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Carole Middleton visits daughter Pippa and newborn baby boy at Chelsea home
Carole Middleton played the doting grandmother on Friday as she was spotted visiting her daughter Pippa's house. Photos obtained by the Mail Online show Carole, 63, walking into Pippa's Chelsea home and picking up parcels that were left outside. Among them were some personalised baby gifts and a luxury hamper filled to the brim with goodies.
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Pippa Middleton and husband James Matthews leave hospital with newborn baby boy
The Duchess of Cambridge's younger sister Pippa gave birth on Monday. A spokesperson told HELLO!: "James and Pippa have had a baby boy. Everyone is delighted and mother and baby are doing well." This is the first child for the couple, who married in May 2017 after a year-long engagement.
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MPs must not bow to Theresa May's pressure on this Brexit proposal for fear of no deal – there are other options
Theresa May has finally managed to unite her party’s warring factions on Brexit. With time running out to get a deal, previously loyal cabinet ministers wonder how long they should let May flog her dead Chequers horse. Eurosceptic and pro-EU Tory MPs are furious about a plan – confirmed by EU sources (to May’s frustration) at Thursday’s Brussels summit – to extend the transitional period after the UK’s departure by a year, until December 2021.
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Mayweather attacks Canelo Álvarez on Instagram over failed drug tests, and says their fight was the 'easiest night' in his whole career
Floyd Mayweather has attacked his former opponent Saul "Canelo" Álvarez on social media. Mayweather referenced Álvarez's failed drug tests for trace elements of clenbuterol, said their 2013 fight was the "easiest night" of his entire career, and scoffed at the Mexican's new $365 million DAZN contract. Mayweather said he could earn $300 million for one fight, on one night, which is almost the same as Canelo would make for 11 fights in five years.
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West Ham captain Mark Noble: It’s frightening how much Harry Kane has played... it’ll catch up with him for sure
A home game against Tottenham is always a special one for West Ham fans — and I am no different. Seriously, though, it’s frightening when you look at how much football Harry Kane has played in recent months.
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More precaution than promotion for Canadian cannabis tourism
Canada's move to legalize recreational marijuana this week is unlikely to immediately trigger a flood of pot-fueled tourism, as tour operators and consumers are unsure about rules governing the brand new industry. There are precedents for Canada to follow in California, Colorado and elsewhere. On Wednesday, Canada became the first major industrialized nation to legalize recreational marijuana, sparking huge demand.
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Barcelona's Sagrada Familia gets building permit 130 years too late
The iconic Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona has agreed to pay €36m (£31m) to authorities after going without a building permit for more than 130 years. Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi's famous building has been under construction for 136 years - but with no official oversight or permit from either the local council or regional government. The cathedral is also not listed in the property registry and since 1995 has only been marked as an empty plot belonging to the diocese of Barcelona, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.
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London schoolchildren come face to face with refugees in the Central African Republic in groundbreaking twinning project
London schoolchildren came face to face with refugees living in the Central African Republic as part of the Standard’s Learn to Live campaign. Students from Francis Barber Pupil Referral Unit in Wandsworth learned more about young people from Bangui, capital of the CAR, after the two schools swapped videos of themselves. The pupils have been linked as part of a groundbreaking school twinning project, which is designed to promote understanding between children from different backgrounds.
NewsSky NewsAsian family seals £475m London Executive Offices takeover
A portfolio of upmarket serviced offices in London is finally being sold for about £475m to a wealthy Asian family, two years after its owners launched an auction of the business. Sky News has learnt that London Executive Offices (LEO (Shenzhen: 002131.SZ - news) ), a rival to WeWork and IWG (LSE: IWG.L - news) , is on the verge of striking a deal that will send mixed signals about the prospects for the capital's post-Brexit commercial property market. At about £475m, the price tag will fall well short of the £700m valuation attached to LEO when it was put on the market by owner Queensgate Investments in 2016.
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Tanzania police work with Interpol to search for abducted tycoon
Africa's youngest billionaire, snatched a week ago off the street outside a luxury hotel in Tanzania, was kidnapped in a car that had arrived from "a neighbouring country", police said on Friday. Mohammed Dewji, 43-year-old CEO of the METL Group family conglomerate, was seized as he arrived for a morning workout in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam last week. Forbes estimates his net worth as $1.5 billion, making him Africa's 17th richest man and its youngest billionaire.
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Venezuela teen's political cartoons sketch his country's downfall
In one drawing, Lady Justice is seen fleeing Venezuela, a sword in her right hand and a suitcase in the left. In a third drawing, a Venezuelan is seen running toward an alien spaceship, begging for help. The creator of these evocative political cartoons is Gabriel Moncada, a 13 year-old Venezuelan schoolboy.
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Britney Spears made her official Vegas announcement
The pop star announced her new residency show "Domination" that starts in Vegas February 2019 all with the help of Ellen DeGeneres.
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Pictures of the Week: Pies, pumpkins and Prince Harry
Here’s our selection of some of the most memorable moments from around the world over the past week.
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Airbus defense Hoke to skip Saudi investment conference
Airbus said its defense chief Dirk Hoke will no longer attend the Future Investment Initiative conference in Saudi Arabia, the latest senior industry executive to skip next week's event amid concern about the fate of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Arabia has denied that. Many of those slated to attend, including U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, have canceled their participation, but the Saudis have said they plan to move forward with the conference, scheduled for Oct. 23-25.
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3 crewmembers die on board Iranian ship, 8 hospitalized
Azerbaijani health officials say three members of an Iranian ship crew have died from acute poisoning and another eight have been hospitalized. The ship contacted Azerbaijani authorities to request assistance while approaching its destination, the port of Baku. An Azerbaijani coast guard boat delivered the ill members of the crew to the shore early Friday and they were hospitalized.
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Downing Street criticises Trump for praising attack on Guardian reporter
Downing Street has indirectly criticised Donald Trump after he praised a Republican congressman for attacking a Guardian reporter, saying any violence or intimidation against journalists was “completely unacceptable”. The response came after the US president drew cheers from the crowd at a rally by hailing Greg Gianforte, a Congress member for Montana, for having assaulted Ben Jacobs, the Guardian’s political correspondent, in May last year. While oblique, the criticism is relatively strong by the standards of Downing Street, which generally tries to play down condemnation of Trump’s often erratic behaviour, mindful of wider UK-US ties as well as the president’s promises about a post-Brexit trade deal.
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Black panther ‘spotted in Scotland’ as police urge residents to stay away
A panther may be on the loose in southwest Scotland, according to police – though a big cat expert cast doubt on the claim. Ayrshire Police warned members of the public to be vigilant following reports of “a sighting of what is believed to be a black panther in the fields near to the B730” near the villages of Coalhall and Drongan. The force said in a Facebook post: “Officers are currently working to locate the animal which may be injured.
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A Southwest flight made an emergency landing after a man reportedly wouldn't stop touching a female passenger against her will
A filing with the district court in Albuquerque said that Justin Riley Brafford touched her leg and tried to play "footsie" with her, and followed her when she moved seat. The pilot then made an emergency landing, and Brafford remains in federal custody in New Mexico.
NewsReutersJapan quake shock absorber maker: products may have been used nationwide
A Japanese maker of earthquake shock absorbers said on Friday that at least 70 buildings across the country may have used its products for which quality data was falsified and that nearly 1,000 are suspected of having done so. KYB Corp said this week it had falsified data on the quality of some of its earthquake shock absorbers since at least 2003 in one of the world's most quake-prone nations, the latest in a series of compliance scandals that has shaken confidence in Japan's manufacturing prowess. KYB released an initial list of 70 buildings that may have used the products for which data was falsified, including government buildings such as the main Ministry of Finance building in Tokyo and several other government structures.
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X Factor's Top 16 contestants get an all-star makeover
With the first live shows imminent... From Digital Spy
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Firefighters abused and pelted with rocks while responding to calls
The firefighters had abuse hurled at them before items were launched at them and their vehicles.
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10 best winter candles
A lot of candles (sadly, usually cheaper ones) smell great when you hold them to your nose in the shop, but do little to change the scent of the room once you burn them at home. If black smoke discolours the inside of your candle jar, it’s because you need to trim the wick a few millimetres between burnings. Of all the candles we’ve burned in the process of testing, this strikes the best balance between being inherently Christmassy without being too heady and stifling.
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Carrots could be key to making greener buildings, say researchers
Crunchy and tasty, yes, but could carrots also strengthen cement and cut carbon dioxide emissions for the building industry? A group of researchers at Britain's Lancaster University has been using a household food blender to mix particles from the root vegetable with concrete to see if they can produce a stronger and more environmentally sound product. "We found out you could increase the strength of concrete by 80 percent by using a small amount of this new material," lead researcher Mohamed Saafi told Reuters.
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'Time for Theresa May to step aside' - Telegraph readers react to the week's top stories
It was the news on Monday of another royal baby that had Telegraph readers taking to the comment section in their droves this week to share their reaction to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's impending arrival.
