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It's looking like a conservative landslide.

All the cases Owens cited were examples of organised crime, illicit national and transnational networks that have multiplied since the 1980s and now make an annual £1.5tn around the world and £37bn, or 1.8% of GDP, in Britain. It was to tackle this threat that the NCA was established five years ago as a national intelligence and police force – inevitably described in the press as the closest thing Britain has to an FBI. What to many might sound like a terrifying catalogue of crime, then, is to Owens, as the NCA’s director-general, a to-do list. Since we spoke, Owens’s...

Aaron Schlossberg, a lawyer in New York, was caught on camera berating staff members of a restaurant for speaking Spanish with customers. A lot of multilingual countries promote an official language, but the United States has never done so with English. In fact, the US has no official language. "The Founding Fathers didn't see a need to declare one," Dr. Wayne Wright, a professor of language and literacy at Purdue University, told CNN. "English was pretty much the dominant language of the United States at the time and they didn't want to offend their fellow Americans who helped fight for...

I actually cannot believe what i am seeing in tesco!! People waiting for the reduced food to be brought out, fair enough. But the staff have to tell them to wait and stay back like you would a dog while your preparing its dinner, then have to be told to let the staff out so they don't get crushed when every one piles in....literally, how there was not a fight is beyond me. I'm actually lost for words that this can happen like that in a supermarket and is let to happen nightly.....you have to watch the video to believe...

An Australian and two Americans were gored by bulls during the second day of the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Australian Nick Headlam was injured as he was rammed into a fence by a 1,300lb bull. But in true Aussie style, the 29-year-old laughed and saluted to the crowd as he was stretchered away along the cobbled streets, covered in blood and with a drip attacked to his arm. One of the gored Americans, veteran Pamplona runner Al Chesson, 57, spent a terrifying half-minute being thrown around and jabbed by a snorting bull in the narrow alley leading into...