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Elements in @placeholder refuse to "put country ahead of faction," Obama said. | Peosta, Iowa (CNN) -- President Barack Obama laced into his conservative Republican congressional critics Tuesday, accusing them of putting partisan political concerns before the country's interests. Appearing before a crowd of farmers and small-business owners in the presidential battleground state of Iowa, Obama called on Congress to help boost an anemic economy by passing an extension of the payroll tax cut and a new road construction bill, among other things. "America is going to come back from this recession stronger than before," the president declared. But I "need your help sending a message to Congress" that "it's time to put politics aside and get something done," he said.
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NEW: Obama says Republicans put partisan concerns before national needs
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Obama attends a rural economic forum in Iowa
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The state is his second in a three-state tour
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GOP critics say the trip is a thinly disguised, taxpayer-funded political trip | 16,200 | record_train |
The announcement pleased the @placeholder and other civil rights advocates, who have pressed for the sisters' release in rallies and at other forums. | (CNN) -- Two Mississippi sisters who have spent 16 years in prison over an $11 armed robbery will be released with an unusual stipulation: One must donate a kidney to the other. Gov. Haley Barbour, who suspended their sentences, said Wednesday that Gladys Scott, 36, must donate a kidney to her sister, Jamie, 38. Each of the Scott sisters got two life sentences after they were convicted by a jury of robbing two people near the town of Forest. Although they would be eligible for parole in 2014, the Department of Corrections "believes the sisters no longer pose a threat to society" and their incarceration is no longer necessary for rehabilitation, Barbour said in a statement.
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NEW: Mother was driving and stopped car when she got the news
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"We need more days like this in Mississippi," NAACP president says
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Gov. Haley Barbour suspends life sentences of two sisters
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One stipulation of the release is that one sister donate a kidney to the other | 16,201 | record_train |
The owners are eager to gather as much information as possible before they fill the post and @placeholder will leave no stone unturned in his bid to find the best man for the job. | By Sportsmail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:45 EST, 17 May 2012 | UPDATED: 06:35 EST, 18 May 2012 Liverpool have suffered their first snub in the search for a new manager - and it has astonishingly come from Brendan Rodgers. The Swansea boss was one of the contenders to replace sacked Kenny Dalglish at Anfield but he has decided to reject the opportunity to talk to owner John W Henry. It is the first setback for Liverpool, who have approached at least four high-profile names, including former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola. The last straw: Swansea boss Brendan Rodgers (right) oversaw Swansea's 1-0 victory over Liverpool in Kenny Dalglish's final match in charge
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Liverpool fail to lure Northern Irishman for discussions over post
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Guardiola wanted by Anfield chiefs despite plans for year break
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Capello and Martinez also on shortlist drawn up by owners | 16,202 | record_train |
Prosecutors are using Badat’s testimony to show Abu Ghaith played a pivotal role with @placeholder when he warned Americans ‘the storm of aircrafts will not stop’ on videotapes widely distributed after the September 11 attacks. | Testimony: Saajid Badat, who spent six years in jail for terror offences, gave evidence via video-link A Briton has told the trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law that he wore a shoe bomb on a flight to the UK. Saajid Badat, who gave evidence in the New York trial via video link from Britain, said yesterday he wore the bomb on at least one flight between Holland and the UK in December 2001. But he said he didn’t detonate it because he was saving it for an attack over America. Badat, 34, revealed details of the plot as he testified at the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, bin Laden’s son-in-law and Al Qaeda’s spokesman after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
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Saajid Badat, 34, gave evidence via video link in trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith
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He admitted wearing the bomb on at least one flight between Holland and UK
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Badat was jailed for terror offences and served six years in prison
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Told the trial in New York how he had laughed about 9/11 terror attacks
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Abu Ghaith, 48, faces life in jail if convicted of conspiracy to kill Americans | 16,203 | record_train |
But after several years of marriage, Linham met @placeholder, who he then married at the same resort he had visited with his previous wife six years earlier | The friend of a bigamist who pretended his first marriage was over claims he had also been duped after he was asked to be best man at both weddings. Mark Stapleton, 47, said he was 'shocked' to find out that friend of 20 years, Adrian Linham, had lied about divorcing his first wife and went on to marry another woman. The 43-year-old had been dating Hayley Totterdell for three years and secretly splitting his time between there and his marital home with loyal wife of seven years Liz, 37, near Bristol. Scroll down for video Mark Stapleton (left) was best man at both weddings and claims friend of 20 years, Adrian Linham (right), had told him he divorced wife Liz two years before his new marriage
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Mark Stapleton was 'shocked' to discover his best friend was still married
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He claims he was duped after Adrian Linham assured him he was divorced
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Linham had been living a double life with wife Liz and girlfriend Hayley
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He secretly proposed to and married Hayley in Riviera Maya, Mexico
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Ceremony held on same beach he had honeymooned on with Liz, 37
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First wife found out when her mother-in-law wrote to her about 'divorce'
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She investigated and found husband's new wedding photos on Facebook
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Bigamist is now jailed for 18 weeks - but new wife is standing by him | 16,204 | record_train |
Intelligence suggests that attacks may mirror last week's hostage situation in @placeholder. | Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- A threat targeting the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi has allegedly surfaced after last week's bloody hostage crisis in neighboring Algeria. But while Libya has ratcheted up its protection of Benghazi and its nearby oil fields, its government downplayed the situation on Thursday. "The Ministry of Interior strongly denies existence of threats against the stabilities and security of the Western citizens and residents who live in Benghazi, and assure that the Benghazi security situation is stable," said a statement from the official Libyan news agency. "Terrorism has no religion or country," said Jumma Atiga, a high-ranking Libyan politician. "Terrorism can strike anywhere in the world, even ...countries like Britain, aren't immune to terrorism. But to have this announcement that hints at something that doesn't really exist on the ground, is not justified enough, in our opinion."
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NEW: Libya 'denies existence of threats,' assures 'the Benghazi security situation is stable'
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Britain says there's a 'specific and imminent threat to Westerners in Benghazi'
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U.S. says the potential of violence, kidnappings is 'significant'
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Threat comes nearly a week after the Algerian gas plant siege ended | 16,205 | record_train |
Wanted: Joseph Manuel Hunter has been on the run since June, when U.S. authorities issued a warrant for his arrest in @placeholder | By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 22:57 EST, 1 October 2013 | UPDATED: 04:08 EST, 2 October 2013 A former U.S. Army sniper arrested in a plot of assassinate a DEA agent nearly wept and his lips quivered in his New York jail cell when his attorney visited him this week, the lawyer says. Joseph Manual Hunter was arrested in Thailand last week, accused of running an international cartel of hitmen 'straight from the pages of Tom Clancy' and plotting to murder a federal agent for $800,000. Defense attorney Marlon Kirton told a U.S. District Court judge in New York on Tuesday that he suspects his client is suffering from mental illness and possibly Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from his deployment to Iraq.
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Joseph Manuel Hunter, 48, is accused of recruiting four other former soldiers to murder a DEA agent and the agent’s informant
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He was a highly decorated former sniper
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Allegedly went on to a career as an international hitman | 16,206 | record_train |
the UK @placeholder, which last year voted overwhelmingly to maintain the | Unelected Euro judges are making a relentless attack on British laws laid down over centuries by Parliament, a devastating report warns today. A group of Tory MPs are demanding action by the Prime Minister over figures which show the UK loses three out of every four cases taken to the unaccountable European Court of Human Rights. The explosive research will reignite the row over Europe’s demand for rapists and killers to be given the vote in prison, and intensify calls for Britain to withdraw from the court’s jurisdiction. Relentless attack: Unelected judges at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, pictured, are undermining British justice by ruling in favour of murderers, terrorists and sex offenders in three in four cases taken there from Britain
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Ten Tory MPs call on Prime Minister to take action
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Say there is a need to 'end rule by judges'
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In 350 cases, Britain has lost 271 and been successful in only 86
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Timing of report coincides with three controversial upcoming rulings
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David Cameron promises to take personal charge of the issue | 16,207 | record_train |
@placeholder produces almost three quarters of the world's foie gras and has around 8,000 producers. | A firm which supplied ducks for Gordon Ramsay's foie gras dishes appeared in court in France today accused of 'serious animal cruelty'. Ernest Soulard, which is based in Oie, in the west of the country, is said to have kept birds in appalling conditions as it created the delicacy. If they become the first ever foie gras producer to be found guilty of animal cruelty, senior executives face prison sentences and fines of up to £25,000. Ernest Soulard, based in Oie, west France, supplied foie gras to Gordon Ramsay and the Eiffel Tower, is said to have kept birds in appalling conditions as it created the delicacy (stock image)
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French poultry farm Ernest Soulard in court over treatment of ducks
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Farm supplied foie gras to Gordon Ramsay and the Eiffel Tower
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Video filmed at farm shows dead and dying ducks in the same cage | 16,208 | record_train |
He lives in the outer suburbs of the city with his family and has opened his home to @placeholder, a 21-year-old Afghan asylum seeker. | Sydney, Australia (CNN) -- Some 100 probable asylum seekers have died in the past few weeks off Australian shores. But there's no way of knowing exact numbers because the vessels on which these people perish don't carry passenger logs. Still, the boats keep sailing to Australia with desperate people believing that after a period of incarceration they'll begin new lives. Safe lives. And still, there appears to be no end in sight to the political stalemate between the ruling Labor government and its coalition opponents on how to stop the boats and the people smuggling trade that parlays human misery into cold hard cash.
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Hundreds of potential asylum seekers risk lives trying to reach Australian territory by boat
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Many are feeling poverty and repression in countries such as Afghanistan and Pakistan
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With detention facilities full, Australian citizens are being asked to house some cases
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Ali, 21, from Afghanistan is being hosted by a family near Sydney until his case is heard | 16,209 | record_train |
@placeholder could achieve that elusive goal by picking up that legislation again. | (CNN) -- In the horse race coverage of political campaigns, we sometimes forget that elections are just exciting preambles to the main event -- governing. Now's the time when the parties return to Washington and try to implement the people's wishes as expressed in the election. And unlike 2008 and 2010, neither party is likely to misinterpret the results as an ideological mandate. This is a good thing. But it's also a mistake to read the election results as simply an endorsement of the status quo. Despite the fact that Americans returned President Barack Obama to office while keeping Democrats in control of the Senate and Republicans in charge of the House, this was no seal of approval on the political division we've seen in Washington for four years. Instead, it was a decided endorsement for balanced bipartisan plans.
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John Avlon: Election neither an ideological mandate for either party nor support for status quo
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Avlon: Voters rejected hyper-partisanship and cast ballots for collaboration between parties
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Leaders have lacked the courage to stand up to extremes in their parties, he says
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Avlon: Congress' task is to find common ground on issues such as jobs, budget, immigration | 16,210 | record_train |
He added: 'Wildcat represents a considerable advance over the current @placeholder helicopters, bringing greatly improved performance and capability. | Bristling with a fearsome armoury of weapons, this is the latest scourge of Britain's enemies. The £26million Wildcat combat helicopter, unveiled today, will be deployed to crush Taliban fighters, pirates, drug-smugglers and terrorists. The state-of-the-art multi-role chopper - so powerful it can blow a submarine out of the water - will play a vital role in military operations for the Army and Royal Navy from 2014. The sophisticated aircraft's primary task will be to protect soldiers on the battlefield and the Royal Navy's fleet around the world. The £26m Wildcat combat helicopter, unveiled today, will be deployed to crush Taliban fighters, pirates, drug-smugglers and terrorists
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State-of-the-art chopper will be part of military operations from 2014
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Wildcat will replace Lynx fleet, which has served the Fleet Air Arm loyally since the mid-70s
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New aircraft has more powerful engines so it operates well in extreme 'high and hot' conditions such as in Afghanistan | 16,211 | record_train |
One says: ‘It may be that @placeholder can help us in this.’ | By Richard Kay PUBLISHED: 20:32 EST, 17 November 2013 | UPDATED: 07:55 EST, 18 November 2013 Help? Residents indicated they will call on their former neighbours, Kate and Wills, to fight fracking No sooner do I reveal that Prince William is pining for a quiet refuge for his family on Anglesey than I discover he is in danger of being dragged into a row there over mineral and mining rights — and possibly fracking. It follows letters sent to 4,000 residents over manorial rights to the island, which were bought by a former policeman more than 20 years ago.
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Royal couple's Anglesey neighbours warned landowner has mining rights
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Stephen Hayes, 67, bought the land and the power to frack if he wishes
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Worried locals hope the Duke of Cambridge can 'help us in this' | 16,212 | record_train |
Involved in a terrible mx-up with @placeholder and failed to offer the muscle United desperately needed in the middle of the park. | The scoreline at Old Trafford flattered Manchester United as Louis van Gaal's side eventually prevailed 3-1 against Premier League strugglers Burnley. Defender Chris Smalling scored a brace to show United's misfiring strikers how its done. Despite winning United we booed by their own supporters as the Old Trafford fans appear increasingly frustrated by the football lacking ambition, invention and dominance under van Gaal. Sportsmail's Mike Keegan gives you the lowdown on how the players performed at Old Trafford. MANCHESTER UNITED (4-1-2-1-2) David de Gea - 6.5 Powerless to prevent Ings header. Reaction save to keep United ahead at 2-1. Remains in top form.
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Louis van Gaal's side prevailed 3-1 at Old Trafford against Burnley
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Chris Smalling scored a brace and Robin van Persie hit a late penalty
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Manchester United move back up to 3rd in the Premier League | 16,213 | record_train |
This was followed by a suspected revenge killing of 16-year-old Palestinian youth by @placeholder extremists. | Israeli troops have shot dead a 17-year-old Palestinian boy who was throwing stones at drivers in the occupied West Bank. The army said soldiers had fired warning shots before opening fire on a group when they persisted hurling the stones at Israeli civilians near the Tapuah settlement, south of Nablus. Palestinian security officials said the stones had been thrown at military vehicles. They said that a 19-year-old had also been wounded in the same incident. WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT The brother of a teenager shot dead in West Bank weeps over the body Rafidya Hospital in the city of Nablus
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Army said soldiers fired warning shots before opening fire on the group
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Palestinian security officials said stones were thrown at military vehicles
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They said that a 19-year-old had also been wounded in the same incident | 16,214 | record_train |
Early hours of Sunday morning: Hoaxer calls GCHQ switchboard and says that he is an aide from @placeholder. | Revealed: David Cameron, pictured today, has spoken about how a hoax caller was put through to his mobile just by claiming he was the director of GCHQ David Cameron has today revealed the moment a drunk hoax caller high on cocaine and cannabis was put through to his mobile as he carried his daughter on a family walk as part of his new pre-election fitness regime. The caller, who bragged later: 'I was off my face', said he was the head of spy agency GCHQ Robert Hannigan and was put through to the Prime Minister by the Downing Street switchboard.
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David Cameron reveals call came while out walking with his family and he was carrying his daughter Florence on his back
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Hoax caller posed as director of GCHQ and put through by switchboard
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Prime Minister ended 'quite brief' conversation upon realising it was joke
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He said: 'The voice said he said he was sorry to wake me up, which I thought was strange as it was eleven o'clock in the morning'
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Drunk caller has said: 'I was off my face' and took cocaine and cannabis
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Government has said no sensitive information was disclosed during call
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Earlier, hoax call was made to GCHQ and caller obtained boss' number
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Security procedures now being reviewed at Downing Street and GCHQ | 16,215 | record_train |
He had reportedly stayed with his cousin's family before without incident but this time @placeholder felt he was acting suspiciously, according to neighbors and family members. | A mother-of-four who was stabbed-to-death alongside her children on Saturday night had repeatedly called family members to warn that her husband's jealous cousin was out of control but by the time anyone came to check on her, it was too late. Growing increasingly concerned by Mingdong Chen's behavior, Qiao Zhen Li, 37, tried desperately to get hold of her husband, who wasn't home, but couldn't reach him. She then called her mother-in-law in China who reached out to her daughter in the same Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Sunset Park, asking her and her husband to drop by the house.
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Mingdong Chen, 25, has been taken into custody for hacking a woman and her four children to death with a butcher's knife
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Qiao Zhen Li, 37, and her children aged 1, 5, 7 and 9 were discovered around 11pm Saturday night in their home
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The 1-year-old victim was reportedly decapitated
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The suspect is Li's husband's cousin who had been staying with the family for a week after arriving from Chicago
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She had made numerous failed attempts to warn her husband that Chen was acting strangely then called her mother-in-law in China
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Finally, the woman's sister-in-law came to check on the family but it was too late | 16,216 | record_train |
Corey, Dershowitz and I all might have varying interpretations of the law, but because Corey disagrees with @placeholder, it surely doesn't subject him to being sued by her. | Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz recently claimed that Special Prosecutor Angela Corey, who charged George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, threatened to sue Dershowitz for libel and slander and to have him disbarred. According to Dershowitz, Corey went into a tirade against him after he strongly criticized her. He said Corey was being unethical for not disclosing material facts to the court in the probable cause affidavit she had filed against Zimmerman and had erred by bringing a second-degree murder charge against him, when the evidence didn't support such a charge. In an article, Dershowitz maintained that Corey called Harvard's law school dean and was transferred to a communications office staff member.
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Alan Dershowitz said special prosecutor threatened him with a lawsuit
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Mark NeJame: Angela Corey's handling of Martin case should be open to scrutiny
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He says outside critics are right to examine whether politics played a role
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NeJame: Why wasn't the case handled in normal fashion by a prosecutor and grand jury? | 16,217 | record_train |
'From city breaks to days out on the coast, world-class music events to cultural trips, the @placeholder has something for everyone to enjoy.' | By Emily Payne for MailOnline and Chris Kitching for MailOnline It's a bank holiday tradition that motorists cannot avoid when they hit the road - even when it's a day early. Travellers who are trying to make their getaways in advance of the big rush have been caught in traffic jams, despite their best efforts to make the most of the final holiday weekend before winter. In Cambridge, motorists faced bumper-to-bumper delays on the A14 - a scene that played out on other motorways - and the situation is expected to get even worse tomorrow when the mass exodus gets into full swing.
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Spain, Greece and Turkey are most popular short-haul weekend breaks
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UK drivers warned over delays as weekend is expected to be busiest of year
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Railway engineering work includes major work at London Bridge station | 16,218 | record_train |
@placeholder has been plagued by decapitations in the drug war against cartels. | By Nina Golgowski PUBLISHED: 20:16 EST, 7 March 2013 | UPDATED: 20:20 EST, 7 March 2013 A Mexican man has pleaded no contest to beheading a man in Arizona who police say stole drugs from the El Chapo drug trafficking organization launching the grisly attack authorities fear to be spreading across the U.S. border. Crisantos Moroyoqui-Yocupicio, 39, entered his plea on Monday to second-degree murder in the death of Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy, 38, who was killed at a Phoenix apartment in 2010 after allegedly tracked by three hit men sent from Mexico. Police believe Cota-Monroy's gruesome killing was intended to send a message that anyone who betrays the traffickers will get the same treatment.
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Crisantos Moroyoqui-Yocupicio, 39, has pleaded no contest to 2010 beheading in Phoenix apartment
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Only one of three suspected hit men have been arrested
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Cartel killings in U.S. are said to be rare out of fear of attention from American authorities
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Victim and four suspects all are from Mexico and were in the U.S. illegally | 16,219 | record_train |
An @placeholder spokesman said: ‘We take the protection of customer data extremely seriously so we constantly review our processes and procedures in light of developments in the e-security world, together with the expert technical and strategic advice we receive from our advisors and in-house teams. | By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor and Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 14:18 EST, 30 July 2013 | UPDATED: 14:20 EST, 30 July 2013 Companies and individuals outside of the media industry are being investigated as part of a criminal investigation into hacking, Scotland Yard has confirmed. However, the Metropolitan Police said it does not 'recognise' reports that it holds a list of 200 private detective clients that directly feature in ongoing criminal investigations. A statement from the police force was released as pressure mounts on the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) and MPs to release the names of hundreds of companies and individuals who may have used rogue private investigators to steal personal information.
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Police confirm businesses also under scrutiny over corrupt investigators
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Some paid corrupt detectives to spy, hack and steal personal data
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List by Serious Organised Crime Agency dates back to 2008
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Leaked, un-redacted report shows HMRC and utility firms were targeted | 16,220 | record_train |
Confidence: Spieth believes he will win this weekend... and also has @placeholder' 18-majors record in his sights | Jordan Spieth has not slept for nearly 30 hours because he is too excited about playing at The Open. His Dallas drawl can’t contain the buzz at being in Hoylake and even after a long flight from the United States his face is fresh and lights up every time he mentions this major championship - especially when he talks about winning it. Spieth doesn’t turn 21 until the end of the month but there is a real chance he could lift the Claret Jug this week. He nearly pulled off one of the greatest wins in history at the Masters, leading by two strokes in the final round before a Bubba Watson masterclass prevented Spieth from breaking Tiger Woods’s record as the youngest ever Augusta champion.
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Spieth says he is aiming to break major record
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Nicklaus won 18 major titles, including three at The Open
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20-year-old believes he has every chance of winning at Hoylake this week
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Just came short at the Masters to Bubba Watson | 16,221 | record_train |
‘How long should we allow and tolerate @placeholder’s vindictive attack on faith by supporting and encouraging mistreatment of faith?’ | Gazing suggestively at the camera, Georgia May Jagger’s modelling campaign for Just Cavalli perfume certainly looks provocative. However, it’s not the 22-year-old’s sultry pose that has triggered controversy, but the H-like symbol on her wrist. The advert featuring the model daughter of Mick Jagger, part of a campaign by Italian fashion house Roberto Cavalli, has been singled out by followers of a branch of Islam, who said it ‘cheapens’ and ‘degrades’ one of its holiest symbols. Scroll down for video Controversial: The Just Cavalli campaign sees Georgia May Jagger, 22, with an ornate H-like symbol on her wrist, and has prompted demonstrations by Sufi Muslims in London
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Roberto Cavalli has been using sign in his campaign since 2011
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H-like symbol seen on skin of Georgia May Jagger in perfume ad
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Sufi Muslims say it is the symbol used by them to refer to Allah
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Thousands have protested in London, Germany and Los Angeles | 16,222 | record_train |
Exposed: The 1953 meeting in which @placeholder revealed the Piltdown Man to be a hoax | By Becky Evans PUBLISHED: 05:04 EST, 16 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:10 EST, 16 December 2012 It was one of the most enduring hoaxes in history and fooled scientists into believing a crucial evolutionary 'missing link' had been found in England. Now 100 years after the discovery of the Piltdown Man, a team of archeologists and anthropologists will finally be able to expose the truth behind the scam, and pinpoint who was responsible. The Geological Society will meet this week to discuss the results of their investigation into the elaborate hoax, almost a century to the day after the same society hailed its importance to the world.
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Scientists tested remains of 1912 hoax to discover who was responsible
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Believed to be amateur fossil hunter Charles Dawson, who found the fragments | 16,223 | record_train |
Among the conspiracy charges is an accusation that Nagin awarded "no bid" work to a city contractor who provided "concealed and direct campaign monies" to @placeholder, the indictment says. | (CNN) -- Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who captured the drama of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 with an "SOS" call to the nation, was indicted Friday on 21 federal corruption charges, including bribery, money laundering, fraud and filing false tax returns. Nagin allegedly defrauded the city through "a bribery and kickback scheme" in which he received checks, cash, wire transfers, personal services and free travel from businessmen seeking contracts and favorable treatment from the city, the 25-page federal indictment says. As part of the alleged bribes, Nagin's family members received a vacation in Hawaii; first-class airfare to Jamaica; private jet travel and a limousine for New York City totaling $23,500; and cellular phone service, the indictment said.
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NEW: Ray Nagin's family allegedly received Hawaii vacation, first-class Jamaica trip
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Nagin allegedly took bribes of $60,000, $2,250, $50,000, $10,000 and $112,500
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Indictment says he filed false tax returns from 2005 to 2008
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Polls indicate the CDU and @placeholder could gain a razor thin majority to form a governing coalition. | BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- As voting was taking place in the German general election Sunday, attention was already turning to what coalition will rule the country. Social Democrats handing out flowers hope their party will stay in the ruling coalition. Few doubt that Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, CDU, will win most votes. So, will Merkel continue the current center right-center left "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats or will the votes suffice for a coalition with the business liberal but centrist Liberal Democrats or the FDP, a constellation Germans refer to as "Black-Yellow." At a press conference ostensibly to outline Germany's position at this week's G-20 summit Merkel apparently let the cat out of the bag. "We are in a time of crisis," she said, "and I believe we can pull out of the crisis faster with a Black-Yellow government."
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Angela Merkel's CDU are favorites to win the election
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But they will need a coalition partner to rule
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Merkel has publicly named the Liberal Democrats as her preferred choice
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But the current partner, the Social Democrats, may be the end result | 16,225 | record_train |
@placeholder added that he expected to receive a total of $400,000 from the death, with which he would buy a truck, while his mother would pay off her mortgage, police said. | By Lydia Warren PUBLISHED: 08:55 EST, 8 January 2013 | UPDATED: 08:55 EST, 8 January 2013 Accused: Amy Bessey, 42, allegedly plotted to kill her husband for his life insurance policy A woman has been arrested for allegedly orchestrating a plot to kill her husband in a drive-by shooting after she started a romantic relationship with their 21-year-old adopted son. Amy Bessey, 42, allegedly enlisted the help of her son, Michael Bessey, and her brother, Richard Pearson, 39, to shoot her husband as he drove on Interstate 15 near Las Vegas, Nevada on November 14. Robert Bessey, who was going through a divorce with his wife, was struck by a bullet in the neck around 4.30am after a gunman fired a shot from a gold SUV driving alongside him.
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Amy Bessey 'had an unnaturally close relationship with her son'
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She 'plotted to kill her husband with her son and brother to get his $250,000 life insurance plan before their divorce was finalized'
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Husband Robert Bessey was shot in the neck in November but survived
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Son said they wanted to kill him 'as he was abusive to the family' | 16,226 | record_train |
@placeholder is an online writing platform which allows subscribers to upload or read other people's stories. | Abigail Gibbs has secured a six-figure book contract after writing The Dark Heroine, a Twilight-inspired novel which she started aged just 14 A teenager has secured a six-figure sum for a vampire novel she wrote after being inspired by the Twilight saga. Abigail Gibbs, 18, who started writing the book aged 14, released chapters of her novel online, where the book eventually received 17 million hits. HarperCollins in Britain and America have now signed the talented author following her phenomenal internet success. Miss Gibbs, from Brixham, Devon, who is about to start studying English at Oxford University, is the first author to be discovered on Wattpad.
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Abigail Gibbs starting writing The Dark Heroine aged just 14
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She stayed up until 3am on school nights to finish it | 16,227 | record_train |
The Denver museum is Tweeting the last day of @placeholder today in advance of it's forthcoming exhibition A Day In Pompeii, set to open September 14. | By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 10:14 EST, 24 August 2012 | UPDATED: 12:49 EST, 24 August 2012 The final 24 hours of the Roman city of Pompeii are being relived on Twitter today - exactly 1,933 years after an eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the city beneath a blanket of ash. The minute-by-minute reconstruction of the city's destruction is based on the tale of Pliny the Elder, the Roman scholar and admiral who took command of the city's evacuation. The city's cataclysmic final day will be retweeted as it happened from the Twitter account Elder_Pliny, who has been brought to life by experts from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
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The book also features people and places linked to @placeholder’s political past. | By Simon Walters As a Cabinet Minister in Margaret Thatcher’s Government, Norman Tebbit was renowned for his brutal style of politics. He was once called a semi-house-trained polecat and nicknamed ‘the Chingford skinhead’ after his Essex constituency. The satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image fuelled the image by portraying him as a snarling, leather-jacketed thug. But Lord Tebbit displays a softer side to his character in a children’s novel he has written, called Ben’s Story. It features a talking dog, a yellow labrador called Ben, and Sam, a 14-year-old boy. Faithful friend: The Tebbits with their labrador Ben, who died five years ago
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In Government, Norman Tebbit was renowned for his brutal style of politics
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@placeholder, 67, started suffering last year with a 40 percent drop in business, and it has gotten worse in recent months. | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Harvey Schwartz spent the past 40 years collecting antiques, art and odd items that he rented to TV and movie studios as props and set decorations. These "aliens" are among the items to be auctioned off by 20th Century Props. During a tour of his huge North Hollywood, California, warehouse, Schwartz, owner of 20th Century Props, opened a morgue vault door, revealing the legs of a crusty corpse, built for the "X-Files" TV series. "Fun piece," he said with a smile. "Love the sound effects." Schwartz must now sell everything -- including a submarine, a fake nuclear warhead and Austin Powers' cryogenic chamber -- at auction because of a dramatic decline in Hollywood productions over the past year. Watch a tour of the prop warehouse »
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Dramatic decline in Hollywood productions over the past year prompts auction
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Submarine, fake nuclear warhead and Austin Powers' cryogenic chamber to be sold
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Inventory also includes a drill used by Ben Affleck and Bruce Willis in "Armageddon"
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The group’s followers expressed outrage about the decision, including calls for a boycott of @placeholder. | Channel 4 is to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan this year, it revealed yesterday. It is believed to be the first time a mainstream British television channel has broadcast the Islamic call to prayer. Starting next week, the broadcaster will transmit the morning call to prayer daily for the 30 days of Ramadan. Morning call: Channel 4 will broadcast the first call to prayer for the 30 days of Ramadan. There are five calls to prayer each day Channel 4’s head of factual programming Ralph Lee said the channel would act as a ‘nationwide tannoy system’ for Britain’s 2.8million Muslims while they observed Ramadan.
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Call to prayer usually delivered from a mosque and relayed by loudspeaker
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Five calls a day but Channel 4 will only broadcast the morning call for the 30 days of Ramadan
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It was then that @placeholder produced a bottle of industrial-strength cleaning fluid which he had brought with him, and sprayed her face and body. | By Sarah Bridge PUBLISHED: 09:49 EST, 6 January 2014 | UPDATED: 13:36 EST, 6 January 2014 A mother-of-two whose estranged husband poured industrial-strength chemical detergent over her in a horrific case of domestic abuse says that she has forgiven her attacker and is moving on with her life. Carmen Tarleton, 45, who had to have a face transplant due to her injuries, told ITV's This Morning that the decision to forgive her former husband, Herb Rodgers, 'left me with room to grow, to move on with my life and free to meet someone and trust them.'
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Carmen Tarleton, 45, suffered burns to 80 per cent of her body 6 years ago
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Herb Rodgers broke into her Vermont home and doused her with Lye
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It is estimated that up to 100,000 moose are killed by hunters every year in @placeholder. | Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic has sparked outrage amid claims he shot dead a moose during a hunting trip. The controversial 33-year-old, who plays for Paris St Germain in France, was reportedly on a winter vacation in his homeland when he is alleged to have shot the animal. It has been reported that the striker killed the 500kg moose with a single 'shot through its heart' during a hunting excursion while he was on a mid-season break from the French league. Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic (pictured) has sparked outrage amid claims he shot a moose through the heart during a hunting trip
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Footballer reportedly shot a moose dead during a hunting trip in Sweden
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The controversial 33-year-old was said to be 'very happy' with his trophy
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Player reportedly killed 500kg animal with a 'single shot through its heart'
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@placeholder and the U.S. sign an agreement for North Korea to stop and eventually dismantle its nuclear weapons program. | (CNN) -- In return for food aid from the United States, North Korea has agreed to stop nuclear activity at its main facility in Yongbyon, both countries said Wednesday. North Korea has also agreed to a moratorium on long-range missile launches. "Today's announcement represents a modest first step in the right direction," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. "We, of course, will be watching closely and judging North Korea's new leaders by their actions." Wednesday's news might be the most encouraging since 2008, when six-party talks last broke down over North Korea's nuclear program. Since then, there has been tension and uncertainty, including a nuclear test in 2009 and the death of longtime leader Kim Jong Il in 2011.
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North Korea has reached an agreement to curb its nuclear program
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Tensions over North Korea's nuclear program began in 1993
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@placeholder had recently married Matthew Weatherhead and was putting her husband through medical school. | A Detroit family is demanding justice for their daughter and sister — after the newlywed 25-year-old was tragically killed when a parolee leading cops in a high-speed chase broadsided her car. Francesca Vitale Weatherhead was driving to her job as a sales manager when the man ran a red light on his Ford Escape and struck her car on Oct. 6. Her accused killer: 27-year-old John McCallum, who has a mile-long rap sheet for a series of charges including break-ins, possession of weapons and drugs and larceny. Newlywed Francesca Vitale, 25, was struck and killed by an ex-con who had just been released on parole — and quickly returned to a life of crime. He was fleeing cops after yet another home break-in when he killed her
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Francesca Vitale Weatherhead, 25, had just started her new life with husband Matthew when she was tragically killed in a car crash
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Her accused killer is John McCallum, 27, who was paroled five months earlier after a number of convictions for break-ins, weapons and drugs
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McCallum was fleeing from cops after an attempted break-in when he ran a red light and struck Weatherhead's car
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Last year, von Anhalt announced that he wanted @placeholder to become a mother again using an egg donor, artificial insemination and a surrogate mother. | Los Angeles (CNN) -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's daughter got her wish when a Los Angeles judge appointed a conservator to oversee the 95-year-old actress's finances and medical care Wednesday. Judge asked to intervene in Zsa Zsa Gabor's care But the man named temporary conservator is Gabor's ninth husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, who has feuded with his stepdaughter Francesca Hilton for years. Hilton contended when she filed for the conservatorship in March that von Anhalt kept her ailing mother "increasingly isolated" and "heavily sedated," and she questions his handling of Gabor's finances. Hilton is satisfied, though, because the court order requires her stepfather to provide monthly financial reports and medical records, Hilton lawyer Kenneth Kossoff said.
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Francesca Hilton is happy with conservator arrangement for her mom, lawyer says
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Gabor's ninth husband must share financial and medical info with daughter
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Hilton can visit her ailing mother once a week, the judge orders
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Prince Frederic von Anhalt and Hilton have feuded over Gabor for years | 16,236 | record_train |
The center of Donetsk, in peacetime much like any other modern city, is less damaged, though suffering from water shortages and largely shut down, he says, abandoned by an estimated half of @placeholder's population of around one million. | (CNN) -- Bodies torn apart by the weapons of war. The bloody corpse of a man hit by shelling as he walked under trees, a shopkeeper's mutilated body in front of her store, a broom lying nearby. Some three months after pro-Russian rebels declared an independent "Donetsk People's Republic," Ukrainian government forces are encircling the city of Donetsk. Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie was in the city in May and returned two weeks ago to find it battle-scarred and slowly draining of life as its people flee. The images he has captured show the anguish of the immediate aftermath of shelling -- the relatives of victims, people left homeless, the dead. Others depict those left behind sheltering in Soviet or WWII-era cellars and boarded-up buildings as their homes are engulfed by the conflict.
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Photojournalist Jonathan Alpeyrie returned to Donetsk, Ukraine, two weeks ago
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Donetsk is held by pro-Russian rebels but the Ukrainian Army has gradually encircled it
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Alpeyrie's photographs show the life of the residents surviving under siege
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That passion, and more importantly, the support was not lost on @placeholder. | State College, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- This wasn't how Penn State football coach Bill O'Brien hoped things would start. He rushed off the field in disappointment after his Nittany Lions lost 24-14 to Ohio University. But judging by the scene around him, you wouldn't have known it. As the two teams knelt in prayer at the end of the game, many of the more than 97,000 faithful fans in attendance proudly sang the school's alma mater. Forging a new meaning for the rally cry 'We Are... Penn State' In the student section at one end zone, students, many of whom had camped out for first-row seats since Wednesday night, stood shoulder to shoulder with their arms around each other as they belted out the words.
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At the time of his death, temperatures in the region were reported to have risen as high as @placeholder. | By Sophie Jane Evans PUBLISHED: 15:58 EST, 13 January 2014 | UPDATED: 17:55 EST, 13 January 2014 Tragic: Sam Boon died in extreme heat during a school expedition to Morocco in July 2012 A teenager who collapsed in extreme heat during a school expedition to Morocco died as a result of misadventure, a coroner has ruled. Samuel Boon, 17, fell to the ground in front of classmates on a five-day trek in temperatures of 120F (49C) in July 2012. The 6ft 2in teenager was taken to hospital by minibus, where he was sadly pronounced dead.
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Samuel Boon, 17, collapsed during five-day trek in Morocco, inquest heard
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Teenager was taken to hospital by minibus, but later pronounced dead
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Coroner Selena Lynch has recorded a verdict of death by misadventure
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Criticised 'inexperienced' trek leaders who were 'lacking local knowledge'
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A dirt-filled area near the crime scene in @placeholder where a 32-year-old father is suspected of dumping the decomposing bodies of his five young children | The five children who were allegedly slain by their father were remembered at a memorial in Mississippi on Friday, while 500 miles away, their father's lawyers told a court he was 'not a monster'. Timothy Ray Jones Jr., 32, is accused of killing his three boys and two girls, wrapping their bodies in separate trash bags and driving around for days with their decomposing bodies before dumping them on a rural hilltop in Alabama earlier this month. Their bodies were found on Tuesday. At the memorial for his slain children today at the Amory Church of Christ in Mississippi, a poem was read for each sibling. There were balloons released in their honor and a slide show.
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Timothy Ray Jones Jr 'killed his five children at home by violent means' about a week before his ex-wife reported them missing
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He has been charged with five counts of murder but skipped his arraignment today and was represented by his lawyer
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Jones was held overnight on suicide watch and has been moved from county jail to state prison for his own safety, the sheriff said on Friday
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The 32-year-old is accused of killing his three boys and two girls, wrapping their bodies in separate trash bags and driving around for days
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He 'dumped their decomposing bodies on a rural hilltop in Alabama'
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A social worker's last visit - two weeks before kids' disappearance - said Jones 'appears to be overwhelmed' but children were clean and groomed | 16,240 | record_train |
After dinner at the palace, Obama was to hold his first formal meeting with @placeholder before his four-hour trip came to an end. | President Barack Obama defended the US government's willingness to cooperate closely with Saudi Arabia on national security despite deep concerns over human rights abuses, as he led an array of current and former American statesmen in paying respects Tuesday following the death of King Abdullah. Saudi Arabia's status as one of Washington's most important Arab allies has at times appeared to trump US concerns about the terrorist funding that flows from the kingdom and about human rights abuses. But Obama said he has found it most effective to apply steady pressure over human rights 'even as we are getting business done that needs to get done.'
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President Barack Obama defended the US relationship with Saudia Arabia despite funding for terrorism and human rights abuses
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Met with new King Salman, who took over after the death last week of his half-brother King Abdullah
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Several members of the all-male Saudi delegation refused to shake First Lady Michelle Obama's hand
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Dark days: Food was so scarce during the 1941-1944 @placeholder that residents were forced to eat pets, dirt and glue, and some even resorted to cannibalism | A Russian weight-loss group has been criticised for urging its members to follow a 'blockade diet' in memory of the Siege of Leningrad. Get Thin Like Me invited its followers to go on a diet based on the rations supplied during the siege to 'honour' World War II veterans. The Siege of Leningrad, when Nazi Germany forces surrounded the city for nearly 2.5 years, saw 630,000 people die of starvation in what is now St. Petersburg. Inappropriate: Weight-loss group 'Get Thin Like Me' invited its Facebook followers to go on a 'blockade diet' based on the rations supplied during the Siege of Leningrad, which saw 630,000 people die of starvation
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'Get Thin Like Me' urged followers to try the 'blockade diet' in post
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Diet is based on the rations supplied during Siege of Leningrad
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They were traveling back to the @placeholder with Clinton on Tuesday night. | (CNN) -- Nearly a decade has passed since Bill Clinton left the White House, but despite becoming a private citizen, the former president never left the public eye. Former President Clinton receives flowers from a girl Tuesday upon landing in Pyongyang, North Korea. While much of his time has been devoted to global philanthropic interests and speeches, Clinton has never strayed too far from the campaign trail and remains one of the world's most recognizable statesmen. Clinton, 62, jumped back onto the world stage Tuesday with an unannounced trip to North Korea on a mission to negotiate the release of two imprisoned American journalists.
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Mr @placeholder, the former shadow home secretary, said: ‘Grammar schools were probably one of the most transformative public policies of the middle of the 20 century. | Sixty Conservative MPs, including Dr Liam Fox, are today backing a campaign to persuade David Cameron to clear the way for a new generation of grammar schools. Sixty Conservative MPs are today backing a campaign to persuade David Cameron to clear the way for a new generation of grammar schools. Former defence secretary Liam Fox, the chairman of the influential 1922 committee, Graham Brady, and former leadership contender David Davis are among those calling for an end to the ban on new selective state schools. The grassroots Tory group, Conservative Voice, is building support among MPs for a change in policy which it says would be a vote-winner among millions of middle-class parents.
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Grassroots Tory group building support among MPs for a change in policy
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Law forbids new grammars, whose intake is based on academic ability
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'The task (@placeholder) purported to undertake for the benefit of plaintiff and his writing team was absolutely contrary to law and doomed to failure from the start,' the documents state. | The Navy SEAL who says he's being told to pay $4.5million for his book on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is suing the lawyer who advised him before he published. Matt Bissonnette filed suit against attorney Kevin Podlaski on Wednesday for $8million, claiming he was told that he did not need to submit the manuscript for his book No Easy Day to the Defense Department. According to the lawsuit, Bissonnette has been forced to negotiate a settlement with the government. He may also face criminal charges for revealing classified information. Scroll down for video Lawsuit: Matt Bissonnette is suing the lawyer who advised him not to submit the manuscript of No Easy Day to the Department of Defense before publication
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Matt Bissonnette, a Navy SEAL who claims to have been on the bin Laden raid, sued attorney Kevin Podlaski
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The lawsuit claims that Podlaski misrepresented himself and claimed he had clearance to review writing for classified material
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According to Bissonnette and his current lawyer Richard Luskin, he has reached a settlement with the Pentagon and is waiting to see if criminal charges will be pressed
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@placeholder then announced that all the paperwork had been filed for them to be freed on bail, but their release was delayed. | Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The lawyer trying to get two American hikers freed from prison in Iran was not able to get a signature on bail paperwork because a judge is on vacation until Tuesday, he told CNN Sunday. Bail has been paid for Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, lawyer Masoud Shafiee said, but he needs the signatures of two judges to prove it. He went to a judge's office Sunday, when he was in court on a separate case, to see if he could get the second signature, but was told that the judge is on vacation until Tuesday and that Shafiee will have to return then, the lawyer said.
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NEW: An Iranian official links the hikers' case to U.S. treatment of others
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U.S. Muslim, Christian leaders ask President Ahmadinejad for their release
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Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer have been held as spies for more than two years | 16,246 | record_train |
The watch has a completely new user interface, different from the iPhone, and the 'crown' on the @placeholder is a dial called the 'digital crown.' | Apple is putting the finishing touches to its Watch ahead of an expected launch in March - and has released a test version of the software that will link it to an iPhone. The latest release of iOS 8.2, expected to be launched within weeks, includes references to the much anticipated watch. Apple Watch will link via Bluetooth and a special app on user's iPhone. Scroll down for video The Apple Watch will link to a special app on the user's iPhone via Bluetooth. The Apple Watch will use three types of app. Notifications allow users to take action or respond right from their wrist such as turning the lights off after they've left the house, quickly accessing flight details at the airport, and rerouting their transit when a train or bus is late.
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With Williams’ credibility being called into question over his wild claims about his time in Iraq, @placeholder announced on Friday that an internal investigation is being carried out. | Brian Williams has cancelled an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman 24 hours after announcing he would be temporarily stepping down from the NBC Nightly News. The embattled broadcaster was set to be interviewed on the chat show next Thursday, but sources at NBC News have told the Daily Mail Online he will not be appearing. On Saturday the veteran journalist announced Lester Holt would be taking over his role 'for several days' after he admitted lying about a story. During an appearance on Letterman in 2013 he gave a vivid account of how a helicopter he was travelling in was hit by an RPG while covering the Iraq conflict.
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Embattled broadcaster was due to appear on the talk show next Thursday
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Sources confirmed to Daily Mail Online he will not be appearing
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The couple will be remembered at a joint funeral in @placeholder on Saturday. | A young married couple have died within hours of each other after the husband mysteriously collapsed and passed away before his cancer-stricken wife succumbed to her disease. Neil Carruthers, 34, was caring for his wife, Tina Nedelcu Carruthers, 29, who was suffering from a brain tumor, when he collapsed as he left her bedroom in Stoneham, Massachusetts on August 11. His mother Rosanne, a nurse, desperately tried to revive him but neither she nor emergency responders could save him and he died in Winchester Hospital. The sudden death of the active man has left relatives and doctors baffled. He had attended a physical with a doctor just days prior and nothing seemed amiss.
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Neil Carruthers died just 46 hours before his wife Tina in August
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His mother said that Tina seemed to understand that her husband had passed away as she shed a tear when she was told
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His passport was shipped overnight, much to the relief of @placeholder. | By Anna Edwards PUBLISHED: 04:28 EST, 28 May 2013 | UPDATED: 07:44 EST, 28 May 2013 It is an ambitious trip that has demanded meticulous planning, navigating and attention to detail. But a 20-year-old hoping to become the youngest person to fly around the world solo overlooked one small, but very significant, item - his passport. Jack Wiegand, from Fresno, California, began his flight last Thursday when he flew from his hometown to Boulder, Colorado. Jack Wiegand, with his Mooney 20 single-engine plane which he plans to circle the globe in Wiegand piloted his first introductory glider at 13 and on his 14th birthday, he became the youngest pilot in his flying club to solo a glider
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Jack Wiegand, 20, flew from California to Canada before realising his mistake
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If you're looking to experience the unique traditions of @placeholder' carnival, you need to find the "krewes," neighborhood social clubs that organize their own parades, complete with flashy floats and their own carnival king and queen. | It's carnival season, that pre-Lent period of collective frenzy that celebrates overindulgence and transgression before Ash Wednesday ushers in a more sober time of prayer, penance and abstention in the weeks leading up to Easter. But the roots of carnival are both older and newer than the Christian traditions that started in Europe and have spread with colonialism throughout much of the world. Ancient Greek and Roman pagan rituals as well as the folklore, music and dance of colonized peoples have forged colorful expressions of each country's respective history and cultures. Creative disguises and parody are characteristic of carnival in many countries, which historically gave oppressed and marginalized groups the opportunity to subvert norms of class, race and gender.
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New Orleans and other festive cities are rolling out floats and costumes
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Allies: @placeholder shakes hands with President Geun-Hye, watched by dignitaries from both nations | Elegant in a pistachio and nude dress, Queen Maxima of the Netherlands was every inch the royal style icon as she and husband King Willem-Alexander arrived in South Korea this morning. The visit comes after the North, led by Kim Jong Un, stepped up its sabre-rattling over the weekend following the launch of a refurbished Soviet nuclear submarine capable of striking Seoul. Despite the best efforts of dictator Mr Kim, the royal couple appeared undaunted and were welcomed by huge crowds waving Dutch and South Korean flags as they stepped off the plane. Scroll down for video Not worried: King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima arrive in Seoul despite more threats from the North
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The Dutch royal couple have arrived in Seoul for a three-day visit
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Unpredictable dictator Kim Jong Un has launched 'new' attack submarine
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@placeholder numbers were crimped by recessions that occurred more frequently during their administrations -- in 1969 and 1973, 1981, 1990, 2001 and 2007. | (CNN) -- It was a big applause line, one of many for former President Bill Clinton Wednesday night. Speaking to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Clinton -- whose presidency unfolded during a boom era for the U.S. economy -- told delegates that Democratic administrations had a nearly 2-to-1 advantage over Republicans in creating jobs. "Since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24," Clinton said. "In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs. So what's the job score? Republicans 24 million, Democrats 42."
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Even with the oil exports, new cars, and imported fashions, basic services in @placeholder are still terrible. | Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Laith repeats my question back to me, chuckling. "What is the Iraqi media saying about the US elections?" He pauses, thinking how best to answer. "Man, the situation is so bad now, we only pay attention to staying alive." He laughs again. An Iraqi journalist who works for several international news organizations, Laith tells me that he only narrowly escaped being killed by a car bomb the previous day. "If I had been a few minutes late for work, you wouldn't be able to talk to me." Laith chuckles again like so many people do in Baghdad, a resilient, tough, warm laugh.
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This year, they are criticizing Obama and @placeholder for continuing to increase the federal deficit and failing to bring down high unemployment in the slow recover from the economic recession. | Washington (CNN) -- With Congress adjourned until after the November elections, the campaign season accelerated Thursday as top Democrats accused Republicans of a strategy of obstruction while the House GOP leader called for an overhaul of how the chamber works. President Barack Obama met with Democratic leaders from both chambers before they left Washington for the election fray back home. Democratic sources said the party's congressional leaders pushed Obama to be more aggressive in helping them campaign in the final weeks before the November 2 vote. Their message after the talks with Obama focused on legislative accomplishments on behalf of working-class Americans despite the relentless Republican opposition.
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Boehner calls for reforms in Congress
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Phony nurse: @placeholder, formerly known as Morris Garner, is charged injecting the silicone that eventually killed Ms Gordon | A woman was found guilty of culpable negligent manslaughter Friday for referring another woman to a transgendered phony nurse for illicit silicone buttocks injections that prosecutors say killed her in 2012. Natasha Stewart, of suburban Memphis, Tenn., was found guilty Friday in Jackson, Miss., in the death of 37-year-old Karima Gordon of Atlanta, who prosecutors say died at the hands of Morris Garner, who now refers to herself as Tracey Lynn Garner after gender reassignment surgeries. Ms Stewart had been charged with 'depraved-heart' murder, defined as a 'callous disregard for human life' resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and conspiracy to commit murder, but was found guilty of lesser charges.
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Natasha Stewart had been charged with 'depraved heart' murder and conspiracy to commit murder
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Officials say the men were indicted by a @placeholder grand jury on charges of software piracy and illegally exporting technology to China. | (CNN) -- A Chinese man captured by federal agents in 2011 has pleaded guilty in a federal court for pirating copyrighted software worth more than $100 million, officials of ICE announced Tuesday. Xiang Li, 36, of Chengdu will be sentenced May 3, by a judge in Wilmington, Delaware, and could receive a sentence of up to 25 years. Authorities last April disclosed that Li had been captured by agents of Homeland Security Investigations in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. "Li mistakenly thought he was safe ... hiding halfway around the world in cyberspace anonymity," ICE Director John Morton said Tuesday.
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Xiang Li was charged with pirating software worth more than $100 million
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@placeholder persevered and went on to a 47-year career as a prominent and productive member of the Senate. | (CNN) -- For the first time in more than 60 years, America is without a Kennedy on the national stage and it's more than just a sentimental loss to President Barack Obama. The coffin of Senator Edward Kennedy is carried by an honor guard. The last of the Kennedy brothers, Senator Edward Kennedy, died this week of brain cancer at age 77. "We shouldn't underplay the adverse effect this has on the president's healthcare fight," said Democratic strategist James Carville. Kennedy was the youngest of four brothers, the only one who died peacefully. John F. Kennedy, was elected to Congress in 1947, then the White House in 1960 and assassinated in 1963. Brother Robert was running for president when he assassinated in 1968. Their eldest brother, Joe, was killed years earlier in World War II.
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Kennedy was among first to endorse Barack Obama's presidential campaign
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It takes all kinds: A wide range of weird and wonderful styles were on display at the event in @placeholder, eastern France | By Rob Preece PUBLISHED: 06:17 EST, 23 September 2012 | UPDATED: 10:04 EST, 23 September 2012 After a summer in which the Olympics, the Paralympics and the Euro 2012 football tournament have caught the public's attention, they might seem a modest affair. But for more than 100 men who gathered in eastern France this weekend, the European Beard and Moustache Championships were as eagerly anticipated as a major sporting event. Competitors from across the continent converged on Wittersdorf, near Mulhouse, to take part in the contest. Cheers: More than 100 men took part in the 2012 European Beard and Moustache Championships in Wittersdorf, France
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More than 100 take part in European Beard and Moustache Championships
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@placeholder could be handed a boost with the news David de Gea might play against Arsenal | Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea is set to hand manager Louis van Gaal an almighty boost by declaring himself fit for Saturday evening’s visit to Arsenal. De Gea dislocated his little finger during a Spain training session last week but the injury is understood to have improved to such an extent that he now believes he has a high chance of starting at the Emirates Stadium. Sources close to the Spanish team told Sportsmail on Tuesday evening that the United No 1 has ‘an 80 per cent’ chance of making the starting line-up when his club return to Barclays Premier League action this weekend.
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David De Gea dislocated his finger while away with Spain last week
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It was believed De Gea would miss four weeks due to the injury
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We drew Lyon and must accept it," he said on @placeholder's website. | (CNN) -- Titleholders Inter Milan will take on Bayern Munich in the last 16 of the Champions League after Friday's draw produced a repeat of last season's final. Italian side Inter went into the pot knowing that a tie with one of Europe's top sides was likely after qualifying for the knockout stages in second place in Group A behind Tottenham. "It's an interesting draw," Inter chairman Massimo Moratti told the club's official website. "We've faced Bayern Munich lots of times in the past, it's almost a traditional fixture." Rafael Benitez's side will have home advantage for the first leg, which will be played in February, while the trip to Germany will take place in March.
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Bayern Munich handed chance to avenge Champions League final defeat
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German champions will take on titleholders Inter Milan in the second round
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Barcelona drawn with Arsenal in repeat of last season's quarters and 2006 final
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Since the answer to that threat will not be to bring on young @placeholder talent, do not expect the Premier League to be encouraged by its biggest paymasters to accede to Dyke’s reforms. | Greg Dyke has made a confused, faltering, ego-stricken start to his stint as FA chairman but he has taken a positive step in the right direction with proposals aimed at bringing more and better youngsters to the aid of England’s ailing national team. Stricter limitations on foreign imports and a prohibition against the big clubs signing players by the bucket-load and immediately farming them out on loan would create Premiership opportunities for home-grown talent. A pity, then, that this initiative has coincided with a faltering start to the Champions League by England’s leading clubs. Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski hold their heads after Arsenal's defeat by Borussia Dortmund
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Greg Dyke has made a confused start to stint as FA chairman
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'She said he was blind and he couldn't walk, that’s when I really started to panic,' @placeholder told the Newcastle Herald. | A NSW teenager celebrating the end of school exams in Bali was rushed to hospital after consuming a dangerous cocktail which was suspected to have been laced with methanol. Jackson Tuckwell, from Stockton in Newcastle, NSW, was partying with friends at a popular Legian nightclub on Sunday evening when he consumed a 'blaster' cocktail. The concoction of vodka, other spirits and pineapple juice rendered the 18-year-old unable to walk, talk or see,The Newcastle Herald reported. Jackson Tuckwell was hospitalised while partying in Bali for Schoolies after he suffered suspected methanol poisoning His distressed mother Tanya said she was first notified that something had happened when her daughter rang to say she'd heard her brother was in hospital with methanol poisoning.
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Around Australia school leavers are celebrating the end of their exams
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At least 6000 have travelled to party destinations in Bali, Indonesia
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Jackson Tuckwell from Newcastle, NSW was rushed to hospital this week
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The sisters were both home schooled after their parents sold their house to travel around @placeholder | They are an impossibly good looking family who share dozens of tanned photos of themselves on Instagram every week. From their selfie-loving first appearances, the Coffey siblings are by all accounts the Kardashians of the Australian surfing world. However, unlike dark-haired American beauties Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall and Kylie, the Coffeys have so far turned down all offers to star in their own reality TV series. Instead the Gold Coast family get their kicks surfing huge waves in the toughest competitions around the world - and they've got the photos to prove it. Scroll down for video Ellie-Jean Coffey, 19, loves to spend her time at the beach - surfing and taking photos
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The five blonde Coffey siblings are homeschooled so they can travel
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For over ten years they have moved around Australia so they can surf
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The eldest sisters Ellie-Jean and Holly-Sue are huge hits on social media
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"That it is not acceptable for @placeholder to execute one of its nationals without informing them." | Jakarta (CNN) -- Indonesia will impose a moratorium on sending workers to Saudi Arabia, effective August 1, the country said late Wednesday. The move comes after the Gulf kingdom beheaded an Indonesian worker without first informing the Indonesian government. "The government has decided to impose a moratorium on the placement of informal Indonesian migrant workers to Saudi Arabia effective August 1, 2011, until an Indonesian-Saudi memorandum of understanding on the protection of migrant workers is signed and a bilateral joint task force is established," the Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration said on its website. Public furor erupted after the beheading on June 16 of Ruyati binti Satubi, a 54-year-old migrant worker. Ruyati was executed for killing her employer's wife. Indonesia says it was in the process of seeking her clemency.
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NEW: The moratorium goes into effect August 1
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NEW: Saudi Arabia has apologized
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In recent weeks, there have been some successes in curbing the deadly disease, with cases in @placeholder and Guinea appearing to be declining or stabilising. | The number of people killed by Ebola has reached almost 7,000 as it emerged the World Health Organisation has missed ambitious targets to contain the deadly disease. The death toll currently stands at 6,928, according to the U.N. health agency, with the total number of people infected with the killer virus having surpassed 16,000. The figures, released today, come almost two months after the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched an ambitious plan to stop the outbreak in West Africa - by aiming to isolate 70 per cent of the victims in the three hardest-hit countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by December 1.
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Number of people killed by Ebola now stands at 6,928, health agency said
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People infected with deadly disease has surpassed 16,000 in West Africa
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World Health Organisation had set target of isolating 70 per cent of cases
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@placeholder however, has every incentive to win himself on what promises to be an intriguing final day as he seeks an afternoon of redemption and make up for the worst day of his professional life in this event two years ago. | By Derek Lawrenson Justin Rose has given himself a great chance of making it two wins in a row heading into the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool this week. The popular Englishman posted a wonderful 66 to be tied for the lead with home hope Marc Warren going into the final round of the Aberdeen Asset Scottish Open. Rose arrived at Royal Aberdeen full of confidence following a gutsy victory in his last outing in America’s capital at the Quicken Loans National event, where he prevailed on the first hole of a sudden-death play-off. On top: Justin Rose celebrates his birdie on the 16th hole during the third round on Saturday
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Rose posted a third-round 66 to tie for the lead with Scot Warren at Royal Aberdeen
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The Englisman won the Quicken Loans National in America last month
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In both Ferguson and @placeholder, police supporters point out that the men who died were being approached about possible criminal behavior and did not do what the officers asked of them. | (CNN)I obey the speed limit, use turn signals, and don't cruise around with broken tail lights. I don't have substance-abuse problems, unless you count Diet Dr. Pepper. I live in a safe neighborhood, and no one in my family has a criminal record. I like to think all of that is why I spend virtually no time worrying about the police. Yet there's another big reason: I'm white. The way most white people see the police, and the way most black people see them, is separated by a gap so wide it may as well be a canyon. That gulf has been cast into sharp relief by events in Ferguson, Missouri, where a grand jury declined to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown. That sparked protests around the country, as did a decision in New York not to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who police confronted while investigating allegations that he was selling cigarettes illegally.
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'@placeholder is at fault and somebody needs to pay,' he said. | By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 7:15 PM on 20th August 2011 Taylor Armstrong has been pictured in public for the first time since her estranged husband's apparent suicide. The reality TV star was covered from top to toe, with just her legs visible as she visited the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California. Taylor, 40, wore a black hood, sunglasses and held a fur lined coat over her head in an attempt to avoid the glare of waiting photographers. Mourning: Taylor Armstrong hid under a shawl, sunglasses and a fur blanket as she went to Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California
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Bravo 're-editing' footage - still no confirmation on when second season will air
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But Russell's mother has warned Bravo not to air footage of her son and consider 'suing the network'
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His ashes to be divided between his parents and Taylor
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'Sent threatening email to Camille Grammer after Taylor confided in her about domestic abuse'
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He was in debt $1.5m at time of death - Taylor could now have to foot bill
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Joorabchian indicated Tevez would "move on and think about his own future" if there is no movement by United to sign him permanently, with a move to another @placeholder club a desirable option. | (CNN) -- Carlos Tevez is wanted by clubs in Spain and Italy as well as England's Premier League should Manchester United choose to show him the door when his loan deal expires at the end of the month. Argentine striker Tevez is still hoping Manchester United will offer him a new deal at the end of the month. Argentine international striker Tevez is clearly frustrated at United manager Alex Ferguson's failure to open talks regarding a permanent transfer to the defending Champions League finalists. On Sunday Tevez ran in the direction of Ferguson and United chief executive David Gill and cupped his hands to his ears after scoring in the 2-0 win over Manchester City that left the club on the brink of another Premier League title.
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Carlos Tevez wanted by clubs in Spain and Italy as well as Premier League
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Argentine striker still hoping current club Man Utd will offer him a fresh deal
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As a @placeholder citizen, he would then be deported to Mexico, where he still has nine years left on a sentence for related crimes. | By Nadia Gilani UPDATED: 14:35 EST, 5 January 2012 Drug lord: Benjamin Arellano Felix was at the helm of a cartel that smuggled tons of cocaine into the U.S. A Mexican drug lord who pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy to launder money can be sentenced to no more than 25 years in jail. An agreement between Benjamin Arellano Felix, 58, - the leader of a cartel that once smuggled hundreds of tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States and dissolved bodies of its rivals in vats of soda in the 1990s - and federal prosecutors was reached in San Diego yesterday.
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Benjamin Arellano Felix was at the helm of a cartel peddling drugs with his brothers in the 1990s
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Cartel tortured and killed rivals in the U.S. and Mexico as it smuggled Mexican marijuana and Colombian cocaine
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Lawyers say lighter sentence may be because alleged crimes took place years ago and relied on witness accounts, instead of physical evidence
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Much of @placeholder, the 51-year-old noted, is still dominated by humans who travel on foot. | By Ap Reporter In Paul Salopek's first year of his trek across the globe, the reporter walked alongside his camels for days in Ethiopia without seeing glass or bricks or any other signs of modern humanity, ate a hamburger on a U.S. military base and was shadowed by minders in the Saudi desert. He has only 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) to go. The Pulitzer prize-winner journalist is walking from Ethiopia, Africa, to the tip of Chile, South American, in a seven-year journey that aims to reproduce man's global migration. Beauty and difficulty filled his first year, which is now nearly complete.
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Reporter Paul Salopek, who is on a seven-year mission to walk the world, has clocked up 1,300 miles of his 21,000 mile journey after one year
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He has filled 40 notebooks, walked through five languages, gone through four camel companions and, on one day, walked 34 miles
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Salopek - who started the trek in Ethiopia's Rift Valley and will finish at the tip of Chile - has not reported any injuries so far besides two blisters
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His highlight to-date has been getting into Saudi Arabia, which has notoriously strict policies when it comes to journalists
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Forensic examiners allegedly found what police described as a 'complex and elaborate set-up' of petrol fuel loads throughout @placeholder's shop, office and storeroom. | By Leesa Smith and Sally Lee for Daily Mail Australia and Aap The owner of a Sydney convenience store which caught fire, killing three people, deliberately planned the explosion with a 'complex' set-up of fuel containers so that he could collect on the insurance pay-out, police will allege. Adeel Khan, who was charged on Tuesday with the murder of three people living upstairs from his Rozelle business, demonstrated 'disregard for human life' as he deliberately set his business ablaze on September 4, court documents claim. Police will allege he deliberately' and 'dishonestly' started the inferno. 'It (is) the belief of police that the accused intentionally set about to destroy his business by fire,' the statement of facts says.
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Adeel Khan has been charged with murder at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Camperdown, Sydney's south-west, on Tuesday morning
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The 44-year-old was charged with 25 offences, including three counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, three counts of manslaughter
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Rozelle convenience shop owner was charged with setting his store ablaze
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The Greenacre man designed a 'complex' set-up of explosives
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Bianka O'Brien and one-year-old son Jude, along with 27-year-old Chris Noble, died in the fatal inferno on September 4
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But Mr @placeholder revived the idea in a newspaper article. | By Jason Groves, Chief Political Correspondent PUBLISHED: 18:10 EST, 22 August 2013 | UPDATED: 18:10 EST, 22 August 2013 Labour plans for a ‘tourist tax’ would mean millions of families could no longer afford to take ‘staycations’ in the UK, ministers warned last night. Culture Secretary Maria Miller and Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said a ‘levy on overnight accommodation’ would hit thousands of businesses in the tourist sector. The proposal, put forward by Ed Miliband’s Shadow Cabinet ally Sadiq Khan and backed by some Labour councils, would potentially see a tax placed on all hotel, bed and breakfast and self-catering accommodation.
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Tories said levy will do 'terrible damage to country's tourism industry'
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'Tourist tax' put forward by Sadiq Khan - an ally of Ed Miliband
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A statement from @placeholder said he was a 'friendly and thoughtful student' | By Inderdeep Bains and Andy Dolan Loss: Andrew Kirkman, a student at Balliol College, Oxford, gassed himself in a tent hours after breaking up for Christmas An Oxford student gassed himself in a tent hours after breaking up for Christmas. Andrew Kirkman, who was in his second year at Balliol, was found dead by a walker who spotted his tent in a meadow on the edge of the city. It is thought the talented physics and philosophy student killed himself with chemicals. The discovery of his body led to a major chemical alert with six people being treated for exposure to dangerous fumes.
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Andrew Kirkman was found dead in a tent in a field on the edge of Oxford
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Talented student had gassed himself with chemicals
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computers is considered the most credible alternative to @placeholder's iPad, | By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 05:55 EST, 17 August 2011 Samsung can sell its latest iPad rival in most of Europe again after a German court yesterday lifted most of an injunction it had imposed at Apple's request. But just hours after the ban was lifted, Apple faced accusations of misrepresenting the Galaxy Tab's similarity to its iPad in a legal document that helped gain the original injunction. A comparison image taken from page 28 of a filing made by Apple's lawyers featured a 'squashed' picture of the Galaxy Tab that looks identical in size and shape to the iPad.
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Samsung can sell its iPad rival in most of Europe again
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Comparison image in Apple legal papers feature a Galaxy Tab that looks identical in size and shape to the iPad
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They stayed inside their concrete three-story house, though many people in @placeholder wandered the streets in the darkness, she said. | (CNN) -- At least six people were killed Thursday when a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Honduras, President Jose Manuel Zelaya told CNN en Español Thursday. Thursday's quake leaves part of a bridge damaged over the Ulua River in El Progreso, Honduras. Another 17 people were injured, said Jose Reyes, a spokesman for COPECO, the Honduran government agency that responds to natural disasters. Two of the victims -- a 15-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl from Morazan -- died after a wall collapsed on them, Reyes said, adding that trauma was blamed for most of the fatalities.
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Eighty homes destroyed, another 175 damaged, official says
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Original quake centered about 200 miles (320 km) north of the capital, USGS says
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Surprisingly asked to fill the @placeholder role at the top of the diamond and set up first goal. | Manchester United recorded their fourth straight Premier League win since losing to rivals Manchester City at the beginning of November as they beat Stoke 2-1 at Old Trafford on Tuesday night. Marouane Fellaini gave the home side the lead in the 21st minute, but Louis van Gaal's side were pegged back by Steven Nzonzi first-half strike before Juan Mata scored what proved to be the winning goal. Sportsmail's Joe Bernstein rated the players' performances at Old Trafford. Marouane Fellaini opened the scoring with his first goal at Old Trafford since Everton days MANCHESTER UNITED David de Gea 6.5 Kept concentration to make outstanding late reflex save from Diouf.
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Manchester United beat Stoke 2-1 at Old Trafford on Tuesday night
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Ander Herrera impressed in advanced role in Wayne Rooney's absence
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Bojan kept the United defence occupied and scored 7/10
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The @placeholder terror trade came in a close second, followed by the president's handling of the economy. | By Francesca Chambers President Barack Obama's foreign policy approval rating slid even further this month, reaching an all-time low of 37 percent, a new poll shows. Iraq had not imploded when the poll was taken, so poll-takers did not ask whether President Obama is to blame for the instability in the Persian Gulf. They did ask about Obama's decision to swap five Taliban commanders for an American soldier being held hostage by the terrorist network, however, and the results do not bode well for Obama. Less than one in three Americans say Obama made the right call. Americans are so dissatisfied with the president's leadership on a host of issues that 54 percent of them say they've lost faith in his ability to lead the country.
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President Barack Obama's foreign policy approval rating is at an abysmal 37 percent
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His overall approval rating is stuck in the mud at 41 percent
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A majority of Americans think he doesn't have the chops to run the country
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Formed in the Californian prison system in the 1950s, the @placeholder has a reputation for extreme violence. | Rene Enriquez (pictured) is currently serving two life sentences for murder.The black hand tattooed on his chest is the symbol of the Mexican Mafia Los Angeles Police Department is under fire for giving an escort to a convicted Mexican Mafia hit man so he could speak to a business leaders' conference. Rene Enriquez, 52, known as 'The Boxer', was a leader in one of the US's most notorious and violent gangs, the Mexican Mafia, and is currently serving two life sentences for murder. But yesterday he was given a police escort from prison to downtown Los Angeles to address a group of local police chiefs and wealthy business leaders.
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Rene Enriquez, 52, known as 'The Boxer' was a leader in the Mexican mafia
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The gang is one of the US's most notorious, organised and violent gangs
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He is currently serving two life sentences for murder in a Californian jail
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the year @placeholder ran for president, appeared to show a 25-year-old Hitler cheering, and he later claimed it was at that moment that he found his purpose in life. | It was the feature that made him instantly recognisable, and in Britain ridiculed. Adolf Hitler's toothbrush moustache was as much his hallmark as a swastika and his side-parting hair style. Now the story of how the dictator went from having an elaborate handlebar moustache to the style he is forever associated with has been told in Emmy-nominated series The World Wars. Before and after: A new series reveals that Adolf Hitler got his infamous toothbrush moustache (right) after he had to trim his handlebar style (left) to allow his gas mask to properly seal during the First World War The three-part mini series from the History Channel sheds a new light on the conflicts that defined the 20th century, and features dramatic re-enactments as well as interviews with historians and current political figures including John McCain, Colin Powell, Stanley McChrystal and Dick Cheney.
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Adolf Hitler had favoured a longer handlebar moustache with twisted ends
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The facility will open to the public in 2018 (@placeholder has 10 orcas), and after that, | By Associated Press and MailOnline Reporter Besieged by controversy over its treatment of killer whales, SeaWorld has announced plans to double the size of orca tanks and fund additional research on the species. The proposed whale 'environment', 'Blue World Project', will have 10 million gallons of water, up from 5.6 million, and cover 1.5 hectares. The new 50-by-350-foot deep pool, set to open at the San Diego park in 2018, will allow visitors to view the orcas in a glassed room under the water. Today's announcement comes as the company's shares plummeted to their lowest levels since the company listed its stock on public markets last year.
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SeaWorld San Diego to open new 10 million gallon tank in 2018
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Florida and Texas parks will follow with similar projects
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The company also pledged $10 million to support research
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Attendance and share prices have declined since release of 2013 documentary 'Blackfish'
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The movie exposed SeaWorld's practices of capturing and training orcas | 16,282 | record_train |
One other thing @placeholder has to plan for: near-zero gravity. | (CNN)NASA is sending astronaut Scott Kelly to live on the International Space Station for a year. That's the longest any U.S. astronaut has spent in space and twice as long as crew members usually stay on the space station. A year is a long time to stay anyplace. But staying a year in space has some special challenges. There's what to pack: How many changes of clothes do you bring? Kelly says NASA supplies most of what he needs but he's taking his own tool pouch, some sweatshirts and special shoes to use when he's lifting weights. "I bought a special kind of shoes I thought would be better for that," Kelly said at a NASA briefing on Thursday.
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Astronaut Scott Kelly to live in space one year
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Kelly's twin brother, Mark, will take part in a "twins study" from the ground | 16,283 | record_train |
It was not an easy one but we managed to get a good result out of that and we controlled it for most of the game because @placeholder didn't have a shot on target. | Petr Cech may not want to compare this Chelsea team to others he has been involved with, but the long-serving goalkeeper believes they have 'huge potential' this season. Jose Mourinho's men have been the campaign's most impressive side, with last weekend's loss at Newcastle their only defeat in 24 matches in all competitions. That ended talk of the west Londoners going through the season unbeaten, yet they remain top of the Premier League after continuing their 100 per cent record at Stamford Bridge by overcoming Hull 2-0 on Saturday. Petr Cech gives out instructions to his Chelsea team-mates in a rare appearance for the veteran keeper
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Chelsea maintained their three-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win against Hull on Saturday
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Petr Cech made a rare appearance with No 1 Thibaut Courtois out injured
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The 32-year-old says the current Chelsea team has 'huge potential'
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'And like we did with the @placeholder a few weeks ago I'm sure we're going to have a drink before and after the game, talk about their challenges, our challenges, where the game is going, what you think. | South Africa are steeling themselves to face an England pack regimented by 'one of the best forwards coaches in the world' at Twickenham on Saturday. Springbok forwards coach Johann van Graan hailed England counterpart Graham Rowntree for creating a 'world-class scrum', while calling on South Africa to sharpen up after 29-15 defeat in Ireland. Van Graan revealed boss Heyneke Meyer has led several Springboks fact-finding missions to England, where the two sets of coaches have traded ideas and forged lasting friendships. Forwards coach Graham Rowntree has been praised for his work with England by Johann van Graan 'Graham Rowntree is in my opinion one of the best forwards coaches in the world and a good friend of mine,' said Van Graan, who doubles as South Africa's attack coordinator.
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England host South Africa in Saturday's Autumn International Test
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Even the youngest generation of @placeholder today acts not out of a sense of entitlement but a sense of commitment. | Editor's note: Ted Sorensen was special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy. Ted Sorensen says the Kennedys are not American royalty, but have dedicated themselves to service. NEW YORK (CNN) -- With the death of John F. Kennedy's brother, Senator Edward M Kennedy, and their sister, Eunice Shriver, the founder of the Special Olympics for the developmentally challenged, there has been a wealth of news stories -- obituaries and otherwise -- about the recurring tragedies endured by what some call America's "royal family." All of these comments are well intended but off the mark. The Kennedys have been a remarkable family since its founding roughly a century ago by Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. But, its members have never asked for pity or privilege. Their history has emphasized more success than tragedy. Their love of family and country stood out during some of the most cynical and selfish periods in recent American history.
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Ted Sorensen: People have focused on the tragedies endured by Kennedy family
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Father figure: Mubi with her surrogate father, @placeholder - and her toy gorilla. | At first it’s a wary encounter between an unlikely duo – but Mubi the baby monkey and Daisy the Jack Russell are really the happiest of playmates. Mubi was rejected by her mother Yola at Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, but now has pups Daisy and Ian for company at the home of her human carer, Simon Jeffrey. Mr Jeffrey, who is head of the primate section at the reserve, has taken on the role of adoptive father to Mubi, an African drill monkey. New friends: Mubi is introduced to one of Simon's Jack Russell puppies. Mubi was rejected by her mother Yola at Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, but now has pups Daisy and Ian for company
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Monkey Mubi was rejected by her mother at Port Lympne Reserve, Kent
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But she now has Jack Russell puppies Ian and Daisy for company
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Thumbs up: Hamilton greets the crowd as his @placeholder team-mate Nico Rosberg is left rather deflated | 'I don't particularly like coming second to Lewis,' said Nico Rosberg after seeing his team-mate, and only rival for this year's Formula One title, seal pole position for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. It was the second such statement from Rosberg this season; the first coming after he lost his epic duel with Hamilton in Bahrain. Indeed, Hamilton replied: 'We already know,' before the Mercedes duo shared a rather uncomfortable laugh. For Rosberg however, and while he might not like being second-best to his team-mate (who does?) it's become a rather consistent feature of the 2014 season. VIDEO Scroll down to get on board with Hamilton for a lap of the Barcelona circuit
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Lewis Hamilton secured his 35th career pole position for Sunday's race
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Hamilton will overhaul Nico Rosberg in title race if he wins Spanish GP
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Sebastian Vettel out-performed by Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo
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@placeholder and Tim Sherwood were the only two candidates spoken to — and on Tuesday night Pulis was on the brink of accepting the job. | It is rare for Jeremy Peace, the West Bromwich Albion chairman, to attend the club’s training ground. But when there is serious business to sort, he appears. Business such as finding a fourth permanent head coach in little more than a year. As stand-ins Rob Kelly and Keith Downing put the players through their paces on Tuesday, Peace’s personalised number plate was visible in the car park. He started the day in negotiations with two possible replacements for Alan Irvine, sacked late on Monday night and placed on gardening leave, just as Steve Clarke was 12 months ago. Tony Pulis's representatives are in talks with West Bromwich Albion over the vacant manager's position
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Alan Irvine was sacked as West Bromwich Albion boss on Monday
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Tony Pulis has emerged as the favourite to become new head coach
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Tim Sherwood also in the running but Pulis has edged ahead of him
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Baggies owner Jeremy Peace determined to keep side in Premier League
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The poster accuses @placeholder of "threatening world peace with ICBMs and nuclear weapons." | Some official North Korean Internet and social media sites appeared Thursday to have been hacked, possibly by the hacker collective Anonymous. The hacking -- including an image skewering North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on an official Flickr account -- comes amid rising tensions between North Korea and several other countries including the United States. The North Korean government website Uriminzokkiri.com was down Thursday morning, and the official @uriminzok Twitter account -- also apparently tampered with -- has messages claiming that Uriminzokkiri, the Flickr site and other North Korean sites have been hacked. Among the pictures on the Flickr account Thursday: A "wanted" poster with an image showing Kim with a pig's ears and nose.
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Attack has hallmarks of hackers collective Anonymous
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Official North Korean Flickr account shows image skewering Kim Jong Un | 16,290 | record_train |
But what the @placeholder government now wants is a statutory power allowing it to seize and retain a canceled passport, so as to reduce the likelihood of it being used anyway. | Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, has declared that when dealing with would-be "terrorist fighters," he believes it should be easier to confiscate passports -- to stop people traveling, to prevent those who go abroad to fight from returning to the UK, and to deal decisively with those who are here. How exactly the Counter Terrorism Bill will be framed when it is published shortly remains unclear, but current proposals go beyond what is required and risk doing exactly what the U.N. Security Council insists on, which is to act in compliance with international law. "Dealing decisively with those who are here" sounds good, of course, and there are plenty of terrorism-related offences already on the statute books which can do duty.
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UK PM wants to make it easier for authorities to confiscate the passports of would-be jihadis
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British citizens subjected to planned exclusion orders will be banned from UK
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Goodwin Gill questions how government will know whether people are traveling for jihad
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"'Exile' is expressly prohibited by Article 9 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights" | 16,291 | record_train |
Last year, he wrote: "I want to establish the existence of a new @placeholder that would not be an embarrassment to the spirit of the war dead." | (CNN) -- Here at an international gathering of Japan specialists currently underway in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the actions of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in honoring his country's war criminals have come in for sharp criticism. Nobody attending the European Association of Japanese Studies conference seems surprised, but I have yet to meet anyone who thinks Abe has done Japan any favors. One attendee suggests that, in sending a personal message to a ceremony commemorating Japan's war criminals, Abe has yet again handed a strategic gift to China and South Korea, while making Japan look churlish about its war responsibility. Another said that if Chancellor Angela Merkel made a similar gesture repudiating the verdicts against Nazi war criminals at Nuremburg, her political career would end and Germany would face strong condemnation and isolation in Europe.
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Japan's PM Shinzo Abe has drawn criticism for a message honoring war criminals
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His spokesman says the comments were made in a private capacity
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But Abe cannot call a timeout as leader whenever it suits him, says Jeff Kingston
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Abe's comments have handed a strategic gift to China and South Korea, Kingston writes | 16,292 | record_train |
The suit accuses @placeholder of "concealing the extent of net profits" by not giving an annual accounting for at least the past four years, and maintains that Jackson is "guilty of fraudulent, malicious and oppressive conduct." | (CNN) -- Movie director John Landis is suing Michael Jackson, accusing the reclusive entertainer of fraud in his handling of profits from the iconic "Thriller" video the two made together more than 25 years ago. "King of Pop" Michael Jackson, seen in 2005, made the "Thriller" video with John Landis more than 25 years ago. Landis claimed his 1983 contract with Jackson gave him 50 percent of net profits from the 14-minute video and the documentary about the making of it, both works that he directed and co-wrote with Jackson, court documents say. Jackson "wrongfully refused to pay or account for such profits," the suit, filed against the singer and Optimum Productions, says. The suit characterizes Optimum as "a defunct corporation" Jackson has used as an alter ego.
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Director John Landis, Michael Jackson made "Thriller" video 25 years ago
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Landis claims 1983 contract gives him 50 percent of net profits from video
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Jackson "wrongfully refused to pay or account for such profits," suit says
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Jackson's lawyers have not responded | 16,293 | record_train |
"On its face you might think, what this guy is suing over wigs," @placeholder's attorney Chestnut said. | (CNN) -- A hair stylist is accusing former "American Idol" judge and rapper Nicki Minaj of wigging out on a deal. Terrence Davidson filed suit Friday in district court in Atlanta alleging that the star not only stole his wig designs, but also cost him a potential reality show deal that he was discouraged from pursuing. According to the complaint, Davidson started working for Minaj -- whose real name is Onika Maraj -- as her hair stylist in January 2010. He says he began making wigs for her which she would then select for her appearances. At the time Minaj was a burgeoning star who had steadily built her fan base by appearing as a guest rapper on mix tapes and projects by her label mates at Young Money Entertainment. She quickly became known as the first lady of Young Money, which includes superstar rappers Drake and Lil Wayne.
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A hair stylist is claiming Minaj stole his wig designs
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Terrence Davidson began working with the rapper in 2010
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Minaj now sells wigs on her website | 16,294 | record_train |
The burgeoning businesswoman has big plans to develop brand @placeholder this year. | She may have started life as just another girl from Chelsea, but Millie Mackintosh used her time on the reality TV show to build her brand by launching a successful fashion and beauty range. And now she's been given the ultimate seal of approval. Millie, 25, is honoured to learn that A-listers Amal Clooney and Sienna Miller wore her false lashes on the red carpet at Sunday's Golden Globes. Scroll down for video Millie Mackintosh, 25, pictured, who found fame on Made In Chelsea said she was honoured to learn that A-listers Amal Clooney and Sienna Miller wore her false lashes on the red carpet at Sunday's Golden Globes
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Make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury is a fan of Millie's lashes
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Used them on Amal and Sienna at prestigious awards
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Millie is honoured and says Charlotte is 'so good' at make-up
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Chelsea girl Millie is penning book and launching new clothing range | 16,295 | record_train |
The @placeholder series of satellites are designed to perform biological experiments in space | By Jonathan O'Callaghan They were intended to be among the first animals to join the 350-mile-high club, but now a group of geckos sent into space to reproduce may be at risk. The five lizards - four male and one female - launched on a research satellite on 19 July to study the effects of weightlessness on their sex lives. But Russian space officials have now revealed that the Foton-M4 satellite is not responding to commands, and there are fears the mission may be lost. A satellite containing five geckos is feared out of control. The five lizards are flying in the Gecko-F4 experiment aboard the satellite (shown). They are being observed to see how their bodies and sexual behaviour are affected by microgravity. Their habitat, monitored by video camera, has enough food for two months
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A biological experiment launched from Kazakhstan last week is feared lost
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Ground controllers are unable to communicate with the Foton-M4 satellite
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On board it has five geckos intended to reproduce and test the effects of microgravity on reproduction
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But while the animals are alive, the satellite cannot be controlled
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This means that the planned landing in two months might not be possible | 16,296 | record_train |
Colbert countered: '@placeholder - great pundit or the greatest pundit?' | He hasn't had the easiest year defending his economic record and actions on immigration. And a playful appearance on The Colbert Report brought no light relief for President Obama. Amid jokes about his approval ratings and big ears, he could not escape a grilling about his move to protect five million immigrants from deportation without Congress approval. Host Stephen Colbert, who is known for scolding his interviewees, accused Obama of exceeding his authority with his executive order. 'When did you decide to burn the Constitution and become emperor?' he asked. Scroll down for video Playful appearance: President Obama told Stephen Colbert his family tease him about his big ears and suits
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President Obama appeared on one of Stephen Colbert's last shows
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He joked about his poor approval ratings and low support for Obamacare
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The second masseur who accused @placeholder of sexual battery has withdrawn from the suit. | John Travolta tried to give his Grease co-star Jeff Conaway oral sex while he was sleeping, it has been claimed. Travolta allegedly tried to perform the act at Conaway's home in the 1990s, Conaway's former fiancée Vikki Lizzi told the National Enquirer. She said that her partner, who played Kenickie in the 1978 hit movie, was so upset with the incident it ended his long-term friendship with the star. Claims: John Travolta (left) tried to give his Grease co-star Jeff Conaway (right) oral sex while he was sleeping, Conaway's former fiancée has said She said Conaway, who appeared in Grease on Broadway with Travolta before the pair were cast in the film, made the claim in a suicide note.
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Second masseur withdraws from lawsuit but hires celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred
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Actor's lawyer insists he has not paid off accusers | 16,298 | record_train |
She said @placeholder is her true soulmate and she hopes to be reunited with him in the future | The Australian bride charged with adultery and bigamy offences while visiting her boyfriend in Lebanon has tearfully told of the ordeal which saw her fleeing from authorities and dodging bullets. Sydney mother and teacher Mahessen Issa also revealed to Channel Seven's Sunday Night program what drove her to the edge of forced her halfway around the world into another man's arms. Ms Issa and her estranged husband Bassam Abou Lokmeh were separated when she decided to travel to Lebanon earlier this year, and their relationship had been in jeopardy for a long time before. Scroll down for videos Mahessen Issa (left), the Sydney woman who left Australia and her estranged husband has told of how she and boyfriend Mohammed Awick (right) spent months running from Lebanese authorities
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Mahassen Issa was on the run in Lebanon for two months
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She was charged with adultery and bigamy offences
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Ms Issa revealed what led her to another man, Mohammed Awick
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Described the breakdown of marriage with husband Bassam Abou Lokmeh
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Said Mr Awick was her true soulmate., despite being so far away | 16,299 | record_train |
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