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Hundreds injured as Spanish riot police try to stop referendum voters in Catalonia
Clashes took place in Barcelona, the region's capital, and other districts as police sent by Spanish government seized ballot boxes, smashed their way in to polling centres and threw voters out
OJ Simpson released after serving nine years of 33-year sentence
Former American football star had been serving 33 years for armed robbery
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Budget airline Monarch on brink as it jacks up prices to stop sales
Fares quadrupled overnight, raising serious questions and growing concern about the airline’s future
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Rooney on bench as Toffees take on Burnley - follow the action here
Follow the latest from the Premier League clash at Goodison Park
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No place for Boris in a 'responsible government', says top Tory
Exclusive: The Treasury Select Committee Chair warned that the Foreign Secretary could be the 'undoing' of the Conservatives
LGBT equality has gone ‘too far’, says Ukip's new leader
Former soldier is party's fourth leader in just over a year
Boy, 17, charged with arson over 'hazardous material' on motorway
Teenager to appear in court after motorway closed for 11 hours as bomb disposal squad examined material thrown from bridge
Crackdown on rogue landlords to help private renters
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid unveils plans to offer greater protections for private sector tenants ahead of Conservative Party conference speech
End dominance of London, Davidson tells Tories
Scottish leader will say that something is wrong when you can 'sell a three bed semi in Ilford and buy up half of Sutherland'
How Hugh Hefner's world helped Donald Trump get to the White House
Hugh Hefner, who has died at the age of 91, considered himself the luckiest man on the planet. And with his silk pyjamas, bunny girls and private jets, he managed to have quite an impact on the modern world.
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David Usborne Trump needs to look closer to home if he wants to 'drain the swamp'
The ‘distractor-in-chief’ is now being outdone by some of his own staff, with Tom Price resigning after racking up a reported $1m on private flights and Jared Kushner using a private email account
Molly Roberts Why this librarian shouldn't have rejected Melania's Dr Seuss books
A librarian's role is to curate a collection that represents a diverse set of viewpoints over an extended period of time
George Monbiot: How we get out of the wreckage caused by neoliberalism
The Independent's Kirsty Major speaks with writer George Monbiot at Momentum’s World Transformed festival to figure out exactly how we get out of the mess created by neoliberalism and whether Labour is going far enough
John Rentoul There is no need for Ukip any more
The Conservatives can provide their own campaign to deliver the result of the EU referendum
Why 'Pilotgate' should worry Ryanair's rivals
Competitors have revelled in Ryanair’s misfortune, as a management foul-up degenerated into an unholy public-relations shambles
Patrick Cockburn The Kurdish independence referendum was a political miscalculation
By putting the future status of the KRG and the territories in play, Kurdish President Masoud Barzani has presented the Iraqi government, Turkey and Iran with a threat and an opportunity
Simon Tilford How the eurozone will survive after Brexit
It is hard to see a ‘no deal’ scenario derailing the Eurozone recovery – the currency union is simply not dependent enough on the UK for that to happen
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The 10 bestselling Ikea items of all time
The iconic items that have stood the test of time
Why a father shared a photo of his 4-year-old dying of cancer
Jessica Whelan died of neuroblastoma in November 2016. Now, her father is raising awareness of childhood cancer
The important reason you have a pair of jeans in your wardrobe
'Through fashion, we can communicate many different states of mind, from allegiance to indifference, insecurity, availability, and open-mindedness'
Ikea UK at 30: from flat-pack furniture to meatballs
We look back at how the home décor giant ousted the stuffy design of yesteryear, and explore what challenges lie ahead for the brand
Lee Child gives a master class on writing a short story in 12 hours
Andy Martin and Lee Child discuss chapter one of the new Jack Reacher, due out in November
A look back at Radio 1's biggest songs, presenters and sex scandals
BBC Radio 1 turns 50 this weekend. It’s been a constant presence – to varying degrees – in the life of David Barnett
Something in the water: life after mercury poisoning
From 1932 to 1968, tonnes of mercury seeped into the clear waters of Minamata Bay, Japan, causing health and environmental problems still felt today. As the first global treaty on mercury finally comes into force, what have we really learned from this disaster? Joshua Sokol reports from Minamata
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1/36 30 September 2017
Catalan regional police (Mossos d'Esquadra) arrive to the IES Tarradell school to notify its principal that the school must remain closed, in Barcelona. Hundreds of people have spent the night in different schools and civic centers designated by the regional Government to be polling stations for the '1-O Referendum' in an attempt to prevent the police from stopping their use, as the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia ordered
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2/36 29 September 2017
An Indian police officer chases Shi'ite Muslim mourners as they run after they tried to participate in a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura, in Srinagar
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3/36 27 September 2017
Ugandan opposition lawmakers fight with plain-clothes security personnel in the parliament while protesting a proposed age limit amendment bill debate to change the constitution for the extension of the president's rule, in Kampala
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4/36 26 September 2017
Military and local security personnel keep Rohingya refugees in line as they queue for aid at Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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5/36 24 September 2017
Cliff Marisma of Australia and Per Estein Prois-Rohjell of Norway compete in the World Jousting Championships in Sydney, Australia. The World Jousting Championships sees Australia's best jousters go head-to-head with their international counterparts. The Championship aims to replicate the same combat conditions that featured in 15th century Europe, with knights wearing historically accurate armour weighing around 40kg.
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6/36 23 September 2017
Freshmen students of Nanning College for Vocational Technology balance bottles on their heads during their military training in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.
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A fighter from the Free Syrian Army (Al-Hamza Brigade) is seen looking out in Hazwan town in Aleppo
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8/36 21 September 2017
Protesters burn an effigy of President Rodrigo Duterte during a day of protest outside the presidential palace in Metro Manila, Philippines
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A crowd of protesters lift up a ballot box outside the Catalan region's economy ministry building after junior economy minister Josep Maria Jove was arrested by Spanish police during a raid on several government offices, in Barcelona
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10/36 19 September 2017
Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi walks off the stage after delivering a speech to the nation over Rakhine and the Rohingya exodus, in Naypyitaw, Burma
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11/36 17 September 2017
Rohingya refugees wait for aid packages in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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12/36 16 September 2017
Riot police line up behind their shields following a clash with demonstrators demanding the resignation of congressmen outside the Guatemalan National Congress, in Guatemala City. Guatemala's congress early this week voted overwhelmingly to reject a UN-backed request to lift the immunity of President Jimmy Morales in order for him to face a corruption probe over irregular party financing
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13/36 13 September 2017
Members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 53/54, US astronauts Joseph Akaba (L) ,Mark Vande Hei (R) and Russia's cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin attend a sending-off ceremony in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
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14/36 12 September 2017
A resident pushes his cart as he wades a flooded main street in Manila after a tropical depression locally named "Maring", hit the eastern town of Mauban before moving northwest across the main island of Luzon and passing just beside Manila
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15/36 11 September 2017
Soldiers in Japan's Self-Defence Force prepare for a ceremony for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo
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A truck of a courier overturned by the storm in Livorno, Italy. The storm has claimed six victims with six others missing. Over 200 mm of rain has fallen causing landslides, mudslides and the flooding of various rivers
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The picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean residents offering flowers before the statues of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il (R) on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang during celebrations of the 69th anniversary of North Korea's national day
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People gather on a street after an earthquake in Mexico City
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Rohingya refugee children sit in a hut next to the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf, Bangladesh
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Police patrol the area as Hurricane Irma slams into San Juan, Puerto Rico
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A masked witness points to the police officers suspected of killing 17-year-old Kian delos Santos as she testifies during a senate hearing in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines
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(L-R) Brazil's President Michel Temer, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for a group photo during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Cente rin the Fujian province
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23/36 3 September 2017
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) looking at a metal casing with two bulges at an undisclosed location. North Korea has developed a hydrogen bomb which can be loaded into the country's new intercontinental ballistic missile, the official Korean Central News Agency claimed on 3 September. Questions remain over whether nuclear-armed Pyongyang has successfully miniaturised its weapons, and whether it has a working H-bomb, but KCNA said that leader Kim Jong-Un had inspected such a device at the Nuclear Weapons Institute.
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A girl looks on as muslims offer prayers during the Eid al-Adha festival in Agartala
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A cyclist looks at a truck flipped into floodwater in Port Arthur, Texas
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People attend prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia
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U.S. Marine Corps F-35B fighter jets (front) and South Korean air Force's F-15K fly over South Korea during a joint military drill
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Pope Francis is greeted by pilgrims as he arrives to lead his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican
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Retiring paramilitary policemen prepare for a group photo before retirement in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China
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The sun sets on the playa as approximately 70,000 people from all over the world gathered for the annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada
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A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) tells a Rohingya girl not to come on Bangladesh side. Thousands of people have fled their homes following two days of violence in a deepening crisis in the state of Rakhine in Myanmar. Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority escaped to the border with Bangladesh but Bangladeshi border guards are turning them back.
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100 newlyweds wearing Han Dynasty style outfits attend a group wedding in Pingdingshan, Henan province of China.
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Protesters block rail tracks during a demonstration of "Ende Gelaende" activists against the open cast Garzweiler brown coal mining near Vanikum, Germany.
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Italian Police use a water cannon as they clash with refugee squatters who had occupied a small square in central Rome
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Thailand's Patsapong Amsam-ang competes in the men's pole-vault athletics final of the 29th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) at the Bukit Jalil national stadium in Kuala Lumpur
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A child reacts after a big wave on a waterfront as Typhoon Hato hits Hong Kong
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Arsenal vs Brighton live updates and latest score
Follow the latest from the Premier League clash at the Emirates Stadium
Ali: England must believe they can win Ashes without Stokes
Vice-captain and talisman Stokes is all but certain to miss the tour after he was suspended indefinitely by the ECB following his arrest in Bristol this week
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Stokes' Ashes hopes all but disappear after indefinite suspension
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Stokes and Hales suspended by England until further notice
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Video shows Stokes filmed mocking Katie Price's disabled son
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Stokes has overshadowed a fine week for English and Essex cricket
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Pietersen: 'Horrendous' England shouldn't bother travelling Down Under
Matthew Norman Andrew Marr didn’t wish Theresa May a ‘Happy Birthday’
How could anyone other than the Arthur Askey husband (and even then …) put ‘happy’ and ‘Prime Minister’ in the same sentence without sounding malicious when no British premier ever had less cause to be happy?
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Katie Ghose Only changes to welfare will help women leave abusive relationships
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Editorial Easing the public sector pay cap hardly begins to end austerity
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Letters Wake up Britain – it's time to think again on Brexit
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James Moore The hate speech of Christian fundamentalists needs to be challenged
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Sridevi Kalidindi We need to recruit more NHS psychiatrists before lives are put at...
Men in Black spin-off confirmed, won't feature Will Smith
It also won't be the promised crossover between the Men in Black franchise and 21 Jump Street, unfortunately
Donald Trump told he's going 'straight to hell' for Puerto Rico tweets
'She has been working 24/7. You have been GOLFING. You're going straight to hell. Fastest golf cart you ever took'
SNL brilliantly parodied the dumbest thing about Avatar
'Was it laziness? Was it cruelty?'
Publisher defends 'x-rated' scene hidden in Biff, Chip and Kipper book
A reader noticed a seemingly inappropriate scene in the background of the learn-to-read book's pages
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French philosopher says controversial Tintin theory was an experiment
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JK Rowling slams Donald Trump over NFL 'privilege' comments
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Banned Books Week: How censorship threw up some weird bedfellows
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Harry Potter first edition sells for record £60,000
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Tintin is a girl and 'probably asexual', French philosopher claims
Lush launches its 2017 Halloween collection
Give your bath time a ghoulish twist this autumn
Six affordable pinot noir wines
Terry Kirby delves into the world of the Pinot Noir grape: although renowned for being difficult to grow, it is now thriving in cooler climates and becoming more affordable
Monarch granted deadline extension to prove it is financially stable
‘ATOL protection will remain available for eligible holiday bookings made with Monarch on Sunday,’ says the aviation regulator
Better than lock and key: five of the best home security gadgets
From smart door locks to intelligent facial recognition cameras, here are the best products to help you protect your home as nights draw in.
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Planters, lights and fake grass — decorate your balcony on a budget
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Head to Taormina's Grand Hotel Timeo for timeless style and Etna views
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Expert tips for choosing plants that will add colour year after year
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A designer's home makeover tips and where to find luxe bargain buys
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Shed Land creator builds 'big empty shed to live in' on Grand Designs
Apple investigating reports of new iPhone 8 'bursting open'
Tech giant 'looking into' complaints of device splitting open while charging
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US government urges Apple to switch on hidden FM radios
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SpaceX 'will colonise Mars in the next few years'
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Elon Musk to let anyone go round the world in 30 minutes with rockets
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Russians 'bought Facebook ads' targeting Black Lives Matter
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Airport systems break, causing chaos at airports around the world
Nintendo's tiny new SNES Classic Mini is incredible fun
There's just one big catch. OK, make that a couple of catches
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Apple TV 4K review: It's what's on the inside that counts
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If you've been waiting for the right time for an Apple Watch, it's now
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The two iOS 11 security features you should switch on right now
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iPhone 8 review: Why the new handset deserves some more attention
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iPhone X: A leap forward for Apple but Samsung's phones are way ahead
The Fifa 18 reviews are finally in, but should you buy it?
There are still some fairly significant problems
10 best Samsung Galaxy Note8 cases
Splashed out on Samsung's latest offering? Here are the protectors you need to keep that precious tech safe
Black Friday 2017
Black Friday 2017: How to get the best deals online and in-store
It might be a few months away but nonetheless the clock is ticking and the countdown to Black Friday has begun.
Black Friday 2017: The deals and stores to watch out for
Many major retailers such as Currys PC World, Argos and Amazon.co.uk have already launched their deals early in a bid to beat out the competition.
Black Friday 2017: The best games console deals
If you're looking to buy a console right now, you've got more choice than ever before
Black Friday 2017: Where to find the best Apple deals
Apple fans are used to paying full whack for their gadgets, with the tech giant rarely offering cut-price deals.