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AOL AOL / Jan 27, 2021

The late Larry King's wife, Shawn King, is opening up about how she said goodbye to the legendary television and radio host. Shawn spoke exclusively to Entertainment Tonight, airing on Wednesday, and shared that she and his family had a private funeral this week for the icon.

AOL AOL UK / Jan 27, 2021

Ministers have reversed attempts to explicitly ban the state from authorising undercover agents to kill, torture or rape. Peers made several changes to the controversial Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill, including the ban on the most serious crimes and the addition of strict curbs and safeguards on the use of children and vulnerable people as operatives.

AOL AOL / Jan 27, 2021

Brazilian police are investigating the barbaric murder of a 5-year-old child whose mother allegedly beat her to death, removed her eyeballs and part of her tongue and then tried to eat the child's organs in an apparent psychotic episode this week, according to local authorities and multiple news reports.

AOL AOL UK / Jan 27, 2021

Human rights laws have been "very beneficial" in improving standards even though some cases can be "irksome" and "costly" for the government, according to a former attorney general. Dominic Grieve QC said the Human Rights Act had made public bodies "pay attention to human rights in making decisions, particularly those affecting the old, vulnerable and children" and has led to an "improvement in standards."

AOL AOL UK / Jan 27, 2021

The Duchess of Cambridge has paid tribute to "inspirational" Holocaust survivors for educating the next generation about the "horrors" of the Nazi regime. Kate was left visibly moved after hearing the stories of Zigi Shipper, 91, and Manfred Goldberg, 90, who met as boys while in a Nazi concentration camp but started new lives in the UK after being liberated towards the end of the Second World War.

AOL AOL UK / Jan 27, 2021

Older adults from ethnic minority groups, those with severe mental illness or learning disabilities, and those from deprived areas are less likely to have received a coronavirus vaccine, preliminary data suggests. Researchers analysing GP records for NHS England found "substantial divergence" in vaccination rates when broken down by ethnicity and deprivation, with white people twice as likely to have been vaccinated than black people.

AOL Yahoo Finance / Jan 26, 2021

AOL co-founder and startup investor Steve Case said it's time to dial up a new approach to capitalism. "It hasn't been inclusive [capitalism] and we need to reboot capitalism and entrepreneurship so everybody gets the benefits and everybody has the opportunity to participate in the innovation economy," Case told Yahoo Finance Live.