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- US museums consider London outpost
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 05:09 PMThe world's largest museum and research institution could be heading for London as part of a multi-million dollar redevelopment of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yahoo to spin-off Alibaba stake
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 04:44 PMYahoo has announced a plan to spin-off its 15% stake in China's Alibaba Group and hand the business to its shareholders.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New Yorkers ask 'Is that it?'
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 02:58 PMWhile New Yorkers are asking why the city shut down for a few inches of snow, city officials say they're happy they were safe and not sorry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cable aide quits over fracking vote
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 03:49 PMLib Dem MP Tessa Munt resigns as a parliamentary aide to Business Secretary Vince Cable after voting against the government on fracking,
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Islamic State suffers setback in Kobane but battle continues
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 02:36 PMIslamic State suffers setback in Kobane but battle continues
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Narine withdraws from World Cup
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 12:37 PMSpinner Sunil Narine withdraws from the West Indies squad for the Cricket World Cup after remodelling his bowling action.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How do Greeks feel about the future?
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 10:33 AMGreek hopes and fears for the future after the elections
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pakistan's Sohail 'spooked by ghost'
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 05:55 AMPakistan all-rounder Haris Sohail is left "visibly shaken" after an apparent ghostly encounter in a New Zealand hotel.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wired dazed after offer goes viral
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 11:45 AMWired magazine apologises to subscribers after becoming "overwhelmed" by demand for a fitness tracker gift offer that went viral on the internet.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Child soldiers freed in South Sudan
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 11:59 AMA South Sudanese militia has released 280 child soldiers as the first step in a process to free 3,000, the UN's children agency says.
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- Spain charges priests with sex abuse
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 05:05 PMA judge in the southern Spanish city of Granada charges 10 Roman Catholic priests and two Catholic lay workers with child sex abuse.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Apple earnings beat expectations
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 04:50 PMApple reports first quarter earnings of $18bn and record iPhone sales of 74.5 million, beating investor expectations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Earthquake felt in mid-Hampshire
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 03:42 PMAn earthquake with a magnitude of 2.9 is recorded in Hampshire, the British Geological Survey confirms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Deadly clashes at UN base in Mali
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 01:27 PMAt least two people are killed after UN forces try to end the siege of their base in the northern Malian city of Gao, government and hospital sources says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Houthis release Yemen leader's aide
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 01:52 PMShia Houthi rebels in Yemen free the chief of staff of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi who they abducted 10 days ago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Survivors place candles at Auschwitz
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 01:24 PMAuschwitz survivors have been speaking at a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary since the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Unison calls off strike by NHS staff
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 12:34 PMUnison calls off a planned strike for its NHS members in England which was scheduled for 29 January.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Burundi army accused of murder
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 08:05 AMWitnesses tell the BBC that Burundian soldiers killed 17 rebels after they surrendered, but the army insists they were killed in combat.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Japan probes 'new IS hostage video'
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 11:57 AMJapanese officials work to verify a video threatening to kill Islamic State hostage Kenji Goto within 24 hours unless Jordan frees an Iraqi militant on death row.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egypt activists lose final appeal
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 12:17 PMThree Egyptian activists lose their final appeal against three-year prison sentences they were given last year for violating an anti-protest law.
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- Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool (agg 2-1)
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 05:16 PMChelsea reach the 2015 Capital One Cup final after Branislav Ivanovic's header earns a 2-1 aggregate win over Liverpool.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Armstrong is a scapegoat - McQuaid
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 04:05 PMBanned cyclist Lance Armstrong has been harshly treated, according to former world cycling chief Pat McQuaid.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - South Sudan children swapping guns for books
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 03:08 PMBack to school for South Sudan's once-feared child soldiers
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - South Africa 1-2 Ghana
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 02:53 PMAndre Ayew scores a dramatic late goal to take Ghana into the quarter-finals while South Africa go out of the tournament.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In the eye of the snowstorm
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 01:18 PMA night spent in the eye of the snowstorm
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tsipras names new Greek cabinet
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 01:19 PMGreek PM Alexis Tsipras forms a new cabinet with Yanis Varoufakis as finance minister and right-winger Panos Kammenos as defence minister.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The perils of 'taboo' gifts
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 08:37 AMWhich presents can cause offence?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cup shock helps Chelsea - Rodgers
Monday - 01/26/2015 - 01:39 PMLiverpool boss Brendan Rodgers says Chelsea will have a greater motivation in the League Cup after their defeat by Bradford.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: 'Auschwitz I got over, the loss I never did'
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 10:54 AMEva Schloss survived the Holocaust with her mother Fritzi after being imprisoned in Auschwitz.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Litvinenko lawyer accuses Russia
Tuesday - 01/27/2015 - 12:26 PMEx-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was murdered for trying to "expose the corruption" at the heart of Russia's "mafia state", an inquiry hears.
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