Protesters in the Ukrainian capital Kiev topple a statue of Lenin as they call for closer EU ties and oppose a Russian-led customs union.

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Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says she will dissolve parliament and call elections, after sustained protests in the capital, Bangkok.

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Apple, Google and Microsoft among companies to call for reforms to restore the public's trust in the internet

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Whistleblower's victory, for exposing the scale of internet surveillance, follows that of Chelsea Manning last yearFor the second consecutive year, a young American whistleblower alarmed at the unfettered and at times cynical deployment of power by the world's foremost superpower has been voted the Guardian's person of the year., who leaked an estimated 200,000 files that exposed the extensive...

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Police in Singapore make 27 arrests after hundreds of people take part in a riot triggered by the death of an Indian national.

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NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second LifeTo the National Security Agency analyst writing a briefing to his superiors, the situation was clear: their current surveillance efforts were lacking something. The agency's impressive arsenal of cable taps and sophisticated hacking attacks was not enough. What it really needed was a horde of...

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The Stitch: My crafty gang objects to Campbell Newman's so-called 'bikies laws', which are an affront to our civil liberties. Hell hath no fury like a knitter scorned

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Viewers voice concern that repeat of Mrs Brown's Boys was cut short and bulletin did not devote enough time to severe stormsThe BBC News director has defended the corporation's coverage of Nelson Mandela's death, after 850 viewers complained that it had devoted too much airtime to the former South African president and not enough to the storms that lashed Britain's eastern coast.James Harding...

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Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says she will dissolve parliament and call an election after sustained protests in Bangkok.

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Actor debuts tracks created by his anti-folk band, including I'm Waiting for Delivery Man and All the Pizza PartiesMacaulay Culkin has formed a pizza-related tribute band.Billed as Pizza Underground, the group brings together Culkin and four musicians from New York's anti-folk scene: Matt Colbourn, Phoebe Kreutz, Deenah Vollmer and Austin Kilham. Some 23 years after he starred in Home Alone,...

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