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RAF Typhoon jets have been scrambled after Russian military planes were identified flying close to UK airspace.
The Ministry of Defence revealed the news hours after it emerged warships from Russia's Northern Fleet entered the English Channel ahead of planned anti-aircraft and anti-submarine drills.
Interfax news agency reported the vessels were due to carry out the military exercises in the north Atlantic, but HMS Argyll was deployed to monitor the destroyer and Typhoons were sent from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland.
In a statement on the latest incident, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "RAF Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft were launched today after Russian aircraft were identified flying close to UK airspace.
The Russian aircraft are thought to have been Bear H bombers
"The Russian planes are being escorted by the RAF in the UK area of interest."
It is understood the Russian planes intercepted were Bear H bombers.
After the Typhoons were scrambled, Voyagers from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire were sent to provide air to air refuelling support while communications and radar assistance was given from the National Air DefenceOperations Centre.
Two toddlers drowned when their stroller rolled into an Arizona canal as their mother tried to shoo away a bee, police said.
Alexis Keslar was walking with her 18-month-old twins, Silas and Eli Keslar, along the waterway in Yuma when she momentarily let go of the buggy to fend off the buzzing insect.
"The stroller rolled away from her into the canal, with the boys belted in the seat," police said.
Ms Keslar jumped into the waterway on Friday to try to rescue her children, authorities said, but the strong current washed away the stroller.
The twins were found after an hour's search
The distraught mother called for help after clambering out of the canal's steep sides, police said.
Canal managers stemmed the water flow to help rescuers, who found the boys after searching for about an hour.
The twins were flown to a hospital, but were pronounced dead, police said.
Yuma's canal paths are popular recreational areas, but authorities say they can be dangerous.
"Many people typically do not comprehend how swift the current in these canals are and how deep the water can be," Yuma police said.
"They also do not realise how difficult it is to climb back up many of the canal embankments."
Marlene Gleim, a friend of the boys' grandmother, told the Yuma Sun: "No parent should ever have to lose a child, let alone two at once."
David Cameron has claimed the Conservatives are the "party of the working people" as he made pledges on homeownership, £5,000 of free childcare and an income tax-free minimum wage.
Launching the Tory manifesto, Mr Cameron repeatedly made offers to voters who worked hard and wanted to get on the "good life".
Cameron and Thatcher: the "property-owning" dream
The manifesto set out measures for families from cradle to grave - identifying measures to help people over six stages of their lives.
Mr Cameron opened his speech by saying: "At the heart of this manifesto is a simple proposition. We are the party of working people, offering you security at every stage of your life."
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He promised 30 hours of childcare for three and four-year-olds - five hours more than promised in Labour's manifesto yesterday - to help working parents.
He said if the party is returned to power, it will give 1.3 million families the chance to buy their housing association home at least a 20% discount.
Speaking at a university technical college in Swindon, Mr Cameron laid out his vision for a "property-owning democracy" echoing the phrases used in Margaret Thatcher's 1983 manifesto.
And he said the Conservatives would introduce a tax-free minimum wage, linking the minimum wage to the income tax personal allowance so the lowest paid would never have to pay tax.
He urged voters not to "waste the last five years" and let "Labour drag us back" to the past, and asked to be allowed to "finish the job".
Mr Cameron promised: "This buccaneering, world-beating, can-do country - we can do it all over again."
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Among other measures included in the manifesto, which has the phrase "strong leadership, a clear economic plan, a better more secure future" on the cover, are:
:: Raising the personal allowance for tax to £12,500
:: Increasing the starting salary for the 40p rate to £50,000
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:: No increase in income tax, VAT, National Insurance
:: Raising the inheritance tax threshold for family homes to £1m
:: Seven-day access to GP service
:: An annual £8bn boost for NHS funding
:: Repeal the Hunting Act
:: Increase state pension by at least 2.5% with a triple lock
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:: 200,000 starter homes built
:: Committed to four-boat Trident nuclear deterrent
Mr Cameron's repeated pledges on a "good life" available to people in the UK prompted a question on whether he saw himself as the impoverished Tom and Barbara characters from the BBC sitcom, played by Felicity Kendal and Richard Briers, or the rich Margot and Jerry characters played by Penelope Keith and Paul Eddington.
To fund Right to Buy, the Conservatives would force councils to sell their most expensive properties when vacant - estimated to raise £4.5bn a year - and replace the properties sold.
However, the Housing Federation claims the cost to the taxpayer would be £5.8bn and 40 years of failure on house-building means the UK still does not have the homes needed.
Since Baroness Thatcher introduced Right to Buy in 1980, 1.88 million council properties have been sold - only 345,000 new social housing properties have been built.
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As well as extending Right to Buy at a discount to housing association tenants, the party has promised a £1bn fund for building 400,000 new properties on brownfield sites.
Mr Cameron's claim that the Conservatives are the party for workers comes after Labour said it wanted to be seen as the fiscally responsible option for government.
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Conservative activists gathered for the manifesto launch were shown a video called The Note.
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The video refers to the missive left for the coalition by the outgoing Labour treasury minister Liam Byrne after the 2010 election. It said: "There is no money."
But Labour has claimed the Conservatives have failed to explain properly how their measures will be funded.
The Tories say some £1.4bn a year of the funding will come from reducing the tax relief on pensions for those earning more than £150,000. Mr Cameron said their track record showed they could deliver on their pledges.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the Conservatives were "trying to fund Right to Buy on a bounced cheque".
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Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg said the Right to Buy policy was unaffordable and did not help millions of people trying to get on to the property ladder.
The Green Party has pledged to end privatisation in the NHS and re-nationalise the railways in its manifesto.
The party also vowed to ban fracking, stop airport expansion and halt major road schemes, while promising cash for energy efficiency measures and flood defences.
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Party leader Natalie Bennett told activists at the heart of the manifesto was "a vision for a fair economy".
She said: "That fair economy demands the end to austerity.
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"It demands we restore and enhance the essential public services to all, but particularly the most vulnerable.
"That fair economy is paid for by the rebalancing that we so desperately need, to see multinational companies and rich individuals paying their fair share in taxes as they are simply not paying now."
Ms Bennet added that a fair economy meant every worker should be paid a living wage.
"It is really not a radical statement to say that if you work full time you should earn enough money to live on," she said.
"And yet we are the only UK party who is saying the minimum wage should immediately be lifted to a living wage and should reach £10 an hour by 2020."
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Ms Bennett also underlined the party's commitment to safeguarding the NHS, and pledged to remove all private operators from the service.
She said: "Behind that is an understanding of what privatisation has really meant for so many of our public services.
"It's meant the cutting of the pay and conditions of workers, it's meant the cutting of the quality of services and it has meant the shovelling of public money into private hands."
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Caroline Lucas, the party's former leader and the only Green MP in the last parliament, also spoke at the manifesto launch and argued tackling climate change was not "some luxury that is only possible when there are good economic times".
She said the environment was not something that could be ditched during tough times "like that extra cappuccino on the way to work".
Green Party plans for a free nationwide retro-fit insulation programme would tackle both the "scandal of cold homes" while creating more than 100,000 jobs, she said.
Ms Lucas told the audience the money was there but it came down to political choice.
"It's nonsense to say we can waste billions on new roads or on HS2 but we can't afford to keep people warm in their own homes," she said.
For every £1 spent on energy efficiency measures, £1.27 was returned to the economy, and Ms Lucas insisted it was the only way of reducing energy bills while also helping the environment.
She also argued that the prospect of a hung parliament and a minority Labour government opened the way for the Greens to realise its manifesto goals.
She said: "That would give us a real opportunity to push Labour on the policies we know the public wants and which are at the heart of our manifesto - whether that's scrapping nuclear weapons or reversing the privatisation in our NHS, whether that's returning local schools to local control or bringing rail back into public ownership."
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Television presenter Sue Perkins has quit Twitter after receiving death threats following speculation she could replace Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear.
The Great British Bake Off presenter revealed on Tuesday that someone had said "they'd like to see me burn to death".
Writing on Twitter, she denied she is to replace Clarkson and announced she was leaving the social media platform.
She wrote a series of tweets saying: "Guys, post the utterly fabricated story about me & Top Gear, my timeline has been full of blokes wishing me dead...
The presenter revealed the abuse on her Twitter page
"This morning, someone suggested they'd like to see me burn to death.
"All of which goes to say that I am off Twitter for a bit. Love and peace x."
Perkins first alluded to the trolling four days ago when she wrote: "Just back from night shoot in Kolkata sewers to find my timeline busy with middle-aged man-trolls. General gist: Man do cars, woman do cake."
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Fans took to Twitter to post messages of support and encouragement following her announcement.
Fearne Cotton wrote: "There are some awful and sad humans out there. How pathetic. ps you absolutely rock!"
It is not known who will present Top Gear after the BBC decided not to renew his contract following his attack on a producer last month.
David Cameron has announced a future Tory government would give 1.3 million housing association tenants the chance to buy their homes.
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The existing scheme allows council tenants to buy their home at a discount of up to 70% - a maximum of £102,700 in London and £77,000 across the rest of of the country.
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The Conservatives have made extending this to 1.3 million housing association tenants a centrepiece of their manifesto for the May election.
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:: This all seems familiar?
It is indeed. The scheme was trailblazed by Margaret Thatcher on coming to power in 1979 with the Tories hailing it "the biggest step towards a home-owning democracy ever taken" in their 1983 manifesto.
And in extending the scheme to housing tenants, David Cameron is hoping to recapture that aspirational spirit in the face of criticism of the negative tone of the Tory campaign to date.
Unveiling the plan, the PM echoed the words of the Thatcher-era by talking of "building a property-owning democracy for generations".
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It will be funded by requiring councils to sell off the most expensive properties when they become empty, and replacing them with more affordable social homes.
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Around 15,000 houses and flats are expected to become available in this way each year, but the Conservatives stress no one will be forced out of their home.
It has been claimed the sales would raise an estimated £4.5bn which could then be used to build between 80,000 to 170,000 new properties a year.
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You do indeed. The move, unsurprisingly, is not without its critics and has been branded "deeply unfair" by housing associations.
The National Housing Federation warns it would mean using £5.8bn of taxpayers' cash to "gift" up to £100,000 to people already living in good secure homes, on some of the country's cheapest rents.
Meanwhile, the group argues it would do nothing to help the millions in private rented properties desperate to buy, or those forced to live at home with their parents because they cannot afford to rent or buy.
It points out the £5.8bn would be enough to finance 300,000 new shared ownership homes "open to everyone, not just the lucky few".
Political opponents have also waded in with Labour dismissing it as "yet another uncosted, unfunded and unbelievable announcement".
And the Tories' Lib Dem coalition partners claim the scheme would would result in longer waiting lists for homes and fewer social houses.
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Evidence from rescue workers "strongly suggests" Syrian government forces used toxic chemicals during barrel bomb attacks in Idlib, according to Human Rights Watch.
The New York-based group says eyewitnesses reported multiple attacks between 16 March and 31 March in the north west of the country.
Six civilians, including three children, died in one of the attacks, according to HRW. At least 206 people were affected in total.
The group investigated six attacks in which Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs containing gas canisters.
Eyewitness accounts, photographs and video footage from three of the attacks indicate the use of a chemical agent, possibly chlorine.
A canister found in the remnants of a barrel bomb on 24 March (Pic: HRW)
HRW is continuing to probe the other three attacks.
Nadim Houry from HRW said: "Syrian authorities appear once again to have shown complete disregard for human suffering by violating the global prohibition against chemical warfare.
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"The UN Security Council and countries that are members of the Chemical Weapons Convention need to respond strongly."
The most conclusive evidence came from an attack on 16 March in the village of Sarmin.
"The children were foaming at the mouth, they were suffocating, then their hearts stopped," said Leith Fares, a rescue worker in Sarmin.
A Syrian security official denied the claims, saying the accusations were "lies the insurgents say when they incur losses".
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The official told the AFP news agency: "If the army used chemical weapons or chlorine gas every time they say it did, those people would have been completely wiped out by now."
In March the UN Security Council adopted a resolution condemning the use of chlorine in Syria and threatening sanctions if the chemicals were used.
Syria was not forced to declare its stocks of chlorine under a 2013 agreement to dismantle its chemical arsenal as the substance is widely used for commercial and domestic purposes.
But the use of the gas for military purposes would be a breach of its undertakings under the Chemical Weapons Convention, which it signed as part of the deal.
The soul singer Percy Sledge, famous for the hit When A Man Loves A Woman, has died aged 73, according to reports.
The news was confirmed by Sledge's management agency which said he passed away in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
"He was a wonderful guy in a terrible business," said Steve Green with Artists International Management, Inc said.
"He was truly a standout."
When A Man Loves A Woman reached number one in the US when it was released in 1966. It went on to become an international hit, reaching number four in the UK that same year.
In 1987 it was used in a Levi's advert in England and again hit the charts, rising to number two.
The song found new life once more in 1991 when Michael Bolton covered it.
Sledge was a hospital orderly in Sheffield, Alabama, in the 1960s and would sing in states in the Southeast at weekends.
He failed to match the success of his first song but his concerts became popular all over the world.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
A man has told police a missing Glasgow student left his home in the early hours of Sunday.
Karen Buckley, 24, was seen on CCTV leaving the Sanctuary nightclub at around 1am in the city's West End with the man.
Officers tracked down the man, who told them Ms Buckley left his home in Dorchester Avenue at around 4am.
She has not been heard from since.
Detective Superintendent Jim Kerr told a news conference the man has given a full account of what happened and was not currently being regarded as a suspect but is "helping" with enquiries.
Ms Buckley pictured hours before she went missing. Pic: Facebook
The detective said a handbag believed to be Ms Buckley's had been found in nearby Dawsholm Park shortly before he spoke to reporters.
Det Supt Kerr said her parents had told police it was typical for her not to use taxis and, as a result, it was possible she may have tried to walk home.
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He appealed for anyone who had seen Ms Buckley - a Glasgow Caledonian University student from Cork in Ireland - to get in touch.
Her family have flown to Scotland from Ireland to help with the search.
Her mother, Marian, told the news conference: "We just want Karen home safely, we are desperate. She is our only daughter, we love her dearly.
"If anybody has any information please come forward, we would dearly appreciate it."
Ms Buckley's father, John, said: "If anybody is holding Karen, if anybody knows anything of her, please return her. Please let's have her back. We love her to bits."
Ms Buckley arrived at the club with friends at around 11.45pm on Saturday and at around 1am she told them she was going to the toilet.
But she failed to return and left her jacket at the club.
Det Supt Kerr emphasised that Ms Buckley was widely travelled and was "aware of how to take care of herself".
But her said it was "very out of character" for her not to return home.
Police also want to find out more about a grey car seen on the roads between Milngavie and Drymen, north of Glasgow, between 11am and 3pm on Monday.
A major search is under way in Glasgow, with police carrying out door-to-door inquiries and examining CCTV.
Ms Buckley is between 5ft and 5ft 2in with brown eyes and dark hair which had long black curly extensions in it.
She was last seen wearing a black jumpsuit, red high-heeled shoes and carrying a black handbag.
She speaks with an Irish accent.
Ms Buckley lives with three other students in a flat in Hill Street, Garnethill, Glasgow.
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A Russian nuclear submarine has caught fire in a shipyard but there were no weapons on board, according to Russian news agencies.
The 155m (508ft) 949 Antei was reportedly being repaired in Zvyozdochka shipyard in Russia's northern province of Arkhangelsk, when the blaze broke out.
The ship reportedly caught fire as welding works were being carried out, with rubber insulation catching fire.
A shipyard source told the Interfax news agency: "There is a fire on the submarine.
"We are fighting the fire now."
Smoke is seen above the shipyard as the submarine burns
The emergencies ministry has so far refused to comment.
The United Shipbuilding Corporation, which runs the shipyard, said the submarine's weapons and critical elements of its nuclear reactor had been taken out before the repairs started.
Spokesman Ilya Zhitomirsky said no one was injured.
A nuclear-powered submarine carrying atomic weapons was engulfed in flames in 2011, nearly leading to a nuclear disaster.
Dukes of Hazzard actor James Best, who played bumbling Sheriff Rosco P Coltrane in the hit show, has died aged 88.
Best passed away on Monday after a short battle with pneumonia.
He got his acting break during the Second World War when he joined a military theatrical company while stationed in Germany.
He appeared in films like One Way Street and on TV's Annie Oakley before landing the role of Boss Hogg's hapless and much-tormented sidekick in the Dukes of Hazzard.
Best was famous for his on-screen antics with Sorrell Booke
Tom Wopat, who starred as Luke Duke in the TV show, said: "The work he did with Sorrell Booke (Boss Hogg) probably defined our show as much as the car chases.
"He was a fine actor, director and mentor, and an even better friend. He will be greatly missed."
John Schneider, who played Bo Duke, said: "I learned more about acting in front of a camera from Jimmie Best in an afternoon than from anyone else in a year.
"When asked to cry on camera, he would say, 'Sure thing…which eye?' I'm forever thankful to have cut my teeth in the company of such a fine man."
After retiring from acting, Best taught at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
He is survived by his wife Angela, three children and three grandchildren.
Labour has claimed that almost 600 fewer GP surgeries are currently open during evenings and weekends compared to the last parliament.
Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham says coalition policies on health are forcing people to queue lengthy periods to access a GP, with many visiting accident and emergency instead.
The Conservatives dispute the claim, which comes one month before voters go to the polls, and insist out-of-hours access to doctors is being extended.
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The row comes as it was revealed accident and emergency waiting times at hospitals in England are the longest they have been since records began in 2004.
New figures show just 91.8% of patients were seen within four hours in the three-month period to March, against a target of 95%.
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The statistics were seized on by Labour leader Ed Miliband, on the campaign trail lin Bristol, who said: "One of the reasons for that is it's got a lot harder to see a GP."
On GP opening, Mr Burnham said Labour introduced an extended hours scheme which in 2009 funded 77% of surgeries to open their doors on evenings and weekends.
He said the coalition has cut funding from £3.01 per patient to £1.90 per patient, meaning that by 2013/14 only 72% of surgeries were offering extended hours.
Labour says its figures were sourced from a parliamentary question and are up to date.
Mr Burnham said: "Today, across the country, people will face the frustration of joining a queue to see their GP - in some places the lines will go out of the surgery door.
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"After five years of David Cameron, patients at hundreds of surgeries can no longer get a GP appointment when they need one."
But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Labour's figures are "wrong", and pointed to the Prime Minister's Challenge Fund as evidence the Conservatives have boosted access to GPs.
Mr Hunt said the scheme covered 1,100 practices and helped 7.5 million patients see GPs out of normal hours.
He said: "We are extending this scheme to cover over 1,400 additional practices, helping 10 million extra people by this time next year.
"The next Conservative government will deliver a truly seven-day NHS, putting right a problem which began with Labour's disastrous 2004 GP contract.
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"You can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy.
"Ed Miliband as prime minister - propped up by Alex Salmond and the SNP - would wreck the economy, risking the funding our NHS needs. Patients would pay the price."
Speaking on Sky News, Home Secretary Theresa May also disputed the opposition figures and argued it was Labour which changed the GPs' contract in 2004 that meant doctors were no longer required to provide out-of-hours services.
She said: "I've not seen people queuing out of the door of a GP's surgery.
"It's a bit rich to make these sort of claims now when actually the change in the GPs' contract was made by a Labour government."
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The dispute comes a month before voters head to the ballot box and as the Prime Minister warns about the potential "disaster of an Ed Miliband government".
Mr Cameron has been on a four-country tour of the United Kingdom, with events being held in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The PM's campaign trail included a visit to the Belfast set of the hit Sky TV series Game of Thrones.
He said wanted to visit every part of the UK to underline the importance of the election, and highlight the Tories were the only party fielding candidates in every country.
Mr Cameron again refused to rule out further cutting the top rate of tax from 45p to 40p.
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Party leaders are criss-crossing the country with a month to go until polling day. David and Samantha Cameron started their day with breakfast at Scottish Widows' headquarters in Edinburgh
They then travelled to Belfast. Mr Cameron is aiming to visit England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in one day
A survivor of a massacre of some 1,700 troops by IS forces in Tikrit last June has been talking of his escape as forensic teams begin exhuming the graves.
Iraqi soldier Ali explained how IS lulled him and fellow troops into believing they would be well treated.
"They told us they had no problem with us and promised us we would be sent to our families, they brought us cars and even gave us water to make us feel secure," he said.
"Once they put us in large cars, they managed to control us and brought us here and tied us up, and I still have a mark from my cuffs here."
He went on: "The fourth bullet was meant to kill me, but I was not hit.
"The fifth bullet was fired, killing the one who was next to me. Playing dead, I fell to the ground. I was covered by the blood of my colleagues and I rolled down into the valley."
A forensic team member writes on the body bag of a soldier's remains
Up to 12 suspected mass graves are now being exhumed.
"We dug up the first mass grave site today," said an Iraqi health official working with a forensic team sent in to Tikrit, outside the former US base camp of Camp Speicher.
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"Until now we found at least 20 bodies. Initial indications show indisputably that they were from the Speicher victims.
"It was a heartbreaking scene. We couldn't prevent ourselves from breaking down in tears. What savage barbarian could kill 1,700 persons in cold blood?" he asked.
The mass killing of the Shi'ite troops took place as the fighters fought their way across northern Iraq.
Their deaths came to symbolise early on the brutality of IS, as well as the group's hatred of the country's Shi'ite majority.
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Smoke billows during Iraqi military operation to retake Tikrit from Islamic State militants
Iraqi flags fly on outskirts of Tikrit as government forces move into the city
FA chairman Greg Dyke has returned a watch worth £16,000 he had been given as a gift during the World Cup, FIFA has announced.
Mr Dyke was given one of the limited edition Parmigiani watches by the Brazilian FA during a FIFA Congress meeting in Sao Paulo.
Sixty-five of the watches were handed out in goodie bags worth more than £1m collectively.
The FA boss initially refused to hand his back after the watches were recalled, having promised to donate it to the FA's official charity partner, Breast Cancer Care, so it could be sold at auction.
But with the prospect of being sanctioned if he did not return the timepiece, FIFA's ethics committee confirmed Mr Dyke had returned the watch and proceedings on the matter have now been closed.
A FIFA statement said: "Mr Greg Dyke has returned the CBF Parmigiani watch.
"As a consequence, the adjudicatory chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has decided to close the proceedings in respect of a possible breach of the FIFA Code of Ethics."
Mr Dyke insisted he was not aware how much the gift was worth when he first received it and, once he was told, said he would allow it to be auctioned by Breast Cancer Care.
The charity is looking to raise £500,000 for their cause by next summer.
Press Association Sport reports that all of the watches will now be auctioned for a Brazilian charity and Mr Dyke will make a personal donation to Breast Cancer Care.
A 100-year-old man has killed his wife with an axe as she slept in their home, before killing himself with a knife, prosecutors say.
It is still not clear what sparked the murder-suicide at the weekend in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.
Michael Juskin had a "history of domestic issues" with his 88-year-old wife Rosalia, according to the prosecutor in the case.
But the motive for the attack remains under investigation, prosecutor John Molinelli said. Nobody else was believed to be in the home when the attack occurred.
According to local news reports, the bodies were found by a relative, possibly a son, who alerted police.
Reports also said Juskin had been suffering from dementia.
Neighbours told The Record newspaper that they often saw the couple out and about - Juskin walking a dog and his wife tending to her garden - but said they kept to themselves.
"They were always together, putzing around outside," said Barbara Szczecina, who lives down the block.
She added the wife "used to be in her garden all the time".
Two West Yorkshire teenagers are believed to have travelled to Syria, counter-terrorism police have confirmed.
The boys, both 17 and from Dewsbury, were last seen by their families on 31 March.
They are believed to have flown from Manchester airport to Dalaman in Turkey on the same day, police say.
West Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Mark Milsom said: "We are extremely concerned for the safety of these two boys and would urge anyone with information to come forward and speak to us.
"Our priority is for their safe return; their families are gravely worried about them and want them home.
"Syria is an extremely dangerous place and the public will be aware of the dangers these boys may face.
"The choice of returning home from Syria is often taken away from those that come under the control of Islamic State, leaving their families in the UK devastated and with very few options to secure their safe return."
He urged anyone who is worried about someone they know travelling to Syria to get in touch with authorities.
Kadiza Sultana, Shamima Begum and Amira Abase are thought to be in Raqqa
"This is not about criminalising people. It is about preventing tragedies by offering support to communities, families, young and vulnerable people," he said.
Kirklees Council chief executive Adrian Lythgo said: "We are deeply concerned for these young people and will continue to work in close partnership with the Counter Terrorism Unit, West Yorkshire Police, our communities and schools to prevent and eradicate any threats and concerns."
UK security services believe around 600 Britons have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join militant groups, while around half are thought to have returned to the UK.
They include three teenage girls from East London, who are now thought to be in the Syrian city of Raqqa, an Islamic State stronghold.
Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana were last seen on CCTV at a bus station in Istanbul on 17 February.
Last week, nine Britons were arrested allegedly trying to cross into Syria from Turkey illegally.
Anyone with information is urged to call police on 101 or the confidential Anti-Terrorist Hotline on 0800 789 321.
Germany owes Greece more than £203bn in war payments - including more than £7bn for a forced loan taken by Nazi occupation forces - a junior finance minister in Athens has claimed.
Dimitris Mardas told parliament: "According to our calculations, the debt linked to German reparations is 278.7bn euros, including 10.3bn for the so-called 'forced loan'."
He said the figures had been compiled by Greece's state general accounting office.
Greece's radical government, which came to power in January, said German war reparations were a "moral issue" that must still be resolved.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made this argument to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during his visit to Berlin in March.
Mr Tsipras made Greece's case to Ms Merkel during a visit last month
His justice minister said he was prepared to activate a 15-year-old Greek Supreme Court ruling that authorised the seizure of German assets in Greece to pay for wartime atrocities.
But many experts say the dispute has effectively reached a judicial stalemate after a related adjudication between Germany and Italy by the International Court of Justice in 2012.
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Athens has become a Mecca for street artists as anger grows over the impact of Greece's bailout deal with Europe
Wall paintings have sprung up all over the city reflecting the general frustration at rising unemployment and falling living standards
Tony Blair has warned David Cameron's promise of an EU referendum is an "unacceptable gamble" with Britain's future.
The former Labour prime minister also told Sky News the current party leader Ed Miliband had his "100%" support, and said he had showed "real leadership" in resisting calls to back an in/out vote.
Speaking in his former constituency of Sedgefield, Mr Blair claimed the PM did not believe the UK should quit Europe, but had committed to a referendum in 2017 as a "sop" to the right wing of his party and UKIP.
But he warned the vote would be a "huge distraction", risking economic chaos and threatening the UK's national interest.
It would also put EU "exit" on the agenda for the first time.
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And he had sharp words for UKIP, arguing its brand of nationalism as "ugly".
In his speech Mr Blair said: "I believe passionately that leaving Europe would leave Britain diminished in the world, do significant damage to our economy and, less obviously but just as important to our future, would go against the very qualities and ambitions that mark us out still as a great global nation.
"Think of the chaos produced by the possibility never mind the reality of Britain quitting Europe.
"Jobs that are secure suddenly insecure; investment decisions postponed or cancelled; a pall of unpredictability hanging over the British economy."
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He added: "And the oddest thing of all about David Cameron's position? The PM doesn't really believe we should leave Europe; not even the Europe as it is today.
"This was a concession to party, a manoeuvre to access some of the UKIP vote, a sop to the rampant anti-Europe feeling of parts of the media.
"This issue, touching as it does the country's future, is too important to be traded like this."
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In a broadside against UKIP, Mr Blair said: "National pride is a great thing. Nationalism, as a political cause in the hands of parties like UKIP, is almost always ugly and, despite being wrapped in the garb on high-sounding phrases, can never disguise its essentially mean spirit."
And praising Mr Miliband's stance, Mr Blair said: "Labour and its leader took a brave decision when they decided not to yield to pressure but instead to make the principled and intelligent case for Britain in Europe.
"In doing so, in my view, they showed they understand Britain's future and its destiny better than those prepared to trade policy for political advantage.
"That is one very good reason, amongst many others, for voting Labour on May 7."
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Speaking at an event in Bristol, Mr Miliband referred to Mr Blair's speech on Europe and said it was a "fundamental issue" for business.
"I believe our future lies inside not outside the EU," he said.
But Mr Cameron said: "Tony Blair doesn't want to trust the people, doesn't think the people should have a say.
"Instead of what Tony Blair did, which was give away more money to Europe, I have safeguarded our rebate and actually cut the European budget."
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Meanwhile, UKIP leader Nigel Farage jokingly thanked Mr Blair for reopening the debate on EU membership.
Asked after his speech about his relationship with the Labour leader, Mr Blair told Sky News: "I support him 100% to lead our party to victory at the election."
However, he went on to point out there had "always been disagreement" within Labour hinting at behind-the-scenes differences over the direction Mr Miliband was taking the party in.
Mr Blair was an ally of David Miliband, who lost to his brother in the 2010 leadership battle.
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Party leaders are criss-crossing the country with a month to go until polling day. David and Samantha Cameron started their day with breakfast at Scottish Widows' headquarters in Edinburgh
They then travelled to Belfast. Mr Cameron is aiming to visit England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales in one day
Scotland Yard has begun an investigation after safety deposit boxes in a central London vault were raided over the Easter weekend.
A statement from the Metropolitan Police said heavy cutting equipment had been used to get into a vault at the premises in Hatton Garden.
Officers from the Flying Squad are currently at Hatton Garden Safe Deposit as the investigation continues.
Up to 300 safety deposit boxes at the premises are thought to have been broken into. The suspects are believed to have used a lift shaft to gain access to the vault.
The raid took place in the heart of London's jewellery quarter
Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: "I'm told that there are 600 boxes on the premises, 300 of which have been raided.
"The suspects have had perhaps several days (over Easter weekend) in which to get in. One report I'm told suggested that they used a lift shaft at some stage to get into the centre, which must be pretty heavily protected.
"It's probably going to be some days before we get an idea of exactly how much has been stolen or what indeed has been stolen."
The area is known as London's jewellery quarter.
Safety deposit boxes at the premises are mainly used by jewellers in Hatton Garden to store jewellery and loose diamonds in packets.
Lewis Malka, a diamond jewellery expert who works on Hatton Garden, tweeted: "Quiet day in the office and then I found out one of my client's antique bracelets was stolen in the Hatton Garden robbery."
Mr Malka said the haul was likely to be worth "hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds".
He said: "Most of the people who have got safety deposits there are people in the trade.
"I know for a fact that some of my work colleagues have got boxes down there and we are talking about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds in goods."
In 2003, cash and valuables worth an estimated £1.5m were stolen after a suspect emptied safety deposit boxes at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Co while posing as a customer.
In July 1987, the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre was hit by one of the largest robberies in history. Two armed robbers asked to rent a safe deposit box and produced hand guns after they were shown to the vault before making off with an estimated £60m hoard.
Valerio Viccei was arrested as he returned to England to ship his Ferrari Testarrosa to Latin America. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
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Alps Crash Victims 'Identified By End Of Week'
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The violence of the crash has hampered the identification of victims
All 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps will be identified by the end of the week, according to French President Francois Hollande.
Speaking at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Mr Hollande said: "The French interior minister confirmed that by the end of the week at the latest it will be possible to identify all of the victims thanks to DNA samples."
This contradicts an earlier report in the German newspaper Bild that the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Colonel Francois Daoust said they may not be able to find all the victims
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
Even then, "we cannot promise that we will be able to identify all of the victims," Colonel Francois Daoust said.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
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American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook
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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook
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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook
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Investigators are currently working on the theory that the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane.
The voice recorder suggested he locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally put the Airbus A320 into a descent.
German prosecutors revealed on Monday that Lubitz had been treated in the past for suicidal tendencies, although no evidence has been found to prove he felt suicidal at the time of the crash.
Christoph Kumpa, a spokesman for Dusseldorf prosecutor's office, said he was known to have paid several visits to doctors in the days and months before and nothing of this nature was found to have been documented.
Video:Crash Site - Latest Search Video
He said: "There still is no evidence that the co-pilot told before that he'll do what we have to assume was done and we haven't found a letter or anything like that that contains a confession.
"Added to this, we have not found anything in the surrounding be it personal, or his family, or his professional surrounding, that is giving us any hints that enable us to say anything about his motivation.
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.
It has been reported he had also been receiving treatment for an unspecific vision problem which could have affected his ability to fly, although Mr Kumpa said nothing had been found to verify those claims.
Video:How The Co-Pilot Took Control
Investigators have so far been unable to find the aircraft's second black box, which would provide technical flight data of its final moments.
A road to improve access to the crash site has been built by investigators, who resumed their search on Tuesday.
Three trucks left the dropzone in Seyne-les-Alpes after a 48-hour road-building operation to ease access to the mountainside.
The vehicles now take 45 minutes to reach the base of the slope where debris is spread across some five acres (two hectares), while two helicopters fly overhead to check for pieces that might have been flung further.
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Alps Crash Victims 'Identified By End Of Week'
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The violence of the crash has hampered the identification of victims
All 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps will be identified by the end of the week, according to French President Francois Hollande.
Speaking at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Mr Hollande said: "The French interior minister confirmed that by the end of the week at the latest it will be possible to identify all of the victims thanks to DNA samples."
This contradicts an earlier report in the German newspaper Bild that the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Colonel Francois Daoust said they may not be able to find all the victims
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
Even then, "we cannot promise that we will be able to identify all of the victims," Colonel Francois Daoust said.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook
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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook
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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook
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Investigators are currently working on the theory that the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane.
The voice recorder suggested he locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally put the Airbus A320 into a descent.
German prosecutors revealed on Monday that Lubitz had been treated in the past for suicidal tendencies, although no evidence has been found to prove he felt suicidal at the time of the crash.
Christoph Kumpa, a spokesman for Dusseldorf prosecutor's office, said he was known to have paid several visits to doctors in the days and months before and nothing of this nature was found to have been documented.
Video:Crash Site - Latest Search Video
He said: "There still is no evidence that the co-pilot told before that he'll do what we have to assume was done and we haven't found a letter or anything like that that contains a confession.
"Added to this, we have not found anything in the surrounding be it personal, or his family, or his professional surrounding, that is giving us any hints that enable us to say anything about his motivation.
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.
It has been reported he had also been receiving treatment for an unspecific vision problem which could have affected his ability to fly, although Mr Kumpa said nothing had been found to verify those claims.
Video:How The Co-Pilot Took Control
Investigators have so far been unable to find the aircraft's second black box, which would provide technical flight data of its final moments.
A road to improve access to the crash site has been built by investigators, who resumed their search on Tuesday.
Three trucks left the dropzone in Seyne-les-Alpes after a 48-hour road-building operation to ease access to the mountainside.
The vehicles now take 45 minutes to reach the base of the slope where debris is spread across some five acres (two hectares), while two helicopters fly overhead to check for pieces that might have been flung further.
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Gunmen have taken a prosecutor hostage at a court in Istanbul, an official has confirmed - and Turkish special forces have entered the building.
An unverified image appears to show Mehmet Selim Kiraz with a gun to his head and a hand over his mouth - and his hands appear to be bound with cable ties. Sky News has decided not to show the hostage in distress.
The photograph was published online by the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) - a banned far-left organisation.
In the picture, one of the militants has concealed his face with a red and yellow scarf, while flags and posters bearing the organisation's insignia hang in the background.
The group, which has been listed as a terror organisation by the US, the EU and Turkey, had threatened to kill Mr Kiraz at 1.36pm UK time if their demands were not met. That deadline has since passed.
The courthouse in Istanbul has been evacuated and special forces are inside
According to witnesses, at least three shots have been fired inside the courthouse. The police are currently trying to negotiate with two militants via a mediator.
Istanbul's police chief, Selami Altunok, said: "There is no problem concerning any of our colleagues. Our negotiators and Umit Kocasakal, the head of the Istanbul Bar Association, are talking to the militants. We are trying to resolve the issue without anyone being hurt."
The chief prosecutor was investigating the death of Berkin Elvan - a teenager who died in March 2014 from injuries inflicted by the police.
Berkin Elvan died from his injuries after spending 269 days in a coma
He spent 269 days in a coma after being hit by a gas canister fired during anti-government protests, and his treatment by officers caused outrage nationwide.
The DHKP-C wants the officer it blames for the 15-year-old's death to "confess" on national television. Mr Kiraz was reportedly handed a list of suspect policemen by investigators two weeks ago.
Another condition for the prosecutor's safe release is that the armed fighters in the courthouse are allowed to leave unharmed.
It remains unclear how the group smuggled guns into the courthouse - however, many Turkish towns and cities were hit with the worst blackout in 15 years on Tuesday.
Some far-left groups in Turkey believe the authorities have orchestrated a cover-up by refusing to reveal the perpetrators responsible for Berkin's death.
An opposition politician, writing on Twitter, claimed he had spoken to Berkin's father, Sami, who said: "My son died but I don't want any other person to die. The prosecutor must be released. Blood cannot be washed away with blood.
"I don't want anyone to even get a nosebleed. Until today, I've only demanded justice, and I only want a fair trial."
Many Turkish news channels had been broadcasting live scenes from the courthouse, but have returned to their normal programming after a media blackout was imposed for "national security" reasons.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan previously sparked controversy when he branded Berkin a "thug" and encouraged his supporters to boo the teenager's mother at a rally.
In 2013, the DHKP-C was behind a suicide bombing outside the US Embassy.
A 10-year-old boy with a rare genetic condition, who went missing from his south London home this morning, has been found and taken to hospital.
Malakhi Chijiutomi-Ghosh, who requires medication three times a day, was discovered by an off-duty police officer in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
Police had said they were "extremely concerned" for the welfare of the child because he had not had his medicine today.
Malakhi suffers from congenital adrenal hyperplasia and officers said there was a "real chance" he could have fallen into a coma had he not been found.
After he was discovered more than 20 miles away from his home, the child was taken to hospital as a precaution.
Police launched a major appeal and search after Malakhi left the property in Thornton Heath, Croydon, at 6am without a mobile phone, cash or Oyster card.
Police had been searching for the boy in south London
The boy, who likes trains, was last seen at a bus stop in nearby Streatham Common around two hours later.
His disappearance was said to be "completely out of character" and his parents had been "distraught".
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) causes swelling of the adrenal glands and in its most severe form can be life-threatening.
CAH means the body is missing a chemical substance which stimulates the adrenal glands to release the cortisol hormone.
People with the condition are less able to cope with emotional and physical stress, the NHS said.
The condition makes the level of male hormones increase. Symptoms include heart rhythm abnormalities, dehydration and vomiting.
CAH affects between one in 10,000 and one in 18,000 children born each year.
Lord Ashcroft has retired from the House of Lords with immediate effect, to concentrate on his "other activities".
The 69-year-old hinted he would retain his title, writing on his Twitter page: "Retired Lords keep their title and can use the facilities of the House should they wish to."
"Earlier this year Baroness D'Souza, the Lord Speaker, said that any member of the House of Lords who can 'no longer contribute meaningfully' should retire," he said in a statement posted on his website.
"She added that since the House has close to 800 members, 'retirement at the right time should be seen as a condition of membership of the House of Lords - a duty as well as a right'.
"I agree with the Speaker, and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.
"Accordingly, I have today written to the Clerk of the Parliaments giving notice of my resignation from the House of Lords with immediate effect."
Lord Ashcroft, who remains a life peer, said he intended to continue his involvement through his polling organisation and his publishing interests.
A former Deputy Chairman and treasurer of the Conservative Party, Lord Ashcroft has a range of business interests and was estimated in 2009 to be worth around £1.1bn.
He hit the headlines in 2010 when, after 10 years of keeping his tax status private, he admitted he did not pay tax on his overseas earnings in the UK.
Zayn Malik may have left One Direction on good terms - but all that could be about to change.
Just days after announcing his departure from the band so he could be a "normal" 22-year-old, a demo recording of Malik performing on his own has been posted online by a renowned producer.
Louis Tomlinson, one of his former bandmates, went crazy, crazy, crazy when he heard the song.
In a tweet to the producer behind the leak, Naughty Boy, he wrote: "Wow @NaughtyBoyMusic you're so inconsiderate pal, seriously how f****** old are you? Grow up!"
Tomlinson accused the British DJ of trying to wind up One Direction fans, who are still nursing broken hearts after the five-piece band became four – prompting fears a split was imminent.
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Winds of up to 70mph battered parts of England and Wales overnight, causing widespread travel disruption and flooding in some regions.
In the northwest, firefighters spent three hours removing a 20ft tree which had fallen onto a house in Leigh - ruining a family's plans to go on holiday.
And at an Esso refinery in Hampshire, a crewman was rescued from a sinking tug by a heroic employee who jumped into the water to save him.
In Worsley, a 20ft tree fell onto a house. Pic: @manchesterfire
Without hesitation, he swam to the capsized vessel and smashed a window to help the trapped crew member, who only had access to a small pocket of air inside.
All of the employees have been accounted for, according to the coastguard - although one person had to be treated for hypothermia following the incident.
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Earlier, journeys on the West Coast Main Line between Warrington and the Lake District were delayed by up to an hour - while trees on the line caused considerable disruption between Exeter and Taunton, Salisbury and Romsey, and Aylesbury and London.
Several bridges on the motorways were closed as a precaution, including the Dartford Crossing on the M25, the Severn Bridge on the M48, and the Ouse Bridge on the M62.
There was also bad news for fans of the Thunderbirds, as an event to promote the new series on the River Thames was cancelled.
Although it will "gradually quieten down" as the Easter weekend approaches, the Met Office predicts the strongest winds are yet to be seen in northwest England.
And, even though it is the first day of April on Wednesday, wintry showers are expected over higher ground in Scotland, spreading into northern England and parts of north Wales.
Sky News weather producer Becky Yussuf said: "The unsettled, wet and windy weather will continue through until Good Friday.
"High pressure will build across the UK and Ireland over the Easter weekend, bringing largely dry and settled conditions.
"There is expected to be a lot of cloud around, and so brightness might be at a bit of a premium.
"Temperatures will be around average for the time of year, with highs of 14C (57F)."
The Conservative leader has refused to say where welfare cuts will fall but insisted that British families still needed to take "the medicine" to help put the country back on track.
In a round of interviews setting out a pledge to create two million extra jobs over the course of the next parliament, David Cameron admitted there were more cuts to be made but would not say where they would fall.
The Conservatives have said they will find £12bn of welfare cuts over the next parliament if they are returned to power on 7 May but have indicated they will not tell voters of the details before the vote.
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Tackled on where the cuts would fall on Sky News Mr Cameron said: "The medicine is that we need to - for two more years - do what we have done for the last five, which is find £1 out of every £100 the Government spends and save it.
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"So the choice at this election, if you simplify it, really is: do you want to find that £1 saving out of every £100, which families and businesses up and down the country have had to do or do you want to scrap that plan and put up taxes and borrow more."
Mr Cameron said that they had managed to find £20bn of welfare savings in the last five years.
Answering claims he would go down as the "biggest Scrooge prime minister", Mr Cameron said he didn't come into office to make cuts but when he came to power Britain had a budget deficit forecast to be bigger than that of Greece and he had to do the job.
He also dismissed criticism over using his outgoing address at Number 10, at which he officially announces the General Election, to attack his opponent Ed Miliband.
He was the first prime minister to use the platform to speak against the opposition leader but when asked if it was "not cricket", Mr Cameron told Sky's Eamonn Holmes: "In cricket there are two opposing teams".
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And after reports of meetings between Tory MPs and UKIP members he denied he had been in "secret talks" over a coalition and intended to spend the next 37 days working for a majority.
He also said that his wife, Samantha, had not been behind his decision to announce he would only serve two terms as Prime Minister.
Mr Cameron believes the Tories can match the job creation of the past five years, during which the Coalition created an average of 1,000 new jobs every day. Although he got his figures mixed up during the interview on Sky News and claimed it had been 10,000 a day.
As the second day of campaigning gets under way, the Prime Minister said: "We are the jobs party - and over the next month, we will be fighting for every man and woman who wants to work and earn a wage."
The pledge comes exactly a year after Chancellor George Osborne set a goal of full employment for Britain.
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Mr Cameron argues an additional two million jobs is a feasible target thanks to government assistance for business, competitive tax rates, a parliament-long campaign against red tape, plus investment in infrastructure.
He said Labour's plan to reverse corporation tax cuts - as a way of paying for a reduction in rates for small businesses - was a "crazy thing to do when the economy is growing".
The Prime Minister's first outing of the election campaign proper was to address a rally of supporters at a school in Chippenham - a marginal constituency they need to take if they are to stand any chance of winning a majority.
Speaking at the event, Mr Cameron admitted he is not the "perfect" Prime Minister - but insisted he has a record to be "proud" of.
It came figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that the UK economy grew faster than had been expected - 2.8% in 2014, which was 0.2% higher than earlier estimates.
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Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats sought to distinguish themselves from the Conservatives, and other parties, by focusing on mental health with a pledge of extra funding.
He accused the Tories of trying to "pull the wool over people's eyes" on NHS funding by refusing to set out clearly for voters how it would pay for its pledges on the health service.
The Lib Dems were the first party to commit to meeting the extra £8bn the NHS chief Simon Stevens said was needed for the health service to survive by 2020.
Mr Clegg also criticised Mr Cameron's refusal to say where welfare cuts will fall and said: "The Conservatives are trying to treat people like fools. They say they are going to take £12 billion away from the poorest families in the country but they won't spell out how or where. They are promising everybody lashings of tax cuts but won't tell people how they are going to pay for it."
On the first day of Labour's campaign, Mr Miliband tried to win over business with the launch of the party's first "mini manifesto".
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Labour has pledged to reverse the Government's final cut in corporation tax to pay for a reduction in rates for small businesses.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has also promised smaller firms they will be the first to benefit from future tax cuts if Labour takes power in the General Election.
Mr Balls said that reversing the corporation tax cut would allow Labour to slash business rates on 1.5 million small business premises.
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Labour argues that 17 small firms would benefit from the cut for every large business helped by the reduction in corporation tax.
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The party claims the coalition spent £7bn over the last parliament cutting the main rate of corporation tax to the benefit of larger firms, while revenues from business rates rose by £3bn.
Speaking as he visited a small business, Mr Balls said: "Unleashing the potential of smaller businesses to grow, create more good jobs and raise living standards is a vital part of Labour's better plan.
"This is part of our plan to deliver a simpler and fairer tax system for small businesses. This is the right priority when money is tight.
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"And it will mean that the tax burden on small businesses will be lower with Labour than under the Tories."
The announcement comes a day after the launch of Ed Miliband's business manifesto was overshadowed by a row over Labour's use of business leaders' quotes in an advert for the party's stance on the EU.
Mr Miliband faced a backlash over the advertisement in the Financial Times, published as Mr Miliband warned voters that leaving the European Union was a "clear and present danger" to British business.
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The Conservatives have argued that abandoning the cut in corporation tax would jeopardise economic security.
Treasury Minister David Gauke said: "This would be the first time corporation tax has risen in over 40 years and Labour's plans could cost 96,400 jobs - it would put people's economic security at risk.
"The Conservative Party is helping businesses small and large as part of our long-term economic plan - we don't divide them up for the sake of making a political point."
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David Cameron said reversing the corporation tax cut was a "crazy thing to do when the economy is growing".
The Conservative leader today pledged a Conservative government will help business create two million new jobs over the course of the next parliament.
Nick Clegg was speaking earlier to promised an additional £3.5bn over the next parliament, with the aim of "revolutionising" adult and child mental health care.
