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After being convicted the pair were subsequently acquitted by an Appeals court, but it nevertheless noted the men were in contact with, and sympathetic to, @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Scandinavia's humanitarian generosity in the 1990s appears to have had some unintended, and unwelcome, consequences, as dozens of young ethnic Somalis living there have embraced jihad, returning to the Horn of Africa to join the al Qaeda affiliate Al-Shabaab. Norway's Intelligence Agency PST is still investigating whether one of the attackers at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi had lived in Norway. The 23-year old had come to Norway with his family at the age of nine as a refugee, but according to Norwegian media had become unsettled after being unable to find work and begun to frequent jihadist websites.
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Dozens of young ethnic Somalis living in Scandinavia have embraced jihad
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Norwegian officials investigating whether one of Westgate mall attacks had lived there
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Teenage sisters of Somali origin left home in Norway last week, apparently for Syria
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One ethnic Somali tried to murder cartoonist who depicted Prophet Mohammed | 11,400 | record_train |
@placeholder wrote: 'There comes a point where it's just frustrating to witness someone constantly hammering the pattern of destruction for those around - and I was once one of those around - only to see the destructive force make a moving and sincere apology ... then do it again.' | Actor Ralf Little has been criticised after accusing Clarke Carlisle of not telling the full story Actor Ralf Little has accused his former friend, Clarke Carlisle of not telling the 'full story' in his interview about the depression that led to his suicide attempt last year. The Royle Family star said Carlisle was going to 'get away with it again' in reference to his interview about a battle with depression that caused him to step in front of a lorry days before Christmas. Little tweeted a picture of the article, commenting: 'Oh dear. Looks like Clarke Carlisle's going to get away with it - AGAIN. #Teflon #nonstick.'
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Royle Family star tweeted Carlisle had 'got away with it again'
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He was criticised for his 'crass and insensitive' comments
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Little and Carlisle had been friends in the early 2000s
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Carlisle wrote in autobiography he borrowed actor's bank card for petrol
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But instead he used the card to fund a drinking spree
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Footballer later used wife Gemma's Twitter account to respond to Little
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He wrote that he had apologised for his 'repulsive behaviour'
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Former footballer has given an interview about his suicide attempt | 11,401 | record_train |
Right, @placeholder said he had lost control of the aircraft | By Peter Allen UPDATED: 21:36 EST, 13 October 2011 The final words of three terrified pilots on board an Air France jet which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean have emerged today for the first time. In a scandal which is set to shock all those who work or travel on commercial flights, they reveal absolute panic and ignorance among those in charge of the aircraft. The exchange is from the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) on Flight 447, which went down in a tropical storm with the loss of 228 lives while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in June 2009.
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Flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went down in Atlantic Ocean with loss of 228 lives | 11,402 | record_train |
Send off: @placeholder waved goodbye to the Commonwealth Games with an spectacular closing ceremony | England have ended a Commonwealth Games top of the medals table for the first time since 1986, thanks in no small part to the inspiration of tomorrow's stars. The likes of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Louis Smith and Mo Farah drove the narrative ahead of Glasgow, yet they were overshadowed - or in the latter's case absent - as new talent came to the fore. From 16-year-old Claudia Fragapane's four golds in the artistic gymnastics to fellow teenagers Siobhan-Marie O'Connor and Ben Proud in the pool, the success of young English talent has been heartening with the Rio Olympics fast approaching.
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England finish with 174 medals - 58 golds, 59 silvers and 57 bronzes
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Australia second, Canada third and hosts Scotland fourth
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England won 27 athletics medals - more than any other nation
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Also won 28 swimming medals including 10 goals | 11,403 | record_train |
said in a press release Friday that @placeholder would set up a command and | President Barack Obama dodged a question on Friday about whether American troops will be part of a new NATO rapid response force in Eastern Europe set up to warn Russia that Western nations could quickly mobilize if an allied country in the region were to come under attack. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the new unit would send a clear message to potential aggressors in a thinly veiled warning to Vladimir Putin. 'Should you even think of attacking one ally, you will be facing the whole alliance,' he declared as a two-day NATO summit in southern Wales drew to a close.
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Quick-reaction force falls short of the permanent NATO bases Poland and other eastern countries wanted
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NATO presence could deter Russia and other aggressors by serving as a trigger to activate American troops
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State Dept said Tuesday that it won't 'rule anything in or out' regarding a US ground-troop component
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But when Obama was asked point-blank if he will send troops, he talked only of financial assistance | 11,404 | record_train |
The @placeholder's makers said it can withstand sprays of water -- such as sprinkler play on a lawn or a water fight. | (CNN) -- Call it a tech-induced hydrophobia. Consumer electronics and water don't mix, and for many, there are few things more nerve-racking than a smartphone or tablet that's been accidentally doused. A rainy day or a trip to the beach means gingerly baby-sitting our devices. And kitchens and bathrooms are fraught with danger zones: sinks, bathtubs and worse. "I can't tell you how many people I know who've accidentally dropped their phone in the toilet, or their kid spilled their juice box all over it," CNET senior writer Maggie Reardon told CNN. A soaked phone or tablet has traditionally meant shelling out for a costly replacement. But new technology has moved beyond waterproof cases and "rugged" cell phones designed to withstand rough conditions. Devices highlighted at this year's Mobile World Congress and Consumer Electronics Show suggest the future is bright for phones and tablets that are both stylish and waterproof -- or at least water-resistant.
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Sony's water-resistant Xperia Z smartphone and tablet have been hot items
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The two devices are the latest in emerging sleek, slim water-resistant gadgets
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The greater the consumer demand, the more likely this feature will go mainstream | 11,405 | record_train |
The National Rifle Association worked with @placeholder to spread similar laws that are on the books in at least 25 states. | Washington (CNN) -- This week, Coca-Cola and Kraft announced they are pulling their corporate memberships from a conservative group that was behind the spread of "stand your ground" laws like the one highlighted in Florida by the Trayvon Martin case. The American Legislative Executive Council, also known as ALEC, is getting attention lately for its behind the scenes work pushing conservative legislation in the states. The group has gotten even more attention since a neighborhood watch volunteer shot and killed unarmed teenager Martin last month. The man who shot Martin, George Zimmerman, said he acted in self-defense. Police haven't charged him and legal experts say Florida's "stand your ground" law may shield Zimmerman from prosecution.
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American Legislative Executive Council getting attention for pushing conservative legislation
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Group was behind the spread of "stand your ground" laws
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This week, Coca-Cola and Kraft say they are pulling corporate memberships from group
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The group has ties to the NRA, which has extended its reach beyond gun rights advocacy | 11,406 | record_train |
The young girl reportedly had the @placeholder in fits of laughter, after the youngster walked up to her and asked for a close-up photo | By Amanda Williams PUBLISHED: 23:35 EST, 1 July 2013 | UPDATED: 01:54 EST, 2 July 2013 The Duchess of Cornwall has hosted a tea party for seriously ill children as part of a week long annual visit to Wales with Prince Charles. Camilla chatted with the youngsters - most of whom were battling life threatening illnesses - as she met with them and their families at the home she shares with Prince Charles while in Wales. The bash, held at a converted barn on the couple's Llwynywermod estate, was organised by Dreams and Wishes - a voluntary organisation that makes the dreams and wishes of terminally ill children come true.
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Camilla met with youngsters who were battling life threatening illnesses
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The bash held at converted barn on royal couple's Llwynywermod estate
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Part of Prince Charles's week-long annual visit to Wales | 11,407 | record_train |
The IT project manager admitted that at first she had suspected that @placeholder had taken her beloved pet to school with her on purpose. | By Lucy Crossley PUBLISHED: 13:08 EST, 10 February 2013 | UPDATED: 05:08 EST, 11 February 2013 Schoolgirl Ceri Braithwaite was stunned when she opened her satchel in class - and discovered that her pet rabbit had bunny-hopped inside for a nap. The 11-year-old was rummaging inside her bag to find her pencil case when she spotted Nala, her Lionhead rabbit, snuggled up with her exercise books. The furry fugitive caused panic as teachers and pupils rushed to take care of the floppy-eared stowaway which leapt across the classroom after Ceri discovered him. Hopping mad: Ceri Braithwaite had the shock of her life when she arrived at school to find her pet rabbit had hitched a ride in her schoolbag
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Pupil Ceri Braithwaite stunned when she opened bag to find bunny inside
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Nala hopped into satchel as 11-year-old was feeding other pets
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Ceri travelled three miles without realising rabbit was with her | 11,408 | record_train |
The computer technician hired by his office discovered six pornographic images of girls "possibly under the age of 18 years," according to @placeholder criminal complaint. | (CNN) -- A former mayor of a city in southeast Wisconsin pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges of child pornography, solicitation of a minor and related counts, a prosecutor said. Gary Becker, former mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, is charged with soliciting someone he believed was a girl. Former Racine Mayor Gary Becker, who was arraigned Tuesday, could face a sentence of up to 164 years if convicted on all counts, District Attorney Michael Nieskes told CNN. He was still in office when he was arrested last month at a shopping mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin. He allegedly tried to meet with a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl after chatting with that person online, said Bill Kosh, a spokesman for the Wisconsin attorney general's office. An officer posed online as the underage girl, according to authorities.
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NEW: A former mayor of Racine, Wisconsin, arraigned Tuesday
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NEW: District attorney: Gary Becker could face 164 years in prison if convicted
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Becker is charged with sex crimes, including possession of child porn
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Prosecutors say he used online chat to solicit what he thought was underage girl | 11,409 | record_train |
Persuading members of the @placeholder to first nominate your film and then vote for it is tremendously similar to how political operatives get candidates elected. | (CNN) -- The Republican presidential candidates are preening and prancing throughout the Sunshine State in the hopes of winning the state's 50 precious delegates. Out in Hollywood, another kind of campaign -- one with prettier people, with better hair, but equally sharp nails -- will rage over the next three weeks for Oscar. The comparison is apt in the vast sums of money spent, the lobbyists hired, and the number of backsides kissed in order for studios to ensure their films pick up Oscars at the end of the campaign season, capped by a red carpet of triumph and tears the evening of February 26. To that end, studios spend millions of dollars to make sure their projects take home those little gold men.
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Jo Piazza: Campaign of prettier people with better hair rages on in Hollywood
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Campaigning costs more than $100 million a year, but stakes are huge, she says
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Piazza: Spin, trade ads, publicists, party planners, consultancies cost fortunes
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Stars do as much glad-handing and promoting, she says, as politicians in election season | 11,410 | record_train |
Assuming Mayweather-Pacquiao is not a draw, there will be only two world champions in the welterweight division – the winner and @placeholder. | We've seen in the past week with Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao that the big fights can be made in this sport. That gives me hope that we finally might succeed in getting Amir Khan and Kell Brook in a ring. They are two great fighters at the top of their game – it is a fight the people of Britain would love to see. I can reveal here that I had a good conversation with Khan’s people just over a week ago and they told me this fight will happen one day. My thought is why wait? Let’s get this done in the summer. The date of June 13 would work – let’s make it.
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I have held good talks with Amir Khan's people over Kell Brook fight
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They say fight will happen - we'd like it this summer
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Rumoured ringside seats at Mayweather-Pacquiao could cost £100,000
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Martin Murray showed bravery and class against Gennady Golovkin
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Paul Smith must decide if he wants to defend against Rocky Fielding
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The @placeholder uses a 1080p HD camera and communicates with the guest via a built-in speaker and microphone. | By Jonathan O'Callaghan Ever heard your doorbell go, dropped what you're doing rushed downstairs to open the door, only to find it’s an unwanted visitor? That’s a scenario one London-based company hopes will be a thing of the past with their i-Bell technology, a Wi-Fi video doorbell that can connect with your smartphone or tablet. By using a camera and connecting to the internet, the device will let you know who is at your door even if you’re out and about at work, the shops or elsewhere. Scroll down for video The Wi-Fi enabled i-Bell device lets people see who is at their door through the use of a 1080P camera. This can be synced to a smartphone, tablet or PC across multiple platforms and, when the bell is rung, the homeowner can see who is at their door and speak to them through their phone
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London-based company i-Bell has designed a video Wi-Fi doorbell
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The £179.50 product lets homeowners see who is at their door
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When a visitor presses a button any synced device is called by the bell
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This can then be answered to talk to the person at the door
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Can be used to get rid of unwanted guests or give deliveries instructions | 11,412 | record_train |
‘Like having 75,000 parents watching you,’ he recalled during an instructive half hour with the former @placeholder and England midfielder. | Last week, in the company of a Manchester United great, David Beckham spoke passionately about the spirit and soul of the club. He is fiercely protective. As a nervous, young apprentice, he recalled the cigar smoke from Sir Matt Busby’s office wafting through the corridors at Old Trafford. There was a sense of belonging about the place, and he felt the history of the club when he walked out of the tunnel at Old Trafford for the first time. Sense of history: David Beckham (right) last week enthused about his youth days at Manchester United The Class of 92: Eric Harrison (centre) and his all-star FA Youth Cup winners, including Beckham (sixth left)
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Manchester United sold Danny Welbeck to Arsenal for £16m
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Welbeck had grown up as part of the club's youth academy
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England striker is one of a long line of famous United graduates
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Class of 92 was stellar group of young stars, including David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and the Neville brothers
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Louis van Gaal picked three youth players against Burnley
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But United have since spent big on Radamel Falcao and other expensive overseas imports | 11,413 | record_train |
@placeholder burns; History tells us Nero sat playing his fiddle while Rome burned to the ground | Emperor Nero: History has painted him as a cruel leader, but the poem romanticizes his life An ancient Greek poem praising the wife of the infamous Roman emperor Nero has been discovered in an Ancient Egyptian town. The poem treats Poppaea Sabina, the wife of the cruel leader, as a goddess - describing her ascending into the heavens and painting a touching portrait of the couple. Due to the lettering style, researchers believe the poem was written around AD300 - two hundred years after Nero's death, leaving a mystery as to why someone more than 1,400miles from Rome would wish to write a tribute so many years later.
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Poem was found in a city dump 1,400 miles from Rome along with thousands of other scrolls
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Pays tribute to Nero's wife, Poppaea, calling her a Goddess who was called back to Heaven to early
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Reasons for flattering portrayal lost in time | 11,414 | record_train |
'The on-court behaviour displayed by Australia in that game generated huge disappointment by basketball fans and experts,' @placeholder said in a statement on Monday. | By Daniel Mills for Daily Mail Australia and Leesa Smith for Daily Mail Australia and Aap The Boomers' World Cup nightmare has worsened after basketball's governing body opened an investigation into the controversial loss to Angola in which Australia was accused of tanking. A day after a surprise defeat to Turkey sent them out of the tournament in Spain, Australia learned they could face disciplinary action from FIBA over the manner of last week's loss to Angola. The Boomers rested several key players and let a 15-point lead slip in the third quarter against Africa's No.1 nation in their final group game in Gran Canaria to go down by 91-83.
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FIBA investigates Australia's controversial loss over Angola
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The Boomers were leading until the wheels fell off in the third quarter
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The side let a 15-point lead slip to lose by eight and avoid playing the US
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Boomers coach Andrej Lemanis said he had 'no control' of the outcome
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Betting agency Sportsbet refunded all bets on Australia to win the game
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The team went onto lose to Turkey in a sudden death round on Sunday | 11,415 | record_train |
Still, @placeholder says, Nisa called her every day -- including the night before she boarded the fateful flight. | Surabaya, Indonesia (CNN)They seemed strong and resilient, hiding their grief and fatigue with smiles, and even a laugh or two. "They are tough parents," said our local producer, Jamal. But they are just one of 162 families going through the darkest of days. Haidar Fauzi and his wife, Rohana, learned Friday they had lost their daughter, Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi, in the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Dec. 28. Nisa, as she is known affectionately by her family, had worked as an AirAsia flight attendant for the past couple of years. Her father says she was living her dream. "She loved this, her dream, she loved traveling. To become flight attendant she could travel for free," Haidar says.
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Khairunisa Haidar Fauzi died in the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501
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Her parents say she loved her job and loved traveling
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They say she was obedient, tidy, and loved by her friends | 11,416 | record_train |
The @placeholder Pope Francis has sparked with Kirchner in the past over Gay marriage and implied that women should not hold office | David Cameron clashed with the new Pope yesterday over his claims that the Falkland Islands had been ‘usurped’ by the British. Pope Francis, the former Cardinal of Buenos Aires, believes the South Atlantic territories are ‘Argentine soil’. But the Prime Minister said yesterday that he ‘respectfully’ disagreed with him and called on him to accept the result of the recent Falklands referendum. Scroll down for video Vocal: Prime Minister David Cameron, pictured right today at a press conference in Brussels, today said he disagreed with the new pope, Francis I, pictured left at a Mass this morning, over the Falkland Islands
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Cameron urged world leaders to respect the 99.8 percent vote
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But Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner describes voters as 'squatters'
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Previously said the islands were 'Argentinian soil' 'usurped' by Britain
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Kirchner has already asked the Pope to take a message to world powers | 11,417 | record_train |
"We have noted that CAF has announced that @placeholder has qualified in our group," read a letter sent by SAFA to CAF. | (CNN) -- The South African Football Association (SAFA) have appealed to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) after the country failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations due to misinterpreting the tournament's rules. South Africa celebrated on Saturday believing a 0-0 draw at home to Sierra Leone in Nelspruit had secured them top spot in qualification Group G due to their superior goal difference over their opponents and rivals Niger. But it emerged Niger would advance to next year's tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea as a result of their superior head-to-head record against South Africa and Sierra Leone, despite suffering a 3-0 defeat to bottom side Egypt in Cairo.
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South Africa have appeal after missing out on 2012 African Cup of Nations
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South Africa topped group of goal difference, but missed out to Niger on head-to-head
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Seven-time champions Egypt finished bottom of qualification group G
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Nigeria, winners in 1980 and 1994, also fail to qualify | 11,418 | record_train |
Egypt has been trying to broker a truce between @placeholder and Israel for months. | GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- A truce between Israel and Gaza's Hamas leaders will take effect Thursday and last for six months, Hamas officials said Tuesday. Palestinian Hamas security men stand to attention at a training academy in Gaza City last week. Israeli officials, however, stopped short of confirming that a cease-fire agreement has been reached. "It's still early to announce an agreement of calm," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in a statement. "When it starts, if it starts, it's hard to say how long it will last. The test will be how it's implemented." Hamas senior official Mahmoud Zahar and Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya announced the Egyptian-brokered agreement at a news conference in Gaza. They said it will begin at 6 a.m. Thursday (11 p.m. Wednesday ET).
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NEW: Hard to say how long any cease-fire will last, Israeli defense minister says
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Israel has not confirmed cease-fire pact
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Israel will begin to open Gaza border crossings Sunday, Hamas says
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Hamas took control of Gaza a year ago | 11,419 | record_train |
'I watched every @placeholder game last season and they played absolutely superb. | Liverpool will hope to have signed a lucky charm in Lazar Markovic. The Serbia midfielder, who joined the Anfield outfit on a £20million deal on Tuesday, has been a champion in each of his four seasons as a professional footballer. Markovic, 20, joined Partizan Belgrade as a 12-year-old trainee before making his debut in the final game of the 2010-2011 campaign. Raring to go: Liverpool's £20million signing Lazar Markovic has brought a stunning title pedigree to Anfield The following season, he signed a five-year deal with the Serbian champions before playing a prevalent role in helping them retain their crown.
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Markovic won three straight championships at Partizan Belgrade
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He then moved to Benfica who beat Sporting Lisbon to last year's title
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The 20-year-old is Liverpool's latest high-profile signing this summer
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applause from the audience, left @placeholder bosses with little choice but to | Fired: Craig James, a former NFL tailback who played with the New England Patriots in the 1980s, made the remarks in a debate in Texas during his failed run at the Senate in 2012 Footage of a Fox Sports presenter making a homophobic comment has led to his dismissal. Craig James, a former NFL who played with the New England Patriots in the 1980s, said during a debate that gay people would 'have to answer to the lord for their actions'. He made the remarks in a debate in Texas during his failed run at the Senate in 2012. The 52-year-old former ESPN sportscaster, who was only hired by rival Fox a month ago, told the debate that being gay 'is a choice' and that people who 'choose to do that' will 'have to answer to the Lord for their actions'.
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Craig James, 51, played tailback for the New England Patriots in the 1980s
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He made the comments during a debate while running for the Texas Senate
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He said homosexuality is a 'choice' and that 'we have a moral issue in US' | 11,421 | record_train |
The court heard @placeholder was so drunk at the time he could barely stand up, kept bumping into guests and at one point hugged a staff member and made him walk around the restaurant with him. | By Kerry Mcdermott PUBLISHED: 13:43 EST, 13 February 2013 | UPDATED: 14:38 EST, 13 February 2013 Tycoon: Vasileios Omarov, seen outside Blackfriars Crown Court today, tried to 'buy off' the hotel worker he groped, the trial heard A Russian business tycoon drunkenly groped a hotel worker's bottom then offered her thousands of pounds to drop her case against him, a court heard today.Vasileios Omarov, 44, tried to 'buy off' the woman after the incident a four star hotel in central London, in December 2010, a jury was told. Instead of approaching her himself, the 'very rich' company director got Kiril Angelov, then head concierge at the hotel, to 'do his dirty work for him,' the court heard.
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Wealthy Vasileios Omarov tried to 'buy off' hotel worker after groping her
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The 44-year-old is accused of perverting the course of justice
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'Very drunk' tycoon seen urinating on concierge desk on same day | 11,422 | record_train |
@placeholder was elected with the help of white and Hispanic voters, while Love and Scott won with support mostly from white voters. | Washington (CNN)Election Night 2014 was more than a landslide win for congressional Republicans -- it was a historic moment for black Republicans in particular. Come January, newly elected representatives Mia Love of Utah and Will Hurd from Texas along with Sen. Tim Scott -- who won election to the South Carolina Senate seat he had been appointed to -- will make up the largest number of black Republicans serving in a single Congress since Reconstruction. Changing demographics -- a growing Hispanic population in particular -- spell trouble for Republican national candidates and the party is eager to broaden its appeal to minorities to help them win the presidency in 2016 and beyond. The key question is whether these three conservative politicians from red states can help woo more black voters to a party that has struggled to attract them for decades.
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The new Congress will feature three black Republicans, a record
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Republicans reached double-digit support from black voters in some states
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But experts say the GOP has a long way to go before it attracts a large percentage of black voters | 11,423 | record_train |
Adding a museum to its community will increase tourism by bringing sightseers and visitors to @placeholder year-round, benefiting the area economy," McKeon's statement said. | (CNN) -- In tiny Bishop, California, Rep. Buck McKeon, R-California, wants to build a museum honoring the mule. Bishop, California, celebrates "Mule Days" every Memorial Day weekend. McKeon has requested a $50,000 earmark to explore the possibility of building a museum in the town that every Memorial Day weekend holds the biggest mule celebration in the United States. It might sound preposterous, but McKeon is doing what many of his House colleagues are doing -- appropriating federal funds for pet projects back home. McKeon has requested funds for studying the feasibility of building the museum and providing support for operations.
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California Republican has requested $50,000 for a mule museum
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Congress has requested $13 million-plus for museum-related earmarks
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Democrats have vowed to make earmark process more transparent
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GOP House leader pressing for more disclosure of 16,000 expected earmarks | 11,424 | record_train |
Speaking to CNN before his recent resignation from the business he bought in September 2011, former CEO Alan Knott-Craig said he was still astonished by the power of mobile and how engaged the millions of @placeholder users are. | (CNN) -- When it comes to social media's heavy hitters, there are no bigger players than Facebook or Twitter, right? Not if you're in South Africa. Mobile network Mxit claims to have nearly 10 million users in the country, making it South Africa's most popular social media platform by far, eclipsing Facebook's six million users and Twitter's 1.1 million subscribers. Founded seven years ago by Namibian-born software developer Herman Heunis, Mxit has grown from an instant messaging application into a global mobile social network. The handset-agnostic network is tapping Africa's booming mobile market to serve a growing community of users and developers. Mxit users can chat with their contacts, exchange photos and use a digital currency to buy virtual goods, while aspiring entrepreneurs can find a large audience for their applications and services.
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Mxit is South Africa's most popular social media platform
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Alan Knott-Craig recently stepped down as CEO
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He describes mobile as a "revolution" in Africa
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"You can build a big global tech company out of Africa," he says | 11,425 | record_train |
we carried out the drive to transfer (@placeholder) on Monday.' | By Damien Gayle In rehab: Documents said to be Formula One legend Michael Schumacher’s medical notes have been stolen, according to his manager French police investigating the theft of Michael Schumacher's hospital notes have asked for help from their Swiss and German counterparts after emails sent by the thieves were traced to Zurich. The request by a French prosecutor comes after emails sent to news organisations offering to sell the notes were tracked to an Internet Protocol (IP) address in Switzerland's biggest city. The emails, signed Kagemusha, which is Japanese for 'shadow warrior', offer the notes from Schumacher's nearly six-month stay in Grenoble Hospital after a nearly fatal skiiing accident left him in a coma.
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IP address used to send the emails to newspapers tracked to Swiss city
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Thieves have asked for 40,000 euros for the sale of the dossier
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@placeholder was born in 1993 during Houston's marriage to R&B singer Bobby Brown, which ended in divorce in 2007. | Atlanta (CNN)As Bobbi Kristina Brown remains hospitalized, her father's attorney said "we are currently investigating the events that led to (her) hospitalization." Attorney Christopher Brown also said Tuesday that the 21-year-old daughter of singers Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown "is not and has never been married to Nick Gordon," contrary to some reports. Bobbi Kristina Brown was found facedown in a bathtub over the weekend. Her family has been tight-lipped about her condition, but her R&B singer father issued a statement through his lawyer Tuesday night. "We continue to request privacy in this matter. Please allow for our family to deal with this matter and give Bobbi Kristina the love and support she needs at this time," Bobby Brown said in the statement.
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Loy wheeled away to celebrate with the @placeholder fans after drawing first blood | It took a piece of quick thinking from Nicky Law to provide the edge as Rangers clinically avoided Ally McCoist’s fears of another stumble on a plastic pitch. Days after a dismal draw on the synthetic surface at part-time Alloa, the Ibrox midfielder grabbed the initiative when he bypassed the 3G pitch at Falkirk which McCoist so dislikes to signpost a route into the quarter-finals of the League Cup for the Glasgow giants. With Rangers struggling on the deck, Law cleverly lofted a headed through-ball over Falkirk’s shaky backline, allowing Dean Shiels — who had missed two fine earlier chances — to fire a high shot beyond Jamie MacDonald and give McCoist’s men a foot in Wednesday's last-eight draw.
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Rory Loy gave Falkirk the lead on their plastic pitch after five minutes
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Owain Tudur Jones' own goal brought the scores level just three minutes later before Dean Shiels and Ian Black completed the turnaround
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Joined in the last eight by Aberdeen, St Johnstone, Patrick Thistle and Hibernian
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Celtic v Hearts, Dundee United v Dundee and Hamilton v Motherwell complete the line-up on Wednesday | 11,428 | record_train |
But before Sunday's funeral, @placeholder urged officers to be reverent. | New York (CNN)For the second time in days, New York police -- joined by officers from departments across the country -- buried one of their own Sunday. And again, a silent protest in blue repeated itself as some officers turned their backs on the city's mayor. The show of dissent happened a week earlier at the funeral for Officer Rafael Ramos, who was killed along with Officer Wenjian Liu as the two patrol partners sat in their squad car. On Sunday at the funeral for Liu, it appeared fewer officers turned their backs as Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke than during the service for Ramos.
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NYPD commissioner William Bratton said "Wenjian Liu believed in the possibility of a city free of fear"
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Some officers turned their back as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at Wenjian Liu's funeral in Brooklyn
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Bratton urged reverence after last weekend's silent protest against the mayor | 11,429 | record_train |
@placeholder teacher fired for showing 10th graders a killing, dismemberment video | (CNN) -- A Canadian porn actor suspected of killing and dismembering a university student in Montreal left Germany and arrived in Canada on Monday, a police official said. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was in police custody when he flew back aboard a Canadian military plane. Magnotta faces first-degree murder and other charges in the May slaying of Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Concordia University student from China. He did not fight extradition from Germany after his arrest there this month. "Now the alleged killer is in Montreal, and he'll be facing justice," police spokesman Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere told reporters at the Montreal-Mirabel International Airport, where the suspect touched down in the company of half a dozen officers.
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The suspect is expected to appear in court Tuesday, police say
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Luka Rocco Magnotta left Germany for Canada
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He's accused of killing a Concordia University student
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Police say Magnotta mailed body parts to politicians | 11,430 | record_train |
But @placeholder shot back that "she calls it fear-mongering; I call it rational fear." | Concord, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Republican Scott Brown used the latest potential Ebola case -- this time, a doctor in New York -- to blast President Barack Obama's handling of the virus outbreak in a debate against New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Thursday night. It was a local debate that turned on national issues as Brown called for a ban on travel from the West African epicenter of the outbreak and defended his suggestion that Ebola could come across the border with Mexico. He blasted Obama's appointment of Ron Klain as the nation's Ebola response coordinator as someone "with no experience in his field." He criticized Shaheen for not voting to close the U.S. border with Mexico. And he complained that the New York doctor should have been quarantined when he returned to the United States.
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Ebola was the first issue as candidates squared off at a CNN / NH1 debate in New Hampshire
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Former Sen. Scott Brown said Ebola presents a "rational fear" and the government should do more
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen accused him of "fearmongering" | 11,431 | record_train |
Williams, returning to the All Blacks after a return to rugby league, could miss their clash with @placeholder | Sonny Bill Williams’ hopes of being fit to face England at Twickenham on Saturday are in doubt as he limped off after contributing two tries towards the All Blacks’ 74-6 victory over the USA in Chicago. The cross-code centre was replaced in the 56th minute of the mismatch at Soldier Field with a sore hip. He attempted to strike an optimistic note, saying: ‘I got a bit of a cork near my hip, I’ve had it before. The doc is pretty upbeat about it.’ New Zealand coach Steve Hansen was satisfied with Williams’ efforts in the 12-try annihilation of the Eagles, saying: ‘It was what we expected.’
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All Black Sonny Bill Williams picked up cork near his hip against USA
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The World Cup winner in doubt for England Test after return to union
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Prop Adam Jones jokes he could push for No 10 after dropped by Wales
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Wallabies survived scare against Nick Cummins-inspired Barbarians | 11,432 | record_train |
Limehurst, the company used by the heir to throne, pays for the clippings and @placeholder has donated the ‘few hundred pounds’ he has received from them to a local hospice, sources confirmed. | Green-fingered: Prince Charles has allowed the clippings from yew hedges at his Highgrove Estate to be turned into cancer-fighting drugs He is well known for his love of homeopathy and natural health cures. Now Prince Charles is allowing the clippings from yew hedges in his beloved gardens at Highgrove to be turned into cancer-fighting drugs. This year 820lbs of cuttings from the common European yews that line large parts of his Gloucestershire estate are being turned into treatments for breast, ovarian, lung and Aids-related cancers. The innovative scheme is the brainchild of a small Chichester-based company, Limehurst, which has been harvesting hedge clippings for use in cancer treatments for more than 20 years.
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Cuttings from Prince Charles's yew hedges are used for cancer drugs
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Clippings are being turned into treatments for breast and lung cancers
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Usually waste at Charles's Highgrove Estate is turned into compost | 11,433 | record_train |
A bill similar to @placeholder's is pending in the Virginia legislature. | (CNN) -- The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review an abortion-related appeal, a sign the justices were not eager to jump into the contentious social issue. The case dealt with the constitutionality of state "personhood" laws that say life begins at conception, and would give human embryos the rights and privileges of citizens. Initiative Petition 395 is a proposed ballot measure to amend Oklahoma's state constitution, but was unanimously struck down by the state's supreme court. Those justices said the measure, if approved, would unconstitutionally ban access to abortions, and concluded that defining a fertilized human egg as a person "is clearly unconstitutional."
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Case focused on "personhood" laws that say life begins at conception, extend certain rights to embryos
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Supporters believe voters should decide issue; Opponents say it would block abortion in most cases
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Ballot initiatives pending in Virginia and other states; Some states have rejected similiar measures | 11,434 | record_train |
In @placeholder, some 30 miles away, 1 local residents have reported sightings of clowns since October 1. | People dressed as evil clowns and roaming through towns in the middle of the night are causing a stir in California's San Joaquin Valley. The latest after-dark sighting came Saturday night, when police in Bakersfield responded about 8 p.m. to a report of a clown holding a firearm, according to The Bakersfield Californian. Officers searched but didn't find anyone. People dressed as clowns are causing a stir in California's San Joaquin Valley. Here, a clown is seen in Wasco, between San Francisco and Los Angeles What would you do if you were walking down the street and ran into one of these creepy masked men?
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Police in Bakersfield, California, were called to a report of a clown holding a firearm and walking around in the middle of the night
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The area has been ground zero for a series of scary appearances of people dressing up as clowns
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Nobody knows who the clowns are — some people say it's performance art, while others think it's just plain scary | 11,435 | record_train |
I'm not sure what he is right now, with the way he philanders with a variety of people, Democrats like @placeholder. | Washington (CNN) -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declined an invitation to attend a major gathering of social conservatives this week in Washington, opting instead to make a high-profile appearance at a forum organized by former President Bill Clinton in Chicago. Christie's decision was hardly a bombshell: Up for re-election in November in a Democratic-leaning state, the governor can hardly afford to be seen courting Christian conservatives and sharing a stage with divisive figures like Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain. But his absence was a sore point for many conservative activists who traveled to the Faith and Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority" conference to see a bumper crop of GOP stars, including would-be presidential candidates like Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
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New Jersey's Chris Christie's decision to choose Clinton over Faith and Freedom forum rankles conservatives
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Some still blame Christie's praise of Barack Obama in Sandy aftermath for Mitt Romney's loss
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Early Christie supporter says Christie is "showing his other side"
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NEW: New Jersey Republicans view Christie favorably in new survey | 11,436 | record_train |
Instead of getting in trouble for his high-seas antics, @placeholder received knighthood and became the lieutenant governor of Jamaica. | (Mental Floss) -- It's hard to walk down the aisle of a liquor store without running across a bottle bearing someone's name. A costumed reveler at a Captain Morgan party celebrates the rum named after the 17th century privateer. We put them in our cocktails, but how well do we know them? Here's some biographical detail on the men behind your favorite tipples: 1. Captain Morgan The Captain wasn't always just the choice of sorority girls looking to blend spiced rum with Diet Coke; in the 17th century he was a feared privateer. Not only did the Welsh pirate marry his own cousin, he ran risky missions for the governor of Jamaica, including capturing some Spanish prisoners in Cuba and sacking Port-au-Prince in Haiti.
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Capt. Morgan married his own cousin, plundered Cuba and won a knighthood
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Jack Daniel died after losing a fight with a ... safe?
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Gin-maker Tanqueray descended from three-generations of clergymen | 11,437 | record_train |
He played four seasons of @placeholder basketball, but was saddled with injuries, but hasn't been on an NBA court since 2009. | A 7-foot-1 former NBA star has been arrested for attempted armed robbery after neighbors spotted him and a friend with masks over their faces trying to break into a rural Washington State home in broad daylight. This is just the latest trouble for 29-year-old Robert Swift, who blew his NBA $20million earnings and was evicted from his Seattle home in 2013. At the time of his arrest, he was a fugitive from justice, wanted for failing to show up for court to answer charges of possession of a sawed-off shotgun from last November. Swift and 28-year-old Carlos Abraham Anderson were busted on Tuesday near Gold Bar, Washington, as they were trying to break into a home there, police told to KIRO-TV.
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Robert Swift, 28, blew his $20million NBA earnings and was evicted from his home in 2013
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He was arrested last November for possession of a sawed-off shotgun
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Swift told cops he was high on drugs at the time of his arrest on Tuesday
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@placeholder's starting XI the last time they started the season this poorly: | It was heralded as a fresh start after last season's torrid time under David Moyes, and nobody can deny Louis van Gaal's arrival at Manchester United has had its ups and downs. But after the 1-0 defeat in the Manchester derby on Sunday, United sat in 10th place in the Premier League, which they have won 13 times. They are undoubtedly struggling to adjust, and a depleted back line makes the outlook up to Christmas bleak. Records have been smashed, and not the type Sir Alex Ferguson used to break with pride. Here, Sportsmail brings you the worst... Manchester United players look dejected after Sergio Aguero struck City's winner in the second half
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Manchester United lost 1-0 away at Manchester City on Sunday
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It marks United's worst start to a season since 1986
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Louis van Gaal has four fewer points than David Moyes had at this stage
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Michael Carrick is now the 31st player used by Van Gaal this season
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Southampton's XI vs Hull cost just £3million more than Angel di Maria | 11,439 | record_train |
Authorities believe Ebel rang the doorbell of Clements home and opened fire when @placeholder opened the front door. | (CNN) -- The wife of slain Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements told CNN Thursday that she refuses to be angry over the news that the parolee believed to have killed her husband was released from prison four years early because of a clerical error. Court officials admitted this week that an error allowed 28-year-old Evan Ebel -- the man authorities have linked to Clements' killing last month -- to be released in January. "Much like the incident itself, I could become enraged. For the rest of my days, I could be angry that someone made a mistake and didn't capture what a judge conveyed," Lisa Clements told CNN's Anderson Cooper in her first interview since the March 19 shooting.
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Lisa Clements is the wife of slain Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements
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She and her two daughters don't want Clements remembered for his killing
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The family says they are "praying" for the grace to forgive | 11,440 | record_train |
"That doesn't give us rights for @placeholder law to automatically apply," she said. | Tokyo (CNN) -- Three Australian activists are being held aboard a Japanese ship Monday after illegally boarding the vessel to protest Japan's annual whale hunt in Antarctic waters. The three men are not yet under arrest, but are being questioned by Japan's Coast Guard, a spokesman for Japan's Fisheries Agency said Monday, declining to be identified as is customary in Japan. The Australian attorney-general, Nicola Roxon, said that her government was working to secure the release of the men, but that she believed they could face criminal charges in Japan. Video footage released by the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd shows the three men, from the environmental group Forest Rescue Australia, approaching the Japanese vessel on a small boat on Sunday.
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The three activists could face criminal charges in Japan, an Australian official says
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The men are being questioned after boarding a patrol ship involved in the whale hunt
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The Australian government is working to secure the activists' release
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The two have had four wars since the 1947 partition of @placeholder – and both have nuclear arms. | By Ian Birrell Loved and loathed: Narendra Modi, India's new premier Twelve years ago, a train containing Hindu activists heading for a protest at the site of a demolished mosque was set on fire in a small town in the Indian state of Gujarat. The attack at Godhra killed 59 passengers, sparking vicious retribution against local Muslims. Mobs went on the rampage, raping hundreds of women and burning children after pouring kerosene down their throats. Men were forced to watch their families tortured to death, then they too were slaughtered. About 2,000 people died and 200,000 made homeless over three nightmarish days.
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Narendra Modi stormed to power yesterday and is India's new premier
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Hindu activists aboard train killed - sparking retribution against Muslims
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Plea for protection by Muslims ignored and chief minister blamed by many
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Fears his leadership will inflame tensions with 180million Muslim minority | 11,442 | record_train |
Ask not what the South Stand can do for you, but what you can do for the @placeholder. | (CNN) -- "It takes me three days to recover after the Sevens," says referee Robert Esser, who's called the plays at the famed Hong Kong rugby tournament for 12 years. "If you find out how to survive it, let me know." The annual Hong Kong Sevens is the city's largest sporting event, attracting thousands of costumed revelers from all over the world. But making the most of the party atmosphere requires strategy and planning. With the Sevens on March 28-30, experts and hardcore fans have shared tips on how they'll be getting through the three-day mega party. 1. South Stand commitment mandatory
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The three-day Hong Kong Sevens is the city's biggest sporting event of the year
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The South Stand is for fans who like to party
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Closed-toe shoes and waterproof outfits recommended in the South Stand
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Indian Recreation Club is one of the hotspots for fans without a ticket | 11,443 | record_train |
Mr Carswell, who stunned Westminster by defecting to Ukip over the summer, hit out at the MPs running the main @placeholder parties. | David Cameron is a 'mediocrity' who thinks the film Love Actually is a guide for running the country, new Ukip MP Douglas Carswell has claimed. The rebel backbencher said the Prime Minister and other leading politicians were only in the Commons for the power and did not care about changing things for ordinary people. He said: 'I think they've just watched Richard Curtis's Love Actually, and think it's a manual for how to govern the country.' David Cameron uses Love Actually as a 'manual' for running the country, according to Ukip MP Douglas Carswell Douglas Carswell was sworn in as Ukip's first ever elected MP last week and immediately attacked the Government for failing to give voters the power to sack elected politicians through the power of 'recall'
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Backbencher says Westminster leaders are only in it for the power
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He said MPs 'watch West Wing and think it's all about going to Washington'
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Ukip's first elected MP said party political leaders were 'not in it for change' | 11,444 | record_train |
Last month, China and @placeholder clashed over Japan's arrest of a Chinese fishing captain. | Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Japan's main opposition party has filed a protest with search-engine giant Google, urging it to delete from its mapping service the Chinese name for a cluster of disputed islands. The islands in the East China Sea are known as the Senkaku in Japan and as the Diaoyu in China. "It is clear that the Senkaku Islands are under the effective control of Japan in both history and the international law. Therefore, there is no territorial dispute to be resolved over the islands," the Liberal Democratic Party said Wednesday. "It is clearly wrong to list the names as if a territorial dispute exists with China in this area. We strongly call you to delete it as soon as possible," the party said to Google.
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The islands belong to Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party says
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They are known as the Senkaku in Japan and as the Diaoyu in China
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Japan's foreign minister says he supports the LDP's request
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However police believe @placeholder made the suicide pact with Gamble. | A group of 'murderous misfits' in Canada conspired to execute a mall massacre on Valentine's Day as part of a suicide pact, police claim. The plot was foiled by law enforcement at the last minute after they received a tip-off from a member of the public, according to a Halifax Police statement. Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath, 23, of Geneva, Illinois, and Randall Steven Shepherd, 20, of Nova Scotia, were arrested on Friday and charged with conspiracy to commit murder, the statement added. A third suspect, 19-year-old James Gamble, killed himself as police moved to arrest him at his home in Nova Scotia.
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Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath, 23, of Geneva, Illinois, and Randall Steven Shepherd, 20, of Nova Scotia, charged with conspiracy to commit murder
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Allegedly plotted to 'gun down as many people as possible' on Saturday
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Attack was to take place at a public venue in Halifax, Canada, police say
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Souvannarath and James Gamble, 19, allegedly planned massacre
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Gamble killed himself as police moved to arrest him in Timberlea Friday
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Souvannarath was arrested being picked up from airport by Shepherd
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A fourth suspect, a 17-year-old boy, has been released from custody | 11,446 | record_train |
@placeholder achieved the feat in 60 days, 23 hours and 49 minutes; beating the old record by over two weeks. | LONDON, England (CNN) -- It runs on 100 per cent renewable biodiesel and holds the record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe in a powerboat -- and now Earthrace is for sale. For sale: The green powerboat Earthrace is on the market for $1.5 million. The boat's owner, New Zealander Pete Bethune, listed Earthrace as for sale on the vessel's dedicated Web site last year, and he's now taking it on a tour of Australia and New Zealand in the hope of finding a buyer. Bethune is asking $1.5 million for the trimaran, which holds the world record for the fastest time in circling the globe in a powerboat.
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Earthrace holds the world record for fastest time around the globe in a powerboat
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Owner Pete Bethune is selling Earthrace for $1.5 million
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The trimaran is currently touring Australia in the hope of finding a buyer | 11,447 | record_train |
Paradise: @placeholder has discovered being husband and wife is better than being just partners (posed by models) | By Max Davidson PUBLISHED: 18:17 EST, 27 November 2013 | UPDATED: 18:30 EST, 27 November 2013 What took us so long? We had lived together for 20 years. We were soulmates, best friends, inseparable, Darby and Joan. Anyone observing my partner, Julia, and I together, so at ease with each other, sharing so many interests - from drinking fine wine to long walks in the sun - would have said we were prime candidates for matrimony, a wedding waiting to happen. Yet something stalled the inevitable, and kept on stalling it. Until now. Two weeks ago, Julia and I, with more than 120 years on the clock between us, walked down the aisle. So what took us so long?
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Max and Julia have finally tied the knot after living together for 20 years?
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So what took them so long?
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He explains here it was part caution after they had both had failed marriage
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And part apathy as planning a wedding was so much trouble
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But after proposing, he found the wedding build up and day a joy
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In 2007, hundreds of students at a Bangkok school staged a similar @placeholder-themed costume parade. | Schoolchildren dressing up as Nazis and a billboard advert showing Hitler were just the start. Thailand's obsession with so-called 'Nazis chic' just won't go away - and now a fried chicken takeaway called Hitler - complete with a logo showing the Nazi leader in a bow tie - has opened its doors. The bizarre restaurant opened last month in Thailand and images of it are doing the rounds on Twitter as shocked customers take photos of the offensive eatery. Bizarre: Thailand's obsession with so-called 'Nazis chic' just won't go away - and now a fried chicken takeaway called Hitler - complete with a logo showing the Nazi leader in a bow tie - has opened its doors
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Bizarre restaurant opened last month in Bangkok
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Images of Hitler have also been seen on t-shirts in Thailand | 11,449 | record_train |
@placeholder later clarified that Brown was the "viewers choice," not Rihanna. | Los Angeles (CNN) -- A mix up between a computer tablet and a teleprompter during Sunday's BET Awards created an awkward moment that reminded viewers of Chris Brown's domestic violence conviction on a night that otherwise was Brown's triumph. The 2011 BET Awards paid nostalgic and emotional tributes to several fallen stars and the living Patti LaBelle, but embattled hip hop singer Chris Brown dominated Sunday night's show. Brown, who admitted guilt two years ago to the brutal assault of ex-girlfriend Rihanna, won four trophies and performed twice during the telecast from Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Brown broke down in tears on the same stage during the BET Awards a year ago while performing a tribute to Michael Jackson.
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Patti LaBelle lifetime achievement tribute rocks the auditorium
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Chris Brown wins 4 BET trophies and sings twice Sunday
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Brown's BET triumph comes 2 years after assault conviction
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The itinerary sees passengers depart @placeholder on Friday afternoon, arriving in Sydney on Saturday evening. | (CNN) -- For those with too much money but not enough time or common sense -- here's the perfect travel solution. A weekend trip to the other side of the planet. A UK-based tour operator has begun offering whistle-stop sightseeing excursions from London to Australia that depart Friday afternoon and return "just in time for work" on Tuesday morning. Austravel -- a specialist in Down Under destinations -- says the 33,800-kilometer (21,000 mile), 46-hour round trip is ideal for anyone trying to maximize vacation time. Tickets starting at $1,840 include airfare, two hotel nights and rental car for three days.
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Tour operator says its weekend trips from London to Australia are "intense" but "do-able"
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Itinerary includes a 12-hour drive along the coastal road between Sydney and Melbourne
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Austravel says it's received several inquiries about the $1,840 whistle-stop round trip | 11,451 | record_train |
"You end up with a constant electric field that can be enough that it actually refracts or deflects enough of the radiation from inside the magnetic cavity that you've formed to protect the astronauts ... enough like the @placeholder that they can survive." | London (CNN) -- You've answered the call for volunteers, signed up for the Mars trip and you are looking forward to boldly going to space, the final frontier, to explore a strange new world. But wait. Recent evidence from NASA's Curiosity rover mission to the Red Planet has revealed that astronauts on the round-trip would be exposed to high levels of radiation from cosmic rays and high-energy particles from the sun contained in solar storms. NASA says a Mars voyager would receive a radiation dose around 100 times the average yearly exposure on Earth. Along with all the other risks of spaceflight, this would clearly be bad for your health -- and it is proving difficult to find a solution.
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NASA's Curiosity mission to Mars revealed that astronauts on a round-trip would face high radiation levels
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Scientists at the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory are working on a radiation shield for astronauts
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A model has been tested inside a fusion reactor which produces a plasma like that of the solar wind
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One booty-shakin' grandma even showed off her victory dance after she @placeholder-bowled a strike. | (CNN) -- A world record was set recently in Houston, Texas. It wasn't the world's fastest quarter-mile run, the world's largest pumpkin or even the world's heaviest man. It was, however, as stunning to witness: the world's largest senior citizen Wii bowling tournament, as confirmed by Guinness World Records. The largest senior citizen Wii bowling tournament also included a health fair and immunization clinic. The event, put on by TexanPlus -- the Houston area's largest Medicare HMO -- drew more than 1,500 supporters and 600 senior bowlers to break a record but also to have fun and dish out a little bit of Texas-style competition and a side helping of health information.
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World's largest senior citizen Wii bowling tournament held in Houston, Texas
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Event, for fun and fitness, also had health fair and immunization clinic
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Sports like Wii bowling can help seniors develop or maintain balance, strength
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Until 2017, Corby is required to stay in @placeholder, and report monthly to the Bali corrections board, dress respectfully for the officials and not use or distribute drugs in Bali | Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been spotted out partying with friends in Bali despite being on strict parole. The 37-year-old Australian can be seen enjoying her new Bali lifestyle in the photos with her sister Mercedes and a group of friends who are drinking alcoholic beverages and dancing. Corby was released from Bali's Kerobokan Prison in February 2014 after serving nine years in jail for couriering 4.2 kilograms of marijuana into Indonesia. Scroll down for video Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby (pictured in the front in a black top) has been spotted out partying with friends in Bali despite being on strict parole
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Schapelle Corby has been spotted out partying in Bali
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The 37-year-old is on strict parole and must stay in Indonesia until 2017
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Corby and her sister Mercedes were pictured at Sky Garden in Kuta
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Her friends can be seen enjoying alcoholic drinks and dancing
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VIDEO Scroll down to see Rodgers talking about the future leadership of @placeholder | Brendan Rodgers has made it his ambition to give Steven Gerrard the perfect send-off — and birthday present — by leading Liverpool to FA Cup glory. Liverpool’s captain will move to America, to either LA Galaxy or New York Red Bulls, once his contract expires at the end of this season and, as it stands, his last game is scheduled to be against Stoke City in the Barclays Premier League at the Britannia Stadium on May 24. The FA Cup final, however, is staged on May 30 this year — the day Gerrard turns 35 — and Rodgers believes there could be no better way for his captain to end his lifelong association with Liverpool than by walking around Wembley clutching one of the game’s biggest prizes.
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Liverpool face AFC Wimbledon in the FA Cup third round on Monday night
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Steven Gerrard has won two FA Cups with Liverpool in 2001 and 2006
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The walls of are filled with murals and slogans depicting the evil of America and its allies, particularly @placeholder | By Sarah Johnson PUBLISHED: 08:11 EST, 11 March 2013 | UPDATED: 12:47 EST, 11 March 2013 It was a symbol of U.S. supremacy that became a prison cell for 52 Americans. Now the hallways of the U.S embassy in Tehran, abandoned after it was stormed by a screaming mob during the 1979 hostage crisis, echo to nothing but the sound of soldiers' training boots. The rooms where secret state missions were planned have been covered in graffiti and pictures of Iranian revolutionaries have been casually propped against typewriters left behind by embassy workers. But apart from the most minor of cosmetic changes, the building that caused a global diplomatic crisis is frozen in time - and looks almost identical to its portrayal in the Oscar-winning Ben Affleck movie Argo.
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It was site of worst hostage crisis in US history when revolutionary students stormed in and took 52 staff hostage
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Of 90 people inside, six managed to escape and flee to other embassies, as dramatised in Oscar-winning film Argo
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The captured hostages were paraded around in front of cameras and kept in captivity for 444 days
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Today, the building is still the stage for demonstrations and the walls are covered with anti-US and Israeli murals | 11,456 | record_train |
• They've been in @placeholder for a long time and therefore likely don't have networks as extensive as they once had; | The Army will conduct "a comprehensive, coordinated" review into the case of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- the recently freed soldier whom some have deemed a hero, others a deserter -- the military branch's civilian leader announced Tuesday. Secretary of the Army John McHugh began a statement on Bergdahl's case by saying that "we are grateful that an American soldier is back in American hands" and insisting "our first priority is ensuring Sgt. Bergdahl's health and beginning his reintegration process." McHugh didn't address specific questions surrounding how the soldier ended up detained in Afghanistan or what he did while in that situation. But he did say that the military's review "will include speaking with Sgt. Bergdahl to better learn from him the circumstances regarding his disappearance and captivity."
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Official: Intel indicated Bergdahl's location a few times, but it was too risky to get him
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Bergdahl was freed in exchange for 5 held at Guantanamo, who are moved to Qatar
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Official: Bergdahl left on his own but no definitive finding he deserted, probe finds
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@placeholder’s name, drawn from more than 300 options, was carefully vetted and is intended not to be political or controversial, organizers said. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 22:10 EST, 8 September 2013 | UPDATED: 05:30 EST, 9 September 2013 More than a thousand former members and officials of Boy Scouts of America gathered this weekend to create a Christian-based alternative to the BSA. Its goal is to counter what the new groups says is the 'moral free-fall' of the nation, and 'raise a generation of faithful husbands, fathers, citizens and leaders,' organizers told the national inaugural convention in Nashville, Tennessee. The move comes in response to the Boy Scouts of America’s recent repeal of a restriction that denied membership to youth based on sexual orientation, which will take effect at the start of next year.
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1,200 gathered this weekend to choose the name and logo of the new organization
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Formed in response to gays being allowed in the Boy Scouts of America
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New Trail Life USA group aimed at young Christian men
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Never gives up and uses the ball well but this wasn’t an easy contest against the hulking @placeholder. | By Dominic King for MailOnline Chelsea showed their strength by overpowering Everton to record a 6-3 victory at Goodison Park on Saturday and move top of the Premier League table. In an enthralling clash between Jose Mourinho's men and Roberto Martinez's side, the teams shared nine goals and there were several controversial refereeing decisions to add to a dramatic game. Find out how the players fared in the Barclays Premier League contest. VIDEO Scroll down to watch contrasting views on Diego Costa from Mourinho and Martinez EVERTON (4-2-3-1) TIM HOWARD - 5 Couldn’t be faulted for any of the goals he conceded but became embroiled in a squabble with Diego Costa and could have been sent-off if the officials had been more eagle-eyed.
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Diego Costa nets after just 34 seconds and again in 90th minute
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Spanish striker has scored four goals in first three Premier League games
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Branislav Ivanovic doubles Chelsea's advantage after three minutes
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Kevin Mirallas (45) and Steven Naismith (69) both score for Everton
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Seamus Coleman scores an own goal (67) to put Chelsea 3-1 ahead
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Nemanja Matic (74) and Ramires (77) seal points for Jose Mourinho's men
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Samuel Eto'o scores header (76) against former employers on Saturday
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Chelsea record third victory in a row and move top of Premier League table
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Everton defender Sylvain Distin has goal disallowed with score at 2-0
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He has asked Cabinet minister to visit the @placeholder town five times before the November 20 poll | David Cameron today revealed he would demand 'more control' of Britain's borders to restrict European immigration – in 'one last go' at staying in the EU. The Prime Minister said he would unveil further benefit restrictions for migrants and block free movement for workers from new countries joining the EU. But Mr Cameron - speaking in Rochester ahead of next month's by-election sparked by the defection of rebel backbencher Mark Reckless to Ukip - added that he would push for 'further action' on migration as Britain's price for staying in the EU. Scroll down for video David Cameron, in Strood, Kent, campaigning today ahead of next month's by-election in the town sparked by the defection of the former Tory MP Mark Reckless
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PM vows 'further action' on EU migration as Britain's price for staying in
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He says he will give it 'one last go' to get 'more control' over free movement
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Senior ministers are pushing for an 'emergency brake' on migrant numbers
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Cameron pledged to cut net migration to less than 100,000 by next election
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But the figure soared by 38% to 243,000 in 2013-14, official figures show | 11,460 | record_train |
The lawyers say that no one actually saw Rimsha burning the papers, but that the neighbor went to @placeholder with the bags. | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Three witnesses whose testimony could absolve a 14-year-old Pakistani girl facing life in prison have changed their statements. It's the latest twist in the case of Rimsha Masih, a Christian teenager who was charged more than a month ago under Pakistan's blasphemy laws for allegedly burning pages of Islam's holy book for cooking fuel. She has denied the charges. The three witnesses initially told police they saw Khalid Jadoon Chishti, a Muslim cleric, tear pages out of a copy of the Quran and put them with police evidence that led to the charges against Rimsha. But they recanted those statements on Monday at a bail hearing for the cleric, according to the imam's lawyer, Wajid Ali Gilani. A fourth witness stood by his initial statement.
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Witnesses initially said an imam framed a teen girl accused of burning Quran pages
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Now, three witnesses have recanted those statements made to police
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Based partly on those statements, police determined the teen is innocent
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Prior to sentencing @placeholder ran out an impact statement saying: 'Since the day I met you, you had complete control over everything. | By Paul Thompson Joseph Julian Guerra, 28, was jailed for 60 years after kidnapping a woman and carving his name into her thighs in Texas A pimp who kidnapped a prostitute and carved his name into her thighs has been jailed for 60 years. Joseph Julian Guerra was convicted after a two-day trial during which the jury heard horrific details of the injuries suffered by Margaret Dodd. After having her hands and feet bound with duct tape she was smashed in the face with a metal skillet. The victim was punched, kicked and kneed in the face breaking her nose and knocking out her teeth.
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Joseph Julian Guerra was convicted after a two-day trial in Texas
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Guerra, 28, used a knife to carve his nickname 'Ace' into thighs of 20-year-old Margaret Dodd
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Victim said Guerra threatened to rape her with a knife and strangle her with a wrench
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Her hands and feet were bound with duct tape and she was smashed in the face with a metal skillet | 11,462 | record_train |
But none of them keeps a schedule like @placeholder, Freddie Roach said. | (CNN) -- Many boxers have aspired to be the next Julio Cesar Chavez, but only one man was born to be. His dad is an icon, a tiny man who cast a huge shadow. A man who lifted the entire nation of Mexico with his hands. And despite his 46 victories without a defeat, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. still has to answer the questions about his famous father, still has to punch through the skepticism, still has to face opponents who he says underestimate him because just they don't think he's as good as his dad. "I can't help that people say that stuff about me. I am the son, and that is who I am," the 26-year-old said last week. "He is my dad, but little by little, I have proven myself. I have proven it in the ring."
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. fights Sergio Martinez in a championship match Saturday
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Martinez says Chavez Jr. is champ only because of his father, one of boxing's greats
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Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. won championships in three different weight divisions
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Their lack of cutting edge was ruthlessly punished by @placeholder, who scored two tries in four minutes around the half-hour mark. | PARIS, France -- Argentina ended their magnificent World Cup campaign as they started it, stunning hosts France in their own back yard with a sensational performance to claim the tournament's bronze medal with a 34-10 victory. Argentina players celebrate another try on their way to a stunning 34-10 victory over France. The result, secured thanks to Pumas tries by Felipe Contepomi and Omar Hasan in the first half and Federico Martin Aramburu, Ignacio Corleto and Contepomi again in the second, brought back memories of the shock 17-12 win earned by the South Americans on the tournament's opening night. That Stade de France triumph was built around sturdy defense and although they showed the same resolve here at the Parc des Princes, their attacking edge came to the fore this time.
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Argentina stun France once again to claim third place in the rugby World Cup
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The Pumas go over for five tries against France's single try in a 34-10 victory
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He added: ‘@placeholder sent the offer and the club haven't informed me. | By Sam Cunningham Follow @@samcunningham Ronald Koeman has succeeded in persuading wantaway defender Dejan Lovren to return to Southampton amid fears he would refuse. Lovren was given extra time off after playing in the World Cup with Croatia but joined the rest of his team-mates as they flew to Belgium for a pre-season training camp on Sunday afternoon. He was left furious with Southampton for rejecting a £20million bid from Liverpool and there were worries that he would stay away to force through a move. The 25-year-old handed in a transfer request in May. VIDEO Scroll down for 'Lovren transfer request a day before the World Cup opener'
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Lovren has been the subject of a £20million bid from Liverpool
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The defender has made no secret of his desire to leave for Anfield
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He joined his Saints team-mates for the first time since the World Cup
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Southampton are spending five days training in Belgium, with two friendly matches scheduled
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Jay Rodriguez is continuing his rehab from a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament with the rest of Ronald Koeman's squad | 11,465 | record_train |
At one point Mr Chavez even blamed the @placeholder government for his cancer. | By Olivia Williams PUBLISHED: 07:11 EST, 7 March 2013 | UPDATED: 10:21 EST, 7 March 2013 A Venezuelan-owned oil company caused outrage this week after flying flags at half-mast at its American office after the death of Hugo Chavez. Citgo, which is owned by the Venezuelan government, lowered its flags as a tribute to the late President, incensing residents in Houston, Texas, and Lake Charles, Louisiana, who said they were offended by the gesture. Protocol allows flags to be lowered for foreign dignitaries, but Chavez was a controversial leader who as was antagonistic towards the U.S. Jarring: The Citgo flags at half mast to honor President Hugo Chavez in Houston, Texas
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Hugo Chavez was a highly outspoken critic of the U.S.
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Last time flags were lowered in Houston was the death of Neil Armstrong
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Locals left 'disgusted' and 'disappointed' | 11,466 | record_train |
The @placeholder should introduce more "aggressive, visible and unpredictable" measures to detect concealed items and develop new technology for screening at checkpoints. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Investigators with bomb-making components in their luggage and on their person were able to pass through security checkpoints at 19 U.S. airports without detection, according to the Government Accountability Office. Passengers pass through security at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. GAO officials are expected to testify about the investigation Thursday before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The investigators reported that most of the time security officers followed Transportation Security Administration policies and procedures, but investigators were able to take advantage of "weaknesses in TSA procedures and other vulnerabilities." "These weaknesses were identified based on a review of public information," the planned GAO testimony says.
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GAO: Investigators took advantage of "weaknesses in TSA procedures"
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GAO: Those "weaknesses" were not detailed for security reasons
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GAO said terrorists using same items could seriously compromise a flight
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Transportation Security Administration: Checkpoints only part of total security | 11,467 | record_train |
Clattenburg then booked @placeholder moments later for clattering into the Leeds player | The Football Association has confirmed it is investigating allegations by Norwich striker Cameron Jerome that he was racially abused by Leeds defender Giuseppe Bellusci. Jerome complained to referee Mark Clattenburg midway through the first half of the 1-1 draw at Carrow Road on Tuesday night, and the match official is to submit a report to the FA on the incident. An FA spokesman said: 'I can confirm we are investigating this allegation.' Cameron Jerome and Leeds' Guiseppe Bellusci clash during the first half of Norwich's draw with Leeds Referee Mark Clattenburg will submit his report as the FA investigate the claim from Jerome
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Cameron Jerome claims he was racially abused by Guiseppe Bellusci
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Referee Mark Clattenburg spoke to the Leeds player
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He also spoke to both managers and will submit his report to the FA
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The FA have confirmed they will investigate the incident
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The Championship clash finished 1-1 at Carrow Road | 11,468 | record_train |
Temporary charge: Minister of justice @placeholder will take control until elections are held | 'Social situation': Romanian prime minister Emil Boc resigned today and ended his government after weeks of protests against austerity measures The Romanian prime minister today announced his immediate resignation at that of his government, claiming he wanted to protect the stability of the country. Emil Boc said he was resigning 'to ease the social situation' after weeks of mass protests in Romania over austerity measures he introduced in 2010. Opposition politicians have now called for early parliamentary elections, which are currently scheduled for November. President Traian Basescu named justice minister Catalin Predoiu to replace Mr Block as interim head of a government whose popularity is languishing in opinion polls.
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Emil Boc steps down immediately as opposition MPs call for early elections
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Justice minister Catalin Predoiu in temporary charge
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Romania signed up for €20billion IMF loan in 2009 which required austerity measures to be brought in
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Weeks of protests accused prime minister and government of cronyism and ignoring normal Romanians | 11,469 | record_train |
It wasn't in my mind to sell @placeholder, it wasn't my plan, but I had no choice. | By Steve Tongue, Reuters Fulham have signed Greece international left-back Konstantinos Stafylidis on a season-long loan from Bundesliga side Bayer Leverkusen. The West London club have an option to make the transfer of the 20-year-old, who has one cap for Greece, permanent at the end of the season. It is Fulham's second signing in two days, and their sixth of the summer following relegation from the Premier League. New recruit: Konstantinos Stafylidis has joined Fulham from Bayer Leverkusen on a season-long loan Manager Felix Magath has also signed Tim Hoogland, Adam Taggart, Kay Voser and Shaun Hutchinson as well as completing an £11million capture of Ross McCormack from Leeds on Tuesday.
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Greek defender Konstantinos Stafylidis is Fulham's sixth signing of summer
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Fulham boss Felix Magath is overhauling squad after relegation
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Striker Ross McCormack signed from Leeds United for £11million
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Leeds owner Massimo Cellino claims McCormack disrespected him | 11,470 | record_train |
'We're lucky there hasn't been a greater loss of life,' @placeholder Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 13:27 EST, 7 July 2013 | UPDATED: 06:13 EST, 8 July 2013 Passengers who were aboard the doomed Asiana Airways Flight 214 have described the terrifying moment they realized the plane was too low as it prepared to land in San Francisco on Saturday. One passenger, Benjamin Levy, recalled how seconds before landing he looked out from his window and could see the water of the San Francisco Bay about 10 feet below. 'I don't see any runway, I just see water,' Levy told NBC of his panic. 'I realized the [pilot] was a bit too low, too fast, and somehow he was not going to hit the runway on time.'
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Passengers describe seeing water just 10 feet below plane before landing
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Two Chinese schoolgirls lost their lives and more than 180 people were injured when the Boeing 777 crashed on Saturday morning | 11,471 | record_train |
"The brutality of being ... unjustly in a foreign prison is worse than any experience I had with him serving two tours in @placeholder," she said. | For more than a month, a U.S. Marine and Afghanistan war veteran has been held in a Tijuana, Mexico, prison, fighting for his release after being charged with a crime he says he did not commit. Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi said he accidentally crossed into Mexico around 10 p.m. on March 31 with three personal firearms while on his way to meet friends in San Ysidro, California. Tahmooressi, 25, had recently moved to the area to get treatment for his post-traumatic stress disorder and was "essentially living out of his truck," his mother, Jill, told CNN. He is currently being held in the La Mesa penitentiary in Tijuana on a weapons charge and awaits a May 28 court date, according to the Mexican attorney general's office.
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Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi says he accidentally crossed into Mexico on March 31
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He had three weapons with him and was arrested in Mexico on a weapons charge
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His mother and lawmakers are urging the State Department to get involved
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‘Then @placeholder came along and we became a major tourist attraction. | Millions of us were gripped by the exploits of the Crawley family on the Christmas Day special of Downton Abbey last night. In just three years, the trials and tribulations of the Edwardian gentry and their below-stairs staff have made the show one of the most popular period dramas ever made. But its success has also had a dramatic impact on the lives of those living inside the ‘real’ Downton. Family seat: Lord and Lady Carnarvon of Highclere Castle, location for the television series Downton Abbey While the fictional Earl of Grantham struggled to keep hold of his ancestral home, things have never looked better for the owners of Highclere Castle, where the ITV drama is filmed.
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Highclere Castle is the set for ITV's Downton Abbey
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The hype from the television series has funded £11.75 million of repairs | 11,473 | record_train |
not a scientific conclusion, they claim that @placeholder loved to feast and | If Vikings were here today, the sounding of a distinctive horn in York would have created chaos. The ancient instrument, blown last night, signalled exactly 100 days until the end of the world, according to Norse mythology. Legend has it that the Norse God, Heimdallr, would blow the mythical Gjallerhorn to warn of the Viking apocalypse, also known as 'Ragnarok'. The end of the world was signalled in York last night as a horn was blown to herald the beginning of the apocalypse 'Then the Awful Fight', by George Wright in 1908, depicts the final battle of the gods Ragnarok, which translates to ‘Doom of the Gods’, is due to be preceded by the winter of winters.
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Legend has it that on this day, the god Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir
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The soil and the sky will be stained with poison and the sea will rear up
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Prior to the apocalypse, three freezing winters would follow each other
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The sound of the horn is supposed to call the sons of Odin to the battlefield, where Odin will ultimately be killed | 11,474 | record_train |
@placeholder dismissed those who may be stunned by someone who weighs that | By Mark Duell Last updated at 6:10 PM on 30th December 2011 Her fans wanted her to become as large as possible and she quickly became a star in a bizarre fantasy fetish community that worshipped the overweight and bought pizzas for her to munch on. But life is changing for Donna Simpson. The 600lb mother-of-two moved from New Jersey to Akron, Ohio, after her five-year relationship with fiancé Philippe Gouamba, 49, ended earlier this year. The 5’4" woman has also turned away from the fantasy world, replacing videos of her eating with a blog about her journey to health. Ms Simpson has already lost 85lbs on her long road to weight loss.
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Donna Simpson moved from New Jersey to Ohio after splitting with fiancé
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44-year-old was star in fantasy fetish community and men paid her to eat
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Huge mother-of-two who wore XXXXXXXL clothing has already lost 85lbs | 11,475 | record_train |
Improving the quality of digital music is a personal mission for @placeholder, who has evangelized for it before. | Laguna Niguel, California (CNN) -- Apple's ambition to improve the fidelity of music downloads has diminished since the death of founder Steve Jobs, according to singer-songwriter Neil Young. Apple consulted with the influential musician, along with many others in the music industry, for a project to develop electronics and distribution channels for high-definition music, Young said in an onstage interview at News Corp.'s D: Dive Into Media conference Tuesday. CNN first reported a year ago that Apple, along with other digital music retailers, were talking with executives in the record industry about selling high-fidelity tracks in iTunes and retooling iPods to be compatible with them.
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Singer-songwriter Neil Young: "Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music"
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"Not much" has happened in high-def music since Jobs died in October, Young says
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Young: "My goal is to rescue the art form that I've been practicing for 50 years"
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@placeholder isn't just fighting to save himself or his fellow earthlings. | (EW) -- In "Elysium," Neill Blomkamp's shrewdly revved-up and exciting dystopian thriller, Matt Damon's character, Max, spends most of the movie with a spidery black-metal exoskeleton implanted in his skull and spine. The surgically attached machinery serves several functions at once. It's there to make Max strong — a boost he critically needs, since he's been exposed to a dose of radiation that will leave him dead in just five days. It also allows him to download the contents of someone else's brain. But the most important purpose served by that added hardware may be visual and symbolic: It transforms Max into a hulkingly damaged yet superheroic man-machine — a variation on the title character of "RoboCop." And it has the unmistakable look of a cross that he's been nailed to.
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"District 9" filmmaker Neill Blomkamp returns with "Elysium"
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The revved-up dystopian thriller stars Matt Damon
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The movie confirms Blomkamp's talent but the plot is basic | 11,477 | record_train |
Engineers at Esa hope to use the craft, which looks like a shrunken space shuttle without wings, to develop new ways of returning cargo and astronauts safely to @placeholder. | An experimental spaceplane has successfully launched after a minor delay. Esa launched its unmanned Intermediate Experimental Vehicle (IXV) on a Vega rocket from Kourou in South America at 1340 GMT today. The initial launch was postponed after an unidentified problem with the launch complex. It is now on a flight that will last slightly more than 100 minutes, during which time it will re-enter Earth's atmosphere to test new technologies. The craft is being fired 256 miles (412km) into the Earth's atmosphere in the first test flight of technology that could lead to new re-usable spacecraft for use on future missions to Mars.
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The Intermediate Experimental Vehicle successfully took off at 1340 GMT
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Lift-off was initially delayed after an unidentified launch complex problem
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The space plane launched on a Vega rocket from South America
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It was carried 210 miles above Earth before firing its own thrusters
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Now it is climbing to a maximum altitude of 256 miles (412km) before it begins its daring re-entry attempt through the atmosphere
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It will travel around 20,000 miles before splashing into the Pacific Ocean
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A ship is standing by to recover the craft once it touches down in the sea
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If successful the IXV could lead to Europe's first reentry space vehicle
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The Palace confirmed the @placeholder is due to resume public engagements in the autumn. | The Queen visited the Duke of Edinburgh in hospital tonight as Buckingham Palace described him as 'comfortable and in good spirits' following the exploratory operation on his abdomen. Her arrival marked Philip's 92nd birthday, celebrated today, and he was also visited separately by his son the Earl of Wessex this afternoon. The Queen was pictured holding a birthday card as she was greeted by hospital staff this evening. The envelope was addressed to HRH The Duke Of Edinburgh. Scroll down for video The Queen was pictured holding an envelope addressed to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh It was the Queen's first visit to the hospital since Prince Philip was admitted last week
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Queen pictured holding a birthday card as she arrived at the London Clinic
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Envelope addressed to HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
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The Queen's visit to the hospital lasted about half an hour
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Duke had exploratory abdominal surgery on Friday and is progressing well
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Earl of Wessex visited London Clinic today and left with a smile and a wave
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David Cameron wishes Duke a 'very happy 92nd birthday' on Twitter
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King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired 41-gun salute to mark milestone | 11,479 | record_train |
He delivered @placeholder remarks the week after addressing America's controversial counterterrorism strategies and a rash of sexual assaults in the military that he said could threaten national security. | (CNN) -- President Barack Obama gave a special salute Monday to Americans who lost their lives fighting in the Korean War, noting the upcoming 60th anniversary of the conflict's end, and asked Americans to remember the troops' work in Afghanistan as that war winds down. "Last Memorial Day, I stood here and spoke about how, for the first time in nine years, Americans were no longer fighting and dying in Iraq. Today, a transition is under way in Afghanistan, and our troops are coming home," the president said after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. "This time next year, we will mark the final Memorial Day of our war in Afghanistan."
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NEW: Defense secretary says he "remembers the uniqueness of each person"
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Obama says serviceman fears that "our work in Afghanistan is fading from memory"
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Obama lays wreath at Tomb of Unknowns, delivers Memorial Day remarks
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But the town was best known for its 100-foot flagpole that sits, literally, in the middle of @placeholder. | Ken Henggeler poured his grief into the thing he loved most: carpentry. Shaken by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, the retired teacher and longtime resident of Newtown went to his barn, picked up an oak children's bench and went to work. He sawed away, cutting it into two shelves. On one, he made 20 individual slots for candles, one for each slain child. On the other, he placed six candles for the heroic educators. He drove into town, unsure of his destination. At the intersection of Main Street and Sugar Street, he felt a tug. After all, the park there is called The Pleasance. On a tree and nearby street pole, there were two signs. Both read: Pray for Newtown.
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It was the idyllic New England town: rolling hills, a town green, 100-foot flagpole
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"I don't think we can take everything serious when he speaks," @placeholder laughingly said in her post match press conference. | (CNN) -- Ernests Gulbis is no stranger to a controversial comment. The Latvian tennis star once described the press conferences of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray as boring. Then there was the time he said the fact that marijuana was legal in the Netherlands was one of the reasons he liked playing in Rotterdam so much (although he quickly added that he didn't smoke himself, he just liked that way of thinking). Now, Gulbis has caused a stir thanks to his views on the sport's female players, telling reporters at the French Open in Paris he hopes his younger sisters don't become tennis professionals because women need to think about having children.
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Ernests Gulbis says female tennis players need to think about kids when considering career
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Female tennis players can't have kids until late 20s and "that's tough" Gulbis said
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Maria Sharapova tells reporters not to take Gulbis comments seriously | 11,482 | record_train |
Ms @placeholder's lawyer told the courtthat if buyers believed she was behind the syndicate, it was because her employees would have imitated her way of speaking in order to pass off as her. | Former model Simone Farrow has pleaded guilty to importing crystal methamphetamine into Australia but has denied having being the ringleader of the international drug ring. Instead, the 39-year-old has claimed in court she was unknowingly set up by some employees who had obtained complete control of her bank, phone and email accounts and ran the drug ring behind her back. Despite the former Penthouse Pet pleading guilty at Sydney's Downing Centre District Court, she has requested a contested facts hearing in an attempt to obtain a lesser sentence, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Simone Farrow has pleaded guilty to importing crystal methamphetamine into Australia while in the US pursuing her modelling career
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Farrow pleaded to guilty to importing a marketable quantity of crystal methamphetamine
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The former swimwear model has requested a contested facts hearing to reduce her sentence
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She claims some of her employees, who had control to her bank and phone accounts, ran a drug ring under her name behind her back
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The report said that the "improper anchoring" to a portside bracket, the attempt to throttle the boat forward to release the anchor,and the "failure to leave enough slack anchor line to compensate for top-water @placeholder conditions" caused the accident. | (CNN) -- A fishing boat carrying two NFL players and two other men capsized last month because it was improperly anchored, a Florida agency reported Friday. Nick Schuyler clings to an overturned boat in this Coast Guard photo. One man survived; the other three are still missing. Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former University of South Florida players William Bleakley and Nick Schuyler went overboard February 28 during a fishing trip. Schuyler survived the accident, which happened 35 miles west of St. Petersburg, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said the men were unable to pull up the anchor of their boat to head back to port.
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Florida agency rules bad anchoring, revving engine made boat capsize
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Raiders' Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith, William Bleakley missing
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and, who knows, hopefully prevent tragedies like @placeholder from happening again.' | Tormented: Jordan was bullied mercilessly at school and even had to move because of it He's the Michael Bublé tribute act turned Mr England singing sensation but life hasn't always been smooth sailing for Jordan Williams. The 25-year-old has revealed that he was bullied while at school and that his experience is the reason for his insistence that proceeds from his new Christmas single go to an anti-bullying charity. Now the campaigner is calling for the Government to take action against sites like Ask.fm and says he was horrified by the suicide of Loughborough schoolgirl Hannah Smith, 14, who committed suicide after being abused online.
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Jordan Williams, 25, revealed he was tormented by school bullies
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Abuse became so bad, he was forced to find an alternative school
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@placeholder and his lawyer have not commented on the allegations. | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Halle Berry went to court Tuesday as her young daughter's nanny asked a judge for a restraining order against the 3-year-old's father, saying she feared Gabriel Aubry's "dangerous and aggressive behavior." Alliance Kambem, who has been Nahla's nanny since June, accused Aubry of violently pushing her while she held Nahla in an incident last Wednesday, according to her sworn statement released by the court. A Los Angeles County judge rejected Kambem's request, calling her grounds for a restraining order "insufficient and speculative." "If there are concerns they should be resolved in family court," the judge wrote on the denial sheet. "You can proceed with any personal criminal charges against Mr. Aubry."
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Judge rejects nanny's request for restraining order against Gabriel Aubry
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Nanny's sworn statement details allegations of violence
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Officials said the change was made to better conform to a 2012 federal law that makes @placeholder citizens who are seeking degrees to prepare them for work in their country's energy sector ineligible for visas. | Booted: UMass Amherst doctoral student Zahra Khalkhali was unceremoniously kicked out of her school and stripped of her visa Behind UMass-Amherst's infamous ban on Iranian students studying at the university is a 31-year-old doctoral student from outside Tehran whose experience sparked the entire controversy. Zahra Khalkhali was a second year PhD student whose research on fuel cells concerned university officials enough to drop her from the university late last year along with their sponsorship of her visa while she was visiting her home country. While Khalkhali languished in Iran with little explanation and no one willing to help her, UMass-Amherst rewrote its policies concerning Iranian students.
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Zahra Khalkhali is a 31-year-old Iranian national whose doctoral research on fuel cells got her booted from UMass
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Khalkhali was banned from returning to the US early this year after UMass dropped its sponsorship of her visa while she was visiting home
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After dropping her, UMass rewrote its policies to protect the school from a 2012 law banning Iranians from training for careers in Iran's energy sector
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release under @placeholder laws which state prisoners can be freed after | Murderer: Marc Dutroux, seen being escorted by police officers at Brussels' Palace of Justice, is seeking early release from prison (pictured in court on February 4) Serial paedophile child killer Marc Dutroux has been denied early release from prison amid fears he will re-offend. A Belgian court today turned down a request by the 56-year-old to serve out the rest of his life sentence at home under electronic surveillance. It came after Dutroux's mother warned that her son will kill again if a court grants his appeal for early release from prison. The court then said there were 'no grounds' for an early release, citing the 'absence of any prospect that Dutroux' could be reintegrated into society.
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Marc Dutroux jailed for life in 2004 for kidnap, rape, torture of six girls
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Four of the girls died during the kidnapping spree in the mid 1990s
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But decision for early release due today as he claims he is no longer a risk
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Mother Jeannine described her son as a 'repeat offender in his soul' | 11,488 | record_train |
By Wednesday morning, all absentee ballots had been counted in @placeholder and the final results showed Obama had taken the county by 12 percentage points. | (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama decisively defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton in North Carolina Tuesday, but Clinton's narrow victory in Indiana will likely send the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on to the next round of primaries. Sen. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, greet supporters in Raleigh, North Carolina. As polls closed in Indiana, Clinton had a double-digit lead over Obama, but by the end of the evening, Clinton's lead had shrunk, dragging the race out until early Wednesday. A clear winner did not emerge until 1:15 a.m. Wednesday -- seven hours after the polls closed -- because results were slow to come in from Lake County, a Chicago suburb in northwestern Indiana with several precincts that went strongly for Obama.
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NEW: Final votes counted in Indiana's Lake County; Obama dominates
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Clinton wins squeaker in Indiana; Obama cruises in North Carolina
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Obama says he does not believe his party is "inalterably divided"
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187 delegates were at stake in Tuesday's primaries | 11,489 | record_train |
murder and @placeholder reportedly killed him to keep him quiet. | By Lydia Warren PUBLISHED: 07:50 EST, 4 September 2013 | UPDATED: 07:52 EST, 4 September 2013 Authorities have surveillance footage showing former NFL star Aaron Hernandez at a club with two men who were shot dead hours later, law enforcement sources have revealed. Daniel Jorge Correia de Abreu, 29, and Safiro Teixeira Furtado, 28, were killed in a drive-by shooting on July 15, 2012 after they left the club in south Boston - in a murder that remains unsolved. The former New England Patriots tight end has not been charged in the case, but he has been the main focus after investigators said he was at the same nightclub as the men before the shooting.
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Law enforcement sources: Authorities have footage showing NFL star in the same club as the two men hours before they were killed
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Daniel Abreu, 29, and Safiro Furtado, 28, were killed in drive-by shooting in July 2012 but their murders remain unsolved
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Hernandez accused of killing semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd in June 'because Lloyd knew he was involved in the 2012 killings' | 11,490 | record_train |
Coleen Rooney holed up here for the @placeholder during the summer. | Continuing our series on the world's hippest hotels and the stars who frequent them, Sarah Turner checks out the Fasano in Rio de Janeiro... Scroll down for video Cooling off: When the sun is out, everyone heads to the roof to take a dip in the hotel's infinity pool Flying the flag: Victoria Beckham is a fan, while, right, Coleen Rooney takes a phone call from her balcony during the World Cup STAR QUALITY One Direction, Coleen Rooney, Lady Gaga, David Beckham, Madonna. VITAL STATISTICS It's all about location here - and design. Overseen to within an inch of its life by Philippe Starck, you'll find plenty of his trademark white, undulating design but with a Brazilian bossa-nova touch for warmth - tree trunks act as bedside tables, there's some eclectic modern furniture and rich browns and gold tones thrown in.
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Coleen Rooney, David Beckham and Kate Moss have also visited the hotel
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It has been styled to within an inch of its life by designer Philippe Starck
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Has just 89 much sought-after rooms,which cost from £239 per night
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Big draw is rooftop pool where One Direction spent most of their free time | 11,491 | record_train |
Gathering evidence: The shotgun used by Mr @placeholder in the rampage was recovered from the truck | By Ryan Gorman and Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:31 EST, 27 December 2013 | UPDATED: 08:28 EST, 28 December 2013 A Louisiana newlywed locked in a bitter custody dispute killed his wife and shot dead his ex-mother-in-law and boss before turning the gun on himself Thursday evening. Ben Freeman, 38, of Houma, killed wife Denise Taylor Freeman, ex-mother-in-law Susan ‘Pixie’ Gouaux and boss Milton Bourgeois before killing himself, officials said. Three others, including a local politician, were injured in the rampage. Ben Freeman and Denise Freeman were married six months ago. Mr Bourgeois was CEO of the hospital where they both once worked before Mr Freeman was terminated in 2011, according to Houma Today.
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Ben Freeman, 38, is suspected in the shooting deaths of his wife, ex-mother-in-law and former boss
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He and Denise Taylor Freeman were married only six months ago
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Mr Freeman had been in a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife over their four children
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A series of harassment charges and restraining orders were filed by the ex-wife against Mr Freeman
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The ex-wife was not present for any of the shootings, but her father and sister were also injured in the attack that killed her mother | 11,492 | record_train |
February saw 700,000 new enrollments, and to meet its goal, @placeholder would have to garner a record monthly number of new enrollees. | With this year's goal for enrollment in Obamacare seemingly out of grasp and the President under renewed partisan attack over the program, an official key to implementing it has resigned. Gary Cohen leads the agency that made many of the rules for the Affordable Care Act and established the Marketplaces, where Americans can buy health insurance through Obamacare, including Healthcare.gov, according to a statement Wednesday announcing his departure. The Marketplaces came under fire, when they crashed massively upon rollout. Cohen will vacate the post of Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight after March 31. That's the day open enrollment runs out, and with a goal of 6 million signups, the ACA has only 4 million on the books so far.
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Gary Cohen leads the agency that that made many of the rules for the Affordable Care Act
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He led the creation of the online Marketplaces for open enrollment
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Obama's signature healthcare program has a goal of 6 million enrollments for 2014
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It currently has 4 million and would need a record number of enrollments to make the goal | 11,493 | record_train |
He then posted messages on Google+ asking if anyone had accidentally dropped the @placeholder. | The owner of this waterlogged camera must have thought it was gone for ever, along with his precious holiday pictures, when he dropped it in the ocean. But a year later a diver spotted it rusting away in the depths and rescued it. Even more astonishingly, he was able to recover the pictures and post them on Google+. Now, thanks to the wonders of social networking, the owner - an unnamed Canadian fireman - has his holiday photos back. Wildlife photographer Markus Thompson was scuba diving off Vancouver, British Columbia, when he stumbled upon the strange sight – an expensive digital camera lodged in Deep Bay.
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Wildlife photographer found Canon EOS 1000D while scuba diving
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Posted photos retrieved from memory card on Google+ to track down owner
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Owner identified as firefighter from British Columbia | 11,494 | record_train |
'Zahid Masood was in this country illegally and had no compunction in his total disregard of the law and standards of @placeholder.' | By Harriet Arkell PUBLISHED: 12:30 EST, 3 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:38 EST, 3 May 2013 This is the teenage air hostess who was killed when an illegal immigrant ploughed into her car on a motorway before giving false details to police and going on the run. Charlotte Smoker, 19, died after Pakistani-born Zahid Masood, 47, drove into her stationary car on the M25 while making a mobile telephone call in November 2003. Today Zahid Masood, 47, was sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of causing Miss Smoker's death by dangerous driving. Charlotte Smoker, 19, left, died after illegal immigrant Zahid Masood, 47, right, drove into her car on the M25
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Zahid Masood, 47, killed Charlotte Smoker, 19, after crashing into her car
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Following the accident in 2003, he gave police a false name and fled the UK
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He moved back with family and became school parent governor in Kent
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Masood was jailed for four years after admitting perverting the course of justice and being found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving | 11,495 | record_train |
"@placeholder wishes to announce that Mr Zdenek Zeman has been relieved of his duties as first-team coach," said a statement released on the club's official website Saturday. | (CNN) -- Napoli moved level on points with Juventus at the top of Serie A with a 2-0 against Catania at Stadio San Paolo on Saturday. Slovakia's Marek Hamsik scored in the 31st minute latching onto Juan Camilo Zuniga's cross to put the hosts ahead. The 25-year-old midfielder was also involved in the second, setting up defender Fabio Cannavaro who scored from close range a minute before the break. The win, which puts Napoli on 49 points, keeps the pressure up on Juventus who travel to Chievo on Sunday. Saturday's other game saw the mid-table clash between Torino and Sampdoria finish goalless.
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Napoli level on points with Juventus after 2-0 win against Catania
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Juventus can restore three-point gap with win a Chievo on Sunday
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Roma part company with coach Zdenek Zeman after string of poor results | 11,496 | record_train |
An estimated 30,000 people have been killed in fighting in @placeholder since March 2011 when government protesters took to the streets calling for political reform. | (CNN) -- Fighting spread through Syria on Saturday as rebels claimed to down a government jet and state media reported the killings of "terrorists." Activists said rebels shot down the plane in Aleppo province. A video distributed by activists shows men shouting "God is great" as they rush to the scene amid celebratory gunfire. The video showed mangled wreckage, small fires and plumes of smoke. "These are the aircrafts of the dog Bashar al-Assad," one voice in the video said, referring to Syria's president. Col. Ahmed Al-Faj, a Free Syrian Army rebel commander, read a statement in a YouTube video claiming responsibility for the downing. He said the plane was an Aero L-39 Albatros.
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At least 141 people were killed across the country Saturday
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A historic mosque is on fire in Aleppo
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Lakhdar Brahimi meets with Turkey's foreign minister
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The scheduled talks come amid rising tensions between Turkey and Syria | 11,497 | record_train |
They've done this to have a pop at The X Factor and to have a go at the @placeholder ratings.' | Reveals he didn't think last year's Britain's Got Talent judging panel Michael McIntyre, David Hasselhoff and Amanda Holden 'did a good enough job' Admits he poached Alesha Dixon for BGT to hurt Strictly Come Dancing Concedes he was too optimistic about X Factor USA and will be making 'changes' for this year's series By Emily Sheridan Last updated at 12:19 PM on 20th January 2012 Simon Cowell has broken his silence on the disastrous decisions he has made which have led to a slump in ratings for Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor. The music mogul, who is now back in Britain following a month-long holiday, is hoping he can find out what went wrong last year and turn things around for his two biggest shows.
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Reveals he didn't think last year's Britain's Got Talent judging panel Michael McIntyre, David Hasselhoff and Amanda Holden 'did a good enough job'
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Admits he poached Alesha Dixon for BGT to hurt Strictly Come Dancing
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Concedes he was too optimistic about X Factor USA and will be making 'changes' for this year's series | 11,498 | record_train |
Almost all of @placeholder's considerable production of oil is shipped by rail, and train cars carrying petroleum went from about 10,000 in 2009 to an estimated 400,000 by the end of this year. | (CNN) -- A freight train went off the rails outside Casselton, North Dakota, in the last week of December, spilling a load of crude oil and creating an impressive explosion that prompted officials to evacuate the small town. No one was hurt, but cell phone videos of the fireball were given wide exposure in the media. Here was "an airborne toxic event," a phrase Don DeLillo famously used in his novel "White Noise," a theatrical catastrophe born of the most quintessential American screw-up: a railroad crash. In addition to its use as shorthand for a failed government initiative or a friend who really ought to quit drinking, train wrecks occupy a contradictory place in the American cultural memory. They are as much celebrated as they are feared, and frequently memorialized in art and song. One of the most celebrated martyrs in American history, for example -- Casey Jones -- lost his life while trying to limit casualties in a 1900 smash-up on the Illinois Central.
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Tom Zoellner: Oil freighter went off rails in North Dakota; fireball made arresting media image
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Americans have a perverse, folkloric fascination with wrecks in song and story
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He says deaths and media coverage have helped make wrecks spur reform
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Zoellner: Let's hope North Dakota crash spurs higher safety in rail transport of oil | 11,499 | record_train |
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