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The Tiny Apple! Photographer shrinks New York City's landmarks down to doll sized proportions using camera trickery

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 06:35
Photographic artist Richard Silver uses a signature technique called 'tilt-shift' in order to shrink New York City and all its inhabitants.

What bubbles beneath: Beautiful patterns of frozen bubbles trapped in Canada lake are highly flammable methane gas

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 05:45
Abraham Lake in Alberta, Canada is brimming with methane gas that's trapped just beneath its surface, creating a mesmerizing frozen landscape.

Papers focus on Tory tensions

BBC News - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 04:53
Papers focus on Conservative Party tensions

VIDEO: A call from the top of the world

BBC News - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 04:01
British explorer Daniel Hughes has reached the summit of Mount Everest in an attempt to raise £1m for the charity Comic Relief.

VIDEO: David Beckham's emotional farewell

BBC News - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 02:42
Emotional David Beckham plays last home match at Paris Saint-Germain.

Targets 'risk pupil well-being'

BBC News - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 02:38
Pupils' well-being and education should not be sacrificed to meet new targets, the leader of a head teachers' union will tell its annual conference.

Suspects are 'left dangling' on bail for too long, says top police chief as he calls for a six month limit

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 02:07
Andy Trotter, Chief Constable of the British Transport Police, (pictured) wants to limit bail to six months to stop suspects being ‘left dangling’.

Clegg officials ordered to hand over key emails following pressure over his role in obtaining funding for charity linked to his wife Miriam

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 02:07
Nick Clegg's officials must hand over private emails to Britain’s data watchdog over how his aides lobbied for a £12 million Government grant to Booktrust, a charity linked to his wife Miriam.

Astronaut's cover of Space Oddity recorded 220 miles above Earth praised by David Bowie as 'so beautiful'

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 02:06
Chris Hadfield, the singing commander of the International Space Station, has landed back on Earth to a warm reception from David Bowie.

Cannes Film Festival 2013 jewellery heist thieves steal £1million in gems

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 01:46
Officers are also continuing to question an American woman working for Chopard, the Swiss jeweller and festival sponsor, who was keeping the items in her second-floor room at the Cannes Novotel. Those seen wearing Chopard jewellery have included Julianne Moore, Cindy Crawford and Cara Delevingne, pictured.

Outgoing bank boss Sir Mervyn King slams 'unsatisfactory economic growth' as he criticises Osborne's plan to boost housing market

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 01:10
Sir Mervyn King said the economy was in a 'modest recovery' but added that 'we certainly can't be satisfied with it'.

Security firm faces fines for 'embarrassing' court delays: Judge blasts company after court made to wait while guards take their lunch break

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 01:05
Serco was hauled before a senior judge last week to apologise for ‘embarrassing’ hold-ups in bringing defendants up from the cells that have totalled ten hours.

Sir Peregrine declares war over Earl's £12m estate: Former newspaper editor calls his brother-in-law 'cruel and selfish' for not sharing inheritance with his sisters

Daily Mail Home - Sun, 05/19/2013 - 00:26
Former Sunday Telegraph editor Sir Peregrine (pictured) has entered into a war of words with the Earl of Durham to protect his broadcaster wife Lucinda, 71.

Tories are in a frenzy - but Soapbox Ed is caught with his pants down

Daily Mail Home - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 23:31
This week, the Conservatives have been working themselves into another Euro frenzy. But this has masked a more significant – and dark – mood that has settled over Ed Miliband and his troops.

Campaigners to cycle on parliament

BBC News - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 23:25
Cyclists are to embark on a protest ride to the Scottish Parliament, calling for 5% of Scotland's transport budget to be spent on cycling.

'Full levers' call for Scots economy

BBC News - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 23:24
A Scottish government paper on independence will argue Scotland's potential for growth is being held back by the lack of decision-making powers.

Treasury claims banks 'safer in UK'

BBC News - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 23:23
The latest UK government paper on the impact of Scottish independence will claim the UK is better placed to manage the risk of a financial crisis.

Fifty years of 'big ear' anguish... fixed in 15 minutes: New operation can end distress for million Britons with badly protruding ears

Daily Mail Home - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 23:23
One of the first to benefit from the procedure, which involves an implant being inserted in front of each ear to correct their prominence, is Jeremy Wood, 53, a senior valuer for auction house Bonhams in York.

Last of the boy soldiers? Bid to end centuries of tradition by banning the Army from recruiting under-18s

Daily Mail Home - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 23:21
Sir Nick Harvey described the policy of letting 16 and 17-year-olds join the Forces as 'increasingly anachronistic'.

'My dying wife waited NINE hours for district nurse to turn up': Family slams NHS 111 hotline as whistleblowers reveal a 'computer says no' mentality worthy of Little Britain comedy

Daily Mail Home - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 23:19
Michael Anthony, 84, said it took almost four hours just to get through to the 111 call centre and a further five-and-a-half hours before a nurse arrived to see his dying wife Anne at their home in Hove, East Sussex.
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