CCTV shows Tao Hsiao, 38, escorting his girlfriend around a shopping mall in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, east China.

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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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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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Oxford survived a scare in their FA Cup second-round tie with Wrexham having trailed at half-time before eventually winning 2-1.

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Danny Graham ended his goal drought with his first goal for 11 months but Hull were pegged back as Swansea fought back to earn a 1-1 draw at the Liberty Stadium.

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Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific processLeading academic journals are distorting the scientific process and represent a "tyranny" that must be broken, according to a Nobel prize winner who has declared a boycott on the publications.Randy Schekman, a US biologist who won the this year and receives his prize in...

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Princess Michael of Kent has explained how she and her husband have been hit by austerity; meaning they can no longer dine out as it's "too extravagant".

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The BBC's decision to cut short an episode of Mrs Brown's Boys to announce Nelson Mandela's death has triggered nearly 1,000 angry complaints. Here, we summarise everything fans missed in those crucial 12 minutes after it interrupted Mrs Brown's Boys to broadcast a newsflash announcing the death of Nelson Mandela. Quite right, too – some things are more important than the sad passing away of a...

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• 500 signatories include five Nobel prize winners • Writers demand 'digital bill of rights' to curb abusesMore than 500 of the world's leading authors, including five Nobel prize winners, have condemned the scale of state surveillance revealed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden and warned that spy agencies are undermining democracy and must be curbed by a new international charter.The...

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The hype couldn't overshadow the return of My Bloody Valentine, more than 20 years after their last album• • • There are some words that are natural to reach for when you're trying to find a shorthand to describe My Bloody Valentine: woozy, fuzzy, hazy, ethereal. All help when you're trying to describe that monstrous bloom of guitars, or how buried those vocal harmonies are. But given his...

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