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Madonna ‘snogs’ Drake during his set at Coachella 2015 –
This year’s event was headlined by AC/DC, Jack White and Drake. It was some of the unannounced acts that got people talking though. Madonna made an appearance during Drake’s headline set after he performed his track called Madonna, which was released on his If You’re Reading This mixtape. She then sang Human Nature and Hung Up. And, not being one to make an appearance without attracting headlines, she then kissed Drake, A LOT, said the words “I’m Madonna” and walked off the stage. [BBC]
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Robbie Williams abandons basement plans to appease Jimmy Page –
Robbie Williams has scaled back plans to revamp his multi-million pound home following a public spat with neighbour Jimmy Page. The 41-year-old star has ditched the proposal for a two-storey basement extension under the garden and glass studio at the top of his house. The Take That singer angered the veteran rocker with ambitious proposals for the 46-room mansion, which was previously owned by the late film director Michael Winner. [Daily Telegraph]
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Marco Rubio ‘announces US presidential bid’ –
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has told donors that he will run for the Republican nomination for US president in 2016, US media report. Mr Rubio, 43, said on a conference call he was “uniquely qualified” to bring the party into the future. He is the third Republican to officially announce a candidacy after Senators Rand Paul and Ted Cruz. Mr Rubio is expected to make a formal announcement at a political rally in Miami later on Monday.
It comes a day after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she would stand for the Democratic nomination. [BBC]
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Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, win University Challenge –
255-105: The Cambridge college beat Magdalen College, Oxford, in the BBC’s quick fire quiz’s grand final. Ted Loveday wearing a cream cable-nit jumper proved the star resulting in tweets like this-

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Winners of University Challenge (since revival in 1995 – Wikipedia)

* In 2009, Sam Kay, part of the team from Corpus Christi College, Oxford was accused of not being a student when the show was filmed. Kay, who had completed a chemistry degree the previous summer, had been planning to go on to study for a Doctor of Philosophy, but he did not have sufficient funding so dropped out. He then became an accountant. The team, whose captain Gail Trimble was dubbed the “human Google”, won the competition but were subsequently disqualified and the trophy was awarded to the runners-up, the University of Manchester.

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Accidents and disasters

• Nine people die as a boat carrying people to Italy capsizes off the coast of Libya. The Italian coast guard rescues 144 people. (ANSA)
• A cargo plane carrying two pilots goes missing after departing from Vancouver International Airport en-route to Prince George Airport in British Columbia, Canada. Search and rescue efforts are initiated after wreckage was reported in the province’s North Shore Mountains. (Global)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russia lifts ban on delivery of S-300 missile air defense systems to Iran. (RT)
• In Tripoli, the Moroccan Embassy is damaged by a bomb explosion just hours after gunmen assault the South Korean mission. ISIL loyalists take credit for both attacks. (New York Daily News)

Law and crime

• A former work-study student is sought in a shooting of his print shop supervisor at Wayne Community College in Goldsboro, North Carolina and is still on the run. (WRAL)
• Murder of Travis Alexander
  • An Arizona judge sentences convicted murderer Jodi Arias to life without parole for the 2008 murder of her ex-boyfriend. (Reuters)
• Two Massachusetts high schools close due to bomb threats; it is the third bomb threat Brockton High School has received this school year.(Boston Globe)
• Blackwater Baghdad shootings
  • The first of four Blackwater security guards to be sentenced is given a life sentence in the United States for his role in killing 14 Iraqi civilians inBaghdad in 2007. (Washington Post)
• A volunteer police officer is charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Eric Harris, an unarmed man who was shot while laying on his back in Tulsa, Oklahoma. (CNN)

Politics and elections

• United States presidential election, 2016
  • Florida Senator Marco Rubio announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. (CNN)

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