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Rosetta mission Lander’s tight spot on comet prompts tough decisions
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Michael Garcia has attacked the conclusions reached by Fifa's judge into his World Cup bid inquiry
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Recording purporting to be of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released after rumours he was injured or killed in air strike
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Amazon, which earlier pulled several of Hachette’s books from its inventory, will resume selling all of Hachette’s catalogue
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Officers and firefighters search Seine-et-Marne district after resident takes photo of suspected big cat then raises alarm
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Labour leader fights back against criticism and bad poll ratings with speech saying he will stand up to irresponsible businesses
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General Martin Dempsey tells House committee that he would consider abandoning Obama’s pledge and send troops to fight Isis in Iraq
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Conservatives received £6.8m in donations between July and September, Labour £3.2m, Lib Dems £2.7m and Ukip £98,000
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Figures show more than 30,000 tenants thrown out by end of September, which social landlords say is due to bedroom tax
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London mother Amal El-Wahabi gets two-year prison term for cash plot involving husband who went to Syria to fight for Isis
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Tory MP describes trauma of being exposed by scandal in which he sent naked pictures of himself to reporter posing as activist
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PM may feel vindicated about opposing Juncker’s appointment as EC president given row over Luxembourg’s lax tax regime
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Scale of gifts given to Scottish National party put Labour under pressure to match that spending during the election campaign
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Authorities have blamed adulterated antibiotics and said second camp was an unauthorised money-making racket
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Médecins Sans Frontières to start three trials in treatment centres run by volunteers in west Africa
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Mediterranean sea skirmish that military calls ‘terrorist incident’ leaves eight personnel missing and 32 assailants captured
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Report by charity criticises ‘head in the sand’ policy on benefit sanctions as being behind significant increase in food poverty
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Supermarket teams up with Royal British Legion to retell story of Christmas Day football match, with all profits from a £1 chocolate bar going to veterans’ charity
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Oliver Wainwright: As the Lego-loving, mountain-making hero of Danish architecture descends on London for the first time, take a look at his most outlandish projects
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Despite vows of a move towards more democratic governance, Burma struggles to emerge from 50 years of military rule
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Paris court orders parent company to remove links across global network, following right to be forgotten online ruling. By Owen Bowcott and Kim Willsher
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Ian Jennings, 47, faces custodial sentence after being more than three times over limit while flying charter plane from Spain
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Total sales of contemporary art pieces come in at $852m as separate Warhol of Marlon Brando sells for nearly $70m
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Announcement on capping carbon emissions gets largely positive coverage in national media
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Invited by Labour interim leader Jackie Baillie to describe himself in one word, outgoing SNP leader says: ‘no’
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Deputy prime minister says Philip Hammond’s remarks on Britain’s overseas aid commitment were ‘a little bizarre’
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Chief executive Andy Clarke attributed Asda’s relatively strong performance to offering its customers consistently low prices
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Arrest had been planned and was not made in response to any immediate threat to public safety, say Thames Valley police
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Former prime minister will say UK and union are heading for irreparable split unless immigration concerns are addressed
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More than 22,000 former patients of banned dentist Desmond D’Mello recalled to check for possible infections
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Thirteen people arrested for offences including trafficking people for exploitation and conspiracy to breach immigration law
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Coastguard suspends major sea search for ferry passenger, after witness had reported seeing a woman go overboard
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Lawyer Mark Lewis says he has been contacted by three people since airing of Panorama exposé of Mazher Mahmood
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Ventures Africa’s rich list underlines Nigeria’s economic dominance in the continent – and South Africa’s fall from the top
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He had the biggest album of the noughties and has dabbled in musicals, movies and mentoring. But could the R&B star be at a career crossroads? ‘Music is being used as free goods,’ he tells us, before announcing that his next single will be free with Cheerios
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The G20 annual forum is taking place in Brisbane. Watch our quick guide to understand who's in it, what it does and why
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Benedict Cumberbatch is utterly convincing as Alan Turing, the mathematician who did more than anyone to defeat Hitler but who was destroyed by homophobia, writes Peter Bradshaw
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But the social network’s new ‘personalised video cards’ are as much about celebrating the power of its archives. By Stuart Dredge
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Romans, Nazis, Victorian-era Brits, noughties cat-burglars – they have all stolen priceless works. Here are the most shocking art thefts of the last two millennia, writes Ivan Lindsay
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Overrated films There Will be Blood: this epic drama was truly awful
Daniel Day-Lewis may have won an Oscar for his bow-legged, Selleck-moustached performance, but don’t be fooled: Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic drama was truly awful, writes Peter Walker -
GuardianWitness Recipe swap: peanut butter
For your chance to be crowned Guardian home cook of the year, send us your PEANUT BUTTER recipes. Share your recipes – and tell us a bit about them – by noon on Wednesday 19 November and Eve O’Sullivan will choose her favourites to print in the Cook section of the Guardian on Saturday 29 November. Flo Cornish/GuardianWitness
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Felicity Cloake: Is this comfort food of the old school the ultimate winter soup?
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Jonathan Jones: Photographs can be powerful, beautiful, and capture the immediacy of a moment like nothing else. But they make poor art when hung on a wall like paintings
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Former home of painter Frederick Leighton is the backdrop for billionaire’s private collection of paintings
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Is this an exercise in revenge or self-examination? Journalist Hugo Borst tries to annihilate Man Utd’s would-be saviour. By Roddy Doyle
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Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels resume their slapstick double-act 20 years on, but despite some inspired work with a hot dog, this half-assed sequel leaves you feeling numb and number
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Rebecca Nicholson: A second excursion to the landmark London store has limited charm, but watching owners trade high-value items for dirty dosh is gripping
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Standing in for the injured Milos Raonic, David Ferrer won the first set, before Kei Nishikori’s extra class told; he finished with a flourish to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-1
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Football Weekly Extra Fifa's World Cup whitewash!
Podcast: Fifa in crisis following its report into the decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup. Plus: David Moyes at Real Sociedad, and previews of Scotland v Ireland and the rest of the Euro 2016 qualifiers
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England suffered another blow on Thursday morning when Andros Townsend pulled out of the squad to face Slovenia and Scotland
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Chelsea are confident Cesc Fàbregas will be fit to start their next Premier League game despite the midfielder withdrawing from the Spain squad
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Wigan have sacked manager Uwe Rösler, four days after a resounding vote of confidence from chairman Dave Whelan
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Rohit Sharma became the first player to hit two ODI double centuries in helping India to 404 for 5 against Sri Lanka in Kolkata
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England have named Anthony Watson on the right wing for Saturday’s match against South Africa at Twickenham in the only change to the team that was defeated by New Zealand
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Classic YouTube: Also featuring big cricketing hits for commentators, haka responses and the rocket-powerered bicycle
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The Republic of Ireland manager O’Neill says he has been fully briefed and both he and the FAI are behind Keane after the incident
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The Arsenal forward Mesut Özil has admitted that he will be unavailable for another seven weeks with the knee ligament injury that has ruled him out since early October
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Pakistan continued to dominate at their adopted home in the United Arab Emirates by defeating New Zealand by 248 runs in the first Test
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New Zealand fly-half Daniel Carter will start his first Test in almost a year, and captain Richie McCaw will play at blindside flanker for the first time, when the All Blacks meet Scotland on Saturday
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Students and parents turn up in huge numbers – but open days are often just a facade that hides the less attractive aspects of the university
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Boyd’s new short story, The Vanishing Game, was not only commissioned by the firm but is ‘an act of homage’ to the 4x4, writes Alison Flood
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Dominion, London
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The comedian opens up about forsaking alcohol for laughs, his PowerPoint double act … and his cat
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Rio finally gets its first nudist beach following a campaign by activists
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Sweden voted to join the EU exactly two decades ago. Since then one of the country's most famous exports, Ikea, has flourished in Europe
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What sort of Napoleon does our generation want? This is a fast-paced account, written from inside the imperial entourage. By Mark Mazower
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The story of a game comes alive weeks after a release, when players have established themselves in the world. By Keith Stuart
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When a naked picture circulates around a school, the battle lines are drawn, girl against girl. Is this what feminism is now? Evan Placey’s play asks uncomfortable questions
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Peter Morgan, who wrote The Queen, and Billy Elliot’s Stephen Daldry, team up for broadcaster’s first UK production. By John Plunkett
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan: Don't believe everything you read about the trade unions – particularly if it's in the Daily Mail
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Ally Fogg: In making the first world war beautiful to flog groceries the film-makers have disrespected the millions who suffered in the trenches
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David G Victor: A shocking emissions agreement starts the clock for an even bigger deal next year in Paris. Can superpowers and environmental leaders learn to make the most of secret, bottom-up negotiations?
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Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy: Her Paper magazine photos get labeled ‘tacky’ commercialism. Nicki Minaj is accused of ‘flaunting’ her famed posterior. But topless Keira Knightley is art and progress? Let’s get real
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Eben Moglen: The state’s anti-privacy bandwagon uses the most misleading language to blackmail technology companies into illegal surveillance
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Edward Dark: The survival of Assad’s regime and growth of jihadist groups are horrible prospects. International actors need to put aside self-interest and start meaningful talks
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Guardian head of photography says pictures from Rosetta space probe lack beauty of earlier pioneering space images
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Jonathan Jones, Framing the debate: In a strange and redemptive way, the image of the hanging basket – and the heroic story that followed – has done more than anything so far to free this new building from 9/11
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Volodymyr Ishchenko: The indifference of officials and mainstream opinion to the election of far-right MPs is hugely worrying
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David Ebershoff: By acknowleding that founder Joseph Smith had multiple wives, the Mormon church is finally offering those – and many other – women dignity
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Oliver Burkeman: The PC menace may not be real, but snobby liberals are definitely winning the war on the War on Christmas now. We’ll have our quinoa and eat it, too, thank you very much
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Sean Jacobs: Citing the Ebola outbreak for snubbing the tournament highlights the difficult relationship between north and sub-Saharan Africa
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Alice Bell: ESA can land their robot on a comet. But they still can’t see misogyny under their noses.
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Anne Perkins: First thoughts: By guaranteeing prices to drugs companies, the fund sustains inflated costs to the NHS and the profitability of big pharma
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He neither looked nor sounded like a natural leader. Yet Yasser Arafat dominated Palestinian politics for a generation before his death. How did he do it, and how much of a shadow does he still cast?
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The makeup artist extraordinaire talks to Sali Hughes about using unconventional models, being inspired by Garbo and Dietrich, and always making work fun
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While other western countries are cracking down on jihadists who come back from Syria, Denmark is taking a very different approach.
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From Dapper Laughs’ TV show to the Sun’s ‘date with a Page 3 girl’ prize, too much media and culture is created without women in mind. It doesn’t have to be this way, says Laura Bates
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Mark Lawson: Danny Boyle directed the pilot of returning Channel 4 drama Babylon, but flagging up the director, rather than the writer or star, is still unusual on the small screen. Why?
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Street lighting has always been a form of social control. As ‘smart’ lamp-posts start to adapt to our needs, are we entering a brave new world of big city lights?
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While some cafes in the centre still serve oysters, residents in the suburbs are struggling to survive. Zinaida Burskaya reports
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Father Bernard Kinvi, a Catholic priest who has won a Human Right Watch award for protecting Muslims threatened by sectarian violence in CAR, tells Sam Jones why the conflict misunderstood
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In plays by David Storey and Anthony Shaffer, Clarke was something special on stage. If only theatre had made more use of him, writes Michael Billington
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With 500,000 tonnes of contaminated water onsite and reactor 1 off limits until 2025, decommissioning will take 40 years
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Elif Shafak’s open letter to the journalist Gao Yu celebrates the courageous writings for which she has been jailed in China, but which ‘echo far and wide’
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Producer annoys singer by tweeting that ‘someone should make a Kickstarter to get Taylor Swift a booty’
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Stuart Heritage: Liam Neeson on his amateur boxing glories, acting into his 90s and leaving voicemail messages on his son’s phone
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Actor says she hates being asked if it is time to put her feet up and does not want to be told she is too old
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Actor best known as a gruff, hard-drinking detective in the TV series Dalziel and Pascoe
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Plane was coming in to land in the German capital but the Irish singer was never in any danger, Berlin airport authorities say
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Foos singer Dave Grohl says that Emily Eavis has yet to call the group about playing Glastonbury, despite them being favourites to headline
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A Russian research team including scientists, a medic and a professional climber has descended a giant sinkhole on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia. Photographs by Vladimir Pushkarev/Siberian Times
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The stars of a biopic about the Enigma codebreaker tell Andrew Pulver how his sexuality forced his isolation and why his genius deserves widespread recognition
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The first of seven new 200mph state-of-the-art trains is unveiled in London on Thursday by Eurostar
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A team of artists complete what could be the largest sandcastle ever built in Niteroi, Brazil
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Give your travel wardrobe a fashionable home by investing in a new bag for autumn/winter mini-breaks
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Display set up by local charities is intended to spark debate around sex education, with the country's teen pregnancy rates among the highest in South America
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To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the National Museum of the American Indian is displaying 300 pieces of jewellery made by one Native American family in New Mexico. The show explores the jewellery’s historical, commercial, artistic and cultural significance and explores the meanings behind its symbolism
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Firefighters rescue two window cleaners who became stuck on scaffolding outside the 69th floor of One World Trade Center in New York City on Wednesday
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Robert D Stephens flew 15,000ft above the city to take photographs for his Mumbai Articles exhibition, which will run at Artisans in the Kala Ghoda art district until 19 November
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Earthquake tours in China, Nazi massacre villages in France and genocide memorials from Rwanda to Cambodia ... Ambroise Tézenas’s unsettling images show the people drawn to honeypot dark tourism sites around the world
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American artist Nick Cave’s vast practice spans performance, fashion, music, dance and these human-sized wearable sculptures on show at Sydney’s Carriageworks
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The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world
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