FBI Russia probe helped by Australian diplomat tip-off: NYT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat in May 2016 that Russia had political dirt on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

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Extremely Cold Temps Cause a Handful of Deaths Across the US; Cancel New Year’s Eve Celebrations

Already winter-weary parts of the Midwest and East Coast are dealing with a mounting number of weather-related headaches, from highway pileups to frozen pipes and a rash of car thefts. And there’s more to come.

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Reverend Billy Graham Ranks High on America's 'Most-Admired Men' List for Six Decades

Reverend Billy Graham is ranked among America's most-admired men for the 61st time, this year. 

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Judge Rejects Pro-Life Effort to Block Illinois Abortion Law

"Even apart from the sincere moral objections that many folks have to paying for abortions, there is no money in the Illinois state budget to pay for them," said state Rep. Peter Breen, a special counsel for the pro-life Thomas More Society.

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As Deep Freeze Sets in, People Urged to Help Most Vulnerable

The post-Christmas prolonged, dangerously cold weather across half the country has advocates for the homeless scrambling to get people off the streets and local officials urging residents to assist their elderly neighbors.

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Officials: Deadly NYC Fire Lit by Child Playing With Stove

New York City’s deadliest residential fire in decades was accidentally lit by a 3 ½-year-old boy playing with the burners on his mother’s stove, officials said Friday.

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Oregon Bakers Who Refused to Make Gay Wedding Cake Lose Appeal

The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled against Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of the Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery who in 2013 refused to design and bake a cake celebrating a lesbian couple's same-sex wedding.   

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Atlanta Street Preacher Banned from Sharing the Gospel Takes Case to Court

One Atlanta street preacher is taking Georgia authorities to court over efforts to keep him from sharing the Gospel on public sidewalks.  

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Luke Skywalker's Bionic Hand? Artificial Hand Uses Ultrasound for Individual Finger Control

It appears to be a device right out of a Star Wars movie and like the technology in the movies, it reaps the same fantastic results. 

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Food, Showers, Tents: Does the Help Really Help the Homeless?

Mohammed Aly does not see any reason why he shouldn’t try to ease the lives of Orange County’s homeless. But the authorities — and many of his neighbors — disagree.

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Bundle Up: Bitter Cold Weather Takes Hold of Northern US

Bitter cold weather has taken hold of much of the northern United States and is expected to stay put for days to come as two Minnesota cities already have set record low temperatures and a city in Pennsylvania continues to dig out from a record snowfall.

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‘Merry Christmas’ Appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hashtags Hate List

"When the SPLC confuses a cheerful 'Merry Christmas' with an obscenity-laced rant threatening harm to a group of people, it loses all credibility," Mat Staver, chairman of Liberty Counsel, charged.

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Franklin Graham Shares Gospel with Rosie O'Donnell: 'Let Him Heal Your Heart'

Evangelist Franklin Graham has told actress Rosie O'Donnell to "put her faith and trust in Jesus" after she tweeted a message telling House Speaker Paul Ryan to go "straight to hell."

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Candace Cameron Bure's Daughter Takes the Stage at Christmas Eve Service

Taking after her mother, Candace Cameron Bure's daughter has some talents of her own.  

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Record Snow and Arctic Cold Slam the Northern US

It snowed so much in Erie, Pennsylvania that even those sent to clear the roads had to be dug out.  

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Construction Temporarily Stopped at Church Destroyed on 9/11

Construction on a Greek Orthodox church to replace one that was crushed in the Sept. 11 attacks has been temporarily suspended amid rising costs and questions over how donations have been managed.

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The Top 17 Inspirational Stories of 2017

CBN News brought you some remarkable stories over the past year, reporting God's amazing power to redeem and restore. Here's a list of 17 of the best inspirational stories of 2017.

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'Trumpvangelicals' Take Top Spot as Religion News Story of the Year

Last year, the number one religion story of the year was the evangelical support of then-candidate Donald Trump. This year, Trump and evangelicals top the list again, but now it's more about the Trump administration's support of evangelical

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Texas Church Comes Together for Christmas, Remembers Victims

After facing tragedy less than two months ago, First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas remembered the victims of November's mass shooting in a special Christmas ceremony.

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Cities, Volunteers Clash Over Feeding Homeless in Public

When Adele MacLean joined others in an Atlanta park to feed the hungry the Sunday before Thanksgiving, she left with a citation and a summons to appear in court.

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Old Man Winter Makes Its Return Just In Time for Holiday Travel

Much of the country had a White Christmas as winter storms dropped heavy snow from the Pacific Northwest to New England.

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President Trump and His Family Celebrate Christmas in Florida

President Trump and his family had a little fun of their own this Christmas. 

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Protests hit Tehran, two demonstrators reported killed in Iran town

DUBAI (Reuters) - Street protests hit Iran for a third day running on Saturday, spreading to the capital Tehran with crowds confronting police and attacking some state buildings, and a social media report said two demonstrators had been shot dead in a provincial town.

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South Korea seizes another ship suspected of transferring oil to North Korea

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs official said on Sunday.

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Earthquake rattles Athens, no immediate reports of damage

ATHENS (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary reading of 4.6 rattled Athens and central Greece early Sunday, witnesses said, with no immediate reports of damage.

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Special Report: Meet the force behind Zimbabwe's 'Crocodile' president

HARARE (Reuters) - His wife is a beauty queen, his troops unseated Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, and his motorcade is fit for a president. General Constantino Chiwenga, head of the armed forces until earlier this month, is on a roll.

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Probe into deadly fire at U.S. firm’s Philippines offices focuses on possible safety lapses

DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - A government investigator into a blaze that led to the deaths of 37 staff at the southern Philippines offices of an American market research firm says there are indications of fire safety lapses that may have contributed to the tragedy.

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Christians in shock after deadly attack on Coptic Church in Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) - At an hour that Sama'an Farag usually spends leisurely sipping his morning tea, the doorman at the Mar Mina Coptic Church near Cairo found himself springing up to close the doors upon hearing gunshots and the sound of ricocheting bullets.

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Merkel eyes social cohesion as she presses for new government

BERLIN (Reuters) - Conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, under pressure after three months of failing to form a new ruling coalition, on Sunday vowed to address growing social divisions as she worked rapidly to build a stable German government.

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Turkey's Erdogan to discuss Syria with Macron in Paris - source

PARIS (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Paris on Jan. 5 to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, with the conflict in Syria high on the agenda, a source in the French president's office said on Saturday.

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Greek government applies for cancellation of asylum granted to Turkish soldier

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Greek government said on Saturday that it had filed a request for the cancellation of the asylum granted to a Turkish soldier accused of involvement in last year's coup attempt.

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Blaze in Manchester apartment block brought under control

LONDON (Reuters) - Firefighters battled a blaze in an apartment block in central Manchester, northern England, on Saturday, with one person taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation.

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Christian Group Helps Ethiopian Jews Make Aliyah to Israel

Eighty-two Ethiopian Jewish immigrants landed at the Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv last week, bringing to 1,200 the total number of Jews from the East African nation relocated to Israel by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.

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Australia Recruiting Christians Around the World to Pray in the New Year

Christian leaders in Australia are inviting people around the world to pray at sunrise on New Year's Day.

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Operation Blessing Bringing the Gift of Clean Water to Parts of Liberia

Operation Blessing International is providing hundreds of people in Liberia with a much-needed gift -- a reliable source of water.

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President Trump Offers His Condolences in Wake of a Coptic Christian Church Terror Attack

At least 10 people, including eight Coptic Christians, were killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire outside a church in a south Cairo suburb, Egypt’s Health Ministry spokesman said Friday. It was the latest attack targeting the mostly Muslim country’s embattled minority.

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Putin: Supermarket Bombing Was a Terror Attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday's bombing at a St. Petersburg supermarket was a terror attack, adding that another attack had been thwarted.

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ISIS Claims Attack on Kabul Shiite Center, 41 Dead

At least 41 people have been killed and another 84 are seriously hurt after a terror attack Thursday in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul. 

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Watchdog Group Blasts UN for its Most Evil Actions

The United Nations is being called out for what one watchdog group calls the world body's top "evil actions" of the year.  

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Explosion at Russia's St. Petersburg, 10 Hurt

Russian news reports say at least ten people have been injured by an explosion at a supermarket in St. Petersburg.

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China's Christians Won't Let the Government Stop Them From Teaching Kids About Jesus

Churches in a city in southeastern China have been forced to find other ways to teach their kids about religion since the atheist Communist Party has tightened restrictions on faith education and warned against Christianity's influence.

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Horrific Church Bus Crash Kills 20 People in the Philippines on Christmas Day

For many, Christmas is a time of good food, family, games and a load of fun. But in the Philippines tragedy struck a group of Christians on this most special day.

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Report: North Korean Defector Had Anthrax Antibodies in His System

A North Korean soldier who defected this year had traces of anthrax antibodies in his system, according to the South Korean news agency UPI.

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Internationally Famous Soccer Player Announces His Retirement with Christian Message

Brazil's best-known soccer player, Kaká, recently announced his retirement on social media, with a Christian message for his fans.

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US Slashes UN Budget: Will There be More to Come?

The Trump administration has negotiated big cuts in the United Nations budget.

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Christian Businessman’s Christmas Decision Has Him Set to Lose Millions

A Christian businessman is choosing to let his staff head home early this Christmas so that they can spend some quality time with their families, all at a huge cost to his successful business.

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Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist content

Internet firms are "ruthless profiteers" who fail to fight terrorism, the security minister says.

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Holiday promotions can be misleading, says Which?

In half the cases it looked at, Which? found holidays were no more expensive after the promotion period ended.

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Millennials to secure 'inheritance boom'

But a think tank says inheritance will come too late to help young people on to the housing ladder.

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UK stock markets close at a record high

London's FTSE indexes reached new heights after confounding downbeat expectations for the year.

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Exmo Bitcoin exchange manager freed by kidnappers

Exmo has confirmed that Pavel Lerner is safe after reports that he was thrown out of a car.

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Police shoot man dead after alleged Call of Duty 'swatting' hoax

The 28-year-old was shot by police after his address was allegedly given to police in prank call.

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Call for tech giants to face taxes over extremist content

Internet firms are "ruthless profiteers" who fail to fight terrorism, the security minister says.

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Iran protests: 'Iron fist' threatened if unrest continues

After three days of demonstrations, the country's Revolutionary Guard threatens a crackdown.

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Trump's Russia inquiry 'started by Australian tip-off'

An Australian diplomat was told about "dirt" on Hillary Clinton in a London bar, reports say.

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Police shoot man dead after alleged Call of Duty 'swatting' hoax

The 28-year-old was shot by police after his address was allegedly given to police in prank call.

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Greece seeks to cancel Turkish pilot's asylum

The helicopter pilot was among eight Turkish soldiers to flee after the 2016 failed coup there.

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Nepal bans solo climbers from Mount Everest under new rules

New regulations also prohibit double amputee and blind climbers from scaling the world's highest peak.

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Egypt's Morsi sentenced to three years for insulting the judiciary

Mohammed Morsi has been detained since he was overthrown in 2013.

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St Petersburg supermarket bombing suspect arrested

So-called Islamic State has said it was behind the supermarket blast, which injured several people.

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Eric Garner death: Activist daughter Erica dies aged 27

She became a Black Lives Matter activist after her father died while under police restraint.

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Padmavati: Controversial film 'cleared by Indian censor board'

The controversial period epic has sparked protests across India by Hindu and caste groups.

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Sue Grafton: Alphabet crime author dies aged 77

Sue Grafton's series of murder mystery 'alphabet' novels have been translated into 26 languages.

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Unrest at protests in many Iran cities

Footage from the town of Dorud shows a crowd carrying what appears to be a wounded man.

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Call of Duty ‘swatting’ death explained

A man has been arrested after an alleged prank call led to police shooting dead a 28-year-old man.

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How I divorced Islamic State

The ex-wife of an American leader in the Islamic State group describes her journey out of extremism.

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Nerves of steel: High up on China's power lines

Workers on some of the highest electricity cables in the world give a new meaning to "power walking".

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'I just want to see my mum'

Deen Mohammed Noori, a Rohingya, goes from Bradford to a refugee camp in Bangladesh to see his mum.

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Parents prank daughter with joke Christmas present

Parents of a Lorde fan turned her request for concert tickets into a joke that delighted social media.

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Vin Diesel named 2017's biggest box office draw

Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot top a list of 2017's top-grossing actors.

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Teenage kicks

Teenage environmentalist Autumn Peltier will speak in front of the UN General Assembly this spring.

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2018 and Brexit

What are the key dates and developments to watch out for as Britain and the EU move forward?

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Justice denied?

After the end of the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, will wider worldwide justice be done?

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Shared shame

The case of Tyler Haire, a 16 year old locked up for years without trial, reveals a deeper problem.

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Goldman Sachs will lose billions short term on Trump tax reform

US investment giant is the latest to warn of a short-term hit to income from Donald Trump's tax act.

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National Archives: Thatcher and Major clashed over economy

The two had a heated meeting about interest rates in January 1991, newly-released papers reveal.

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Apple apologises for slowing older iPhones down

It says it will slash the price of battery replacements and issue new monitoring software.

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Citizens Advice: Think carefully about gym membership

Six people on average complain about gym membership every day, a charity reveals.

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Uber: Softbank takes large stake in ride-hailing firm

The investment comes as the ride-hailing company concludes a difficult year.

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Mortgage approvals 'lowest for over a year'

The number of new mortgages being approved in November was the lowest since August 2016, according to UK banks.

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Tim Cook required to fly only by private jet

Tim Cook is required to fly on private aircraft for "security and efficiency".

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DFS buys assets from failed Multiyork

DFS Furniture buys store leases, trademark and designs from Multiyork.

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American Airlines sorry over basketball players theft claim

American Airlines wrongly accused two professional basketball players of stealing first class blankets.

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Workplace robots could increase inequality, warns IPPR

A think tank says replacing low-skilled workers with robots could mean bigger salary gaps in workplaces.

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Rogue landlords targeted by government

Landlords in England who want to rent a property to five or more people need a licence under plans.

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UK enjoyed 'greenest year for electricity ever' in 2017

Renewables provided more electricity than coal for 90% of year, National Grid figures show.

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HMRC employs farmyard ducks to 'niggle' taxpayers

Two farmyard ducks have been reminding people to pay their tax - but have now retired to the country

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Exmo Bitcoin exchange manager kidnapped in Kiev

Reports say men in balaclavas kidnapped Pavel Lerner in the Ukrainian capital two days ago.

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Shoplifters taking under £200 worth of goods 'not pursued'

Retailers warn a rise in shoplifting is partly fuelled by police not investigating smaller thefts.

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Tesla's Elon Musk promises pick-up truck and new features

Elon Musk promises a pick-up truck and a range of new features for existing Tesla vehicles.

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Hammond challenged to release Brexit studies

MPs claim they will be "hamstrung" if they do not get to see the Treasury's Brexit analysis.

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Planning Africa's smart cities

African cities are getting "smart" by embracing technology and improving efficiency.

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Immunotherapy: Using our immune system to fight cancer

Immunotherapy is a breakthrough technology that scientists hope will one day lead to cures for previously untreatable cancers.

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'Shout it from the rooftops, promote your idea'

Gerry Cottle, the boss of Rooftop Film Club, explains what he learnt from his circus owner father.

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Why gin and tonic has become more expensive

Drinkers are becoming more adventurous and it seems they're willing to pay for new tastes and flavours.

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How 'posh coffee' is helping farmers

Consumers are increasingly willing to pay more for ethically sourced coffee, and it's benefiting everyone from the farms who grow the beans to the trendy cafes selling the stuff.

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For Young Coaches, Tradition Is Among the Toughest Opponents

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What’s on TV Saturday: ‘High Maintenance’ and ‘Mean Girls’

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Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful

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What Happened at the Bronx Fire

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City of the Future? Humans, Not Technology, Are the Challenge in Toronto

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20 Great Reads You Probably Missed in 2017

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