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A senior Pakistani politician has been murdered outside his home in north London, party leaders have said.

Dr Imran Farooq, a member of the MQM political party, is believed to have been attacked in Green Lane, Edgware.

The Metropolitan Police said a 50-year-old man had died after suffering multiple stab wounds and head injuries.

They were called to reports of a serious assault at 1730 BST. The man was treated by paramedics but declared dead at the scene about an hour later.

Dr Farooq’s next of kin have been informed. No arrests have been made.

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Sports presenter Clare Balding’s official complaint over an article which mocked her sexuality in The Sunday Times has been upheld.

In July, she complained to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) over AA Gill’s review of her new TV show, in which he called her a “dyke on a bike”.

The paper defended its columnist on freedom of expression grounds.

The PCC ruled that some of the words were used in a “demeaning and gratuitous way”.

The newspaper defended Mr Gill by saying he was well-known for his acerbic and sometimes tasteless sense of humour.

‘Open society ‘

Balding took exception to Mr Gill’s review of her show, Britain By Bike, claiming his comments were irrelevant to the programme.

But the newspaper argued the term “dyke” had been reclaimed by various groups as an empowering, not an offensive, term.

The paper also drew attention to two organisations, which are both called Dykes on Bikes.

The groups represent an American lesbian motorcycling movement and a UK-based cycling movement, whose members had reclaimed the word “dyke”.

It argued that an individual’s sexuality should not give them an “all-encompassing protected status”.

A spokesman for the newspaper declined to comment further.

However, the full PCC judgement must be published in the newspaper at the weekend.

The PCC ruled that the use of the word “dyke” in the article – whatever its intention – was a “pejorative synonym relating to the complainant’s sexuality”.

The context was “not that the reviewer was seeking positively to ‘reclaim’ the term, but rather to use it to refer to the complainant’s sexuality in a demeaning and gratuitous way”. As such, it represented a breach of the Code.

Stephen Abell, director of the PCC, said: “Freedom of expression is a key part of an open society and something which the Commission has defended robustly in the past.

“While the commentator is clearly entitled to his opinion about both the programme and the complainant, there are restraints placed upon him by the terms of the Editors’ Code.”

It said the clause was “very clear that newspapers must avoid prejudicial, pejorative or irrelevant reference to an individual’s sexual orientation and the reference to Miss Balding plainly breached its terms”.

Baliding told the PCC that she was not demanding special treatment, but just wanted to be treated the same as everybody else.

The presenter has also asked for the newspaper to apologise.

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The Automobile Association (AA) calls on the government to abandon plans to raise fuel duty on 1 October.

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Supermarket giant Tesco says it is increasing the price it pays to its dairy group of farmers for milk

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The world’s most expensive sandwich, proof that square wheels do work and a bit of a clock-up on Breakfast TV. It’s the week’s weird and wonderful video news stories in Newsbeat’s Odd Box with Dominic Byrne

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Sangita Myska visits St Mary’s University College in Twickenham to find out how they are preparing to host an event for the Pope.

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Labour’s leadership contenders have clashed over spending cuts and what the party needs to do to regain power.

In a special edition of BBC’s Question Time, Andy Burnham said they should be “honest” and admit there would have been “significant” cuts under Labour.

But Ed Balls said cuts would not create jobs and Labour should “not do the work of the coalition for them”.

David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Diane Abbott also took part in the debate to be broadcast later.

The four-month leadership contest is in its final stages, with the result due to be announced at the Labour Party conference on 25 September.