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Daft Punk will release their first studio album in eight years in May.

The French dance duo, which consists of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, have signed a new record deal with the Sony-owned Columbia label.
Little is known about the outfit's planned fourth studio album, although Chic co-founder Nile Rodgers recently hinted that it would be released soon. Oscar-winning songwriter Paul Williams, Feist collaborator Chilly Gonzales, Animal Collective's Panda Bear and disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder (via a spoken monologue) are among those who have reportedly collaborated with the duo over the past couple of years, although what form their contributions to the new record might take is unclear.
The duo last played in the UK at Wireless festival in 2007, but the chances of new live shows are not promising. Bestival organiser and BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob da Bank said earlier this year that he had been told the band would not tour in 2013, while rumours that that they would headline the Coachella festival in California in April proved unfounded.
Daft Punk released their debut album Homework in 1997, followed by Discovery and Human After All in 2001 and 2005. Their most recent release was the soundtrack for Tron: Legacy in 2010.

A major increase in the UK commitment to help French and African forces in Mali has been confirmed by Downing Street. "200 UK troops would train an African regional force."
The offer is being made by UK deputy security advisor in Addis Ababa on Tuesday. Britain has also offered a roll-on, roll-off ferry to help transport French armoury to Mali by sea, landing on the African coast.
Sources stressed that Britain would have no combat role in Mali, but disclosed that Britain had offered to run with the French a combined joint logistics headquarters inside Mali. The offer was rejected by the French at this stage as unnecessary, but shows the scale of the UK preparedness to help its closest military ally in Europe.
The prime minister's spokesman stressed the UK military assistance was to "work out the appropriate support to regional forces". No timetable was given for the length of the UK commitment. "We will do what we can to help the French mission".

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A video goes viral when CCTV catches students having sex.

Exeter University's recent Safer Sex Ball has found itself in the media spotlight, after CCTV footage of two students engaged in sexual activity in the campus bar leaked online and made international headlines.

While the university itself remains tight-lipped and the Students' Guild (Exeter's students' union) tries to work out what went so horribly wrong with its charity fundraiser, students are taking the opportunity to consider what constitutes acceptable sexual behaviour.

We know that staff members working for the Students' Guild were responsible for filming and sharing CCTV footage of the amorous pair. In a statement released to Exeposé, the student paper, last week Guild senior management confirmed that members of their staff had been dismissed following a "rigorous investigation" into the leaked footage.

The Guild told Exeposé: "We have identified the individuals involved, and in light of the seriousness of the breach, have taken the strongest possible disciplinary action… The footage was taken without our permission, and internal rules around security of CCTV were breached."

Today the Guild will add no more than "with regret we are unable to provide details; the details are integral to the investigation and ongoing disciplinary action process".

On campus, a rift has opened up between the Guild and the university, you can't get into the campus bar without a student ID card, and the editors of Exeposé, which I co-edit, have been threatened with disciplinary action should our reporters make any attempt to investigate parts of the story that might hinder the progress of the internal investigation.

But the most extraordinary thing of all is that what should have ended up as a banal piece of campus gossip has landed Exeter at the centre of a national storm over the "sexual bullying and voyeurism" that has besmirched the country's best universities.

Students on Twitter have been quick to answer no: @Megan_117 tweeted: "The news article in the Daily Mail about Exeter is disgusting, ridiculously overblown and laughably false", while @BenWinsor1 went for: "Daily Mail Online, famed for its balanced, positive approach to presenting women and sexuality, accuses Exeter of voyeurism and bullying".

Indeed, if we're asking questions about acceptable behaviour, it seems more important to ask why staff members thought it was okay to film and leak the footage of young people having sex – to me, this is the real story, and the real problem.