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Home - More than 20 British Muslim families have been denied entry to the US, it has been claimed, amid mounting claims of religious discrimination by border officials. The allegation was made after a British father whose family holiday to Disneyland in the US was cancelled at the last minute by border officials spoke of their “devastation”. Fitness instructor Mohammad Tariq Mahmood was among 11 members of his family hoping to fly from Gatwick to Los Angeles last week, but said they were taken from the queue to board the plane by a border control officer. Read the full story here. 

Home - Since the Gherkin pierced London's skyline in 2003, a number of architectural delicacies have popped up around the capital. Prince Charles once likened the capital to an "absurdist picnic table", but has it really started to resemble a giant's feast? "The Gherkin really started the trend," says Peter Rees, ex-chief planner of the City of London and professor at UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture. It is not the first building to earn a nickname inspired by items usually found in the kitchen pantry. Indeed, Prince Charles also dubbed the 309m-high Shard an "enormous salt cellar". With work having resumed on the Can of Ham in January and the Cucumber on its way, BBC News explores some of the capital's most high-profile morsels. Read the full story here. 

Home - The 13-year-old had been missing for almost two weeks after disappearing on 6 December . Detectives are still searching for two sisters, Abir and Ahlam Salah , aged 16 and 15 respectively, also from Wood Green . Abir was reported missing on 6 December, and Ahlam on 12 December. Police believe the pair have not left the country and may be sleeping on buses or elsewhere on the transport network. A Metropolitan police spokesman said: “The girls have been reported missing before. The last time was on 19 November, when they were missing for a week. They were found safe and well in the Wood Green area. Read the full story here. 

Earlier this month, a tube passenger on the Piccadilly line allegedly told a Muslim man to leave a train in North London after he was using an iPad "suspiciously." A witness told the Evening Standard the man had switched the tablet off after he noticed the passenger looking at it, which apparently was cause enough for the passenger to deem it suspicious. Other passengers reportedly came to the Muslim man's defense. The British Transport Police says it has received 35 reports of anti-Muslim incidents on trains nationwide in the four weeks since the Paris attacks — up from seven in the same period a year earlier. (They don't break out numbers of incidents only in the tube.) “We have seen an increase in reporting hate crime since the Paris attacks. Everyone has the right to travel safely, and nobody should feel threatened or intimidated when using the rail network," a spokesman told Mashable. Tell MAMA, a national project to record and monitor anti-Muslim i...