Sunday
20
November
2016
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Senior Republican who chairs armed services committee says any attempt to bring back harsh interrogation techniques would face court challenge
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Donald Trump says $25m settlement represented ‘small fraction’ of potential award in Twitter post before ‘great’ meeting with Mitt Romney
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Potential changes at the agency could cost Michael Rogers his position as director and offer the president-elect an unexpected role in reshaping US intelligence
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Fourteen coaches of passenger train roll off track near the northern city of Kanpur injuring around 150 people
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Mark Zuckerberg says site has been ‘working on problem for a long time’ and ‘penalizes’ misinformation on news feeds to reduce chances it will spread
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spotlight
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Tom Hanks’s latest thriller, Sully, is about the dramatic emergency landing of a plane on the Hudson River. But what do we know really about the lives of pilots? Jonathan Margolis hears some cockpit confessions
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Nearly 20-year-old prediction by an obscure leftwing philosopher, widely shared since the election, foresaw the rise of a Trump-like ‘strongman’
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Andre Ward survived a second-round knockdown on Saturday night to do just enough to win a narrow decision over Sergey Kovalev in a battle of unbeaten light heavyweights
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ATP Tour Finals decider will be the 35th meeting between the world’s two best players after Murray took more than three hours to qualify while Novak Djokovic did it in 66 minutes
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The same people who railed against ‘political correctness’ now seem to believe there should be no criticism of their choice. You can’t have it both ways
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His ascent marks a victory for the ideology inspired by Osama bin Laden – that the west is at war with Islam
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Trump’s attorney general nominee, who was rejected for district judgeship for alleged racist remarks, supports civil forfeiture and nonviolent drug prosecutions, experts say
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The singer who found fame in later life had been suffering from pancreatic cancer
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David Hill: People living upriver from gold-mining in the Amazon are the most contaminated, according to US-based scientists
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The country’s biggest lender took cash away from savers to survive in 2013. Now, remarkably, Bank of Cyprus is hoping to float in London
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An exclusive extract from the Nobel prize-winning author’s final work describes how he and his wife imagined their farewell
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From dazed election night revellers in Washington DC to a gay Trump voter in Detroit and kids in Kentucky ... The US writer gauges the mood of a divided nation
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When bad music comes on the radio, I crank up the volume
David FergusonIt’s a weird compulsion – I need to hate terrible ear worms in excruciating detail. But feeling disgust reaffirms that we’re alive -
Around 40% of those eligible chose not to vote in the US election, rather than back Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. We heard from some of them
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Target and Walmart are pulling bedding off their shelves after a falsely labeled Egyptian cotton products controversy involving manufacturer Welspun India
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‘I hadn’t even put the antibiotic in my mouth when I started sneezing, scratching everywhere, and my scalp felt like it was on fire’
in pictures
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Since relocating to Switzerland in 2006, Swedish-born photographer Christian Nilson has been capturing the identity of his adopted homeland
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Anna Shustikova, winner of the Royal Photographic Society’s under-30s Gold Award, is a documentary photographer and writer in Moscow, whose images of Russian weddings show a clash of tradition and modernity
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Award-winning wildlife photographer, Sue Flood, is one of the world’s only women to specialise in polar photography
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The need to ‘feel like a tiny speck in a wondrous world’ inspired Instagrammer Mathew Leonardi’s road trip across the stunning landscapes of Nevada, Utah, and Arizona
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Andreas Mikkelsen and co-driver Anders Jaeger fly through the dust filled air in their VW Polo R WRC during the shakedown before Rally Australia 2016
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Won this year by Claudio Rasano, the Taylor Wessing prize highlights the year’s best portrait photography. Here is his winning entry, alongside other highlights from the prize exhibition
what to watch
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Donald Trump displays a letter from disgraced former president Richard Nixon on Fox News’ special OBJECTified: Donald Trump, aired on Friday night
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams star in the gripping story of a broken-hearted ex-husband who wreaks vengeance decades later with his unpublished novel
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The latest film from Harry Potter author Rowling’s wizarding world is a wonderfully enjoyable adventure featuring Eddie Redmayne as a “magizoologist” who stumbles into a dark magic adventure in New York
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The story of Vinny Paz, who broke his neck and still got back in the ring, is sensational. But this boring, miscast film, screening at Telluride, fails to connect
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The British actor joins Alden Ehrenreich, who will play Solo, and Donald Glover, who was confirmed for the role of Lando Calrissian in the new film
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The Vermont senator joined a rally celebrating the presumed demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership to urge his ardent base to organize for the future
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The trumpeter talks about growing up in a musical family, why his first marriage went wrong, and being a grandfather
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