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Leeds student kills himself because of 'exam stress'

Mother Emma Oliver, 43, of Gildersome, Leeds, West Yorkshire, has spoken out after her son, Daniel Long, took his own life at the age of 15.




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Blind man flunks his citizenship test because they tried to make him read a sentence

Lucio Delgado, from Mexico, took to Facebook last week to share that a letter he received informed him that he 'failed to successfully pass the reading test.'




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#boycottcostco trends because people are furious the stores made masks mandatory for customers

Costco faced a backlash after requiring shoppers to wear masks in an attempt to control the spread of the coronavirus, but now shoppers are rallying around Costco to support the company's mask policy




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Mother could not see her daughter before she died from cancer because of the COVID-19 pandemic

Mary Hagen Roberts, 64, penned an essay about how her daughter Laura Hagen Hoffman, 33, died just a day after learning her cancer had spread to her lungs.




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Domain data shows number of homes offered a discount surging because of coronavirus

Property listing group Domain has revealed the proportion of home sellers offering reduced asking prices has tripled in Melbourne and doubled in Sydney because of coronavirus.




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Ferne McCann admits she's 'more choosy' with men because of daughter

The former TOWIE star, 28, put on a radiant display as she attended the Pride of Britain Awards 2018 at London 's Grosvenor House on Monday evening.




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Adam Driver exits NPR interview because of a clip from Marriage Story

Adam Driver doesn't like to watch or listen to his performances, and he walked out of an interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross earlier this month after she tried to play him a clip from Marriage Story.




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Ashton Kutcher was 'fired' from Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown because he couldn't master character

'Yeah, I'll say fired, sure,' the 41-year-old said in an interview with FirstWeFeast.com . 'At a certain point we just kind of agreed that it wasn't working out. More him than me.'




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I'd stand in front of a gunman trying to shoot Putin because he's a good guy says Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone, 88, also said he thought Putin should be running Europe and that the invasion of Crimea was just to 'bring Russia back together.'




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Justin Bieber says he cries in public because he is 'emotional'

The Never Say Never hitmaker's fans were concerned about him in 2018 when photos emerged of the star in tears, but he has recalled just feeling emotional that day.




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Third of Britons lie about music tastes because they're 'ashamed' of liking Justin Bieber and McFly

Music fans have revealed their guilty music secrets - with Justin Bieber the artist that most people lie about liking. A poll of 2,000 people voted the Canadian's 2009 hit their ultimate guilty pleasure.




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Freddie Flintoff reveals Justin Bieber REFUSED to meet him because he's too tall

The 6ft 4in Cricket player, 42, revealed the unexpected anecdote with the 5ft 9in singer during an appearance on talkSPORT on Tuesday.




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Moment a woman in isolation hacks her hair off with a knife because she doesn't have scissors 

Corrie Walker had booked herself in for a hair cut but it was indefinitely delayed after New Zealand went into lockdown on March 25.




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Woman who was forced to cancel her summer European holiday because of COVID-19 shares hilarious skit

Actress Brittany Ando, who is based in Sydney, was planning a six-week holiday to Europe during the northern hemisphere's summer months and was excited about relaxing in Greece, France and Italy.




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Throw Away Your Cluttered Resume, Because Here's The Type That Gets You Hired

Writing the perfect resume is still the cornerstone of a successful job search in today's digital age. An eye-tracking study by Ladders found that the average recruiter spends only six seconds reviewing a resume before deciding if it’s worth a closer inspection. Now, have a look at the one you have in your mail. It's heavy, cluttered, scattered and dead boring. Just ask yourself, would you like to read it if you were the hiring manager? If the answer is NO, it explains why you need to get rid of that Clutter in it and make it simple yet appealing. Several job researches have indicated that candidates with a simple, crisp and clear resume have been hired more by companies over candidates with fancy and complex ones. This is not to say you cannot be creative with it. You just need to be careful




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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says she slammed Trump's 'racist' rhetoric in 2015 because she 'naively' watched CNN

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany blamed CNN and her own naiveté for somehow convincing her to call President Donald Trump's rhetoric about immigrants "racist" and "hateful" in 2015. "For about the first four weeks of the election, I was watching CNN and I was naively believing some of the headlines that I saw on CNN," she said. "I very quickly came around and supported the president."In newly-unearthed footage, McEnany passionately and repeatedly attacked then-candidate Trump, calling him "a showman" who didn't deserve a place in the Republican Party. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.During her press conference at the White House on Friday, Kayleigh McEnany, President Donald Trump's newly-installed White House press secretary, blamed CNN and her own naiveté for




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Hugh Jackman reveals his long-running feud with Ryan Reynolds started because of Scarlett Johansson

It's one of the most relentless - albeit amusing - feuds in Hollywood. And in an interview with the Daily Beast, Hugh Jackman revealed how his long-running rivalry with Ryan Reynolds began.




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Taylor Swift DENIES claims she skipped Grammys because she wasn't guaranteed Song of the Year 

'She was not going to be in attendance at the Grammys because she was spending time with her family and her mother whose cancer has returned,' said the source.




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Band gets shut down at Vivid Sydney gig because of noise

Simeon Bartholomew - the singer of the band whose Kings Cross gig was shut down at 9:30pm for a noise compliant - has opened up on his disillusion with Sydney’s 'doomed' nightlife.




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Beauty queen, 24, sues Miss World after it bans her from taking part because she is a mother 

Veronika Didusenko, 24, has launched legal action in London claiming organisers are in breach of the Equalities Act 2010 and has demanded they change their 'outdated' entry criteria.




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Giuliani says he wanted to get rid of Marie Yovanovitch because she was enabling Ukraine corruption

Rudy Giuliani detailed Tuesday that he felt it was necessary for Marie Yovanovitch to be prematurely removed from her post because she was enabling Ukrainian corruption.




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Bride and groom were only on crash plane because they stayed in Tehran to collect wedding photos

Saeed Tahmasebi had flown to Tehran with new wife Niloofar Ebrahim and had stayed behind to collect their wedding photos following their celebrations.




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White House hold on aid to Ukraine broke the law because Donald Trump cannot override Congress

The Government Accountability Office has concluded that the White House Office of Management and Budget violated a the law by withholding millions in aid to Ukraine.




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Charlotte Crosby only attracted to I'm A Celebrity campmate Ryan Gallagher because she was hungry

Charlotte Crosby has had the revelation that her attraction to I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Australia co-star Ryan Gallagher was nothing more than hunger. 




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Roman Polanski snubs French Oscars because he fears a 'public lynching' by feminists

France's equality minister and feminists were outraged at his 12 nominations for the Cesar awards given that he is still wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977.




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Jake Gyllenhaal says Heath Ledger 'refused' to do the Oscars because of a Brokeback Mountain joke 

Gyllenhaal recalled how Ledger stood his ground while talking to Another Man magazine, recalling he didn't find anything funny about the heart-wrenching love story between two cowboys. 




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Trump says he turned out the way that he did because he 'couldn't do any wrong' in his mother's eyes

Donald Trump paid tribute to his parents, Mary MacLeod Trump and Fred Trump, in an interview with "Fox & Friends" ahead of Mother's Day on May 10."She was so good to me. I couldn't do any wrong, which is a big problem," said Trump, while reflecting on how his mother had shaped him into the person he is today.The president added that he would be spending Mother's Day with his wife Melania at Camp David in Maryland.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Trump reflected on how his mother shaped the person he is today in a new interview, saying he "couldn't do any wrong, which is a big problem," the AP reports.In an interview with "Fox & Friends" ahead of Mother's Day on May 10, Trump paid tribute to his mother Mary MacLeod Trump, who died in 2000, aged 88."She was so good to me. I




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Val Kilmer, 60, admits to watching Top Chef because he misses eating food after throat cancer battle

Val Kilmer is opening up about the highs and lows of his decades-long career, as well as his battle with throat cancer.




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Ex-SAS trooper who tried to kill Pablo Escobar auctions medals because they are too hard to dust

Peter McAleese (pictured serving in the South African Defence Force) joined the British Army aged 17 and became a 'gun for hire' after nine years of service to recapture the 'buzz'.




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Coronavirus patient in New York died because her ventilator was turned up too high by junior doctors

New York City doctors in residence have said that coronavirus patients are dying while they being made to work on intensive care units with no prior training in the field.




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Moment 'essential worker' pummels Asian man on New York subway because victim started COVID-19'

A shocking video shows the moment an unhinged man believed to be an essential worker throws 40 punches at an innocent bystander who was Asian, because the attacker blamed him for COVID-19.




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One Nike athlete will be on drugs for life because of Salazar's methods

EXCLUSIVE BY ROB DRAPER: Travis Tygart, head of the US Anti-Doping Agency who led the prosecution, says Salazar's methods threatened the health of his athletes.




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MARTIN SAMUEL: There is no room for a random setback because football is full

MARTIN SAMUEL CHIEF SPORTS WRITER - We have got a few weeks to ourselves now, it seems. So time for a think. The self-isolation of COVID-19 is the chance to consider where the game is going.




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Utah's Mike Lee says he won't back Donald Trump because he attacked Ted Cruz

Utah senator Mike Lee isn't ready to back Donald Trump, who he said needs to show he's not an 'autocrat' or an 'authoritarian.'




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Trump says Russia should rejoin G7, claims Putin was booted because he 'outsmarted' Obama

Donald Trump said on the eve of the annual Group of Seven summit that it would be 'appropriate' for Russia to retake its seat at the table with the world's most advanced economies.




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Donald Trump Jr claims his father can't be racist because he let him hang out with Michael Jackson

Donald Trump Jr's new book touches on his relationship with Michael Jackson while hitting out at his father's rivals, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (inset). Don Jr and his father are seen above.




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Presenter Justin Webb says Rory Stewart should not stand for mayor because he is white old Etonian

BBC Today presenter Justin Webb (left) said that Rory Stewart (right) standing in the 2020 mayoral race was not 'really 2020' because he is a 'white guy and Old Etonian'.




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Tucker Carlson says he'd never let his daughter date a feminist because it means they're a 'creep'

Fox host and father-of-four said on Thursday's Tucker Carlson Tonight he would never allow his daughter to date a man who was a feminist, because Bill Clinton was and Ted Kennedy 'killed a woman'.




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Ukip leader Richard Braine boycotting his OWN party conference because it has only sold 450 ticket

Mr Braine, who only replaced hardliner Gerard Batten in the summer, entered a public row with the party's ruling national executive committee after he called for the Newport event to be cancelled.




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Leonardo DiCaprio thinks he became famous because he was 'in the right place at the right time'

The 44-year-old actor has starred in movies including Titanic and The Revenant, but believes the reason he has been given to many opportunities is simply because he was 'in the right place at the right time'




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Whitney Port turned down Leonardo Dicaprio because she was 'too nervous' to have a 'one night stand'

The 34-year-old reality star admitted she had a wild night with Leonardo DiCaprio nearly a decade ago and turned down his advances after six months of texting.




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Orlando Bloom reveals he and Katy Perry may push back wedding because of coronavirus outbreak

'I'm not joking when I say that coronavirus might have a play in whether we put things on ice, because we're going to be traveling and we don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable,' Bloom. 43, explained.




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NRL player Jake Friend opens up on life after season abruptly came to an end because of COVID-19

Sydney Roosters co-captain Jake Friend has focused his energy during the suspension of the NRL season on keeping his Sydney coffee shop alive during the COVID-19 crisis.




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Annastacia Palaszczuk says State of Origin could be cancelled because of coronavirus

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said she doubts the NRL's showpiece event can be played during a pandemic, but said she had her fingers crossed for December.




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Bali economy hit hard as Chinese tourists are banned because of the spread of coronavirus 

The shocking images coming out of the Indonesian island accompany stories of struggling businesses that have been forced to cut staff.




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Leigh-Anne Pinnock has felt 'invisible' and 'overlooked' in Little Mix because of her race

The singer, 28, appeared on Channel 4 show Richard & Judy: Keep Reading and Carry On where she spoke about some of the books that have had an impact on her




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Harry Styles apologises to fans as he cancels pre-Superbowl event because of a severe storm in Miami

The singer, 26, took to Twitter on Saturday to break the news to his followers, and apologise to them as he admitted he was 'so disappointed' by what had happened.




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Pearl Jensen, says Miss World 1970 contest did not change her life because of Apartheid 

Former Miss Africa South, Pearl Jensen, 68, told Lorraine being first runner-up in the Miss World contest in 1970 did not change her life at all, ahead of the release of new movie Misbehaviour.




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Harry and Meghan 'left Canada because they did not want to pay tax in two countries' 

Harry and Meghan took a private jet to California with their ten-month-old son Archie last week. Tax from earning and keeping up residence in both places was a motivating factor, sources suggest.




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SARAH VINE: Dear Meghan and Harry, don't worry about us... because we're not worried about you 

SARAH VINE: First of all: how are you both? I know no one ever asks, so I thought it best just to check. After all, it must be so hard for you, stuck in Los Angeles in rented accommodation.