1. CAMERON PUBLISHES EU REFERENDUM BILL
The Tories today published a draft bill which legislates an in-out referendum on EU membership to be held by the end of 2017, a move seen as David Cameron’s attempt to pacify rebels in his party. But Tory Eurosceptic MP John Barron said the vote would not be soon enough and Labour and the Lib Dems criticised the idea.
Five key questions about PM's draft bill on EU referendum
2. ANGELINA JOLIE: I HAD DOUBLE MASTECTOMY
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has revealed she has had a preventative double mastectomy after doctors estimated she had an 87% chance of contracting breast cancer. The 37-year-old, who has six children with Brad Pitt, including three adopted, said she had gone public to encourage other women to take action.
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Angelina Jolie: '87% chance' of cancer led to double mastectomy
3. OXFORD GROOMING CASE: 7 FOUND GUILTY
Seven members of a sex grooming gang who drugged young girls and forced them to perform sex acts were convicted at the Old Bailey today on charges including rape, conspiracy, child prostitution and trafficking. The gang operated in Oxford but would take their victims, aged between 11 and 15, around the country and offer them to other men.
4. FACTORIES CLOSE IN DHAKA AMID UNREST
Many textile factories near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have been forced to close because of unrest among employees. Workers have been “on the rampage”, says the BBC, in the wake of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory last month, which killed 1,127 people. Retailers in Europe have called for better safety standards.
5. BROWN'S INFERNO IS 'CLUNKY, BUT CLEVER'
American author Dan Brown's new novel, Inferno, is "clunky, but clever" and long passages of "charmless, tuneless prose" won't stop it becoming the year's best-selling book, early reviews suggest. Inferno is the fourth book by the Da Vinci Code author to feature Robert Langdon, a fictional Harvard professor of religious iconology.
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6. ARIEL CASTRO: I HOPE HE ROTS, SAYS BROTHER
The brothers of Ariel Castro, suspected of holding three women prisoner in his Cleveland home for a decade, have revealed he stopped them from seeing parts of the house by keeping the doors locked and saying he heated only his kitchen to save money. Onil Castro said his brother was a “monster” who should “rot in jail”.
Ariel Castro 'house of horrors': will it be demolished?
7. STUART HAZELL: TIA'S KILLER GETS LIFE
Stuart Hazell has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 38 years, for the murder of 12-year-old schoolgirl Tia Sharp. Hazell, 37, was sentenced today after changing his plea to guilty yesterday. He had initially claimed that Tia, whose body was found in the attic of her grandmother's house last year, had died in an accident.
Stuart Hazell to serve 38 year term for Tia Sharp's murder
8. RUSSIANS HOLD CIA AGENT IN MOSCOW
An undercover CIA agent has been arrested in Moscow carrying a large sum of money with which he was trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer, according to the Federal Security Service. Interfax reports that the American agent had been working under the cover of third political secretary at the US embassy in Moscow.
9. MANCHESTER CITY SACK ROBERTO MANCINI
Just days after United’s Sir Alex Ferguson announced he is retiring, Manchester City too are saying goodbye to their manager: Roberto Mancini has been fired by the club almost a year to the day after he helped win their first Premier League title. It is rumoured that Malaga coach Manuel Pellegrini will replace Mancini.
Man City sack Roberto Mancini, their best manager in 40 years
10. HOT TICKET: PINTER’S HOTHOUSE IS BACK
A revival of Harold Pinter’s political farce ‘The Hothouse’ has opened at Trafalgar Studios, London. Simon Russell Beale stars as the director of a sinister medical institution who suspects his staff are plotting to overthrow him. With John Simm. “Clever, caustic carry-on,” says The Financial Times. Until 3 August.
Kafka meets Monty Python in revival of Pinter's Hothouse
