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How Prince Andrew's tycoon friend hatched a plot to become Kim Jong Un's private banker

EXCLUSIVE: Millionaire financier David Rowland held talks with North Korean leaders in the capital Pyongyang about managing the personal fortunes of the rogue state's ruling family.




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North Korea 'executes official for public bath visit while in quarantine'

The official had been placed in isolation after travelling to China with Kim Jong-un (pictured) imposing military law to enforce the lockdown, South Korean media said.




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North Korean defector apologises for saying Kim Jong Un was probably so ill he could not stand

North Korea's former deputy ambassador to Britain, Thae Yong Ho (pictured), has apologised after claiming leader Kim Jong-un was so unwell he could not stand.




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Getting 'drunk as s***' at vodka-fuelled karaoke: NBA legend Dennis Rodman on trip toNorth Korea 

Former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman opened up on his unlikely friendship with the Supreme leader of North Korea Kim Jong-un ever since he visited the country in 2013.




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JACK DOYLE: Civil war could destroy Corbyn as Labour's Brexit battle is just beginning 

JACK DOYLE: While the Tories realise that if they fail to deliver Brexit, they will be electorally dead, Labour is convinced that it must champion Remain voters to survive.




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JACK DOYLE: The PM threw down the gauntlet to Brussels - but will the EU play ball? 

JACK DOYLE: With his bombastic battle-cry of 'Get Brexit Done', Boris Johnson left the conference stage to ecstatic applause. His first speech as PM was everything they hoped for.




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Grayson Perry says Ed Miliband should NOT lead Labour's probe into disastrous election result 

The Turner winning ceramicist Grayson Perry delivered an acute and sharp-eyed diagnosis of Labour's failings after he was invited to guest-edit BBC Radio Four's Today programme.




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QUENTIN LETTS: Nastiness of presidential debate made me gasp

I have covered the past five British general elections, writes QUENTON LETTS, but Trump and Clinton have shown me that American elections make a British visitor feel very alien.




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Mexican woman charged with voter fraud after illegally casting ballot in 2016

Laura Garza, a Mexican national living in Texas, has been indicted by a grand jury on two counts of voter impersonation and ineligible voting, punishable by up to 20 years in prison.




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Trump lauds Rod Rosenstein for combating MS-13

President Donald Trump lauded his deputy attorney general on Wednesday for combating a violent gang of criminal immigrants.




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Mueller bid for secrecy: Barest details risk blowing open Russia probe

Special counsel Robert Mueller is fighting for complete secrecy in his probe into Russia's role in the election and his arguments hint that his investigation is growing across multiple fronts.




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Trump claims FBI told Obama about Russian meddling before election

President Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on former President Barack Obama, criticising his predecessor's lack of action over 'so-called Russian meddling'.




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Trump: Decision to revoke Manafort's bail is 'very unfair'

Donald Trump has called the decision to revoke Paul Manafort's bail 'tough' and 'very unfair' after a federal judge sent the former campaign manager to await trial behind bars.




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Trump calls claims about Russia a 'hoax' and blames Obama

'So President Obama knew about Russia before the Election. Why didn’t he do something about it? Why didn’t he tell our campaign?,' Trump tweeted on Sunday evening.




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Monica Crowley said Obama 'has loyalties to Islam' and is now slated to be Treasury's spokeswoman

Former Fox News Channel pundit Monica Crowley is slated to be the next Treasury spokeswoman; she spread Islamophobic slurs about President Barack Obama starting a decade ago.




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Cristiano Ronaldo, Virgil van Dijk and Lionel Messi named on Ballon d'Or 30-man shortlist

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Sadio Mane, Mo Salah and Virgil Van Dijk have all been shortlisted for this year's Ballon d'Or, after the 30-man shortlist for the prestigious award was announced.




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Klopp believes Liverpool are once again among Europe's elite after seven Ballon D'Or nominations

Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool's septet of Ballon d'Or nominees is the surest indication his club have re-established themselves as a leading European force.




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RICHARD KAY sees Prince William picking up the baton of environmental campaigning

RICHARD KAY: Exactly 20 years ago, Prince Charles was refining plans for Poundbury, his experimental new town in Dorset.




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As Sol Kerzner dies aged 84, RICHARD KAY looks back at his riotously louche life

To the very end, when he was 84 years old, battling cancer and in possession of a fortune worth upwards of £500million, South African hotel boss, Sol Kerzner was still making deals.




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Coronavirus has hit Boris Johnson hard and they've barricaded the doors at No 10, writes RICHARD KAY

RICHARD KAY: Boris Johnson remained stoically upright as he joined in the mass applause for the NHS and if the usual ebullience was missing there was at least a flicker of determination.




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Disabled BBC presenter slams BA after she was left 'stranded in her seat' without her wheelchair

Sophie Morgan, (pictured) who fronted the 2016 Paralympics coverage on Channel 4, said she struggled to get the attention of an attendant on the trip from Buenos Aires to Heathrow.




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Strictly's Will Bayley breaks down amid Paralympics fears after knee injury made him QUIT

The Paralympic table tennis star, 31, who participated in the competition series with professional dancer Janette Manrara for six weeks, spoke to The Sun




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Dancing On Ice: Paralympian Libby Clegg's mental health battle

The Dancing On Ice star, 29, broke down in tears during Sunday's show as she recalled her mental health battle in the wake of the 2016 Rio Paralympics.




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World's coldest city hits temperature of 89F - sending locals to sunbathe on a GLACIER 

Yakutsk, built on permafrost in eastern Russia and with winter temperatures nudging minus -76F, was also hotter than Yemen on the Arabian peninsula.




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Uluru rush hour as tourists flock to climb the rock before ban

The decision to ban climbing of the landmark from October 26 has seen thousands of tourists make the pilgrimage to central Australia over the winter school holidays, causing traffic chaos (pictured).




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Sydney and Melbourne housing markets bounce back - another city to emerge as new property powerhouse

Median house values in the country's capital cites are set to increase during 2020, according to property research firm BIS Oxford Economics in a report released Monday.




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Labor may backflip and support laws making it easier to deport violent criminal immigrants

A new law to give the government more discretionary powers to deport convicted rapists, killers, pedophiles and violent thugs out of Australia may now be backed by Labor.




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Barack Obama sends handwritten letter to prisoner he pardoned after she makes college dean's list 

Obama, 57, granted clemency to Danielle Metz back in 2016 after she spent more than two decades behind bars for her role in a cocaine trafficking ring run by her husband.




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Baby formula thieves are arrested and charged in Melbourne

Five people have been charged with allegedly stealing thousands of dollars' worth of baby formula in a string of robberies across Melbourne. 




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AOC and Megan McCain lead backlash against Trump's 'racist' tweet

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clapped back at Trump's suggestion that she and others 'go back' to their countries and fix what's broken there before telling the US how government should operate.




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Horrific moment men film themselves abusing female driver before she smashes into a concrete barrier

One of the men filmed the incident in Moorooduc, south east of Melbourne, which showed the P-plater pull up beside the small sedan and start to yell at Kaysha Plant.




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Melbourne driver who slammed into a concrete barrier breaks her silence on road rage incident

Kaysha Plant was driving to work on Monday morning north of Melbourne when two men allegedly started to abuse her, allegedly causing her to crash into a concrete barrier.




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Bunyamin Oksuz's widow collapses outside court after Samir Mayhoub given bail over stabbing death

Samir Mayhoub, 42, is charged with murdering a 61-year-old man in Melbourne on May 22 and on Wednesday was freed from custody with a judge citing a 'weak' prosecution case.




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Bad Company singer Brian Anthony Howe dead at 66 due to cardiac arrest

TMZ reported on Tuesday morning that the talented musician passed away at his home in Florida while possibly on his way to the hospital according to a relative.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Yes, a slump is coming... but we can bounce back

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has injected a very welcome dose of hope into an atmosphere of almost unrelenting despair since replacing Mark Carney.




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Benidorm says British holidaymakers won't have to sunbathe inside plexiglass booths

Clear plexiglass booths similar to office cubicles will not be used on Benidorm's beaches as they would create 'unbearable temperatures,' the resort's mayor has said. It comes as beaches prepare to reopen.




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Police say they are being seen as the baddies in the lockdown

John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation said yesterday that officers are 'bearing the brunt' of the public's frustration due to the lack of clarity from the Government about the lockdown.




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Snapchat ranks countries based on how many friends people have there

The average person living in Saudi Arabia has the most best friends of any other country in the world and British people have the least, new research has revealed.




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Four men are arrested after being caught smuggling over 5,000 baby turtles

Border agents found a total 5,255 red-ear slider baby turtles kept in small baskets from the luggage of two Indian nationals who flew in from Guangzhou, China to Kuala Lumpur airport.




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Russian beauty queen 'holed up with her baby in a country house' provided by the ex-Malaysian king

Oksana Voevodina, 27, is staying at a house outside Moscow with her mother and newborn son, but has not been provided records of her divorce from Sultan Muhammad V and remains in love, her lawyer says.




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Jennifer Lopez movie Hustlers is banned in Malaysia

The star-studded movie - billed as a female 'Wolf of Wall Street' - has been deemed too inappropriate for Malaysian audiences and the country's authorities said it would be banned Friday.




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Bank of Dad! Father discovers he can stop his toddler son crying by giving him a five dollar bill

This is the charming moment a child stops crying when his father hands him a bank note in Melaka, Malaysia. However, when the note is retrieved from the baby, he resumes bawling.




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Russian beauty who had baby with ex-Malaysia king tells how her 'fairy tale' marriage collapsed

Oksana Voevodina says she hasn't spoken to her ex-husband the Sultan of Kelantan since he walked out in December. she has opened up about the collapse of their marriage to MailOnline.




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Ex-King of Malaysia hits back at 'cruel and vindictive' Russian model he married

Malaysia's ex-king, now Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan, 50, has examined photos of the child his ex-wife says is his. He responded by saying the boy could be 'the son of any Asian man'.




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Dengue fever could be eradicated in hot countries by infecting mosquitoes with bacteria

Cases of dengue fever at sites in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reduced by 40 per cent after an international team of scientists injected mosquitoes with a strain of Wolbachia.




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Police investigate 'threat to life' of Russian beauty queen's baby son

Oksana Voevodina, 27, says she was told via a friend that her son Ismail is in 'mortal danger', that she should drop her paternity lawsuit against the former Sultan of Malaysia, and stop speaking to the press.




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Ex-Arsenal and Bayern forward Lukas Podolski visits Johor Darul Ta'zim

The 34-year-old, who won the World Cup with Germany back in 2014, currently plies his trade in Japan at Vissel Kobe. The official Twitter account of Johor Darul Ta'zim posted photos of Podolski.




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Shipping containers filled with plastic waste are sent back to countries including Britain

Fed up with the relentless stream of waste being offloaded by nations such as Britain and the US, Malaysia's government today ordered 3,737 metric tonnes of trash be returned.




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The 'Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort is suing the company that bankrolled the epic for FRAUD

Belfort filed his suit against Red Granite Pictures in the Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming that the movie was financed by money pilfered from the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad fund (1MDB).




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Why troubadour Tom Walker owes it all to Love Island - and a homeless smoker

Tom Walker is living in a blur. He has gone from struggling musician who couldn't pay the rent to having a No 1 album, winning a Brit award and travelling the world