Antarctic tourists risk being killed in Titanic-style tragedy as climate change sees more icebergs
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Some 50,000 people visited the Antarctic last summer and the numbers have been increasing steadily along with the numbers of icebergs.

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Woman is spotted reading at the wheel of her Audi on busy A-road
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The woman can be seen driving her silver Audi A5 at around 80mph in the left hand lane of the A38 near Derby with a book lying flat across her steering wheel. She momentarily glances up to look at the road.

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House prices over 174 years – and the 70 year period they got cheaper
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House prices have only ever been as expensive as they are now compared to wages twice in the past 120 years, but surprisingly before that they were considerably more costly, a deep dive shows.

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EU leaders vow to remove 'red tape' to stop countries leaving
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With hours left until the UK legally cuts ties with the bloc, reporters in the Belgian capital noticed that some changes seem to have been made early.

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Chaos on tube as people choke on smoke during rush hour evacuation after fire alert at Manor House 
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Chaos has broken out at Manor House Tube station in north London leaving commuters choking on smoke as they evacuate after a fire alert.  

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3 inmates facing US extradition driven out of Mexican jail
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An important financial operator for the Sinaloa Cartel and two other inmates facing extradition to the United States who escaped from a Mexico City prison were driven out of the penitentiary in a jail transport van, city officials said Thursday. Officials in Mexico’s capital say city jails are not the appropriate facilities for high-value prisoners […]

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Dear Mr. Dershowitz, 'mixed motives' is no impeachment defense when there's corrupt intent
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Taken together, Donald Trump's actions — at least seven of them — contradict the defense claim that he had any legitimate national interest in mind.

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Bloomberg Says He Won’t Accept Contributions to Make the Debates
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(Bloomberg) — Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed Thursday that he won’t be accepting contributions just to qualify for the Democratic presidential debates.The Democratic National Committee has required candidates to have a certain number of individual donors to qualify for debates, and Bloomberg is self-funding his campaign. The DNC has said candidates could make the Feb. 7 debate […]

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Swiping their way higher: Visa, Mastercard could be the next $1 trillion companies
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Soaring stock prices are propelling credit and debit card companies Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc up the market value charts, where they currently rank 7th and 11th among companies in the benchmark S&P 500 index. The stock prices of both Visa and Mastercard have gained roughly 50% in the past year. While the stocks may […]

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IBM Shares Surge As Company Names Cloud Chief New CEO
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Ginni Rometty, who took over as the IBM CEO in 2011, is stepping down from the role, the company said in a statement Thursday. Arvind Krishna, who leads the company’s cloud and data platform, will be her replacement, and take charge on April 6. The technology veteran trails in its cloud business, after making a […]

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