France’s far-right party leader Marine Le Pen has paid tribute to the man who killed himself in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying it was a “political act”.

Ms Le Pen, who heads the National Front, said it was aimed at “waking up the people of France”.

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One of Serbia’s most senior officials has visited northern Kosovo to try to persuade ethnic Serbs there to accept an EU-brokered agreement.

Deputy PM Aleksandar Vucic admitted that the amount of autonomy given to them under the accord was not ideal.

Kosovo proclaimed its independence from Serbia in 2008 but Kosovan Serbs have refused to recognise the government.
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A Canadian paper says it has seen video footage that appears to show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, but cannot verify its authenticity.

The Toronto Star said two of its reporters were shown the clip by a tipster who tried to sell the video to the paper.
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The world’s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.

The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.

The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas.
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ATLANTA – Reese Witherspoon is “deeply embarrassed” about what she said to police officers after she and her husband were arrested during a traffic stop in Atlanta.

The Oscar-winning actress released a statement late Sunday apologizing for her behavior to police that began when her husband, Hollywood agent Jim Toth, was arrested early Friday for driving under the influence of alcohol.
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Bombs that targeted the Boston Marathon on Monday may have been packed in pressure cookers, investigators say.

Images from a joint Homeland Security and FBI bulletin show the remains of a dark backpack, a detonation device and mangled pieces of metal.
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Downing Street has released an initial list of invitations to Baroness Thatcher’s funeral next Wednesday.

All surviving US presidents and British prime ministers are on the guest list, as well as a representative of the Reagan family.
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France’s top rabbi, Gilles Bernheim, has resigned amid a scandal over plagiarism.

Rabbi Bernheim had admitted to plagiarising several authors and lying about an academic status on his CV, reports said.
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Australian enterprise wedded to old OS that ‘just works’.

One year from today, the world’s most popular PC operating system, Windows XP, will no longer be supported by Microsoft.

As of April 8, 2014, the software vendor will no longer provide security patches or other updates to the software.
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Researchers report a breakthrough in generating powerful antibodies that can neutralize HIV.

An HIV infection is really an intensive molecular arms race launched from the minute the virus infects a new host.

AIDS progresses not because the body isn’t capable of fighting off HIV — it is. But the immune defenses eventually succumb to the virus in the final standoff.
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