Kirkuk: Clashes reported after Iraqi forces advance on Kurdish-held sites
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Today's Headlines October 15
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Kirkuk: Clashes reported after Iraqi forces advance on Kurdish-held sites
Clashes are reported as Baghdad launches a major operation to take oil fields and a base.
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Catalonia: Independence deadline approaches for Puigdemont
A deadline approaches for the Carles Puigdemont to clarify whether he has declared independence.
Somalia: At least 230 dead in Mogadishu blast
Saturday's truck bombing in the capital is the deadliest attack in Somalia's 10-year insurgency.
Sebastian Kurz: Austrian conservative set to become world's youngest leader
Conservative Sebastian Kurz, 31, on course to lead country after campaign dominated by immigration.
 
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Why does Catalonia want independence?
Why is there a Catalan crisis? The answer is in its past, as Europe correspondent Gavin Lee explains.
Sport
MOTD2 analysis: 'Why Koeman must hope to hang on until January'
The way Everton play under Ronald Koeman will not change until they can sign players in January, says MOTD2 pundit Kevin Kilbane.
Icardi hat-trick gives Inter victory in thrilling Milan derby
Mauro Icardi scores a 90th-minute winner from a controversially awarded penalty to complete his hat-trick as Inter win the Milan derby.
Saints twice come from behind to deny Newcastle
Manolo Gabbiadini marks his return to Southampton's side with both goals as battling Saints twice came from behind to deny Newcastle United victory at St Mary's.
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The UK city where sex work is banned, but hasn't stopped
Hull is the UK's only city to have banned sex workers from its red light district. The council says the policy is working. An ex-sex worker disagrees.
Business
Financial regulator warns of growing debt among young people
Financial Conduct Authority head Andrew Bailey says young people are borrowing to make ends meet.
Saudi Aramco said its flotation remains on track for 2018
Oil giant Saudi Aramco dismisses reports the world's biggest share listing could be shelved.
 
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Technology
Why Pinterest boss Tim Kendall takes a daily ice bath
A daily ice bath is "like having morning coffee", the tech giant's president Tim Kendall tells the BBC.
How VR is helping to train a new generation of surgeons
Virtual reality technology that lets trainee surgeons feel "flesh and bone" is developed.
Capital
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Can smart workers be damaging?
Workers who are overqualified for their jobs can hurt firms, not help them
 
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Recognising follies of human behaviour
Why the Nobel prize for economics marks the importance of irrational behaviour
Culture
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The people saving ‘lost’ words
How preserving a dying language can give us a different worldview
 
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When fashion and art collide
Artists and couturiers have had a long, uneasy relationship
Earth
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BBC Earth nominated for Lovie Awards
A finalist in three categories ‘honouring the best of the European internet'
 
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New BBC Earth film coming soon
Earth: One Amazing Day, the long awaited sequel to box-office hit Earth
Future
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The benefits of ‘floating’ solar power
Placing massive panels on water saves space
 
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The city where the internet warms homes
An unprecedented energy project is underway in Scandinavia
Travel
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The code that travellers need to learn
It separates one Scandinavian nation from the rest of the world
 
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Europe’s only ‘free’ city
It was instrumental in creating a precarious peace in the region
 
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