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Game of Thrones's Bran actor teases 'real bombshells' with his visions
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Watching Netflix cuts 6 days of adverts from your life a year
George RR Martin releases new chapter from The Winds of Winter
It follows Arianne Martell are her dealings with the Sand Snakes
Pump up the volume: This season's cuffs are full to capacity
Puffy, fluffy and emphatically out-there – fashion has been fixated on sleeves this season. And judging by the autumn/winter offerings, there’s no sign of abating, says Sarah Young
Seven doughnuts you should be eating for National Doughnut Week
There's no excuse not to
Airport sleeping pods: how to snooze between flights
There's a safe and comfier alternative to napping on a bench in the terminal
Building an eco-home in the garden has put this couple £6m in front
Their landmark Georgian home was an empty nest, so Philip and Caroline Cooper decided to sell-up and keep a plot of land in their garden to build their dream home...
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016: show garden highlights
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Bold and bespoke: Matthew Williamson's hot new furniture range
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Inside Country Life magazine: the Hampshire home of editor Mark Hedges
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Kevin McCloud sails fully sea-faring cardboard houseboat down Thames
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The man who turned a £700 Beetle into £5,000 of furniture
Woman livestreams her suicide on Periscope
More than 1,000 people watched the live broadcast
Government launches 'Verify' scheme to check online identities
In Matthew Blakstad's debut novel Sockpuppet, the Government sets up a digital identity system that suffers a catastrophic failure of trust. Now a real-life version of the system, Verify, has been launched – and those behind it will be hoping that truth is a little more straightforward than fiction
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iPhone SE review: gently-refined handset is the best small phone ever
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Parking apps: We don't care who we pay, we just want to park
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The Misericorsa app urges Roman Catholics to share their good deed
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How to manage menstruation with an app
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How the police's body-worn cameras are changing the justice system
Pokémon Sun and Moon: Starters for new games revealed
Players will be able to choose from Rowlet, Litten and Popplio when they start their quests