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@placeholder didn't have the box office moves to unseat Lucy in the No. | (EW.com ) -- Marvel's got a new star (or five) in its roster: Guardians of the Galaxy launched to an estimated $94 million this weekend in 4,080 theaters, setting a new record for an August debut. (The previous winner was 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum, with $69.3 million.) That's the third biggest opening of 2014 so far, behind Transformers: Age of Extinction ($100 million) and Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95 million). It's also the seventh best opening in history for a non-sequel (or sixth if you count Marvel's The Avengers as a mega-sequel), outpacing other superhero series debuts such as 2011's Thor ($65.7 million) and 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger ($65.1 million). One more fun stat: Guardians is Marvel's ninth (!) consecutive No. 1 movie, a streak that reaches back to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012), which debuted at No. 3.
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"Guardians" set a new record for an August debut
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"Get On Up" failed to unseat "Lucy"
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"A Most Wanted Man" expanded into more theaters | 15,500 | record_train |
And gay @placeholder have faced outright discrimination from Republicans at all levels -- from state party chairmen to candidates to elected officials. | (CNN) -- One year ago, the Republican National Committee completed a four-month period of "self-reflection" and "evaluation" after losing its second straight presidential election and the popular vote in five of the past six presidential elections. The result of that process became popularly known as the GOP "Autopsy Report" -- an analysis of all of the Republican Party's ailments and prescriptions for how to cure them. But, after a year, it doesn't look like they have really learned a thing. And their navel-gazing, introspection moment wasn't all that new or particularly self-aware, as more than a decade of RNC chairmen -- yes, they have all been men -- before Reince Priebus have all tried the same thing.
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A year after the GOP's "self-reflection," Donna Brazile says it doesn't appear they get it
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All the GOP has offered is simply a change in tactics, she says
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Brazile thinks they still don't get women, minorities and push an agenda that divides Americans
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In other words, she argues, the GOP's philosophy hasn't changed | 15,501 | record_train |
"I find it strange how they talk about @placeholder stability and at the same time talk about dividing two countries," he said. | (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that a new Middle East -- one "without Zionists and without colonialists" -- was quickly emerging as regional bonds grow stronger by the day. The hard-line leader made the comments after a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Thursday. "The whole world should know that Iran will stand behind the Syrian nation to the end," Ahmadinejad said in remarks aired on Iran's state-run Press TV. "Regional bonds are very strong." His comments came during a two-day visit to Damascus that follows efforts by the United States to weaken ties between Iran and Syria.
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Iran's Ahmadinejad, Syria's Assad pledge mutual support
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U.S. recently sent ambassador to Syria for first time in five years
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Clinton interferes in the two nations' relations, Ahmadinejad says
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U.S. policy is contradictory, Assad says | 15,502 | record_train |
Yesterday @placeholder insisted a final decision on team selection | By Matt Lawton Follow @@Matt_Lawton_DM and Dan Bloom Sir Bradley Wiggins has blamed a lack of 'trust' between him and fellow Tour de France winner Chris Froome after he was dropped from this year's race. The Tour will roll through the Olympic gold medallist's home city of London for the first time in seven years next month - but he will not be taking part. Instead the cyclist said Team Sky is rallying round his teammate Froome, who won last year's tour and who he has not raced with all year. Scroll down for video Lack of trust: Sir Bradley Wiggins (left) has been dropped from this year's Tour de France as Team Sky rallies around Chris Froome (right). The pair have not raced together all year and Sir Bradley said he was 'gutted'
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Tour de France 2014 to reach his home city of London after seven-year gap
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But he has been dropped from Team Sky in favour of rival Chris Froome
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Sir Bradley said he was 'gutted' and may have to leave team to race again
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He was first British rider to win in 2012 - but Froome did the same in 2013 | 15,503 | record_train |
Twitter apologies: Miami Dolphins Richie Incognito (68) and Jonathan Martin (71) have been at the center of a shocking allegations of bullying and abuse inside the @placeholder team's locker room. | By James Nye PUBLISHED: 14:46 EST, 18 February 2014 | UPDATED: 14:56 EST, 18 February 2014 Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Richie Incognito has returned to Twitter to apologize to teammate Jonathan Martin, NFL independent investigator Ted Wells and owner Stephen Ross after comments he made last week on the social network. Late on Monday evening into early Tuesday morning, Incognito said that he would like to 'apologize for acting like a big baby the last few days' and claimed that 'This has all been so much on me and my family. I just want to play football.'
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Miami Dolphin's Richie Incognito returned to Twitter to offer apologies all round on Monday night
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Had embarked on a Twitter rant over the weekend aimed at the report which labelled him an instigator of bullying behavior in the locker room
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Said sorry to his boss, Stephen Ross, the report's author, Ted Wells and his one-time teammate, Jonathan Martin
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In October scandal broke when Incognito was accused of racial abusing Martin | 15,504 | record_train |
In @placeholder's thermodynamic engine (patented in 1816) air or gas is alternately heated from an external source and cooled. | (CNN) -- It's a new idea which could resonate with communities across the developing world -- a biomass stove which also generates electricity using sound waves. The Score-Stove is a cooker, fridge and energy generator in one which harnesses waste heat from cooking to power a specially designed thermo-acoustic engine, helping provide energy to areas where access to electricity is limited. The project is being led by the UK's University of Nottingham, but has drawn on the expertise of partners around the world including the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. LANL researchers Scott Backhaus and Greg Swift demonstrated the first-ever thermo-acoustic engine in 1999, adapting the principles originally outlined by Scottish engineer Robert Stirling in the 19th century.
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New multi-purpose biomass stove generates electricity from sound waves created by cooking
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Score-Stove currently undergoing field trials in Nepal and Bangladesh
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Los Alamos National Laboratory assisted British researchers with thermo-acoustic technology | 15,505 | record_train |
You @placeholder can claim them as your own if you'd like. | (CNN) -- Back in the summer of 1999, along with thousands of other Canadian twenty-somethings, I set out on a post-collegiate backpacking trip through Europe. While on a train from Munich to Amsterdam, I looked across the aisle and spotted another solo female traveler. Like me, she had a large Canadian flag sewn to the top of her backpack. "Where in Canada are you from?" I asked, happy to be sharing the long journey with a fellow poutine eater. But something wasn't right. She began to squirm and wouldn't look me in the eye. "Um, Toronto," she said. After a bit of interrogation, she came clean.
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A Canadian flight booking site says "flag jacking" the maple leaf still gets Americans better service abroad
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Body language expert Mark Bowden suggests travelers employ the "Canuck crinkle" when they smile
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Travel website offers tips on how to look Canadian using body language
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Canadians feel the need to apologize for everything, says the Canadian author | 15,506 | record_train |
@placeholder declined to comment beyond his statement, which stressed his belief in a constitutional right to own firearms. | A district attorney has today decided not to file criminal charges against a man who fatally shot his 7-year-old son outside a western Pennsylvania gun store. Mercer County District Attorney Robert Kochems announced he wouldn't charge Joseph Loughrey, 44, of Jefferson Township, with carrying a firearm without a license. Kochems said he considered the charge, a misdemeanor punishable by up to five years in prison, because Loughrey's gun was loaded when he put it in his truck moments before the gun fired on December 8, killing his son, Craig. The boy had been buckling himself into his safety seat in his father's truck when the handgun, which was placed on the truck's console, fired as Loughrey got into the front seat, police said.
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Joseph Loughrey didn't realize his gun was loaded when he placed it in between the front seats of his parked vehicle
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His son, Craig, was buckling himself into the safety seat when the gun accidentally fired and shot him in the chest
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Loughrey faced charges of carrying a gun without a license to do so in his vehicle but they were dropped today | 15,507 | record_train |
"I think 'Good for @placeholder,' really in the end," she said. | (CNN) -- Irish singer Sinead O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus in which she urged the 20-year-old not to allow herself "to be pimped" by the music industry certainly got our attention. It seems to have gotten Cyrus' attention, as well, because the former Disney star, who has dominated the headlines recently following her controversial awards show twerking and nude performance in a music video, took to Twitter to respond. In a tweet, she compared O'Connor to troubled star Amanda Bynes, and she included a Twitter feed of O'Connor's from the past when she wrote about struggling with and seeking help for mental health issues.
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Women had strong reactions to Sinead O'Connor's open letter to Miley Cyrus
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Many women applaud O'Connor and hope Cyrus follows her advice
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Some women think O'Connor missed the mark
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More needs to be done to stop sexualization of young girls, women say | 15,508 | record_train |
In an interview Wednesday, @placeholder expressed joy and disbelief that Miguel, the youngest of her five children at the time of his disappearance, had been finally found. | (CNN) -- A Texas woman has been arrested as a suspect in an alleged kidnapping of a boy eight years ago, the San Augustine County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. The woman, Krystle Tanner of San Augustine, was the godmother of Miguel Antonio Morin, who was 8 months old when he and Tanner went missing, the boy's mother, Auboni Champion-Morin, told CNN Wednesday. Tanner, also a neighbor, had been babysitting the boy in her Houston home, she said. San Augustine is about 165 miles northeast of Houston. The boy, now 8, was in good physical condition Monday and was in the custody of Texas Child Protective Services, said sheriff's Chief Deputy Gary Cunningham.
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NEW: Houston police are looking at why an Amber Alert was never issued in 2004 case
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Krystle Tanner of San Augustine, Texas, is in custody in the alleged kidnapping
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She was the boy's godmother, the mother tells CNN
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The boy, now 8, was 8 months old when he and Tanner went missing in 2004, mom says | 15,509 | record_train |
'Our team at @placeholder did everything possible to minimise the disruption to customers holidays and get them on their way as soon as possible. | By Steph Cockroft An airline pilot asked his passengers if they could 'smell roast chicken' after a flock of seagulls flew into the aircraft's engine. The Thomson holiday jet had just left Cardiff airport when it hit dozens of gulls over the South Wales coast. One hour later the pilot announced to passengers over the tannoy that the plane had been involved in a bird strike. 'Roast chicken': A Thomson flight travelling from Cardiff airport to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt was grounded after a flock of seagulls flew into the airliner's engine. The pilot asked passengers if they could 'smell roast chicken' after the incident took place
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Flight carrying passengers from Cardiff to Egypt was grounded
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Aircraft diverted to Gatwick after crew detected a 'smell like roast chicken'
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Pilot said flock of seagulls had been sucked into the airliner's engine
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Passengers transferred to another aircraft before flying to Sharm el-Sheikh | 15,510 | record_train |
When @placeholder asked about those specific comments, he recounted how the president reacted. | Washington (CNN) -- After four years in which he has alternately helped -- and miffed -- the White House, Vice President Joe Biden told CNN that his role as the deal-closer is clearly his most comfortable yet. "I have spent a lot of time in this town. And I have personal relationships with people I strongly disagree with, but there's trust. And so I'm a logical person, a logical person to, as they say or you guys say, close the deal," Biden told CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger in an exclusive pre-inaugural interview. Biden cut the last-minute deal last month with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that averted going over the fiscal cliff -- after President Barack Obama's negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner failed. He was given the high-profile task of putting together the administration's sweeping gun control proposals and will play a major role in pushing them through Congress.
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Biden says he's comfortable with most recent role as deal closer
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Vice president says running against Obama in 2008 helped forge relationship
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One of Obama's biggest roles will be trying to get Obama's guns agenda through Congress
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Some of Biden's candor hasn't gone over well with White House staff | 15,511 | record_train |
'The sun erupted with another significant flare today, peaking at 10:28 a.m. EDT on Oct. 22, 2014,' revealed @placeholder. | A monster storm on the sun's surface has unleashed a solar flare in the direction of Earth - and there could be more to come. The event temporarily blacked out a few radio communication systems before weakening. The storm came from a large group of sunspots and hit Earth between 10 am and 11 am EDT (2pm and 3pm BST) yesterday. Scroll down for video An X1.6 class flare erupted from the lower half of the sun today, as seen in the bright flash of light in this image from Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This image shows extreme ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 131 Angstroms, which highlights the intense heat of a solar flare
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Solar radiation knocked out some radio communication on Earth yesterday
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It came from a giant sunspot seen on the surface of the sun recently
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Sunspot AR12192 is 14 times larger than Earth and almost as big as Jupiter
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The Met Office tells MailOnline it might be the largest sunspot in 25 years
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It is so big that it can be seen in images of the sun from Earth's surface
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This particular flare from the sunspot was brief but strong
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It follows three days of severe storms on the sun
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'It would seem to be just a matter of time before another strong explosion occurs,' said spaceweather.com's Tony Phillips | 15,512 | record_train |
Delight: @placeholder enjoys winning a point on her way to earning a fourth-round tie against Caroline Wozniacki | By Eleanor Crooks, Press Association Maria Sharapova overcame Sabine Lisicki to set up a tasty fourth-round clash with Caroline Wozniacki at the US Open. There was nothing pretty or straightforward about Sharapova's 6-2 6-4 victory, which took an hour and 41 minutes, but she was the tougher in the end under the lights on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court. Lisicki had only won one of six previous meetings against Sharapova, at Wimbledon in 2012, but her big game means she is always a danger. Full flow: Sharapova sends down a serve as she sees off Lisicki in straight sets Tough match: Lisicki put in a decent display but Sharapova just had enough in the end to battle through
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Maria Sharapova wins third round match 6-2 6-4
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But Sabine Lisicki made it tough for the world No 6
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Caroline Wozniacki beat Andrea Petkovic to earn Sharapova match-up | 15,513 | record_train |
She decided to take a chance and claim to be @placeholder. | (CNN) -- After four years and more than $100 million spent by the international community, the Khmer Rouge Tribunal rendered its first verdict Monday. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to serve up to 19 more years in prison in what was an open-and-shut case. From the start, Duch, a born-again Christian, fully admitted his leadership role in Phnom Penh's infamous Tuol Sleng, a school-turned-torture center, where more than 14,000 people were killed. On this momentous occasion, I'd like to step back by reflecting upon and give voice to one victim of the Khmer Rouge: my late mother, Cam Youk Lim.
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A tribunal has begun prosecution of crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge regime
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Sophal Ear says his mother, who fled Cambodia, believed killers would pay for their crime
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She and her children were able to escape from Cambodia by posing as Vietnamese
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Ear's mother worked hard in France, U.S., to make sure her children got a good education | 15,514 | record_train |
READ MORE: Prince Harry on @placeholder mission: 'Take a life to save a life' | (CNN) -- Prince Harry's last visit to the United States, in August 2012, did not end well, after photographs of him romping naked around a Las Vegas hotel suite were published worldwide -- just weeks before he began his tour of duty in Afghanistan. "I probably let myself down, I let my family down, I let other people down," he said in an interview a few weeks later. "It was probably a classic example of me probably being too much army, and not enough prince." Harry argued at the time that it happened in a private area and that he should have been able to expect a certain amount of privacy.
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Prince Harry will be touring the United States, departing Thursday
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His last trip, in August 2012 to Las Vegas, ended with naked photos published worldwide
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Harry will not be stopping in Las Vegas this time
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The prince will represent the interests of his charities and those of the United Kingdom | 15,515 | record_train |
‘I used to attend meetings where @placeholder would be at the end of the table and he would be smoking his cigars. | He was best known for battling the Daleks as one of the best-loved Doctor Whos. But now it has been revealed that Jon Pertwee was a real-life secret agent years before he donned the Time Lord’s cape. The actor, who died in 1996 aged 76, was a senior intelligence agent during the Second World War and reported directly to Winston Churchill. He was also recommended for another role by James Bond creator Ian Fleming – and proved to be an expert in using a range of 007-like gadgets, including a smoking pipe that fired bullets and handkerchiefs containing secret maps.
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Actor was an intelligence agent in WWII and reported to Winston Churchill
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Revelations were made in a long-lost tape-recorded interview
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The complete interview is being published over two editions by Doctor Who Magazine. | 15,516 | record_train |
‘Although not entirely conclusive, the possibility of chytridiomycosis being associated with the extinction of the northern @placeholder's frog gains further support with this study.’ | An entire family of small frogs found on the coast of South America is thought to have been wiped out by a deadly amphibian disease. The Darwin's frog, and its cousin the Chile Darwin's frog, have not been spotted for months and scientists from Chile and Britain believe they are now extinct. The disease is called chytridiomycosis and the claims have been made by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and Universidad Andris Bello (UNAB). An entire family of small frogs found on the coast of South America is thought to have been wiped out by a deadly amphibian disease. The Darwin's frog and its cousin the Chile Darwin's frog, pictured, have not been spotted for months and scientists believe they are now extinct
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Darwin’s frog and the Chile Darwin’s frog are both said to now be extinct
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It's thought a disease called chytridiomycosis has wiped them out
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Two of the five pirates were killed, along with Florent Lemacon, the owner of the @placeholder, French media said. | (CNN) -- A French hostage and two pirates died Friday in a rescue operation off Somalia, the French president's office in Paris said Friday. Four hostages, including a child, were freed from the hijacked yacht after almost a week of captivity. Four hostages, including a child, were freed from the hijacked yacht after almost a week of captivity, Nicolas Sarkozy's office said. The four adults and a child had been held aboard their yacht, the Tanit, since it was seized in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday, the president's statement said. The military made its move after the pirates refused their offers, including one to swap an officer for the mother and child held aboard, and threatened to execute the hostages one-by-one -- and because the Tanit was drifting closer to the Somalian coast, the defense ministry said.
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NEW: Military says mission prompted by fear pirates could take hostages ashore
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NEW: Owner Florent Lemacon, who was held hostage, dies in rescue; four freed
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French military attack pirates holding yacht from different directions
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Two pirates also killed in rescue operation | 15,518 | record_train |
A warmer, wetter climate may be the principal threat to @placeholder's unique biological heritage, but it is not the only one, say the report's scientists. | (CNN) -- Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to team of U.S. and Russian scientists. The Baikal seal is the world's only freshwater seal. Publishing their analysis in BioScience magazine the team found the most pressing threat came from the dependence of the lake's food chain on microscopic algae. Lake Baikal's algae are particularly vulnerable to expected reductions in the length of time the lake is frozen each winter. The lake is considered a treasure trove for biologists and was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because a high proportion of its rich fauna and flora are found nowhere else.
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Study says climate change threatens important algae in Russia's Lake Baikal
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Warmer temperatures could also affect world's only freshwater seal
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Lake Baikal is a UNESCO world heritage site for its unique flora and fauna | 15,519 | record_train |
@placeholder is back in Bali this week for memorial events to mark the 10-year anniversary of the bombing. | Cars park side by side in a vacant lot in the center of Kuta, Bali, near a sign that implores passersby not to urinate there. It was here 10 years ago that a bomb tore through the Sari Club, for a split second silencing the crowd of revelers as they chatted, drank and danced on a typical Saturday night out. Phil Britten was there with his team mates from the Kingsley Cats, Australian rules football players on an end of season trip from Perth, on the country's west coast. In his book "Undefeated," Britten, who received burns to 60% of his body, describes the stench and burning in his throat from the bomb, before his hearing kicked in and the screams rang out.
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Thousands gather in Kuta, Bali to mark 10 years since terror attacks killed 202 people
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Blasts targeted revelers in popular night clubs; 88 Australians were among dead
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Survivors and relatives want a permanent park to be built on the site of the Sari Club
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It's currently being used as a car park with prominent signs urging people not to urinate there | 15,520 | record_train |
attached to the @placeholder mainliand, ticket touts advertise the 10 euro | Seven months after it capsized off the coast of Italy claiming the lives of 32 passengers, the wreck of the Costa Concordia has become a grim tourist attraction. So many people want to see the stricken cruise ship up close, thousands are queuing up each day to catch a ferry that passes within metres of its submerged shell. Visitors drawn to the macabre attraction will have a little longer to catch a glimpse of the vessel - a project to refloat the Costa Concordia was this week delayed until next spring. Scroll down for video Macabre: Daytrippers to Giglio capture snapshots of the Costa Concordia as they pass on a ferry from the Italian mainland
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Thousands flock to the isle of Giglio to catch a glimpse of the wreck site, where 32 people died
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Plans to refloat ship have been delayed til next spring | 15,521 | record_train |
Luxury: @placeholder's campaigns focus on 'celebrities who clearly appreciate the finer things in life' | She pulled off some jaw-dropping stunts during her days as a Charlie's Angel, so hanging off the side of a New York skyscraper fire-escape in a strapless ballgown would be an easy feat for Lucy Liu. The actress is embracing her inner Spider-Man to star in a new campaign for Mandarin Oriental. Liu has been named as the latest celebrity fan of the hotel group, joining Liam Neeson, Dame Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and others. She's a fan: Lucy Liu has been named as the new celebrity ambassador for Mandarin Oriental Home away from home: She chose the Mandarin Oriental New York as her favourite of the brand's properties
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Elementary actress, 45, is the latest celebrity fan of hotel group
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She joins Liam Neeson, Helen Mirren and more in 'He/She's a fan' campaign
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Photographed by Mary McCartney in Manhattan | 15,522 | record_train |
The heart wrenching scene saw @placeholder alternate by bouts of hysterical crying and furious shouting at her husband’s killer. | By Ryan Gorman PUBLISHED: 21:23 EST, 1 March 2014 | UPDATED: 01:27 EST, 2 March 2014 The widow of a slain Austin police officer read letters written by his heartbroken children in court after his killer was sentenced to death. Brandon Daniel, 26, was sentenced to death late Friday night for the April 2012 shooting death of officer Jamie Padron, but he was not permitted to leave without first hearing from his grieving children. ‘How the hell do I tell two little girls that their daddy is dead?’ Widow Amy Padron said in court she thought after learning of the veteran cop’s death, according to the Austin Statesman.
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Brandon Daniel, 26, was sentenced Friday to death by lethal injection for the 2012 shooting death of an Austin police officer
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Jamie Padron's widow Amy Padron read aloud in court letters written by devastated daughters Ariana, 10, and Olivia, six-years-old
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Other family members called Daniel a 'monster' and told him to 'rot in hell' before he was taken away | 15,523 | record_train |
That storyline was what I knew of that homeland I imagined from family folklore told across the dinner table, gossip at beauty salons with my mother, or in the aisles of the mercados shopping for @placeholder staples like chorizo and yucca with my grandmother; or from old photo albums that they had managed to smuggle out of Cuba, and the rum-drunk talk about "what happened" from the men playing dominos on the terraza in the backyard. | As my official bio reads, I was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain, and imported to the United States -- meaning my mother, seven months pregnant, and the rest of my family arrived as exiles from Cuba to Madrid, where I was born. Less than two months later, we emigrated once more and settled in New York City, then eventually in Miami, where I was raised and educated. By the time I was 45 days old, I belonged to three countries. My first newborn photo appears on my U.S. alien registration card. As an adult, I see this as a foreshadowing of what would eventually obsess my writing and my psyche: the negotiation of identity.
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Richard Blanco grew up surrounded by Cuban exiles, finding America in sitcom reruns
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Blanco: Negotiating my identity as an American and a gay man is wellspring of my poetry
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Blanco says his life mirrors that of America, a nation of hope still trying to find its own identity
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He says he's lived the American dream: from immigrant to reading poem to the nation | 15,524 | record_train |
The IAU, headquartered @placeholder, has not previously allowed many planets or stars to be named. | By Jonathan O'Callaghan To date, nearly all planets found outside the solar system have followed a strict naming convention, which has led to rather complicated names such as OGLE235-MOA53 b. That’s all set to change later this year, though, as the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will allow the public to vote on the names of exoplanets for the first time. A list of 305 confirmed planets found before 31 December 2008 has been drawn up, and in October names can be submitted for consideration for some of the planets. Paris-based IAU will let the public vote on names for planets next year. This is the first time they will have allowed planets to be named this way. Previously nomenclature for exoplanets had followed strict guidelines. But now in September astronomy clubs will be invited to submit names
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Paris-based IAU will let the public vote on names for planets next year
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This is the first time they will have allowed planets to be named this way
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Previously nomenclature for exoplanets had followed strict guidelines
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But now in September astronomy clubs will be invited to submit names
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And in March next year the public will be allowed to vote on names for 20 to 30 selected planets outside the solar system | 15,525 | record_train |
Nearby was the family @placeholder containing the bodies of her parents and grandmother. | By Stephen Wright and Nick Fagge The former RAF pilot who stumbled on the French Alps gun massacre described yesterday the carnage that confronted him. Brett Martin, 53, said he initially thought there had been a terrible car accident but then saw a 'lot of blood and heads with bullet holes in them'. He compared what he saw to a scene from the TV crime series CSI: Miami. First on the scene: Brett Martin described finding the murdered Al-Hilli family as 'like something out of a Hollywood movie' Hero: Mr Martin is seen here training in Steyning. He is a keen competitor in the triathlon
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William Brett Martin first thought he had stumbled upon a terrible accident
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Saw seven-year-old Zainab 'stumbling around, bleeding and moaning'
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Family's BMW's engine was still revving and its wheels were spinning
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Mr Martin credited for potentially saving Zainab's life
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Chief prosecutor of French Alps area said causes of deaths lay in Britain | 15,526 | record_train |
moment in @placeholder... so we can get started on building the new factory | By Ben Griffiths and Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 13:45 EST, 11 September 2013 | UPDATED: 02:07 EST, 12 September 2013 An iconic British image known throughout the world has resumed production after being brought back from the brink by a Chinese automotive giant. The production line of distinctive black cabs began rolling again six months after the London Taxi Company (LTC) was rescued from administration by Geely. Once fully up and running the line will manufacture ten vehicles a day, five days a week. Geely said restarting the business had created 66 new jobs at LTC’s Coventry plant. Back in black: The London Taxi Company Wednesday restarted production of the famous black cab, six months after the business was saved by Chinese car maker Geely
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Coventry-based firm up and running thanks to buyout
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The London Taxi Company faced uncertain future
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Now they are looking to recruit staff and build new factories
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But one city analyst fear they may move production abroad | 15,527 | record_train |
The advert, which was first released in November, was the first ever @placeholder campaign for Burberry and starred Romeo alongside 50 dancers all clad in the beige trench coats. | He's one sixth of the UK's most famous family, so it's no surprise that Romeo Beckham holds some pretty substantial pulling power. In fact it's been reported that thanks to his most recent Burberry advert, sales of the brand's classic £1,500 trench coats have gone up a substantial 10 per cent. The fashion label has credited the 12-year-old son of David and Victoria Beckham for its rise in sales in the US, Europe and the Middle East after he starred in their Christmas advert last year. Scroll down for video Romeo Beckham wore the classic Burberry trench in the advert along with a smart Burberry scarf and umbrella
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Burberry trench sales have gone up 10% since Romeo's festive advert
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Brand credit 12-year-old's involvement in its campaign for boost
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A number of books critical of the campaign have faced @placeholder censorship. | Defence bosses were last night embroiled in a censorship row over a British soldier’s highly critical book about the war in Afghanistan. The MoD was accused of being paranoid as it made a last-ditch attempt to block publication of a damning study of Britain’s military campaign in Helmand. The 13-year conflict has cost 448 British lives – most of them after Tony Blair ordered troops into the volatile Taliban stronghold in May 2006. Dr Mike Martin (pictured in fatigues above) speaking to an Afghan villager in Helmand Province. Dr Martin served as a Captain in the Territorial Army when he was commissioned to write his book
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Author 'forced to resign' from the Army after Ministry of Defence pulled support for controversial book
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Dr Mike Martin was one of only a handful of soldiers who could speak Pushtu fluently
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What makes you think Uganda has any ill intention against @placeholder?" | KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) -- A fight between Ugandan and Libyan presidential guards sparked chaos during a ceremony attended by the heads of state from 11 African nations on Wednesday. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attend the opening of the mosque. Several of the guards to the visiting heads of state from Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Mali, Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti sustained serious injuries in the fight, which included punches, kicks and the drawing of guns. No leaders were hurt in the melee, though several were knocked over. Several journalists also were caught up in the fracas and suffered injuries or lost their grips on cameras and recorders.
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Ugandan officer reports tensions with Libyan leader's guards during visit
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Leaders gathered for opening of massive mosque in Kampala, Uganda
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The service blurs people's faces so it is hard to confirm whether it is @placeholder. | LONDON, England (CNN) -- Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher on Saturday denied that he is the man shown pointing at the Google Street View camera as it drove past his local pub in London last summer. Liam Gallagher says the figure captured on Google Earth outside a pub in London is not him. "Just saw google earth apparently that's meant to be me, who ... wears legwarmers with reeboks?? Not this kid!! LG," he wrote on Twitter. Though available for a while in the United States, Google Street View only launched in Britain last week. As in America, the launch in Britain prompted people all over the country to try to find themselves or spot funny images and famous faces on the service.
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Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher denies Google Earth appearance
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Fans said man captured on camera drinking outside London pub was singer
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White said the lawsuit against @placeholder, which was filed on Thursday, cited a statute that makes it illegal to fire someone for their testimony when it is given under subpoena. | PUBLISHED: 01:02 EST, 4 August 2013 | UPDATED: 01:02 EST, 4 August 2013 A former employee of Florida State Attorney Angela Corey's office is suing the prosecutor, claiming he was illegally fired after he testified on behalf of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder trial. Ben Kruidbos, the former director of information technology for Corey's office, is seeking more than $5million in damages in the lawsuit filed in Jacksonville, according to a legal documents. Kruidbos was fired after testifying at a pre-trial hearing June 6 that he believed prosecutors had failed to turn over to the defense, as required by evidence-sharing laws, potentially embarrassing evidence extracted from Martin's cell phone.
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In his termination letter Ben Kruidbos was accused of violating state attorney office policies and procedures
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He had informed the defense team that they hadn't received all the images and text messages retrieved from Trayvon Martin's cell phone
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The missing content included images of Martin blowing smoke, holding a gun and images of marijuana
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Kruidbos is seeking in his suit against Florida State Attorney Angela Corey more than $5million | 15,532 | record_train |
visited @placeholder with a friend, when the crowds turned on him, | A young vicar nicknamed 'The Bush' on account of his afro hairdo was singled out by Manchester United fans at Old Trafford chanting 'there's only one Marouane Fellaini'. The crowds spotted the likeness Reverend Simon Rose bears to the Man Utd midfielder, singing 'Fellaini give us a wave'. The 26-year-old, who became the youngest religious minister in Nottingham when he joined the church in November, said he cannot go anywhere without people mistaking him for the footballer. Scroll down for video Reverend Simon Rose, left, said he is constantly being mistaken from the Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini, right, on account of his afro hairdo
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Reverend Simon Rose was singled out by fans at Old Trafford who mistook the 26-year-old for midfielder Marouane Fellaini
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Crowd chanted 'Fellaini give us a wave' and 'there's only one Marouane Fellaini' at the Nottingham Forest fan as he watched Man Utd play
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He said he enjoys football but won't give up his day job as minister at Ruddington in Nottinghamshire | 15,533 | record_train |
On the @placeholder side there's a tolerance for this extremism." | (CNN) -- The tension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be felt on CNN on Saturday morning when a prominent Palestinian-Canadian human rights attorney refused to appear on screen with a representative of the Israeli government. On CNN's "New Day Saturday," Diana Buttu -- a former legal adviser to the Palestinian Liberation Organization -- said she would not go on television at the same time as "an Israeli government spokesperson who defends the indefensible." The two would have appeared on a split screen. Buttu was speaking from Nazareth, while Mark Regev -- the Israeli spokesman -- was in Jerusalem. "This isn't just a question of talking and sitting down in the same room but the fact that Israel has denied the freedom to millions of Palestinians for decades now," Buttu said.
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Former legal adviser to the PLO refuses to appear on CNN with Israeli government official
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Tensions have been on the rise since four teens, three Israeli and one Palestinian, were killed
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Israeli spokesman calls for dialogue, criticizes Hamas-Fatah unity government | 15,534 | record_train |
His picture had already been viewed more than 1.25 million times on @placeholder since being posted on March 31. | Sorry ladies, but Zeddie Little is off the market. The man who became an Internet sensation after being dubbed ‘Ridiculously photogenic guy’ is in a serious relationship, MailOnline can reveal. Zeddie Little is 'very committed' to his girlfriend of five years and is overwhelmed by all the attention he has been receiving, his father said. What's up, good looking? Zeddie Little, 25, has become an Internet sensation after an amateur photographer randomly took his photo during a 10K run in Charleston, South Carolina Overnight sensation: Zeddie Little already has 2,327 likes on his Facebook fan page on Friday within an hour of being set up... that has now risen to 58,000
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Zeddie Little, 25, was running a 10k race when a photographer randomly took his picture and put it on Flickr
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Aruban judges repeatedly granted requests to extend @placeholder's detention, while the investigation continued. | (CNN) -- An American man who was held in Aruba for nearly four months in connection with the disappearance of his traveling companion insisted Thursday he had nothing to do with her vanishing but said it will "weigh heavily on me for a very long time." "I feel as if a person I cared about, a companion ... has disappeared on my watch," Gary Giordano said on ABC's "Good Morning America" in his first interview since being released from custody in Aruba earlier this week. Giordano, 50, had been held in the disappearance of 35-year-old Robyn Gardner of Maryland. Giordano told authorities the two were snorkeling on August 2 when he signaled to Gardner to swim back. When he reached the beach, he told police, Gardner was nowhere to be found and has not been seen since.
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The Maryland man gives his first interview since his release from jail in Aruba
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He denies any involvement in Robyn Gardner's August 2 disappearance
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While the defence bore the brunt of the criticism for their calamitous display against Germany, @placeholder's striking options also struggled. | Departing Brazil technical director Carlos Alberto Parreira has warned the country's football federation (CBF) against appointing a foreign coach. Luiz Felipe Scolari stood down as the Selecao's coach after their World Cup dream fell apart in a 7-1 semi-final hammering by Germany, followed by another defeat to Holland in the third place play-off. His backroom staff left with him and attention will now turn to finding a successor, with suggestions a first ever overseas appointment could be on the agenda. Note of caution: Outgoing Brazilian Football Federation technical director Carlos Alberto Parreira believes Luis Felipe Scolari's successor should not come from outside the country
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Carlos Alberto Parreira, who won World Cup in 1994 with Brazil, warned Brazilian FA against appointing foreign coach
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Luis Felipe Scolari stood down after World Cup humiliation
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Parreira said 'great teams have to have a local coach'
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Man City boss Manuel Pellegrini was approached but rebuffed the offer | 15,537 | record_train |
Those workers will not be allowed to return to work at the hospital until after the @placeholder 'incubation period and confirmed negative laboratory results,' the statement said. | By Daily Mail Reporter and Ap The first American diagnosed with a mysterious virus from the Middle East was released Friday from a northwestern Indiana hospital after health officials determined the patient 'poses no threat to the community.' The patient is considered fully recovered and has been cleared by health officials to travel, if necessary, after testing negative for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, the Indiana State Department of Health said in a statement. Community Hospital chief medical information officer Dr. Alan Kumar said hospital officials completed their discharge plans for the patient with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Indiana health officials.
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MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
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The strange virus is incredibly lethal
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The man who contracted the disease had just returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia
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Health officials say the man no longer has symptoms of the disease | 15,538 | record_train |
Strike a pose: Sagna has his photo taken with fans on a beach in @placeholder | By Mike Dawes Bacary Sagna was clearly enjoying life as he took some time out on the beach in Rio after sealing his move to Manchester City and helping France through to the last 16 of the World Cup. The full-back spent the afternoon with his wife, Ludivine, and their children as the French players were given some time off after Wednesday night's goalless draw with Ecuador. Sagna turned down offers of a contract renewal at Arsenal, but hit back at the rumours he had been trying to simply hike up his wages, pointing out that he had been on the same deal at the Emirates for the past six years
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Sagna joined Manchester City from Arsenal on a free transfer
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The France defender signed a £150,000-a-week three-year-deal, which is inclusive of add-ons and bonuses
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But Muller’s clinical strike for @placeholder means he joins the pair at the top of the leaderboard, and there is a growing group of players on three who will also have their eyes on the individual prize. | 4 goals Thomas Muller (Germany)Lionel Messi (Argentina)Neymar (Brazil) 3 goals Robin van Persie (Holland)Arjen Robben (Holland)Karim Benzema (France)Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland)Enner Valencia (Ecuador)James Rodriguez (Colombia) The race for the Golden Boot is hotting up as the World Cup heads into the knockout stages, with Thomas Muller’s stunning finish against USA taking him to four goals for the tournament and on level pegging with Neymar and Lionel Messi. After Messi’s brace against Nigeria on Wednesday, it looked as though the battle to be this tournament’s top scorer would be a Barcelona affair – Neymar having struck twice for Brazil the day before versus Cameroon.
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Muller's winner for Germany against USA put him back in contention
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Neymar and Messi are both on four goals from three group games
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Xherdan Shaqiri netted a hat-trick for Switzerland to put him one behind
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Dutch pair Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie also a single goal off top | 15,540 | record_train |
Mr Thompson said: 'I race classic cars and we needed the engine out of the @placeholder for another car. | By Graham Smith PUBLISHED: 06:12 EST, 20 June 2012 | UPDATED: 08:30 EST, 20 June 2012 Travelling down a rural canal, the last thing you would expect to see is a Reliant Robin perched halfway up a tree. But that is exactly the bizarre sight that is greeting passers-by on the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal in Preston Bagot, Warwickshire. After their initial shock, most shrug it off as a work of modern art. But it was only placed there thanks to a spur-of-the-moment decision by a car enthusiast who owns the land the royal oak tree is on. Bizarre sight: A Reliant Robin sits on branches halfway up a royal oak next to the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal in Preston Bagot, Warwickshire
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Bizarre sight greets passers-by on the Stratford-Upon-Avon Canal in Preston Bagot, Warwickshire
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Gregan Thompson, who owns the land the tree is on, made a spur-of-the-moment decision to place the car up the royal oak | 15,541 | record_train |
Coffman's Facebook activity prompted the FBI to obtain a search warrant for the account on August 4, leading investigators to discover a history of correspondence about @placeholder. | After seven months of investigation and undercover work, federal officials have arrested a Virginia woman and accused her of lying to federal agents about involvement with the terrorist group ISIS. Heather Coffman, 29, of Henrico County, is charged with making a materially false statement or representation regarding an offense involving international and domestic terrorism. Authorities said they built their case against Coffman with information from a series of undercover interviews and inflammatory social media posts. Coffman first caught the attention of the FBI through her Facebook activity, according to a criminal complaint filed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The complaint details many of Coffman's controversial Facebook posts and interactions.
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Heather Coffman, of Henrico County, is charged with lying to federal agents
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Coffman caught the attention of the FBI through her Facebook activity
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They say she posted positively about ISIS, later met with agents to recruit for ISIS | 15,542 | record_train |
Carr and 3-year-old Irwin arrived at the zoo after spats with officials in @placeholder. | By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:13 EST, 31 August 2013 | UPDATED: 10:38 EST, 1 September 2013 A woman who keeps a partially paralyzed kangaroo as a ‘therapy pet’ has moved into an exotic animal park in Oklahoma so that the pair can stay together. In the past two years Christie Carr, who suffers from depression, and Irwin have lived in several different locations in the state after fleeing her home town of Broken Arrow. The pair left after Carr feared city officials could seize her pet as part of a dispute over licensing and insurance.
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Almost two years after fleeing her hometown, Christie Carr and Irwin are enjoying life at their new home
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The pair moved in March to The Garold Wayne Interactive Zoological Park in Wynnewood, Oklahoma
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Carr lives in the zoo's staff house and says the move has been good for her mental health
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She nursed Irwin back to health after he was partially paralyzed from running into a fence several years ago | 15,543 | record_train |
"We recognize our fans' concerns and we regret the uncertainty this episode has created for them," the @placeholder' statement said. | (CNN) -- In sweeping discipline that one analyst called "historic," New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton was suspended without pay for the entire 2012 season and former Saints defensive coach Gregg Williams was suspended indefinitely in a series of NFL punishments Wednesday for the team's bounty program targeting opponents. Under the bounties, the team paid bonuses for knocking opposing players out of a game, the NFL said. Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis was suspended without pay for the first eight regular-season games of the 2012 season, the NFL said. Assistant Head Coach Joe Vitt was suspended without pay for the first six regular-season games, the league said.
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NEW: "This will never happen again," the apologetic Saints team says
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NEW: Former defense coach Gregg Williams apologizes "wholeheartedly"
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Bounties were put on QBs Brett Favre, Cam Newton, Aaron Rodgers, Kurt Warner
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Saints head coach must sit out a season; Williams, now at Rams, is suspended indefinitely | 15,544 | record_train |
Beirut was shaken Thursday by a large car bomb blast in a residential neighborhood known as a @placeholder stronghold. | (CNN) -- Lebanese authorities have arrested the chief of an al Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group that has previously claimed terror attacks in Lebanon, Egypt and elsewhere, the Lebanese army said Friday. The suspect is Saudi national Majed Al-Majed, who is accused of heading the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, the army statement said. He has been on Saudi Arabia's most wanted list since 2009, the statement said, adding that DNA tests had confirmed his identity. The Sunni jihadist group recently took responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings targeting the Iranian Embassy in Beirut that left more than 20 people dead. It warned that more attacks would come unless Hezbollah, a Lebanese-based, Iranian-backed Shiite militia, stopped sending fighters to support Syrian regime forces.
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Saudi national Majed Al-Majed is thought to be head of the jihadist Abdullah Azzam Brigades
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His identity has been confirmed by DNA tests, the Lebanese army says
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He has been on Saudi Arabia's most wanted list since 2009, the army says
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The Sunni jihadist group has claimed attacks in Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan | 15,545 | record_train |
There is no mention of the alleged incident of racism and no suggestion that the @placeholder side will launch an internal investigation. | By Adam Crafton Follow @@AdamCrafton_ On Tuesday night in the isolated Croatian town of Novigrad, Manchester City's patience finally snapped. For the fifth time in just over two years, one of their players has allegedly become the victim of racial abuse. Previous incidents include the subjection of Mario Balotelli and Yaya Toure to monkey noises in European competition, a banana being launched at Gael Clichy in a friendly at Limerick and Devante Cole, a young talent, receiving relentless abuse in a youth tournament in Madrid. This time, it was an academy pre-season friendly game and a 19-year-old boy was the target. Yes, really.
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Manchester City's Elite Development Squad manager Patrick Vieira abandoned pre-season friendly against HNK Rijeka after incident
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Rijeka: 'To the amazement of a well-filled stadium, (Vieira) took his team off the pitch. What are the reasons? They are known only to him'
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Seko Fofana left distressed after being 'racially abused' during pre-season
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'Just disgusting. He was really upset by it. He was 18 - how can it be allowed?' City source tells Sportsmail
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Her parenting skills also leave something to be desired, if @placeholder is to be believed. | (CNN) -- A new one-volume guide to virtually every rumor, controversy, assertion and accusation about Sarah Palin -- scurrilous or otherwise -- is about to hit the stands, and it's already generating a storm of controversy. "The Rogue: Searching for The Real Sarah Palin" by Joe McGinniss is a merciless review of Palin's personal life and meteoric rise from the mayor of a small Alaskan town to the center of America's political universe. CNN obtained a copy of the book -- which relies heavily on unnamed sources -- earlier this week. Palin critics will find some of their worst assumptions about the former governor reinforced by McGinniss; Palin defenders will be outraged. The book portrays Palin as an image-obsessed governor who was ill-prepared for the burdens of Wasilla's town hall -- much less for the Republican presidential ticket.
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"The Rogue" by Joe McGinniss comes out next Tuesday
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Joe McGinniss' book alleges that Palin once used cocaine
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The book also claims Palin was an image-obsessed governor and poor parent
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Sarah Palin's husband says the book is full of "disgusting" lies | 15,547 | record_train |
Stolen: In April, someone swiped the bust of @placeholder. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:27 EST, 22 August 2012 | UPDATED: 21:09 EST, 22 August 2012 Community leaders in Selma, Alabama, are furious over the repair and renovation of a monument to a Confederate general who was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Kulx Klan. Opponents say Nathan Bedford Forrest was a brutal racist who was a slave trader before the Civil War. During the war, his troops slaughtered 200 black soldiers after they surrendered during the Battle of Fort Pillow. The group Friends of Forrest says the general was a self-made man and a brilliant tactician who defended Selma during the Union invasion in 1865.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest was a slave trader who tried to bring blacks back under white control after the Civil War
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Monument in Selma, Alabama, was vandalized and his bust stolen in April
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Friends of Forrest group is spending $50,000 to replace to head and restore the memorial | 15,548 | record_train |
Communications Minister has revealed the cuts to the public broadcasters ABC and @placeholder saying 'if the ABC or SBS want to make decisions to change or cease programming; that is their choice. | Education Minister Christopher Pyne has denied he's trying to save ABC jobs in his home state of South Australia, from his own government and at the expense of the broadcaster's other departments. Just as his Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull was confirming that the ABC will lose more than $250 million in federal funding (with up to 500 jobs expected to be shed before Christmas) and SBS $25 million, Mr Pyne took the unusual step of launching his own on-line petition on Wednesday calling on the ABC board not to cut production in South Australia. His office has denied it's a case of double standards, My Pyne attempting to turn the blame onto the ABC board, accusing them of 'political vandalism' if they choose to reduce production costs.
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Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed the ABC will lose $254 million over the next five years)
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Education Minister launches petition to stop programming cutbacks and says the ABC Board would be guilty of 'political vandalism' if there are
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Christopher Pyne has called for ABC jobs to be protected in his home state of South Australia
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Government insists the ABC board should not have to cut programming and production and can find savings across other business parts
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SBS will suffer cuts of $25 million over five years | 15,549 | record_train |
Chiara, center, became a key part of the @placeholder campaign after it made the candidate's family (and hairdos) a key part of their strategy | By Daily Mail Reporter and Ryan Gorman PUBLISHED: 00:49 EST, 30 December 2013 | UPDATED: 04:28 EST, 30 December 2013 New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio says he is proud of his daughter for the deeply personal YouTube video posted Christmas Eve detailing her struggle with drugs, alcohol and mental health issues. Chiara de Blasio, 19, claimed during the surprising video that she's struggled with depression and anxiety most of her life and that she turned to substances in order to cope. The mayor-elect said during a Sunday news conference that he and his wife even paid for the video's production, Newsday reported.
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Chiara de Blasio, a college sophomore at California's Santa Clara University, says she's now clean and sober thanks to a treatment program
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New York Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio, her father, says he's proud of his daughter 'strength' and 'courage' | 15,550 | record_train |
What does that tell investors who are looking at @placeholder?" | Hong Kong (CNN) -- When CEO-turned-whistleblower Michael Woodford exposed a $1.7 billion cover-up of losses at Olympus, he was forced to flee from Japan, fearing for his life, as the scandal sent shockwaves through the country's tight-knit corporate world. The 52-year-old Briton had barely settled in to his new role as the company's first foreign chief executive when he became aware of a potentially explosive magazine article. FACTA, a local Japanese title with only nine staff, had published a detailed expose in July 2011 questioning exorbitant fees it claimed the camera and medical equipment maker had paid consultants for a 2008 acquisition deal. It also questioned extravagant purchase prices of three small companies.
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Michael Woodford fired as Olympus CEO after he exposed a $1.7 billion cover-up
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Woodford was appointed as first foreign CEO when a local magazine broke news
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Olympus shares lost around 80% of their market value in weeks after
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Woodford: Case highlights the dysfunctionality of corporate Japan | 15,551 | record_train |
Above, the billionaire with actress @placeholder, who was his date to the event in 1999 | This was a wedding Vienna will remember for years — however much it might want to forget it. The theme was pure Disney, with four white-plumed Lipizzan horses pulling a carriage containing the loving couple, who were separated by a mere 57 years. As guests gathered last weekend in the 1,441-room Schonbrunn Palace for the lavish reception, the bride and groom released two symbolic white doves into the air. The 24-year-old bride, former Playboy Bunny Cathy Schmitz, wore an explosion of purple and white chiffon over a jewelled strapless bustier, topped off with a white fur jacket. Scroll down for video
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Austrian billionaire Richard Lugner, 81, bribes celebrities to be his date
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Together they attend the glittering annual Vienna Opera Ball
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Lugner pays a five or six figure sum to his guest, and flies her on private jet
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Faye Dunaway, Farrah Fawcett and Raquel Welch among those who said yes | 15,552 | record_train |
The captain and 35 North Korean crew members are charged with illegal possession of weapons and international arms trafficking, @placeholder officials said. | A month after Panamanian authorities intercepted a North Korean ship with military equipment hidden on board, U.N. inspectors were ready to take a look. The inspectors, who arrived at Panama's Manzanillo port early Tuesday, came at the request of the Panamanian government. The ship set sail from Cuba, and the Cubans have admitted owning the military equipment it carries, claiming it was being sent to North Korea to be repaired and returned. Because it is pursuing nuclear weapons, North Korea is banned by the United Nations from importing and exporting most weapons. For this reason, the Panamanian government invited the inspectors and said it would let the United Nations decide how to respond to the incident.
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U.N. personnel will inspect the military equipment carried by a North Korean ship
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The ship was intercepted in Panama last month
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Authorities found missiles, two MiG-21 jets and more | 15,553 | record_train |
Activists declared @placeholder 'liberated' on opposition social media websites Monday. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:40 EST, 4 March 2013 | UPDATED: 02:57 EST, 5 March 2013 Syrian rebels have torn down a bronze statue of President Bashar Assad's late father and predecessor as they pushed government troops from most of the northern city of Raqqa. Scores of cheering protesters ripped down the statue in scenes reminiscent of Iraq in 2003, when angry civilians toppled a giant statue of Saddam Hussein. Rebels hold control in parts of several major Syrian cities - several neighborhoods in Aleppo, Homs and Deir el-Zour, as well as suburbs of the capital, Damascus.
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Cheering protesters ripped down statue in scenes reminiscent of Iraq, 2003
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Comes as rebels push government troops from most of city of Raqqa
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Stones (second right) watches on as the referee brandishes a straight red card, leaving @placeholder to play out the rest of the match with 10 men | The pitch may have been artificial but there was nothing plastic about the performance. This was a show of real character by Everton, fighting back from a goal down to plant one foot firmly in the last 16 of the Europa League. They even played the last half hour a man down after John Stones was sent off. Romelu Lukaku led magnificently from the front with a hat-trick. The big Belgian striker has struggled to justify his £28million price tag from Chelsea last summer, but here he was almost unplayable. It was the perfect hat-trick — header, right foot, left foot — and his first since gatecrashing Sir Alex Ferguson’s farewell game, a potty 5-5 draw between West Bromwich and Manchester United at The Hawthorns two years ago.
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Roberto Martinez's side conceded early, as Guillaume Hoarau curled a wonderful effort into the bottom corner
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It didn't take long for Everton to get back into the game, as Romelu Lukaku headed home from inside the box
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Everton took the lead through Seamus Coleman four minutes later, before Lukaku grabbed his second of the night
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3-1 became 4-1 in the second half, with Lukaku topping off his impressive performance with a third goal
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"@placeholder wasn't saying [Clinton] would run, but what it would be like if she did run," she said. | Washington (CNN)Neera Tanden, one of Hillary Clinton's longtime confidants and former policy adviser, dropped whatever coyness was left regarding the former secretary of state's all-but-certain presidential run at an event on Tuesday night. Addressing an audience of about 150 people at an Asian-American and Pacific Islander Ready for Hillary event, Tanden -- president of the Center for American Progress -- said she was looking forward to seeing everyone in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. "I am really exited for these next two years. With any Clinton adventure, it is a roller coaster. It is going to be very exciting," Tanden said. "She is really going to need all of us to step up, step in, be involved, fight for her, be a voice for her."
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One of Hillary Clinton's closest confidants hinted at likely presidential run on Tuesday
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"I am really exited for these next two years," said Neera Tanden, a former Clinton policy adviser.
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Tanden's spokeswoman says she was "kidding" | 15,556 | record_train |
I honestly think @placeholder is the greatest footballer I have ever seen in my lifetime – it’s impossible to compare players across eras – and if you asked me whose ability I’d rather have, I’d probably say Messi. | British viewers will miss the first 15 minutes of Saturday's game due to broadcasting regulations. Real Madrid welcome bitter rivals Barcelona to the Bernabeu on Saturday evening in the first El Clasico of the La Liga season. The clash brings together the two best players in the world, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who between them have won the last six Ballon d'Or awards. Here, Sportsmail's columnists and reporters reveal which of the two they consider to be the best. JAMIE REDKNAPP Messi. This has to be one of the hardest questions anyone has ever asked me! I was lucky enough to work on both the Barcelona and Real Madrid games this week and both players were so good.
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Real Madrid host Barcelona in the first El Clasico of season on Saturday
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Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will go head to head at the Bernabeu
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Between them they have won the last six Ballon d'Or awards
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Our unrivalled columnists and reporters debate who is the best | 15,557 | record_train |
Mourinho lavished praise on his match-winner, admitting he is keen to hand @placeholder another 12 month deal when his current contract expires in the summer. | Didier Drogba rolled back the years as Chelsea maintain their six point lead at the Premier League summit with victory over Tottenham. And Jose Mourinho opened the door to the veteran striker staying another season at Stamford Bridge after his vintage display against Mauricio Pochettino’s men. The Ivorian made one and scored another as Chelsea maintained their unbeaten start to the season. VIDEO Scroll down for Jose Mourinho: Didier Drogba is remarkable, he's a team player Didier Drogba shared this picture of the Chelsea players celebrating the Tottenham win in the dressing room on his Instagram account Didier Drogba gets ahead of Jan Vertonghen to put Chelsea two up just three minutes after Hazard's goal
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Didier Drogba scored Chelsea's second during the 3-0 win over Tottenham at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday
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The Ivorian signed a one-year contract with the club in the summer, but Jose Mourinho wants him to stay
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It was Drogba's fifth goal since returning to the club where he enjoyed so much success during his first spell
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The manner of the last goal summed up @placeholder’s afternoon. | Southampton managed to avoid their worst run in 57 years with a resounding victory against Everton. An own goal from Romelu Lukaku in the first half set Saints on their way and strikes from Graziano Pelle and Maya Yoshida then secured victory and halted their dramatic slide. Had they been beaten by the Merseyside club then they would have crashed to their sixth consecutive defeat, matching an unwanted run set in 1957. It was certainly a motivating factor for Ronald Koeman’s men. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Sportsmail Big Match Stats: Southampton 3-0 Everton Southampton defender Jose Fonte risest highest for Romelu Lukaku's inadvertant own goal opener at St Mary's
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Romelu Lukaku scores first own goal to set Southampton on their way to victory against Everton
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Graziano Pelle and Maya Yoshida add to the score in the second half as Saints run out 3-0 winners
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'@placeholder and I were always there when they were involved in filming. | These twin babies have been handed a big break in TV at just eight months with starring roles in hit crime drama Broadchurch. Sisters Ava and Millie Priddis were selected from scores of applications to showcase their talents alongside stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman. The babies, from Exeter, Devon, will be part of the main family in the BAFTA award-winning show that starts its second series today. Scroll down for video Ava and Millie Priddis, pictured with parents Luke and Rosie, were selected from scores of applications Proud father Luke Priddis, 21, who lives with partner Rosie, also 21, admits he was not initially a big fan of the show - but is now.
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Sisters Ava and Millie Priddis were selected from scores of applications
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They showcase their talents alongside David Tennant and Olivia Colman
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Babies will be part of the main family in the BAFTA award-winning show
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as @placeholder’s benefit chairman this summer, said: ‘He’s still very | By Mike Dawes PUBLISHED: 05:32 EST, 6 March 2014 | UPDATED: 08:09 EST, 6 March 2014 Jonathan Trott will make his return to cricket in Warwickshire's two-day friendly with Gloucestershire at Edgbaston on April 1. Trott, 32, left England’s Ashes tour after the first Test in Brisbane with what was described as a stress-related condition following a traumatic ordeal at the hands of Mitchell Johnson. But the No 3 is ready to make a comeback and will be targeting a return to the Test team. Hard at work: Jonthan Trott in the gym ahead of his comeback for Warwickshire
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Jonathan Trott will play for Warwickshire vs Gloucestershire in two-day friendly on April 1
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Trott 'overwhelmed' by support since leaving England's Ashes tour
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Batsman returned home from Down Under with stress-related illness
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"I just find it really unnerving that we could have had him in @placeholder custody in 2011 and did a whole profile of him, and after the attack that his name not surface, that we didn't check the database or the database had him missing," Graham said. | Washington (CNN) -- Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not on a terrorism watch list or a "no-fly" list when he traveled to Russia last year, a federal law enforcement official told CNN on Tuesday. The source, who spoke on condition of not being identified, noted the FBI found no suspicions of terrorist ties when it interviewed Tsarnaev and his family members and friends in 2011 after Russia asked U.S. authorities for information on the immigrant from the Caucasus region. Because the United States "never deemed him a threat," Tsarnaev "was not on a terror watch list or any 'no-fly' list," according to the official.
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"@placeholder understands his voice and understands what he would want to promote." | Washington (CNN)Josh Perry is a lanky, 26-year-old from Nederland, Texas with a good job on Capitol Hill and a healthy adoration for Taylor Swift. And every day, he pretends to be Ted Cruz on the Internet. As Cruz's in-house digital strategist, it is Perry's job to channel the freshman senator online, engage activists on Twitter and Facebook and promote Cruz's media appearances and speeches. In just a few years, Cruz has gone from working as the state Solicitor General and as a corporate attorney to become one of the most talked-about politicians on the Web. Cruz began traveling to Iowa and New Hampshire in 2013—and his many conservative fans are eager to see him run for president.
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26-year-old Josh Perry is the person Ted Cruz trusts most to speak for him online.
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@placeholder citizens make up about 20 per cent of Israel's majority Jewish population, and the overwhelming majority of Arabs are Muslims. | Israeli police blocked more than 200 far-right Israeli protesters from rushing guests at a wedding of a Jewish woman and Muslim man as they shouted 'death to the Arabs'. Several dozen police, including members of the force's most elite units, formed human chains to keep the protesters from the wedding hall's gates and chased after many who defied them. Four protesters were arrested, and there were no injuries. Scroll down for video Bride Maral Malka, 23, celebrates with friends and family before her wedding to groom Mahmoud Mansour, 26, (not pictured) in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv Marrying in face of adversity: Protesters, many of them young men wearing black shirts, denounced Malka, who was born Jewish and converted to Islam, as a 'traitor against the Jewish state'
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Maral Malka and Mahmoud Mansour had tried to bar the protest in court
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'@placeholder just loves shopping but then so do I,' she adds. | By Ruth Styles 'I have a lot of shoes.' 15-year-old Lauren Walsh, from Morecambe in Lancashire, is giving a guided tour of her extensive shoe collection. 'I was begging my mum for these,' she continues, showing off a pair of Hunter wellies, 'and said I'd wear them all the time. 'They were really expensive but I haven't even worn them once. Most of them I don't even wear!' And it's not just shoes. Lauren, who spends more than £600 a month, also had a wardrobe crammed with designer treats, most of which lie unworn. Spolit: 15-year-old Lauren Walsh has an extensive shoe collection but says she hardly ever wears any of them
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Lauren Walsh, 15, from Morecambe, has a lavish designer wardrobe
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Mother Jackie works three jobs in order to make enough to pay for it all
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Flemmi was Bulger's number-two front man for nearly two decades, when prosecutors say @placeholder reigned terror over Boston. | Boston (CNN) -- A juror wept Friday as James "Whitey" Bulger's former partner told a tragic tale of a slip of the lip and the ensuing result -- the strangling death of a 26-year-old woman, who was killed because she'd heard too much. What made this recitation of deadly details different from the ones that preceded it during reputed mob boss Bulger's trial in federal court was that the victim had been the girlfriend of the witness. "It's affected me and it's going to affect me until the day I die," Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi said in the first humanizing testimony the jury had heard in two days of recollections about multiple murders and extortions.
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Debra Davis was the girlfriend of "Whitey" Bulger's partner, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi
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Flemmi testifies Bulger strangled 26-year-old Davis in 1981 because of what she knew
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She died after Flemmi told her about his and Bulger's link with a rogue FBI agent
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But the suit also opened the door to more discussion about impeaching the second-straight Democratic president by a @placeholder-led House. | House Speaker John Boehner flatly denied Tuesday that congressional Republicans are moving to impeach President Barack Obama, blasting talk about it as "a scam started by Democrats at the White House." "We have no plans to impeach the President. We have no future plans," Boehner told reporters after a weekly meeting with GOP members. Boehner said "this whole talk about impeachment" comes from "the President's own staff" and from congressional Democrats. "Why? Because they're trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's elections," he said. Boehner has emphasized several times publicly that he disagrees with former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and other conservatives pushing impeachment over their claims Obama's grossly exceeded his executive authority.
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Boehner says talk of impeachment coming from Dems and White House
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He says House GOP has no plans to impeach Obama over executive actions
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Sarah Palin and other conservatives are pushing for such a step
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‘But you look at what the @placeholder is doing and it is incumbent to do something. | By Ian Drury for the Daily Mail Former First Sea Lord West said Britain needed to be very clear on its 'gameplan' in Iraq Britain risks taking the ‘dangerous step’ of being dragged further into military action in Iraq, former top brass warned tonight. A retired commander cautioned ministers to properly think out any attack against Islamist jihadists who have spread a reign of terror over huge parts of northern Iraq. Lord West of Spithead, a former First Sea Lord, spoke out after David Cameron said Britain would ‘use all the assets that we have’, including ‘military prowess’ and aid, to defeat Islamic State (IS) extremists.
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Former Navy commander warns of dangers of 'mission creep' in Iraq
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Lord West said Britain risks being dragged further into military action
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West: 'The problem is... there is no way you want to become fully involved'
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Police worked with residents and @placeholder to map out routes near 52 of the so-called 'welcoming schools' that are taking in students from the closed schools. | By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 15:20 EST, 26 August 2013 | UPDATED: 15:20 EST, 26 August 2013 Thousands of Chicago children whose schools were shuttered last spring walked to new ones on the first day of school today under the watchful eye of police officers. They were also joined by newly hired safety guards - there to provide protection as the kids crossed unfamiliar streets, many of them gang boundaries. No incidents of trouble were reported, police said. Chicago Police patrol the neighborhood as Crystal Stoval delivers her niece Kayla Porter from their south side home to Gresham Elementary School today
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Safe Passage program hires protection hires for Chicago Public Schools as students cross gang boundaries
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No incidents of trouble reported on its first day today
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@placeholder could be called a hero even before Monday. | (CNN) -- "Moments like these, terrible as they are, don't show our weakness; they show our strength." These words were spoken by Suffolk County, Massachusetts, District Attorney Dan Conley after Monday's terror attack in Boston. A day later, signs of that strength are seen in the stories of people -- you might call them heroes -- who were near the Boston Marathon finish line when two bombs exploded seconds apart. Honoring a son Carlos Arredondo's story began nearly nine years ago, when he doused himself with gasoline and used a welder's torch to set his body on fire. Arredondo, a Costa Rican immigrant living in Florida, had just been told his 20-year-old son, Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo, was killed in combat in Iraq.
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NFL's Joe Andruzzi downplays carrying a victim to triage tent
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Carlos Arredondo, at the Boston Marathon to honor his late son, helped a man survive
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@placeholder(pictured) will wear the design on the international stage in January | There's no denying it, the array of Miss Universe costumes being created every year have been a little... well interesting, to say the least. Known for usually raising a few eyebrows or two, and not always in the good sense, the national costume portion of the competition has always copped plenty of criticism and Aussie creations are no exception. And so the reason for a different direction, again this year, opting to let the Australian public vote for their favourite design. Miss Universe Australia National Costume Media Launch. Designer Caitlin Holstock (pictured left) with Tegan Martin (pictured right). The design although voted the best copped a bit if criticism on social media
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Victorian designer Caitlin Holstock has brushed off criticism after winning the best design for the Miss Universe national costume
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Inspired by a Dream time sunset it has been based on Australia's indigenous heritage
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Mr Abad, says: ‘I have no doubt @placeholder was the Ripper. | Culprit? Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline has been named as Jack the Ripper by a Spanish investigator Suspects have ranged from a member of Royal Family to a local butcher – but it is now claimed that Jack the Ripper was the very detective who led the hunt for the killer. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard was the man who murdered and mutilated at least five women in Victorian East London – at least according to Spanish writer Jose Luis Abad, 84. He makes the claim in his book Jack the Ripper: The Most Intelligent Murderer in History, published in Spain this week.
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Spanish handwriting expert claims to solve 120-year-old murder mystery | 15,572 | record_train |
Social Security and @placeholder did not destroy individual liberty in America; they enabled millions of people to avoid poverty and an early death. | (CNN) -- If we allow this awful measure to stand, predicted the conservative spokesman, "behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day...we will wake to find that we have socialism [and] we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free." This could be a tea party representative warning about the perils of Obamacare and willing to keep the government closed until it is delayed or repealed. But it was Ronald Reagan speaking back in 1961. And the program he viewed as the driving wedge of socialism was Medicare.
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Michael Kazin: In 1961 Reagan warned of spread of socialism -- he was talking about Medicare
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The actor said he felt responsible for ensuring the bondage scenes with co-star @placeholder were as authentic as possible, as it's these elements that have made the erotic novels a hit with people around the world. | Christian Grey is famous for his penchant for kinky sex accessorised with whips, crops and floggers in his Red Room of Pain. But actor Jamie Dornan, who plays the character made famous by author E L James in the much-anticipated film version of Fifty Shades of Grey, has admitted it's all new to him. An S&M expert had to be called onto the set to teach the Northern Irish actor, 32, who is married with a 15-month-old baby. Scroll down for video Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan were interviewed by Alison Hammond on today's This Morning ahead of the release of the Fifty Shades Of Grey film in which they star
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Jamie said 'onus was on me to get it right' portraying Christian Grey
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@placeholder found the ancient scroll containing the recipe in a dungeon at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland | By Ben Spencer PUBLISHED: 01:05 EST, 14 February 2013 | UPDATED: 06:04 EST, 14 February 2013 An 800-year-old recipe for aphrodisiac marmalade is to be turned into a new breakfast spread by the Duchess of Northumberland. Jane Percy, 54, the chatelaine of Alnwick Castle, is to launch the new lovers' marmalade as part of a new range sold in major supermarkets. The Duchess, mother of Pippa Middleton's old flame George Percy, discovered the eight-century-old recipe in the dungeons of Alnwick Castle. The Duchess of Northumberland, pictured in Alnwick Castle gardens, is to turn an 800-year-old recipe for aphrodisiac marmalade into a new breakfast spread
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The Duchess, Jane Percy, 54, found instructions on in ancient scroll
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But others point out @placeholder made a string of films while he ran the National Theatre. | By Chris Hastings PUBLISHED: 19:07 EST, 12 October 2013 | UPDATED: 19:07 EST, 12 October 2013 Sir Kenneth Branagh has been approached by the National Theatre to take over the job of artistic director, Sir Anthony Hopkins has revealed. Branagh, who regards Sir Anthony as ‘a dear friend’, divulged the sounding out in a personal email to the Oscar-winner. Should Branagh take on the position he would be following in the footsteps of Laurence Olivier, the founding artistic director. Sir Kenneth Branagh has been approached by the National Theatre to take over the job of artistic director Branagh, left, would be following in the footsteps of of founding artistic director Laurence Olivier, right
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Branagh has been approached by theatre to become artistic director
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A similar deal was later agreed to in @placeholder by Tsvangirai and his long-time rival Mugabe. | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's prime minister Thursday said the country will hold an election in "12 months" and he wants an outcome that can't be contested. "In 12 months time we have an election in this country. Let it be free and let it be peaceful," said Morgan Tsvangirai, speaking in Bulawayo -- about 450km south-west of Harare -- to his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party supporters ahead of a congress set for Friday. At the congress new MDC leadership will be elected to prepare for general elections in which Tsvangirai will lock horns with President Robert Mugabe.
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Tsvangirai seeks end of current coalition government
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Zimbabwe's finance minister says the country's poor performance cannot finance elections this year
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Support: Podolski, who could be in line for a start against @placeholder, has backed Ozil to star in Brazil | Germany forward Lukas Podolski has leapt to the defence of underfire Arsenal team-mate Mesut Ozil, saying he will light up the World Cup for Germany and prove his doubters wrong at the Emirates. Record-signing Ozil came in for criticism towards the end of last season after losing his early season form and his halo appears to be slowly slipping for the Germany national team, too. Coach Joachim Low has already backed the 25-year-old midfielder to produced the goods 'like he always has done' for Germany in Brazil, and Podolski has no doubts about Ozil's worth for club and country either.
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Form has been hard to come by for Arsenal's record signing this season
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Ozil has taken criticism for 'lazy' performances since his £42.5m move
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‘But [@placeholder] went and made these statements that destroyed everything. | A young farmer who fired a shotgun to protect his mother from being run over by intruders is suing a controversial crime tsar who claimed he endangered the public. Bill Edwards, 23, has accused North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan and North Yorkshire Police of smearing him – then squandering tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money to fight the £50,000 libel case at court. He claims remarks Mrs Mulligan made in a radio interview – based on police advice – were libellous and have led to him being shunned by potential employers. Bill Edwards, 23, (pictured) has accused North Yorkshire PCC Julia Mulligan and police of smearing him
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Bill Edwards, 23, has accused North Yorkshire's PCC of smearing him
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Mr Edwards says remarks made by PCC Julia Mulligan in a radio interview have led to him being shunned by potential employers
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In the 63rd minute @placeholder made the breakthrough, with a goal made in Barcelona. | (CNN) -- David Villa was Spain's hero yet again as his goal helped them past Portugal and into the last eight of the World Cup with a 1-0 second-round victory in Cape Town. The Barcelona striker registered his fourth goal of the competition just after the hour as he stabbed a shot past Portugal goalkeeper Eduardo, putting him level with Argentina's Gonzalo Higuain and Slovakia striker Robert Vittek as the South African tournament's top scorers. It was just reward for Spain's endeavor against a largely defensive Portugal team, who struggled to get Cristiano Ronaldo into a game between the neighboring European nations.
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Spain beat Portugal 1-0 to make the quarterfinals of the World Cup
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Barcelona striker David Villa scored the only goal of the game on 63 minutes
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Obama still insists @placeholder can still use its military to resolve Iran's nuclear threat but in the West Point speech, he claimed 'Just because we have the best hammer does not mean every problem is a nail.' | By Helen Pow Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has taunted President Barack Obama, claiming that the U.S. no longer has the guts for battle. Speaking at an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei, the 74-year-old Shiite Muslim cleric proclaimed that 'military attack is not a priority for Americans now.' He stood on a podium amid banners boasting 'America Cannot Do a Damn Thing' as he reacted to a speech President Obama gave to West Point last week. Chicken: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, second from left, called President Obama a chicken in a speech during a ceremony marking the 25th death anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, in Tehran Wednesday
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Leader was speaking at an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei
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If we say that the @placeholder is on the side of hard working people then we have to really mean it.’ | Warning: Tory group Renewal said it is up to David Cameron to 'right the wrong' of the party opposing minimum wage David Cameron must increase the minimum wage because many poor voters no longer believe in capitalism, Tory MPs warn today. Echoing Ed Miliband’s critique of predatory capitalism, the Conservative group Renewal, which campaigns for the Tories to broaden their appeal with working class voters, today warns the Prime Minister that he must do more for the North or risk losing the next election. Robert Halfon, the MP for Harlow has already won the nickname ‘the most expensive MP in Parliament’ after persuading Chancellor George Osborne to freeze fuel duty to help voters who are feeling the squeeze.
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Tory group Renewal calls for £6.31-an-hour rate for over 21s to be raised
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That statement prompted @placeholder's departure, followed by that of her mother. | (CNN) -- Lawyers for a man accused of kidnapping Utah teenager Elizabeth Smart rested their case Thursday afternoon, a day after the young woman stormed out of court during testimony. Federal prosecutors are expected to follow the defense with several days of rebuttal testimony against Brian Mitchell, who is charged with snatching Smart from the bedroom of her family's Salt Lake City home in 2002. Mitchell, 57, is charged with kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor across state lines. Nine months after her abduction, Smart was found in the company of Mitchell -- a drifter and self-described "prophet" who called himself Immanuel -- and his wife, Wanda Barzee.
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Brian Mitchell is charged with kidnapping the Utah teenager in 2002
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The young @placeholder boy lived in a tent city across the street from a place that sells macaroni, and he had not traveled in over a year nor had he had contact with people from St. Marc or the Artibonite region, Dr. Eyssallenne said. | Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Health and hospital officials in Haiti braced for the worse Monday, fearing the hurricane that battered the Caribbean nation over the weekend could worsen the cholera outbreak that has killed hundreds of people and hospitalized thousands since it began last month. The official death toll attributed to the outbreak was 544, with more than 8,000 confirmed cases, Health Minister Alex Larsen told CNN. On Monday, Dr. Toni Eyssallenne of Hospital Bernard Mevs confirmed the first case of cholera -- in a 3-year-old boy -- to originate and manifest entirely in Port-au-Prince. Previous cases had been centered in Haiti's Artibonite and Central Plateau regions, including the city of St. Marc, north of the nation's capital. Until now, health officials said that those being treated for cholera in Port-au-Prince all contracted the disease elsewhere.
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Miss Lee says: 'If you wanted to go be with @placeholder, that's fine. | By Michael Zennie PUBLISHED: 12:55 EST, 19 June 2013 | UPDATED: 13:45 EST, 19 June 2013 The other woman: Tara Fillinger says she has been dating John Andrew Welden for seven years A Florida man allegedly gave abortion pills to his pregnant girlfriend so that his other girlfriend wouldn't find out about their relationship, it has been revealed. Remee Lee - who lost her seven-week-old fetus - wasn't the only woman in John Andrew Welden's life. She wasn't even his 'main' girlfriend, according to evidence filed in federal court on Tuesday. Welden, 28, the son of a Tampa-area obstetrician, had been seeing Miss Lee, 26, for about seven months when he learned that she was pregnant with his child.
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John Andrew Welden had been dating Tara Fillinger for about seven years.
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Welden had been with Remee Lee for about seven months when she become pregnant
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Welden is charged with tricking Lee into taking abortion pills, despite her desire to keep the baby
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@placeholder are very concerned about how they will afford to rebuild. | CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (CNN) -- Floodwaters inundated Iowa City and the University of Iowa arts campus on Sunday despite what one official called a "Herculean effort" to hold back the water with sandbags. Residents surround Lt. Tobey Harrison at a Cedar Rapids checkpoint as they wait to see their homes Sunday. "We've had the [National Guard] working next to prisoner inmates, sandbagging," said David Jackson, the university's facilities manager. "Students, faculty and staff, leaders of the university, the president of the university -- out sandbagging." Some 500 to 600 homes were ordered to evacuate and others faced a voluntary evacuation order through the morning, said Iowa City Mayor Regenia Bailey.
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About 500-600 homes evacuated in Iowa City on Sunday
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in court, but police said @placeholder found a gun in the back seat of his father's car and accidentally | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 17:37 EST, 12 June 2013 | UPDATED: 17:40 EST, 12 June 2013 A 49-year-old father sobbed in court on Tuesday as he pleaded guilty to manslaughter after his four-year-old son shot himself in the head after finding a handgun in their car. Terrance Allen faces a sentence of between three and 11 years over the devastating incident that happened during the school run in Akron on January 23. Allen, who was found cradling his son Jamarcus by the side of the road by police officers, also faces charges for not having a license for the firearm.
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Terrance Allen was doing the school run when his son found gun in car
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'@placeholder is a player who is too experienced, too cunning,' he said | In a battle between two former Premier League managers, Rafa Benitez, previously of Liverpool and Chelsea, overcame ex-Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini as Napoli defeated Inter Milan 1-0 in the Coppa Italia quarter-finals. Gonzalo Higuain pounced in stoppage time to send the holders into a the semi-finalas and add to the misery for Mancini's team. Mancini's Inter have dropped to 13th in Serie A after losing their last two games and had been hoping that the Cup would bring a change of fortune. Former Arsenal target Gonzalo Higuain wheels away after scoring the late winner in the Coppa Italia quarter-final
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Inter Milan lost 1-0 to Napoli in the quarter-final of the Coppa Italia at the San Paolo Stadium
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Former Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini was up against Ex-Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez
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One time Arsenal target Gonzalo Higuain scored a late winner after missing a succession of chances
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The ship will remain at sea until more chemical materials are made available at the @placeholder port for pickup. | A Chinese ship arrived to escort ships picking up chemical weapons materials from Syria on Tuesday, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. The frigate Yancheng is working closely with other ships from Russia and Europe, the agency reported, citing a Beijing Foreign Ministry statement. The international effort to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons program reached a milestone Tuesday when a Danish commercial ship picked up the first batch of important chemical materials, the group overseeing the work said. The "priority chemical materials" loaded at the Syrian port of Latakia, and the ship -- escorted by Danish and Norwegian warships -- left for international waters, the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations said Tuesday.
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The Chinese ship follows a Danish ship that took away the first load Tuesday
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The OPCW and the U.N. are dismantling Syria's chemical weapons arsenal
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They plan to be finished by the end of June
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Syria agreed to the measure after being blamed for chemical attack that killed hundreds | 15,589 | record_train |
The question of which driver is favoured by @placeholder is not a simple one. | Lewis Hamilton is cock of the walk here in the Royal Park. Asked why Nico Rosberg wants to beat him so fervently, he swallowed his modesty and said with a smile: ‘It’s because I’m good looking, man. I’ve got the car. I’ve got the girlfriend. What can I say?’ So we can safely assert that the rivalry between the two title contenders has not abated. While some of us wish our British hero would act with a touch more humility, it is probably hypocritical of us to decry him entirely for his boastfulness. For the sniping, moaning and crashing are precisely the reasons why so many eyes will be glued to the action when the lights go out at 1pm BST on Sunday. We await to see whether the two Mercedes men will come together. Will either give an inch to the other?
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McLaren are ready to offer Hamilton an escape route from Mercedes
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They, and next year's engine partners Honda, want a marquee signing
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And Hamilton could leave Mercedes if he loses title battle to Nico Rosberg
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Rosberg leads Hamilton by 29 points heading into Sunday's Italian GP | 15,590 | record_train |
Two German soldiers and four @placeholder guards were injured during the clashes, according to the German military. | Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A top coalition general wounded in a suicide attack Saturday in northern Afghanistan -- one that left seven dead and eight others hurt -- said weeks earlier that he'd charged international troops to "show Afghans ... respect," in part to contrast with brazen actions by the likes of the Taliban. The attack in Taloqan occurred at a high-level meeting of Afghan and coalition officials in a governor's office, a provincial spokesman said. A Taliban spokesman said that the group, whose fight to resume control in Afghanistan has picked up in recent months, was responsible. Maj. Gen. Markus Kneip, a veteran German office and the regional head of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force across nine provinces of northern Afghanistan, is in stable condition after suffering non-life threatening injuries, a German general said. The provinces border Turkmenistan east to China.
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NEW: High-ranking coalition officer had urged troops to "show Afghans ... respect"
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NEW: Maj. Gen. Kneip is head of more than 12,000 coalition troops in northern Afghanistan
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He was wounded with 8 others, while 7 -- Afghan officials and German troops -- died
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A provincial governor is also wounded in the attack, which occurred in his building | 15,591 | record_train |
@placeholder doesn’t deserve it and I feel so bad when I do. | By Katy Winter PUBLISHED: 04:09 EST, 26 February 2014 | UPDATED: 10:46 EST, 26 February 2014 A man who comfort ate his way to a 50st bulk following his wife's murder has lost an amazing 30st thanks to a lifesaving gastric bypass. Chuck Turner, 45, from Beaumont in Texas, had become so large, a 25lb lymphedema, a lump caused by a build-up of fluid, had appeared on his leg, putting him in danger of losing it. His vast frame also put his marriage to his second wife, Nissa, under immense strain and left him unable to play with his adopted son, Nathan.
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Chuck Turner, 45, from Texas, weighed 50st before having a gastric bypass
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Weight ballooned after he turned to food when his first wife was murdered
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Health problems caused by bulk included 25lb lymphodema on his leg
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His immobility also put strain on marriage and relationship with his son
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A year after surgery, Chuck has lost 30st and transformed his life | 15,592 | record_train |
@placeholder and Moore were then bound with duct tape, and weighted down by an engine block and a railroad rail, authorities said. | (CNN) -- James Ford Seale, a reputed former member of the Ku Klux Klan convicted in the 1964 abduction and killings of two African-American teenagers in Mississippi, has died in federal prison, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. He was 75. Seale died on Tuesday in the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Indiana, said bureau spokesman Chris Burke, but he did not provide further details. A jury in 2007 convicted Seale, a former sheriff's deputy, of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the disappearances of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee, both 19. The bodies of both youths were found in a backwater area of the Mississippi River. Seale was serving three life sentences.
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James Ford Seale was convicted in 2007 in the 1964 kidnappings
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The bodies of the two abducted teenagers were found in the Mississippi River
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Seale's conviction was overturned, then reinstated
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He was serving three life sentences | 15,593 | record_train |
'Also to the elderly community who survived the @placeholder, to see swastikas painted on the church, will be a most devastating thing.' | By Louise Cheer The vandalism of a Ukrainian church in Sydney's west with swastikas and racial slurs has been labelled 'heinous' and 'disgusting'. Members of the Ukrainian community - including children attending Saturday morning school - found Lidcombe's St Andrew's Ukrainian Catholic Church and cars in its parking lot covered in blue and yellow spray paint. Swastika symbols and slogans reading 'traitors and facists', 'Burn in hell for Bandera' and 'Burn in hell for the Sins of Poroshenko' were sprayed on the building. Stepan Bandera was a former leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, which fought both Nazi Germany and Soviet forces during World War II, and Petro Poroshenko is the democratically elected President of Ukraine.
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The graffiti was discovered on Saturday morning in Lidcombe
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Father Simon Ckuj, of the church, said the community was distressed
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The Ukrainian community has labelled the act 'disgusting and worrisome'
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NSW Police and the state government have been alerted to the incident | 15,594 | record_train |
@placeholder is Ethan's favorite holiday and unfortunately this Christmas will likely be his last. | A Utah town celebrated Halloween, Christmas, and a birthday early for a 4-year-old boy with terminal cancer who has anywhere from two days to a few weeks left to live. Ethan van Leuven has been bravely battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia for over two years but doctors say that the precious child's disease is no longer treatable. Residents of West Jordan in Utah along with Ethan's parents Merrill and Jennifer had a week of fun filled activities and celebrated Halloween, Christmas, and Ethan's life. He's superman: Ethan van Leuven has been bravely battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia for over two years but that didn't stop him from dressing up as his favorite superhero for an early Halloween celebration
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Ethan van Leuven has been bravely battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia for over two years but the disease is no longer treatable
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Residents of West Jordan in Utah along with Ethan's parents Merrill and Jennifer celebrated Halloween, Christmas, and Ethan's life this week
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'It's a really difficult time, but this just makes it a little bit easier just to see how many people love and support,' Jennifer said | 15,595 | record_train |
scented with his signature @placeholder scents, which are only presently sold in | By Misty White Sidell PUBLISHED: 15:04 EST, 25 November 2013 | UPDATED: 15:04 EST, 25 November 2013 His name might not be as recognizable as Cartier or Van Cleef & Arpels, but according to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paris-based, American jeweler Joel A. Rosenthal is one of the world's most influential gem artists. The New York museum is celebrating Rosenthal's JAR atelier with a retrospective - marking the institution's first-ever show dedicated to a living, contemporary jeweler. Rosenthal is famously reclusive and does not lend his designs for magazine shoots or red carpet appearances, however his jewelry is among some of the world's most sought after auction pieces.
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The exhibit marks the MET's first retrospective of a living jewelry designer's work
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JAR's Joel A. Rosenthal is famously reclusive, and only creates around one-hundred of his renowned designs each year | 15,596 | record_train |
BioMarin points out that to date their drug has been tested in fewer than 30 patients with ovarian cancer like @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Andrea Sloan is dying of ovarian cancer. Having exhausted all standard treatment options, her doctors say her best hope now is a new class of cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors. The California pharmaceutical company BioMarin makes one version of these drugs called BMN 673. Earlier this year, the company presented very early data on this experimental drug at a large cancer conference. Initial results in women with breast and ovarian cancer were encouraging. Sloan says there are doses of BMN 673 sitting on shelves in the same hospital where she's seeking treatment: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. But she's not getting the treatment because the company is refusing to give it to her. That's because this drug she wants is still in clinical trials, and the company says hasn't been proven effective.
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Andrea Sloan, 45, has ovarian cancer
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She is seeking "compassionate use" of a new drug that's not FDA-approved
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Sloan says she's willing to accept the risks | 15,597 | record_train |
And for the millions of people that will watch Wimbledon around the world -- and it is estimated that that the global TV audience could be as high as 500 million -- the tournament also reinforces what many think constitutes @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Britain hosts a sporting event over the next fortnight that manages to combine every conceivable stereotype associated with the nation -- rain, royalty and heroic British failure. Wimbledon follows the Queen's Diamond Jubilee -- when Britons, with Union Jacks in hand, stood in the pouring rain as the monarch cruised past in a barge on the Thames -- and a day after the exit of England's soccer team from a major international tournament -- as so often before on penalties -- after defeat by Italy in Euro 2012. Since its inception in 1877 the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in a small, affluent suburb of south west London that gives the event its name, has presided over a tournament -- the oldest and grandest on the tennis circuit -- that has become more than simply another fixture on the grand slam calender.
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Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world
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It began in 1877; defending champion Novak Djokovic hails its "tradition"
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The tournament is a powerful brand exporting one aspect of "Britishness"
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But is Wimbledon still a relevant reflection of the country today? | 15,598 | record_train |
Then, when the company's intentions to buy @placeholder surfaced, Google execs said they were mainly doing so in order to protect themselves and their partners against patent litigation. | San Francisco (CNN) -- While Google waits for regulatory approval on its bid to acquire Motorola Mobility, company executives have repeatedly worked to assuage partners' fears that the Android software developer is preparing to compete with them. Partners in Google's mobile-phone venture were understandably skeptical when the Android maker said this summer that it planned to acquire one of their rivals, creating a potential reason to roll out improvements to its popular smartphone operating system on Motorola phones before offering them to others. Google has offered free and open-source versions of Android to anyone ambitious enough to download it and tinker with the code. Dozens of smartphone and tablet makers have taken Google up on this, and have come to rely on it for their businesses.
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Google's mobile partners say the Android maker won't be like Apple
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They say Google has no plans to become a "vertical" phone maker
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Google has said it plans to run Motorola as an independent business | 15,599 | record_train |
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