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The Christmas market in @placeholder, German came in second on the list, followed by Vienna and Nuremberg | It’s a point of contention when thousands of Christmas markets pop up across Europe every holiday season – which one is the greatest of them all? A poll of nearly 72,000 people has tried to bring an end to the conflict – naming the festive market in Strasbourg, France as Europe’s best. With so much competition one of the most surprising inclusions on the top ten list may be Manchester, which placed ninth behind traditional favourites in Germany, Austria and France, but finished ahead of London. Europe's best: Strasbourg's Christmas market topped a vote held by a Brussels-based tourism group
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Nearly 72,000 people voted in poll held by European Best Destinations
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Manchester placed ninth behind traditional favourites in France, Germany
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London was one of 15 options but did not crack the top ten
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Aachen, Vienna, Nuremberg and Lille rounded out the top five | 13,100 | record_train |
While defending @placeholder, Mourinho insisted the FA had been right to punish Terry. | (CNN) -- Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has launched a staunch defense of John Terry declaring: "He is not a racist." Chelsea captain Terry was handed a four-match ban and a $356,000 fine by the English Football Association on Thursday after being found guilty of racially abusing Queens Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand. Terry, who captained Mourinho's Chelsea to consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, remains close friends with the Portuguese manager, who is now Real Madrid's coach, following their successful time at Stamford Bridge. Terry retires from England amid racism case "He is not a racist," Mourinho told CNN in an exclusive interview.
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Real Madrid boss backs Terry following FA punishment
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Terry captained Mourinho's Chelsea side to the Premier League title on two occasions
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Real Madrid insists Terry 'is not a racist'
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Mourinho says he has never felt racism in the dressing room | 13,101 | record_train |
Roy Hodgson indicated he will pick Harry Kane for the next England squad, having impressed with @placeholder | Red hot Tottenham striker Harry Kane treated his childhood sweetheart Katie Goodland with a Valentine's trip to Marbella. The Spurs star has already netted 23 goals for Tottenham so far this season and jetted off for some sun as Mauricio Pochettino's side were not involved in the FA Cup last weekend. The pair dined at Marbella's La Sala, which is part-owned by former Spurs team-mate and good friend David Bentley. Harry Kane pictured in Marbella with his childhood sweetheart Katie Goodland on a Valentine's trip Kane was clearly enjoying his break in Marbella with this Instagram post, 'Happy Valentines everyone'
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Tottenham striker Harry Kane has 23 goals for Spurs so far this season
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Harry Kane was awarded the January Barclays Player of the Month award
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Roy Hodgson says he'll pick Kane for his next England squad
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England play Lithuania in Euro 2016 qualifier at Wembley on March 27 | 13,102 | record_train |
His captain @placeholder agreed, saying: ‘We would have had no complaints if we came away with nothing, we would have no complaints if we came away with a point. | Brendan Rodgers heaped praise on Raheem Sterling after the wonderkid powered ‘lucky’ Liverpool to a dramatic 3-2 win at QPR. Sterling — who has been at the centre of controversy after complaining of tiredness ahead of England’s win over Estonia — had a hand in all of Liverpool goals, with Steven Caulker’s own goal in the dying seconds securing three points for the visitors. Rodgers said: ‘He (Sterling) was outstanding. (He showed) his brightness for the first goal. The breakaways for the other two are all about his speed, his technique, his courage to run with the ball.’ Raheem Sterling helped Liverpool record a narrow 3-2 win over QPR at Loftus Road on Sunday afternoon
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Liverpool beat QPR 3-2 thanks to a late Steven Caulker own goal
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Steven Gerrard was not happy with his side's performance at Loftus Road
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Brendan Rodgers admitted Queens Park Rangers did not deserve to lose
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Bobby Zamora blamed 'naivety' for his side's sixth Premier League defeat | 13,103 | record_train |
@placeholder, who posted another picture on Instagram before the race, raised over $81,000 for charity by completing the marathon. | Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki have formed a blossoming friendship over the past few months. Williams was waiting at the finish line as Wozniacki ran the New York Marathon before attending a fashion awards ceremony the following day. They were also seen watching the New York Knicks in action. Serena Williams (left) and Caroline Wozniacki (second right) have been enjoying some time poolside WIlliams (left) and Wozniacki (right) are on a holiday in the Bahamas at the moment Wozniacki (right) posted a picture of herself and Williams enjoying time off from the tennis court via Instagram Wozniacki posted a picture of herself enjoying a cold drink in the sun whilst holidaying in the Bahamas
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Serena Williams and Caroline Wozniacki form a blossoming friendship
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The pair have been spotted at fashion shows and sporting events already
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Now the tennis duo are enjoying a holiday together in the Bahamas | 13,104 | record_train |
It is the fourth year that the people of @placeholder have come together to put on a festive display. | A street in America has ramped up the voltage when it comes to Christmas lights and synced their bulbs to music. Sixteen neighbors living on Manning Street in Yucaipa, California, spent months preparing the impressive decorations adorning their homes and front yards. Resident Jeff Maxey uploaded an aerial video yesterday showing the lights in action, with thousands of ornaments flashing in time to Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You. Bolts of yellow, blue, red and green illuminate the night sky as the track plays. Car headlamps add to the effect as vehicles drive through the spectacle.
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Sixteen neighbors living on Manning Street in Yucaipa, California, spent months preparing the impressive light display
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The dancing decorations run from dusk to 9pm Sunday through Thursday and until 10pm on Friday and Saturday | 13,105 | record_train |
'It's important when you're fighting relegation you don't hit teams in red hot form and @placeholder are, so it's not the greatest of starts,' Pardew said. | Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew is confident significant funds will be available to strengthen his squad. Pardew left Newcastle to take over at Selhurst Park last week and is now tasked with securing safety for the Eagles, who are currently 18th in the Barclays Premier League. Palace are eager to boost their attacking options before the transfer window closes on February 2, and chairman Steve Parish is reportedly ready to sanction a club-record offer for Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis. Alan Pardew needs to make signings to strengthen Crystal Palace's survival bid Former Newcastle boss led the Eagles to a 4-0 FA Cup victory over Dover in his first game in charge
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Alan Pardew is confident of strengthening his squad in January window
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Eagles are preparing a club record bid for Swans striker Bafetimbi Gomis
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Yannick Bolasie will not leave without an 'extraordinary offer' being made
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Crystal Palace face Tottenham in the Premier League on Saturday | 13,106 | record_train |
A @placeholder military officer said Friday that the alliance -- which doesn't include Ukraine but does include several of its neighbors -- is looking into these reports and knows of an increase in Russian troops and equipment on its eastern border. | (CNN) -- Amid rising tensions and fresh violence, Ukrainian authorities on Friday accused Russia of sending dozens of its military vehicles into its territory -- though the Kremlin have knocked down such reports as unfounded and "provocative." At a briefing Friday, Ukrainian defense spokesman Andriy Lysenko said that 32 tanks, 16 D-30 howitzers and 30 KamAZ heavy trucks crossed past a border checkpoint and headed toward the volatile Luhansk region on Thursday. Another Ukrainian official, Dmytro Tymchuk, alleged the "armored column" consisted of "a battalion tactical group of the Russian Armed Forces," also according to Ukrinform state news agency.
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NEW: NATO officer: Crossing would be latest sign of "Russia's aggression," destabilizing efforts
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Ukraine official: Russia's military sent an "armored column" across border into Ukraine
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Another Ukrainian official says this includes 32 tanks, 30 KamAZ trucks, 16 howitzers
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Russia blasts reports of its troop movements near Ukraine as unfounded and "provocative" | 13,107 | record_train |
"I said that it was my last involvement on that kind of action in @placeholder. | Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- A court handed down a 20-year sentence Thursday for an Indonesian man convicted of helping assemble the bombs that killed more than 200 people in Bali in 2002. The Jakarta court found Umar Patek, 45, guilty of taking part in premeditated murder and conspiracy to smuggle explosives and firearms for use in terror attacks. Patek had faced a maximum penalty of death, and the courtroom was packed for the verdict delivered by a panel of five judges. He stared at the floor and showed no emotion as the verdict was read. He shook the judges' hands and hugged his lawyer before he was escorted to a car waiting in the basement of the courthouse for transportation to a jail on the outskirts of the city.
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NEW: Umar Patek showed no emotion as his sentence was handed down
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Patek was found guilty of taking part in premeditated murder
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He has admitted helping mix explosives but denies involvement in the planning
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After 10 years on the run, he was arrested in January 2011 in Pakistan | 13,108 | record_train |
In fact, @placeholder offered a rogue version of that service for $6 a month until last week. | (Wired) -- Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process. Seriously. Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype but based on open protocols and with a lot fewer users. TechCrunch, which broke the news on Monday, reported that Google spent $30 million on the company. Google announced the Gizmo acquisition on Thursday afternoon Pacific Time. Gizmo5's founder Michael Robertson, a brash serial entrepreneur, will become an Adviser to Google Voice. It's a potent recipe -- take Gizmo5's open standards-based online calling system. Add to it the new ability to route calls on Google's massive network of cheap fiber. Toss in Google Voice's free phone number, which will ring your mobile phone, your home phone and your Gizmo5 client on your laptop. ÿþ
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Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process.
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Google has bought Gizmo5, an online phone company that is akin to Skype
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Users could make and receive calls that bypass the per-minute billing on smartphones
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Consultant: "If AT&T is Coca-Cola, Google is now 7-UP" | 13,109 | record_train |
@placeholder stepped down as Watford boss on September 29 after a health scare | Slavisa Jokanovic has been appointed the new Watford manager after a bizarre week at the club. The former Chelsea midfielder takes over at Vicarage Road as Billy McKinlay left the Hornets after just eight days in charge. McKinlay became Watford's third manager this season following Oscar Garcia's decision to stand down and the departure of Giuseppe Sannino. Slavisa Jokanovic has been appointed the new Watford manager after a bizarre week at the club Billy McKinlay has left Watford after just eight days in charge at the Championship club Leroy Rosenior – Torquay (10 minutes, 2007) Dave Bassett – Crystal Palace (4 days, 1984)
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Billy McKinlay left his job as Watford manager on Tuesday
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McKinlay became Watford's third manager this season following departures of Oscar Garcia and Giuseppe Sannino
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Watford beat Brentford 2-1 in McKinlay's first game in charge last Tuesday and then drew 1-1 at Brighton at the weekend | 13,110 | record_train |
The refugees arrived by boat on the @placeholder shore, and Thai police said many had severe burns from a fire that broke out on board their craft after it left neighboring Myanmar, also known as Burma. | BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- A Thai judge fined dozens of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of illegal entry after escaping from their own country a month ago -- amid allegations that other Rohingya have been dumped at sea by the Thai army. Male refugees show scars they say were caused by beatings at the hands of the Myanmar navy. The Ranong Provincial Court judge ordered each of the 66 ethnic Muslim refugees to pay 1,000 Thai baht (less than $30). He imposed the fines via a closed-circuit television link to Ranong Provincial Prison, where the refugees will continue to be held until they can pay the court.
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Sixty-six Rohingya refugees from Myanmar fined by Thai court
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They will be handed over to immigration police with 12 others
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Rohingya refugees are at center of allegations of mistreatment by Thai army
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Photos obtained by CNN show army towing boatload of 190 refugees to sea | 13,111 | record_train |
he was involved in Miss Holloway's apparent death on the @placeholder | U.S. authorities are tonight moving to extradite Joran van der Sloot to face charges over the Natalee Holloway case after he was jailed for 28 years in Peru for murdering a woman he met at a casino. The 24-year-old Dutch citizen pleaded guilty on Wednesday to killing business student Stephany Flores, 21, in Lima, Peru, in a fit of rage in May 2010, after earlier meeting her in a casino. His sentencing by a Peruvian court on Friday comes as the family of U.S. teenager Miss Holloway seek to have him prosecuted in America over her disappearance seven years ago.
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Dutch citizen, 24, killed Stephany Flores in Lima
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Pleaded guilty two days ago to killing her 20 months ago
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Family of Natalee Holloway, 18, want him prosecuted over her disappearance
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She went missing in Aruba in 2005 and is presumed dead | 13,112 | record_train |
Her new husband, @placeholder, has continued to use social media from Syria, since leaving his old lifestyle behind in Melbourne and regularly posts smiling selfies on Facebook. | The parents of a 21-year-old Australian jihadi bride who ran off to Syria to marry a playboy turned extremist claim she has been ‘brainwashed’. Zehra Duman, from Melbourne, reportedly married Mahmoud Abdullatif on December 11 with the pair announcing their marriage on social media with the hashtag #TheIslamicState, the Herald Sun reports. ‘She’s been brainwashed, she wasn’t like this three or four months ago,’ her father Davut Duman told the paper. Scroll down for video Zehra Duman, from Melbourne, was reportedly just a 'normal' Turkish girl from Melbourne four months ago The pair sickeningly showed of a gun as part of their mahr (dowry) for the bride and Duman is now believed to be living in the murderous Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa.
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Zehra Duman, from Melbourne, has married extremist Mahmoud Abdullatif
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The pair reportedly wed on December 11 in Syria
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They posted about their marriage on social media with a picture of a gun and the hashtag #TheIslamicState
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Abdullatif previously expressed his desire to find a partner, writing on Facebook: 'I need a wife!'
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Her parents are working with authorities to try and bring her home | 13,113 | record_train |
Previously, the CIA had said only 100 prisoners had been processed through the program, Democratic @placeholder aides said. | (CNN)The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn't work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no "ticking time bomb" information that prevented an attack, according to an explosive Senate report released Tuesday. The majority report issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee is a damning condemnation of the tactics -- branded by critics as torture -- the George W. Bush administration deployed in the fear-laden days after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The techniques, according to the report, were "deeply flawed," poorly managed and often resulted in "fabricated" information. The report is reigniting the partisan divide over combating terrorism that dominated Washington a decade ago. Democrats argue the tactics conflict with American values while leading members of the Bush administration insist they were vital to preventing another attack.
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Senate Intelligence Committee releases summary of torture report
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Report: CIA techniques were 'deeply flawed'
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Obama: Tactics are 'inconsistent with our values'
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CIA defends practices | 13,114 | record_train |
By putting a solidly Republican state into contention, @placeholder will have to work harder if they hope to wrest control of the Senate from Democratic hands -- which is a serious possibility this cycle -- and Orman's betting he can leverage his independence to help his would-be constituents. | Washington (CNN) -- The Democratic candidate running for Senate in Kansas took his case to the state Supreme Court this week to get his name off the ballot. And he won. By pulling their candidate, Democrats are hoping independent candidate Greg Orman will unseat Republican Sen. Pat Roberts and join the Democratic caucus in the Senate. Despite that support, Orman hasn't yet said who he'll caucus with if he wins. But one thing is clear: the Kansas Senate election that was supposed to be over after the Republican primary is now a serious threat to Republicans, who have held onto Kansas' Senate seats for the last 80 years.
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Dems pulled their candidate from the ballot to help Orman unseat the sitting Republican
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Orman hasn't said which party he would caucus with in the Senate
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He's told supporters he wants to be a mediator between the two parties
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Many believe he'd caucus with Democrats, but he'll face slim re-election chances if he does | 13,115 | record_train |
@placeholder declined to comment on the remarks when contacted by CNN, while Balotelli's representatives have yet to respond to phone and email messages. | (CNN) -- Not for the first time Mario Balotelli, who plays for one of Europe's biggest soccer teams AC Milan, is in the spotlight again. The Italian international is the focus of racially charged remarks made by Milan vice president Paulo Berlusconi, the younger brother of former prime minister and team owner Silvio Berlusconi. During a political rally for his brother where he invited the public to an upcoming match, the younger Berlusconi was caught on camera -- the video is now featured on the website of Italian newspaper La Repubblica -- saying: "OK, we are all off to see the family's little black boy.
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Mario Balotelli focus of racially charged remarks.
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Younger brother of former prime minister and team owner Silvio Berlusconi caught on camera saying: "OK, we are all off to see the family's little black boy"
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Italian football expert and author John Foot says Paulo Berlusconi's words are offensive on several levels.
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Foot adds that there "hasn't been a debate in Italy about racist language" | 13,116 | record_train |
Gingrich resigned as speaker and left @placeholder the next year. | Washington (CNN) -- Newt Gingrich first arrived on the national political scene when, a few years after being elected to the House, he pushed ethics violations charges against then-Speaker Jim Wright, who later resigned. Ethics complaints and a budget battle that forced a government shutdown, led to Gingrich's downfall after he had risen to the speaker's chair. On Thursday, Gingrich is expected to announce that he will explore a presidential run, typically the first step toward a national campaign. While Gingrich's quest to topple Wright helped him become the deputy leader of House Republicans in 1989, what solidified his place in American political history was his championing of the 1994 Contract With America, a blueprint for changes the GOP pledged it would bring to Congress if it gained control of the House.
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Gingrich used ethics issues to bring down his foes
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But ethics problems also helped bring down Gingrich
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Gingrich's time in Washington both a plus and minus for him, analysts say | 13,117 | record_train |
Taken: While the furniture was initially given to Marshall from @placeholder's will, he will now not see any of the money after being found guilty of defrauding the elderly woman | By Harriet Arkell PUBLISHED: 05:18 EST, 14 June 2013 | UPDATED: 05:45 EST, 14 June 2013 A juror in the trial of the disgraced son of socialite Brooke Astor has recanted her guilty vote and pleaded for him to be spared jail at the last minute. Judi DeMarco, who was Juror No.8 in the high profile trial of Anthony Marshall, 89, says she went along with a guilty vote that she did not believe in because of 'fear and exhaustion'. She has now signed an affidavit saying she believes Marshall, who is due to begin a jail term of up to three years on Monday, is innocent of plundering his mother's millions,
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Anthony Marshall, 89, due to start prison on Monday for up to three years
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In 2009 he was convicted of plundering his late mother's millions
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But juror Judi DeMarco signs affidavit saying she voted guilty out of 'fear'
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She accuses jurors of bullying her and says Marshall should be spared jail | 13,118 | record_train |
One of the best ways to learn about and taste @placeholder's coffee is with a farm or factory tour. | (CNN)Unless you've been stuck in a mine shaft or visiting a distant planet for the past few decades, chances are you've heard of Bob Marley and Usain Bolt and can identify both as the most famous sons of Jamaican soil. Beyond reggae and track icons, however, there are many fascinating things less widely known about "Jamrock" that make this island of just 3 million people stand out. Here are eight things to know for starters: James Bond's birthplace Ian Fleming conjured up and penned the thrilling international spy novels known the world over by their larger-than-life, women- and evildoer-conquering protagonist, James Bond, in Oracabessa, a sleepy village in the parish of St. Mary on Jamaica's north coast.
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Ian Fleming created James Bond in Jamaica
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Rastafarians make up less than 2% of the population
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Marijuana is illegal, but the government is moving toward decriminalizing it | 13,119 | record_train |
And there is also concern about how @placeholder would affect wages. | (CNN) -- After decades of economic stagnation bling is back in Japan. Many Japanese are loosening their purse strings and don't hesitate to splurge $10,000 or more on precious things like a gold and diamond ring. Just 14 months ago, there was hardly anyone like Jesper Koll, the Japan director of research at JP Morgan and self-declared "Japan's last optimist." "If you're bullish on Japan, it's kind of like somebody coming up to you and whispering in your ear, 'You know, Elvis Presley is still alive,'" he says. What has turned Japan around? The answer lies in the country's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his bold measures to jump-start the economy, known as "Abenomics."
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's measures to jump-start Japan's economy are popularly known as 'Abenomics'
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Abe vows to target the sluggish economy with 'three arrows'
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The first arrow is easing monetary policy, the second is boosting fiscal stimulus
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The third arrow, structural reform, is seen to be the most difficult | 13,120 | record_train |
"Resentment of @placeholder's immigration status and history is perhaps natural, given the nature of the crimes charged, and it is surely very widespread," Tsarnaev's lawyers said in the motion. | (CNN) -- Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a federal court Thursday to strike his alleged "betrayal" of the United States as an aggravating factor for seeking the death penalty against him. A defense motion accused prosecutors of trying to use the suspect's foreign birth and immigration to imply that Tsarnaev is "more blameworthy, and more deserving of severe punishment" than a native-born person who commits the identical crime. "The 'betrayal' factor has no legally permissible role in this case, and can only serve to promote invidious discrimination based on national origin and immigration status," the defense motion said.
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Defense seeks to strike U.S. "betrayal" as reason for death penalty
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Prosecutors want to monitor Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's family visits
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Tsarnaev, 20, is accused of planting bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon
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His trial is set for early November, with the government seeking the death penalty | 13,121 | record_train |
@placeholder calls the islands Las Malvinas and claims they were ‘stolen’ by Britain 180 years ago. | By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 12:58 AM on 6th February 2012 Venezuela's left-wing president has raised the stakes over the Falkland Islands by pledging his armed forces would fight alongside Argentina in any conflict with Britain. The inflammatory promise from Hugo Chavez came in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the April 1982 invasion of the islands by Argentina. At the same time, Foreign Secretary William Hague insisted the deployment of a British warship and Prince William to the Falklands was ‘entirely routine’. Fighting talk: Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez (left) said he would back Argentina while William Hague (right) said the deployment was 'entirely routine'
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Inflammatory promise comes in run-up to 30th anniversary of 1982 conflict
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Foreign Secretary insist deployment of warship and Prince William is 'entirely routine' | 13,122 | record_train |
At the insistence of @placeholder, Comolli met the two players’ representatives. | By Sam Cunningham PUBLISHED: 17:45 EST, 26 February 2014 | UPDATED: 17:45 EST, 26 February 2014 Former Tottenham sporting director Damien Comolli has lifted the lid on the disastrous year when Juande Ramos was in charge. Ramos, whose Dnipro side lead Spurs 1-0 going into the second leg of their Europa League tie on Thursday, recently blamed the club for ruining his reputation in England. But Comolli, who worked with the Spanish manager at White Hart Lane in 2007-08, claims Ramos: Hitting back: Former Spurs sporting director Damien Comolli has lifted the lid on the disastrous year when Juande Ramos, now boss of Dnipro, was in charge at White Hart Lane
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Former Spurs sporting director lifts lid on Ramos' disastrous reign
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Comolli responding to Ramos' claims Spurs ruined his reputation in England
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Frenchman claims Ramos ran players into ground in training
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Moreover, seniors would have had to pay about $64 a month for their traditional @placeholder, which is a significant amount for many of them. | (CNN) -- We've all heard that Paul Ryan is Gov. Mitt Romney's running mate. But many still don't know the details of his proposals for health care reform. They offer a stark contrast to what the Obama administration would like to do. Medicare Medicare is a defined benefit program. That means the federal government decides each year what Medicare will cover. No matter what that costs, the government pays for most of it; individuals are responsible for the rest. Ryan's original plan, passed by the House of Representatives (but not the Senate) last year, would have changed Medicare to a defined contribution program, where the government would instead decide every year what it will pay.
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Aaron Carroll: Ryan's proposals for Medicare, Medicaid sharply differ from Obama's
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He says Ryan's Medicare plan could change quality of care, increase cost to seniors
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He says plan for block grants to states to pay for Medicaid would result in benefit cuts to poor, old
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Carroll: Obama's approach is different; ideally a compromise would keep best of both plans | 13,124 | record_train |
One source said any emotional issues @placeholder is experiencing are directly related to his harassment. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:12 EST, 6 November 2013 | UPDATED: 14:48 EST, 6 November 2013 Suspended Miami Dolphins linesman Richie Incognito was acting under orders from his coaches' to ‘toughen up’ Jonathan Martin when he subjected his teammate to a torrent of abusive voice mail and texts messages, claim sources close to the camp. It has been revealed that after Martin missed two days of organized team activities (OTAs) last spring, coaches encouraged Incognito, the offensive line's undisputed leader, to ‘get [Martin] into the fold.’ Just days later Incognito left a threatening, and racially offensive voice mail in which he called Martin, who is bi-racial, a ‘half n*****,’ threatened to slap his mother across the face and uttered the words ‘I'll kill you.’
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Richie Incognito, 30, was carrying out coaches' orders when he sent threatening messages to Jonathan Martin, claim sources within the team
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Incognito was suspended indefinitely on Monday morning over allegations that he bullied teammate Martin, 24
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The linesman is alleged to have sent Martin a series of racist and threatening text messages and voice mails
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Martin took a shock leave of absence from the team last week citing bullying as the reason | 13,125 | record_train |
'The same thing could have happened to @placeholder as it did to his brother but luckily he got out. | By Liz Hull and Anthony Bond Last updated at 5:01 PM on 10th January 2012 Smoke alarms in a house where four siblings were killed in a fire were not working when the tragedy occurred, firefighters revealed today. Andrew Smith, 16, followed his older brother Reece into his mother's burning house in Freckleton, near Preston as they battled to rescue four-year-old twins Holly and Ella and two-year-old Jordan. He was forced to flee the house after being blocked by thick toxic smoke pouring out of the attic bedroom where the tragic siblings were all unconscious. But 19-year-old Reece was overcome by the smoke and died alongside his young brother and sisters. Post-mortem examinations gave the cause of the four deaths as smoke inhalation.
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Family releases information in hope that others will not make same mistake
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Andrew Smith, 16, followed his older brother into fire to try and rescue siblings but was blocked by toxic smoke
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Reece Smith, 19, four-year-old twins Holly and Ella and Jordan, two, all died of smoke inhalation
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Mother Michelle Smith was celebrating her 36th birthday with friends at home when blaze broke out | 13,126 | record_train |
With @placeholder demoralized, Walcott then added a fifth just three minutes later, outpacing the visiting defense before firing home. | (CNN) -- England winger Theo Walcott scored twice as Arsenal fight back from going two goals behind to sensationally thrash north London rivals Tottenham 5-2, a result that lifts Arsene Wenger's side back into fourth place in the Premier League table. Matches between the top sides in England this season have produced a host of remarkable results -- and it proved no different at The Emirates on Sunday on a glorious sunny afternoon. Third-placed Tottenham began the day 10 points ahead of their neighbors and still with designs of catching Manchester City and Manchester United at the top of the table.
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Arsenal fight back from 2-0 behind to thrash north London rivals Tottenham 5-2
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Theo Walcott scores twice in a frantic second half after Spurs take an early lead
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Ryan Giggs celebrates his 900th game for Manchester United with a late winner
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United defeat Norwich 2-1 to close the gap on English leaders Manchester City | 13,127 | record_train |
It is what led him to @placeholder for cosmetic surgery, as well as his decision to record his experience for a planned documentary film about plastic surgery within the gay community. | BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- James Brandon is concerned about getting old and looking older. So the 44-year-old events planner from Canada decided on plastic surgery to help bring his boyish looks back. Surgeon Williams Bukret and patient James Brandon. Like many people struggling through the global economic crunch, cost was a concern, and Brandon soon realized that having surgery at home was beyond his budget. So he began investigating options overseas and quickly settled on a city that has become one of the most popular destinations in the world for plastic surgery -- Buenos Aires, Argentina. "I learned that Argentina has a high standard and long history of plastic surgery," Brandon said.
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Thousands visit Argentina for cheap cosmetic surgery
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Combination of top doctors, weak currency make country attractive
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Patient: It would have cost $50,000 dollars in Canada but only $10,000 in Argentina
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But time and technology caught up with @placeholder when Elliott opened his web browser and began a series of Google searches. | (CNN) -- A bored U.S. marshal using Google connected an alleged scam artist arrested this year under an alias to a lawyer who disappeared decades ago before he was indicted on federal fraud charges. The suspect in a fake charity scam that stole millions in donations intended for Navy veterans is also wanted by the FBI for questioning in a spy case, federal officials said. When U.S. marshals arrested "Bobby Thompson" five months ago, they said they knew he was using a fake name. He's been held in the Cuyahoga County, Ohio, jail since then. "We always knew there was a reason that 'Thompson' signed his name as 'Mr. X' and did not want to be identified," U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott said Monday. "We now know why."
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"Bobby Thompson" is John Donald Cody, a fugitive Arizona lawyer, officials say
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Cody, now 65, disappeared in 1984 as IRS agents were investigating him for fraud
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Cody allegedly founded a fake charity that stole $2 million intended for veterans
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"I hope my daughter can perform in the next @placeholder in 2016. | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- The father of a 16-year-old on Saudi Arabia's Olympic team said his daughter has been called names by people in her home country for competing at the London Games. Wojdan Shaherkani was one of two women who competed in the Olympics for Saudi Arabia, which was one of three countries that agreed for the first time to send women to compete at the Games. "Some people hid behind (fake) Twitter accounts, and they said bad things about my daughter and myself," Wojdan's father, Ali Seraj Shaherkani, told CNN recently. "... After the competition, I returned home, I read on Twitter that somebody said bad words about my daughter. Three people on Twitter accused her of being a 'prostitute.'"
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Wojdan Shaherkani, 16, was the first woman from Saudi Arabia to compete publicly
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Her father says people set up fake Twitter accounts in Saudi Arabia to call her names
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David Cameron vowed to cut net immigration to below 100,000 a year, but is failing because of the soaring number of Europeans moving to the @placeholder | Thousands of migrants are exploiting lax EU rules to bring their families and spouses to Britain by the back door. Foreign nationals from outside Europe who would be unlikely to gain a visa to live or work in the UK are instead applying for citizenship elsewhere in the EU. Under Brussels rules, they can then move to Britain and apply for permission to bring in their spouse or children. 'Growing problem': Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Vine has warned that non-Europeans were using Brussels' free movement rules to get into the UK Now a damning report by an immigration watchdog has found that the system is suffering ‘significant abuse’ at the hands of migrants who falsely claim they are related or married to a non-European living in the UK.
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European citizenship 'increasingly important' way into UK, Sir John warns
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@placeholder is then shown on a phone telling Mitt Romney he wouldn't make a good running mate, saying: ‘Yes, that was me running into the fire. | By Beth Stebner PUBLISHED: 10:05 EST, 16 May 2012 | UPDATED: 10:57 EST, 16 May 2012 This was a three-minute video about nothing. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie showed his pop culture chops and channeled the Seinfeld-Newman rivalry on a YouTube video posted on his page. In the three minute video, Christie is thwarted, time and time again by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who last month rescued a neighbour from a burning building. Scroll down for videos Hello! Gov Christie, back right, posted a Seinfeld spoof where he is Newman and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, is Seinfeld Newman: Christie tries to volunteer his services, but is always thwarted by Booker in the video
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Gov Chris Christie posted video on his YouTube site parodying his relationship with Newark Mayor Cory Booker as that of Seinfeld and Newman
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He's on a family vacation this week and will decide when he returns to @placeholder next week," said the adviser, who asked for anonymity to speak more freely. | Washington (CNN) -- The issues of abortion and illegal immigration will be in the spotlight over the next week, but all eyes will be on Texas on Monday for a major player to announce his political plans. 1. Austin or Washington for Perry? Will Texas Gov. Rick Perry run for re-election next year for an unprecedented fourth full term in office? We should find out Monday, when Perry is expected to make his intentions known at an event in San Antonio in front of friends and supporters. Perry to announce political future Monday Perry was originally planning to announce his plans by the end of June but delayed his decision after he called the state legislature into a special session to try to once again pass a controversial bill that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill was sidetracked by a filibuster a week and a half ago by Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis that grabbed national headlines.
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Rick Perry to announce his political future Monday
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Both Dr Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, and Mr Iovine, a longtime recording industry executive, reaped the biggest jackpots in the @placeholder deal. | The CEO of technology firm Monster is suing Beats Electronics and its co-founders Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine for allegedly duping him before selling the headphone company to Apple for $3billion. In the complaint, filed in a California court on Tuesday, Noel Lee, who also founded the video and audio cable maker, accuses rapper Dr Dre and record producer Mr Iovine of double crossing him. Mr Lee - who once held a 5 percent stake in Beats via a Monster-Beats partnership that ended in 2012 - claims the pair deliberately orchestrated a 'sham' deal with smartphone maker HTC in 2011.
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In lawsuit, Monster CEO Noel Lee targets Beats, Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine
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Says co-founders intentionally orchestrated 'sham' deal with HTC in 2011
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This deal, he claims, led to termination of Monster alliance two years later
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Mr Lee was 'assured that firm would not be sold for at least several years'
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'And yet, the @placeholder leadership is itself infringing upon the freedom of citizens of another country. | By Jimmy Mccloskey PUBLISHED: 11:09 EST, 7 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:39 EST, 7 December 2012 Furious Russian politicians accused America of Cold War tactics for passing a law barring any of its officials suspected of human rights abuses from the US. Tensions between the superpowers were reginited yesterday after US senators passed a new bill that included the Magnitsky Act. The act is named after Sergei Magnitsky, an anti-corruption lawyer who died in a Russian jail in 2009. It is claimed Mr Magnitsky had been tortured and was denied hospital treatment prior to his death. Financier Bill Browder poses beside a picture of his former lawyer Sergei Magnitsky
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Sergei Magnitsky died in police custody after exposing a £143m fraud
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@placeholder officials say the next few weeks will be particularly busy for A&E units due to the cold weather. | By Sophie Borland PUBLISHED: 19:23 EST, 13 January 2014 | UPDATED: 04:21 EST, 14 January 2014 Understaffed A&E departments are spending more than £80million a year hiring locum doctors, figures show. The average casualty unit is paying £750,000 annually for temporary medics to plug rota gaps, with some shelling out more than £4million. A&E is in the grip of a recruitment crisis with most junior doctors put off by the intense work, antisocial hours and low pay. High cost: Understaffed A&E departments are spending more than £80million a year hiring locum doctors At the same time rising numbers of trained casualty doctors are quitting the NHS to work abroad where salaries are higher and standards of care better.
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Average casualty department pays £750,000 annually, new figures show
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During the video @placeholder tells viewers: 'If she doesn't consent, or if she can't consent, it's rape, it's assault' | By Jill Reilly Daniel Craig and Benicio Del Torro star alongside President Obama in a new White House campaign to raise awareness about sexual assault. The Obama administration posted the Public Service Announcement, which is part of its '1 is 2 Many' campaign, on YouTube this week. The one-minute video also features actors Steve Carell, Seth Meyers and Dule Hill, alongside Vice President Joe Biden. The initiative is designed to encourage men to speak up and step in if they see someone in danger of being sexually assaulted. Scroll down for video President Obama in the new White House campaign to raise awareness about sexual assault. 'It's up to all of us to put an end to sexual assault and that starts with you, says Obama in the video montage
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One-minute video also features Steve Carell, Seth Meyers and Dule Hill
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Vice President Joe Biden personally asked actors to star in the video
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It will be played in move theaters across the US from next month
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1 in 10 teens report being physically hurt on purpose by a partner
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That's what the nation is celebrating on this @placeholder holiday: We have lived to see the day," Schneider said. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More than two-thirds of African-Americans believe Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for race relations has been fulfilled, a CNN poll found -- a figure up sharply from a survey in early 2008. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963. The CNN-Opinion Research Corp. survey was released Monday, a federal holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader and a day before Barack Obama is to be sworn in as the first black U.S. president. The poll found 69 percent of blacks said King's vision has been fulfilled in the more than 45 years since his 1963 "I have a dream" speech -- roughly double the 34 percent who agreed with that assessment in a similar poll taken last March.
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69 percent of blacks polled say Martin Luther King Jr's vision realized
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@placeholder's words were, of course, undeniably, and likely unnecessarily, harsh, especially considering Blazek has made her name as an advocate for Cleveland jobseekers, creating and updating a popular local jobs bank with some 7,300 subscribers. | (CNN) -- This week, veteran Cleveland marketer Kelly Blazek learned the hard way that you should watch your words -- especially when you put them in writing -- after a nasty digital lecture she delivered to a young job seeker went viral. In her sarcasm-laden message to recent graduate Diana Mekota, who'd asked to connect with Blazek via LinkedIn, Blazek wrote: "Your invitation to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you, and tacky. Wow, I cannot wait to let every 26-year-old jobseeker mine my top-tier marketing connections to help them land a job. ... You're welcome for your humility lesson for the year."
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Peggy Drexler: Marketer was wrong but young jobseeker was wrong to post it
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Drexler: Young women need mentors, and marketer failed to help her
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Supporters: A brother of the soldier, pictured in 2011, testified at Bales' sentencing hearing, on Wednesday, portraying him as a patriotic @placeholder, high school class president and football team captain | By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 16:31 EST, 22 August 2013 | UPDATED: 07:50 EST, 23 August 2013 The U.S. soldier who massacred 16 Afghan civilians apologized Thursday for his 'act of cowardice' as he made his case for why he should someday have a chance at freedom. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales became emotional during testimony in which he said he was angry and afraid when he went on a solo nighttime mission and slaughtered villagers, mostly women and children, on March 11, 2012 in their huts. 'What I did is an act of cowardice,' he said. 'I'm a mass of fear and bullshit and bravado. I'm truly, truly sorry to those people whose families got taken away.'
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Staff Sergeant Robert Bales described his killing spree as an 'act of cowardice' on Thursday as he testified in his sentencing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington
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Bales became emotional on the stand and said he was angry and afraid when he went on a solo nighttime mission and slaughtered villagers
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The horrific killing spree took place on March 11, 2012 in two villages in Kandahar province
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His major summer signing @placeholder was a huge disappointment and Giroud simply had to come on at the interval. | Arsenal came from two goals down at Goodison Park to secure a 2-2 draw with late goals from Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud after Seamus Coleman and Steven Naismith had struck for Everton. Here, Sportsmail's Adam Crafton gives his opinion on his performance of the players. Everton - 4-2-3-1 T Howard - 6 Assured presence, fast off his line and smart save to deny Giroud. S Coleman - 7 Few defensive lapses but relentless going forward and a belting header to open the scoring. Opener: Seamus Coleman popped up on the right-hand side to score Everton's first P Jagielka - 6
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Olivier Giroud and Aaron Ramsey score two late goals for Arsenal
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Seamus Coleman and Steven Naismith had put Everton 2-0 at Goodison
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Alexis Sanchez and Jack Wilshere struggle for Arsene Wenger's side
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Coleman and McCarthy impressed for Roberto Martinez's team | 13,141 | record_train |
With CNN.com's help, @placeholder spoke with Bouey about the inauguration ceremony. | Editor's note: Taresh Moore is a student at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina. The 21-year-old senior traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the inauguration. Alfred Bouey is a World War II veteran and a grandson of slaves. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Alfred Bouey, an 84-year-old African-American, still remembers the stories from his grandfather about the scars on his body from the beatings he took as a slave in the South. Bouey, of Oak Park, Illinois, attended Tuesday's inauguration of President Obama. Words can't express his excitement and happiness about witnessing history. A World War II veteran, he never thought he would live to see a black president in America.
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Alfred Bouey, 84, attended the inauguration of the nation's first black president
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Bouey, who grew up in Arkansas, saw his mother being mistreated by whites
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"It's good to see the white Americans appreciate and show love to the new president"
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The young couple fell asleep, but when Saturday came, only @placeholder opened her eyes. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:18 EST, 13 November 2012 | UPDATED: 00:19 EST, 13 November 2012 McQuen Forbush, 18, died Saturday in Nampa, Idaho A young Marine died on Saturday in his sleep after his apartment filled with deadly carbon monoxide gas. McQuen Forbush, 18, from Nampa Idaho, was discovered by his girlfriend just before 1 p.m. in the bedroom of the borrowed apartment where they were both staying. The Marine was lying on his stomach at the end of the bed, cold and non-responsive, according to his distraught girlfriend. ‘I was shaking him, trying to wake him, I kept checking for a pulse because I didn't want to believe it,’ said Bre Halowell, who now wears Forbush's dog tags around her neck.
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(Learn more about the book and read an excerpt on @placeholder's website.) | (CNN) -- This week super fans from around the world are gathering in New York to celebrate the 159th birthday of the legendary consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Never mind that Holmes is a fictional character. To this day, in books, TV and movies, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's creation remains just as popular as he was when he debuted in the late 19th century. Much of Holmes' appeal has always been his amazing mind -- how he is able to solve a seemingly insurmountable mystery through simple observation and deep thought. Wouldn't we all like to borrow from his bag of mental tricks?
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Sherlock Holmes, the celebrated fictional detective, turns 159 this week
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Author Maria Konnikova uses the latest science to explain workings of Holmes' mind
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He was repatriated to the UK in August after being contracting the virus while he worked in the @placeholder, in eastern Sierra Leone | The British nurse who survived Ebola has criticised the international response to the crisis as being 'woefully slow', after returning to help treat victims in Sierra Leone. The 29-year-old, from Eyke, Suffolk, said arriving back to the country where he contracted the deadly disease, he was left shocked at 'seeing so many dead people'. He returned to West Africa last month, and is treating patients in an Ebola isolation unit run by UK medical staff in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone - one of the three countries worst hit by the epidemic. The outbreak has killed almost 5,200 people, almost all in West Africa, according to the World Health Organisation.
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Will Pooley returned to treat victims in Freetown, Sierra Leone in October
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He contracted the disease while fighting the crisis in Kenema in August
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29-year-old was treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London
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He was given the experimental drug Zmapp and fully recovered
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Mr Pooley said vast numbers of people are still dying from Ebola, including small children, because European nations and the U.S. has been 'too slow'
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In an email to staff, Mr @placeholder said: 'I recognise that there is a difference between full-time positions and the number of people who fill them: given that we are an organisation where there is a high degree of job sharing and part-time working, I expect that closer to 500 people may be affected by these job closures. | By Tara Brady The BBC is to cut more than 400 posts under plans to make millions of pounds of savings over the next two years. Staff were told details of the cuts at a briefing at the corporation’s central London headquarters, including news of new jobs being created. Around 190 new posts will be created, with 415 cut, leading to a net reduction of 220 full-time jobs across news and current affairs. Director General Tony Hall arrives BBC Broadcasting House in London. Staff have been told there will be cuts Director of news James Harding gave staff details of the cuts as well as changes such as combining production teams for some BBC programmes.
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Staff told details at the corporation’s central London headquarters today
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@placeholder is the fifth person to plead guilty in this case. | Philadelphia (CNN) -- A worker at a west Philadelphia abortion clinic has pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and may testify against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the doctor accused of performing illegal late-term abortions, court officials said. Lynda Williams, a former employee of Gosnell's Women's Medical Society clinic, entered a guilty plea Wednesday to six charges, including two counts of third-degree murder. The first charge is for the 2009 death of an aborted fetus that the Philadelphia district attorney's office claims in a grand jury report was born alive. The second is the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar, who died in a second-trimester abortion, according to Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner.
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell faces murder charges in the case | 13,147 | record_train |
That has proved insufficient at @placeholder, a club where supporters have taken to booing when their team win. | On his office door at West Ham’s rather modest training ground, Sam Allardyce’s coaching staff have placed a small photocopied sign. It reads: Ufficio del Direttore. It’s Italian for ‘Manager’s Office’ and is a play on Allardyce’s quip that foreign coaches get a little more respect in the Barclays Premier League than those born in the UK. What is more important now, though, is that the sign was only stuck on with Blu-Tack. As the summer approaches, Allardyce and West Ham are about to part company. VIDEO: Scroll down to see Sam Allardyce's best bits at West Ham Given the boot: Sam Allardyce will be sacked by West Ham after a disappointing season at Upton Park
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Sam Allardyce is set to be sacked by West Ham
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Fitzgerald maintained while suing the city for relief of the fees that @placeholder | By John Clarke and Ryan Gorman PUBLISHED: 00:48 EST, 24 August 2013 | UPDATED: 01:22 EST, 24 August 2013 An unemployed single mother that owed the city of Chicago $105,000 in parking fines has reached a settlement involving the city and her ex-boyfriend.. Officials claimed Jennifer Fitzgerald owed $105,761.80 for 678 parking violations issued to a 1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo registered in her name - by far the biggest parking fine in city history - but have reached a settlement with her and ex-boyfriend Brandon Preveau. Fitzgerald fought the fines by arguing her ex-boyfriend registered the old car in her name and parked it at O'Hare Airport without her knowing. All 678 tickets were issued and placed on the car without it ever being towed away, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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A Chevrolet Monte Carlo registered to Jennifer Fitzgerald collected almost 700 tickets totaling over $100,000 at O'Hare International Airport
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Fitzgerald has been unable to get a driver's license because of the ordeal
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He valued the shoes at 2 million yuan ($320,390), but @placeholder only wanted a loan for 1 million yuan. | (CNN)Faced with sky-high real estate prices in the Chinese capital, one Beijing man has sacrificed his shoe collection to get a foot on the property ladder. The man, identified only by an English name, Mick, pawned 283 pairs of limited edition Nike Air Jordan sneakers in exchange for a $160,000 loan, which he plans to use to cover the down payment for an apartment to share with his new wife, the pawn shop said. Wang Xiaoyu, the vice president of marketing at Beijing World of Pawn Co told CNN that a very small number of the sneakers had been worn but most were in pristine condition, wrapped in their original packaging.
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A Chinese man has pawned 283 pairs of limited edition Nike Air Jordan sneakers
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more ‘confident’ and ‘evangelical’ about its status as a @placeholder | Nick Clegg prompted a row last night after issuing a provocative call for the separation of Church and State. The Deputy Prime Minister said that while he agreed with David Cameron that Britain was ‘infused by Christian values’, he believed the Church of England should be disestablished. His remarks are particularly sensitive since he is the chairman of the Privy Council, the formal body of advisers to the Queen. Scroll down for video Controversial: Nick Clegg, chairman of the Privy Council, said the Church and State should break for the first time since 1534. He proposed the Queen should be stripped of the title 'Defender of the Faith of the Church'
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Nick Clegg said 'Britain infused by Christian values' but called for change
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The final decision on who will appear will be taken by Sir Mervyn’s successor, @placeholder. | By Hugo Duncan Economics Correspondent PUBLISHED: 18:15 EST, 25 June 2013 | UPDATED: 04:08 EST, 26 June 2013 Canadian Mark Carney said businesses should prepare for possibility of a 'slight or material change' in interest rate levels Britain's record low interest base rate could be on the way out after more than four years at 0.5 per cent, the new governor of the Bank of England warned yesterday. The introduction of a higher rate would be a blow to homeowners and firms used to cheap borrowing. Canadian Mark Carney, who takes over from Sir Mervyn King on Monday, told ITV News a rise was on the cards, adding: ‘Without doubt they need to manage their business for the possibility of a slight or material change in the level of interest rates.’
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Canadian Mark Carney said businesses should prepare for 'slight or material change' in the level of interest rates
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There are signs the dispute is already hurting @placeholder companies. | Hong Kong (CNN) -- A Chinese official warned Thursday that Tokyo's move to "buy" a disputed island chain in the East China Sea would hurt trade between Asia's two largest economies. The battle over ownership of the island chain, called Diaoyu by China and Senkaku by Japan, will "inevitably" have a negative impact on Sino-Japan economic ties, Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei said Thursday, state-run Xinhua reported. The islands sit among popular fishing waters and are also believed to be rich in oil resources. Ownership of the chain would allow exclusive commercial rights to the seas surrounding the islands.
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Chinese official warns island dispute will hurt economic relations with Japan
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The five children, ages 14, 13, 11, nine and eight, have been removed from the home and put in the care of a social services agency outside of @placeholder, the sheriff's office said. | By Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:43 EST, 16 November 2013 | UPDATED: 13:37 EST, 17 November 2013 A North Carolina social worker has been charged after her 11-year-old foster child was found chained to the porch of her home with a dead chicken hanging around his neck, a sheriff's official said on Saturday. Wanda Sue Larson, 57, was arrested and charged with child abuse and false imprisonment on Friday after a deputy found the boy shivering and handcuffed by his ankle to the front porch, the Union County, North Carolina sheriff's office said. Larson, a supervisor at the county's Child Protective Services office, was not home when the child was discovered but is accused of being complicit in the mistreatment, according to sheriff's officials.
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A man and women were charged after a boy was found handcuffed to their front porch with a dead chicken around his neck
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The product: Mr @placeholder shows off a can of Beast Mode | By Ashley Collman PUBLISHED: 11:55 EST, 29 January 2014 | UPDATED: 12:09 EST, 29 January 2014 A Seattle marijuana grower has started selling a new strain of weed called 'Beast Mode', after the nickname of Seahawks star running back Marshawn Lynch. Nate 'Diggity' Johnson, owner of Queen Anne Cannabis Club where Beast Mode is being sold, says he is getting into the Super Bowl spirit as the city's team prepare to play on Sunday. He told the Seattle Times that the pot was named after Lynch because it's so strong, it hits you like a running back.
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The Seattle Seahawks are playing the Denver Broncos in this weekend's Super Bowl being held in New Jersey
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@placeholder, care workers from overseas who sometimes don’t speak fluent | Ed Miliband attempted to lure back Ukip voters yesterday, saying he understood concerns about eastern European migrants and care workers ‘who don’t speak English’. The Labour leader acknowledged immigration ‘has been changing communities fast’ and that voters want politicians to ‘do something about it’. His speech came hours after Tony Blair, speaking in an interview, urged him not to give in to ‘nasty and unpleasant’ rhetoric from Ukip. Ed Miliband said he understands voters' fears over immigration - but has ruled out giving voters an in-out EU referendum despite growing pressure from backbenchers in the wake of last week's European elections
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Labour leader 'understands concern about non-English speaking workers'
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‘We believe @placeholder is moving in the right direction, we have the right coaching and management team to take us forward and are excited about the challenge ahead.’ | Stuart Lancaster was given an extended contract until 2020 on Wednesday, then told that failure at next year’s World Cup will not be tolerated. While some questioned the wisdom of making such a long-term commitment to England’s head coach and his assistants, RFU chief executive Ian Ritchie was defiant. ‘We want to win the World Cup,’ he said. ‘We are trying to galvanise the England coaching team and do our best to win it. There will be a review at various stages and one of those will be after the World Cup. It will be a very simple review if we win it. Anything less than that, we’ll review afterwards.
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Stuart Lancaster and coaching staff handed six-year contract extension
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RFU chief executive Ian Ritchie says the decision can 'galvanise' England
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'The @placeholder was certainly no safe haven prior to the introduction of the EAW.' | Britain should leave the European Union unless it changes, Theresa May has warned. The Home Secretary said politicians who argue that the UK is better off in the EU 'whatever the terms, are wrong'. Ranging beyond her law and order brief – in a move likely to fuel speculation about her leadership ambitions – Mrs May also warned red tape and regulations from Brussels is holding back the UK economy. Home Secretary Theresa May has warned Britain cannot stay in the European Union at any cost Mrs May faces a major test in the Commons tomorrow when she urges Tory MPs not to vote against plans to sign Britain up to the European Arrest Warrant.
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Home Secretary ranges beyond law and order brief with attack on red tape
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Cameron promises to claw back powers before in-out referendum in 2017
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She told @placeholder she would 'be right back' and left the iPad running. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 21:56 EST, 7 September 2013 | UPDATED: 21:56 EST, 7 September 2013 A Massachusetts teenager who witnessed the murder of his friend's mother on an iPad during an online chat took the stand against the woman's alleged killer Friday and told the court how heard 39-year-old Chris Piantedosi tell the victim 'you've got to die' as he repeatedly stabbed her with a knife. Authorities say Piantedosi fatally stabbed his girlfriend and mother of his two children, Kristen Pulisciano, in May of 2012. One of the couple's 15-year-old daughter's friends, 16-year-old Michael Edwards, was chatting with the girl online when the murder took place, and he witnessed much of it.
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Teen watched the attack live on his iPad as he was chatting with the couple's 15-year-old daughter
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The witness described alleged killer Chris Piantedosi as 'wide-eyed' as he was stabbing the mother of his two children
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The couple's two children also witnessed the murder | 13,159 | record_train |
Vincent Kompany is the only possible survivor from the @placeholder starting line up the last time these two sides met in April 2010. | Ahead of the final Premier League action of 2014, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Manchester City's home clash with Burnley... Manchester City vs Burnley (Etihad Stadium) Team news Manchester City Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany could be available for the champions' Barclays Premier League clash with Burnley at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday. The defender has missed the last two games with calf and hamstring problems. Vincent Kompany could return for Manchester City after recovering from a muscle problem
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Manchester City host Burnley at 3pm on Saturday December 28
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City captain Vincent Kompany could be fit to return
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Matt Jarvis could return for Burnley, while Sam Vokes continues comeback | 13,160 | record_train |
He said a couple of months ago, military defectors took shelter in @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Security forces raided a northern Syrian city amid explosions and gunfire early Thursday and casualties have been reported, activists said. The forces clashed with gunmen believed to be dissidents in the city of Binnish in Idlib province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, another activist group, said 14 people had been killed, including 12 in Binnish and one each in Homs and Daraa. Among those dead are at least two young children, the group said. "Syrian military forces supported by tanks and armored personnel carriers stormed the city early this morning," Syrian Observatory said. "Heavy machine guns and shelling have been heard around the city."
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NEW: At least 14 people have been killed, an activist group says
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Security forces clash with gunmen believed to be dissidents
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Protests in Syria erupted seven months ago | 13,161 | record_train |
The 36-year-old guard, who earned his 17th All-Star selection last week, had sat out eight of the @placeholder' previous 16 games for 'rest' reasons. | Kobe Bryant's NBA season effectively ended on Wednesday after he had surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his right shoulder that will sideline him for nine months. The five-time National Basketball Association champion, who injured his shoulder last week in a loss to the Pelicans in New Orleans, underwent a procedure lasting two hours. Kobe Bryant had surgery on a torn rotator cuff on Wednesday and will miss the rest of the season LA Lakers superstar (right) sustained the injury during his team's 96-80 defeat by the New Orleans Pelicans 36-year-old holds his right shoulder in pain after suffering the injury against New Orleans
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Kobe Bryant injured himself during the defeat to New Orleans Pelicans
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Bryant underwent surgery on his right shoulder on Wednesday
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The 36-year-old will miss the remainder of the NBA season | 13,162 | record_train |
McClellan's former White House colleagues had harsher reactions to @placeholder's book. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House Wednesday said it was "puzzled" by a former spokesman's memoir in which he accuses the Bush administration of being mired in propaganda and political spin and at times playing loose with the truth. Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan blasts President Bush and advisers in a new book. In excerpts from a 341-page book to be released Monday, Scott McClellan writes on the war in Iraq that Bush "and his advisers confused the propaganda campaign with the high level of candor and honesty so fundamentally needed to build and then sustain public support during a time of war."
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NEW: "This is not the Scott we knew," White House spokeswoman says
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NEW: Former colleague calls Bush ex-aide's book "self-serving" and "disingenuous"
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Scott McClellan's coming book is harsh on President Bush and his advisers
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Book: Bush "confused the propaganda campaign" with honesty | 13,163 | record_train |
@placeholder got into the festive spirit at the club's training ground by wearing a Christmas jumper | Roberto Martinez has expressed relief after Kevin Mirallas and Leon Osman received positive news on the injuries that had left him fearing they would face long lay-offs. Mirallas, who was left on crutches following a heavy challenge by QPR's Jordon Mutch, will miss Saturday's trip to Southampton with damaged ankle ligaments but he is expected to be ready for the Boxing Day clash at Goodison Park with Stoke. Osman, meanwhile, does not require surgery on the problem that had left him wearing a protective boot on his ankle and he should be fit to play a part in a period over Christmas that Martinez will shape Everton's season.
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Kevin Mirallas is expected to be fit for Everton's clash with Stoke on Boxing day
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Leon Osman is expected to be ready to play some part in the Christmas schedule
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Roberto Martinez has ruled out making big changes in January | 13,164 | record_train |
@placeholder’s well-documented love of male grooming – and the subsequent | By Ryan Kisiel For Daily Mail and Martin Robinson For Mailonline Kellie Maloney has revealed that David Beckham spurred her on to become a woman. Maloney – formerly known as Frank– said the footballer’s metrosexual style made it more acceptable for her to visit beauty parlours. The 61-year-old admitted that at first she would buy dresses only to throw them away, having been too embarrassed to wear them. ‘I just kept it locked up,’ she said. Scroll down for video New life: Kellie Maloney today spoke of how she knew as a child she was in the wrong body but thought the feeling would go away
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The 61-year-old told Good Morning Britain she lived 'two lives' for decades
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'I feared being seen as a freak, a pervert and I didn't want to be different'
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Kellie had counselling for ten years - 'I thought it'd just go but it didn't'
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She would buy women's clothes but bin then without wearing them
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'I can do anything now. I haven’t got to hide. I’m not living two lives anymore', she said
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The devastated mother-of-three said: '@placeholder was my sister and Kate one of my best friends, I loved them both like sisters. | By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 08:20 EST, 21 February 2013 | UPDATED: 09:51 EST, 21 February 2013 Scott Nicholls was speeding when he smashed into Emma Harold, 26, her younger sister Beccy Rutter, 25, and their friend Kate Wasyluk, 25 A drunk driver who killed two best friends when he ploughed into them four years ago is set to be freed after serving just one month in prison. Scott Nicholls, then 20, was speeding and was over the alcohol limit with traces of heroin and ecstasy in his system when he caused the late-night horror crash. Nicholls smashed into Emma Harold, 26, her younger sister Beccy Rutter, 25, and their friend Kate Wasyluk, 25.
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Scott Nicholls, then 20, mowed down three women in Suffolk
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Emma Harold and Kate Wasyluk died and Beccy Rutter, 25, was injured
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Dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds, @placeholder is the last of the hydrogen and helium gas giants in the solar system. | By Jonathan O'Callaghan for MailOnline In the summer of 1989 Nasa’s Voyager 2 became the first, and to date only, spacecraft to visit the planet Neptune. During the brief flyby of the planet on 25 August, the probe returned images of its natural satellite Triton, a giant moon bigger even than the dwarf planet Pluto. And now a map and video have been revealed stitching together the images in unprecedented detail, creating the most comprehensview of its surface ever seen. Scroll down for video Footage of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune's largest moon (animation above) has been restored by Dr Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). The movie, using the best Voyager map in colour, recreates the encounter with Triton as Voyager 2 ended its tour of the giant planets and began its trek into deep space in 1989
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Footage of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune's largest moon has been restored
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The project was by the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas
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The results reveal the surface of the moon Triton in unprecedented detail
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In August 1989 Voyager 2 became the first and only probe to visit Neptune
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And it's mission could help the arrival of New Horizons at Pluto next year
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Footage of Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune's largest moon (animation above) has been restored by Dr Paul Schenk of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). The movie, using the best Voyager map in colour, recreates the encounter with Triton as Voyager 2 ended its tour of the giant planets and began its trek into deep space in 1989 | 13,167 | record_train |
Mr Goto finished his message by saying: ‘@placeholder, these could be my last hours in this world and I may be a dead man speaking, don’t let these be my last words you ever hear. | A Japanese hostage held by Islamic State revealed that his fellow captive has been beheaded in a gruesome video released by the terror group on Saturday. In the film, Kenji Goto Jogo was shown holding a picture of Haruna Yukawa’s decapitated body. Mr Goto, 47, a freelance journalist, then delivered a message in English in which he blames Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, for Mr Yukawa’s death and pleads to his wife, Rinko: ‘Don’t let Abe do the same for my case.’ This still image apparently showing Japanese prisoner Kenji Goto holding a picture of fellow captive Haruna Yukawa's body appeared alongside the recording, but some have said it looks photoshopped
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Kenji Goto Jogo shown with image of Haruna Yukawa’s decapitated body
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Journalist delivers message in English blaming Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, for Mr Yukawa’s death
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Video emerged day after deadline passed for Japan’s government to buy the two hostages’ release
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Jihadi John had demanded £134 million within 72 hours to free the two men | 13,168 | record_train |
Almost immediately police treated her death as a murder and two months later in June 2012, charged the former @placeholder real estate agent. | Mother of three Allison Baden-Clay was engaged to a strapping scuba diving instructor before she was pursued by Gerard Baden-Clay, the real estate agent she would eventually marry and who would later strangle her and dump her body in a creek near their family home. The new revelations about the murder that gripped Brisbane society are in a new book called The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay by The Courier Mail's crime and courts editor David Murray. Baden-Clay, who had a string of affairs throughout his marriage and who was jailed for life in July, two years after his wife's murder, wooed Allison. They eventually married and had three daughters.
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New book about murdered mother Allison Baden-Clay reveals detail's about her first fiance
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It has also revealed Gerard Baden-Clay expected to be arrested after he reported his wife missing in April 2012
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Gerard's family also sought help from a wealthy state MP following his arrest
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Gerard Baden-Clay was found guilty of murdering his wife, Allison, and dumping her body under a bridge | 13,169 | record_train |
For @placeholder, she is left with questions of how to cope -- emotionally and financially -- in the aftermath of her husband's death. | Torrevecchia Teatina, Italy (CNN) -- Six months ago, an Italian bricklayer behind on his taxes wrote a note to his wife of 27 years, then doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire outside a Bologna tax office. Giuseppe Campaniello died nine days later. "He was a good person," said his widow, Tiziana. "He wasn't given a chance to redeem himself because that's what he wanted to do. If Giuseppe had had the chance, he would have paid his debt, not what they wanted him to pay because he wasn't earning 20,000 euros a month." She has joined with other women whose husbands took their lives to form a group called the "Vedove Bianche" - the white widows - to show that in this long drawn out economic crisis, the cost cannot be calculated on a tax form.
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Giuseppe Campaniello set himself ablaze after not being able to pay a tax bill
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Wives of these "economic suicides" have formed a group, the "white widows"
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Suicide rates in European nations hard hit by the debt crisis are on the rise | 13,170 | record_train |
"In the past two years, we've given nearly $360 million in emergency humanitarian assistance and more than $45 million in development-related assistance to help rebuild @placeholder's economy. " | (CNN) -- While the French offensive to flush out Islamists in northern Mali dominated media coverage this week, news from other African nations certainly hasn't stopped. Here are five other stories you might have missed: 'State funeral' for hundreds of Kenyan lawmakers Throngs of Kenyans wearing black marched down the streets, coffins perched on their shoulders, crooning altered dirges in a mock funeral for lawmakers. When the march came to a halt outside parliament offices in downtown Nairobi, hundreds of caskets lay charred, a defiant message against a recent hefty retirement package lawmakers passed for themselves. The Kenyan president rejected the package, which included a bonus of $110,000 each and a state funeral for lawmakers, an honor reserved for presidents and high achievers.
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More than $1 billion later, U.S. officially recognizes Somalia
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Kenyans hold 'state funerals' for hundreds of lawmakers
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Algeria hostage crisis escalates | 13,171 | record_train |
But he admitted that @placeholder was a ‘very, very good business environment for us’. | By Peter Campbell PUBLISHED: 05:23 EST, 22 April 2013 | UPDATED: 05:20 EST, 23 April 2013 Defence: Google boss Eric Schmidt has today defended the internet giant's tax affairs, saying the firm was playing a key role in the UK's high-tech growth Google's chairman last night provoked outrage when he defended the company’s low tax bill by saying it has plenty of British staff who pay their taxes. Last year the internet giant paid just £7.3million in corporation tax on more than £3billion UK sales. But in an extraordinary interview, chairman Eric Schmidt said the American company helped the economy in other ways, selling online ads and hiring staff who pay income tax.
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Eric Schmidt says company's tax affairs 'fully comply with the law' in Britain
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Google recorded UK turnover of £3bn but paid just £7.3m tax
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Company claims their job creation and investment in UK is helping economy | 13,172 | record_train |
He managed to scramble out of the water and away from @placeholder the croc as a shocked school holiday crowd watched on | By Leesa Smith and Emily Crane The horrifying seconds of a crocodile trainer fighting for his life as hysterical zoo visitors helplessly watch on has been captured on video. Feeding time for John, the crocodile, in his enclosure at Shoalhaven Zoo on Monday descended into a horror show when Trent Burton was almost dragged to his death by his 3.7m reptile pal. Mr Burton, is seen in the footage, taken by a disturbed onlooker, coaxing the crocodile to snap up the fresh piece of steak he is waving in front of him. Scroll down for video Trent Burton coaxes John the crocodile with a juicy piece of steak at feeding time at Shoalhaven Zoo
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Footage shows the horror of when trainer Trent Burton's hand was snapped up by a 3.7 m crocodile at Shoalhaven Zoo on Monday
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The 31-year-old escaped with puncture wounds to his hands after the crocodile latched on and dragged him into the water
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He admitted to a 'rookie' error after he poked the meat inside the croc's jaw
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He was discharged from Shoalhaven Hospital on Monday night and is now undergoing treatment at a Sydney hand hospital
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Zoo owner said Mr Burton was recovering well and is thankful he is okay | 13,173 | record_train |
Bruce believes Robertson is similar in style to @placeholder's Gareth Bale | Steve Bruce has already fielded phone calls from clubs interested in Andrew Robertson – and admits it is perhaps inevitable he will one day be lured from Hull City. The 20-year-old left back – signed from Dundee United for just £2.85million in the summer – has already made a big impression at the KC Stadium and scored Scotland’s goal during their 3-1 defeat to England in midweek. That rampaging raid on the opposition penalty area won him comparison to Gareth Bale, and it is the Real Madrid star’s former club, Spurs, who Robertson faces on Sunday. Andrew Robertson (right) has impressed since moving to Hull from Dundee United
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Andrew Robertson has impressed since joining Hull from Dundee United
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Defender scored for Scotland against England last week
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Robertson is drawing comparisons with Gareth Bale and Luke Shaw | 13,174 | record_train |
When it was time for the big reveal, @placeholder stepped out in a sleek, modern bob, gasping as she saw her stunning reflection in an oversize mirror. | E! News host Giuliana Rancic has helped a two-time cancer survivor to chop off 45 inches of her hair while live on air during Wednesday’s episode of The Rachael Ray Show. Giuliana, who was herself diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011, was given the honor of making the first snip from 59-year-old Charley’s hair, before calling on a team of stylists to help her transform the previously lengthy locks into a chic bob. Charley’s decision to cut her hair, which previously extended all the way down to her thighs, was especially emotional, as she has spent the last nine years growing her hair back after losing it all while undergoing chemotherapy treatment in 2005.
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Ms Rancic, a fellow breast cancer survivor,made the first snip before handing over the scissors to a team of stylists | 13,175 | record_train |
He said the pair had been drinking vodka and having a good time, but @placeholder got angry after she soiled herself, saying she 'spoiled it'. | By Wills Robinson Husband: John Dewees, 49, is believed to have killed his 45-year-old wife Anja while she was drunk and then took her body to bed in Enfield, Connecticut A husband who was fed up of changing his alcoholic wife's adult diapers punched her to death in a bathtub and wrapped her body in a deflated waterbed, prosecutors have said. Army veteran John Dewees, 49, is believed to have killed his 45-year-old wife Anja while she was drunk and then took her body to bed in Enfield, Connecticut. He is then said to have lived with his dead wife in their house for a few days and put her in the mattress to cover up the smell, according to the Hartford Courant.
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John Dewees, 49, is said to have killed his wife, Anja, while she was drunk
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Told officers in Enfield, Connecticut, he hit her while she lay in the bathtub
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Only son said Dewees had abused her for as 'long as he could remember' | 13,176 | record_train |
Popstar princess: Emma goes for a chart-topping look as @placeholder | A teenager who used to be so shy she avoided parties and could not speak in class has become an internet star through her YouTube channel. Emma Pickles, 18, found courage after years of struggling with crippling social anxiety after posting makeup tutorial videos online. More than 1.5 million people have watched her transform herself into everything from movie characters Edward Scissorhands and X-Men’s Mystique to pop star Katy Perry and terrifying monsters. Scroll down for video Make-up artist: Emma Pickles, 18, has gone from a shy teenager to a YouTube star thanks to her tutorials Transformer into transformer: Emma used latex makeup and prosthetics to become X-Men's shape-shifting villain Mystique
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Emma Pickles,18, used transforming talents to overcome shyness
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She posts how-to clips painting herself into monsters and celebrities
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Her YouTube makeup tutorials have been viewed by more than 1.5 million | 13,177 | record_train |
The chef, known for her calorie-laden, @placeholder cooking, then launched into a bizarre, on-stage performance. | Deen turned a cooking demo in Miami this weekend into a public apology for the racist comments that decimated her career last year Without ever explicitly discussing the allegations, she said she was glad to be back and that, 'I am not a quitter' By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 17:03 EST, 25 February 2014 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 25 February 2014 Paula Deen staged a comeback on Sunday which appeared to involve swigging from a tequila bottle and riding piggy-back style on the back of fellow TV chef Robert Irvine. The disgraced Food Network star turned a cooking demo at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival in Miami this weekend into a public apology for the racist comments that decimated her career last year.
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Deen turned a cooking demo in Miami this weekend into a public apology for the racist comments that decimated her career last year
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Without ever explicitly discussing the allegations, she said she was glad to be back and that, 'I am not a quitter'
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The Southern chef yelled 'where ya'll going?' when people walked out during her chicken and dumplings cooking lesson | 13,178 | record_train |
Newcastle supporters display a banner calling for the removal of manager @placeholder | Alan Pardew was still absorbing the impact of Peter Crouch’s goal when lightning flashed over the Britannia Stadium and the rumble of thunder drowned the sound of ‘You’re getting sacked in the morning’. A storm is breaking over the Newcastle manager right now. Another defeat reopens the debate over his future, not that the subject was ever really closed. Newcastle fans hold up a banner portraying Alan Pardew as Pinocchio with the word hopeless underneath Fans young and old called for the head of Pardew during defeat at Stoke City on Monday night Indeed, Newcastle owner Mike Ashley kept his manager’s position in the news at the weekend by telling a reporter that Pardew would be ‘dead, finished and over’ if the team were beaten at Stoke.
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Newcastle fans sang ‘You’re getting sacked in the morning’ at Alan Pardew during 1-0 defeat at Stoke
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Owner Mike Ashley had told a reporter that Pardew would be 'dead, finished and over' if the team were beaten at Stoke
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In a plea deal with @placeholder authorities, he said he was paid by Shrien Dewani to carry out the hit and to make it look like the two were the victims of a car hijacking as they were driving through a township on the edge of Cape Town. | London (CNN) -- A British man accused of orchestrating his wife's murder by hit men while they were on honeymoon in South Africa should be extradited to face trial, a London court ruled Wednesday. Shrien Dewani's appeal was dismissed by Judge Howard Riddle, paving the way for extradition, said an official at Westminster Magistrates' Court. Dewani is accused of hiring a crew of hit men to kill his wife, Anni Dewani, 28, during a taxi ride in Cape Town in 2010. Taxi driver Zola Tongo confessed within weeks of Anni Dewani's death that he had hired two men to kill her.
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A UK court rules Shrien Dewani should be sent to South Africa for trial
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He denies hiring hit men to kill his new bride in Cape Town
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A South African official welcomes the ruling and says Dewani will get a fair trial | 13,180 | record_train |
New Formation: @placeholder will hope to integrate better than this with his new colleagues | By Luke Augustus Follow @@Luke_Augustus29 Francesco Totti has joined in poking fun at new Roma team-mate Ashley Cole by doing his own version of the 'lurking' images photos that have gone viral. Totti can be seen standing alone awkwardly as him and the rest of the Roma squad pose for a picture on the Rocky Steps in Philadelphia during their USA pre-season tour. The Roma icon has joined in the fun after Cole was caught on camera left on the periphery in a squad photo taken last month. Cole, who signed for AS Roma on a free transfer from Chelsea in July, has taken the virals well - humouring some with replies via his Twitter account.
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Francesco Totti has poked fun at Ashley Cole by mimicking his 'awkward' photo
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Totti can be seen standing awkwardly alone during Roma's team photo in Philadelphia
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Totti pokes fun at new team-mate Cole after an image of him standing alone during a picture at Roma went viral | 13,181 | record_train |
But make no mistake, PLAs are meant to be seen as ‘@placeholder’s free schools’. | You won’t hear Tristram Hunt, Labour’s new education spokesman, trotting out Labour’s jibe that David Cameron is a ‘posh boy who doesn’t know the cost of a pint of milk’. Because the urbane and artfully tousled Hunt, 39, is every bit as posh as the Prime Minister. Fees at his alma mater, University College School in Hampstead, North London, are nearly £18,000 a year. It is a member of the ‘Eton Group’ of elite private schools and to get in you have to pass a gruelling exam. Ambition: Tristram Hunt, Labour's new Shadow Secretary of State for Education, interacts with pupils during a visit to a children's breakfast club at Richard Atkins Primary School in Brixton, London
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Shadow Education Secretary Tristam Hunt wants to mirror Michael Gove
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Check out Disney World's newest on-site hotel, the Four Seasons @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Walt Disney World is expensive. No two ways about it. Thirty years ago, when I was a kid, you could get into the Magic Kingdom for just $18. Now, tickets cost $99 and up. But if you want to take the plunge, you might find that a few splurges are worth it. If you can splurge a bit on the luxury details, you'll get the luxury benefits, which can really pay off. To Disney or not to Disney? Check in, stay in It's long been the advice of every Disney travel guru on the planet that staying at a Disney World property improves your trip a thousand-fold.
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The Four Seasons Orlando offers a new level of luxury
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It may be difficult to lure kids away from the expansive pool complex
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A spokesperson for the political party said: '@placeholder is non-racist, non-sectarian. | Ukip has been forced to axe one of its shortlisted candidates to stand in May's general election after he shared online a post which described mixed-race couples as 'a plague'. Mark Walker, 46, hoped to stand for the party in Bromsgrove, south of Birmingham. A second social media message claimed that the Israeli secret service organisation Mossad was responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. Mark Walker, pictured, proudly announced on his Facebook page that he was planning to run for Ukip He told supporters he had been approached twice, and decided that he should allow his name to go forward
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Mark Walker wanted to run for Ukip in Bromsgrove in the West Midlands
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He planned to attend the party's hustings in Bromsgrove tomorrow
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Walker allegedly posted links to 'race hate' websites on his Facebook page
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long-running legal challenge from a group of @placeholder seeking to | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 15:22 EST, 25 October 2013 | UPDATED: 15:39 EST, 25 October 2013 A man who lives next door to the owner of the Washington Redskins football team, Daniel Snyder, has registered the name Washington Bravehearts, it was reported today. The trademark states the name is for use for 'entertainment in the nature of football games.' Aris Mardirossian first registered the trademark and launched 'Washington Brave Hearts LLC' on Oct. 17 according to TMZ. Scroll down for video Name change? Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, right, and his wife Tanya Snyder, left. The owner of the Redskins said that he was not planning to change the team name but his next door neighbor appears to have other ideas
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The name 'Redskins' is considered offensive to many Native Americans who feel it's a derogatory term for their people
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Trademark and website have been set up under the name of Washington Bravehearts
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Last May, ten members of Congress sent a letter to the commissioner of the NFL, asking for the name to be changed
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Owner Daniel Snyder has promised to never change the name
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According to a poll conducted by the AP and GfK, four our of five Americans support the Redskins keeping their name
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President Obama said if he owned the Washington Redskins football team, he would change the name | 13,185 | record_train |
Sad: @placeholder has suffered it's share of tragedies, including a mass shooting in 2009 | By Helen Pow PUBLISHED: 12:29 EST, 13 February 2014 | UPDATED: 14:30 EST, 13 February 2014 Tragic: Two Virginia Tech students have been charged in the brutal murder of a fellow student, Samanata Shrestha, pictured A Virginia Tech student and two of her friends have been charged in the brutal murder of a fellow female student who had just been accepted into medicine school. Jessica Michelle Ewing, 22, is accused of killing Samanata Shrestha, 21, a popular senior, some time after 7 a.m. Saturday in the Blacksburg area. Keifer Kyle Brown, a 23-year-old who graduated from the college last year, allegedly helped Ewing stash the body, and has been charged as an accessory in the murder.
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Jessica Ewing, 22, is accused of murdering Samanata Shrestha, 21, a biology major who had just been accepted into Penn State College of Medicine
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The student was reported missing by her parents Saturday morning after they couldn't get hold of her
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Finally, on Monday, police discovered Shrestha's body wrapped in a sleeping bag in the back seat of her abandoned car, a black 2004 Mercedes
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Keifer Kyle Brown and Michael Heller allegedly helped Ewing stash the body and have been charged with accessory after the fact
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Investigators have not yet determined a motive for the shock slaying, nor do they know how the suspects knew their victim or if they in fact did | 13,186 | record_train |
@placeholder showed real bite in the Manchester United midfielder throughout his 20-year spell at the club | Paul Scholes says Wayne Rooney must be nastier and stop being nice to opponents. The former Manchester United legend believes the England striker has lost his aggressive edge in recent years and must reclaim it to become the player he was during his teenage years. ‘In recent years I think he’s been too nice to opponents. You see him helping players up after challenges. He’s better when he’s nastier,’ wrote in his column in the Independent. VIDEO Scroll down for who Rio Ferdinand thought was better out of Rooney and Ronaldo Paul Scholes wants Wayne Rooney to show his nastier side to his game again
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Manchester United legend Paul Scholes says Wayne Rooney must get his nasty streak back to his game
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The United skipper has been too nice in recent years, insists Scholes
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Because for the last four days in court he was given the opportunity, it is apparent that the Iranian court found he was never a @placeholder and therefore Nadarkhani could have converted. | Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, the head of a network of Christian house churches in Iran, could be executed as soon as midnight Wednesday in Tehran for refusing to recant his religious beliefs and convert to Islam, said the chair of a commission that monitors religious freedom around the world. A statement by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent advisory group appointed by the president and Congress, "expressed deep concern" for the man's fate. After four days of an appeals trial for apostasy, Nadarkhani refused to recant his beliefs. Leonard Leo, chair of the commission, said the pastor "is being asked to recant a faith he has always had. Once again, the Iranian regime has demonstrated that it practices hypocritical barbarian practices."
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Source says Iran's supreme leader would have to sign off on execution
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The Christian pastor's parents were Muslim
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In this "Garden of @placeholder," the harvest may just be peace and quiet. | (Coastal Living) -- There's a stillness that permeates the streets -- and the water -- in Irvington, Virginia. The glasslike surface of Carter's Creek is so calm you can't help but touch it to see if you'll cause a ripple. The scent of warm, dry grass fills the air. Colors appear softer. It feels almost magical. Irvington, Virginia, is three hours from Washington, D.C., and 90 minutes from Richmond and Norfolk. But wander around a bit and you'll discover something more: an energy beneath the quiet facade. A former steamboat port, Irvington is reestablishing itself as the hub of the state's Northern Neck. Just three hours from Washington, D.C., and 90 minutes from Richmond and Norfolk, the town that George Washington called the "Garden of Virginia" still serves as a quiet getaway from the city. But now it also offers two fine inns, several upscale restaurants and trendy shops.
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Irvington, Virginia, is just three hours from Washington, D.C.
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The former steamboat port is drawing more weekend visitors
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The 480-acre Tides Inn resort is one reason for Irvington's higher profile | 13,189 | record_train |
It's possible that he heard that the camel was being shown in @placeholder and he asked if the owner or handler would bring it to Mount Vernon. | Washington (CNN) -- It's Christmas in 1787 at Mount Vernon, George Washington's stately home in Alexandria, Virginia. Holidays in the 18th century were usually pretty low key, according to Dean Norton, director of Horticulture at the first president's estate. "It was just all a matter of family being together to enjoy good food, good drink, good family time. And certainly when you add a camel to the mix, it adds a little bit of specialness to the whole atmosphere," he said. A camel? According to Washington's ledger, he paid 18 schillings, a pretty hefty amount for that time, to "the man who brot. A Camel from Alex. for a show" on December 29, 1787.
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Washington paid paid 18 schillings, a pretty hefty amount, for a man to bring a camel to Mount Vernon
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Washington paid to see exotic and rare animals throughout his life
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The sum was enough for 24 adults or 48 children to see the camel | 13,190 | record_train |
One of the two, a young man who declined to give his name, said: "It was all over @placeholder for a while before the topic was censored." | Beijing (CNN) -- A Chinese musician famous for playing a two-stringed fiddle, a 1994 Hollywood drama about two prison inmates, a United Airlines flight bound for Washington and CNN -- what do they have in common? If you try to search "Abing," "the Shawshank Redemption," "UA898" and "CNN" on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, you receive this terse message: "According to relevant laws and policies, results are not displayed." These terms have joined a fast-growing list of keywords blocked by Chinese censors as they try to prevent the public from obtaining news on a prominent human rights activist who recently escaped his more than 18 months of house arrest in eastern China.
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Chinese censors block a growing number of keywords related to blind activist Chen
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Internet users in China often get around the censors by using codewords online
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Chen Guangcheng is now in the U.S. embassy in Beijing after fleeing house arrest
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Codewords such as "Abing," "the Shawshank Redemption," "UA898" and "CNN" blocked on web | 13,191 | record_train |
@placeholder has had six previous outbreaks since the disease appeared on its shores, the World Health Organization said. | (CNN) -- A Liberian doctor who received the same Ebola experimental treatment as two Americans has died, officials said. Dr. Abrahim Borbor died Sunday evening after contracting Ebola at a hospital in Monrovia, officials at a treatment facility in the Liberian capital said. Borbor used ZMapp, the same drug given to two Americans who had Ebola. The Democratic Republic of Congo is also reporting new Ebola cases in a northern town, sparking fears that the deadly virus is expanding far beyond West Africa. Two people in Gera tested positive for Ebola, a government spokesman said Sunday. The country's health minister confirmed the cases in a televised statement.
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NEW: Liberian doctor who got the same treatment as two Americans dies
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Two people in the Democratic Republic of Congo test positive for Ebola
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Tests showed it's a different strain from the one in West Africa
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U.N. agency says confirmation testing is underway | 13,192 | record_train |
The infusion, which more than tripled the number of federal police officers patrolling @placeholder, angered Michoacan Gov. | MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A federal judge ordered 10 municipal police officers arrested Saturday in connection with the slayings of 12 off-duty federal agents in southwestern Mexico, the attorney general's office said. The recent spate of violence was sparked by the arrest of high-ranking drug cartel member Arnoldo Rueda Medina. The federal officers' bodies were found Tuesday on a remote highway in Michoacan state, where at least 18 federal agents and two soldiers have been killed since July 11 due to drug-related violence. Video from the scene showed three signs, known as narcomensajes, or narcomessages, left by the killers. They all stated the same thing: "So that you come for another. We will be waiting for you here."
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Officers arrested Saturday are on the police force in the city of Arteaga
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Slain agents were found Tuesday on a remote highway in Michoacan state
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Governor calls infusion of federal agents in Michoacan an occupation
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Governor's half-brother, said to be key figure in drug cartel, still at large | 13,193 | record_train |
'The grass here is great, okay you cant get like @placeholder, but it is a perfect event.' | By Oliver Todd Andy Murray should play without the weight of the nation's expectation heavy on his shoulders when he walks out at Wimbledon as defending champion next week, according to former winner Goran Ivanisevic. The 27-year-old Scot returns to the All England Club having become the first British winner since 1936 after beating Novak Djokovic. But Murray is without a tournament win since his triumph at SW19 just under 11 months ago and suffered a shock early exit at Queen's Club last week after a crushing defeat to Rafael Nadal in the French Open semi-finals. Baying crowds: Becoming Britain's first male Wimbledon winner since 1936 will reduce the pressure on Murray
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Past winner Ivanisevic says Murray's first title will make his job easier
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The Scot makes his return to Wimbledon next week as champion
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Murray is without a tournament win since last year's SW19 title
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Ivanisevic says the Scot will win Wimbledon again - and maybe this year | 13,194 | record_train |
The first scoreless league draw at @placeholder since October 2011 was greeted by jeers — an understandable reaction from a dejected home crowd. | Ronny Deila’s vision of fast-paced goal gluts from his Celtic side seems light years away, rather than one threatening to put in an appearance at some stage of 2015. Four days shy of the turn of this year of change and during a time of transition for the Premiership champions, Ross County were able to dig in for a draw thanks to gutsy defending and Celtic’s shocking creative shortcomings. At least January 1 will open up the market for Deila to go shopping for inspiration. For that was sadly lacking in this dismal display that won’t bring the crowds back to Parkhead any time soon.
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Celtic are still top of the Scottish Premiership after draw with Ross County
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The draw means the Staggies are bottom after St Mirren's win at Dundee
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Celtic are now five points clear at the top of the Scottish top flight | 13,195 | record_train |
"I went out just wanting to get in the competition more, after two months without playing, so it was a fun round," @placeholder told the tournament's official website. | (CNN) -- Teenage sensation Lydia Ko followed up her record-breaking round of 10-under-par on day one of the Women's Australian Open with a score of 69, but it wasn't enough to retain the overall lead. Colombian Mariajo Uribe, whose round of nine-under on Thursday was overshadowed by her 15-year-old rival, again kept a bogey off her card as a 67 took her one shot clear on 15-under. Korean World No. 7 Jiyai Shin is hot on the heels of Uribe, her round of six-under drawing her level with Ko on 14-under as the trio gear up for a battle in Canberra over the weekend.
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Colombian Mariajo Uribe usurps Lydia Ko to take the lead at Women's Australian Open
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Uribe shoots six-under to take the lead by one shot from 15-year-old New Zealander
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Ko had led after day one with a round of 10-under but shot six worse on Friday | 13,196 | record_train |
@placeholder’s development assistance is expected to more than double between | By James Chapman PUBLISHED: 19:07 EST, 1 April 2013 | UPDATED: 03:17 EST, 2 April 2013 Campaign: British aid money to Pakistan is allegedly used to fund party of President Asif Ali Zardari Britain's decision to make Pakistan its biggest recipient of foreign aid is under scrutiny amid claims that £300million is helping to bankroll Benazir Bhutto’s former party. In evidence to a Commons inquiry, an aid expert alleged the Benazir Income Support Programme was being used to buy support for Mrs Bhutto’s widower, President Asif Ali Zardari, and his party. Ehtisham Ahmad, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, said the Department for International Development was pouring money into a scheme used to buy votes.
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British aid money allegedly used to buy support for President Asif Ali Zardari
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President Zardari is the widower of ex-Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto | 13,197 | record_train |
The officials noted that the @placeholder cannot begin debate on the package before Obama signs the underlying bill into law. | Washington (CNN) -- President Obama will sign sweeping health care reform legislation into law at the White House on Tuesday, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the planning. Obama also will hit the road to sell the measure to a still-skeptical public, giving a speech Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said. Obama launched his grass-roots drive for health care reform in Iowa City in May 2007, according to Gibbs. The bill, which constitutes the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees in more than four decades, passed the House of Representatives late Sunday night with no Republican support. It was approved by the Senate in December.
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Obama to travel to Iowa to continue sales pitch to still-skeptical public
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President to sign bill on Tuesday; House Dems, reform advocates plan celebration
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$940 billion health care reform bill heads to president's desk to be signed into law | 13,198 | record_train |
Thank you: The 28-year-old took to Instagram to thank everyone involved with @placeholder | By Jonny Singer Follow @@Jonny_Singer Outgoing captain Thomas Vermaelen has used his Instagram account to thank the Arsenal fans for their support after leaving the club to join Barcelona. Vermaelen, who joined the Gunners in 2009 and was made captain in 2012, said he had felt at home at the club, and has had a 'wonderful time' since joining. The defender, who lost his place to Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker last season and decided to leave the club rather than stay on the bench, praised the entire set-up at Arsenal in the message. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Thomas Vermaelen's Barcelona unveiling at the Nou Camp
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Vermaelen had been Arsenal captain since 2012
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Centre-back fell out of favour last season and left for Barcelona
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Belgian defender says he was a proud captain and feels blessed to have been a part of the club in Instagram post
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Lifting the FA Cup last season described as 'an absolute highlight' | 13,199 | record_train |
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