By now, most of us can list Jeremy Clarkson’s more offensive recent utterances: the “n word”, most unforgivably; the “slope” on a Burmese bridge; and, with Top Gear co-presenter Richard Hammond, playing Beavis to Clarkson’s Butthead, those lazy, flatulent Mexicans. Plus an entire “special” that spent something like an hour taking the mickey out of the Indians.
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European foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, where the authorities have launched a crackdown on pro-Russian separatists.
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President Goodluck Jonathan has set up a fact-finding committee to find out the circumstances surrounding the reported abduction of about 234 secondary school girls in Chibok, Borno State.
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The search for Flight MH370 will enter a new phase with intensified searches over a larger area of the south Indian Ocean floor following a trilateral meeting in Canberra between Malaysia, China and Australia.
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Authorities are trying to determine what caused a support frame to collapse during an aerial hair-hanging stunt during a circus performance Sunday, sending eight acrobats crashing to the ground.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/circus-audience-initially-thought-accident-part-act/story?id=23586020
Pro-Russian militants just outside Sloviansk are retreating amid attacks by Ukrainian troops, reports say.
Government forces have taken a TV tower in the suburbs and rebels were pulling back deeper into the city, the Russian Interfax news agency said.
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The battle lines are drawn. On the one hand, the First World War was a necessary struggle and Britain had no alternative but to play its part: on the other, the war was a tragic mess that came about by mistake, and we should have stayed out. Bungling statesmen got us into it, and bungling generals made sure it would be a four-year nightmare of futile slaughter.
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On 24th February 2014 Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed into law the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which criminalises homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Apart from imposing life sentence imprisonment for offenders, the new law prescribes prison sentences of five to seven years for the “promotion” of, “attempts to commit”, “aiding and abetting” and “conspiracy to engage in” homosexuality.
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President Obama ribbed the press a little more than usual at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/05/president-obama-ribs-press-at-correspondents-dinner/
MUMBAI: At least 15 passengers were killed and 87 injured when four bogies of the Diva-Sawantwadi passenger train derailed in Maharashtra on the Konkan Railway route on Sunday.
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