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Olympic security 'not a shambles'

Secretary of State for Defence Phillip Hammond will announce thousands of additional troops are to be drafted in for security roles at the Olympic Games

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The Whisky a Go Go's marquee in Los Angeles honours musician Ray Manzarek of The Doors. Manzarek, the keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, who had a dramatic impact on rock'n'roll, has died aged 74. The Doors were the Whisky a Go Go opening band in 1966. (AP)

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The devastation in Oklahoma came almost exactly two years after an enormous twister ripped through the city of Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and injuring hundreds more. (AP)

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Lea Thompson at the L.A. premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness

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