UK: Liverpool Giants:

Liverpool Giants: Mega marionettes return to city.

Giant marionettes are back on the streets of Liverpool, two years after their last visit to the city.

The huge figures began the three-day commemoration of World War One at 10:30 BST.

During Wednesday and Thursday about 30,000 people viewed one of the characters lying as if asleep at St George's Hall.

Crowds queued for more than an hour in the heat to view the 25ft (7.5m) Grandma marionette.

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UK: Mother Admits

Mother Admits To Beating Her son To Death.

Mikaeel Kular's mother has pleaded guilty to killing her three-year-old son, who she subjected to repeated assaults.

Rosdeep Adekoya had been accused of murder but admitted a reduced charge of culpable homicide at the High Court in Edinburgh.

She confessed to wrapping Mikaeel's body in a duvet cover, putting it in a suitcase and driving to Dunvegan Avenue in Kirkcaldy, where she hid the case under a bush in woodland behind a house.

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UK:Queen sends condolence

MH17: Queen sends condolence letter to Australian families of Malaysia Airlines disaster

The Queen has sent her condolences to Australia following the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine.

Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove received a letter today in which the Queen expresses her "deepest condolences to the families, friends and colleagues of those who died".

It comes as the Federal Government updated the Australian death toll to 38.

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F1:Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton : I've made mistakes and had some bad luck.

This weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix is the first anniversary of my first win for Mercedes and it really feels like the last 18 months with the team have been the most enjoyable of my life.

This time last year I was not that happy with my ultimate performance, just because I was not that comfortable with the car.

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But a year on, we're at the halfway point of this season, I'm more comfortable with the car and we are having the most incredible season as a team.

From a personal point of view, I feel my racing performances have been very good this year.

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Mexico GP:

Formula One: Mexico GP given green light for 2015 season.

Mexico is set to return to the Formula One calendar after an absence of more than two decades, F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed.

The Mexico Grand Prix, along with races in New Jersey and South Korea, were included on the provisional calendar for 2014 only to be axed last December.

But after last year's false start, the country now looks set to host its first F1 race in 23 years..

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US drug trafficking

Aruba detains Venezuelan general on US drug trafficking list

A top Venezuelan official, Gen Hugo Carvajal, has been detained in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba at the request of the American government.

He had been accused by the US Treasury of assisting Colombian Farc rebels in their drug trafficking activities.

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uk, diabetes

Shift workers 'face type 2 diabetes risk'

Type 2 diabetes is more common in people who work shifts, a large international study suggests.

The findings, published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, indicated men and those doing rotating shifts were at highest risk.

It is thought that disruption to the body clock affects waistlines, hormones and sleep - which could increase the risk.

Diabetes UK said shift workers should eat a healthy balanced diet.

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news for McDonald's

McDonald's halts nuggets sales in Hong Kong.

Fast food chain McDonald's has suspended sale of chicken nuggets and some other products in Hong Kong.

It said it had imported chicken and pork from Shanghai Husi Food, the Chinese firm that allegedly supplied out of date meat to fast food firms.

China has suspended operations of Shanghai Husi after local media reports claimed it re-processed expired meat.

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Devastation: routine Taiwan flight

Devastation and tragedy of routine Taiwan flight

It was supposed to be a routine 35-minute journey, but flight GE222 ended tragically - taking away 48 lives suddenly.

At the scene of the crash in Magong city in north-west Taiwan, the plane could be seen split up into pieces - the cockpit jutted up against the wall of one residence, the propeller and one of the wings near another house, and the tail at the end of the narrow lane where the aircraft crashed to earth.

Mangled beyond recognition, the parts were carefully lifted onto a flatbed truck on Thursday to be taken away for analysis.

So devastating was the crash that it also destroyed some of the homes in this normally quiet neighbourhood in the Penghu archipelago.

The TransAsia Airways plane had aborted its initial landing and then lost contact with the control tower before crashing.

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Wiggins: done with the road

Sir Bradley Wiggins 'done with road racing'

Sir Bradley Wiggins says he will not ride the Tour de France again after claiming that road racing is "cut-throat" with "no kind of loyalties".

The 34-year-old Englishman, who won the race in 2012, added: "I've kind of done the road now. I've bled it dry."

He said: "The road is quite cut-throat. The track feels more like a family and a closer-knit group of people."

Wiggins will now make track racing his priority as he targets gold at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

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Two Palestinians Killed In West Bank Protest

Two Palestinians Killed In West Bank Protest

A 25-year-old man is among two killed as 10,000 people stage a massive protest at a checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem..

Israeli security forces have shot dead two Palestinians during a massive protest in the West Bank, according to medical officials.

The victims were among an estimated 10,000 people who clashed with soldiers and border police at a checkpoint in Qalandiya, between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

The protest came hours after 15 people were killed and more than 200 injuredwhen a UN school in the city of Beit Hanoun was hit by an artillery shell.

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Lily Allen: Official Video.

Lily Allen - As Long As I Got You (Official Video.

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US HALTS EXECUTIONS:

Arizona halts executions after Joseph Wood case

The US state of Arizona has halted executions pending a review of its death penalty procedures, after the allegedly botched lethal injection of a convicted murderer on Wednesday.

Officials say Joseph Wood gasped and snorted after the lethal cocktail of drugs was administered to him.

He took almost two hours to die.

Wood's execution came as US death penalty states have increasing trouble obtaining the drugs used in capital punishment, amid a European export ban.

'Extreme secrecy'

The morning after Wood's execution, his lawyer Dale Baich demanded an independent inquiry into the death of his client.

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MH17: Investigators find.

MH17: Investigators find large part of plane and more bodies at crash site

Investigators have found a previously undiscovered part of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 along with more bodies more than a week after the Boeing 777 was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

It is understood the location of the bodies has been marked with a white flag, but investigators do not have the facilities available to handle human remains.

The discovery has highlighted an urgent need for the area to be thoroughly searched, but continued fighting in the surrounding region has hampered the efforts of investigators.

A spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Michael Bociurkiw says the piece of fuselage that was found "appeared out of nowhere".

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Islamic : mutilation

Iraq crisis: Islamic State militants order genital mutilation for females in Mosul, says United Nations

Militant group Islamic State has ordered all girls and women in and around Iraq's northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations says.

The "fatwa" issued by the Sunni Muslim fighters will potentially affect 4 million women and girls, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Iraq Jacqueline Badcock told reporters by video-link from the Iraqi city of Arbil on Thursday.

"This is something very new for Iraq, particularly in this area, and is of grave concern and does need to be addressed," she said.

"This is not the will of Iraqi people, or the women of Iraq in these vulnerable areas covered by the terrorists."

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