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New York teacher investigated ... for spitting at unruly student

A maths teacher in Queens, New York was secretly filmed on a mobile struggling with a male student before appearing to spit in the boy's face.Credit: www.youtube.com/joseromero11403

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Graphic Content: Teenage girls forced out of High School after posting racist rant

This video contains graphic content and lewd language - Two teenage girls have been forced to drop out of their High School in Florida after posting a racist rant about black people.

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Olympics anti-terror drill starts

Office workers and passers-by could see the evacuation which marked the kick off of a two-day security test dubbed Forward Defensive. Some 2,500 people, spanning everyone from constables to Cobra, the top-level Government committee which sits during national emergencies, are being put through their paces by the mass test. Much of the action is taking place behind closed doors.

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Obama sings the Blues

The East Room of the White House was transformed into an intimate Blues club on Tuesday night for a concert featuring BB King, Mick Jagger and the president himself.

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Life for pregnant teen's killer

Former nightclub bouncer Carl Whant was jailed for at least 35 years today for the rape and murder of heavily-pregnant teenager Nikitta Grender.Miss Grender, 19, was two weeks away from giving birth when drugged-up Whant called at her flat at around 5am on February 5 last year.The tattooed window salesman raped the mother-to-be, who was the girlfriend of his closest friend and second cousin Ryan Mayes, then slashed her throat and stabbed her in the abdomen.

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Marie Colvin killed in Syria

French government spokeswoman Valerie Pecresse confirmed the deaths after Syrian government forces shelled the city of Homs. Marie Colvin, from Oyster Bay, New York, was a war reporter who had covered conflicts from Sri Lanka to Syria. She had been a foreign correspondent for The Sunday Times for the past two decades.

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Men 'passed girls around for sex'

Five girls from broken homes were "shared" by Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Qamar Shahzad, Liaquat Shah, Hamid Safi and a 59-year-old man who cannot be named, Liverpool Crown Court was told. One 13-year-old victim fell pregnant to one of the defendants and had the child aborted, the court was told.

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Obama sings the White House blues

US President Barack Obama was left singing the blues with artists including Mick Jagger and BB King after a night of music at the White House.

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Graphic Content: Final Report from Marie Colvin

Journalist Marie Colvin, who worked for The Sunday Times, has been killed by Syrian regime forces in the flashpoint city of Homs, according to reports. Credit: www.youtube.com/cnninternational

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Drunken man gets showered with pepper spray at Disneyland Tower of Terror

It's a place of fun rides and cartoon characters, but for Disneyland visitors last weekend it featured a punch up and pepper spray.#Credit: www.youtube.com

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