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'Tonight I'm very proud and deeply touched,' Mr @placeholder, who went to school in Paris, said with tears in his eyes. | The Muslim kosher supermarket employee who saved several shoppers lives during the Paris attack has been granted French citizenship. Lassana Bathily, 24, was praised for his 'courage and heroism' by Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve during a ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister Manuel Valls. Mr Cazeneuve said Mali-born Bathily's 'act of humanity has become a symbol of an Islam of peace and tolerance.' Scroll down for video Selfless: When gunman Amedy Coulibaly entered the shop, Lassana Bathily turned off the freezer and hid shoppers inside before sneaking out and helping police free the hostages Hero: Shop clerk Lassana Bathily who guided six shoppers to safety during the attack on the Paris Kosher grocery where he was working, has been granted French citizenship
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Mali-born Lassana Bathily, 24, saved lives during Paris attacks
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Kosher grocery employee turned off freezer and hid shoppers
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He then sneaked out and helped police outside free the hostages
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Bathily was granted French citizenship and praised for his 'heroism' | 17,600 | record_train |
After a season's sabbatical @placeholder won the race for his signature, but the 42-year-old might have a tough task on his hands if Bayern go on to pin down another two trophies between now and the season's end. | (CNN) -- German giants Bayern Munich's march towards domestic domination continues unabated. Having wrapped up the Bundesliga title with six games left to play, the Bavarians have now booked their place in the German Cup final, thrashing Wolfsburg 6-1. The club's first ever treble is still within their grasp. Bayern are also sitting pretty in Europe having dismissed Juventus to take their place in the Champions League semifinals where they will face Barcelona. Pedro's Point of View: Do Bayern need Guardiola? In fact, things are going so well under manager Jupp Heynckes, some have questioned what incoming coach Pep Guardiola, who is set to take over in June, can do to improve them.
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Bayern Munich thrash Wolfsburg 6-1 in the German Cup semifinal
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Jupp Heynckes impressive side have already won the Bundesliga title
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Arsenal and Everton draw 0-0 at the Emirates in the English Premier League
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Gunners gain point in chase for Champions League football next season | 17,601 | record_train |
@placeholder secured the first mini-break to go 3-1 up and soon extended his lead to 5-2. | (CNN) -- Rafael Nadal will face Roger Federer in Sunday's final ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena in London. Federer dispatched semi-final opponent Novak Djokovic in straight sets 6-1 6-4 on Saturday evening, while Rafael Nadal beat a determined Andy Murray 7-6 (7-5) 3-6 7-6 (8-6) in the first semi-final earlier in the day. Federer was in ruthless form in the opening set, holding his opening service game to love and then wasted no time breaking the Serb's serve in the next. Djokovic managed to open his account in the fourth game, but there was no stopping the World No.2 after that as he secured a double break in the sixth, before polishing off the set with trademark efficiency.
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Rafael Nadal overcomes spirited Andy Murray to book place in ATP World Tour final
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Roger Federer earns comfortable win over Novak Djokovic 6-1 6-4 in other semi
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Pair have met on 21 previous occasions, with Nadal currently leading 14 matches to seven | 17,602 | record_train |
Unstoppable: Angel di Maria's extra-time winner against Switzerland owed much to @placeholder's build-up play | Ahead of Argentina's World Cup semi-final clash with Louis van Gaal's Holland in Sao Paulo, Sportsmail takes a closer look at Alejandro Sabella's side. Player of the tournament: Lionel Messi (5 games, 4 goals) With the exception of Brazil and Neymar, no side in the competition has relied so heavily on their star player. Four of Argentina’s five games have needed a sprinkle of Messi magic to drag Alejandro Sabella’s side back from the abyss. Without the four-time Ballon d’Or winner they probably wouldn’t have made it out of their group. VIDEO Scroll down for Argentina's team profile and qualifying highlights
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Lionel Messi has been the star for Argentina, scoring four goals so far
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Angel di Maria played poorly against Switzerland but came up with a crucial strike in extra-time to send his country into the last eight
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The South Americans have relied too heavily on Messi in Brazil
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Alejandro Sabella may not have the full respect of his players according to some reports
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Argentina face Holland in Sao Paulo on Wednesday | 17,603 | record_train |
Ivory Coast are likely to be awarded the match and with it qualification for the finals of the tournament in @placeholder next year. | (CNN) -- Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Ivory Coast had to be abandoned after crowd trouble at the Leopold Senghor Stadium in Dakar. Ivory Coast were leading 2-0 Saturday night and 6-2 on aggregate when the players, including a host of English Premier League stars, had to be escorted from the field by riot police. Didier Drogba put The Elephants ahead in the 51st minute from a free kick before a fan ran on to the pitch in an attempt to confront him. He was wrestled away by security, but it proved the prelude to more sustained trouble after the former Chelsea player increased Ivory Coast's lead from a disputed penalty in the 70th minute.
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Fan violence forces abandonment of match between Senegal and Ivory Coast
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Didier Drogba scores twice for the Elephants before rioting Senegal fans force players off pitch
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Africa Cup of Nations holders Zambia through after penalty shootout
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Ghana, Mali Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia all qualify for finlas in South Africa | 17,604 | record_train |
The prediction for @placeholder is £676.5m - £470,000 a minute – and 151m visits, which would also be 26 per cent higher than last year. | Web retailers are turning up the hype around internet Christmas shopping with claims Black Friday will simply be the first of three record-breaking days. Industry leaders suggest internet spending on Friday will hit an all-time high for a single day of £555.5million – over £385,000 a minute. But they predict the figure will be higher still three days later on Cyber Monday, once people have browsed the web for bargains over the weekend, with spending predicted to reach £649.6million. And they expect even these colossal figures will be outdone on the following Monday – so-called Manic Monday – with the total estimated at £676.5million.
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Internet spending on Friday could hit £555.5m – over £385,000 a minute
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But on Monday spending is predicted to reach a staggering £649.6million
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Families in Britain spend more online per head than any other nation | 17,605 | record_train |
Allegations: @placeholder is facing seven charges of attempted murder | Oscar Pistorius will have to wait another day to discover if he will be granted bail as the hearing for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp went into a fourth day. Pistorius has admitted shooting 29-year-old model Miss Steenkamp, but claims he did so thinking she was a burglar or burglars, who were in the bathroom. He said he opened fire in the dark because he was too scared to turn a light on. Realising his mistake, he broke the door down with a cricket bat and carried her downstairs, he said. As the hearing got under way, Nike confirmed that it has suspended its contract with Pistorius.
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Police confirm lead detective in Oscar Pistorius case has been charged with attempted murder
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Detective Hilton Botha allegedly shot at seven passengers in mini-bus taxi in October 2011
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South African press report that Detective Botha and two other officers were drunk at the time
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Botha will face charges in May
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Pistorius has returned to court today for third day of bail hearing | 17,606 | record_train |
In you get, champ: The cool waters of @placeholder were no match for this gentleman and the thousand swimmers who went for a paddle this morning | The national day brought some un-Australian weather to some of the nation's biggest cities this morning. But a bit of drizzle in parts of Sydney and Melbourne wasn't going to stop committed partygoers from making the most of Australia Day. And other parts of the land of drought and flooding rains - namely Brisbane and Perth - were turning it on, resplendent in the sunshine. Thousands of punters braved the gloom in the Harbour City, some waving miniature flags and others huddling together under umbrellas on the foreshore. Around 1000 swimmers dived into the water near the Opera House wearing only their trunks and a determined grimace as part of the Great Australian Swim series. They might not have been joined by many private vessels this year, but swimmers certainly had company in the HMAS Canberra.
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The national day brought some un-Australian weather to Sydney and Melbourne
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But partygoers and tennis players alike defied the weather to join the celebrations
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Celebrities including comedian Hamish Blake snapped humorous pictures of themselves
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Brisbane and Perth were both set to swelter through the afternoon | 17,607 | record_train |
By early Tuesday evening, @placeholder was still operating well below its normal 70 flights per hour, he said. | New York (CNN) -- Close to 10,000 total flights have been canceled since the beginning of a holiday blizzard that blanketed much of the U.S. northeast with snow and left thousands stranded. Airline representatives from AirTran, American, Continental, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue, United, U.S. Airways, Spirit and Southwest reported a total of at least 9,726 trips were called off due to weather since Saturday. Of those, at least 1,335 flights were canceled on Tuesday as major airports across the region slowly got back to normal. "With all the cancellations and delays, it'll be two to three days before the airlines are at a regular schedule," said Thomas Bosco, general manager of New York's LaGuardia Airport.
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Nearly 10,000 flights have been canceled since Saturday
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At least 1,335 flights were canceled on Tuesday
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More than 1,000 abandoned vehicles are removed from New York interstates
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New York is now facing shortages in blood supplies, the city's mayor said | 17,608 | record_train |
Tragic death: The parents wrote in a statement that their 16-year-old baby sitter's boyfriend came onto their property while high on drugs, hurt @placeholder and threw him into this pool, leaving the child to drown | By Snejana Farberov PUBLISHED: 09:26 EST, 7 March 2013 | UPDATED: 09:38 EST, 7 March 2013 A two-year-old boy from Colorado vacationing with his family in Mexico was sexually assaulted and beaten by his babysitter's intoxicated boyfriend before being tossed in the pool to drown, it was revealed today. Police in Mexico have arrested Eleodoro Carlos Rodriguez Sanchez, 30, and charged him with sexual assault and murder of Axel Charrette. According to local reports, Sanchez, who also goes by the name Carlos Roberto Tapia Sanchez and the alias 'El Cholo,' made a statement to detectives confessing to the crime that took place in the village of Sayulita February 28.
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Eleodoro Carlos Rodriguez Sanchez, 30, was arrested after confessing to raping and throwing two-year-old Axel Charrette in the pool
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Nancy Saralee Solorio Perez, 16, was arrested on suspicion of murder because she failed to stop the attack and lied about it to police
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Axel's naked and lifeless body was found in the swimming pool of his parents' rented house in Sayulita, Mexico
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Boy's seven-year-old brother, Kalden, was unharmed and did not see the murder
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The Charrettes arrived in Sayulita January 4 for extended vacation and were expected to stay there through March | 17,609 | record_train |
@placeholder vet John Valluzzo raised his gun on a police officer prior to getting fatally shot | By Daily Mail Reporter and Ap PUBLISHED: 17:18 EST, 26 May 2013 | UPDATED: 17:21 EST, 26 May 2013 The founder and president of a Connecticut military museum was shot and killed at his home by police after he pointed a handgun at officers, Connecticut state police said Sunday.State police identified the man killed Friday in Ridgefield as 75-year-old John Valluzzo.Valluzzo was armed when Ridgefield police arrived at his posh, 9,000 square foot home following a call about a possible domestic incident on Friday evening, state police said. He was shot after authorities said he refused to comply with orders to put the gun down and instead raised it on officers.
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John Valluzzo pointed a gun at officers before he was fatally shot
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Valluzzo's death is the first criminal incident to result in a fatality in Ridgefield, Connecticut in nearly 10 years
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Valluzzo was a decorated Korean War veteran and founded the Military Museum of Southern New England in 1995 | 17,610 | record_train |
Our long-time National Correspondent, @placeholder, passed away on Thursday. | Washington (CNN) -- Bruce Morton, a longtime CNN national correspondent, passed away Thursday at his Washington home at the age of 83. Morton's broadcast career stretched across 40 years, first at CBS, where he hosted the "CBS Morning News" among other things, then at CNN, where he was chief national correspondent before retiring in 2006. After his last report for CNN, anchor Wolf Blitzer paid tribute to Morton by saying, "One of our colleagues likes to say that if there were a journalist hall of fame, Bruce Morton certainly would be in it." Below is CNN Washington bureau chief and Senior Vice President Sam Feist's note to the bureau on Morton's passing:
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Bruce Morton's broadcast career spanned more than 40 years, first at CBS, then CNN
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Morton was "a modern day news poet," says Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief
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Morton, 83, passed away Thursday at his Washington home | 17,611 | record_train |
But he said the economy was "a million miles" from its condition when @placeholder took office, "when the economy's losing 780,000 jobs a month and people are actively talking about will there be an end to the financial system in the United States." | Washington (CNN) -- President Obama's top economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, is leaving the administration to return to the University of Chicago, the White House announced Monday night. Goolsbee has been an outspoken defender of Obama's policies as the U.S. economy struggles to find its footing following the steep recession of 2007-09. In a statement announcing Goolsbee's departure, Obama called him "a close friend" and "one of America's great economic thinkers." "Over the past several years, he has helped steer our country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression," Obama said. "And although there is still much work ahead, his insights and counsel have helped lead us toward an economy that is growing and creating millions of jobs."
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Longtime economic adviser Austan Goolsbee headed back to Chicago
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Goolsbee has been an outspoken defender of Obama's policies | 17,612 | record_train |
Fitting: @placeholder celebrates claiming a place in the top three as he wore a helmet in tribute to his late father | Lewis Hamilton apologised to his fans after blowing his chance of securing pole position for the British Grand Prix after inexplicably aborting his final run in Saturday's dramatic qualifying session. Hamilton appeared set to secure his second pole in as many years in front of his home crowd with track conditions seemingly worsening in the rain-hit session. But as his title rival Nico Rosberg snatched pole in the final moments, Hamilton chose to bail out of his last lap, confident he had done enough to start Sunday's race from the front of the pack. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Lewis Hamilton: From karting kid to world champion
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Brit aborts final qualifying run believing he had done enough to secure pole
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Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate Rosberg snatches lead in final minutes
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Jenson Button to start Sunday's race from third
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Reigning world champion Sebastian Vettel will start second | 17,613 | record_train |
Using the n-word on @placeholder is just Madge being Madge. | (CNN) -- On Friday, Madonna posted a photo to her Instagram account of her teenage son, Rocco, throwing a punch in a boxing ring with the caption: "Nobody messes with Dirty Soap! Mama said knock you out!" she wrote below the picture, adding the hashtag "#disni—a." Yes, of course. When the inevitable public outcry began of her use of the n-word, the photo was deleted and reposted, its caption replaced with, in true Madonna fashion, "#get off my d—k haters!" None of this furor is accidental. The pop icon is no stranger to controversy, but now it may be time to examine the consequences of her latest cultural tourism in the name of reinvention.
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Madonna's recent controversy should not be a surprise, the author says
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Hardy: This is the latest in a career that borrows from what is "cool" in culture
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Now, as a mother, perhaps she should consider the impact on her children | 17,614 | record_train |
"Though I cannot bring back Mr. @placeholder or ease his family's pain, I can and will honor his memory by committing my time, my resources and my voice by educating this community about the dangers of drunk driving," he said. | (CNN) -- Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has been suspended indefinitely by the National Football League, days after he pleaded guilty to killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence of alcohol, the NFL said. Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth on Tuesday pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter. Stallworth, 28, pleaded guilty in a Florida court Tuesday to DUI manslaughter charges in the March death of construction worker Mario Reyes. Under terms of a plea agreement, he will serve 30 days. Prosecutors said he began serving his sentence immediately. "The conduct reflected in your guilty plea resulted in the tragic loss of life and was inexcusable," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told Stallworth in a letter Thursday, the league said. Excerpts from the letter were posted on the NFL Web site.
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NEW: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell calls Stallworth's action "inexcusable"
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Cleveland Browns wide receiver Tuesday pleaded guilty to DUI manslaughter
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Stallworth serving 30 days in jail, has reached settlement with victim's family
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NFL player's blood alcohol level was 0.126; Florida's legal limit is 0.08 | 17,615 | record_train |
They have had to make major sacrifices on some of their contractual rights but the way they have supported us in recognizing the potential benefits of this move -- not just for rugby, but for @placeholder -- has been magnificent." | (CNN) -- Soccer City, once the venue of South Africa's most significant black freedom rallies, will next month host a sport that was open only to whites in the country's apartheid-rule era. Rugby officials announced on Wednesday that South Africa's Springboks will take on New Zealand's All Blacks at the Johannesburg soccer stadium, which stages the 2010 World Cup final this weekend. The rebuilt ground, scene of Nelson Mandela's first speech in the city after his release from prison in 1990, is situated near the predominantly black township of Soweto. "This is an historic day and one in which the whole of South Africa can celebrate," South African Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins said in a statement on the ruling body's website.
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Soccer City will host a rugby union international between South Africa and New Zealand
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Johannesburg stadium was the scene of South Africa's most famous freedom rallies
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Rugby in the country has traditionally been dominated by whites
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The August 21 fixture will be Springboks' first home game of 2010 Tri-Nations series | 17,616 | record_train |
@placeholder describes how Bowie and his first wife, Angie, ‘were notorious about weaving a sexual web around those who took their fancy’ and met while they were having an affair with the same man. | David Bowie sharing a cigarette with Elizabeth Taylor in 1975. This was the first occasion the pair - who had an 'amorous friendship' - had met David Bowie was a sex fanatic who became obsessed with bedding as many partners - men or women - as possible, a new book claims. Bowie's colourful, gender-bending sex life has included rumored relationships with Elizabeth Taylor and Bianca Jagger as well as ones - which the women have themselves confirmed - with Marianne Faithfull and Susan Sarandon. But he has also been linked with a string of men including Mick Jagger - rumours that were encouraged by Bowie's past claims to have been both gay and bi-sexual.
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New book by Wendy Leigh claims David Bowie was a sex fanatic
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Author questioned whether he was a sexual adventurer or sex addict
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Bowie is rumoured to have had orgies with his wife and Mick Jagger
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Book follows his 'sexual web' from first wife Angie to settled life with Iman
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Claims cocaine addiction amped up his voracious appetite for sex | 17,617 | record_train |
Thorsten Heins, president and CEO at BlackBerry holds up the new @placeholder | By Victoria Woollaston PUBLISHED: 10:14 EST, 14 May 2013 | UPDATED: 03:47 EST, 15 May 2013 BlackBerry is to give its BBM software away to iPhone and Android users in a bit to boost its popularity and stop consumers switching to rival handsets. Speaking at BlackBerry Live - a three-day annual event in Orlando - BlackBerry's CEO Thorsten Heins said the firm's popular BBM messaging software will be available on the iPhone and Android handsets for the first time. He also announced a low cost handset with a keyboard many believe could be the firm's last attempt at survival.
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Firm set to launch its BBM messaging service on iOS and Android for the first time
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The BlackBerry Q5 has a QWERTY keyboard and a 3.1inch touchscreen
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It is set to be the third handset to run the latest version of the BlackBerry operating system - BlackBerry 10 | 17,618 | record_train |
To be fair, Gil and Miranda have been quietly impressive at the back as their captain has run @placeholder ragged up front. | CLICK HERE to read the match report on Neymar's quite sensational performance. Brazil routed Japan in Singapore thanks to a quite magnificent individual performance from star striker and captain Neymar. The forward bagged all four of their goals - including a perfect hat-trick - in a 4-0 victory and he was brilliant throughout. For his first goal, Brazil's favourite son rounded the goalkeeper and slotted home, and then coolly passed one into the back of the net and completed his hat-trick with a rebound before heading in his fourth and final strike with just nine minutes remaining. Host commentator
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Neymar rounds the keeper to net after just 18 minutes in Singapore
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The Brazil captain gets his second just two minutes after half-time
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Neymar nets his hat-trick after 77 minutes when he scores a rebound
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Barcelona striker gets his and Brazil's fourth with an 81st-minute header
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BRAZIL XI: Jefferson, Danilo, Miranda, Gil, Filipe Luís, Luiz Gustavo, Elias, Willian, Oscar, Diego Tardelli, Neymar
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Subs: Cabral, Grohe, David Luiz, Jesus, Gil, Dodo, Fernandes, Romulo, Souza, Everton Ribeiro, Kaka, Coutinho, Robinho
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JAPAN XI: Kawashima, Ota, Sakai, Shiotani, Morishige, Tanaka, Taguchi, Morioka, Shibasaki, Okazaki, Kobayashi
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Subs: Nishikawa, Gonda, Mizumoto, Nagatomo, Suzuki, Nishi, Kagawa, Hosogai, Honda, Kakitani, Muto, Havenaar | 17,619 | record_train |
‘After Ashley removed @placeholder, Ashley’s most vocal critic, it was obvious David Somers was just a wet fish agreeing anything Ashley wanted. | The chairman of Laxey Partners has urged the wider Rangers support to take on Mike Ashley – after his firm sold its 16 per cent stake in the club to three wealthy businessman. The Isle of Man investment firm’s chief Colin Kingsnorth confirmed he had completed a deal with Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor in order to halt Ashley’s Ibrox takeover. He also accused chairman David Somers of being a ‘wet fish’ and admitted his disillusionment with the ruling Ibrox regime after Norman Crighton, Laxey’s man on the board, decided to quit earlier this month. Mike Ashley's plans to take further control at Rangers have been stymied by SFA rules on dual interest
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Douglas Park, George Letham and George Taylor have paid £2.6million for three blocks of shares totalling 13.3million
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The chairman of Laxey Partners has urged the wider Rangers support to take on Mike Ashley
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Ashley's plans to increase his stake have been rebuffed by the SFA | 17,620 | record_train |
Research suggests it took 150 years for @placeholder's population to recover from the effects of the plague. | By Victoria Woollaston Researchers studying the skeletons of 14th century Londoners found life expectancy improved following the plague. Illustration by Kitty Shannon pictured The Black Death may have wiped out millions of people, but it also made the surviving residents of London healthier. Researchers studying the skeletons of 14th century Londoners found life expectancy improved in the generations following the great plague. And this may have been because the disease wiped out the weak and elderly, leaving only the strongest members of the population. Previous studies have shown the Black Death targeted elderly adults and the sick across Europe from around 1347 to 1351.
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Researchers sampled 600 skeletons taken from London cemeteries
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They estimated the ages of the deceased before modelling mortality risks
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Post-Black Death samples had a higher proportion of older adults
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This suggests survival rates may have improved following the epidemic
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Analysis also found mortality risks were lower in post-plague populations | 17,621 | record_train |
In a daring feat, a plane flies perilously close as plane passengers talk to railway passengers on the @placeholder, while both travel 90mph in March 1932 | Britain's most famous locomotive is celebrating its 80th anniversary since becoming the first ever train to travel at over 100mph. A stunning set of pictures of the Flying Scotsman have now been released to mark its world record breaking journey on November 30, 1934, as it travelled between Edinburgh and London. The London North and Eastern Railway, LNER, locomotive's speed hit triple digits on the downwards slope of Stoke Bank near Grantham, when it officially became the fastest train in the world. Scroll down for video On November 30, the 1934, the LNER locomotive hit the magic 100pmh speed on the downwards slope of Stoke Bank near Grantham (pictured) becoming the world's fastest train
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The famous locomotive broke the record to become the world's fastest locomotive on November 30, 1934
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It had been travelling between Edinburgh and London when its speed was recorded at 100mph
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The train was driven by William Sparshatt, 61, who is featured in the stunning set of photographs
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It later went onto to break another record in Australia for longest distance run by a steam train | 17,622 | record_train |
Paiva told @placeholder reporters there was widespread pushing between the two squads, and said: 'It was not just me. | FIFA has suspended Brazil's communications director Rodirgo Paiva from match-day duty for the remainder of the World Cup after he pushed Chile striker Mauricio Pinilla. Paiva claimed he only shoved the Chile substitute in self-defence when the teams were leaving the pitch at half-time during the last-16 tie. The Brazilian denied that he threw punches in Belo Horizonte on June 28 and he even accused the Chilean team of 'deplorable conduct'. Ouch? Mauricio Pinilla involved in FIFA investigation after claiming to be hit by Brazil's communications director Bad boy? Rodrigo Paiva has been accused of punching Pinilla at half-time of Saturday's Brazil vs Chile match
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Communication director Rodrigo Paiva pushed Chile striker Pinilla
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Paiva given four-match ban and fined £6,500 for the incident
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Chile forward claimed to have to been punched by Brazil's communications director Rodrigo Paiva at half-time of their World Cup last 16 match
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Incident was sparked after Brazil's Fred slapped Chile's Gary Medel
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Brazil won the game 3-2 on penalties after the match ended 1-1
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Pinilla was one of three Chile players to miss in the shootout | 17,623 | record_train |
After having completed their medical work the team was returning to @placeholder." | Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two aid workers killed in Afghanistan had a deep commitment to the country, and knew the risks associated with humanitarian work there, friends and family of the victims' said Saturday. The aid workers were said to be among 10 members of a medical team who were shot and killed Thursday by gunmen in Badakhshan, a remote northeastern region of the country. Among the dead were six Americans, two Afghans, a Briton and a German, said Dirk Frans, director of International Assistance Mission. He said two other Afghans on the team are alive. Aqa Nwor Kentoz, the police chief in the province, says the gunmen stopped the group on the road, took their belongings and shot them one by one. An Afghan was released because he was reciting excerpts from the Quran, Kentoz said.
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NEW: Two aid workers are identified by their friends and family
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NEW: They say aid workers knew risks but were devoted to Afghanistan
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Afghan police: 10 members of medical team killed in Badakhshan
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The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the killings | 17,624 | record_train |
When respondents to the survey were presented with a range of options from ‘Scottish, not British’ to ‘British, not Scottish’, the most popular choice was ‘equally Scottish and @placeholder’ (32 per cent) – its highest level since 1999. | By John Stevens And Gareth Rose A survey has found there has been a rekindling of a sense of British identity in Scotland - a blow to Alex Salmond, pictured, ahead of the Scottish independence referendum More people in Scotland are describing themselves as British - and fewer as Scottish - as the campaign for independence turns off voters. The Scottish Social Attitudes survey found that the number of people who say they are British has increased from 15 per cent in 2011 to 23 per cent, while those who say they are Scottish has dropped from 75 to 65 per cent.
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Survey finds number of people saying they are British has increased to 23%
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The Scottish Social Attitudes study revealed that the figure was 15% in 2011
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Those who describe themselves as Scottish has dropped from 75 to 65%
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Figures come five weeks before Scottish independence vote in September | 17,625 | record_train |
Yet any hopes @placeholder had of keeping England’s lead down to manageable proportions were quickly snatched away from them by another classy contribution from the young player at the forefront of England’s new era. | Alastair Cook will never have a better chance of scoring the century that eludes him but on another day of English domination the captain again fell short of the landmark that would complete his recovery from the darkest days of his career. When India shelled two dollies to reprieve Cook on the second day of the final Test it seemed certain the cricketing gods had decided The Kia Oval was a worthy stage for Cook to finally silence any remaining doubts about his form. VIDEO Scroll down for England's cricketers kept the pressure on India in the 5th test
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Root unbeaten on 92 and England captain Cook scored 79
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England reached 385-7 at stumps on second day, a lead of 237
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England lead 2-1 in the best of five-match series | 17,626 | record_train |
Room for improvement: @placeholder must rip up the coaching manual and start again as Germany did | So, Germany are on the verge of winning the World Cup and England didn’t progress beyond the group stage. It’s not great, is it? Especially when you think that England beat Germany 5-1 in 2001. I was in the team so I remember it well — Michael Owen’s hat-trick and the team coming together to play slick and clinical football. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Roy Hodgson talk about how he will continue leading England Slot: Emile Heskey scores to make it 5-1 to England against Germany after a Michael Owen hat-trick Celebrations: Sol Campbell (left), Steven Gerrard (centre) and Ashley Cole during the 5-1 win over Germany
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England beat Germany 5-1 in 2001 - they used that defeat to transform
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Roy Hodgson, England and the FA must do the same after 2014 World Cup
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Germany have 34,970 UEFA (Pro, A or B) licensed coaches compared to just 2,769 in England
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We need to get our priorities straight - the game starts at grassroots
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Youth development needs looking at because the national team is suffering
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Do this, and we'll be in the World Cup final in the future like Germany are
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They introduced more and better coaching. Ten years on from that 2001 defeat, England had 2,769 UEFA (Pro, A or B) licensed coaches compared to 34,970 in Germany. England need more coaches and more highly-qualified coaches working at all levels of the game.
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They made sure there was more game time for young players. Young players in German academies have roughly five times the game time that those in English academies have. The grass-roots game is where footballing greatness starts. We have to get our youth football right.
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They made sure there was a clearly defined route between the grassroots and the national game, so that good players were fast-tracked into the senior set-up. We need to make sure this is happening in England, too. A proper structure means we keep talented players in the game.
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They made sure they took responsibility for youth development and the future of the Germany team. It feels as if that task has been handed to club academies and centres of excellence in this country, which means there is not an England development programme but club development programmes. This is fine but it means the importance of winning games at a young age comes at the expense of developing technique and it means that if the clubs get it wrong, the England team suffer. The FA need to take more control.
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In Germany they sorted out what their footballing philosophy was. They were clear about what they wanted from players and how to achieve it. There needs to be an FA philosophy on how to develop players. What is the FA’s philosophy on the game? Most people think that a more technical, possession-based game has been lacking in English football. Are the FA addressing this? What is being done? The FA need to instill a football intelligence in young players and this needs to be reflected in every side from the first team to the Under 16s, so the players understand the England way of playing. | 17,627 | record_train |
In response to questions from CNN, @placeholder released this statement: "We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. | Chengdu, China (CNN) -- Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product. "Wow, I want it," said Chen, brushing her finger across the glossy screen with curiosity and amazement. The 18-year-old student from a village outside of the southern megacity of Chongqing is one of more than one million factory workers at a Chinese company that helps manufacture products for Apple Inc.'s lucrative global empire, which raked in a record $46.3 billion in sales last quarter. At a factory about an hour west of Sichuan's capital Chengdu, Foxconn Technology Group, one of Apple's biggest manufacturing partners. Foxconn employs hundreds of thousands who work day or night shifts, eating and sleeping at company facilities, as they help build electronics products for Apple and many other global brand names, such as Amazon's Kindle and Microsoft's Xbox.
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Rights groups accuse Foxconn, maker of Apple products, of a 'military like culture'
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Foxconn says it takes responsibility for 1.2 million Chinese workers 'very seriously'
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Apple: ' We insist that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity'
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Administration officials said they set up different numbers across the continent for citizens to communicate with Obama, whose father was from the east African nation of @placeholder. | (CNN) -- The text messages address various issues and come from all over the African continent. President Obama greets people Saturday during breakfast at Osu Castle in Accra, Ghana. From the personal: "Obama, as a young lady I dream of being the president. U r a huge encouragement." To cries for help: "Dear president, Darfur firing again...waiting for peace through the change u promised." To calls for intervention: "Encourage African leaders to improve the quality and access to education for citizens." The messages, from Ghana, Sudan and South Africa respectively, were among more than 5,000 sent to Barack Obama during his first visit as president to sub-Saharan Africa.
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More than 5,000 messages sent to Obama during his visit to Ghana
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Despite widespread poverty, Africa has a vibrant cell phone market
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Three African journalists from South Africa, Senegal, Kenya will vet questions
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Since his death, Osuna has been honored, with a statue erected and a tennis stadium in @placeholder named after him. | (CNN) -- When Mexican Airways Flight 704 crashed into the mountains near Monterrey on June 4, 1969, it claimed the lives of 79 people including a national hero and one of the greatest players to wield a tennis racket. He had carried the hopes of his country for a decade until his life was tragically cut short, just days after leading Mexico to an epic victory over all-conquering Australia in a Davis Cup tie, the crowning achievement of a remarkable career. He was a grand slam winner, a former world number one and one of the most innovative doubles players in the sport's history.
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Rafael Osuna is Mexico's greatest ever tennis player
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He was tragically killed in an air crash in 1969 aged just 30
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Osuna was the first player from Latin America to be World No. 1
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The decision to announce the pregnancy was made when it became apparent Catherine was not well enough to go on the @placeholder trip and that a number of other forthcoming engagements could be affected, a royal source told CNN. | Another royal baby is on the way. Britain's Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to become parents for a second time, Buckingham Palace announced Monday. "The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news," the palace said. It didn't say when the due date will be. As during her first pregnancy, Catherine is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, the palace said. The condition involves nausea and vomiting more severe than the typical morning sickness many women suffer during early pregnancy. She is being treated by doctors at Kensington Palace and didn't accompany Prince William on a planned visit Monday to Oxford.
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The baby will become fourth in line to the British throne
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"The Queen and members of both families are delighted with the news," the palace says
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As in her first pregnancy, Catherine is suffering from acute morning sickness
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British Prime Minister David Cameron says he is "delighted by the happy news" | 17,631 | record_train |
The extent of Suckley's close relationship with Roosevelt wasn't known until her death in 1991, when a stash of letters from @placeholder was found under her bed. | One of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's numerous rumored affairs will be revisited in the coming weeks with the release of 'Hyde Park on Hudson,' a film depicting the American president's quasi-incestual affair with his distant cousin, Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley. The film, opening December 7, stars Bill Murray as Roosevelt and Laura Linney as Miss Suckley. It takes place during the June 1939 weekend that the British king and queen visited Roosevelt at his upstate New York cottage in Hyde Park, where FDR was said to take a number of mistresses. FDR's affinity for the company of women was always well known and some historians dispute stories of his alleged affairs, saying his friendships never grew to become romances.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt allegedly carried on affairs with at least five women
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Lucy Mercer was Eleanor Roosevelt's social secretary
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Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley was Roosevelt's sixth cousin and close confidant
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Princess Martha of Sweden was forced to flee Scandinavia in 1941
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Dorothy Schiff was a former publisher of the New York Post
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Recalling the encounter, he said: 'He [@placeholder] acknowledged me, he asked me what my name was and extended his hand and shook my hand. | A guard who lost his job after taking a photo during a visit from President Obama has spoken out about being fired - saying it was 'unjust'. Kenneth Tate, 47, a security guard who worked at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, embarrassed the Secret Service and was thrown into a political firestorm last month - but has said all he wanted out of the encounter was a picture to show his 81-year-old mom. He was fired from his $42,000 job after getting too close to the President's security detail during a visit on September 16, and taking a picture of the assembled cars.
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Kenneth Tate, 47, was a security guard with the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia
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Was on duty when Obama visited - and met the President in an elevator
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Embarrassed the Secret Service when it emerged he was armed at the time
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Later that day he took a picture of Obama's motorcade to show his mom
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'But even @placeholder this morning he was having a meltdown and he’s "I’m missing daddy I’m missing daddy when’s daddy coming home?" | By Ryan Lipman When’s daddy coming home? That's the heartbreaking question asked by two young children to the Perth wife of Paul Weeks, who was on board MH370 when it mysteriously disappeared three weeks ago. Waiting 17 days for confirmation, 40-year old Danica Weeks received the worst news possible - her 39-year old husband was among the 239 killed when aircraft crashed into a remote area of the southern Indian Ocean and killed all on board. The couple have two young sons Lincoln, 3, and Jack, 11 months, and moved to Perth in 2011 following earthquakes in Mr Weeks' native New Zealand.
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Danica Weeks' husband Paul disappeared the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777
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She found out by a text message from Malaysia Airlines that her husband had likely been killed when the plane crashed in the Indian Ocean
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Her two young children have started to ask where their dad is
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Still waiting for confirmation on what happened on board MH370, Mrs Weeks said she will tell her sons the truth
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Mrs Weeks' sister in-law has criticised Malaysia Airlines for the way they have dealt with the disaster | 17,634 | record_train |
Previously, when users clicked the arrows button beneath a post they were given the option to Retweet, or @placeholder. | By Victoria Woollaston It won’t be long until Twitter and Facebook are virtually indistinguishable as the sites continue to borrow features from each other. The latest swap involves Twitter replacing its iconic 'Retweet' button with a Facebook-style share option. Twitter users began tweeting about the change last night, and many users were angry with how similar the sites are becoming. As part of the changes, the Retweet button has been replaced with 'Share with followers' and 'Quote Tweet' is now 'First add comment', pictured. It appears the change is being rolled out gradually. Twitter often experiments with new features but not all get a full release
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Twitter users started tweeting about the change last night
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The 'Retweet' option has been replaced with 'Share with followers'
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'Quote Tweet' has been replaced with 'First add comment'
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Many users criticised the change, accusing Twitter of copying Facebook
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The Hammers have failed to score in four of their last six Premier League games against @placeholder. | Ahead of this weekend's Premier League action, Sportsmail will be providing you with all you need to know about every fixture, with team news, provisional squads, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all the information you need for Sunderland's home clash with West Ham United... Sunderland vs West Ham United (Stadium of Light) Team news Sunderland Steven Fletcher could return to the Sunderland starting line-up for Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with West Ham at the Stadium of Light. Fletcher was an unused substitute in last week's goalless draw at Liverpool after limping off during the defeat to Manchester City with a back injury, but is fit to return.
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Sunderland host West Ham United at Stadium of Light on Saturday (3pm)
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Steven Fletcher could return to the Black Cats starting line-up
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Mark Noble is Sam Allardyce's only injury concern for Sunderland trip
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Adam Johnson has scored in two of last three games against West Ham | 17,636 | record_train |
The @placeholder website reported a huge surge in traffic when Pippa was seen with the bag for the first time and enjoyed a further spike when she carried it on her arm yesterday. | By Katy Winter PUBLISHED: 12:46 EST, 14 January 2014 | UPDATED: 13:36 EST, 16 January 2014 It has been written off many times, not least by designer Roland Mouret, but it seems that the 'Middleton effect' shows no sign of diminishing. This time, it was Pippa Middleton who proved the sell-out success after being spotted out shopping wearing the very same Alice boot by Seven Boot Lane and Aspinal clutch bag that she sported last week. But those who want to get their hands on a pair might not find it so easy: after pictures of the boots adorning her feet appeared last week, the shoes sold out in just 12 hours - along with the £795 bag.
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Wore £150 'Alice' boots by Seven Boot Lane for outings in Chelsea
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Inspectors said police were asked to address pupils and parents at one Derby primary after ‘a number of playground fights involving @placeholder pupils’. | Schools are struggling to cope with an influx of Roma children from Eastern Europe who arrive unable to speak English, Ofsted warned yesterday. Inspectors said schools were hampered by a lack of resources to meet the ‘wide-ranging needs’ of new arrivals who may never have experienced formal education. They said some pupils were unfamiliar with school routines and behaviour expectations. Many also needed intensive help to learn English but schools were struggling to find enough bilingual staff to teach them. Children playing in a Roma settlement in Bulgaria. Ofsted said they when children arrive in the UK from Eastern Europe language can be a major barrier to learning in schools
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Study into schools in three council areas: Derby, Manchester and Sheffield
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Ofsted found teachers do not have money or skills to support Roma pupils
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Smoking remains the largest cause of cancer which is why @placeholder is petitioning the government to bring in plain packaging of tobacco so children are less likely to be seduced by the sophisticated marketing techniques designed to make smoking attractive to youngsters.' | By Suzannah Hills and Claire Bates PUBLISHED: 21:02 EST, 14 May 2012 | UPDATED: 08:06 EST, 15 May 2012 Better prevention: Cancer death rates have dropped significantly thanks to better screening for different types of the disease such as breast cancer Cancer death rates in Britain have dropped to the lowest in 40 years thanks to more people quitting smoking and better screening. Tens of thousands of people are now beating the disease every year as the disease is caught earlier and patients receive treatment at earlier stages. Deaths rates for cancer sufferers aged between 50 and 59 have dropped 40 per cent from 310 for every 100,000 people in 1971 to 185 two years ago, according to Cancer Research UK.
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Someone in Britain is diagnosed with cancer every two minutes
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Since 1971 stomach cancer death rates dropped 83% in men while cervical cancer death rates dropped 80% in women | 17,639 | record_train |
She said the ‘collective’ that selected the colour ruled out red because it would be like all other @placeholder buses and they wanted ‘something different’. | It was unveiled as Labour’s latest vehicle for attracting women’s votes at the election. But Harriet Harman’s pink minibus immediately came under fire for being ‘patronising’ and ‘sexist’. The 16-seat van will tour Britain ahead of the election in what the party is calling its ‘Woman to Woman’ campaign. Scroll down for video Pink: Female Labour MPs will travel the country in a women's-only battle bus painted pink, it was revealed Miss Harman claimed the bus was ‘something new and something different’, which would encourage women who were ‘disillusioned’ by politics and create a ‘Domesday Book’ of women’s demands for politicians.
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Labour's deputy leader rejected accusations the party is 'patronising'
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Decision to choose bright pink van was ridiculed as an 'embarrassment'
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A Maryland Transportation Authority police officer was operating a stationary radar on southbound I-395 leaving Baltimore when a white 2014 @placeholder passed traveling at 84 mph in a 45-mph zone. | Legendary Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was arrested early Tuesday in Maryland on a DUI charge, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority. Phelps, known as the "Baltimore Bullet" and winner of 18 Olympic gold medals, was arrested at about 1:40 a.m. and charged with driving under the influence, excessive speed and crossing double lane lines within the Fort McHenry Tunnel on I-95 in Baltimore, the authority said in a statement. He was later released. Phelps, who returned to competitive swimming in April, said on his official Twitter account that he understands the severity of his actions.
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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps apologizes to people he "let down"
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22-time Olympic medalist is arrested on a DUI charge
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A Land Rover he was driving in Baltimore was stopped for speeding
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Phelps, 29, returned to swimming in April, about two years ahead of next Olympics | 17,641 | record_train |
"Imagine how @placeholder would react if you had a terrorist organization operating on your own soil that killed dozens and maimed hundreds every week. | Eight people were killed on Thursday in shootings and bombings across Iraq, police in Tikrit said. Two car bombs exploded in Tuz Khurmatu, an ethnically tense city in the northern province of Salaheddin, and killed three people. The bombs, which exploded in a Turkmen residential area, also wounded 27 people. The city also has significant Kurdish and Arab populations. Gunmen in Baghdad shot dead three people, Baghdad police said. Two men were shot and killed in the northern city of Mosul, police there said. Suicide bombings claim more lives in Iraq Violence has been on the upswing in Iraq since spring as tensions have grown, particularly between the country's Shiite majority and its Sunni minority. More than 6,000 people have been killed this year, including more than 350 this month.
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The incidents took place in Tuz Khurmatu, Baghdad and Mosul
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Iraq has been beset by violence in recent months
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PM Nuri al-Maliki is visiting the United States | 17,642 | record_train |
Put through his paces: New £30m signing @placeholder, left, sidesteps round a cone during a United drill | Louis van Gaal and his Manchester United players were in high spirits during the first training session of their US tour, as the Dutchman laughed and joked with Wayne Rooney while new signings Luke Shaw and Ander Herrera got to know their new team-mates. The United party travelled to the Stubhub Center on Saturday for their first run-out, with the players getting a chance to acclimatise themselves ahead of Wednesday's friendly against LA Galaxy. Van Gaal and Rooney appeared to be getting on particularly well, as the England striker was spotted laughing and grinning next to his new boss. VIDEO Scroll down to watch United in the US and hilarious cartoon of Van Gaal and Rooney
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United trained at the Stubhub Centre on Saturday ahead of their match against LA Galaxy on Wednesday
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Van Gaal named a 25-man squad for the pre-season tour, with United players involved in World Cup knockout stages allowed extended leave
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The former Holland coach laughed and joked with forward Rooney
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New signings Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw were put through their paces as they got to know their United team-mates
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Michael Carrick missed the trip after undergoing ankle surgery | 17,643 | record_train |
He's come to act as a sort of counselor to the many people he finds contemplating death along @placeholder's pathways. | Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and website based in Brooklyn, New York. VBS.TV is Vice's broadband television network. The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers. Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- At the foot of Mount Fuji, in the Chubu region of Japan, a lush and expansive forest named Aokigahara sits dauntingly. Local residents are told from an early age to avoid it altogether, as its sheer volume leaves little question that a curious youngster will be unable to find his or her way out of thickets that have become synonymous with a dark mythology.
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The Aokigahara Forest is Japan's most popular suicide destination
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Lush, expansive land is the final resting place for 50-100 people a year
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Geologist patrols the land, discovering bodies and counseling at-risk people | 17,644 | record_train |
His team collected blood samples, took photographs and found a number of 9mm shells at the site, but much of the evidence had been collected by @placeholder troops the day after the March 11 killings, he said. | Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington (CNN) -- For three weeks, security fears kept U.S. authorities from searching the Afghan village where an American soldier is accused of killing 16 Afghans, an Army investigator testified Wednesday. Local tempers were so high over the killings that it was too dangerous for the Americans to go, said Matthew Hoffman, a special agent with the Army Criminal Investigation Command. Negotiations with local leaders over the issue took 20 days -- and even then, the investigators were guarded by U.S. and Afghan troops and watched over by two U.S. helicopters, he said. "We were fully expecting to be attacked at any time," Hoffman said. "We didn't know how much time we had for our investigation."
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Army Sgt. Robert Bales is accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers
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It took nearly three weeks for U.S. agents to visit the site, an Army investigator says
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"We were fully expecting to be attacked at any time," he says
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Another investigator testified that steroids were found outside Bales' quarters | 17,645 | record_train |
The @placeholder hunt is one of the 20 case studies. | Senate Democrats are wrapping up their tenure in the majority by reigniting debate on some of the former President's most controversial policies with a long-delayed report on the use of torture - "enhanced interrogation techniques" - by the U.S. government. Six years into the Barack Obama's presidency, the Senate Intelligence Committee early next week is expected to release findings from its $50 million investigation of the Central Intelligence Agency's use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques on detainees in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Among the questions the report tackles: Did three detainees tortured under the program provide information that helped identify a courier who led the U.S. to find Osama bin Laden?
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Senate Democrats are set to release a long-delayed and much-anticipated review of American interrogation techniques
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The report will tackle the question of whether torture helped gain intelligence
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Republicans have pulled support from the report and will offer their own rebuttal | 17,646 | record_train |
Attacks in the area have picked up so drastically in recent months that the @placeholder has to reposition some of its fleet to deal with the threats, he said. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pirates in ships are searching for the lifeboat containing four pirates and their hostage -- the captain of a freighter they failed to hijack earlier this week -- according to a U.S. military official with knowledge of the situation. Capt. Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is being held by pirates on a lifeboat off Somalia. The pirates are using ships they have already hijacked and larger ships from which they are launching skiffs, the official said Friday. One of the pirated ships is the German cargo ship Hansa Stavanger, seized April 4 off the coast of Somalia.
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NEW: Shots fired in escape attempt, captain apparently tied up, military officials say
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Pirates using other hijacked ships to look for lifeboat as Navy ships arrive
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Captain's escape attempt viewed as "optimistic sign" of his vitality
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Richard Phillips, captain of a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, is being held by four gunmen | 17,647 | record_train |
The normally chaotic traffic scene was unusually serene hours before @placeholder's landing. | New Delhi (CNN)The leaders of India and the United States, testing the diplomatic extent of their personal friendship, said on Sunday they'd made progress on a deal allowing U.S. firms to cooperate on civilian nuclear power plants in India. U.S. companies are reluctant to construct nuclear plants in India if they aren't shielded from liability after accidents, an assurance Indian lawmakers have been unwilling to extend. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi stopped short of announcing a full-fledged deal but did say they'd moved forward on the issue. "This is an important step that shows how we can work together to elevate our relationship," Obama said during a press conference that came after bilateral talks with Modi.
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Obama hopes to capitalize on his relationship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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India and the United States have shared sometimes frosty relations
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The United States wants to ease India away from its use of Russian-produced military weapons | 17,648 | record_train |
When Paisley was 18 months old, White began writing a letter to Paisley, he shared with @placeholder, detailing his conflicted feelings about her birth and how he now loves her beyond words. | A father has revealed in a brutally honest interview how he came to love the daughter with Down Syndrome that he had tried to get his wife to abort. Heath White, a pilot-turned-FBI agent from Waskom, Texas, said that his five-year-old daughter Paisley - one of three children - is now 'the light in the darkness' and an inspiration to his family. But this was not his sentiment in 2007 when he learned his wife Jennifer was carrying a baby with Downs, which was totally at odds with his image of a perfect family. Speaking to ESPN, he explained that he had always aimed for perfection - playing for sports teams throughout college, achieving a 4.0, enrolling in law school before coming a pilot - and the girl threatened to ruin that.
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Heath White, a pilot and FBI agent, said he had always sought perfection - and a Down syndrome child did not fit into that picture
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A few months later, he was making her laugh and he realized she was just like every other child - apart from that she was his
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He wanted to show how proud he was of her so they began taking part in marathons and road races together | 17,649 | record_train |
Today had been predicted to be the coldest day of the year, with temperatures last night dropping to -12C in @placeholder. | By Anna Edwards PUBLISHED: 06:38 EST, 13 December 2012 | UPDATED: 11:30 EST, 13 December 2012 A thick sparkling frost coated much of the UK today, leaving many places cold but with a winter wonderland look. Rivers across the country had chunks of ice floating them as everywhere from Scarborough to Hampshire experienced bitterly cold conditions. Scotland in particular suffered, as snow dusted the north of the country and residents had to wrap up warm against the plummeting temperatures. But the festive appearance is about to melt away, as heavy rain and gale force winds are working their way from the Atlantic towards the UK.
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This is unfortunate as the vast majority of @placeholder are moderates who should not be tarred with the same brush as the extremist group. | (CNN) -- The beheadings of two American journalists and now a British aid worker have rightly prompted outrage around the world. Although ISIS only started to make international headlines this year, its rise has been years in the making. And it should not have taken anyone in the international community by surprise. For three years, the West did little more than pay lip service to the potential broader impact of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's brutal response to a peaceful civil revolt during the Arab Spring. His regime's war on its own people resulted in the militarization of the conflict, which in turn took on a sectarian dimension.
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Former Lebanese Prime Minster Fouad Siniora says ISIS rise should not have been a surprise
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ISIS claims to be championing Sunnis but does not represent Islam, Siniora says
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‘In the second half of extra-time @placeholder had less legs. | After a difficult encounter with Switzerland, Javier Mascherano does not deny that Argentina need to improve if they are going to progress beyond their quarter-final encounter with Belgium. ‘The moment of truth has arrived,’ said the Barcelona and former Liverpool midfielder. ‘Now we have to maintain the level and get rid of the mistakes.’ Had Switzerland been more clinical in front of goal, Argentina could already be out of this World Cup. But they survived the many opportunities the Swiss had, securing victory and their passage to the last eight with a goal from Angel Di Maria only two minutes before the end of extra time.
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Argentina midfielder says 'moment of truth has arrived' as they prepare to face Belgium
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Mascherano and his team-mates struggled to get past Switzerland in last-16
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"We're just in shock that (@placeholder) actually did not get this done," he told CNN. | (CNN) -- Neil Bolen has worked as a civil engineer with the Federal Aviation Administration for the past 24 years, designing air traffic control radar systems that help keep America moving. Now he's got a message for Congress: Get moving on a plan to save his job. Bolen, a 48-year-old father of two from the Atlanta area, is one of thousands of Americans with ties to the aviation industry who are suddenly finding themselves out of work this summer because of Congress's failure to pass routine legislation keeping the FAA funded. The House and Senate have gone on vacation, leaving Bolen on furlough.
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4,000 aviation workers are being furloughed because Congress hasn't approved FAA funding
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The @placeholder government ruled Afghanistan -- and gave safe harbor to al Qaeda terrorist training camps -- from the mid-1990s until 2001. | (CNN) -- Rarely seen by outsiders, the daily life of a regional Taliban commander named Dawran and his militant fighters is dominated by extremes: love and war, attack and retreat, life and death. For nine days in October 2009, Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal was behind the lines with the Taliban, embedded as no Western filmmaker before him. And he was there to witness firsthand the jarring juxtapositions in Dawran's life, at turns -- directing an attack against U.S. forces in Afghanistan's treacherous mountains -- then hours later at home, a father playing with his children. To capture these intimate and unprecedented images, Refsdal risked his life to embed with Dawran and his fighters in Kunar Province -- the northeastern region where al Qaeda is active and Osama bin Laden was once rumored to be hiding.
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Norwegian journalist Paul Refsdal embedded with the Taliban last year to capture daily life
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Rarely seen by outsiders, he saw plans for attacks as well as a home life of the Taliban
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It's hard to figure out what to call what has happened to Bo, who has been demoted but not detained and retains membership in the @placeholder. | (CNN) -- A year ago, Bo Xilai was one of the most powerful and talked-about politicians in China. He was a member of China's ruling body, the Politburo, and he seemed to have a shot at gaining a seat on the key decision-making unit within it, the Standing Committee. But on March 15, he was removed from his post as the party secretary of Chongqing. Today, he's still one of the most-talked about men in China, not for how far he'll rise but for how far he's destined to fall. Charismatic and determined, Bo was primarily known for launching bold initiatives, such as encouraging the mass singing of "red songs" (revolutionary anthems from the days of Chairman Mao Zedong) and pushing for high-profile drives to rid his inland, south-central city of organized crime.
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Bo Xilai, once a powerful politician in China, was removed from his post in March
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Bo's story is intriguing -- was it power struggle or did he flout law?
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Wasserstrom: Factional politics indicate Communist Party is not as unified as it seems | 17,655 | record_train |
So far, 84,444 samples have been taken, 47,801 have been tested and 39 samples confirmed as @placeholder positive. | Hong Kong (CNN) -- China has one of the oldest food cultures in the world and, like that acme of Western food culture French cuisine, the food needs to be fresh. At Sei Wui, a remote town in western Guangdong Province, a live goose will cost you little more than $US3 a bird. "They're 18 kwai a piece," said one market trader, using the Chinese vernacular for the renminbi, China's currency, and pointing to her gaggle of geese honking furiously at one end of a bamboo pen. "Buy it now and they'll cook it for you," she added, pointing down the road to a small stall doing a brisk business serving a lunchtime crowd of pavement diners.
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Chinese cuisine demands that food be as fresh as possible
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fearsome barrage, so the three @placeholder were sent on a ‘battle damage | By Ian Drury PUBLISHED: 08:00 EST, 23 October 2013 | UPDATED: 02:06 EST, 24 October 2013 A Royal Marine sergeant was caught on camera ‘executing’ a severely injured Taliban prisoner before telling his comrades: ‘I’ve just broken the Geneva Convention,’ a court martial heard yesterday. As the insurgent lay stricken with horrendous wounds from a helicopter strike, the 37-year-old commando pointed his 9mm pistol at the man’s chest and pulled the trigger. Footage of the alleged cold-blooded killing in an Afghan cornfield was captured in graphic video inadvertently filmed by one of the Marines on a helmet-mounted camera.
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Serviceman, known as Marine A, 'shot the man in the chest with a pistol'
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Commando stands accused alongside two other servicemen
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Court heard marine shot man in chest at close range with a 9mm pistol
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@placeholder (centre) speaks with his team-mates during a drill at Chelsea's Cobham training ground on Tuesday | Chelsea players looked focused and determined as they trained ahead of their Champions League tie with Maribor in Slovenia. Jose Mourinho's men sit top of Group G on seven points, two clear of Schalke and five ahead of their opponents. But the players did not look like they were taking the game lightly as they performed sprint drills and tactical exercises at Cobham ahead of the match at Ljudski Vrt. Diego Costa (centre) and his Chelsea team-mates look on as Branislav Ivanovic (right) sprints in training Captain John Terry (centre) chat to Willian and his team-mates in training ahead of the Maribor clash
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Maribor host Chelsea at Ljudski Vrt in Champions League on Wednesday
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Oscar, John Terry and Diego Costa all trained ahead of the clash
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Players went through sprint drills and tactical sessions ahead of game
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Jose Mourinho failed to crack smile following dig at Chelsea's home crowd
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Mourinho said it felt like 'an empty stadium' during 2-1 win over QPR
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I think @placeholder changed the date, but I don't think that's why. | (CNN) -- Lisa Kudrow is notably normal compared with the kooky roles she's known for playing. Whether it's her 10-season stint as Phoebe Buffay or the fame-starved Valerie Cherish on just one season of "The Comeback," the actress admits a fondness for delusional characters. Since "Friends" ended in 2004, Kudrow has developed and appeared in several other shows, and become a producer and writer of her own projects, including "Web Therapy," in which she plays self-obsessed Internet therapist Fiona Wallace. The Showtime series enters its third season on Tuesday, July 23. The new episodes take place solely in online video Skype chats, and will feature a slew of new guest stars, including Steve Carell, Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal and Matt LeBlanc, as Fiona grapples with the ramifications of last season's finale.
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"Web Therapy" and "Who Do You Think You Are?" return this week
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Kudrow finds some of her delusional characters the funniest to play
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The actress says there won't be a "Friends" movie | 17,659 | record_train |
"The fight against racism is a high priority for @placeholder ... All forms of racist behavior are considered serious offenses against the disciplinary regulations and are punished with the most severe sanctions." | (CNN) -- CSKA Moscow will play its next home European Champions League match with part of its stadium closed as punishment for racism offenses. Manchester City complained its players had been subjected to "monkey chants" during a match against CSKA at the Arena Khimki on October 23. European football's governing body UEFA announced the sanction on Wednesday, warning CSKA that further incidents of racism would results in graver punishments. "The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body has handed down sanctions to CSKA Moscow following incidents during their UEFA Champions League home game against Manchester City," read a UEFA statement. "Specifically, the Control and Disciplinary Body has decided to close sector D of the stadium during the club's next UEFA competition home match.
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UEFA punish CSKA Moscow for racism offenses
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The Russian club will play its next Champions League game with part of the stadium closed
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I've alerted @placeholder's team and hopefully we can rearrange it but we don't know the extent of Anthony's injuries. | British boxer Anthony Crolla has been taken to hospital with a serious head injury and a broken ankle after an altercation with two intruders on Tuesday night. The Manchester lightweight was hit over the head with a concrete slab after he heard the burglars next door to his house in Chadderton. Crolla, 28, was taken to Royal Oldham Hospital where he is stable and awaiting a scan. Anthony Crolla (left) is in hospital after suffering injuries in an altercation with a burglar THOMAS STALKER: Gutted for @ant_crolla tonight it just doesn't shock me at all at this day in age, get well soon m8!
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Anthony Crolla was injured after confronting two intruders
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The boxer was hit over the head with a concrete slab
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He also suffered a broken ankle after giving chase
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The Manchester lightweight is stable in hospital
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Crolla's world title fight against Richar Abril in January is off | 17,661 | record_train |
She was then told by @placeholder that she was a 'sweet girl' before he led her out of her office. | Nafees Hamid, an award-winning neurosurgeon, has been jailed for 16 years for nine charges of sexual assault on six patients at Birmingham hospitals An award-winning neurosurgeon indecently assaulted six of his female patients while working at two hospitals and has been jailed for 16 years for the attacks. Nafees Hamid, a spinal surgery specialist, abused his trusted status to commit the assaults on women - some of whom were vulnerable - while working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth and Priory hospitals. The 51-year-old consultant was described during his two month trial at Birmingham Crown Court as 'a good surgeon but not a good man.'
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Nafees Hamid was an award winning neurosurgeon working in Birmingham
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The 51-year-old abused his position of trust to sexually assault six women
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Hamid carried out intimate medical examinations, without gloves, that were deemed medically unjustified and sometimes were on vulnerable women
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He was jailed for 16 years for 9 charges of sexual assault carried out at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and city's private Priory Hospital
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Judge Patrick Thomas said intelligent surgeon was 'brought low by lust'
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Police praised bravery of woman who reported him, triggering investigation
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The rankings coincide with a report yesterday by the Migration Observatory which examined changes to @placeholder's make-up over the past 20 years. | Just one district in Britain has seen its proportion of migrants fall in the last decade. The percentage of the population from abroad in Dorset's Isle of Purbeck - a rural peninsula near Poole - was 0.9 per cent lower in 2011 than in 2001, despite rising everywhere else. In some parts of the country the proportion of migrants in the general population doubled, the report found, and in two areas it more than tripled, according to an Oxford University report. Rural: Dorset's Isle of Purbeck features Corfe Castle (pictured), retirement cottages, holiday homes... and the status of the only district in Britain where the proportion of migrants fell between 2001 and 2011
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Figures revealed in study by Migration Observatory at Oxford University
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Rural district gained eight migrants in decade, but population rose faster
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In every other area the proportion of migrants in general population rose
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Boston, Lincolnshire, had a 389% increase - from 3% to 15% of total
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Purbeck has many second homes and summer jobs, putting workers off | 17,663 | record_train |
Mario Balotelli has scored just one Premier League goal since joining @placeholder | Move over Mario Balotelli. The Premier League has a new bad boy. Eljero Elia completed a loan move to Southampton from Werder Bremen on Tuesday, but in Germany they are simply glad to see the back of him. Despite his obvious talent, the Dutch winger has disappointed in his two spells as a Bundesliga player. Like Liverpool's controversial frontman Balotelli, Elia is more accustomed to grabbing headlines for his misdemeanours off the pitch, rather than his achievements on it. The winger first came to the Bundesliga when he joined Hamburg in 2009. After two years of failing to live up to expectations, the Dutchman left the club in 2011 under a cloud of controversy.
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Eljero Elia will join Southampton from Werder Bremen in January
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Elia has a bad boy reputation after a turbulent time in Germany
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The winger has been fined Hamburg and caught speeding in the past
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27-year-old seems to be on similar path to Mario Balotelli | 17,664 | record_train |
Roche would be the first female winner of the @placeholder | Stephanie Roche has spoken of her pride after being nominated alongside two of the world's most high-profile players for FIFA's goal of the year. The Republic of Ireland women's international's stunning volley for Peamount United against Wexford in October 2013 has made a shortlist of three for the Puskas Award at the FIFA Ballon d'Or ceremony. Her brilliant effort will be up against two goals from the World Cup in Brazil - James Rodriguez's fine volley for Colombia against Uruguay and Robin van Persie's diving header in Holland's defeat of Spain. Stephanie Roche controls the ball as she shields off a defender during the game in 2013
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Stephanie Roche scored a stunning volley for Peamount United in 2013
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The Republic of Ireland women's international has made a shortlist of three for the Puskas Award at the FIFA Ballon d'Or ceremony
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Her brilliant effort will be up against two goals from the World Cup
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James Rodriguez's fine volley for Colombia against Uruguay and Robin van Persie's diving header in Holland's defeat of Spain
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Roche will discover if she has won at a ceremony in Zurich on January 12 | 17,665 | record_train |
The @placeholder press is unsurprisingly dominated by the news of Antonio Conte taking over the Italian national team. | Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is the favourite to see off Arjen Robben and Manuel Neuer for the UEFA Best Player in Europe award, according to Spanish paper AS. The daily publication splash with a huge cheesy picture of the 29-year-old, who lead Real to victory in the Super Cup against Sevilla this week. Meanwhile, Marca also praise the La Liga giants. Favourite: Cristiano Ronaldo will go up against Arjen Robben and Manuel Neuer for the UEFA Award Reasons to be cheerful: Marca praise Real Madrid's new Galacticos while Mundo Deportivo watch Luis Suarez They claim Carlo Ancelotti possess an XI that the rest of the league will ency.
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Cristiano Ronaldo will go for award against Robben and Neuer
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Real Madrid a team to be envied this season according to Marca
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@placeholder groups have begun lining up behind her possible candidacy in 2016. | Washington (CNN) -- Even though it was Republican party leaders meeting in Washington this week, Hillary Clinton might as well have been there. Does Obama secretly support Hillary Clinton for 2016? In the halls between Republican National Committee meetings, the former secretary of state's name came up in conversation regularly. At a rules committee meeting on Thursday night, Clinton -- the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 -- was referred to as "she who should not be named." And at the powwow's most-watched events, Republicans pledged a laser-like focus on winning back the White House in 2016.
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An RNC committe referred to Hillary Clinton as "she who should not be named"
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RNC member: "It is a party of one giant and a bunch of elves" who might challenge her
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In a recent poll, 65% of Democrats said Clinton would be their choice for 2016
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S.C. GOP chair: "We are doing everything we can do to define her early" | 17,667 | record_train |
It is the first time since 1938 that @placeholder have lost a World Cup semi-final, they had progressed in their previous six. | Germany's 7-1 humiliation of hosts Brazil in the semi-finals of the World Cup had statisticians rewriting history practically every time Joachim Low's side touched the ball. Brazil's dreams of winning the tournament in their home country were effectively ended by a first-half masterclass that saw the Germans score five goals in the opening 29minutes - the fastest time it has ever taken a team to reach that figure in World Cup history. But, that wasn't the only record to fall on an astonishing night in Belo Horizonte... VIDEO Scroll down for German fans celebrate their 7-1 victory over hosts Brazil
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Germany defeated Brazil 7-1 in the semi-finals of the World Cup
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The unexpected result broken numerous World Cup records
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This was the joint worse defeat in the history of Brazilian football
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Miroslav Klose's goal made him the tournament's all-time leading scorer | 17,668 | record_train |
The faceoff was equal parts an ideological fight over the merits of @placeholder and a foreshadowing of how that policy will influence high-stakes political races. | Washington (CNN) -- Bettina Cox battled cervical cancer in 2012. A year later, the Texas native feels that narrowly qualifying for a Medicaid-sponsored program for low-income and uninsured female cancer patients saved her life. She now wants her governor and state legislature to support an expansion of Medicaid -- part of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act -- that she feels could save the lives of thousands of other women in her state by helping them detect diseases much earlier. But if Texas lawmakers have their way -- as well as governors and legislatures in Florida, South Carolina and nearly a dozen other states -- low-income Americans like Cox may not have expanded access to funds needed for such procedures. Those states feel the expansion is an unnecessary government overreach at a time when spending should be limited, not expanded.
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Half of states will expand Medicaid under Obamacare; half refuse or are on the fence
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Low-income citizens and their advocates say Medicaid expansion necessary
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States like Texas, Florida say a Medicaid expansion is costly and will fail
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Led into the dock in front of a packed press bench, Hall was asked by the clerk of the court to identify himself as @placeholder and he replied: 'Yes, I am.' | By Harriet Arkell Trial: Former BBC star Stuart Hall, 84, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, today admitted one charge of indecently assaulting a girl under 16 Veteran broadcaster Stuart Hall has pleaded guilty to one charge of indecent assault on a girl under 16 ahead of his trial for a string of sex assaults. The 84-year-old stood in the dock at Preston Crown Court and replied 'Guilty' when asked how he pleaded to the offence, which took place between 26 January 1978 and 1 January 1979 He will now go on trial later today accused of raping and indecently assaulting two young girls.
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TV presenter pleads guilty to one charge of indecently assaulting child
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Indictment, Count 21, was added to the charge sheet in court this morning
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Admission comes on first day of trial at Preston Crown Court in Lancashire
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Hall, 84, of Wilmslow, Cheshire, is accused of sex attacks on two girls
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He's charged with 20 counts of rape or indecent assault in 1970s and 1980s
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Now former It's A Knockout host will be tried for the remaining 20 counts
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It is not yet clear whether any other branch of the @placeholder military or government might have been operating a drone in the area. | Iran's navy has captured what it says is a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf. However, a U.S. defense official, who could not be named because the official was not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN that whatever the Iranians claim to have, it is not an actively operating U.S. Navy drone. Read more: A dangerous new world of drones "The U.S. Navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles (UAV) operating in the Middle East region. Our operations in the Gulf are confined to internationally recognized water and air space," the source said. The internationally recognized territorial limit is 12 nautical miles off the coast.
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The U.S. Navy has accounted for all its drones, a U.S. defense official says
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United States operates only in internationally recognized air space in the Gulf, says source
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The drone was seized as it flew over the Persian Gulf, Iranian state media says
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard says the drone was collecting data | 17,671 | record_train |
The company's office in @placeholder is believed to have closed, and the website is no longer active. | A dream 50th birthday trip to New York for 15 life-long school friends into a nightmare after they lost £11,000 when her travel agent went bust. Organiser Mandy Weston, 50, saved for three years to go to New York with her friends to have a joint birthday celebration. But she was left seething when Kent-based Blue Skies Travel (UK) Ltd went into liquidation - and the Big Apple trip looked doomed. The 15 friends eventually made their trip to New York, but only after being loaned the money by a friend The trip to New York was supposed to be a 50th birthday celebration between friends - but the travel company 'lost' their money causing stress and worry
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Mandy Weston had booked trip with friends to celebrate turning 50
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Blue Skies Travel (UK) Ltd went into liquidation and trip looked doomed
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The group were able to fly out thanks to generous loan from a friend
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Believed Blue Skies Travel (UK) Ltd owes around £415,000 to customers | 17,672 | record_train |
'He thinks that in @placeholder it is more intense with the fans playing a big role, whereas in Spain it is easier to play because the intensity is not so high and the pressure is lower. | Swansea's new striker Nelson Oliveira has revealed how Portugal team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo influenced his move to the Barclays Premier League. And Oliveira hopes his loan switch from Benfica ends up with him celebrating a special moment against the 'Special One' on Saturday when Jose Mourinho's Chelsea visit the Liberty Stadium. Oliveira has won 14 caps for Portugal but his club career has never really got off the ground in Lisbon and the last two seasons has seen him loaned out to Deportivo La Coruna in Spain and Rennes in France. Portugal international Nelson Oliveira wants to get one over on his compatriot Jose Mourinho on Saturday
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Nelson Oliveira could ease Swansea's striker woes after Wilfried Bony exit
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The Portugal man was advised by Cristiano Ronaldo to move to England
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Until we make it right for you," @placeholder told Colorado residents. | (CNN) -- [Breaking news alert, 9:12 a.m. ET Tuesday] A 46-year-old Colorado man who had been presumed dead in the aftermath of the Colorado flooding has been found alive, authorities said Tuesday. The man says he managed to climb out of a window before his home was swept away by floodwaters, authorities said. [Previously published story] The body of a 79-year-old woman was found this past weekend in the aftermath of the Colorado flooding, Larimer County authorities said Monday. The body of Evelyn Starner, of Cedar Cove, was discovered on a bank of the Big Thompson River, the sheriff's office said.
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Man found alive after being presumed dead
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Authorities in Larimer County say 79-year-old woman was found dead this weekend
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Vice President Biden promises federal help will continue
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'We thought we were using the @placeholder for a good fortnight and there was nothing to suggest it had disconnected. | A father was hit with a £1,792 bill after his 10-year-old daughter downloaded 28 hours of videos - about loom bands. Trinity Groves watched hundreds of the tutorials over two weeks on her Nokia phone after the family's home Wi-Fi stopped working But her father, Philip, 35, was unaware his daughter had instead been using Vodafone's premium rates for the internet in order to access Youtube videos. Trinity had watched 28 hours worth of online videos on how to make loom bands so she could impress her friends at school. Scroll down for video Trinity Groves watched hundreds of the tutorials over two weeks on her Nokia phone after the family's home Wi-Fi stopped working
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Trinity Groves watched hundreds of tutorials over two weeks on her phone
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But unbeknown to them, the family's WiFi had stopped working at home
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Trinity had instead been using premium Vodafone internet rates for YouTube
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Her father Philip fears he may have to sell his work van to pay the bill | 17,675 | record_train |
@placeholder's Socialist left have never been so strong politically: They control the presidency, the government, both houses of parliament, the regions, and all the big towns and cities. | (CNN) -- France is the fifth richest country in the world. It is the world's sixth largest exporter. It has the second largest diplomatic network in the world, after the US. It is a member of the UN Security Council. It is the most visited country in the world, welcoming 82 million visitors last year. It is a major nuclear power. It is the true founder of the European Union. And it is in a terrible mess. Socialist Francois Hollande was elected president almost a year ago, ousting the deeply unpopular "Mr Bling," President Nicolas Sarkozy. Read more: Francois Hollande - Fast Facts
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French President Francois Hollande and the country's Socialists are in a strong position
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Despite this, Hollande has made little progress since his election, says John Gaffney
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Gaffney: Hollande "like a stunned bunny in the headlights" of economic reality
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Messi,who began the night level with @placeholder, required 38 minutes to break the record before adding a couple more for good measure later on. | (CNN) -- Another day, another record broken. Lionel Messi must sometimes wonder what all the fuss is about but to those in the outside world who remain permanently entranced by the genius contained within his feet, it was another opportunity to unleash a barrage of superlatives towards a football phenomenon. Just days after breaking the record for the top scorer in Spanish football history, Messi went one further, establishing himself as the leading marksman in the history of the European Champions League. Messi scored a hat-trick for Barcelona in its 4-0 victory against Apoel Nicosia in Cyprus on Wednesday to take his tally to 74 goals in 91 appearances.
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Lionel Messi becomes top scorer in Champions League history
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Barcelona star scores hat-trick against Apoel Nicosia
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Messi broke the previous 71-goal record held by Raul
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Luis Suarez scores first goal for Barcelona | 17,677 | record_train |
When the tearful @placeholder hit the TV news cycle, many people were heartbroken watching her. | (CNN) -- Hair in the black community is like a religion, resplendent with ritual, devotion, mythology, metaphor, plenty of pomp and circumstance. Black hair arguably is one of the quickest indicators of ethnicity, ethos and sometimes, politics. This past week, two very different children found their very different "ethnic" hairstyles in the spotlight on two very different political stages. Dante de Blasio, the son of New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, is a typical nerdy, smart, shy 16-year-old Brooklyn boy. He has delighted New Yorkers, late-night satirists and America with his charm and awesome afro. When the Big Apple's primary election was held, it garnered national attention at first largely because of the high-profile and high-drama candidate Anthony Weiner. Yet, when it came to the TV campaign ads, liberal Bill de Blasio stole the show.
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Michaela Davis: Two very different children found their hair in the spotlight this past week
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Davis: While Dante de Blasio's afro won hearts, Tiana Parker's dreadlocks got criticized
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She says the "otherness" of black hair is a reminder that there is still bias to overcome
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Davis: Let's hope one day black hairstyles won't trigger powerful emotions or suspicions | 17,678 | record_train |
@placeholder earlier testified he learned of a demand for $25 million, or "stories connected to that document would be sold to the press ... | (CNN) -- A paramedic accused of plotting to extort $25 million from actor John Travolta after his 16-year-old son died in the Bahamas told a jury Wednesday the boy had been dead for some time before the ambulance service was called. John Travolta's 16-year-old son, Jett, died in the Bahamas in January after having a seizure. Tarino Lightbourn said in his statement to the Nassau, Bahamas, jury that a doctor told medics to keep administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Jett Travolta despite knowing the teen was dead, and that the ambulance company was told to transport him to the hospital -- something not usually done if a person was already dead.
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Paramedic on trial, accused of plotting to extort $25 million from John Travolta
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Tarino Lightbourn testifies Jett Travolta had been dead before help was summoned
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In Bahamas, defendants can make statement without being under oath
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Right-wing @placeholder insist there is no documentary proof that the Japanese state or its military were involved in the system and reject official guilt. | Japan's crown prince has warned in a rare public statement that his country must remember World War II 'correctly'. The unusual intervention comes as politicians fight to downplay the country's historic war crimes, which include sex slavery, torture and mass killings. Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, believes Japan should tell twentieth-century history more sympathetically. Japan's crown prince Naruhito is pictured during a state visit to Neuchatel, Switzerland, on June 19 last year Historians agree that up to 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II. The women are thought to be predominantly from Korea.
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Crown prince Naruhito said people must remember miserable experience
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Rare public statement contradicts Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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@placeholder (right) takes a long-range shot as the Manchester City striker searches for a first goal in 2015 | CLICK HERE to read Rob Draper's full match report from Stamford Bridge Having scored 19 goals before injuring his knee against Everton on December 6, Sergio Aguero hasn't looked quite the same player since his comeback, to the obvious detriment of Manchester City's Premier League title hopes. His work in around the penalty area was sharp enough against Chelsea but the most important bit - putting the ball in the back of the net - eldued him once again. The Argentine, an unstoppable force before he limped off in tears clutching his knee at The Etihad nearly two months ago, hasn't scored in any of the four games he's played since his return, and he had good chances to give City a victory their overall performance deserved.
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Chelsea drew 1-1 with Manchester City in their Premier League clash
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Loic Remy opened the scoring in place of suspended Diego Costa
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Meanwhile, the case of another former Air Force training instructor has been referred to a general court-martial, according to an @placeholder statement issued Friday evening. | By Associated Press PUBLISHED: 00:02 EST, 21 July 2012 | UPDATED: 09:15 EST, 21 July 2012 An Air Force instructor implicated in a sweeping sex scandal at one of the nation's busiest military training bases was convicted in military court Friday of raping one female recruit and sexually assaulting several others. Staff Sgt. Luis Walker, the first Lackland Air Force Base instructor to stand trial in the scandal, was found guilty by a jury of seven military personnel on all 28 counts he faced, including rape, aggravated sexual contact and multiple counts of aggravated sexual assault. The jury deleted a clause from two counts that accused Walker of making flirtatious and lewd comments to trainees. However, it upheld the overall counts containing the deleted clauses, which accused him of trying to cultivate a sexual relationship with two trainees.
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Lackland Air Force Base instructor Luis Walker found guilty on all 28 counts
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South Korea, which has welcomed @placeholder for the past four years, has struggled financially and has lost out this time around. | (CNN) -- The 2014 Formula One calendar has been revealed -- and there's no space for New Jersey, Mexico or South Korea. All three Grands Prix have been axed despite being listed on the provisional calendar in September. It is the second time that the New Jersey race has been postponed, while Mexico is expected to host its first race since 1992 in two years time. The new set up will see the return of F1 in Austria for the first time in 12 years, while Russia will welcome the sport's top stars to Sochi in October. The 2014 season starts in Melbourne, Australia on 16 March and ends in Abu Dhabi on 23 November.
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New Jersey, Mexico and South Korea dropped from 2014 Formula One calendar
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New season starts in Melbourne on March 16
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We've made arrangements for @placeholder to travel back to Australia at an appropriate time. | By Aap Sally Pearson’s renowned tunnel vision has delivered a scintillating run at the Commonwealth Games, a day after an explosive attack on her that led to Australia’s athletics coach being sent home. Eric Hollingsworth was booted from the Games after claiming Pearson had set a 'bad example' to teammates by skipping a pre-Games camp. The Olympic champion let her feet do the talking this morning, clocking 12.69 seconds to smash her rivals in her 100m hurdles heat. 'It was so good, I’ve been so stressed,' Pearson said afterwards. Victory: Sally Pearson won the Women's 100m Hurdles during the Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow, Scotland, after a turbulent few days
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Australian athlete won gold at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
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Yesterday consumer groups expressed fears that taxpayers could lose out if the branches, along with 1.8million personal and small business customers, are offloaded to @placeholder. | Eying a bargain: Sir Richard Branson Sir Richard Branson wants to buy 316 branches from Royal Bank of Scotland – but at a knockdown price thought to be around £1billion less than was previously on the table. The entrepreneur’s Virgin Money has had informal contact with RBS about a possible purchase after the deal to sell the branches to Santander collapsed on Friday. Sources said Virgin Money, which tabled a bid in 2010 but lost out to the Spanish bank, would be ‘very interested if the price is right’. It is thought the Branson company has a price tag of around £650million in mind, far less than the £1.65billion Santander had been willing to pay and only half the ‘book value’ RBS places on the business.
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Billionaire's Virgin Money thought to have £650million budget for bid
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@placeholder also said that he has been told to not put specific case-identifying information into internal e-mails. | An employee of the Florida State Attorney's Office who testified that prosecutors withheld evidence from George Zimmerman's defense team has been fired. Ben Kruidbos had been on paid administrative leave since May 28 from his job as director of information technology for the State Attorney's Office. A spokeswoman for Fourth Judicial Circuit State Attorney Angela Corey said Kruidbos was no longer an employee of the office. Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, is on trial in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year. Kruidbos testified before Zimmerman's trial began that Martin's cell phone contained images of Martin blowing smoke, images of marijuana and deleted text messages regarding a transaction for a firearm and that those images had not been given to Zimmerman's defense team.
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State worker Ben Kruidbos had been on paid leave since May 28
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He testified in a pretrial hearing that the defense had not been given all of the evidence
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You need a paternity test: Emilio also told TMZ.com that @placeholder might not be the father of Snooki's baby | By Sarah Bull UPDATED: 09:40 EST, 5 March 2012 They had a less than amicable break-up after he was accused of cheating on her. But their past doesn't make Snooki's ex-boyfriend Emilio Masella's statement that he hopes she has a miscarriage any less shocking. Masella, who split from Jersey Shore star Snooki in April 2010, made the horrifying admission to TMZ.com. 'I hope you have a miscarriage': Snooki's ex-boyfriend Emilio Masella made this shocking admission to TMZ.com He told the website: 'I hope for her sake ... not to be rude or anything ... but I hope she has a miscarriage.'
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Meanwhile, source claims Snooki and Jionni are now engaged | 17,687 | record_train |
The juror gave an exclusive interview to CNN's Anderson Cooper this week and said the jury felt like it knew @placeholder but didn't know enough about Martin. | (CNN) -- Trayvon Martin's father, Tracy, said Thursday it was difficult to listen to testimony about his son, particularly the negative comments, during George Zimmerman's trial. "That wasn't the Trayvon that we raised. That wasn't the Trayvon that we knew, and that we love," he said during a Thursday night interview on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." Still, Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, said that she felt the need to sit through every day of Zimmerman's trial because her son was "not here to say anything for himself." She said that she wanted to "show a face" for her son. Martin's parents spoke out Thursday for the first time since Zimmerman was acquitted in the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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Verdict came as a "complete shock," Martin's mother says
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"Does the system work? It didn't work for us," says Martin's father
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The parents did not say whether they may file a civil lawsuit | 17,688 | record_train |
Read more: In rebuke to @placeholder, Pakistan college named for Malala | (CNN) -- Pakistani police say they suspect two boys of nearly killing a Pakistani teenage girl internationally famous for campaigning for girls' education. On October 9, Malala Yousufzai was on her school van in the Taliban-held Swat Valley when armed thugs stopped the vehicle and jumped on board. They demanded that other girls riding identify 15-year-old Malala. Then they shot two girls and fired at Malala, striking her in the head and neck. Profile: Global symbol, but still just a kid At the time, Malala was well-known in Pakistan, and her profile was growing internationally. She had been campaigning since she was 11, encouraging her fellow Pakistanis to stand up to the Taliban who were trying to push girls from classrooms.
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Boys suspected in attack on Malala Yousufzai, Pakistan's interior minister says
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Official: One boy distracted school van driver, while another sought out Malala
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Police continue to search for 23-year-old man allegedly involved in attack | 17,689 | record_train |
Contrasting fortunes: @placeholder is left dejected while Guillermo Ochoa is congratulated by teammates | Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa denied Brazil victory with a performance that hasn't been seen by the host nation since Gordan Banks' famous save against Pele. Ochoa pulled off a succession of physics-defying stops as Mexico held out for a 0-0 draw against the tournament favourites in Fortaleza, leaving both teams level on four points in Group A. The Mexico No 1's most memorable stop resembled Banks' save during the group stages of the 1970 World Cup... and came against the heir to Pele's throne, Neymar. Scroll down for video... Shades of Banks: Brazil striker Neymar thinks he's scored with a bullet header against Mexico
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Mexico held Brazil to a 0-0 draw in their Group A game at the World Cup
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Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa made a series of incredible saves
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Ochoa's save against Pele resembled Gordan Banks against Pele at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico
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Mexican keeper is a free agent affter parting ways with relegated Ajaccio | 17,690 | record_train |
Though the IAEA does not have inspectors stationed permanently in @placeholder, it has at minimum a team of two inspectors at any given time, and usually has two teams of two inspectors, he said. | (CNN) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency will accept Iran's invitation to send inspectors to visit its Arak heavy-water production plant on December 8, IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said Thursday. "We have not yet answered, but it is for sure that we'll do this activity," he told reporters in Vienna, Austria. "We will visit the site, we will do our necessary activities and we will report the facts to the Board of Governors," he said. But, he added, "I'm not in a position to share the details of the activities -- this is a part of the safeguard activities, verification activities."
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Inspectors will visit Iran's Arak heavy-water production plant next month, IAEA says
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Iran has agreed to freeze work at the Arak site under an interim deal with world powers
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The heavy-water reactor could be used as a source of plutonium
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Iran agreed on a framework for increased cooperation with the IAEA this month | 17,691 | record_train |
"Driving to @placeholder at 2 a.m. for my first day of work in May of 1994, I was blown away at the night sky and all the stars. | The grizzly bears that claim this park as their home demand respect. They're emblems of a tough and inspiring untamed wilderness. So is the Teton Range, which rises 7,000 feet above the valley at Jackson Hole, amazing and humbling the day trippers and overnight campers who come to visit Wyoming's expansive Grand Teton National Park. While Grand Teton is the highest peak at 13,770 feet, there are eight peaks more than 12,000 feet in elevation. The forested mountainsides provide some relief to summer hikers. The current-day park has existed since 1950, when Grand Teton National Park (created in 1929) and Jackson Hole National Monument (created in 1943) were combined under the Grand Teton name. In 1972, the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway was established and is now managed by the park staff.
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The Grand Teton park's highest peak is 13,770 feet
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Visitors to the park may spot grizzly and black bears, moose and elk
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Visitors shouldn't miss Cascade Canyon, and those with more time can try longer hikes | 17,692 | record_train |
He says that @placeholder "was very worried about his bobblehead being the last one given away that year, or that there's not enough stuff on him in the team store." | (CNN) -- Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry is taking an indefinite leave of absence, the NBA team's chief executive announced Friday, days after a report surfaced about controversial comments Ferry made about a free agent player. Ferry made the remarks about Luol Deng during a June conference call about prospective players, according to a letter obtained by CNN affiliate WSB and audio of that call obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. J. Michael Gearon Jr., a minority owner of the Hawks, wrote the letter to team owner Bruce Levenson shortly after the conference call to complain about Ferry's language. In that letter, Gearon said Ferry -- in addition to positive statements about Deng -- described the now-Miami Heat forward as "a two-faced liar and cheat" who is "like a guy who would have a nice store out front but sell you counterfeit stuff out of the back.'"
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Hawks GM Danny Ferry vows, "I will find a way to make a positive difference"
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Ferry requests and is granted a leave of absence, CEO says
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He has been under fire for comments he made about player Luol Deng | 17,693 | record_train |
@placeholder is expected to be about creating intelligent networks that can handle those billions of connected devices. | Is the era of 5G connectivity upon us? The government in South Korea says so, and it's sinking $1.5 billion into upgrades it says will make mobile communications there 1,000 times faster than they are today. But not so fast. Literally, not so fast. As was the case when smartphones and other mobile devices first started having 4G slapped on them, the term 5G is as much a marketing slogan as anything else -- at this point, anyway. And if technophiles in the United States are hoping Korea's announcement means warp-speed data connections are coming their way in the near future, they're going to be disappointed.
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South Korea says they're spending $1.5 billion on a "5G" network
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The term is mostly a slogan for now, but the tech will come
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The nation's science ministry promises new network in 2020
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Cellular networks in the U.S. likely will linger behind | 17,694 | record_train |
And the @placeholder’s weren’t the only people to hear it. | A Canada woman was roused from her bed Thursday morning by a deep, rumbling sound emanating from the skies all around her British Columbia home and managed to catch the spooky experience on video. Kimberly Wookey of Terrace, British Columbia was deeply rattled by the groaning she says she’s heard before but the origins of which remain a mystery. And not just to her. People all over the world have reported similar sounds, including a 2012 instance that was heard by people across continents, but no one can yet answer who or what is making the creepy sounds. Captivating: Kimberly Wookey's video of a mysterious rumbling from the sky has captivated her small Canada town and viewers across the web
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Kimberly Wookey of Terrace, British Columbia was able to catch a mysterious noise from above on video Thursday
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Since 2011, hundreds of such videos have appeared on YouTube from all over the world
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A similar phenomenon known as The Hum strikes indoors and only affects two percent of people
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@placeholder tweeted a photo of the comet after Rosetta's maneuver. | After a 10-year chase taking it billions of miles across the solar system, the Rosetta spacecraft made history Wednesday as it became the first probe to rendezvous with a comet on its journey around the sun. "Thruster burn complete. Rosetta has arrived at comet 67P. We're in orbit!" announced the European Space Agency, which is leading the ambitious project, on Twitter. Rosetta fired its thrusters on its final approach to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, known as "Chury" for short, on Wednesday morning. Half an hour after the burn, scientists announced that the craft had entered into the orbit of the streaking comet.
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Rosetta is attempting to become first spacecraft to orbit and land on a comet
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European Space Agency's 10-year mission has taken Rosetta billions of miles across solar system
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Scientists hope to learn more about the composition of comets
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The robotic lander Philae is due to touch down in November | 17,696 | record_train |
Joseph hopes to return playing professionally by October, when he would like to have a debut concert with @placeholder. | Miami, Florida (CNN) -- Romel Joseph calls it his second life. "When I came here, I said I was 99.9 percent dead, and I am leaving here 85 percent alive," he said. The blind violinist who was trapped for 18 hours after Haiti's earthquake in January was released from a Miami, Florida, hospital over the weekend after what doctors say is an amazing recovery. The powerful January 12 quake leveled his five-story music school in Port-au-Prince, and he was pinned beneath the debris. His friends were able to remove him from the rubble of the New Victorian School, and he was airlifted out of Port-au-Prince by the American Embassy to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
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Blind violinist Romel Joseph released from hospital
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He suffered a fractured hand and crushed legs in Haiti's January earthquake
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Stevie Wonder donated keyboard to help him practice while wearing cast
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Investigators have found that someone broke into the church and the fire began in a foyer near the doors that were breached, the @placeholder spokesman said. | Ferguson, Missouri (CNN) -- It was freezing, wet and a busy travel day before a holiday, but a few dozen protesters showed up outside police headquarters in Ferguson on Wednesday night. Standing underneath a "Seasons Greetings" sign stretching over the road, the demonstrators fired obscenities at National Guard members who stood on watch outside the police department's offices. The mood was much calmer than the two nights since a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, but still there was tension in the protest. A one-mile stretch of West Florissant Avenue, the site of previous protests, was closed to cars and pedestrians, with authorities saying the burned out buildings on the route are crime scenes.
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NEW: The group congregates outside police headquarters in Ferguson
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ATF is investigating possible arson at Michael Brown Sr.'s church
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"We are all on the same page to make our community whole," says State Patrol captain
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Protesters flip a police car and break windows Tuesday, but damage is less than Monday | 17,698 | record_train |
When @placeholder officials first learned of the existence of the mock carrier last year, one described it as more akin to a Hollywood set than an actual warship. | (CNN)Iran blasted its mock-up of a U.S. aircraft carrier during naval drills on Wednesday, swarming the target with 100 speedboats armed with rockets, shoulder-launched missiles and mortars as well as striking it with cruise missiles, according to reports from Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency. Iran said the aircraft carrier target was a full-size replica of the USS Nimitz. "Iranian naval forces displayed their skills in targeting enemy vessels and destroyed a mock U.S. aircraft carrier during the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Navy's massive Payambar-e Azam 9 (The Great Prophet 9) wargames in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz," read a video caption on Fars' website.
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Iranian military drills target mock-up of USS Nimitz
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Speedboats and cruise missiles are used in the naval drills
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U.S. described fake carrier as akin to Hollywood set | 17,699 | record_train |
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