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Florida police arrest 12-year-old girl for posting a mass shooting threat toward a middle school

Authorities arrested a 12-year-old girl on Thursday after she posted a mass shooting threat toward Burns Middle School (pictured) in Brandon, Florida, on Snapchat.




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Cops catch Broadway piano player, 26, in sting

Justin Brown, 26, could face up to seven years in prison after police allege he sent sexually explicit messages to an officer posing as a 14-year-old boy and arranged to meet the 'boy' for sex.




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Thugs' Snapchat video boasting of how they stabbed victim 10 times

Reece Lefevre, 20, bragged about stabbing the 34-year-old in an attack so brutal it left footprints on the victim's skull, while Tyler Jones, 26, cruelly laughed and filmed the aftermath.




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Teenager fronts Wollongong Court accused of assaulting a father and posting videos to Snapchat

Casey Holmes appeared in Wollongong Local Court, south of Sydney, on Tuesday accused of assaulting Brad Quirk on Saturday September 28.




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Alexa and Fitbit apps make the top 10 free apps list, suggesting they were popular gifts

Apple's App Store list suggest Amazon's Echo was a popular gift this holiday season this year, as it took the number one spot on the top 10 free apps list following Christmas Day.




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Balaclava-clad teenagers storm into Perth Gucci store before posting videos of haul on Snapchat 

The five balaclava and hoodie-clad teenagers stole multiple handbags as well as clothes after breaking into the store on Perth's King Street at 2.20am on Tuesday morning.




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Twitter is now testing tweets that DISAPPEAR after 24 hours just like Instagram's stories feature

The social media giant announced that it will test a feature that allows users to post tweets that disappear after just 24 hours, similar to the ephemeral story posts on Instagram and Snapchat.




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Moise Kean faces £100,000-plus fine for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules by hosting house party

Kean, the Italy Under-21 striker, was discovered to have had a party at his apartment in Cheshire last weekend. He uploaded footage of the gathering, featuring several women.




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People are posting photos of their genitals on Reddit to get STIs diagnosed by other users

Researchers led by the University of California, San Diego, trawled through almost 17,000 posts on the r/STD Reddit community and found almost two thirds were after a 'crowd-diagnosis'.




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Plane passenger shares 'disgusting' moment the person behind rested their bare feet on her headrest

A plane passenger was left disgusted after the person behind her put their bare feet on top of her headrest prompting her to take a photo and share it online.




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Ireland Baldwin on fan requesting nude pictures of her: 'You probably can Google it for free dawg'

The 24-year-old DT Model wasn't kidding either, as recent as July of last year she posted two nearly nude snaps of herself on a Manhattan balcony and a Malibu beach




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VPN and ad-blocking apps are allegedly harvesting user data

An analytics firm that owns at least 20 apps on the App Store and Google Play Store has been harvesting millions of people's data, according to media reports.




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Google is NOT building the COVID-19 testing website Trump promised

A website that is very different to the one described at Trump's Friday press conference at the White House is being built by Verily, a healthcare tech company also owned by Alphabet.




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Google cancels its yearly tradition of posting an April Fools' Day joke

Google is skipping its tradition of designing an April Fools' Day joke on its front page during the COVID-19 pandemic, out of respect for people working to help curb the spread of the disease.




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Woman selling swimsuit outraged when male buyer asked her to WEAR IT before posting

Romance novelist Lucy Taylor, 37, from Lincoln, sold her six-month-old swimming costume for £10.50, but was shocked when a male buyer from the Netherlands made an unusual request.




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Mother transformed her sofas with chic covers costing just £33

Single mother Anna Pek, from Norfolk, couldn't afford to buy a new sofa when she moved house and revealed how she transformed her tired old couches for just £33.




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eBay removes listing selling three nuclear cabins that promised 'full protection' from coronavirus

Three nuclear cabins in Cardigan, West Wales, that were said to offer 'full protection' from viruses including COVID-19, were removed from eBay after being listed on the website for £15,000 each.




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From slimming down debts to boosting Isas: Our wealth workout to give your finances real muscle

The average Briton wastes £640 a year on unwanted subscriptions. Nearly 12million of us have less than £100 in savings. Here is our wealth workout to help you reach peak financial fitness.




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RACHEL RICKARD STRAUS: The overlooked investing question

Are you investing in the things that will help make the future that you want possible? Maybe it is something that we should all at least consider.




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A Vanguard LifeStrategy fund can make pension investing cheap and easy

I don't have a Vanguard account, but if someone said they wanted an easy and cheap way to build their wealth, opening one and picking a Lifestrategy fund would be near the top of my list of things to try.




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Dividend Heroes 2020: Investment trusts boosting income since Light My Fire

If ever there was a time when investors needed a hero, it's now. And among the stock market capitulation, a ray of light has arrived with the latest list of Dividend Heroes.




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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings received $38 MILLION in 2019 as company reports spike in subscriptions

Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings saw his pay package increase by 16 per cent to a total of $38 million in 2019, including $37.4 million in options awards, according to a a new SEC filing.




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Undercover sting 'unmasks fake' madarsas in UP

An India Today TV investigation has unearthed 17 'illegal seminaries' in the state, and the Saharanpur district magistrate confirmed the findings which are now under investigation.




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Rebecca Dykes' friend reveals her agony of suggesting bar

Reporter Bethan McKernan said she had recommended a bar that Ms Dykes, 30, visited before she was abducted in the Lebanese capital, Beirut on Friday night.




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Stunning panorama of Mars reveals the final resting place of NASA's Opportunity rover

The panorama is a series of 354 individual pictures snapped by NASA's Opportunity rover over a 29-day period before it shutdown completely and declared 'dead' by the American space agency.




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Busy Phillips and Lilly Singh play astronauts blasting off into space in Olay ad for Super Bowl LIV

Busy Phillips and Lilly Singh know how to make an entrance during the Super Bowl. During the big game on Sunday evening Olay brought in special reinforcements for their Super Bowl commercial.




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Stunning images show Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter blasting off from Cape Canaveral on way to sun

The Solar Orbiter lifted off from Cape Canaveral Sunday night and will maneuver into a unique out-of-plane orbit that will take it over both of the sun's poles, never photographed before.




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Origami-inspired expanding lunar module set for testing in Greenland 

A new 'origami-inspired' foldable shelter designed for the next generation of moon explorers is about to undergo testing in the harsh conditions of Greenland.




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Tinder testing out a new video feature that aims to match users via a live-streamed game of trivia

While the details of how the game will work are sparse, picture from The Verge suggest that it will be live and may even include a chat feature in which a 'live audience' can watch along.




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New insurance rules could save holidaymakers with pre-existing medical conditions up to 40%

Millions of travellers with pre-existing medical conditions should soon be able to find appropriate cover more easily, according to new rules from the Financial Conduct Authority.




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Sky ups the price of its core entertainment package by an inflation-busting 9%

The telecoms giant has announced its popular entertainment package - which includes Sky One, Sky Atlantic and MTV - is due to increase by £2 from £22 to £24 a month.




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Six top tips to boosting your broadband 

Switching providers can be a first step to improving your service, but this might not always be possible and doesn’t guarantee your broadband connection will be improved.




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It's simply disgusting that only the big towns get help: NEIL TWEEDIE on Storm Dennis devastation

NEIL TWEEDIE writes about how owners of isolated country homes that were flooded in the aftermath of Storm Dennis received no help from authorities in areas including Worcestershire.




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Big B not hosting any political event: Abhishek Bachchan

However, there are reports that R Madhavan, and not Amitabh Bachchan, would be hosting the event




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Amitabh Bachchan proud of hosting girl child segment at govt's second anniversary gala

At the event, celebrating two years of Modi govt, the actor stressed on the importance of protecting the girl child




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NBA teams start to reopen, as testing plan begins emerging

The NBA took tiny steps toward a return to normalcy, as a small number of practice facilities reopened for workouts and at least one team received permission from the league to test players and staff for the coronavirus. Meanwhile, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver took part in a teleconference with members of the National Basketball Players Association on Friday night. Silver, according to a person familiar with the call's details, told players that the league is still aiming to hold full best-of-seven playoff series should the season resume and that playing without fans is an obvious possibility. Silver also spoke about the well-known notion of having the season resume in a centralized location, though cautioned that no decisions may be made for another several weeks, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details of the call were not publicly released. Cleveland and Portland were open for players who wanted to get voluntary workouts ..




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Russia, Belarus mark Victory Day in contrasting events

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in a ceremony shorn of its usual military parade and pomp by the coronavirus pandemic. In neighboring Belarus, however, the ceremonies went ahead in full, with tens of thousands of people in the sort of proximity that has been almost unseen in the world for months. Putin on Saturday laid flowers at the tomb of the unknown soldier just outside the Kremlin walls and gave a short address honoring the valor and suffering of the Soviet army during the war. Victory Day is Russia's most important secular holiday and this year's observance had been expected to be especially large because it is the 75th anniversary, but the Red Square military parade and a mass procession called The Immortal Regiment were postponed as part of measures to stifle the spread of the virus. The only vestige of the conventional show of military might was a flyover of central Moscow by 75 warplanes and .




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HLL Lifecare floats tender for over 1 lakh units of medical supplies for COVID-19 testing

Healthcare firm HLL Lifecare on Saturday said its arm HLL Infra Tech Services has floated a tender seeking supply of over 1 lakh units of medical supplies towards COVID-19 testing on behalf of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). "The tender is seeking quotations for 40,000 units of viral transport media, 33,000 RNA extraction kits and 29,000 Combo RT-PCR COVID-19 tests," HLL Lifecare Ltd said in a statement. The tender is closing by May 10, the state-owned company added. "The viral transport media is used for transport of swabs collected for testing, RNA extraction kits are used to draw out RNA, which are single strand genetic materials of viruses, from samples which are then converted into reverse-transcribed into DNA while Combo RT-PCR tests has proven to be the 'gold standard' of COVID-19 diagnosis,"it said. HLL Lifecare is the procurement agency for hospitals and healthcare organisations under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.




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Testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day: Vardhan

The testing capacity for COVID-19 has been scaled up to around 95,000 tests per day and a total of 15,25,631 tests have been conducted so far across 332 government and 121 private laboratories, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday. The minister, who reviewed the status of COVID-19 in the northeastern states along with the measures taken for its containment and management, also stressed on the need to take concrete action to check the use of non-smoking tobacco and prohibiting spitting in public places which shall help in preventing the spread of the infection, according to a statement. During the high-level meeting with Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim, Vardhan appreciated the dedication of all the states in combating COVID-19. "It is a huge relief and very encouraging to see green zones in most northeastern states. As of date, only Assam and Tripura have active COVID-19 cases. Other states are all in the green zone. ..




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Know what type of investor you are before you start investing

Key to successful investing is to identify your risk profile and invest accordingly.




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What’s ‘fashionable’ about protesting human rights violations?


A recent observation of the Supreme Court, while hearing a petition filed by a filmmaker challenging censorship of his documentary, has left advocates of human rights in the country anguished and puzzled. Shoma A Chatterji explains why.




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Casting out caste crime


Pushpa Achanta describes the unrelenting efforts of the KDMV in educating members of the Dalit and Adivasi communities about their legal entitlements and helping them wage battles for justice in cases involving caste atrocity and discrimination.




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Caste discrimination persisting in U.P. schools


On Independence day, a District Magistrate in U.P. handed over three teachers of a primary school to the police, during a surprise school visit. School children are among the worst sufferers in the state; they continue to pay for a system they neither moulded nor understand. Puja Awasthi reports.




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Officials resisting amending RTI law


The National Campaign for the People's Right to Information is asking citizens to put pressure on the Prime Minister to deliver on the UPA government's promise of bringing in a 'progressive, participatory and meaningful' right to information law.




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NBA's Andre Iguodala on Investing, Kaepernick and Legacy

Former Golden State Warrior Andre Iguodala talks to WSJ's Lee Hawkins about being an active tech investor, his commitment to opening doors for other athletes and people of color, and the benefits of having a "strict" mother.




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Investing 101: How to Get Started

The key is to start now. Three steps you should take.




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Casting couch vs workplace abuse: A thin line


The proverbial casting couch has been a reality over the years since women made their foray into the world of films and entertainment. As the industry joins in celebrating Women’s Day, Shoma Chatterji explores if  more of its women remain victims, rather than complicit 'sinners'.




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Between sting and scam


Political parties have displayed moral outrage over the recent expose of misuse in MPLADS funds. The scheme itself violates the Constitution, and second, MPs have had a free hand in doling out contracts to build and sustain patronage. The decision to retain the scheme is shortsighted, points out Sudhirendar Sharma.




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Between sting and scam


Political parties have displayed moral outrage over the recent expose of misuse in MPLADS funds. The scheme itself violates the Constitution, and second, MPs have had a free hand in doling out contracts to build and sustain patronage. The decision to retain the scheme is shortsighted, points out Sudhirendar Sharma.




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Persisting on two left feet


Five and a half years ago, a visit to nine Karnataka farmers who were trialing Bt cotton showed regulatory breakdown. Six years on, despite fresh criticism by NGOs, scientists and the media, India's regulatory practice with transgenic crops appears to have offered a repeat performance of its 2000 conduct, says Keya Acharya.