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'She denies instances when she is alleged to have called the complainants baby killers but she accepts sending various Facebook messages calling @placeholder a slag.' | By Richard Spillett Sarah Ross admitted harassing her ex-boyfriend Christopher Wood and his wife Nicola, who won a lifetime restraining order against her A postman and his wife have won a lifetime restraining order against his jealous ex-girlfriend who spent a month bombarding them with 800 menacing phone calls. Christopher Wood, 35, was subjected to a hate campaign by Sarah Ross, 25, after she discovered he had married another former pupil from her primary school. She sent text and Facebook messages repeatedly calling Mr Wood's bride Nicola a 'slag' and adding, 'I wish you would die'. When Mrs Wood, 33, suffered a miscarriage, Ross allegedly called them 'baby killers', a court heard.
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Sarah Ross repeatedly made silent phone calls to ex Christopher Wood
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She also called his new wife, Nicola, a 'slag' in messages on Facebook
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The hate campaign continued even when Mrs Wood suffered a miscarriage
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Ross was given a lifetime restraining order after admitting harassment
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But she avoided jail after the court heard she has a disabled daughter
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Mr Wood says she should have been jailed for what she put him through | 6,400 | record_train |
‘Today is not about change, it's about continuity,’ Dunford told a gathering of coalition military leaders and @placeholder officials. | Marine General Joseph Dunford took over Sunday as the new commander of all U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan By Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:26 EST, 10 February 2013 | UPDATED: 03:25 EST, 11 February 2013 Marine General Joseph Dunford took over Sunday as the new and probably last commander of all U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan. The American-led NATO coalition is entering the final stretch of its participation in a war that will have lasted more than 13 years when most foreign combat troops pull out at the end of 2014. Dunford took over leadership of the International Security Assistance Force, and a smaller but separate detachment of American troops, from Marine General John Allen, who had led them for the past 19 months.
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Marine General Joseph Dunford took over Sunday as the new commander of all U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan | 6,401 | record_train |
‘Of course Boris is very engaging and entertaining and he will appeal to parts of the @placeholder grassroots. | By Jason Groves for the Daily Mail Ukip last night warned they will target Boris Johnson over his support for a migrant amnesty if the Conservatives try to use him to erode their support. Tory sources yesterday confirmed that the London Mayor will be deployed as a ‘Ukip killer’ in next year’s general election, following confirmation that he wants to return to parliament. Mr Johnson has agreed to carry out a tour of key marginal seats, where Conservative strategists believe he may be able to persuade traditional voters who have defected to Ukip to return to the Tory fold. Nigel Farage, right, has warned the Conservative Party that he will target Boris Johnson over migrant amnesty
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Tories plan to use Boris Johnson as a 'Ukip killer' during the 2015 election
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Nigel Farage plans to counter that threat by raising the migration issue
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The Ukip leader believes the current London mayor is soft on immigration | 6,402 | record_train |
from the @placeholder, we would sit and talk with them during breaks from | CIA operatives and U.S. special operations troops have been training Syrian rebels with anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons since last year, it has been revealed. Covert training bases were set up in Jordan and Turkey months before President Obama approved plans to arm the opposition fighting to oust Syria's President Assad, U.S. officials and rebel leaders claim. White House officials refused to comment on the Los Angeles Times revelations, but said the U.S. had increased its help to rebels. Military maneuvers: An air and ground exerciise in south Jordan, where rebels are allegedly being trained 'We have stepped up our assistance, but I cannot inventory for you all the elements of that assistance,' White House press Secretary Jay Carney said.
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Free Syrian Army taught to use anti-aircraft missiles, military source claims
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Jordan denies rebel force is being helped in its deserts
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Revelations come as John Kerry attends international talks on civil war | 6,403 | record_train |
The only person who knew where she was was @placeholder, and I asked him and he led me directly to her, straight -- well, as straight as you can go through the swamp." | New York (CNN) -- The man who rescued an 11-year-old girl lost in a dense Florida swamp said Wednesday that God led him directly to her and that finding her was no surprise. James King said he set out on his own to look for Nadia Bloom on Tuesday, trusting that he was going in the right direction even when that meant through water or dense brush. "I was expecting to hear her voice," King told CNN. "So I'm yelling, 'Nadia!' and at one point, I yell, 'Nadia!' and I hear 'What?' And I said that way -- right there."
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NEW: "She's doing remarkably well," says Nadia Bloom's grateful mother, Tanya
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James King said he set out on his own to look for Nadia on Tuesday
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It took him "two hours of rough time" trekking through swamp to find 11-year-old
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He was surprised by the good shape girl was in, said she wasn't panicked | 6,404 | record_train |
Sanders said the man remembered his phone number and called someone to come and pick him up from the main road using @placeholder phone. | A man in Georgia last week stumbled across what he now calls 'the best hunting story of my life'. Out looking for deer in the woods near his home in Chattahoochee Hills, Casey Sanders said he heard a shout before seeing a naked young man stranded by a creek. Shocked and suspicious, Sanders announced that he was armed and started filming the bizarre encounter, which took place on October 2. He soon figured out the confused twenty-something had attended the electronic dance festival TomorrowWorld, which was set on a 500-acre property not far away, but had finished four days earlier.
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Naked reveler was found by a stream in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, on October 2
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The TomorrowWorld festival took place on a nearby property from September 26-28
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Hunter stumbled across the man and started filming the encounter
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The stranger claims he was beaten up, drugged, stripped of his clothes and dumped in the woods
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Said he searched for water for two days and stayed by the stream for another two
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Suspicious hunter eventually helped him to safety
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Police were not involved
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Over 120,000 people attended TomorrowWorld, headlined by Tiesto, Avicii and David Guetta | 6,405 | record_train |
And though he earned it, he could not claim overtime pay -- overtime that would be paid to any deli worker in @placeholder. | Forty-six years ago this month, my father joined Cesar Chavez in Delano, California, to share the Eucharist and end Chavez's 1968 fast for farm workers' rights. It took another nine years, but the state of California would go on to answer Chavez's call for justice and pass its groundbreaking Agricultural Labor Relations Act. That law surged California forward in the global labor movement, but New York never had a Cesar Chavez. And so today -- in the state where my father served as senator and where I now live -- our farm workers suffer from the leftover Jim Crow laws that California addressed nearly half a century ago.
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Farm workers suffer from laws California addressed nearly half a century ago
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Kennedy: You should see how farm workers are treated
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Passing new bill is first step to addressing human rights violations
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All of us have the opportunity to join the struggle today | 6,406 | record_train |
@placeholder admits going to see the new R&C management about his friend, but insists it was at their invitation. | In custody: Ex-PM Dominique de Villepin has been arrested in connection with a corruption case Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was in police custody today after being arrested in connection with a corruption scandal. The 58-year-old has been implicated in a fraud enquiry centred on the prestigious Relais & Chateaux (R&C) hotel and restaurant club. Regis Bulot, a former senior manager at R&C, spent seven months in prison this year while waiting trial over the alleged theft of 1 million pounds through over-charging for the club’s guidebooks, which are available all over Britain. De Villepin, who made his name in the UK by making a passionate speech to the United Nations opposing the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq in 2003, is a close personal friend of Bulot, 64.
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Ex-PM arrested in Paris and questioned today
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Case involves alleged £1m theft by friend of de Villepin | 6,407 | record_train |
His influence saw Lea acquiring expensive taste from a young age when the shoe designer, famous for his red soles, made her sister her first Louboutins when she was 14 and @placeholder received her first pair at the age of 12. | The wait is over. On Thursday, it was officially announced at Buckinghamshire's Pinewood Studios that Daniel Craig would be reprising his role as super-spy 007 in Spectre, the latest film in the saga, which will be directed by Sam Mendes. As well as the veteran bond hero, the latest installment of the action film franchise will see other cast members making a return to the film, including Ralph Fiennes as M, Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw as Q and Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner. However, a new film means a new Bond Girl and this one is perhaps the most illusive we are yet to see.
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The title of the latest James Bond film, Spectre, was released yesterday
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29-year-old French actress Lea Seydoux is playing the movie's Bond girl
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Until now, her most famous part was as a lesbian in Blue is the Warmest Colour | 6,408 | record_train |
And my mom agreed to that name if I would be called @placeholder. | NEW YORK (CNN) -- Rhett Miller, the Old 97's frontman, can be hard to get a fix on. Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller says that his solo albums keep him from going nuts. He's a rock 'n' roll musician, yet soft-spoken and mild-mannered. He's 38 years old, but looks 23. He once cut his hair really short in an attempt to make himself less attractive, but now wears his mane long and shaggy. And then there are his Twitter entries, which have a wit all their own. For example: "Sometimes, sitting in a hot tub, I pretend that I'm in the kitchen of some giant who's making Rhett soup. And I just start screaming." Watch how Miller's kids react to his singing »
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Rhett Miller, frontman of Old 97's, has new solo album out
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Miller: Solo career provides another outlet for creativity
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Musician juggles songwriting with two kids; children don't always like songs | 6,409 | record_train |
'I tried to hide my outrage at his racist remarks, but it would come to pass that for the entire time that I would be trapped in his palm, @placeholder's was the one name that would be mentioned constantly. | Like all beautiful, successful women Whitney Houston had more than her share of male admirers. But few stars could have provoked such unwanted attention as that which the singer received from one of history's most depraved and despicable men, terror chief Osama bin Laden. Extraordinary as it might seem, bin Laden is said to have lusted after Houston, dreamed of marrying her and at one point even plotted to murder her husband Bobby Brown. A world apart: In the mid 1990s terror chief Osama bin Laden was infatuated with singer Whitney Houston, according to an account by writer Kola Boof who is widely believed to have been his mistress
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Terror boss said Houston was 'the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen'
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He wanted to arrange a meeting and woo her with mansion in Khartoum | 6,410 | record_train |
"In the end, no one will pay the price but the @placeholder people." | (CNN) -- When President Barack Obama said this weekend that bombing Syrian targets is the right thing to do, and then asked Congress to approve it, the international crisis took a turn toward a fierce domestic battle. There are so many moving parts to this complicated story that it can become quite difficult to keep up. Let this Q&A bring you up to speed on the dizzying developments. Is the U.S. going to war with Syria? No -- at least not yet. Even though Obama said he wants to strike Syrian targets after the regime allegedly used chemical weapons on a rebel stronghold last month, he says he wants to wait for Congress' blessing first.
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Congress won't be back until September 9
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Poll: 80% of Americans feel Obama needs Congress' permission
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Some decry the alleged chemical weapons attacks, but don't want another Iraq
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Syria says it is ready to confront any challenge | 6,411 | record_train |
And @placeholder is the reigning king of the podium. | Washington (CNN) -- Being president pays; $400,000 a year, in fact. That salary has increased over time. President Harry Truman left office in 1949 making $100,000. When Richard Nixon entered the White House in 1969 the salary went up to $200,000. It remained there for 30 years, until Congress doubled the presidential salary effective in 2001, when President George W. Bush took office. Aside from the pay, there's the free transportation in the presidential limousine, Marine One and Air Force One. And don't forget the free housing in Washington's most famous mansion, complete with a killer view of the Washington Monument, along with other perks (a personal chef, for one).
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Ex-presidents receive an annual pension, health care, paid official travel, an office
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Recent former presidents have made millions after leaving office by writing books
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Since 2001, former president Clinton has earned $75.6 million giving speeches
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President Obama's "Dreams From My Father" was only a modest success initially | 6,412 | record_train |
But as Internacional pressed for an equalizer late in the game, Mazembe caught them on the break as @placeholder's 20-yard effort crept inside the post. | (CNN) -- Congolese side TP Mazembe Englebert became the first African team to clinch a place in FIFA's Club World Cup final after a stunning victory over Brazilian giants Internacional. Goals from Mulota Kubangu and Dioko Kaluyituka secured a 2-0 win for Mazembe in Abu Dhabi and handed them a shot at being crowned world champions in Saturday's final. They become the first team from outside Europe or South America to reach the showpiece final and will face the winners of Wednesday's clash between Italian and European champions Inter Milan and Asian Champions League holders Seongnam Ilhwa FC, from Korea.
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Congolese side TP Mazembe beat Internacional 2-0 in FIFA Club World Cup semifinal
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It is the first time an African side has ever reached the prestigious final
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Goals from Mulota Kubangu and Dioko Kaluyituka secured victory
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Mazembe will face Inter Milan or Korean side Seongnam Ilhwa FC in Saturday's final | 6,413 | record_train |
Mannkind first submitted the drug to @placeholder in March 2009. | By Daily Mail Reporter and Ap The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a long-delayed inhalable diabetes medication to help patients control their blood sugar levels during meals. The FDA cleared MannKind Corp.'s Afrezza, a fast-acting form of insulin, for adults with the most common form of diabetes, which affects more than 25 million Americans. The approval decision comes more than three years after the agency first asked MannKind to run additional clinical studies on the drug. Inhaler: The device, which is about the size of a referee's whistle, could replace injectable insulin Tiny: Other, similar devices have been much larger - some the size of a tennis ball - than the Afrezza device
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Afrezza is a fast-acting form of insulin that can be inhaled rather than injected - to control blood-sugar levels
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Diabetes affects more than 25 million Americans
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Billionaire philanthropist Alfred E. Mann has lost hundreds of millions of dollars developing the drug | 6,414 | record_train |
But some gay Republicans say @placeholder is not totally close minded on LGBT issues. | (CNN) -- After President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, a group organizing a fundraiser on his behalf suddenly had to find a bigger venue. The event, featuring the pop singer Pink, is one of two LGBT-organized fundraisers Obama is expected to attend on the West Coast on Wednesday. A CNN analysis of President Obama's biggest fundraisers, known as bundlers, shows that at least 33 -- or about one in every 16 bundlers -- is openly gay. Together, they have raised at least $8 million for the campaign between January and the end of March. CNN poll: Majority of Americans say they have gay friends, family members
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A CNN analysis of Obama's biggest fundraisers shows about one in every 16 is openly gay
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Gay fundraisers have raised more than $8 million for the Obama campaign
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Similar figures are not available for the Romney campaign | 6,415 | record_train |
That means the @placeholder's position in February 2040 is not in range of the asteroid's possible future paths. | (CNN) -- On a day when global doomsday predictions failed to pan out, NASA had more good news for the Earth: An asteroid feared to be on a collision course with our planet no longer poses a threat. Uncertainties about the orbit of the asteroid, known as 2011 AG5, previously allowed for a less than a 1% chance it would hit the Earth in February 2040, NASA said. To narrow down the asteroid's future course, NASA put out a call for more observation. Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa took up the task and managed to observe the asteroid over several days in October.
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The asteroid previously had a 0.2% chance of hitting the Earth
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More observation by astronomers in Hawaii shows no risk of collision
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A collision would have released about 100 megatons of energy
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Observing the asteroid wasn't easy | 6,416 | record_train |
Moving on: Lopez will have a fresh start at @placeholder after making the switch from homeland Spain to Italy | By Kieran Gill Follow @@kie1410 Diego Lopez released an emotional farewell letter to Real Madrid after the goalkeeper joined AC Milan in a switch from Spain to Italy. The Spaniard, who also had stints with the B and C sides of Real more than 10 years ago, took to Twitter to thank all those at the 'best club in the world'. The 32-year-old doesn't hide his passion for Real in the heartfelt letter, and signs off: 'From a Madrid fan, Diego Lopez.' CLICK HERE to start picking your Fantasy Football team NOW! There's £60,000 in prizes including £1,000 up for grabs EVERY WEEK...
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Diego Lopez released heartfelt note on Twitter to thank those at Real Madrid
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The 32-year-old had three spells at Real, playing for the B and C sides too
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Goalkeeper signs off emotional letter with: 'From a Madrid fan, Diego Lopez' | 6,417 | record_train |
Saxon was born unexpectedly and prematurely in a hospital in @placeholder and spent a lot of his early life fighting for survival among health problems, but soon grew to a healthy eight-month-old | By Luke Garratt PUBLISHED: 06:08 EST, 10 January 2014 | UPDATED: 08:54 EST, 10 January 2014 A baby boy who weighed less than a bag of sugar after being born three months prematurely has survived, and his incredible journey to good health has been documented by his doting father. These photographs show Saxon on the day he entered the world at just 26 weeks, weighing just 1lb 12oz, and today, as a strapping eight-month-old boy with his siblings. Parents Heidi and Edmund Shum, from Llanelli, west Wales, feared their son might not survive, but believe his story will be an inspiration to others.
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Saxon born three months premature, and was no bigger than a bread slice
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In the early stages after his birth he clung to live in an intensive care unit
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Father Edmund Shum from west Wales, documented Saxon's life in photos
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Despite health complications, Saxon soon grew into a healthy baby | 6,418 | record_train |
But while successful in its early stages, the rest of the @placeholder's plot was thwarted. | An MI6 agent who managed to infiltrate al-Qaeda in a bid to kill one of its leaders was told by his British bosses they would not assassinate him because it could be against the law. Terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki was encouraging attacks on the West and also recruiting young Muslims to carry them out but despite being able to murder him Morten Storm was blocked by London, it has emerged. Storm says he was told by his bosses in the UK: 'We do not involve ourselves in encouraging people to participate in jihad and we don’t involve ourselves in killings abroad. Our objective is to gather intelligence.'
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Morten Storm could have murdered Anwar al-Awlaki but claims he was told by London: 'We don’t involve ourselves in killings abroad'
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The Dane then took his plans to the CIA and Britain cut him off completely
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Al-Awlaki preached to the 9/11 hijackers and inspired 7/7 bombers
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Storm was so close to him he set Anwar al-Awlaki up with his third wife in an elaborate plot to track him down and kill him
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America eventually assassinated him in a 2011 drone attack | 6,419 | record_train |
Her newest show includes a variety of spontaneous musings from one of @placeholder's best loved small screen stars. | (CNN) -- Once a year, the largest arts festival in the world takes over Scotland's capital turning the city into a smorgasbord of comedy, theater, dance and more. Dispelling the stereotype that women can't do comedy, CNN takes a look at the funniest female comedians appearing at this year's Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Janeane Garofalo Star of "The Larry Sanders Show," "Seinfeld," and "24," Janeane Garofalo is returning to the Fringe for a second time since her 2009 Edinburgh debut. The American comedy icon and two-time Emmy nominee gives punters a slice of her raw repartee in her self-titled stand-up show, which runs for just four nights.
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The biggest arts festival in the world runs from August 2-26 in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Female comedians from all over the globe come to perform
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A mixture of household names and up-and-comers will be treading the boards | 6,420 | record_train |
@placeholder pulled off a fine stop to keep out Ibisevic's penalty towards the end of the half, but he could do nothing about the striker's sweeping finish from 20 yards six minutes before the interval. | By Charlie Scott Follow @@charliefscott A debut goal from Andy Robertson sealed an impressive win for Hull against Stuttgart on Sunday and meant Steve Bruce's side finished their run of pre-season games unbeaten. Roberton doubled Hull's lead in the 12th minute at the Mercedes-Benz Arena with a cute finish from a tight angle, after David Meyler had profited from some poor goalkeeping minutes to put Bruce's team ahead minutes before. Bosnia-Herzegovina international Vedad Ibisevic hit back for the Bundesliga hosts just before the break, but it was Hull that dominated the game in Germany and should have perhaps won by more.
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David Meyler opened the scoring on six minutes and Andy Robertson, a summer signing from Dundee United, doubled their lead shortly after
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Bosnia-Herzegovina striker Vedad Ibisevic pulled one back for Stuttgart but not before he had a penalty saved by evergreen goalkeeper Steve Harper
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Hull end pre-season, which included four friendlies and two Europa League qualifiers, without having lost a game
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They start their Premier League campaign against QPR on August 16 | 6,421 | record_train |
The incident caused a delay for the train, which was carrying groceries to @placeholder, behind the freight train. | A four-wheel drive has collided with a freight train, causing it to be dragged along the train tracks for more than a kilometre. A 23-year-old man driving a four-wheel drive was following a friend through bushland as they both tried to cross the Adelaide to Darwin rail line, 315 kilometres south of Darwin, in the Northern Territory at 1am on Sunday. The area that the young men drove over was a 'non-designated crossing', according to Duty Superintendent Louise Jorgensen. A four-wheel drive has collided with a freight train, causing it to be dragged along the train tracks for more than a kilometre
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Two men in 4WDs attempted to cross a 'non-designated crossing' on Adelaide to Darwin rail line
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One 4WD became stuck, causing a freight train to collide into the vehicle
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The car was dragged for more than 1 kilometre before hanging off the bridge
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Both men were left unharmed but face numerous charges | 6,422 | record_train |
Speaking outside court, Miss @placeholder's father said: 'Our love for each other will help us to continue without her. | By Harriet Arkell Former soldier Jeremy Green, 26, was sentenced to life in prison today after admitting murder and attempted murder A former Army officer who killed an estate agent after imprisoning her and her flatmate for hours while he tortured them has been jailed for life. Jeremy Green, 26, held 32-year-old Nicole Waterhouse and 23-year-old Karen Browne hostage while he tortured them, stabbing them and slashing their throats. Miss Waterhouse died as a result of the attack at the York flat, while Miss Browne, who worked with Miss Waterhouse at Hunters Estate Agents, suffered devastating injuries. Miss Waterhouse's family sobbed in court today as they told how Green had 'destroyed all of our lives'.
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Jeremy Green, 26, attacked Nicole Waterhouse, 32, and Karen Browne, 23
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Miss Waterhouse suffered 65 injuries and died after hours of torture
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Miss Browne suffered 19 wounds and survived with devastating injuries
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Sandhurst-educated Green had served with the Yorkshire Regiment
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He had dated Miss Browne previously but gave no reason for the attack
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Leeds Crown Court hears he stabbed, smothered and slashed the women
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Eventually left them in the York flat they shared thinking he'd killed both
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Green jailed for life today after admitting murder and attempted murder | 6,423 | record_train |
Reflecting on her achievement so far, Matika says: 'The level of success and visibility that Project 562 has garnered has been a direct result of people’s commitment to change the way the world sees @placeholder.' | What is the essence of Native American identity? That is what photographer Matika Wilbur sought to capture as she travelled the States taking images of hundreds of today's indigenous Americans in their everyday environments. Using fundraising website Kickstarter to help her travel 60,000 miles across the USA, Wilbur set out to photograph every recognised indigenous tribe in the United States, often resorting to sleeping on floors in pursuit of the perfect photograph. The result is Project 562, a collection of stunning images and extraordinary stories featuring people from 161 different nations. Scroll down for video Photographer Matika Wilbur used Kickstarter to fund a project capturing hundreds of today's indigenous Americans in very modern environments. Pictured here are Sky and Talon Duncan who are world champion hoop dancers and part of the three affiliated tribes of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation
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Photographer Matika Wilbur travelled 60,000 miles to capture the series of exquisite portraits for Project 562
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The former journalist visited 161 different nations to celebrate indigenous tribes
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The images show 21st century descendants of ancient tribes in their everyday environments
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The photos are part of a project to combat racism and create interest in Native Americans | 6,424 | record_train |
The @placeholder said the president wished them and their families 'a happy Thanksgiving'. | His wife may be behind the nation's biggest healthy-eating campaign, but even the president is allowed one day off a year. President Barack Obama is celebrating Thanksgiving with a quiet family dinner at the White House - where he will be feasting on a choice of nine pies. The first family will have a choice of huckleberry pie, pecan pie, chocolate cream pie, sweet potato pie, peach pie, apple pie, pumpkin pie, banana cream pie or coconut cream pie, The Hill reported. The selection offers three more pies than last year. Savory dishes on the menu include turkey, honey-baked ham, cornbread stuffing, oyster stuffing, greens, macaroni and cheese, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and dinner rolls.
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The Obamas are having a quiet family Thanksgiving at the White House with a traditional menu of turkey, ham, sweet potatoes and greens
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This morning, the president called 10 members of the military to thank them for their service and to wish their families a happy Thanksgiving
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Michelle Obama, who started the 'Let's Move!' anti-obesity campaign, said indulgences are allowed on special occasions | 6,425 | record_train |
'When the noise of the gun, and then @placeholder fell forward... | After three months of closure, the Lindt Chocolate Café at the centre of the Sydney Siege is set to reopen in a matter of days. The scene of one of Australia’s most infamous terror attacks, workers at the Sydney CBD café said the café told The Daily Telegraph the shop will reopen by the end of the week. The café made headlines around the world in December when Islamic extremist Man Haron Monis held staff and patrons hostage there for about 17 hours. Repairs are currently under way at the Martin Place cafe after it was damaged during the siege that claimed the lives of cafe manager Tori Johnson and barrister Katrina Dawson in December.
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Lindt will reopen its Martin Place cafe in March after repairs are finished
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It was damaged during the siege that claimed the lives of cafe manager Tori Johnson and barrister Katrina Dawson in December
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Cafe is organising a memorial to honour 'bravery' of hostages
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Lindt say they spoke with cafe staff before deciding whether to reopen | 6,426 | record_train |
The world champions suffered without @placeholder, finishing bottom of the group as they failed to make it past the first round of the competition. | (CNN) -- Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon will be sidelined for three months following successful back surgery in Milan. The Juventus player underwent the operation on Sunday to repair a herniated disc in his back, and said afterwards he is in no hurry to return to action. "I feel relieved now," Buffon told Juventus' official website. "The intervention went well and this gives me faith and serenity. I must not hurry. "I need to take the due time to come back with no trouble and no risk of recurrence." The 32-year-old suffered the injury in Italy's opening World Cup match against Paraguay in Group F, which forced him to miss the rest of the tournament in South Africa.
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Italy star Gianluigi Buffon aims for a successful recovery following a back operation
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Goalkeeper played only one game at World Cup due to a herniated disc
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He has been appointed Italy's next captain by new coach Cesare Prandelli
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Juventus announce the season-long loan signing of Marco Motta from Udinese | 6,427 | record_train |
"Sylvana Mestre will step down after @placeholder and maybe then the management of disabled sport can be reassessed, so that disabled athletes are treated with fairness and supported in their attempts to represent their country, in the same way able-bodied athletes are," said a Mills statement. | (CNN) -- Heather Mills' dream of skiing at the 2014 Winter Paralympics is over but the recriminations keep on flying. Earlier this week the British Paralympic Association said Mills had made herself unavailable for selection in Sochi after an issue with an adaptive boot she uses to ski. Mills, former wife of Beatles star Paul McCartney, had her left leg amputated below the knee after a road accident in 1993 and declared her intention to try and make the Games over two years ago. But now she has been accused of grabbing an official from the International Paralympic Committee during a discussion about the eligibility of her equipment.
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Heather Mills accused of verbally abusing an International Paralympic Official
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Mills has given up on her hope of making the British team for the 2014 Winter Olympics
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A problem with her adaptive boot for skiing meant she was ineligible to compete
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IPC says she physically harassed the organization's skiing chief Sylvana Mestre | 6,428 | record_train |
given to him by @placeholder as a bribe for securing favourable terms for | Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has admitted paying a banker £27million to stay silent over the tycoon's complex financial affairs. The billionaire had previously denied making any payment to Gerhard Gribkowsky, the German banker at the centre of a huge fraud trial. But yesterday he admitted to a packed Munich courtroom that he had paid him around £27million – because he was being blackmailed. Bernie Ecclestone (left) admitted paying Gerhard Gribkowsky (right) over his complex financial affairs despite his earlier denial He claimed Gribkowsky was threatening to make false accusations to the Inland Revenue about his tax affairs which would cost him 'billions' even though he was innocent.
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F1 supremo paid Gerhard Gribkowsky after the banker co-ordinated lucrative sale of Formula One
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Gribkowsky is accused of accepting a bribe and of tax evasion
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This sign for an army barracks has a large hole in it and is located at a busy road junction in @placeholder | By Harriet Arkell PUBLISHED: 07:33 EST, 19 November 2013 | UPDATED: 07:58 EST, 19 November 2013 Gun-crime in the UK may still be rare, but a drive around our roads reveals that it is far closer to home than you might have thought. In fact, hundreds of road signs are peppered with bullet-holes, rather than pellet holes, made by ammunition from illegal firearms. From a No Stopping sign near the A40 in Oxfordshire that has been shot seven times to the Hungerford road sign near where Michael Ryan shot 16 people dead, many of our road signs are riddled with sinister bullet-holes - a result of gunmen using them as target practice.
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Hundreds of road signs across the country are riddled with bullet-holes
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Ex-marine Matt Seiber photographs them as he drives across Britain
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He believes they're being used as target-practice by would-be gunmen
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They have become frustrated with Islamabad over the years, saying it is not being active enough against militants, a claim @placeholder denies. | ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suspected missile strike from a U.S. Predator drone killed at least four people in a house in Pakistan's North Waziristan region early Saturday. Marchers protest recent U.S. missile strikes on the Pakistani tribal areas. The attack, which occurred in the Mir Ali subdivision in the village of Ali Khel, was one of several to hit the country Saturday. Six people were injured in Saturday's attack, the fourth suspected U.S. strike on Pakistani soil in November. The names of the victims have not been released. It is also not known why the house was targeted. Elsewhere, three people were killed and 11 were injured in an explosion inside a mosque in northwest Pakistan's tribal region, a government official said.
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Four killed after suspected U.S. missile strike fired from drone, official says
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Attack believed to be fourth in Pakistan since early November
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And if you're saying that I can be bought for $5,000, I'm offended," @placeholder replied. | Tampa (CNN) -- Perhaps it was because Rep. Michele Bachmann was in her element at the CNN/Tea Party Republican Debate. With her campaign flagging, the founder of the Tea Party Caucus in Congress delivered a surprise body blow to the GOP front-runner, Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Challenging Perry on his 2007 executive order that required Texas schoolgirls to receive vaccinations against the sexually transmitted HPV virus, Bachmann suggested the governor acted for purely political reasons. "I just wanted to add that we cannot forget that in the midst of this executive order there is a big drug company that made millions of dollars because of this mandate. We can't deny that," Bachmann said.
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Most of debate centers on Texas Gov. Rick Perry -- usually a sign a candidate is winning
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Rep. Michele Bachmann goes after Perry on his HPV vaccine order for schoolgirls
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Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney again attacks Perry on Social Security
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In Carey's opinion, @placeholder's career as an elected official is over, but he doesn't expect Palin to be leaving the headlines anytime soon. | (CNN) -- Last August, then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced to the nation his surprise pick for vice president, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has a strong base of supporters, as well as a steady supply of vocal critics. At the time, little was known about the fresh-faced, first-term governor, but within days, Palin's face was on newspapers, magazines and tabloids. Since then, Palin has become a polarizing figure in the Republican Party. Her passionate supporters are countered with equally fervent critics. And even though it's been nearly a year since she ventured onto the national stage and more than eight months since the Republican ticket lost the election, as Palin prepares to leave office, the public's interest in her has yet to wane. Palin explains why she's stepping down
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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stepping down from office on Sunday
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In the year since her national debut, she's become a polarizing figure in the GOP
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In the letter, employees of @placeholder - including academics, GPs, consultants, porters, dentists, staff nurses, medical secretaries, pharmacists and trainees - spoke out against independence. | By Thomas Burrows for MailOnline Orthopaedic surgeons in Scotland have said they will not be able to deliver the same standard of care in an independent Scotland and have attacked Alex Salmond’s ‘erroneous’ claims about the NHS. The NHS has been at the centre of the independence debate, as Mr Salmond has repeatedly claimed the only way to stop it being privatised is for Scotland to break away from the UK. But in an open letter sent to MailOnline, Scotland’s orthopaedic surgeons strongly dispute that claim and have criticised Mr Salmond for his misleading statements. Scroll down for video
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Orthopedic surgeons release open letter critical of Salmond
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Letter is signed by a third of Scotland's 180 orthopedic surgeons
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Warn that Salmond has made 'erroneous' claims about future of NHS
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Say no danger of privatisation because health is already devolved issue
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Concerns were first raised in June 2013 when @placeholder, who had acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, failed to make progress after her transplant. | Four cancer-stricken children died at Great Ormond Street Hospital after a series of failures in stem cell transplants at the world-renowned hospital, an inquest has heard. The young patients, aged between one and 12, were among eight children whose transplants failed when the stem cell freezing system - used in life-saving operations - inexplicably stopped working. Four children went on to recover. But well-known charity fundraiser Sophie Ryan Palmer, 12, one-year-old Ryan Loughran, four-year-old Katie Joyce and Muhanna al-Hayany, also four, died between July and October last year. The children's hospital has now admitted that Katie might have survived if it had acted more quickly to resolve the problems.
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Patients, aged one to 12, among eight children whose transplants failed
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Concerns arose in 2013 after operation on fundraiser Sophie Palmer, 12
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Hospital says Katie Joyce, 4, could have been saved if quicker action taken
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Ryan Loughran, 13 months, and Muhanna al-Hayany, 4, also died last year
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the Nazis marched into @placeholder, Sir Nicholas - who had no experience | By Leon Watson A British man who saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Holocaust is to be given the highest honour of the Czech Republic. Sir Nicholas Winton, who celebrated his 105th birthday last week, organised the transport of 669 children – mostly Jewish – from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Independently of Operation Kindertransport, which did not include the children of Czechoslovakia, he ensured that over the course of nine months before the Second World War broke out in September 1939 they made their way to Britain. Sir Nicholas Winton, organised the transport of 669 children - mostly Jewish - from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, at the Czech Embassy in London
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Sir Nicholas Winton organised the transport of 669 children to the UK
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Without him, they would almost certainly have been killed by the Nazis
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Almost all of their parents went on to die in Nazi concentration camps
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He forged documents and bribed officials before he could get them out
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Winton, who is now 105, kept his story quiet for nearly 50 years
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Even the children he transported did not know he had saved them
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The mercury will hit 22 degrees in @placeholder on Thursday, with the long-term average temperature being 16.7 degrees in May. | By Louise Cheer People in Australia's eastern states can hold off unpacking their winter woolies - for now. While they'd usually brace themselves for the oncoming cold at this time of year, a jet stream - a strong, high-speed air current that can change temperatures - has created an unexpected turn in weather patterns. Current forecasts report that temperatures next week in South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria will be up to six degrees higher than the May average. Record-breaking run: Sydney and Melbourne both have warm days ahead, with experts predicting a record-breaking run of above-average temperatures
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Winter temperatures this year will be six degrees higher than May average
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South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria to feel the heat
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Expect blue skies and a warm wind from inland Australia
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He was speaking in @placeholder before a hall filled with dignitaries, at a glitzy ceremony complete with swirling spotlights and a bleached-blond Turkish female master of ceremonies. | ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- In an elaborately choreographed ceremony broadcast live on television, the leaders of Iraqi Kurdistan began pumping oil from Kurdish-controlled oil fields in northern Iraq through a pipeline to neighboring Turkey. A worker at the oil refinery near the village of Taq Taq in the province of Irbil. It is the first time Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region has officially exported oil out of the country. For years, the central Iraqi government in Baghdad has been at odds with the Kurds, arguing they do not have the right to exploit oil in territory under Kurdish control. Kurdish officials have ignored Baghdad's warnings, and signed dozens of agreements with small foreign oil companies.
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First time Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region has officially exported oil
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Turkish company says only 40,000 barrels of oil would be exported a day
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"Prayer means that we are extremely powerful because @placeholder is not limited by where we are when we pray. | (CNN) -- A family friend of a U.S. soldier captured by the Taliban said his friends and family want Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl to "stand tall, stand firm." Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl in a video made by his captors, members of the Taliban. "Bowe, if you see this, know that we love you and we are praying fervently for you and prayers are going up for you from all over the world," Tim Baker told CNN affiliate KTVB-TV in the soldier's hometown of Ketchum, Idaho. "To all of our valiant men and women, know that the American people believe in you, support you and are 100 percent behind you, and we thank God every day that you have our back."
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Friend to soldier: "Know that we love you and we are praying"
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U.S. military: Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, was captured June 30 in Afghanistan | 6,439 | record_train |
Loan move: Micah Richards trains with Fiorentina after sealing his loan switch from @placeholder | Micah Richards rejected a loan move to a Premier League club in favour of Serie A, the on-loan Manchester City defender has revealed. Out of favour Richards made a loan switch to Fiorentina on transfer deadline day after Manuel Pellegrini made it clear he was not in his plans for the coming season at the Etihad. And amid talk that West Ham and a number of other Premier League clubs were interested in the versatile defender, Richards has claimed he rejected the chance to stay in England in favour of a Serie A move. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Micah Richards first training session with Fiorentina
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Micah Richards was a target for West Ham and a number of other sides
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He has linked up with former Manchester City team-mate Stefan Savic
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Manuel Pellegrini excluded former England international from his squad
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It soon becomes clear the image of the brooding @placeholder with dark beard and tattoos is misleading. | As one Spaniard was announcing his arrival in Manchester on Monday, another was reflecting on a spectacular start to his career here just a few hundred yards across the fields of Carrington. Alvaro Negredo cost Manchester City significantly less than the £37million their neighbours have paid for Juan Mata, but it is hard to think of anyone who has had a greater impact on the Barclays Premier League this season than the man they call The Beast. Negredo, 28, has been a vital cog in City’s goal machine, contributing 23 goals in 33 games to a team now dreaming of the Quadruple. It has earned him cult status with his new supporters and spread fear among opponents.
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Man City's powerful striker eager to pick up silverware in debut season
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Alvaro Negredo reveals he admires Manuel Pellegrini for telling him to leave for Sevilla during his time at Real Madrid
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Spain hitman kisses tattoos dedicated to family members after each goal
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Eager to battle for his place in Vicente del Bosque's World Cup squad
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Family man Negredo's father still works as a taxi driver | 6,441 | record_train |
The fundraising website 'Defend @placeholder' claims: 'Jean Illingworth worked tirelessly at Djarragun College for ten years, turning a small dysfunctional school into a flagship example of successful indigenous education.' | An ex-principal and former Australian of the Year finalist who fraudulently claimed millions of taxpayers' dollars for a top Indigenous school will not spend anymore time behind bars. In an 11th-hour plea last Monday, Jean Illingworth admitted defrauding the state and Commonwealth by inflating student numbers to get $3.4 million in extra funding for Djarragun College, near Cairns, between 2010 and 2011. On Friday, the 67-year-old appeared in the Cairns District Court where she was sentenced to three years' jail on one charge of obtaining property by deception, and two and half years' on one charge of fraud. Jean Illingworth, a former Queensland principal, has been released from serving any more time in jail for defrauding millions
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Jean Illingworth defrauded millions of dollars in funding from Federal government for Djarragun College near Cairns
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Illingworth has been released from jail immediately and will not have to pay back any of the taxpayers money
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Supportive: @placeholder has opened up about her son's impending change | Bruce Jenner has reportedly moved forward his rumoured interview with Diane Sawyer to discuss his planned transition to become a woman. The reality star is said to be readying the one-to-one as early as this weekend after his mother confirmed his transition news to Radar Online. The website has now reported that he is in a hurry to get his own side of the story across to the respected ABC journalist. Scroll down for video Quick fix: Bruce Jenner has reportedly moved forward his rumoured interview with Diane Sawyer to discuss his planned transition to become a woman Veteran jouranlist: BuzzFeed reported that Diane Sawyer and ABC News were close to securing the first interview during which he will discuss his life-changing decision
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Jenner is readying the one-to-one with Sawyer to take place in the next few days
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The reality star's mother confirmed his plans to transition to become a woman
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Rumors about Jenner's desire to come out as transgender have intensified after he started making dramatic changes to his appearance
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Told his large family last month and is being filmed for a docu-series recording his journey to be broadcast later this year
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Mubarak was immediately transferred to a prison in southern @placeholder to serve his sentence, and a prosecutor said the former president, who attended court on a gurney, would be moved to the prison hospital. | Cairo (CNN) -- Cairo braced for a third day of protests despite stifling heat Monday, as Egyptians vent anger over the trials of former top officials accused of ordering demonstrators killed during last year's revolution. Former President Hosni Mubarak and his Interior Minister Habib El Adly were sentenced to life in prison, while six top interior ministry officials were cleared of the charges. Protesters flooded into Cairo's Tahrir Square, the symbolic heart of Egypt's revolution, in the wake of the verdict, outraged at the clearing of the ministry officials and angry that Mubarak escaped the death penalty. The protesters chanted "Down with SCAF," the military council that has ruled the country since Mubarak was toppled last year, and shouted that the court ruling was illegitimate.
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Demonstrators vow to continue protests despite stifling heat in Cairo
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Prosecutors charge Mubarak's sons with money laundering
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Five of Mubarak's aides have been freed; his sons remain in prison
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Hundreds of people gather in Tahrir Square after Mubarak escapes the death penalty | 6,444 | record_train |
Simple and extravagant: Racegoers love to dress up for @placeholder | By Beci Wood Formula 1 mogul Eddie Jordan, TOWIE star Amy Childs and Strictly Come Dancing's Kristina Rihanoff were among the celebrities in attendance at Royal Ascot today. The trio joined thousands of punters who descended upon the second day of the glamorous racing event in Berkshire. While Amy spent the early part of the day getting stuck into champagne, Kristina was kicked out for not adhering to the event's strict dress code. Ready for action: F1 mogul Eddie Jordan and guest pose for the cameras at Royal Ascot The Only Way Is Ascot: Amy Childs told fans she was drinking champagne on her way to the racing event
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Strictly Come Dancing star was kicked out for wearing a dress made out of Coral betting slips
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It could well have been a publicity stunt by the betting company
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@placeholder also admitted two charges of assault and Keating-Hutchinson one. | By Rosie Taylor 'Sickening': CCTV shows Piara Purewal repeatedly stamping on the head of unconscious teenager Louis Mousset as the thug's friends Dale Walker and Lance Keating-Hutchinson pin him to the pavement A thug who stamped on an unconscious teenager’s head ten times while his two friends pinned him face down to the pavement in a 'sickening' late-night attack has been jailed for seven years. Piara Purewal, 22, attacked Louis Mousset, who was 18 at the time, in the early hours of September 9 last year. The student, now 19, was walking with friends in Birmingham city centre when he was set upon by Purewal and his two accomplices, Dale Walker, 21, and Lance Keating-Hutchinson, 25.
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Piara Purewal, 22, captured on camera repeatedly stamping on victim, 18
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Louis Mousset had innocently walked past a fight when he was attacked
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Attacker's accomplices, aged 21 and 25, also jailed for pinning down Mousset | 6,446 | record_train |
@placeholder scored 44 points, with more than eight out of 10 pensioners owning their homes and nearly as many holding passports, while more than half are in good health and nearly half are married rather than single, divorced or widowed. | Affluent and attractive, Dorset has been ranked the best place for a golden retirement. In fact, it is one of a string of areas in the west of Britain that top a league table of ‘grey hotspots’. But there is one notable exception to the catalogue of picturesque or coastal destinations. Second place in the list was the comfortable if unglamorous Midlands’ town of Solihull. Dorset has long scored strongly in official records for its high life expectancy, good health, and general affluence. Scroll down for video Affluent and attractive, Dorset has been ranked the best place for a golden retirement. Above, the county's fabulously expensive seaside mansion suburb of Sandbanks, in Poole
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Second place on list is unglamorous Birmingham suburb of Solihull
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But because there's no audio from the exchange, it's hard to tell what prompted the reaction that caught fire on the @placeholder. | Washington (CNN) -- If President Barack Obama's relationship with House Speaker John Boehner was contentious in the past, he certainly wasn't showing it while the two sat at the head table of a congressional lunch following Monday's inauguration. The two appeared to have a lighthearted exchange that prompted an apparent eye roll from first lady Michelle Obama, who was seated between them. Was it something Boehner said that prompted the reaction? He tapped her shoulder while she ate her lunch. Or was it something the clearly amused president said? Or maybe it was something both of them said. Maybe it was her lunch.
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President Obama and House Speaker Boehner's relationship has become contentious
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Michelle Obama was seated between the two at inauguration luncheon on Monday
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First lady's apparent eye roll while Boehner was talking to her husband set Internet abuzz
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The United States currently has about 28,500 military personnel stationed in @placeholder, which North Korea claims is the main impediment to reunification of the Korean people. | Tokyo (CNN) -- Representatives of South Korea, Japan and the United States will meet "in the near future" to discuss North Korea, a U.S. State Department official told reporters Friday in Tokyo at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "I think we've agreed that we'll be holding a meeting in the near future," said Kurt M. Campbell, assistant secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, according to a transcript of his remarks on the State Department website. "I think the exact date, we are still coordinating among our partners." Campbell is on a trip through Asia that comes after the death last month of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and his replacement at the country's helm by his son Kim Jong Un.
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Talks to be held 'in the near future,' State Department official says
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South Korea, Japan and the United States are to participate | 6,449 | record_train |
First place: Jennifer Suhr of the @placeholder runs with the American flag after winning the women's pole vault final | By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:32 EST, 7 August 2012 | UPDATED: 09:32 EST, 7 August 2012 It has been a long four years for Jenn Suhr, whose dramatic journey had her fighting back from a debilitating illness and other injuries to defeat the Russian favourite and come out on top with Olympic gold in the pole vault. Suhr, 30, had a tough foe in Yelena Isinbayeva, of Russia, who was aiming to be the first woman in track and field history to win the same individual event in three straight Olympics. She was Jenn Stuczynski back in 2008 when she competed against Isbinbayeva in the pole vault at the Beijing games.
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Jenn Suhr bounced back from Celiac disease, an Achilles injury and a torn quadriceps muscle to achieve Olympic gold
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Husband Rick said he recalled the 1980 U.S. hockey team, who also beat the odds against their Russian rivals
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Semifinal game begins at 9 p.m. @placeholder time (4 p.m. | (CNN) -- The United States has injury worries on the track while the basketball team worries about a familiar foe. Here are five things to watch at the Olympics on Friday: 1) Men's 4x400 relay: U.S. hopes to continue streak The United States is lucky to be in the final, lucky, that is, that Manteo Mitchell found a way to finish his opening leg despite a broken fibula. The United States will have to find a replacement for him as they challenge the Bahamas for the gold. Also keep an eye on Great Britain, which will have most of the 80,000 fans at Olympic Stadium cheering for them.
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The U.S. relay team has three injured runners
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American men's basketball team faces an Argentine team packed with veterans
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Samuel Cutrufelli (left) is suing Jay Leone (right) for negligently shooting him during an alleged home invasion carried out by Mr. @placeholder | By James Nye PUBLISHED: 11:11 EST, 25 October 2012 | UPDATED: 15:27 EST, 25 October 2012 A 90-year-old body-building, World War Two veteran who was shot in the face during a home invasion is being sued by the alleged burglar for firing back. Former Greenbrae deputy sheriff Jay Leone is accused of 'negligently shooting' 31-year-old Samuel Cutrufelli three times and causing him 'great bodily injury' as the older man defended his own home. Filing his claim yesterday in California, Cutrufelli, who is currently being tried for two counts of attempted murder against Leone, said that the injuries caused led to his financial ruin, the loss of his his home and the eventual dissolution of his marriage.
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Former deputy sheriff and war veteran Jay Leone shot 31-year-old alleged burglar Samuel Cutrufelli three times with one of the five handguns he kept in his bathroom
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Meth addict Cutrufelli is now suing 91-year-old Leone for financial distress accusing him of causing him financial distress, the loss of his home and the break-down of his marriage | 6,452 | record_train |
McLaren released the first images of the car they hope will fire them to @placeholder glory in 2015 | McLaren’s much-heralded new partnership with Honda was ‘launched’ with all the gusto of a flat balloon – a 75-second video smuggled out on its website at noon on Thursday. It was accompanied by brave talk of ‘a new era’ and ‘making history’, but for a team famed for staging some of the most lavish launches in even Formula One’s decadent world, this online offering was shamefully tame. The video flashed from the old McLaren-Honda to the 2015 model, the MP4-30. The new car had a red streak up the sides and red wing mirrors, harking back to the chariots that took Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost to their title victories more than 20 years ago.
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McLaren released a 75-second video showcasing this season's car
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Flashes of red in bodywork are throwback to previous Honda era in which the team won four consecutive drivers' and constructors' championships
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Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso will form new-look driver partnership
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Over the past few months, I've gotten to know @placeholder very well. | (CNN) -- Jennifer Tyrrell and her family went to the headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America in Irving, Texas, to deliver a petition of 300,000 signatures asking the organization to end its ban on gay Scouts and gay Scout leaders. The BSA's policy of "not granting membership to open or avowed homosexuals" is a travesty. It led to the dismissal of Jennifer, who was the den leader of her own 7-year-old son's troop in Bridgeport, Ohio. By reaffirming its anti-gay policy, the BSA is telling the entire nation that maintaining its legacy of discrimination is more important to them than strengthening the bond between a mother and her son.
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The Boy Scouts of America is not granting membership to gays and lesbians
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Herndon Graddick: The organization's policy is a travesty
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@placeholder websites recently published photographs of him - a young bearded man - wearing the traditional Kurdish dress of baggy pants standing in front of dead Kurdish soldiers. | Ethnic Kurds are fighting against their own brethren and helping ISIS to take the town of Kobane by deciphering messages in the Kurdish language and giving information on battlefield terrain. One of Islamic State's top commanders in Kobane is also Kurdish, a man known as Abu Khattab al-Kurdi - which translates as Abu Khattab the Kurd. Hundreds of Kurds have joined forces with the Islamic State, but it is not known how many are fighting with the 3,000 ISIS troops in their seven-week battle for Kobane, a strategically key Syrian town on the Turkish border. Traitor: Hundreds of Kurdish troops are thought to be fighting with ISIS in Kobane against their own people, including Abu Khattab al-Kurdi (pictured) one of the militants' top commanders
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Hundreds of Kurds are thought to have joined ISIS since fighting began
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It is not known exactly how many are among 3,000 troops inside Kobane
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One of Islamic State's top commanders is a Kurd - Abu Khattab al-Kurdi
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Kurds are translating radio messages and giving information on terrain | 6,455 | record_train |
'@placeholder is really excited about it and we're looking forward to it too. | A fun-loving family is creating a massive 130ft-long waterslide in their back garden after buying it from a local leisure centre for just £50. Rachel Betts is making the huge flume for her two boys Oscar, 2, and six-month-old Oakley. Once completed, it will snake all the way around their two acre garden. The 26-year-old was given the enormous slide by her father Paul, who saw it being dismantled at his local leisure centre in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where it had been used for 20 years. He paid just £50 for the pipes, then the family spent a week carting them 25 miles across country to their home using a truck, trailer and lorry.
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Family constructs 130ft long waterslide in back yard for children to play on after buying it from local council
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Father Paul Betts paid £50 for it after he saw it being dismantled at his local leisure centre in Bury St Edmunds
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Slide will be dry for most of the year, but family is considering using a pump to turn it into a water slide occasionally
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These officials have no expectations @placeholder would agree to any U.N. resolution that included authorization for possible military force against Syria. | (CNN) -- Even as they trade barbs publicly -- and even as artillery shells and accusations continue to fly in Syria -- the United States and Russia could take solace Friday in at least one respect: They are still talking. Discussions between the two in Geneva -- centered around Moscow's proposal to have Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government hand over its chemical weapons stockpile -- were supposed to end Friday. They continued through the night and were extended into Saturday for a reason, U.S. officials said. "If there was no opening, we wouldn't still be here," a senior State Department official said.
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Hours into the siege, French President @placeholder spoke at a memorial service for the three paratroopers, calling their killing "a terrorist execution." | Mohammed Merah, 23, suspected in seven recent killings, remained holed up Thursday in an apartment in the southern French city of Toulouse, more than 24 hours after hundreds of officers lay siege. Police continued to demand the surrender of the self-proclaimed jihadist. Merah is wanted in the killings of three French paratroopers and of three students and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, in a string of shootings that began on March 11. He opened fire on police as they tried to break down his apartment door about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, wounding two officers, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said.
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"My favorite section is the loop at the terminal in @placeholder," says Vivant. | (CNN) -- Ding, ding. Passengers lean back as a Hong Kong tram -- affectionately called "Ding Ding" by locals -- signals its slow approach to the station. One by one, riders board through the doors at the back and struggle to pass through the narrow turnstiles. Jammed bags are a common sight. The tram slowly rolls back into action, cruising through the middle of traffic in some of Hong Kong's busiest neighborhoods, just as it has for 110 years. "The tram is such an icon of Hong Kong because it's closely associated with the big events that have happened here over the last century," says Emmanuel Vivant, director and general manager of Hong Kong Tramways.
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Hong Kong's trams have been riding the rails for 110 years
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He will also continue to consult with Dr Steve Peters, the leading sports psychiatrist who has played such an important role in @placeholder’s return to top-level cricket. | By the standards of what has been a year of extremes, the past week has been among the better ones for Jonathan Trott. First a new contract with Warwickshire and now a call-up to tour this winter with the England Lions. ‘Back in May, as you know, my only focus was playing second-team cricket,’ he told me on Tuesday. ‘It just shows how quickly things can change in sport.’ Trott was buzzing and understandably so. But not because he sees a tour of South Africa as an opportunity to secure a spot for next year’s Ashes. ‘One step at a time,’ he insisted cheerfully.
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Jonathan Trott spoke with Sportsmail on Tuesday after the former England No 3 was selected to play for the Lions against South Africa
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Trott admits it would have been 'easy for the ECB to discard me' after the batsman quit the 2013 Ashes series due to a 'stress-related illness'
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immigration; her son @placeholder (right) was jailed for 32 months | By Paul Donnelley A solicitor and a gang who organised fake weddings have been jailed for more than 16 years. Mohammed Akhtar, 28, used his job as a solicitor to make contact with immigrants from the sub-continent whose visas had expired. His partners in crime mother and son pair Vera Horvatova, 53, and Leon Horvat, 21, recruited women from the Czech community in Wolverhampton, West Midlands to act as fake brides. Happy never after: Crooked Lucie Ondicova, 25, during a sham wedding ceremony for which she has been jailed for 10 months Akhtar carried out his fraud for more than a year, charging hefty fees for his services before he was caught in in July last year.
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Solicitor Mohammed Akhtar, 28, used his job to make contact with immigrants from the sub-continent whose visas had expired
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Mother and son pair Vera Horvatova, 53, and Leon Horvat, 21, recruited women from the Czech community in Wolverhampton to act as fake brides
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11 gang members posed as brides and grooms as well as organising 'weddings' | 6,461 | record_train |
@placeholder, on the brink of securing a record 20th English top flight title, increased their value by 42% to $3.17 billion, according to Forbes. | (CNN) -- Spanish soccer giants Real Madrid increased the value of their club by 76% over the past year to usurp Manchester United as the world's most valuable football team. A study by financial experts Forbes found that Real Madrid's value now stands at $3.3 billion, knocking the English Premier League champions elect off the top of the list for the first time since the study began in 2004. Confounding the increasingly difficult economic conditions in Spain, Real, managed by Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho, have increased revenues to $650 million. Their operating income of $134 million is second only to the $227 million amassed by the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, which is the highest of all sports teams.
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Real Madrid are the world's most valuable football club according to Forbes
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Spaniards claim top spot from English club Manchester United for first time
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Real's value increased by 76% over the past year to stand at $3.3 billion
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@placeholder and Muwonge were both convicted of immigration offences and jailed for 18 months after a trial in 2011. | PUBLISHED: 13:59 EST, 19 September 2013 | UPDATED: 17:49 EST, 19 September 2013 An illegal immigrant married by the now Archbishop of York claimed £138,000 worth of benefits and made a hefty profit selling her council house back to a cash-strapped local authority. Bigamist Rebecca Muwonge, 47, entered the country from Uganda in 1996 using the name of her 18-year-old niece Proscovia Kasozi, and immediately claimed for short-term housing benefit. The London Borough of Newham granted her short-term accommodation twice under that name while she used her real identity to pocket benefits from the London Borough of Enfield. Benefits cheat Rebecca Muwonge (pictured centre), at her first marriage to Samuel Bisaso in 1996, which was conducted by John Sentamu (far left), who became Archbishop of York in 2005
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Rebecca Muwonge, 47, used her niece's name to enter the country
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The mother-of-five made a £60,000 profit selling her council house
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She was finally arrested after a joint investigation by two London boroughs
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But as the trial was set to begin in October, @placeholder said he wouldn't testify. | 'Bondage master' Bob Bashara has been found guilty of first-degree murder in a plot to kill his wife so he could devote himself to a life of domination with other women in an upper-class Detroit suburb. The salacious trial of the 57-year-old revealed his secret life in Grosse Pointe Park: a former Rotary Club president who used cocaine and hosted men and women at a sex dungeon underneath a bar called the Hard Luck Lounge. The father-of-two arranged the killing of his wife Jane Bashara who was strangled by a handyman in the couple's garage in 2012. Her body was then discovered in her Mercedes-Benz in a Detroit alley.
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Trial of the 57-year-old revealed his secret life in Grosse Point Park, Detroit
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Former rotary club president hosted men and women in a sex dungeon
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Jane Bashara was strangled by a handyman in the couple's garage in 2012
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Her body was then found in a Mercedes-Benz in an alleyway in the city
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Joe Gentz said Bashara coerced him into committing the crime
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Bashara repeatedly professed his innocence following his wife's death
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A publicist for @placeholder, whose real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, has not responded to CNN requests for comment on the apology. | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Singer Chris Brown publicly apologized for assaulting his pop star girlfriend, Rihanna, in a video statement posted on his personal Web site Monday. Chris Brown, shown here at his June 22 court appearance, has publicly apologized in a video posted Monday. "I have told Rihanna countless times, and I'm telling you today, that I'm truly, truly sorry in that I wasn't able to handle the situation both differently and better," Brown said. "What I did was unacceptable, 100 percent. I can only ask and pray that you forgive me. Please." Brown, 20, was arrested after an early morning argument inside a rented Lamborghini on a Hollywood street in February.
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Chris Brown posts an apology on his Web site
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Brown struck a plea deal last month for incident involving girlfriend Rihanna
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However @placeholder said it was ‘ridiculous’ that so much money had been spent because prison staff had misplaced their keys. | By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor PUBLISHED: 08:44 EST, 6 September 2013 | UPDATED: 10:25 EST, 6 September 2013 All the locks have had to be changed at four prisons after guards lost the keys, ministers have admitted. The taxpayer picked up the £300,000 bill to prevent mass escapes in the last three years. It can also be revealed that since the coalition was formed prison officers have lost almost 140 sets of keys, used to unlock everything from prison gates to handcuffs used to restrain the most dangerous criminals. Blunder: The taxpayer paid out £79,525 to change the locks at the category B Swaleside jail on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent
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Taxpayer left with £300,000 bill for error at 3 state-run prisons since 2010
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Private firm G4S also spent £415,000 on new locks at HMP Birmingham
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Labour condemns 'ridiculous' waste of money on blunders
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Privately some @placeholder officials are saying that all these lists represent a break with the old tradition of not getting personal during a row. | (CNN) -- Big, big sigh of relief among Russia's super-rich, as the West announces "smart sanctions" against a group of Kremlin officials and members of Russian parliament in response to the referendum that took place in Crimea and produced a result resembling the elections in the old Soviet Union: 96.7% of the people who took part in it voted for the peninsula to become part of Russia. The joke on the streets of Moscow is that the politicians took the bullet for the oligarchs, not for the first time and not the last. But jokes aside, the fate of Crimea is sealed. It will become part of Russia in about three months' time and, as things stand now, President Vladimir Putin has already signed an executive order recognizing the peninsula as an independent state, confirming his determination to stick to his guns in his address to the Federal Assembly.
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On Sunday, 96.7% of voters in Crimea's referendum chose to leave Ukraine and join Russia
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Alexander Nekrassov says Putin has gone too far to pull back -- regardless of sanctions
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On Friday, the plane chartered by the @placeholder government landed at 8 a.m. (2 a.m. | Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- A total of 37 former Cuban political prisoners landed in Madrid on Friday from Havana, boosting to 115 the number of former Cuban prisoners who have come to Spain since last July, a Spanish Foreign Ministry statement said. The latest group includes Cuban dissident Orlando Fundora, arrested in 2003 among a well-known group of 75 dissidents. He was released later and has now decided to seek medical help in Madrid, said a Foreign Ministry diplomat, who by custom is not named. The other 36 released this week include dissident Nestor Rodriguez, the diplomat said. The latest arrivals are the last of a group of political prisoners whose release was negotiated last year among the Cuban and Spanish governments and the Cuban Catholic church, the statement said.
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Latest group includes 37 former Cuban political prisoners and their relatives
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They are the last of a group of political prisoners whose release was negotiated last year
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Recently restored to her former 1950s elegance and perched above the bank of the River Nile, water is the main focus of @placeholder. | (CNNGo) -- At these panoramic fitness centers there's no excuse to hang onto that post-festivity bulge Basement fitness centers be damned. There are some places around the world that make your intentions to lace up the runners and don the spandex a whole lot more inviting. 1. MV Stella Australis, Chile Ever wanted to jog around Cape Horn but thought it was impossible? Well, it's not. Brand-new ship (in cruise ship terms any ship just past her first birthday is still brand-new) Stella Australis plies the glacier-lined route between Punta Arenas, Chile and Ushuaia, Argentina. The gym is positioned on the top deck with full-height double-glazed windows providing an ever-changing view of snow-dusted mountains and glaciers amid forest-clad fjords. The double glazing is important, as summer temperatures barely reach double figures in South American Patagonia.
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Langkawi's ancient rainforest in Malaysia is part of the Andaman Hotel gym's view
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The Chobe Safari Lodge in Uganda overlooks the banks of the Nile River
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Canada's Wickaninnish Inn provides workouts with rugged oceanfront views | 6,469 | record_train |
In more recent years, the work was taken over by the @placeholder, which distributes free Bibles in almost 194 countries worldwide. | One of Britain’s biggest hotel chains has removed Bibles from its rooms to avoid upsetting non-Christians. The decision by Travelodge has been condemned as ‘tragic and bizarre’ by the Church of England, which says Bibles in hotel rooms are important to provide hope, comfort and inspiration to travellers. But the chain, which runs 500 hotels, said the country was becoming increasingly multicultural and it had taken the action for ‘diversity reasons’. Scroll down for video 'Tragic and bizarre': The Church of England says Bibles in hotel rooms provide hope and inspiration to travellers It said the policy was implemented ‘in order not to discriminate against any religion’ – despite having had no complaints from guests.
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The chain, which runs 500 hotels, has made the move for 'diversity reasons'
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Said country is becoming increasingly multicultural and Bibles 'discriminate'
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Church of England condemned action, branding it 'tragic and bizarre'
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Bibles are 'important to provide inspiration to travellers', they said
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The books donated by Gideon Society are now hidden behind reception | 6,470 | record_train |
as old as @placeholder because they’re all in the past. | Top English students reach university believing Charles Dickens is ‘just as old’ as William Shakespeare, an academic has warned. Even those with three As at A-level including English can’t put books in historical context, according to Professor Helen Fulton, head of English and related literature at the University of York. They fear being stretched, stick to easy works studied in sixth form and choose short or computer-based texts over those with plot, character and clear narrative structure, she said. Top English students do not know that William Shakespeare, left, and Charles Dickens, right, were born 250 years apart, according to Professor Helen Fulton of York University
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Professor Helen Fulton said students cannot put works in historical context
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The head of English at York said undergraduates also fear being stretched
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Voyages also have a strong photography slant, with most on-board naturalists certified as photo instructors by @placeholder. | My first foray into deep water brings me face to face with some of the islands' most ebullient locals. As shoals of slim surgeonfish, parrotfish and clownfish wind between the gray rocks and drift in the current, they suddenly appear -- six Galapagos sea lions -- fat sleek bullets that zoom right up to my mask, upside down and mouths open, before twisting away at the last minute. Clambering back into the Zodiac dinghy -- or panga, as they're known in the Galapagos -- for the short return trip to the National Geographic Endeavour, one fellow "explorer" quizzes our accompanying naturalist.
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Blue-footed boobies, Galapagos penguins and marine iguanas are some of the species only found in the Galapagos
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The Galapagos National Park is over 3,000 square miles of islands and islets located 600 miles off Ecuador's mainland
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GNPS designs the itinerary and scheduled landings for every ship to reduce pressure on the islands | 6,472 | record_train |
in May last year, Mr @placeholder secretly recorded a 2am conversation he | An aide to former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos told an undercover reporter that he was sure Simon Cowell was gay, her drug trial heard yesterday. The singer’s manager and agent, Gareth Varey, made the extraordinary allegation as he negotiated a £3million fee for her to star in a fictitious Hollywood blockbuster, Southwark Crown Court was told. Undercover Sun on Sunday reporter Mazher Mahmood posed as a Bollywood film producer offering Contostavlos a leading role in a British Slumdog Millionaire-style movie. The singer is alleged to have arranged to supply the fake movie mogul with cocaine worth £820 in a bid to secure the role, saying she was desperate to leave The X Factor, where she was being paid £1.5million.
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Aide to Tulisa Contostavlos made claim to undercover reporter, court hears
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He was negotiating for her to star in fictitious Hollywood blockbuster, court told
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Undercover reporter posed as Bollywood film producer offering singer film role, trial hears
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Contostavlos on trial accused of being involved in supply of class A drugs | 6,473 | record_train |
Before deliberations began, @placeholder told jurors not to feel sorry for the defendant because he's young or because he had a bad father or a bad life. | (CNN) -- A jury in Kentucky Friday night acquitted 17-year-old Joshua Young in the beating death of his stepbrother, Trey Zwicker, two years ago. Young also was found not guilty of tampering with evidence. Josh Gouker, Young's father, pleaded guilty to murder in Zwicker's death, and was sentenced on July 26 to life in prison. But prosecutors said Young worked with Gouker to beat Zwicker as the teen suffocated in the mud of a ditch behind a Kentucky high school. "Trey Zwicker was brutally murdered at age 14 ... because Josh Gouker is a control freak and because Josh Young wanted to impress him," prosecutor Elizabeth Brown told the jury in Jefferson County Circuit Court during Friday's closing arguments. She said Gouker was upset with Zwicker's mother after she aborted Gouker's unborn child, and he wanted revenge.
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NEW: The jury finds Joshua Young not guilty in the beating death of his stepbrother
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Young, 17, was accused of joining his father in killing Trey Zwicker
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@placeholder left the house abruptly, apparently because Kyle had arrived to take him to the firing range, Watson said. | Stephenville, Texas (CNN)A former deputy testified last week that he overheard the defendant in the "American Sniper" murder trial explain why he killed two men. Gene Cole, who worked for the Erath County Sheriff's Office at the time, testified Friday that on June 22, 2013, he "heard Mr. [Eddie Ray] Routh say, 'I shot them because they wouldn't talk to me. I was just riding in the back seat of the truck and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn't talk to me. I'm sure they've forgiven me.'"
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Deputy said he heard Eddie Ray Routh say he killed the men because they wouldn't talk to him
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Routh's uncle said he and Routh smoked marijuana on the day of the slayings
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Chris Kyle, whose story was told in "American Sniper," and Chad Littlefield were shot to death on February 2, 2013 | 6,475 | record_train |
@placeholder's husband, who used to be a cargo handler at the pier, now works in one of the ships that ran aground in Anibong. | Kristian Kano dreams of a new house away from the sea that almost killed her and her family, when Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the eastern Philippines one year ago. "We're afraid to stay here, but we don't have a choice," the 25-year-old mother said, as she looked out from their makeshift house near the shore in the coastal village of Anibong, Tacloban City, which was worst hit by Haiyan. Kano said she and her 7-year-old daughter still have nightmares about the typhoon, referred to locally as Yolanda, which left thousands dead or missing, and millions homeless. "When it rains, my daughter would hug me tight and cry," she said. "I try to be strong but I am also scared. I don't want to stay here, but I have to wait for the government because we can't afford to move on our own."
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More than 70,000 live in coastal areas designated as danger zones in the Philippines
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These areas were ravaged when Typhoon Haiyan struck a year ago, killing thousands
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Only 250 residents have been relocated to permanent resettlement sites
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The typhoon wiped out industries, making life a struggle for many survivors | 6,476 | record_train |
@placeholder was serving a 50-year sentence for his convictions in 1998 for rape, criminal confinement and stalking. | (CNN) -- The last of three prisoners who escaped from Indiana State Prison earlier this month has been captured, authorities said Thursday. Lance Battreal, from left, Mark Booher and Charles Smith escaped from an Indiana prison July 12. The U.S. Marshals Service captured Mark Booher, a murderer, around 11 a.m., said Shannon Robinson, supervisor for a marshals service fugitive task force. Booher was taken into custody without incident in a hotel room on the north side of Indianapolis, Indiana, she said. He had been sentenced in 1999 to 65 years for murder and robbery. Booher escaped on July 12 from Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, along with Lance Battreal, a rapist, and Charles Smith, also a murderer.
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Mark Booher, a murderer, captured in a hotel room in Indianapolis
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We also know there are a lot of missing job opportunities, but my husband and the government are focused on social issues to generate these opportunities of development in @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Thousands of Honduran women and children leave the poverty and the violence in their communities to embark on a 1,500-mile journey through the heart of Mexican cartel territory to get into the United States. On "The Beast" -- the name given to the fast train that many ride through Mexico -- the stories are harrowing. Some die along the way. Others reach the "land of the free'" only to find themselves in immigration detention or shelters for unaccompanied children. Their individual stories often go untold for privacy, safety and security reasons. The Department of Homeland Security reports a dramatic decrease in the number of unaccompanied minors and adults with children crossing the border recently, a situation more like what we saw prior to the influx this spring and summer. Still, thousands are entering the country illegally each month.
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First Lady of Honduras has visited shelters in U.S. and Mexico
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Garcia de Hernandez wants U.S. to view unaccompanied children on case-by-case basis | 6,478 | record_train |
Morgan revealed England's bowlers learnt from @placeholder's mistakes on the Edgbaston pitch. | England captain Eoin Morgan hailed the controlled bowling at the death as his side claimed a dramatic three-run win over India at Edgbaston. Chris Woakes, Harry Gurney and Steven Finn kept it tight to restrict India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, as the visitors finished three runs short of England's 180 for seven. 'Throughout the whole game guys have held their nerve very well,' Morgan told Sky Sports 2. Over the line: Woakes celebrates as the ball is fielded securing a win for England that had looked unlikely Final act: Dhoni hits the last ball of the innings, knowing that anything but a boundary isn't enough
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England beat India by three runs in one-off T20
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Steven Finn, Chris Woakes and Harry Gurney bowl well to restrict tourists
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The partnership formed between David Cameron and his Chancellor @placeholder is a strong one. | By Martin Robinson PUBLISHED: 04:07 EST, 28 August 2012 | UPDATED: 08:16 EST, 28 August 2012 Should he stay or should he go? Half of voters believe George Osborne should be sacked as Chancellor Half of voters want George Osborne sacked as Chancellor in a new poll showing he is now the Government's most disliked politician. Mr Osborne has taken over from beleaguered Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg at the bottom of a damning popularity league that ranks how much the public like the cabinet. The Deputy Prime Minister has a rating of minus 26 compared to his Treasury colleague's minus 32, the Guardian/ICM study found.
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And the battles and tensions revealed among good men and women in the @placeholder account and others being written of the recent past are the legacy of that watershed error. | (CNN) -- It is easy to be confused by the welter of headlines and selective excerpts that have been leaked from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' upcoming book "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War." (I have not yet read the book.) Gates asserts President Obama lacked conviction about his own decision to put more troops in harm's way in Afghanistan. As described in the Bob Woodward summary of the book in the Washington Post, Gates writes that the Commander-in-Chief was "skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail." He also condemns what he saw as "suspicion and distrust of senior military officers by senior White House officials — including the president and the vice president."
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David Rothkopf: New book by ex-Defense Secretary Gates criticizes Obama, others
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Good Morning America: Michael's already had the first of his two daily workouts before he works his magic as co-anchor on @placeholder | By MailOnline Reporter Michael Strahan's fiancée Nicole Murphy has ended the couple's five year engagement. The pair started dating in 2007 and the former New York Giants proposed two years later. 'They love each other very much, but with the distance and work schedule it has been hard to maintain the relationship,' a spokesperson for Strahan told People magazine on Friday. Scroll down for video Over: Michael Strahan and Nicole Murphy, pictured here in May, have split The 42-year-old's TV career has certainly increased of late. The LIVE! With Kelly And Michael host took on a part-time role with Good Morning America in April, and besides that he continues to fly to Los Angeles on weekends to co-anchor Fox NFL Sunday before hopping aboard a red-eye flight back to New York in time for for his morning show gigs.
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Mrs @placeholder, who was the bank’s £39,000-a-year relationship manager, said that on another occasion a customer, who knew her husband was dying of motor neurone disease, asked intimate questions about her sex life. | Two female bank employees were subjected to years of sexual harassment and bullying by managers and clients, a tribunal heard. Maria Rayworth and Deena Rosario Al Bazi claim they were subjected to lewd behaviour by customers and were not backed up by bosses at the Arab National Bank in London. In one incident, Mrs Bazi, 57, kneed a former chairman of the bank in the groin to stop him making advances to her in a lift. ‘As soon as the doors of the lift closed, he threw himself against me and tried to kiss me,’ she said. ‘I managed to bring one of my knees up and knee him in the private parts. I was very scared but also really shocked.’
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Two employees claim they were subjected to lewd behaviour by customers
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Mrs Rayworth and Mrs Bazi worked at the Arab National Bank in London
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But if the promise of the great outdoors and quality time with the folks isn't enough to lure youngsters outside, perhaps @placeholder is. | (CNN) -- Silently huddled on the water's edge, waiting hours on end for a hint of action, may not be everyone's idea of a pleasurable pastime. But the joy of fishing -- much like its catch -- comes in many shapes and sizes. From wrestling ferocious Amazonian amphibians, to casting a reel in the shadow of Cinderella's Castle, here are our top five aquatic expeditions to expand the mind and get your pulse racing. Pretty fly fishing A luxury Aspen hotel gives new meaning to the term "fly-fishing" by offering helicopter rides over the dramatic Rocky Mountains to a secluded lake.
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A look at the top five fishing expeditions from across the world
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Perfect opportunity for family bonding at one of Disney World's lakes
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The separate @placeholder store, like many others for Android, never gained significant traction. | San Francisco (CNN) -- Verizon Wireless is rebooting its application store for smartphones after a lackluster first attempt. The new storefront, called Verizon Apps, will be presented for free to Verizon customers with Droid phones. It will coexist with Google's Android Market, which comes preloaded on all of its phones. Verizon already offers apps that are exclusively available to its subscribers, such as one with live video of National Football League games. The U.S. cellular giant is set to introduce the new mobile software marketplace at its Las Vegas conference for developers on Tuesday. Verizon and Chomp, which provides the search engine for the service, have been briefing reporters on the news.
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@placeholder officials did not immediately respond to efforts to obtain a response to the Amnesty International report. | (CNN) -- Atef 'Abd al-Qader Al-Atrash is a 32-year-old Libyan blogger, government critic, and a father of two young children. He has not been seen since a February 18 gathering near Benghazi. Amnesty International said in a briefing paper issued Tuesday that Al-Atrash is one of many people who have vanished in what they say is a "campaign of enforced disappearances" -- a practice by pro-Moammar Gadhafi forces trying to squelch the opposition movement. The paper -- titled "Libya: Detainees, Disappeared and Missing" -- explores more than 30 cases of people who have disappeared since protests started in the war-torn North African nation. Among those missing are political activists and "those suspected of being rebel fighters or supporters of fighters."
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The company's @placeholder office said the situation was "under control" and being dealt with. | BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Kept in a derelict warehouse at Baghdad's airport for months, sleeping four to a bed with poor food and no money, hundreds of would-be contract workers are stranded, claiming they were duped by unscrupulous recruiting agents into coming to Iraq for nonexistent jobs. Men staying in an airport warehouse say they paid recruiters to take them to Iraq, believing they'd get jobs. The recruiters told the men -- from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Uganda -- that jobs were waiting for them with American defense contractor KBR, through a Kuwaiti company called Najlaa Catering Services. The recruiting agents charged them between $3,000 and $5,000 to make the trip to Iraq; many sold their farms or other valuables to raise the money.
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Men claim recruiters duped them into going to Iraq for nonexistent jobs
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Big moment: Hayne dabs his eyes with a handkerchief as he announces his decision to pursue his dream of playing @placeholder | Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll has described Australia’s Jarryd Hayne as ‘an incredible athlete and a great competitor’ and the prospect of recruiting him is ‘an exciting thought.’ The NRL player’s manager says the Seahawks aren’t the only club showing an interest, claiming they are being flooded offers from NFL clubs interested in meeting Hayne. ‘There is literally hundreds of emails I am trying to answer,’ Hayne’s manager, Wayne Beavis, told SMH. Scroll down for video Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, discussed Jarryd Hayne at a media conference on Thursday (pictured), describing the recently-retired NRL player as 'an incredible athlete and a great competitor'
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Seattle Seahawks coach indicated they are interested in meeting with recently-retired NRL star Jarryd Hayne
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Pete Carroll described Hayne as 'an incredible athlete, great player'
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Seahawks camp hosed down rumours, insisting Carroll had been joking
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Jarryd Hayne's manager says he is being inundated with NFL offers
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'There's literally hundreds of emails, exceeding our wildest expectations'
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The 26-year-old's mother Jodie is so happy her son can 'follow his dreams'
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Parramatta Eels superstar quit the NRL this week to play American football
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'It's always been a dream of mine to play in the NFL'
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He has not signed a contract yet
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Described it as the 'hardest decision' he has ever made | 6,488 | record_train |
'It was a bit scary but it kind of helped us a little bit - all the safety cars got us in position back up there,' @placeholder said after the race, which saw a total of eight retirements and 10 safety car interventions. | The end of the Bathurst 1000 matched the day's drama when road repairs to the track halted the race for an hour following a number of high-speed crashes. Just two hours into the great Australian motor race, officials raised the red-flag just after 1pm as the new bitumen at turn two started breaking up heavily, causing a number of accidents at Mount Panorama in NSW on Sunday. Nissan co-driver Taz Douglas went into the wall twice at high-speed corner, with the Fords of Paul Morris and Scott Pye also crashing at the same spot. Lee Holdsworth in the Erebus entry overturned during the 133rd lap of the Bathurst 1000
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Ford's Chaz Mostert and Paul Morris won the 1,000km race at Mt Panorama in NSW
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They beat out Holden's Jamie Whincup who ran out of fuel just 1km from the finish line
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It followed a day of crashes caused by bitumen coming away from the Bathurst 1000 track
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Officials red-flagged the race when a patch of new tarmac at turn two was breaking up heavily
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The area was filled and sealed with resin before the race resumed an hour later | 6,489 | record_train |
I could see the @placeholder in front of the BMW and the BMW was right up the Golf's rear end. | A promising young soldier on Christmas leave was killed and his girlfriend seriously injured in a crash while 'racing' a 22-year-old taking a BMW for a test drive at speeds of up to 100mph, an inquest heard. Fusilier Tony Emery, 24, was driving his girlfriend home in his new red VW Golf when he was flashed at and overtaken by a black BMW on the A666 near Bolton, Greater Manchester. As the driver Luke Stone, 22, drove past, it was claimed a race ensued with witnesses saying the soldier's Golf had tailgated the BMW 8318 at high speed. Tragedy: Fusilier Tony Emery, 24, (right) was killed and his girlfriend Paige Palmer (left) seriously injured in a crash while 'racing' 22-year-old Luke Stone, who was test-driving a BMW
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Fusilier Tony Emery, 24, died in the crash on the A666 near Bolton
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Inquest told he was flashed at and overtaken by BMW driven by Luke Stone
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Fellow drivers said they saw the pair 'caning it' along the dual carriageway
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Mr Stone braked at a speed camera and Fus. Emery pulled into other lane
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Car spun out of control, hit the camera, flipped over and landed in ditch
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Fus. Emery was killed and girlfriend Paige Palmer, 20, badly injured
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Aspiring model's neck was broken and she now needs a wheelchair
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Fus. Emery was 'very highly regarded' and due for a promotion
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After crash Stone returned to BMW garage and went on second test drive | 6,490 | record_train |
@placeholder created a media frenzy in 1995 when he was charged with having sex with an underage campaign worker, asking her to obtain child pornography for him, and then having her sign false affidavits recanting the accusations | Former Illinois Democratic Rep. Mel Reynolds was arrested Monday in Zimbabwe after police learned that he was making pornographic films in hotels where he had accumulated $24,500 in unpaid bills, and that he had overstayed his visa by two months. A former Reynolds assistant told the state-controlled newspaper The Herald that the Democratic pol had been paying a model and several other girls to produce his pornos. 'His travel documents were not up to date and he used to bring beautiful women at different times,' said the former employee, identified only as Sunny. 'He employed five of us including a personal assistant and a driver.'
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Mel Reynolds was allegedly in the country illegally since December, making pornographic films in hotel rooms with at least 10 models
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He reportedly racked up $24,500 in unpaid hotel bills
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Reynolds went to prison in the 1990s for the statutory rape of a 16-year-old campaign volunteer, and for bank fraud
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His resignation from Congress opened up Barack Obama's first political opportunity, when a state senator stepped forward to run for the seat
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Reynolds claimed Monday that Zimbabwe's immigration police refused to give him his passport so he could contact the U.S. Embassy in Harare | 6,491 | record_train |
Pointing a finger at @placeholder, he lobbed rhetorical grenades in the hope of firing up his base for the coming November congressional election. | By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor President Obama came out swinging at Republicans on Monday night during a high-dollar fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Maryland, saying their concerns about the 2012 Benghazi terror attack and his Obamacare medical insurance law were 'not serious.' His latest antagonistic salvo will enrage the GOP, as it brings to mind his July 2013 pronouncement that the fast-brewing controversies engulfing his presidency were 'phony scandals.' Obama never specific which scandals were 'phony' during a Galesburg, Illinois speech about economic issues. But at the time a quartet of all-hands-on-deck crises were swirling around the West Wing: the National Security Agency's publicly leaked surveillance programs, the Internal revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, his Justice Department's seizure of reporters' phone records and emails, and the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans.
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The president spoke to wealthy partisans in one of the richest suburbs of Washington, D.C., blasting Republicans for not joining with his priorities
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The GOP has been 'captured' by the tea party, he suggested
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The result is a GOP that obstructs his agenda with scandals, including the 2012 terror attack in Libya and his medical insurance overhaul law
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The comments bring to mind his 2013 salvo in which he called crisis in the IRS, the DOJ and the State Department 'phony scandals' | 6,492 | record_train |
'I never signed my name Deborah, always 'Barbie', @placeholder says: 'Joan just made people better, when you were around her you upped your game. | Inside Edition host Deborah Norville says she will be 'stunned and outraged' if New York State authorities do not prosecute the doctors whose actions led to the death of her close friend Joan Rivers. Deborah, 56, spoke out as Joan's daughter Melissa prepares to sue the clinic where the comic suffered a heart attack that led to her death following a routine endoscopy - and the doctors who treated her. In an exclusive interview with MailOnline, Deborah said: 'There are two legal issues, there is Melissa’s civil suit, but I will be stunned and outraged if the State of New York does not instigate criminal proceedings against some of the medical professionals involved. You cannot tell me what has been reported on is not criminal behavior. It shouldn't have happened.'
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Inside Edition host says reports of malpractice during the star's endoscopy show 'criminal behavior'
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Deborah says: 'I thought Joan would have lived until 100!'
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Reminisces about comic's bawdy funeral, saying: 'I think the rabbi must have converted to another religion by now'
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Joan used to call her and her husband 'Barbie and Ken'
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She adds: 'The legacy of Joan is she would want people to laugh... she could find humor in the most desperate of situations' | 6,493 | record_train |
"Based on our initial assessment, we continue to believe there is no lawful basis for stripping Shelly Sterling of her 50 percent ownership interest in the @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has until May 27 to respond to the National Basketball Association, which on Monday "initiated a charge" seeking to terminate all ownership rights in the franchise, the NBA announced in a written statement. Sterling, who owns the team with his wife, Shelly, through a family trust, will also be allowed to make a presentation at a special Board of Governors meeting scheduled for June 3. However, attorney Maxwell Blecher has demanded on behalf of Sterling that the NBA give the longtime owner a three-month extension to prepare his response, Sports Illustrated reported Monday night. The magazine, which like CNN is owned by Time Warner, said the NBA would reject the request.
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NBA owners seem united since his Anderson Cooper interview, CNN's Rachel Nichols says
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Sterling, an 80-year-old lawyer and billionaire investor, has said he is not a racist
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Sports Illustrated reports Sterling wants a three-month delay
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Shelly Sterling's attorney said she is innocent victim, should keep her half of team | 6,494 | record_train |
@placeholder' friends informed cops, but Nettles was already unconscious by the time they arrived and broke up the fight. | Hate crime: Island Nettles was beaten into a coma by a Facebook friend who only moments earlier realized she was born a man A transgender woman in New York has died after being beaten by a group of men who attacked her and yelled gay slurs. The victim, 21-year-old Islan Nettles, died Thursday in a Harlem hospital after being taken off life support five days following the attack. Nettles was pronounced brain after being beaten on the street by one of her Facebook friends, 20-year-old Paris Wilson. According to Nettles' family, the young woman had two Facebook profiles - one using her birth name Vaughn Nettles and another 'female' profile.
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Islan Nettles, 21, died last Thursday following an alleged hate crime in Harlem
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Nettles was out last weekend when she ran into Facebook friend Paris Wilson, 20, and he started flirting with her
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When his friends informed him that Nettles was born a man, he got angry and started beating her up
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Nettles slipped into a coma during the attack and was pronounced brain dead Thursday when she was taken off life support and died
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Wilson will likely face murder charges now that the victim's death has been ruled a homicide | 6,495 | record_train |
‘When someone buys their first @placeholder product," he said, 'they end up buying another one.' | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:14 EST, 24 January 2013 | UPDATED: 11:54 EST, 29 January 2013 More than $50 billion (£42 billion) has been sliced off tech giant Apple's market value as its share price plummeted. The share price fell by 12 per cent, prompted by poor iPhone sales over Christmas and fears the huge success of the iPad mini is impacting on sales of the firm's range of full sized iPads and Mac computers. The computer giant’s latest figures reveal a 21.2 percent drop in Mac sales from the same time last year. Apple's quarterly revenue by product: Experts believe consumers may be buying iPads instead of more expensive Mac computers from Apple, leading to a 21.2 percent drop in Mac sales this quarter
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The company shipped 47.8 million of the flagship iPhone product, less than the 50 million that Wall Street expected
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Analysts call for firm to release lower cost iPhone
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Success of the iPad also believed to be cannabilising sales of the firm's Mac computers, leading to a drop in sales of 21.2 percent
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Apple shares slumped 12 per cent on Thursday after disappointing sales | 6,496 | record_train |
Unlike judges on many @placeholder talent shows, Cowell didn't sugar-coat his criticisms to contestants. | (CNN) -- Longtime "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell said he'll be leaving the popular Fox talent show at the end of the season, the network announced Monday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California. Cowell's popular U.K. talent show, "The X Factor," will be coming to the United States in the fall of 2011 with the acerbic critic in tow, according to Fox. "I want to leave 'Idol' this year bigger and better than it was in the past," Cowell said at the TCA tour Monday. Cowell will be both executive producer and judge on "The X Factor."
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Simon Cowell leaving "American Idol" after this season
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Cowell's "The X Factor" coming to U.S. in 2011
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Cowell's acerbic commentary has been a big reason for "Idol's" popularity | 6,497 | record_train |
Lynch later became President Barack Obama choice to succeed @placeholder as U.S. attorney general. | Michael Grimm, a Republican who has represented New Yorkers in Congress since 2011, plans to enter a guilty plea Tuesday in federal court, admitting that he helped prepare a fraudulent tax return for a restaurant he partially owned. The federal felony could bring him up to three years in prison, but a person who is familiar with the congressman's negotiations told DailyMail.com on Monday that the congressman doesn't expect to go to prison. Grimm is a former FBI agent and is a rare Republican in the Democrat-friendly Big Apple. His fate will be up to Federal Judge Pamela Chen, however, when she hears the terms of a plea agreement. Grimm was originally charged with 20 separate federal crimes and has been serving his constituents while under the terms of a $400,000 bond granted in the spring.
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Michael Grimm faced a 20 federal criminal counts related to false tax returns filed by a restaurant in which he was a 45-percent owner
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The former FBI agent won re-election by 13 points last month despite the cloud of prison hanging over him
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Loretta Lynch, the prosecutor chosen by President Obama to replace US Attorney General Eric Holder, filed the indictment in the spring
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House Speaker John Boehner is keeping mum on whether or not Grimm can keep his seat in Congress if he manages to avoid jail on Tuesday
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Grimm became famous worldwide in January for threatening to throw a reporter off a balcony in the US Capitol for asking him a tough question | 6,498 | record_train |
Attorneys for @placeholder also argued that the main evidence for Wright's 1992 conviction, his video confession, was given when Wright was barely 18 years old, was severely sleep deprived and under the influence of heroin, court documents say. | (CNN) -- A Delaware man who spent more than 20 years on death row saw his murder conviction and death sentence reversed by the state Supreme Court Monday, according to court documents. Jermaine Wright, 41, was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of liquor store clerk Phillip Seifert. State Supreme Court justices ruled that prosecutors withheld critical and potentially exculpatory information during the 1992 trial that violated his right to due process, entitling Wright to a retrial. The suppression of such information "creates a reasonable probability that the verdict would have been different if the exculpatory and impeachment evidence had been disclosed," wrote Justice Henry Ridgely in the decision. "Accordingly, we must reverse Wright's conviction and death sentence and remand for a new trial."
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Jermaine Wright, 41, was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1992
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The Delaware Supreme Court overturned his conviction and death sentence Monday
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The high court ruled that prosecutors withheld important information during the 1992 trial
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Wright was 18 at the time of his conviction | 6,499 | record_train |
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