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One said that ‘at least four’ members of the @placeholder had received calls from Mr Grant. | By James Chapman PUBLISHED: 18:57 EST, 14 March 2013 | UPDATED: 20:43 EST, 14 March 2013 Hacked Off: It has been claimed Hugh Grant telephoned senior members of Labour's Shadow Cabinet to urge them not to accept David Cameron's compromise on Press regulation Hugh Grant telephoned senior members of Labour’s Shadow Cabinet to urge them not to accept David Cameron’s compromise on Press regulation, say sources close to the talks. The actor, a figurehead for the Hacked Off campaign group, appeared on television to warn that the Government’s entire legislative programme would be held to ransom if it did not back down.
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Campaign group involved in amendments tabled to Bills in House of Lords
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Actor Hugh Grant says 'no one will give up on this'
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Sources claim group warned Labour it would attack them if they backed PM | 12,700 | record_train |
@placeholder spent the whole time pressed up against her dad's side. | An American NGO worker has described the terrifying moment he dashed across Nairobi's Westgate Mall carrying his two-year-old daughter and hid in a storage room after hearing explosions and gunshots. Pennsylvania-born Nick Handler, who is a field director for a farming non-profit, was sitting at a cafe in the mall with his daughter, Julia, when the deadly siege began on Saturday. His wife Lyndsay, who is eight months pregnant with the couple's second child, was shopping on the floor below, leaving the family separated during the chaos. Scroll down for video Survivors: Pennsylvania-born Nick Handler, right, who is a field director for a farming non-profit, survived the shooting with daughter, Julia, while his wife, Lyndsay, pictured escaped unharmed from a different floor of the mall
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Pennsylvania-born Nick Handler was at a cafe with his daughter, Julia, when the siege began Saturday
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His wife Lyndsay, who is eight months pregnant with the couple's second child, was shopping on the floor below, leaving the family separated during the chaos
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Handler and his daughter hid in a storage room for three hours with about 40 others
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Meanwhile, Lyndsay took cover in a dark movie theater before escaping onto the roof
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The young family was reunited after about three hours of agonizing waiting
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Handler is a Kenya field director for a farming non-profit | 12,701 | record_train |
Would it be 'freedom of expression' if I branded black people as n****** or if I say @placeholder was a messiah?’ | The founder of Facebook stepped in to reverse the decision of his network to remove a post by a Pakistani actor that compared ridiculing Islam to called a black person a n***** or describing Hitler as ‘the messiah’. Hamza Ali Abbasi was told that his post, which related to the Charlie Hebdo massacre, violated the social networking website’s ‘community standards’ and was removed and had his profile deactivated – but Mark Zuckerberg intervened. When asked by a user what he thought about the deletion of Mr Abbasi’s post, Mr Zuckerberg said that a mistake may have been made, and alerted his company’s Vice President of Global Operations and Media Partnerships, Justin Osofsky, to the matter.
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Hamza Ali Abbasi had account blocked after a post about Charlie Hebdo
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In it he condemned the murders but questioned the West's stance
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He said that the West needed to fix its definition of 'freedom of expression'
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Mr Abbasi said that insulting Islam was like praising Hitler or using N-word
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Mark Zuckerberg intervened and said that 'a mistake may have been made' | 12,702 | record_train |
Great start: Aiden McGeady celebrates scoring the winning goal against @placeholder | John O’Shea has urged the Republic of Ireland to build the momentum after launching their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a last-gasp victory in Georgia. Martin O’Neill’s men looked to be heading for a frustrating draw in Tbilisi on Sunday evening after being pegged back by the Georgians, only for winger Aiden McGeady to snatch the points with a dramatic late winner. They now head into next month’s double header - on paper, at least, their easiest and most difficult matches, at home to Gibraltar and away to reigning world champions Germany - brimming with confidence and determined to keep the ball rolling.
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Aiden McGeady's double lead Martin O'Neill's men to a 2-1 victory
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Face Gibraltar next month before travelling to world champions Germany
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Also in Group D with Scotland and Poland
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The Everton winger scored his fourth and fifth international goals in Tblisi
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Sunderland defender O'Shea full of praise for McGeady
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Also hopes Republic of Ireland have learned their lessons from previous qualifying campaigns | 12,703 | record_train |
The officials were helping mediate disputes among the @placeholder leadership and "facilitate the development of a more representative local government," the statement said. | (CNN) -- An American graduate student who went to Iraq to find ways to help ordinary citizens persevere in a transitioning government was one of two American civilians killed in a Sadr City bombing. Nicole Suveges, a political scientist working toward her doctorate, died in a Sadr City bombing Tuesday. Nicole Suveges, a married political scientist from Illinois, was part of a program that embeds academics into military units to help personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan navigate the local environment, according to her employer, BAE Systems. Suveges, who started her tour with Human Terrain System in April, had been assigned to support the 3rd Brigade Combat Team for the 4th Infantry Division in "political, cultural, and tribal engagements," a statement from the program said.
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Nicole Suveges, 38, was part of team of academic embeds advising military in Iraq
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The political scientist and Johns Hopkins grad student died in Sadr City bombing
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Suveges is second Human Terrain System employee to die in combat zone this year
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She was also finishing dissertation on citizens in transitioning governments | 12,704 | record_train |
They will sew our lips, but we will chant, 'Long live @placeholder.' | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The 24-year-old son of the late Benazir Bhutto, groomed to take the reins of power in Pakistan, came of age politically Thursday, exactly five years after the assassination of his mother. Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari flexed his tender political muscles at a rally with his father, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, near the family home in Sindh province ahead of next year's elections. He delivered a political stump speech acknowledging problems in Pakistan, such as the devastation caused by floods. He also slammed the terror that led to his mother's killing and asked why there have been no convictions for the crime.
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NEW: Kill a Bhutto and another will emerge, the young Bhutto-Zardari said
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NEW: Pakistani President Asif Zardari says his son's training has begun
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Benazir Bhutto was killed five years ago in a gun-suicide bomb attack
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Thousands gathered near the home to mark the fifth anniversary of her death | 12,705 | record_train |
The company also provided the customer with a $50 gift certificate for @placeholder, though after her last experience it's unclear if she plans to use it. | By Alex Greig PUBLISHED: 14:32 EST, 5 December 2013 | UPDATED: 14:32 EST, 5 December 2013 A Georgia woman has been fired from a fast food joint after a customer found an unexpected topping in her cheeseburger: a half-smoked marijuana cigarette. Amy Seiber, 32, is no longer an employee at Wendy's Lovejoy store after admitting to police that she 'misplaced' the joint inside a burger - after smoking half of it at work. The customer Shalon Travis, 39, called police after discovering the marijuana in her burger, placed right on top of the pickle. Reefer madness: Wendy's customer Shalon Travis got more than she ordered when she discovered her cheeseburger had a half-smoked joint inside it
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Shalon Travis picked up a cheeseburger meal at the Wendy's in Lovejoy, Atlanta
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When she arrived home, she noticed a strange smell coming from the burger
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She discovered a half-smoked joint inside the burger
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Amy Seiber, 32, was fired after she admitted 'misplacing' the joint there
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She was arrested for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and is free on bail | 12,706 | record_train |
@placeholder have long insisted that Strootman is going nowhere, with Pallotta even claiming he would turn down a £75m bid for the player. | Louis van Gaal can forget about signing Kevin Strootman in January, Roma have warned the Manchester United boss. The box-to-box midfielder is wanted by United and is valued at around £30million. Van Gaal is a big admirer of the playerhaving worked with him while managing Holland. But the Italian club's general director, Mauro Baldissoni, has admitted the club are furious with the persistent talk of Strootman joining United. Roma star Kevin Strootman (right) is wanted by Manchester United in January The Holland midfielder has recently returned from a serious knee injury and Roma are desperate to keep him 'Our president (James Pallotta) has already spoken about this and he gets angry with the rumours that link (Strootman) to Manchester United,' Baldissoni told Radio Anch'io Sport in Italy.
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Manchester United eyeing January move for Kevin Strootman
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Roma midfielder is valued at £30m and Louis van Gaal is a known admirer
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But Italian club's president is furious at talk of Strootman transfer | 12,707 | record_train |
@placeholder, 31, is a sideline reporter for ESPN, traveling around the country covering college football games. | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A man charged with stalking sports reporter Erin Andrews is now accused of making nude videotapes of her in one more city than previously thought, according to court documents filed Wednesday. Michael David Barrett, 48, is accused of surreptitiously videotaping the ESPN reporter through hotel peepholes and posting the videos online. Authorities previously had said they believed most of the videos were made at a Nashville, Tennessee, hotel in September 2008. But the information filed Wednesday alleges that Barrett also taped Andrews through an altered peephole in a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, in February 2008. Barrett stayed in the hotel room next door to Andrews, the information said.
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Man accused of surreptitiously taping Andrews nude, posting videos online
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Previously, most of the tapes were thought to have been shot in a Nashville hotel
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Court documents filed Wednesday claim videos also were made in Columbus, Ohio
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Stalking charge carries a potential five-year prison sentence | 12,708 | record_train |
is said to have lost control while driving between @placeholder station | The owner of an English vineyard who crashed his sports car after getting 'tipsy' at a wine tasting is being sued for £300,000 by his injured former girlfriend. Wine entrepreneur Art Tukker, 24, is one of the most influential people in the British wine industry as the owner of the Tinwood Estate vineyard, near Chichester in Sussex. Having consumed a 'significant amount of alcohol' at a 5 hour wine tasting at Millbank Tower in London on March 8 2010, Tukker crashed his two-seater TVR convertible on the A286 driving home in West Sussex. Jetset: Lucinda Stevens, left, with her ex-boyfriend vineyard owner Art Tukker on a skiing holiday together. She is now suing him after his drink driving caused a car crash in which she says she was seriously injured
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Winemaker and his girlfriend had been at a London wine tasting since 11am
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Art Tukker, 24, then drove home from Haslemere station to West Sussex
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Tukker escaped the crash of his TVR sports car unscathed
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His ex-girlfriend was 'seriously injured' and had to be cut from wreckage | 12,709 | record_train |
"Having considered the implications of this for @placeholder, the committee asked the president to take a voluntary leave of absence from his position. | (CNN) -- The president of the South African Football Association (SAFA) has been suspended as part of an investigation into match-fixing ahead of the country hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2010. Kirsten Nematandani and four other SAFA officials were suspended as an act of "good governence" following a report by football's global governing body FIFA, which adjudged four friendly matches ahead of Africa's first World Cup had been fixed. According to the FIFA report, the results of South Africa's matches with Thailand, Bulgaria, Colombia and Guatemala were prearranged for the benefit of convicted Singaporean match-fixer Wilson Perumal and his Football 4U organization.
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South African Football Association president suspended amid match-fixing claims
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Kirsten Nematandani and four officials named in a FIFA report
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The results of four South Africa friendlies ahead of 2010 World Cup pre-arranged
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Vice president Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana set to take interim charge of the body | 12,710 | record_train |
The two groups are so closely related that it's nearly impossible for an outsider to tell which the average @placeholder belongs to. | By Associated Press She lost her baby daughter and her right hand to a manic killing spree. He wielded the machete that took both. Yet today, despite coming from opposite sides of an unspeakable shared past, Alice Mukarurinda and Emmanuel Ndayisaba are friends. She is the treasurer and he the vice president of a group that builds simple brick houses for genocide survivors. They live near each other and shop at the same market. Their story of ethnic violence, extreme guilt and, to some degree, reconciliation is the story of Rwanda today, 20 years after its Hutu majority killed more than 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Rwandan government is still accused by human rights groups of holding an iron grip on power, stifling dissent and killing political opponents. But even critics give President Paul Kagame credit for leading the country toward a peace that seemed all but impossible two decades ago.
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Tutsi Alice Mukarurinda's hand was amputated and her baby was killed by Emmanuel Ndayisaba, a Hutu, in 1994
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On Monday Rwanda marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of 100 days of bloody mayhem
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Hutus resented Tutsis for their greater wealth and what they saw as oppressive rule
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Emmanuel turned himself in and confessed for his crimes in 1996
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Prison term lasted from 1997 until 2003, when Hutus who admitted their guilt were pardoned
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Emmanuel and Alice live near each other and shop at the same market
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Emmanuel kneeled before Alice and asked for forgiveness -- and after two weeks of thought she said yes | 12,711 | record_train |
If enough funds are raised, @placeholder is expected to sell for $250 (£150). | When James Dyson reinvented the hand dryer, everyone was surprised at how such as a simple concept could work so effectively. Now one New York-based company is planning to replicate the success of Dyson's AirBlade, but for the entire body. The ‘Body Dryer’ group has been working on a design to eliminate the use of towels completely by pushing water off the body in around 30 seconds. Scroll down for video… The Body Dryer group has been working on a design to eliminate the use of towels completely by pushing water off the body in around 30 seconds Air is drawn in from outside the Body Dryer device and stored in a pressurised chamber.
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Body Dryer creators said they 'never truly felt clean after reusing a towel'
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Device claims to be more hygienic and effective at drying the entire body
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It blasts ionised and temperature-controlled air at body in various angles
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New York-based group has a prototype which it plans to market for £150 | 12,712 | record_train |
@placeholder quickly made it clear he wanted more than just a one-night stand while she was on holiday in the country. | Jane Cole, 56, knew that The Gambia in Western Africa had a reputation for being a hotbed of holiday romances between young local men and oilder British women. But when she decided to take a break there with her friend Vanessa in 2005, she never thought she'd find herself caught up in one. 'I'm quite worldly-wise,' said Jane, from Rothwell, who considered herself too sensible to get embroiled with a younger man. Scroll down for video Holiday love turned sour: Michael wooed Jane when she visited The Gambia on holiday with a friend while he was working in a local bar, but after they married she realised he wasn't quite the person she thought
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Jane, from Rothwell, fell for Nigerian Michael, a bartender, in 2005
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She married him and then he decided he wanted to live in England
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Some 1,000 Brits are victims of dating scams each year, says ONS
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Three other women tell their stories of holiday dating scams | 12,713 | record_train |
'Godlike': Last year, Miss Cemortan told how skipper Schettino, pictured returning to the @placeholder harbour in February, was 'like a god on the ship' | The captain of the Costa Concordia arranged to flee in a helicopter, abandoning passengers and crew, on the night of the shipwreck, his Moldovan lover has claimed. The giant cruise ship hit rocks and sank off the Mediterranean island of Giglio on January 13, 2012, killing 32 people, in Italy's worst maritime catastrophe since the Second World War. Captain Francesco Schettino is on trial for multiple manslaughter, dereliction of duty and abandoning ship, and faces up to 20 years in prison if he is found guilty. Scroll down for video Claims: Domnica Cemortan (left) claims Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino (right) arranged to flee in a helicopter, abandoning passengers and crew, on the night of the shipwreck
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Domnica Cemortan claims Francesco Schettino arranged to flee the ship
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Cruise liner hit rocks and sank off the island of Giglio, killing 32 people
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Maritime catastrophe on January 13, 2012 was Italy's worst since WW2
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Schettino is on trial for multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship
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Miss Cemortan made claims after giving him an ultimatum to 'tell the truth'
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She tells Italian magazine that he took her to the deck to wait for helicopter | 12,714 | record_train |
In his autobiography "Hitting Back," @placeholder recalled how as an eight-year-old boy he was walking to the gymnasium when shooting broke out. | London (CNN) -- The deaths of 16 children aged five and six together with their teacher in the Scottish town of Dunblane in 1996 was one of Britain's worst incidents of gun-related violence. The massacre stunned the country, but what did the UK do to try to prevent such a tragedy happening again? What happened at Dunblane? Shortly after 9 a.m. on March 13, 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a 43-year-old former Scout leader, burst into the gymnasium of a primary school in the tranquil Scottish town of Dunblane. Within minutes 15 children aged five and six had died in a hail of bullets. One died later in hospital. Their teacher, Gwen Mayor, a 44-year-old mother of two, died in the attack, reportedly while trying to shield her pupils. Two other teachers were also seriously injured while heroically trying to protect children. Hamilton turned one of his four handguns on himself and was found dead at the scene.
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Tennis star Andy Murray present at Dunblane attack, pays tribute to Connecticut victims
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Campaign against gun ownership led to 750,000-name petition handed to government
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British public generally supported ban -- most saying they saw no need for guns
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Despite fall in gun crime since ban introduced, in 2010 a lone gunman killed 12 people | 12,715 | record_train |
Krim spoke to CNN about why he started the organization and whether "young @placeholder" has embraced charity and grass roots causes: | (CNN) -- Celebrities are no strangers to charity work: Bono created his ONE campaign to fight global poverty, Angelina Jolie travels the world as a United Nations good will ambassador, and the recently named "Sexiest Man Alive" Bradley Cooper reportedly donated thousands of dollars worth of winter clothing to homeless people in Philadelphia, where he's filming his latest movie. Is this all part of keeping up appearances in image-centric Hollywood, or do most celebrities have a genuine desire to use their star status to help raise money or awareness for certain causes? Todd Krim, who founded Give Back Hollywood -- which helps connect celebrities and charities -- says he thinks there's a true desire by celebrities to get involved.
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Todd Krim founded "Give Back Hollywood" to help link celebrities and causes
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He helped connect a "Glee" star with a dance therapy charity
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He talks about whether younger stars are as charitable as A-listers
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Krim hopes to see everyone in Hollywood embrace the idea of giving | 12,716 | record_train |
While unexploded WWII-era bombs are regularly discovered in @placeholder, they are rarely as big as the one uncovered in Dortmund. | More than 20,000 people have been forced from their homes as German authorities prepare to defuse a massive bomb dating back to World War Two. Thousands of properties within a radius of 1.5km of the bomb were evacuated in the west German city of Dortmund. The 4,000-pound bomb was discovered after experts analysed old aerial photographs while searching for unexploded ordnance dropped on Germany's industrial Ruhr region by Allied aircraft. The 4,000-pound World War Two bomb was removed after being successfully defused today Thousands of people have been offered shelter in the Westfalen Hall, in Dortmund after being forced from their homes
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More than 20,000 have been forced from their homes
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Explosive found by experts scouring old aerial photos for ordnance
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Bomb dropped during Battle of the Ruhr, a five-month campaign aimed at crippling Adolf Hitler's war effort | 12,717 | record_train |
There is legislation prohibiting employment discrimination in @placeholder, France and the Netherlands, but "it has not been appropriately implemented," the report says. | (CNN) -- Muslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and religious freedom, an Amnesty International report said. "Muslim women are being denied jobs and girls prevented from attending regular classes just because they wear traditional forms of dress, such as the headscarf. Men can be dismissed for wearing beards associated with Islam," said Marco Perolini, Amnesty International's expert on discrimination. "Rather than countering these prejudices, political parties and public officials are all too often pandering to them in their quest for votes." The report, titled "Choice and Prejudice: Discrimination Against Muslims in Europe" and issued on Monday, details the problem, with a focus on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland.
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The report focuses on Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland
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Political parties "are all too often pandering" to political biases, the report says
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The September 11, 2001, attacks have contributed to hostility against Muslims
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Muslims make up less than 10 percent of the population in European countries | 12,718 | record_train |
The memory of those golden days is fading fast so, @placeholder, it is time to take up the challenge on behalf of the Premier League. | Real Madrid 1-0 Liverpool - Click here to read Martin Samuel's match report from the Bernabeu The timing is not perfect, considering Jose Mourinho's rare PR gaffe with Chelsea fans this week, but Wednesday night is the time supporters from all over England should lend their allegiance to the one Premier League club who are still a Champions League threat. Ouch. On two levels. First, asking a fan to back another team tends to be a wince-inducing request in any circumstances. Second, it shows how our clubs have turned into European lightweights. Tuesday night just about summed up how far the self-labelled 'best League in the world' is skidding off the map.
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Chelsea sit top of Group G and are on the verge of reaching the last 16
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Jose Mourinho's side face Slovenian side Maribor on Wednesday
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Liverpool lost 1-0 to Real Madrid and may not make the knockout stages
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Arsenal threw away a 3-0 lead against Anderlecht to draw the game 3-3
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Manchester City are yet to win a game in Group E and sit third | 12,719 | record_train |
I’m not walking properly just yet but I have no fractures,’ Mrs @placeholder revealed. | A 56-year-old woman and her five-year-old grandson miraculously emerged with minor injuries from a car accident after they were both run over on Tuesday in Anapolis in the state of Goias, Brazil. A split second after the accident happens, the youngster gets up and walks over to his grandmother, who is lying on the floor, as if nothing has happened. Both are already home after the accident after being discharged from hospital suffering from minor injuries. The incident was captured on CCTV cameras, which show the moment Vilma do Nascimento and João Pedro Nascimento were hit when a runaway car collided with a stationery vehicle pushing it into their path.
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Vilma do Nascimento and João Pedro Nascimento were hit by a runaway car
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They were walking in Anapolis when two cars collided in front of them
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The collision sent a stationary car careering into them at high speed
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CCTV cameras positioned above filmed the car rolling over the pair
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The boy jumps up in a flash and goes straight to his grandmother's side | 12,720 | record_train |
The decision is a blow for @placeholder, whose Typhoon aircraft was seen as the clear frontrunner. | (Financial Times) -- France's Dassault has been awarded frontrunner status in the hotly contested $20bn race to supply 126 fighter jets to India, providing a much-needed boost for French economic and industrial prestige. The Indian government said the French Rafale fighter jet had beaten the four-nation Eurofighter Typhoon to become preferred bidder to equip India with the multi-role fighter jets in one of the world's largest military contracts. Dassault now enters exclusive talks with the Indian government. The contract, estimated to be worth $15bn-$20bn, will help shape India's air power for the next three decades and serve as the bedrock of a strategic partnership. It also has the potential to reinvigorate the French defence industry when military budgets are being slashed across Europe.
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France's Dassault has been awarded frontrunner status to supply 126 fighter jets to India
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Hotly contested $20 billion race seen as a boost to French industrial prestige | 12,721 | record_train |
No additional details can be confirmed until a U.S. government representative meets with @placeholder, the statement said. | Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Raymond Davis, the American accused of killing two Pakistani men, appeared Friday in a Pakistani court, where he was handed documents that detailed the case against him. The court then adjourned until March 3 when Davis is expected to be formally charged. The case has strained relations between the United States and Pakistan, a key ally in the war against al Qaeda and the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan, and the shooting deaths have outraged many Pakistanis. Meanwhile, Pakistani authorities have detained a second U.S. citizen, identified as Aaron Mark DeHaven, in Peshawar, according to a statement Friday by the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.
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CIA contractor Raymond Davis is accused of killing two Pakistani men
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Davis' arrest has strained relations between the U.S. and Pakistan
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Davis is expected to be charged formally at a March 3 hearing | 12,722 | record_train |
"It's not @placeholder's role to dictate the outcome, but we will help with the negotiations and provide all the support and encouragement we can," Cheney said. | JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Vice President Dick Cheney arrived Saturday night in Israel, where he pledged America's "enduring and unshakable" commitment to the security of the Jewish state as it approaches its 60th anniversary. Vice President Dick Cheney, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reaffirmed their alliance Saturday. Cheney met with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to kick off a weekend of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. "Our two countries have been more than just strong allies. We've been friends, special friends," Cheney said at a news conference with Olmert. "Both our nations share the ideals of liberty, equality, human dignity and representative government."
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The vice president kicks off a weekend of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders
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Cheney says the U.S. is committed to Israel's right to defend itself
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He plans to attend an Easter service Sunday in Jerusalem
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A delegation of GOP members of the U.S. House of Representatives is also in Israel | 12,723 | record_train |
Wilson insists @placeholder viciously launched through the window of his police car, punching and scratching him repeatedly. | The Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to hold a four-day tribute for the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson at the end of this month. Sharpton will be in the Missouri town from October 31 to November 4 in reference to the four hours that the teenager's body was left lying on the street. Sharpton is leading a wave of outcry after a Friday report suggested that investigators do not have enough evidence to charge a police officer over the shooting of Michael Brown. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Anger: Rev Al Sharpton launched an enraged attack on Darren Wilson for claiming he acted in self-defense
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The Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to hold a four-day tribute for the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson
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Sharpton will be there from October 31 to November 4 in reference to the four hours that the teenager's body was left lying on the street
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He is leading a wave of outcry after a report suggested that there is not enough evidence to charge Officer Darren Wilson over the shooting of Brown
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Wilson told grand jury he feared for his life as Brown attacked him
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Police are given greater scope for lethal action in case of self-defense
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Sharpton said it echoes the excuse given by convicted killer Michael Dunn
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Jury deliberating whether or not to bring manslaughter or murder charges | 12,724 | record_train |
@placeholder did eventually take the lead in the 29th minute, but the goal was shrouded in controversy. | (CNN) -- Inter extended their lead at the top of Serie A to nine points after beating AC Milan 2-1 in a thrilling San Siro derby on Sunday, dealing a fatal blow to their city rivals' Serie A title hopes in the process. Dejan Stankovic celebrates scoring Inter's second goal in the superb 2-1 victory over city rivals AC Milan. Jose Mourinho's side, who were the home team in the 150th league meeeting between the two Italian giants, should have taken an 18th minute lead when a fine flowing move resulted in Esteban Cambiasso crossing from the left for Dejan Stankovic to score.
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Inter extend their lead in Serie A to nine points after defeating AC Milan 2-1
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Adriano and Dejan Stankovic score the goals that settle the San Siro derby
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Juventus' hopes take another blow as they draw 1-1 at home to Sampdoria | 12,725 | record_train |
Bombing: @placeholder, center, was pictured in the aftermath of the blasts | By Helen Pow and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:01 EST, 30 April 2013 | UPDATED: 05:25 EST, 1 May 2013 One of five boyhood friends severely injured while watching the Boston Marathon has spoken out about the crippling wounds he sustained in the April 15 bomb attack. Jarrod Clowery is expected to recover from his wounds after doctors pulled 27 nails, BBs and other pieces of shrapnel out of his body. The bomb blast shredded his hands, badly injured his legs and burned much of his body. After the blast, he said he looked down at his hands and quickly looked away. 'It was too much to look at,' he said today during a press conference at Boston's Brigham and Women's hospital.
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Brothers Paul and J.P. Norden and pal Marc Fucarile each lost a leg in the horrific April 15 blasts
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Long-time buddy Jarrod Clowery suffered burns and James 'Bim' Costello was hospitalized with serious injuries
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Friends were at the finish line of the race to cheer on another pal, Mike Jefferson, who was running | 12,726 | record_train |
'To accompany the scenery, @placeholder has an incredible variety of wildlife including golden eagles, herds of red deer, and otters can occasionally be seen basking in the sheltered bays and dining on brown trout.' | PUBLISHED: 09:40 EST, 17 September 2013 | UPDATED: 06:13 EST, 18 September 2013 A former lighthouse-keeper’s cottage which has no electricity and can only be reached by boat in the winter, has gone on sale for £225,000. The isolated Rubha nan Gall cottage on the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Highlands is one mile away from the nearest town, Tobermory, and has no running water. During the winter months, the path to Tobermory is impassable, making the cottage accessible only by boat. But the estate agents say its remoteness and lack of comforts are made worthwhile by the 156-year-old home’s spectacular waterfront views.
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The Rubha nan Gall cottage is on the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Highlands
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It has four bedrooms, a study, a sitting room and a parlour
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Is only accessible via a hill path, which becomes blocked in winter
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Already a queen of branding, @placeholder has more deals for her own fashion and beauty lines than the rest of the cast: indoor and sunless tanning, slippers, sunglasses, perfume, jewelry and a maternity line on the way. | (CNN) -- "At the end of six seasons, six beautiful seasons, it's like high school -- time to graduate and go to college," Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino told CNN as he and his cast mates bid farewell to their MTV hit "Jersey Shore" at the New York Television Festival. And just like after high school, it's time for the "Jersey Shore" cast to really get to work, just like the reality TV stars who came before them. The "Jersey Shore" cast members are all expanding their empires while also giving back to the community that made them famous, via a planned one-hour fund-raiser to rebuild the actual Jersey Shore, which was devastated along with other areas on the East Coast during Hurricane Sandy.
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The cast members of "Jersey Shore" are expanding their empires beyond the program
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The "Restore the Shore" special may help bolster their reps as well as their brands
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Snooki, Deena, Pauly D and "The Situation" share their post-"Shore" plans | 12,728 | record_train |
He said: ‘My dream would be to handstand on the top of @placeholder of course, if anyone can sort it for me to do I'll be there.’ | Conor Kenny is flipping travel photography onto its head – and putting himself in harm’s way – as he poses for a series of wacky ‘selfies’ while doing handstands. The 23-year-old stuntman has been photographed doing his trademark pose at some of the most well-known and bizarre spots in London and places around the world. He risked falling into the River Thames while performing the stunt at Tower Bridge, while on other occasions he has shrugged off the dangers while doing handstands on the edge of train platforms or flyovers. Scroll down for video Daredevil acrobat Conor Kenny balances on the railing at London Bridge while performing a handstand in front of the London Eye
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Conor Kenny has been snapped doing his trademark pose in London, at the pyramids of Egypt and underwater
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The 23-year-old stuntman dangled his legs over the edge of Tower Bridge and posed on the edge of train platforms
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He was photographed on the edge of the roof of Adelaide House with the Shard in the background
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After doing handstands at most of London's famous sites his dream is to do one on top of the Elizabeth Tower | 12,729 | record_train |
‘But I do think they did well to buy Di Maria and @placeholder. | At a time when Manchester United can’t get away from ridicule, there’s a familiar face who just wants to show them some love. Maybe the man with the backwards cap and cut-off denim shorts is being polite as he mentions a possibility that currently seems inconceivable. ‘I love Manchester,’ he says. ‘Everyone knows that — I have said it many times. Manchester is in my heart. I left many good friends there, the supporters are amazing and I wish I can come back one day.’ VIDEO Scroll down to watch Cristiano Ronaldo kick balls at Jenson Button's supercar Speed demon: Cristiano Ronaldo poses in front of a McLaren super car during a Tag Heuer
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Cristiano Ronaldo would like to return to Manchester United one day
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Ronaldo was sold to Real Madrid for a then record £80 million in 2009
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He won three Premier League titles and Champions League with United
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Portuguese says that Alex Ferguson is only manager he would call a friend
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The 29-year-old has not always seen eye to eye with Jose Mourinho
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Angel di Maria and Radamel Falcao will help return United to greatness
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Ronaldo has criticised the sale of Mesut Ozil and Di Maria from Real
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Ronaldo hopes his son Cristiano Jnr will become a professional footballer
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Portugal international is not surprised by Gareth Bale's success in La Liga
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Ronaldo was speaking at a Tag Heuer promotional event where he raced McLaren super cars with former F1 world champion Jenson Button | 12,730 | record_train |
When @placeholder was brought in, he weighed a pitiful 3kg, dangerously under-weight for a lion cub his age. | Snuggling up to each other in the midday sunshine, these lion cub brothers look soft enough to stroke. With their pale cream and yellow paws outstretched, George and Yame – both nearly six months old – are still small enough to be handled. Yet the pair are still recovering after suffering a terrible ordeal because of unscrupulous animal dealers who exploited their cute appearance. Survivors: Lion cubs George and Yame, who were rescued from an amusement part in Alicante, Spain Exploitation: The pair, who are believed to have been born in a circus in France are still recovering after suffering a terrible ordeal because of unscrupulous animal dealers who exploited their cute appearance
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George and Yame were sold as cubs to the Terra Mitica Park in Alicante
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Their keepers offered them up as cheap photo props at 10 euros a time
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Both were suffering from infections, bone disease and sores when rescued
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They have been nursed back to health in Madrid by husband and wife team
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CJ Munoz believes they would have ended up shot dead by sick hunters | 12,731 | record_train |
He revealed Mr Mr @placeholder agonised more about the location his first public statement after the election defeat than its content. | Gordon Brown wanted 30 would-be Labour MPs to stand down at the last election, in the hope of cutting a deal with the Liberal Democrats. The embattled prime minister suggested to aides they make way for Nick Clegg’s party in marginal seats to stop the Tories getting in, a new book claims. But the plan was rejected by his inner circle, who said the Lib Dems would not agree to an alliance. The scheme is detailed in ‘Five Days in May’ by former Labour minister Lord Adonis. Deal: The prime minister Gordon Brown wanted 30 would-be Labour MPs to stand down to make way for Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrat representatives
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Gordon Brown wanted his own MPs to step aside to make way for Lib Dems
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Claims by Lord Adonis in new book about the 2010 General Election | 12,732 | record_train |
Ms @placeholder, an assistant manager at a pub, said: 'We couldn’t believe it when 14 came out, and on December 14 as well, it was a weird coincidence. | A rescue dog has stunned her new owner after giving birth to 14 Doberman puppies, setting a new British record in the process. Keela the two-year-old Doberman was only thought to be carrying five or six pups when she was examined by vets, but ended up giving birth to a monster brood. Zara Hayes, 42, who runs the Yappy Ever After dog centre paid £450 for two-year-old Doberman Keela after noticing an online advert saying the animal was 'possibly pregnant'. She was worried that the dog would be exploited by its new owners for profit, as Doberman puppies can sell for £1,000, so she put her up for adoption instead.
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Zara Hayes, 42, saw advert for 'possibly pregnant' Doberman online
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Rescue home owner Ms Hayes took dog Keela in over fears for her safety
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Cat Davis, 33, adopted her after vets said she was pregnant with six pups
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But on December 14, two-year-old Doberman gave birth to 14 youngsters
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They have taken over Ms Davis' house eating 5kg of dog food every day | 12,733 | record_train |
Arab intellectuals have called on @placeholder governments to address the 'freedom gap' so their peoples can fully share in the progress of our times. | (CNN) -- Israel may have to retire its title as the only democracy in the Middle East. With Sunday's free and fair national election, Iraq joins the honor roll as one of the very few Islamic democracies. Other Middle Eastern countries hold elections too, of course. But those elections fall into two broad categories. The first category is the blatantly rigged: Iran, most spectacularly, but also Algeria, Egypt, and Yemen, among others. In the second category, elections are more or less honest -- but fail to exert much control over the actions of the government: Lebanon, Morocco, and Jordan. In Iraq, despite violence, votes are honestly counted. Once counted, votes decide who rules. For all the country's well-known problems, that record is a remarkable achievement.
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Iraq held a free and fair election for parliament on Sunday, says David Frum
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He says Iraq can be a model democracy for the Arab world
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President George W. Bush spoke of "hopeful signs of a desire for freedom" in the region
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Frum: Biggest obstacle to democracy in Middle East is the influence of oil wealth | 12,734 | record_train |
An @placeholder suicide bomber detonated a truck laden with explosives near the Turkish border crossing. | Clutching a battered Kalashnikov and with her hair drawn back in a tight headscarf, this is the woman fighter leading the battle against Islamic State in Kobane. Narin Afrin is commander of the Peshmerga troops defending the besieged Syrian town. The battle-hardened Peshmerga have proved the jihadis’ most fearsome opponents, and have doggedly refused to give in to the fanatics’ assault. Scroll down for videos. The commander of the Peshmerga forces, dubbed the Peshmerga Princess, defending the besieged Syrian town of Kobane against IS advances is 40-year-old Mayssa Abdo, who uses the nom de guerre Narin Afrin. She has revealed: 'Thousands of civilians are still inside the town. They can’t go anywhere – all around us is blocked'
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Narin Afrin is the commander of the Peshmerga troops defending the besieged Syrian town
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Afrin has begged the world to 'send us humanitarian aid and weapons now'
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IS gunmen view women as little more than slaves so being killed by one will be doubly shameful
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Kobane fighters are being out-gunned by Islamic State’s American tanks – looted from the Iraqi army
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The United Nations has warned of ‘another Srebenica massacre’ if Kobane falls
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They are on their way back to @placeholder for DNA testing. | (CNN) -- A severed human hand and foot sent to two Vancouver schools are linked to a grisly killing and dismemberment in Montreal, police said Wednesday. Montreal police have taken over the investigation of the Vancouver incident because they believe the suspect in the case, porn actor Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, sent the body parts via Canada Post from Montreal. "Right now, we got no reason to believe there could be someone else involved in this horrible crime," said Montreal police Commander Ian Lafreniere. Investigators believe Magnotta killed Concordia University student Jun Lin, 33, on May 24 or May 25, posted a 10-minute video of the murder and dismemberment, then took a flight to Paris on May 26.
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A severed hand and foot sent to Vancouver schools belonged to Montreal victim, police say
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Luka Rocco Magnotta, arrested Monday in Berlin, is believed to have mailed the body parts
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Magnotta's arrest ended a massive international manhunt
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Police accuse him of killing and dismembering university student Jun Lin | 12,736 | record_train |
The past year under @placeholder has been characterised by markedly better organisation, spirit and results. | By John Mcgarry The thought of it has never been far from Scottish minds since the draw was made in Nice in February. Facing Germany at any stage of a qualifying campaign is always a cause for concern but on the evidence of what transpired in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday, our date with Joachim Low’s side in Dortmund on September 7 suddenly has all the appeal of being tied to a railway track. Scotland still has good reason for approaching the Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a degree of cautious optimism, however. Formidable: The Germany starting XI line up ahead of their World Cup semi-final against Brazil on Tuesday
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Gordon Strachan's side open their Euro 2016 qualifying campaign against Germany
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The match takes place in Dortmund on Sunday, September 7
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Germany thrashed Brazil 7-1 in the World Cup semi-finals on Tuesday
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referring to the @placeholder community where the then-teenager was living. | Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky routinely had a then-teenage boy perform oral sex on him while the two showered together on the school's campus and elsewhere, the alleged victim testified Monday. "It would have to be 40 times, at least," said the now 28-year-old man, adding that the abuse started when he was 14. Known in court documents as Victim 4, he was the first person to testify at Sandusky's trial in Pennsylvania. The Nittany Lions' longtime defensive coordinator faces 52 charges tied to what prosecutors say was his systemic abuse of at least 10 boys over a span of 15 years. The 68-year-old defendant was under house arrest prior to his trial, which is expected to continue for about three weeks.
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Victim 4 says Sandusky treated him "like his girlfriend" in private
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He says he's never paid his lawyer or talked about joining a civil lawsuit
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He describes alleged assaults on Penn State's campus, in hotels and elsewhere
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The defense questions the motives of the alleged victims | 12,738 | record_train |
@placeholder applauds the travelling Crystal Palace supporters following his side's 1-0 victory | Joe Ledley is not known for his scoring prowess but the bearded wonder leaves Leicester rooted to the foot of the Premier League thanks to his second-half header. Boos rang out at the end after yet another decent performance had nothing to show for it. It was a statement of the obvious but Nigel Pearson’s programme notes confirmed it in black and white. The matches against the clubs hovering round the relegation zone ‘are the ones that will probably be decisive in our season.’ Joe Ledley, pictured with Brede Hangeland and James McArthur, slides on his knees after scoring what turned out to be the winning goal
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Joe Ledley scored in the 55th minute to ensure the Eagles claimed all three points against Leicester
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The Wales international leaped above Leicester's defence to score his second goal of the season
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Leicester remain adrift at the bottom of the Barclays Premier League table having won just four league games
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The Foxes face tough games against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City in upcoming weeks
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Pearson appeared to put his hands around the throat of Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur | 12,739 | record_train |
At least two members had previously distanced themselves from Operation Facebook, saying it was doomed to fail and that @placeholder is not a cohesive group with unanimously approved goals. | (CNN) -- Facebook says a hack that exploited some Web browsers was responsible for a flood of porn, violent images and other graphic content that spread across the site over the past couple of days. Spokesman Frederic Wolens said Facebook's security team had been working to identify the cause of the spam and that, by Tuesday afternoon, "we have eliminated most of the spam caused by this attack." "We are now working to improve our systems to better defend against similar attacks in the future," Wolens said in an e-mail. Earlier Tuesday, Graham Cluley, a consultant with Web security firm Sophos, said that "explicit and violent" images had been flooding the News Feeds of Facebook users for the past 24 hours or so.
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NEW: Facebook hack exploited browsers to spread porn, violent images
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NEW: The site says most of the offensive material has been removed
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Members of hacker collective Anonymous claim they created a virus to attack Facebook
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Facebook: No data or account information was compromised in the attack | 12,740 | record_train |
"We have had two nights of great worry, damage to property and a threatening mood in @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Rioting has broken out for the past three nights in Sweden's capital, Stockholm, with scores of cars set alight and violent clashes between police and youths. The shooting death of a man by police is blamed for the demonstrations. More than 100 vehicles were set on fire Sunday night just in the northern suburb of Husby, Stockholm police press officer Kjell Lindgren told CNN on Wednesday. Another 29 were set on fire Tuesday night in the wider district, he said. Eight people were arrested in Husby Tuesday night, which was quieter than the previous two nights, he said.
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Three nights of rioting involves youths and police in Sweden's capital, Stockholm
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Husby, a northern suburb of Stockholm, has been at the center of the disorder
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Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt appeals for calm in the capital | 12,741 | record_train |
The discovery prompted @placeholder authorities to conduct an exploratory excavation on the property on Wednesday. | (CNN) -- Nearly four decades after hundreds of people were led to their deaths in a mass murder-suicide pact in a South American jungle, the cremated remains of nine of those victims have been found in a shuttered funeral home in Delaware. The eerie find was made after the owner of the site of the former Minus Funeral Home in Dover contacted authorities about 38 small containers left behind on the property, authorities said. The discovery harkens to a sensational case involving more than 900 people who followed the charismatic Rev. Jim Jones from San Francisco to a jungle settlement in Guyana in 1978. They believed they were being delivered to a place of racial harmony and social justice.
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Cremated remains of nine victims of the 1978 Guyana massacre have been found in Delaware
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The remains were discovered at site of the former Minus Funeral Home
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Authorities were contacted after 38 small containers were left behind
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Over 900 followers of Jim Jones were ordered or forced to drink cyanide-laced punch | 12,742 | record_train |
Syria's Kurds do not live in one region, unlike @placeholder's. | In the city of Qamishli, on Syria's border with Turkey, neither the forces of the Syrian regime nor the rebels of the Free Syrian Army are to be seen. But visitors say the Kurdish flag is very evident, and Kurdish fighters man checkpoints around the city. More are being trained in the Kurdish region of neighboring Iraq. Away from the epicenter of the battle for Syria, the Kurdish minority -- about 10% of the Syrian population -- has gained control of two areas. One is around Qamishli, which has a population of nearly 200,000; the other is north of Aleppo in towns like Afrin and Ayn al-'Arab.
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Kurdish fighters have gained control over areas of northern Syria
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The main Kurdish group, the PYD, has been seen as useful to the Assad regime
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It has close ties to the PKK, the group fighting in Turkey for Kurdish autonomy
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The Syrian Kurds' experience will influence other Kurdish groups, an analyst says | 12,743 | record_train |
Later, the @placeholder President gave a speech at Havana University where he demanded answers as to why Iran was being 'punished' no good reason. | By Chris Slack Last updated at 7:43 AM on 12th January 2012 Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has described Iran and Cuba as threats to the national security of the United States as the leaders of the two nations met in the island's capital of Havana today. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in the country for a brief meeting with Raul Castro during his Latin American tour which has already taken in Venezuela and Nicaragua. But in a statement issued earlier this week Ros-Lehtinen described the meeting as a 'tour of the tyrants' and said it was opportunity to 'spew anti-American rhetoric'.
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Congresswoman describes both nations as threat to national security
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Ahmadinejad uses speech to ask why his country is being 'punished'
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Claims capitalism is the root of war during address at Havana University
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Iranian President to meet Cuban President Raul Castro | 12,744 | record_train |
Final destination: They waited patiently in party mood for the victors to arrive at the iconic @placeholder later in the morning | All you need is Low, apparently. And who can argue? Germany fans lined the streets of a sun-kissed Berlin in their tens of thousands to welcome home the World Cup champions ahead of the largest gathering the city has seen since 1990. Perhaps even a year previous when the wall came down. There they waited at the tip of Brandenburg Gate – the scene of seven parties over the past month to celebrate the hexagon of wins, and that draw against Ghana, over in Brazil – for one final send off. Some of the estimated half-a-million climbed traffic lights - one sat on the top of a Bratwurst truck. Anywhere would do.
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Philipp Lahm, Thomas Muller and Bastian Schweinsteiger arrive at Tegel Airport
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Fans had been queuing for an advantageous position overnight to catch a glimpse of their heroes
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Joachim Low's side won their first World Cup for 24 years in Brazil
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Mario Gotze's extra time winner against Argentina was enough to clinch victory in the final | 12,745 | record_train |
Our lease in Karelia has been @placeholder certified since 2006 and we believe that a reinstated FSC certificate will continue to be the best protection for natural values in the logging areas. | Flat-pack giant Ikea has had a forestry stewardship certificate suspended after it was revealed the furniture chain has been felling 600-year-old trees from protected woodlands. The Forest Stewardship Council, which promotes the responsible management of the world's woodlands, says the wood Ikea cuts from forests in Karelia, Russia, isn't being harvested sustainably. Swedwood, the Swedish firm's forestry subsidiary, has been refused certification by the international not for-profit organisation for its Karelia operation until action is taken. Furniture giant Ikea has had its Forestry Stewardship Council certificate for Karelia, Russia, suspended It comes after the FSC investigated Swedwood's operations in north Karelia, near the Russian-Finnish border.
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The Forest Stewardship Council has slammed Swedish furniture giant
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It says Ikea's wood from forests in Russia isn't harvested sustainably
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Baller: @placeholder might be in his twilight years but he too is heading to play in India's new league | Alessandro del Piero, David Trezeguet, Robert Pires, Freddie Ljungberg, Nicolas Anelka - not so long ago these would be names any Premier League club would be keen to boast in their ranks, but now they're heading for a new league: in India. The brand new Indian Super League begins next month with a host of football's great and good heading for Asia to take part - and bosses hope it will rival crickets Indian Premier League for the public's attention. They're calling it 'football on steroids' and the 10-week league is all but ready for kick-off on October 12. Excitement: The owners of the eight clubs, or franchises, pose at the launch of the new tournament
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Football is already popular in India - with the Premier League a big deal
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David Trezeguet and Robert Pires will also be moving over to India
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Peter Reid is taking charge of one of the clubs already - Mumbai FC
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Bosses hope the new league can rival cricket's Indian Premier League | 12,747 | record_train |
@placeholder has granted the prosecution the right to have the appellate court consider the high court ruling in Knox's and Sollecito's current appeal. | Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- Amanda Knox, the American convicted in December 2009 of the sexual assault and murder of her British roommate in Italy, is "cautiously optimistic" as she begins the lengthy appellate process in Perugia, Italy, her best friend Madison Paxton said on Saturday. Two forensic experts from Rome's La Sapienza University were sworn in Saturday by Italian judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman, taking an oath to uphold objectivity as they retest crucial forensic evidence used to convict Knox, 23, and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, of killing Meredith Kercher in Perugia. The experts' work begins on February 9 and they must conclude their analysis by May 9. Results will be presented to the two-judge and six layperson jury on May 21.
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2 forensic experts will retest a knife and bra clasp from Amanda Knox trial for DNA evidence
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Retesting is part of Knox's appeal of 2009 murder conviction
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Knox's stepfather says "she's doing well and is happy it's going her way" | 12,748 | record_train |
While he and @placeholder also got to stand at the big video wall so he could show us his trousers were too long. | As many of you are no doubt aware, transfer deadline day actually started about two weeks ago over at Sky Sports. The studio has been given a makeover for the new season. Much like the new Doctor’s Tardis. And also like that rather unique Police Box, there is an irascible Scot at the the helm. But Sky Sports News’ very own timelord Jim White (‘the clock is TICKING!’) can’t be at the controls all the time. No worries, though, because his team of assistants have been fanning the flame for this particular Monday since the season began. Indeed, so much was the chain cranked over the approaching days, even come Monday morning, with over 11 hours to go, the studio felt like it was already at Def Con 1. One presenter even riffed on Jim’s repertoire and told us the ‘clock was ticking FAST’. Although on further inspection, it was actually ticking at the normal rate. Phew! No teething problems for the new studio there, then.
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Sky Sports News have a new studio but their show was more of the same
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Jim White resumed his role as their 'timelord'
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The Scot was assisted by Natalie Sawyer and Kate Abdo
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But the fans were allowed to run riot outside grounds
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Gary Cotterill used the vanishing spray to keep the crowd back
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But, at Vulliamy's suggestion, the heroes of @placeholder are two dogs in suits. | London (CNN) -- If your mother is one of the world's best-loved children's authors who has written more than 70 books and sold well in excess of 11.5 million copies, you might think about taking a different career path. Not Clara Vulliamy. Undaunted by the success of her mother Shirley Hughes, whose creations include Dogger and the Alfie series, Vulliamy has followed her lead. She has written and illustrated 25 children's books and -- like her mother -- wrote her first book soon after having children of her own. Now the mother-daughter team have collaborated for the first time on a new series called "Dixie O'Day", written by Hughes and illustrated by Vulliamy, with the first book to be published in September 2013.
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Children's author Shirley Hughes has written more than 70 books and sold more than 11.5 million copies
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Her daughter Clara Vulliamy followed in her footsteps as a writer and illustrator and has written 25 books
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Their first collaboration Dixie O'Day is published in September, written by Hughes and illustrated by Vulliamy | 12,750 | record_train |
'@placeholder has been by my side for more than two decades, helping to raise a family, nurture my political career and all of the other ups and downs and life events that come with a committed relationship. | By Chris Pleasance PUBLISHED: 10:55 EST, 17 January 2014 | UPDATED: 12:02 EST, 17 January 2014 Annise Parker, the mayor of Houston, has married her longtime partner Kathy Hubbard in a sunset ceremony at a private residence in Palm Springs, California. A small group of family and friends, including Parker's mother and Hubbard's sister, attended the service on Thursday. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Paul Fromberg, rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. House Mayor Annise Parker (right) and her long-time partner, Kathy Hubbard, celebrate at their wedding on Thursday in Palm Springs, California
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Annise Parker has married her 23-year partner Kathy Hubbard
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The pair travelled to California to take part in sunset ceremony
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Parker will now benefit from employee benefits usually given to mixed sex couples after she recently extended the law to include same sex couples | 12,751 | record_train |
A general view of the @placeholder on Thursday shows the spider-cam above the field of play | Virat Kohli became the first man ever to make three Test centuries in his first three innings as captain and Lokesh Rahul made the first of his career as India fought back on day three of the fourth Test against Australia at Sydney. The hosts had declared on 572 on day two but India produced a brilliant response to reach 342 for five, a deficit of 230, with Kohli hitting his fourth ton of the series as the pair put on 141 for the third wicket. Rahul had reached 110 when he was dismissed in just his second match while Kohli, in his first match as full-time skipper following the shock resignation of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, was undefeated on 140.
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Virat Kohli is the first man to score three Test centuries in his first three innings as captain
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India reached 342 for five after Australia declared on 572 on Wednesday
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Kohli was undefeated on 140 at the close of play on day three in Sydney | 12,752 | record_train |
Santi Cazorla – At the hub of everything that was good about @placeholder's display. | Arsenal breezed past struggling Aston Villa to secure all three points in a 5-0 win at the Emirates Stadium. Santi Cazorla yet again proved the creative hub of the team, grabbing two assists and a goal in the thrashing. Here, Sportsmail's Sami Mokbel rates each player as Arsene Wenger's side put pressure on fourth placed Southampton ahead of their game with Swansea. ARSENAL David Ospina – Made a crucial save to deny Weimann in the first half and his handling was top notch. 7 Hector Bellerin – Provided attacking impetus down the right hand side and was sound enough defensively. Excellent goal, too. 7.5
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Spanish midfielder Santi Cazorla scored one and assisted two in 5-0 win
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Olivier Giroud opened the scoring before Mesut Ozil doubled their lead
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Theo Walcott put the game well beyond a woeful Aston Villa side
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Defender Hector Bellerin scored in injury time for five star Arsenal
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Soderbergh, who photographs his own movies under the pseudonym "@placeholder," is a superb technician. | (CNN) -- Forget the butterfly effect. In a globalized century, it's a totally different effect you have to be worried about. Steven Soderbergh's new movie, "Contagion," is a star-powered thriller that hops from Chicago to Hong Kong, London, Minneapolis, Geneva and beyond. Each port of call brings another familiar face: Gwyneth Paltrow looking green and jet-lagged, Matt Damon as her tired and bewildered husband, Laurence Fishburne coordinating the response for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kate Winslet (wonderful), who is first in the field as the American fatalities begin to mount. Jude Law is an Aussie blogger who smells the story before anyone in the mainstream media. Marion Cotillard is a World Health Organization scientist collecting data from the initial carrier in China. The English actress Jennifer Ehle is a revelation as another research scientist striving to find a cure.
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The film 'Contagion' is chock-full of big-name actors
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Director Steven Soderbergh presents a disaster movie of epic proportion
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Reviewer says the movie is "a model of lucidity and clean, crisp storytelling" | 12,754 | record_train |
Though @placeholder may have had a big mouth, he had no weapon, Guy said. | (CNN) -- The jury weighing the fate of a white Florida man accused of killing a black teen during an argument over loud music concluded its second day of deliberations Thursday after asking a judge for details about a letter written in the months after the shooting. The jury was scheduled to resume deliberations Friday at 9 a.m. ET. The question was the latest posed by the jury considering the evidence in the case against Michael Dunn, who says he acted in self-defense when he opened fire on four teenagers in an SUV in Jacksonville in November 2012. Prosecutors contend it was an act of murder. Dunn has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. He also has been charged with three counts of attempted murder. If Dunn is found guilty, he faces up to life in prison.
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NEW: Jury suspends deliberations for the day
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Jury has eight whites, two blacks, an Asian and Hispanic, CNN affiliate says
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Jury asks to see surveillance footage and mannequin
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If found guilty of first-degree murder, Michael Dunn faces up to life in prison | 12,755 | record_train |
'Now we need to move forward and act to bring in a new manager with the aim of getting us promoted back to where @placeholder belongs, in the top league of Scottish football, from a uniquely competitive Championship. | Former England skipper Terry Butcher has been sacked by Hibs after less than seven months in charge of the Edinburgh outfit. The Easter Road club were relegated to the Championship – the second tier of Scottish football – after an atrocious run of results culminated in them losing a relegation-promotion play-off with Hamilton. Hibs chairman Rod Petrie and chief executive Leeann Dempster met with Butcher on Monday, with the board then unanimously agreeing to dispense with his services today. Gone: Former England skipper Terry Butcher has been sacked following Hibs' relegation to the Championship Dempster said: 'I have to say that we all regret that this decision had to be made, but during conversation it became clear that a different approach was needed.
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Hibs were relegated to the Championship after losing play-off with Hamilton
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The board unanimously agreed to dispense with Butcher on Tuesday
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Leeann Dempster says club's 'first aim is to win promotion' | 12,756 | record_train |
‘If Harry Kane’s going to be of the level to go on and play for England — which I believe he is — that helps @placeholder and the other Liverpool players who play for England because it means you get another top-quality striker. | Brendan Rodgers has predicted Liverpool will benefit from Harry Kane’s spectacular rise — as it will spur Daniel Sturridge on to cement himself as England’s No 1 striker. The biggest game in the Barclays Premier League this week takes place at Anfield tonight, with man-of- the-moment Kane and Tottenham’s rapidly improving side looking to derail Liverpool’s hopes of clambering back into the top four. Rodgers, a keen admirer of Kane, believes it is a question of when, rather than if, he gets a senior England call-up but he has given the 21-year-old an idea of how much further he has to climb by labelling Sturridge the best English forward in the business.
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Harry Kane has 22 goals for Tottenham and is tipped to play for England
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But Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers think Daniel Sturridge is better
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'Although known for its sparse population, @placeholder is chock full of glorious natural wonders and historical sites.' | Google Street View is great for virtually visiting local landmarks and bustling cities, but the service really comes into its own when mapping the far-flung regions of the planet. And the latest of these distant locations to be added is Greenland. It is the first time Google has captured the island and highlights include the Illulissat icefjord, the region's capital Nuuk including statues in honour of missionary Hans Egede, and the 10th century Viking settlement of Erik the Red. Greenland is the 66th country to be added to Google's Street View mapping service and highlights include the Illulissat icefjord, on the west coast of Greenland. The Unesco World Heritage site is 155 miles (250km) north of the Arctic Circle and features the Sermeq Kujalleq, one of the few glaciers through which the Greenland ice cap reaches the sea (pictured)
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Greenland is the 66th country to be added to Google's Street View mapping service since it launched in 2007
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Highlights include the Illulissat icefjord on the west coast of Greenland, and a statue of missionary Hans Egede
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Google has also captured Brattahild - Erik the Red's estate in the Viking colony in south western Greenland
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One of @placeholder's relatives forwarded him the post and he was amazed when he realized he was the one being praised. | By Sadie Whitelocks A heartfelt open letter from a mother thanking a 'kind stranger' for entertaining her autistic daughter during a two-and-half-hour flight has been read more than 51,000 times with many deeming it a 'touching' and 'beautiful' story. Shanell Mouland, 36, from New Brunswick, Canada, uploaded a note to her blog Go Team Kate last Thursday detailing how the mystery passenger engaged her three-year-old Kate in conversation instead of ignoring her. 'Thank you for not making me repeat those awful apologetic sentences that I so often say in public,' she wrote. 'Thank you for entertaining Kate so much that she had her most successful plane ride, yet. And, thank you for putting your papers away and playing turtles with our girl.'
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Shanell Mouland, 36, from New Brunswick, Canada, was shocked to find that her message was read more than 51,000 times
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The 'stranger' has since been identified as Eric Kunkel - a businessman from New Jersey | 12,759 | record_train |
Mrs Radford and husband @placeholder, 43, were ‘devastated beyond words’ when a | Baby bumps are nothing new in the Radford household. But even though they are Britain’s biggest family, the sight of two together is a first. When Sue Radford, 39, heard her eldest daughter Sophie, 20, was giving her a second grandchild she was thrilled. Scroll down for video Huge family: Sue Radford (right), 39, who has nine sons and seven daughters, is expecting her 17th baby in November, while her daughter Sophie (left), 20, is excited for her new arrival due five weeks earlier Nine sons and seven daughters: Sue and Noel Radford are parents to Chris, 25, Sophie, 20, Chloe, 18, Jack, 17, Daniel, 15, Luke, 13, Millie, 12, Katie, 11, James, ten, Ellie, nine, Aimee, eight, Josh, seven, Max, five Tilly, four, Oscar, two, and Casper, one (not all pictured). Sophie is also mother to Daisy, one (far left)
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Sue Radford, 39, of Morecambe, is expecting her 17th baby in November
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Daughter Sophie, 20, is excited for her new arrival due five weeks earlier
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Mrs Radford has nine sons and seven daughters and featured on TV show
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Runs bakery with husband and lives in nine-bedroom former care home | 12,760 | record_train |
Wild behaviour: Two young girls ride a mechanical bull at @placeholder nightclub | By Travelmail Reporter British holidaymakers are avoiding the Mallorca resort of Magaluf following its sex act shame, with last-minute bookings significantly down compared to last year. Holiday searches increased by 25 per cent in the week following reports of the 18-year-old girl who performed a sex act on 24 men to win a free cocktail. But last year saw a 39 per cent surge in bookings over the same period. The drop-off in holiday searches comes as the Spanish Tourist Office confirmed it was working with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in an attempt to control the bad behaviour of tourists in the resort.
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Accommodation searches down compared to same time last year
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Talk show host Jeremy Kyle attacked with pepper spray while filming
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TOWIE stars pull out of pool party hosted by Carnage Magalluf
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On the rise: @placeholder reached the semi-final at Wimbledon and is at a career-high world ranking of 8 | By Eleanor Crooks, Press Association Grigor Dimitrov will attempt to do in the third round of the US Open what only one player has managed in 28 matches - beat David Goffin. It is unlikely the Belgian will make the latter stages, but no player arrived in New York with more confidence than the Goffin. After losing to Andy Murray in the first round at Wimbledon, Goffin headed to Scheveningen in Holland to play a Challenger tournament. Form of his life: David Goffin is on a run of just one defeat in his last 28 matches, and next faces Grigor Dimitrov
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David Goffin has only lost one match in his last 28
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The Belgian hammered 32nd seed Joao Sousa 6-4 6-2 6-0 on Friday
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Seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov is also in good form, and beat Dudi Sela 6-1 6-2 6-2 in the second round
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Our collective security requires every @placeholder country to accept its responsibility,' Mr Miliband said. | By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor Russian President Vladimir Putin must end the 'festering and dangerous crisis' in Ukraine or face the consequences, David Cameron warned today. Invoking the outbreak of World War Two, the Prime Minister said Europe must not forget the 'consequences of turning a blind eye when big countries bully smaller countries'. He insisted Russia 'needs European markets far more than we need Russian markets', as he warned it would be 'unthinkable' for France go ahead with selling warships to Putin. It came after Chancellor George Osborne warned failure to stand-up to Russia risks causing harm to the British economy.
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Prime Minister insists Russia needs Europe more than Europe needs Russia
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Says it would be 'unthinkable' for France to sell Mistral warships to Moscow
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Warns Moscow must co-operate with the investigation on the crash site
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10 Britons were among the 298 passengers and crew to die in Ukraine
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Harry then took the stage, admitting it was a "truly humbling and a little terrifying" to follow @placeholder and that he did not "feel that I have done nearly enough to deserve" the award. | (CNN) -- A Washington think tank celebrated Prince Harry on Monday night for his humanitarian efforts, with the British royal deflecting the praise by offering his own salute to wounded war veterans. Harry was among the guests of honor at the event marking the 50th anniversary of the Atlantic Council, which describes itself as a "nonpartisan institution devoted to promoting transatlantic cooperation and international security." The grandson of Queen Elizabeth II arrived around 6:15 p.m. at the Washington Ritz-Carlton in a black tux, with photographers yelling his name and a few girls shrieking as he walked inside. Less than two hours later, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell took the stage to formally present Prince Harry with the council's Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership Award, an honor most recently bestowed on U2 frontman and activist Bono.
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NEW: Colin Powell jokes Prince Harry's presence draws "record number of young, single women"
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NEW: He receives the Atlantic Council's Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership Award
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NEW: The prince salutes troops who "have paid a terrible price to keep us safe and free"
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So H1N1 is not gone, but as the @placeholder explains, the flu activity health officials are now seeing is typical seasonal flu activity. | (CNN) -- The global H1N1 pandemic is over, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization said Tuesday. "We are moving out of the pandemic into the post-pandemic period," said Margaret Chan, director-general of the WHO. Chan said that while several countries -- including India and New Zealand -- are still experiencing significant H1N1 flu transmission, out-of-season flu outbreaks are no longer being reported in the northern or southern hemispheres. "This pandemic has turned out to have been much more fortunate than what we feared a little over a year ago," Chan told reporters in a news conference Tuesday.
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World Health Organization chief says the global H1N1 pandemic is over
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Chan says out-of-season flu outbreaks are no longer being reported in the northern or southern hemispheres
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Several countries - including India and New Zealand - are still experiencing significant H1N1 flu transmission
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She claimed @placeholder were driven by a fear that the drugs would be ‘overly expensive and stretch resources’, despite being deemed cost-effective by Nice. | By Sophie Goodchild Thousands of patients are being denied the choice of life-saving heart drugs by cash-strapped NHS trusts. The UK drugs watchdog gave GPs the green light two years ago to prescribe new-generation blood-thinners for people with irregular heartbeats at risk of suffering strokes. But doctors are defying recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), according to a leading charity. The Atrial Fibrillation Association claims that the bodies that deliver NHS treatments are placing restrictions on use of new blood thinner drugs The Atrial Fibrillation Association (AFA) claims that clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) – the bodies that deliver NHS treatments – are placing restrictions on use of these new drugs.
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New blood-thinners could save lives, but patients are denied them
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Fortunately for @placeholder's postal workers, Charlie only barks on command. | By Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 22:41 EST, 24 March 2013 | UPDATED: 04:34 EST, 25 March 2013 Charlie doesn't bark very often, but when he does you'll definitely know about it. The six-year-old golden retriever recently earned the Guinness World Record for the loudest bark, registering an incredible 113.1 decibels, the same as a loud rock concert. It is even louder than the average human pain threshold, 110 decibels. Scroll down for video Charlie the Golden Retriever, pictured with Kayla Freebairn, is officially the world's loudest dog Charlie is owned by Belinda Freebairn, from Adelaide in Australia, who says he developed his deep and very loud bark when he was only a year old, according to World Record Academy.
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Charlie's record-breaking bark is as loud as a rock concert
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The golden retriever is louder than a pneumatic drill or a jet taking off
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Since his election, President Obama has struggled to navigate the divisions that exist between the liberal base of the party, who were the core of his early support, and moderate @placeholder, who were also instrumental to his victory. | Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. His new book, "Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism," will be published this fall by Basic Books. Zelizer writes widely about current events. Julian Zelizer says some of President Obama's political vulnerabilities have started to emerge. PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) -- June has been rough for President Obama. After experiencing enormous success during his first months in office, some of his political vulnerabilities have started to emerge. As Republicans begin to think about the 2010 midterm elections and moderate Democrats decide how they should vote on Obama's most ambitious initiative, health care, the White House must prevent these weaknesses from becoming debilitating.
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Julian Zelizer: June has been a difficult month for President Obama
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He says divisions have grown among Democrats on gay rights, health care
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Zelizer says growing concern about deficit could blunt Obama's plans
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The @placeholder’s defensive player of the year, Sam and is eligible for May’s draft and is projected to be a mid-round pick. | NFL release statement in support of 24-year-old The All-American defensive end set to be picked in 2014 Draft in May Michael Sam could become the NFL’s first openly homosexual player, after revealing he is gay. The All-American defensive end from Missouri revealed the news in interviews with ESPN and the New York Times. Sam said his team-mates and coaches have known since August. ‘I am an openly, proud gay man,’ the 24-year-old said. Happy: Michael Sam has revealed he is openly-gay ahead of his probable introduction to the NFL in 2014 The 255-pound Sam participated in the Senior Bowl in Alabama last month after leading the SEC - America’s best college conference - in sacks (11.5) and tackles for loss (19).
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NFL release statement in support of 24-year-old
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The All-American defensive end set to be picked in 2014 Draft in May | 12,769 | record_train |
He said: '@placeholder have made it clear that they will just keep bidding and bidding. | Swansea defender Ashley Williams has been told he is not for sale this summer. The 29-year-old, who is wanted by Sunderland among others, has a year remaining on his current deal and the Swans do not want to lose him. His representative, Jamie Moralee, told the South Wales Evening Post: 'At the moment, there have been some bids coming in. Swansea have rejected those because they think Ash is important - everyone's clear on that. Wanted man: Swansea defender Ashley Williams (left) is a summer transfer target for Sunderland On the move? Williams, pictured here in action against Everton, has just a year left on his Swans contract
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Swansea manager Garry Monk wants to keep Williams
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The defender has one year left on his deal at the Liberty Stadium
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Sunderland are hoping to sign the Welshman this summer
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Williams could sign a new deal to remain with Swansea | 12,770 | record_train |
The 29-year-old was left on the substitutes' bench at the @placeholder. | Arsene Wenger would have been a cigarette and blindfold away from the firing line had Arsenal started as diabolically as they did against Stoke City at the Britannia just one month ago. There, Arsenal were 3-0 down by half-time, their frail defence unable to cope with the presence of Peter Crouch and the runs behind of Bojan Krkic. There was no such problem at the Emirates with a back four consisting of Per Mertesacker, Laurent Koscielny, Nacho Monreal and Hector Bellerin, replacing Mathieu Debuchy after 13 minutes, as they got revenge for the humiliation felt on December 6. Peter Crouch and Per Mertesacker battle during the Premier League match which Arsenal won 3-0
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Arsenal beat Stoke City 3-0 at the Emirates in revenge for December defeat
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Arsenal's 6ft 7in defender Per Mertesacker took control of Stoke's 6ft 6in striker Peter Crouch
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Their win percentage goes from 33 to 70 and they concede 1.2 less goals when defender Laurent Koscielny is playing
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Koscielny created and scored the opening goal after just six minutes | 12,771 | record_train |
Exposed: The online art world reacted angrily to @placeholder copying the photographer's work and that of his friend | By Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 09:09 EST, 12 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:36 EST, 12 December 2012 Photographer and artist Jason Levesque was walking around an art show in Miami Beach when he found a series of paintings that looked more than a little bit familiar. Two of the paintings, on sale for around $4,000, had more than a passing resemblance to a pair of stills he had taken, while a third looked an awful lot like an image captured by his close friend Marie Killen. An outraged Levesque took to Facebook and exposed Josafat Miranda, the artist behind the three paintings on display.
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Jason Levesque finds painted copies of his photographs at Miami gallery
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He posted original and copies online to expose painter Josafat Miranda
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Bayern's 4-0 home defeat by @placeholder raised questions that Guardiola's team is too tactically predictable. | (CNN) -- His appointment at Bayern Munich was regarded as a something of coup, but less than a year after his arrival in Bavaria the first cracks have appeared in the relationship between Pep Guardiola and the German club. Widely regarded as the best coach in the world, Guardiola joined Bayern last year armed with a footballing philosophy that had brought him world domination during his time at Barcelona. The Spaniard quickly guided Bayern to victories in the club World Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, before securing the German Bundesliga title in record-breaking speed. But after crashing out of the Champions League at the semifinal stage to Real Madrid this week in humiliating fashion, the Spaniard's possession-based style of football has come under criticism.
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Pep Guardiola says Bayern Munich must decide if he is right coach for job
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Guardiola has faced criticism recently for his tactics
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The Spaniard wants to stay at Bayern for next season
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Karl Hopfner succeeds Uli Houness as Bayern club president | 12,773 | record_train |
@placeholder has also said that he believed he needed to score a knockout to put all doubts to rest. | (CNN) -- With a crushing right hand, Juan Manuel Marquez knocked out Manny Pacquiao in the sixth round of a non-title bout in Las Vegas late Saturday, scoring a definitive victory after three previous bouts that ended in close judgments. The fight came to an end 2:59 into the sixth round, after Juan Manuel Marquez landed a right hand to Manny Pacquiao's face, knocking him cold late Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Pacquiao went down face-first and lay motionless for a while, possibly unconscious, before eventually sitting up. It was called a technical knockout and Marquez declared the winner.
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It is the first time either fighter knocked out the other
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The first three fights resulted in a draw and two close wins for Manny Pacquiao
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Mitt Romney wished Pacquiao luck before the fight | 12,774 | record_train |
The 1992 law that set @placeholder's marriage age at 15 was later amended to allow even younger girls to wed with parental approval. | (CNN) -- "When I got married I was scared," remembers 10-year-old Nujood Ali. "I didn't want to leave my family and siblings." Yemeni lawyer Shada Nasser helped 10-year-old Nujood Ali divorce her 30-year-old husband. At an age when girls in the West still play with dolls, Nujood found herself married to a man three times her age. But in her home country of Yemen -- a deeply conservative Middle East Muslim nation -- this situation isn't uncommon. Yemeni lawyer Shada Nasser had long opposed the practice of early marriage when, in April 2008, she got a chance to do something about it.
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Yemeni lawyer Shada Nasser helped a 10-year-old divorce her 30-year-old husband
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Since then, Nasser has volunteered to help other young brides
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She is also working to raise Yemen's legal age of marriage
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Hook, line and sinker: The 27-year-old @placeholder native admits that his passion, which includes spending a fortune on Madonna-style outfits, has turned into an addiction | TLC's latest episode of My Strange Addiction ended last night with an unusual triumph when a male Madonna impersonator finally gave up on his damaging obsession. Adam Guerra, 27, from Los Angeles, California, has devoted 12 years, endured 18 surgeries, and spent more than $175,000 in his quest to emulate the legendary pop queen; a passion he admits has slid into an addiction. During the episode, his boyfriend Michael, unable to endure Adam's Madonna fixation any longer, delivers him a frank ultimatum, stating: 'I want to date a boy. I don't want to date a 56-year-old woman.' Scroll down for video
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Adam Guerra, 27, from Los Angeles, California, appeared on TLC's My Strange Addiction last night
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Holdsworth-Wild also met with ‘@placeholder’ in person on July 6, later sending her a message saying he was ‘horny’. | Accused: Holdsworth-Wild yesterday A wheelchair-bound equalities advisor for Westminster City Council was snared arranging to have sex with a five-year-old girl and her mother, a court heard yesterday. Andrew Holdsworth-Wild, 58, was allegedly caught red-handed at Victoria station in south-west London with a box of Smarties, a colouring book and train tickets to Maidstone, Kent. He had organised a liaison at a Travelodge with ‘Jo’, an undercover police officer, and her fictional daughter, ‘Chloe’. Covert officers initially made contact with Holdsworth-Wild, who is wheelchair-bound, on the nudist website, True Nudist, last February, jurors were told. The conversations moved to an MSN forum where Holdsworth-Wild said he ‘liked playing, having sex and sexy times’, Southwark Crown Court heard.
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Disabled equalities advisor arranged to have sex with mother and child, a court heard
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Andrew Holdsworth-Wild, 58, claims that discussions were just fantasy
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'In fact, Annette drew a line in the sand and said if he pushed show bosses to make @placeholder his new co-host, she'd divorce him. | It may come down to which he values more - his marriage or the future of the Today show. NBC host Matt Lauer's wife is said to have threatened him with divorce if newsreader Natalie Morales - who he is rumored to have had an affair with - takes Ann Curry's seat when her departure is announced at the end of the week. Though Savannah Guthrie is the front-runner to replace Ann, it was reported today that Ms Morales said she will quit the Today show if she is bypassed as Lauer's co-anchor again. 'Walk-out': Natalie Morales on the Today show, left, is rumored to be threatening to quit if she doesn't get Ann's job, while Matt Lauer's wife Annette, both right, has threatened him with divorce if this happens
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Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb said to be next in line for top job
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Rather it is @placeholder who is the key 'moderator.' | There has been tension on the set of the talk show The View for months now. And it looks like things may come to a head sooner rather than later, according to a Monday report from TMZ, as Rosie O'Donnell is again pegged as a troublemaker on the set of the ABC show. 'Executives doubt she will even finish the season,' a source told the site. Rosie's rep has denied the report. Scroll down for video More reports of bad blood on set: On Monday TMZ claimed that Rosie O'Donnell, pictured in September, may not last the entire season of The View as she has been 'rude' and a 'malcontent' on the show
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Rosie is said to be 'rude' and a 'malcontent' on the ABC daytime talk show
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The 52-year-old star is 'upset that she is not the moderator on The View'
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Bulger "waived his Miranda rights" and told agents who were taking him back to @placeholder that he had been "a frequent traveler as a fugitive." | (CNN) -- James "Whitey" Bulger lived "a relatively comfortable lifestyle" with his girlfriend for the 16 years he was a fugitive, including numerous gambling trips to Las Vegas, according to a government document filed in his case Monday. Bulger, 81, and Catherine Elizabeth Greig, 60, were arrested Wednesday after he was lured out of his Santa Monica, California, apartment by an FBI ruse. The alleged East Coast mobster, who was on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted list, faces charges in 19 mob-related murders. The U.S. Attorney's office in Boston, where Bulger is being prosecuted, filed a response Monday to his request that the federal government pay for his defense because of his lack of money.
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Bulger admitted to agents that he took trips to Vegas, Boston and Mexico, document says
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Investigators found $822,198 cash hidden in the walls of his home, filing says
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These planets, named @placeholder 20-e and Kepler 20-f, have sizes and masses similar to the Earth, and their host star is similar to our sun. | New Haven, Connecticut (CNN) -- Americans were enthralled by fake reports of an alien invasion in the Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast on Halloween Eve in 1938. Hundreds of science fiction movies from the 1902 silent epic "A Trip to the Moon" (featured in the current film "Hugo") to "Star Wars" to this year's "Cowboys and Aliens" have fed a deep curiosity about intelligent beings elsewhere in the universe. Hang on to your hats, because reality is starting to catch up. On Tuesday, scientists reported evidence from the Kepler satellite that two Earth-sized planets are orbiting a nearby star about 1,000 light years from earth -- practically our back yard compared to the extent of our Milky Galaxy, but far too distant to visit with current spacecraft.
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Scientists announce the discovery of two Earth-sized planets
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Meg Urry says they're too close to their star to host life as we know it
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For the @placeholder, the purpose of the conference was to send a political message of collaborative engagement. | Washington (CNN) -- The Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship late last month marked a turning point in U.S. foreign policy. Did you hear about this summit? Likely not, as headlines focused on the oil spill, the bomb scare in Times Square and the Supreme Court nomination. And with the U.S. unemployment rate at nearly 10 percent, promoting prosperity abroad is difficult for the White House to tout at home. Still, President Obama pledged in Cairo, Egypt, last June to build a new beginning with Muslim nations, and entrepreneurship provides an innovative new tool. Obama was keeping his promise to deepen partnerships between the United States and the Muslim world when he invited 275 entrepreneurs from Muslim-majority countries to participate in the Washington summit. Selected delegates came from more than 50 countries, including Iraq, India, Indonesia and Kazakhstan.
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Amy Wilkinson: Obama held summit to draw Muslim entrepreneurs to partnerships
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Meeting met Cairo pledge to take relations past conflict and into economic realm, she says
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She says 275 entrepreneurs from 50 countries networked, shared ideas, forged bonds
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Wilkinson: Entrepreneurship is the new global engagement | 12,782 | record_train |
'It's a revolution and I'd like to join in and kick some @placeholder a**e, but I want to contribute something useful and go to the front line and help with providing food, cleaning military or humanitarian aid, doing security checks, whatever is required.' | Australian Zaky Mallah, the first person charged with terrorism in Australia, is hoping to be signed up to fight with a Ukrainian military unit which is recruiting Australians. The Asov Battalion - which Sydney man Mr Mallah, who was jailed in maximum security for two years before being acquitted of terrorism charges, has applied to join - has set up a Facebook page in its recruitment drive for men to join for a minimum two months. The battalion describes itself as a military wing of the Ukrainian Government and is open to 'all foreign volunteers' to join a revolution 'This is a revolution for idealists... You will get over here and will find only problems, war, adventure, maybe death, serious wounds, but for sure also great memories and friends for a lifetime,' the revolution's call to arms poster reads.
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Zaky Mallah, 30, of Sydney, hopes to go to Ukraine and fight against the Russians
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Mallah was accused of terrorism charges as a teenager, but found innocent
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He travelled to Syria in 2012 to fight with the Free Syrian Army rebels
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He has answered a recruitment drive by the Ukrainian Asov Revotution for Australian and foreign volunteers
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Mallah, a teenage friend of ISIS convert Khaled Sharrouf said Sharrouf is ignorant and fighting with a 'barbaric cult'
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He hopes to go to Kiev as soon as possible and bring down the Russian troops occupying Ukraine
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CNN: She lost a good friend in @placeholder last year, and now more loss. | (CNN) -- She had the most memorable entrance of any character on "The Walking Dead" so far. Just as Andrea was about to be set upon by a herd of walkers, a shadowy figure dispatched them -- with a Katana sword. It was one of the standout moments of the season two finale, and we would soon learn that this person's name was Michonne, a quiet warrior who had seemingly mastered how to survive in the zombie apocalypse (one bright idea: bring along a couple of chained walkers with no hands or mouths to draw away the others). Ever since that moment, Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, has been rivaled only by Daryl Dixon in terms of rabid fans. At times, she is a silent force of nature, but has opened up a good deal to the rest of the survivors lately.
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Fans have loved "The Walking Dead's" sword-wielding character Michonne
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He has been charged with three felony counts, including violations of the @placeholder | The man wanted by the United States for leaking details of National Security Agency intelligence gathering says journalists have been misled into printing false claims about his legal situation, The Huffington Post reported Thursday. In an e-mailed statement to the news organization, Edward Snowden distanced himself from his father, Lon Snowden; his father's attorney, Bruce Fein; and Fein's associates, saying "they do not possess any special knowledge regarding my situation." "None of them have been or are involved in my current situation, and this will not change in the future," the statement said. Snowden's father: 'I know my son'
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Edward Snowden emailed a statement to The Huffington Post
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In it, he says his father's legal team does "not possess special knowledge regarding my situation"
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"None of them have been or are involved in my current situation," the statement says
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Snowden's statement followed a news report about a rift | 12,785 | record_train |
I said, '@placeholder think and play, think what you should do during the game.'" | (CNN) -- Manchester City have lodged an official complaint with European football's governing body after striker Mario Balotelli claimed he was racially abused during Thursday's match away to Porto. City came from behind to win the first-leg Europa League tie 2-1 in Portugal, but the English Premier League leaders approached UEFA after the match when Italy international Balotelli complained of being subjected to racist chants from fans. UEFA confirmed to CNN Friday that City's complaint had been received, but said a decision on whether to launch an investigation would not be made until the match delegate's report had been received.
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Manchester City report alleged racial abuse from Porto fans to UEFA
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City striker Mario Balotelli claims he was racially abused during the match in Portugal
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The EPL leaders came from behind to win the first-leg match 2-1
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UEFA will wait to receive the match delegate's report before deciding whether to investigate | 12,786 | record_train |
'But we felt it important that she come into @placeholder for Ebola virus disease.' | The volunteer nurse who is being monitored inside a Queensland hospital for Ebola has tested negative, a Queensland Health official has confirmed. Sue Ellen Kovack was tested for the deadly virus on her return from Sierra Leone where she was volunteering with the Red Cross in the fight against Ebola. There were fears the 57-year-old, from Cairns, was suffering from the illness she was helping to treat after she reported feeling a fever at 1pm AEST on Thursday. Ms Kovack was put under observation and quarantined at Cairns Hospital. Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young stated on Friday morning that initial tests taken have returned a negative result.
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Red Cross nurse Sue Ellen Kovack has tested negative for Ebola virus
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She had been volunteering in Sierra Leone - a nation swept with the illness
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Ms Kovack was treating Ebola patients and had just returned
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She raised the alarm after suffering a mild fever at 1pm AEST on Thursday
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A Red Cross spokesman said she was doing 'well' and in 'good spirits'
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But outspoken MP Bob Katter has slammed Ms Kovack's volunteer efforts
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The federal member for Kennedy said she had put Australians at risk | 12,787 | record_train |
Excluding @placeholder, executions rose to at least 778 last year, up from 682 in 2012. | Virtual "killing sprees" in Iran and Iraq led to a spike in the number of executions globally last year, according to Amnesty International, at odds with a steady decline in the use of the death penalty around the world over the last two decades. Executions by beheading, electrocution, firing squad, hanging and lethal injection rose by almost 15 percent in 2013 on the previous year, the organization said in its latest report on the death penalty released Thursday. China executed more people than any other country last year. Although Chinese authorities treat official execution statistics as a state secret, Amnesty International estimates thousands are killed under the death penalty every year, more than the rest of the world combined.
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Amnesty study says executions jumped by 15 percent in 2013
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China executed more people than rest of world combined
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A dramatic rise in executions was reported in Iran and Iraq
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There's no evidence capital punishment deters crime, report says | 12,788 | record_train |
"Hearing from the serving soldiers about how they were having to work there to earn enough money to buy themselves decent equipment, while the @placeholder could find public money to buy themselves all sorts of extravagances, only added to the feeling that the public should know what was going on." | LONDON, England (CNN) -- The person who leaked British lawmakers' controversial expense claims earlier this year, triggering a national scandal, was motivated by outrage at apparent equipment shortages for British troops, a newspaper said Friday. The mole was angry at apparent equipment shortages for British troops deployed around the world. The mole was one of 20 people employed to process and censor the expenses claims before their scheduled official release in July, according to The Daily Telegraph. The man leaked the claims to the Telegraph, which printed them in a series of front-page articles in May. The articles brought public embarrassment to Parliament and even forced some lawmakers to resign.
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Mole one of 20 people employed to process and censor MPs' expenses
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Soldiers guarding them did so to earn extra cash between tours of duty
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Mole became angry at MP claims as soldiers saved to buy essential equipment
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Claims included thousands of dollars' worth of interest on mortgages already paid | 12,789 | record_train |
"The highly-efficient carbon brakes slow a car down so rapidly and the downforce generated by current aerodynamics is such that a driver experiences a peak of around @placeholder under braking and in high-speed corners," the team said. | LONDON, England -- Formula One drivers spend a lot of time talking about the gym and going jogging. Toyota's Timo Glock has to spend a lot of time in the gym to be fit enough to race. Even when they're on holiday there is a gym close at hand -- in fact many list fitness as a hobby, which is a little on the sad side. However, they're exercise obsessed for a good reason: without being in peak fitness they would not be able to handle the stresses of driving a Formula One car at 350kmh. It's perhaps the one situation where sitting down for up to two hours is actually very, very tiring.
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Formula One drivers' hearts beat up to 190 times a minute during races
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Heart rate is above most other athletes, making aerobic fitness very important
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Drivers have to deal with forces of up to 5Gs during races | 12,790 | record_train |
Separation at that time was rare, and divorce only became legal in @placeholder in 1970. | She has lived through two world wars, 70 governments and her life spans three centuries. Now, Europe's oldest woman has revealed the secrets of her long life. Emma Morano, from Verbania, Italy, has been alive for over 115 years - and claims eating raw eggs and avoiding men has kept her young. Ms Morano is not only the oldest person in Europe, but the fifth oldest person in the world. Emma Morano, 115, says eating three raw eggs a day and avoiding relationships with men are the key to her long life. She separated from her husband in 1938 and never married again
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Emma Morano, 115, is the fifth oldest woman in the world
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Has been eating three raw eggs a day ever since she was a teenager
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Credits her longevity on remaining unmarried after a divorce in 1983
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'I didn't want to be dominated by anyone,' she said, turning down suitors | 12,791 | record_train |
Re-made in @placeholder: Binky Felstead have chosen to join a new gym to sculpture her body | By Mail On Sunday Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:00 EST, 26 October 2013 | UPDATED: 16:00 EST, 26 October 2013 The fitness bug is obviously catching among the cast of Made In Chelsea. Last month we revealed that Spencer Matthews was training for next month’s New York Marathon – now his co-star Binky Felstead has started an intensive new regime and is working out seven days a week. The pretty brunette, is now a regular at the upmarket Equinox Gym in Kensington, West London, where she has signed up for a one-hour class called The Workx.
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MIC star Binky joins hot American gym in Kensington to tone up
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Former England striker Alan Shearer has developed a workout machine
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'Successful' cheating feels great, assuming people feel remorse is false | 12,792 | record_train |
'Over the six week summer holiday @placeholder will host its biggest ever summer of historical events providing fun, entertaining and inspiring days out for families, culture fans and those keen to find out more about England’s stories.’ | By Helen Nicholson The construction of Stonehenge has been voted the historical event that most Britons would like to travel back in time to witness. The evacuation of Dunkirk, and the defending of Hadrian’s Wall by the Romans came second and third in the poll conducted by English Heritage. The organisation carried out the survey to celebrate the launch of six weeks of living history events across the country this summer, including medieval jousts, knights and princess training academies, and the chance to meet some of England’s most famous kings and queens. Still a mystery: English Heritage's Jeremy Ashbee said people wanted to discover more about who built the historic stone circle - and why
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Enormous stones in Wiltshire were lifted into place around 5,000 years ago
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Dunkirk evacuation and defence of Hadrian’s Wall came second and third
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Battle of Hastings and Viking raid at Lindisfarne Priory also popular choices
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68% of adults in the survey said they wished they knew more about history | 12,793 | record_train |
The EU also said it is setting up a new border surveillance system and @placeholder task force to bolster its efforts and will review its asylum immigration policies next summer. | (CNN) -- The death of more than 300 African migrants in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa in early October has shone a spotlight on illegal immigration to Europe. But although the tragedy at Lampedusa shocked the world, it has done little to dissuade migrants who continue to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from northern Africa to European shores. Frontex, the European Union border agency, says the majority of people residing illegally in the EU arrived by plane with a valid travel visa and simply stayed on after their visa expired. But Frontex also estimates that at least 72,000 people illegally entered the EU via land and sea routes in 2012 -- and the actual figure may be much higher.
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Frontex: At least 72,000 illegally entered EU via land and sea routes in 2012
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51% of migrants entering illegally took an eastern Mediterranean route, says border agency
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Migrant crossings through central Mediterranean, including Lampedusa, are on the rise
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Frontex says majority of those living illegally in Europe arrived by plane with valid travel visa | 12,794 | record_train |
‘What @placeholder did at every stage was to bring in independent regulators to ensure this process was fair. | Jeremy Hunt privately urged David Cameron to back Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB takeover bid just weeks before the Prime Minister put him in charge of ruling on the issue, it emerged last night. In a bombshell email, the Culture Secretary lavished praise on the £8 billion bid. Mr Hunt said it would allow Mr Murdoch’s son James to create ‘the world’s first multi-platform media operator’ and insisted that if it was blocked the ‘media sector will suffer for years’. Controversial: Jeremy Hunt, left, was put in charge of dealing with BSkyB bid by David Cameron, right, after Vince Cable lost the role
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Harriet Harman says the evidence of Hunt's wrongdoing was 'absolutely massive'
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'If we block it our media sector will suffer for years,' Mr Hunt told him
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The document also adds James Murdoch was 'furious' with Vince Cable over his handling of the bid
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A source close to Mr Hunt said the memo did not mean he couldn't make an independent decision | 12,795 | record_train |
"It puts beyond doubt the question of leadership in the @placeholder," he added. | (CNN) -- Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has survived another attempt to oust her from the job after no challengers emerged to vie for the leadership of the governing party and the country. In a short statement after the vote, Gillard said she accepted the support of her colleagues "with a sense of deep humility and a sense of resolve." She said that leadership uncertainty that had been blighting the party in recent months was settled "in the most conclusive fashion possible." One hundred Labor caucus members had been due to vote, but in the end, no votes were cast because there were no candidates beyond Gillard for prime minister, and Wayne Swan as her deputy.
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NEW: Gillard says leadership issue settled conclusively
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No challenges emerged to contest Australian leadership
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Kevin Rudd said he wouldn't stand against Julia Gillard
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Prime Minister Gillard called leadership vote for Thursday | 12,796 | record_train |
So far @placeholder has been silent on the alleged shade. | (CNN) -- It's not hip-hop without beef, right? We are still waiting to see if a war of words breaks out between rappers Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea after the former offered remarks at the 2014 BET Awards on Sunday that some took to be a diss toward the latter. Accepting the award for best female hip-hop artist, Minaj referenced writing her own lyrics. "What I want the world to know about Nicki Minaj," she said,"when you hear Nicki Minaj spit, Nicki Minaj wrote it." BET Awards: Hits and a Lionel Richie miss There is talk that Azalea uses ghostwriters for some of her songs, so Twitter was immediately all over the comment.
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Some believe Minaj dissed Azalea at the BET Awards
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Minaj insists there was "no shade"
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Azalea has not responded | 12,797 | record_train |
'But if this @placeholder game is the highest I ever get, it's certainly been a great career.' | By Luke Augustus Follow @@Luke_Augustus29 Catherine "Cat" Conti will create history when she becomes the first female to officiate a game involving a Big 12 team. Conti will take charge of Kansas' clash against Southeast Missouri State on September 6, it was announced by Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby on Monday. Ground-breaking: Cat Conti will become the first female referee to officiate a Big 12 team Aiming high: Conti has been an official for fourteen years and hopes to referee in the NFL one day Big game: Conte will officiate Kansas' (in blue) match against Southeast Missouri State on September 6
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Cat Conti will become the first female ever to referee a Big 12 team
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Conti will take charge of Kansas against Southeast Missouri State on September 6
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Conti says she hopes to referee in the NFL one day | 12,798 | record_train |
At that point, @placeholder, who was listed as the girl's father on her birth certificate, said he would not fight for custody. | (CNN) -- The lawyer and companion for former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith has filed a $60 million libel suit against the author and publisher of a new book on Smith's life and death. Howard K. Stern, shown in February, claims the book falsely accuses him of homosexual acts and cocaine use. Howard K. Stern's suit claims the book falsely accuses him of behavior including homosexual acts, illegal possession and use of cocaine and criminal involvement in the deaths of Smith and her son, Daniel. Stern claims in the suit against Rita Cosby and her publisher, Hachette Book Group USA, that Cosby "intentionally published false and defamatory statements about Stern related to Ms. Smith's death in a calculated effort to increase sales and increase profits" in her book, "Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death."
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Howard K. Stern's lawsuit seeks $60 million in damages
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Suit: Book falsely accuses Stern of involvement in deaths of Smith and her son
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Attempts by CNN to reach the book's author and publisher were unsuccessful | 12,799 | record_train |
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