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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have announced that Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.
The cease-fire is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. local time on Friday and continue through the weekend. Its stated goal is to allow Gazans a momentary reprieve to obtain urgently needed humanitarian relief, the parties said in a joint statement.
This cease-fire is critical to giving innocent civilians a much-needed reprieve from violence. During this period, civilians in Gaza will receive urgently needed humanitarian relief, and the opportunity to carry out vital functions, including burying the dead, taking care of the injured, and restocking food supplies. Overdue repairs on essential water and energy infrastructure could also continue during this period. Read more...
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Whistleblowers who risk their careers to uncover wrongdoing within public services are being victimised by managers who nearly always escape sanction, a public accounts committee report will say on Friday.
MPs were told that only one senior manager who has victimised a whistleblower has ever faced disciplinary procedures, while many government departments are still failing to support employees who come forward in the public interest.
Like any proud parent, comedian Jack Vale is instinctively inclined to photograph his daughter's every impressive moment. So in mid-July, the YouTube prankster whipped out his iPhone camera and captured 12-year old Madysyn Rose singing Naughty Boy and Sam Smith's hit song "La La La."
Now the video has reached a massive 17.5 million Facebook News Feeds since July 18.
"It's very exciting, overwhelming and amazing," Madysyn told Mashable. "Singing is what I want to do for the rest of my life, and knowing that millions of people have heard me sing is awesome. It encourages me to keep doing what I love." Read more...
US and UN announce that both parties have agreed to an unconditional ceasefire to start Friday morning
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a 72-hour pause in their three-week conflict, the United States and the United Nations announced, allowing for both sides to begin talks on a longer-term ceasefire.
The truce will begin at 8am on Friday, local time, after which delegations from Israel and Palestine will convene in Cairo for negotiations to be mediated by the Egyptian government.
Tens of thousands of NHS patients are to be invited to donate their DNA for research as part of a project that aims to make the use of genetic data routine in the health service.
About 75,000 patients with cancer and rare diseases will have their genomes sequenced during the four-year project, which David Cameron claims will transform how serious diseases are diagnosed and treated.
Fears have been raised that many patients are receiving "second choice" drugs because of supply shortages.
A poll has revealed that more than nine in 10 family doctors have been forced to write prescriptions for medicines that were not their preferred option.
Nearly a third of Conservative voters would prefer their party to form a coalition with Nigel Farage's party rather than any other, according to a survey.
The figure of 30% support for a coalition with Ukip compares with 31% who would favour a continuation of the current partnership with Liberal Democrats in the event of a hung parliament in 2015.
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Homebuyers could need an average deposit of £72,000 to buy a typical home if the Conservatives get five more years, the shadow housing minister warns on Thursday.
Labour's Emma Reynolds will say in a speech in Nottingham that it will become even more difficult for people struggling to afford a home if David Cameron and George Osborne remain in charge of housing policy.
An advert depicting people in Britain who have been forced into prostitution, domestic servitude and agricultural slave labour aired on Wednesday as part of a two-month national campaign by the Home Office that aims to encourage modern-day slaves to seek help from the government, and the British public to report persons suspected of enslaving others.
The EU has added three longstanding "cronies" of Vladimir Putin, an important presidential aide and a Russian bank to its sanctions blacklist in the latest punitive measure aimed at Moscow for its involvement in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine.
The expanded list of people and entities subject to asset freezes and travel bans, agreed earlier this week by ambassadors from the 28 EU member states, marks the furthest EU sanctions have reached into Putin's inner circle. Leading members of rebel groups in eastern Ukraine and Crimea are also on the list. The addition of new targets follows the announcement on Tuesday of sweeping financial sanctions, an arms embargo and a freeze on exports of equipment to the Russian oil industry.
As head of ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympics, Martin Green had the initially unenviable job of convincing a sceptical public that the UK could follow Beijing's bombastic lead without completely embarrassing itself.
He defied the doubters by commissioning the Slumdog Millionaire director, Danny Boyle, to produce a mash-up of Mary Poppins, Dizzee Rascal, and a skydiving Queen, which delighted even the least patriotic viewers.
Former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed he will put his name forward to stand as a parliamentary candidate for the Labour party.
The human rights lawyer said he will seek selection in the Holborn and St Pancras constituency if the party does not run an all-woman shortlist.
Nato is ill-prepared to confront new threats posed by Russia, and members of the western military alliance may not have the collective political will to take concerted action to deter an attack, a cross-party group of MPs warn on Thursday.
Nato command and control structures, the alliance's ability to predict and give adequate warning of a potential attack and the state of its forces are all seriously deficient, the Commons defence committee says.
Men who measure more than 102cm (40 inches) around the middle and not below the belly are five times more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than men with a smaller waist, while women who measure more than 88cm (35 inches) are three times more likely to be diagnosed than others, according to advice from Public Health England.
People who are simply overweight, as well as those who are obese, are risking type 2 diabetes, which can lead to blindness, amputations and an early death, the public health body has warned.
Julio Grondona, the second-most powerful man in world football and an avowed enemy of the English, has died aged 82.
Argentinas Grondona was Fifas senior vice-president, behind only president Sepp Blatter in the pecking order, and as chairman of the influential finance committee held the purse strings of the global organisation.
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