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In @placeholder, it is typically only 32.6 per cent for an average earner, compared with an average across the OECD’s 34 countries of 40.6 per cent. | Worrying: Criticism of the state pension in Britain has come at a time when the age of qualification is likely to rise along with the life expectancy of citizens State pensions in Britain are the worst in any major European economy, a report has revealed. Even former Eastern bloc nations such as Slovenia, Hungary and Slovakia are among those where provision is more generous as a proportion of average incomes, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. A total of 12.3million people in Britain have reached the State pension age – between 61 and 68 – and are entitled to a maximum payout of £110.15.
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Pensioners in the UK are entitled to a maximum of £110.15 per-week
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Report says that is almost £70 below what is a 'living state pension'
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Nations such as Slovenia, Hungary and Slovakia offer more generous deals
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Salary replaced by UK pension is 32.6%, compared to 67.9% in Slovakia | 60,600 | record_train |
Their search took them to Mr @placeholder's home in Openshaw where Bonner confronted Mr Sheldon on the doorstep demanding that he tell him if the man responsible for the burglary was at the house. | By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 06:42 EST, 2 December 2013 | UPDATED: 12:06 EST, 2 December 2013 A frail grandfather was beaten up in his own home by two self-styled vigilantes who wrongly suspected him of being involved with the theft of their Christmas presents. Christopher O'Brien, 36, and his 26-year-old nephew John Bonner, boasted after the brutal assault on Norman Sheldon who died six days later. Despite protesting that he knew nothing about the disappearance of the gifts from Bonner's house, O'Brien repeatedly punched the 47-year-old grandfather in the face, causing him to hit his head against a wall.
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Christopher O'Brien, 36, and John Bonner, 26, were hunting burglar
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They boasted after beating up Norman Sheldon, who died six days later
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Mr Sheldon, of Openshaw, Manchester, had denied involvement in theft
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O'Brien admitted manslaughter and Bonner pleaded guilty to affray | 60,601 | record_train |
Last week the man behind Miss @placeholder’s most famous hairstyle revealed he was high when he created ‘The Rachel’. | By Laura Cox PUBLISHED: 18:16 EST, 15 May 2013 | UPDATED: 09:36 EST, 17 May 2013 Her bouncing waves regularly top polls as the hairstyle most desired by women. But the man who looks after Kate Middleton’s hair has confessed that in the race for most popular haircut, the Duchess of Cambridge is beaten by ‘The Rachel’. Twenty years after it was first made famous by Jennifer Aniston in hit American sitcom Friends, the style is still regarded by Richard Ward as the one that women really wanted. Most wanted: Jennifer Aniston sporting the famous Rachel cut in 1996, left, and, right, Kate Middleton whose hair hairdresser Richard Ward praised as 'beautiful'
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Kate Middleton is a loyal client at Richard Ward's Chelsea salon
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He said The Rachel cut is still the most requested style
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But says royal-mother-to-be has 'the most beautiful hair' | 60,602 | record_train |
"We knew for the last two years, he's been reading a lot of jihadist information and talked a lot of inflammatory rhetoric," Kelly said of @placeholder. | New York (CNN) -- Authorities have arrested a man they claim was plotting to detonate pipe bombs in and around New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday night. The intended targets of Jose Pimentel, 27, were U.S. military personnel who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as U.S. postal facilities and police in New York and Bayonne, New Jersey, according to Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. The suspect was described by Bloomberg as an "al Qaeda sympathizer," though he is not believed to have ever worked with or received training from anyone in that terrorist organization.
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NEW: Jose Pimentel bought bomb ingredients at Home Depot and elsewhere, police say
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NEW: The al Qaeda magazine he'd read urged backers to take matters into their own hands
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Pimentel, 27, is suspected of plotting to attack U.S. veterans, police and post offices
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"There is no evidence he worked with anyone else," Mayor Bloomberg says | 60,603 | record_train |
An escape corridor will be offered for those who disarm to leave @placeholder. | (CNN) -- The new cease-fire implemented in embattled eastern Ukraine by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday was clearly under threat by Saturday, if not sooner. Three Ukrainian border guards were wounded when pro-Russian separatists launched a mortar attack and opened fire with automatic weapons near the town of Vyselky, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine's State Border Service said in a statement Saturday. The wounded guards were evacuated as security forces were notified, according to the Border Service. The separatists also targeted a nearby checkpoint in Uspenka, using small arms, but the attack was repelled by guards, the Border Service said.
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Violence erupts amid attempts at new cease-fire in eastern Ukraine
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Pro-Russian separatists attacked with mortars, weapons fire, Ukrainian officials say
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Ukrainian guards repelled a separate attack at a checkpoint nearby
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Kremlin statement says Putin supports a cease-fire | 60,604 | record_train |
One of the tractor-trailer's jack-knifed and collided with the @placeholder's truck, which became pinned underneath the freight hauler. | Double the loss: Mother-of-two Beverly Smith, 32, and her unborn baby girl were killed Saturday in a multi-vehicle car crash in Ohio Just two weeks shy of her due date, a 32-year-old mother and her unborn baby girl were killed in a Valentine's Day car crash. Beverly Smith and her husband Eric, 33, were driving home to Middleville, Michigan from a medical trip to New Jersey when they encountered whiteout conditions on I-90 Saturday morning near Sandusky, Ohio. The religious mother-of-two was sitting in the passenger's seat, reading a bible, when their Ford F-150 became entangled in a massive multi-vehicle car wreck involving at least eight vehicles - including six semi-trucks.
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Beverly and Eric Smith were driving home to Michigan from a medical trip to New Jersey on Saturday when their pick-up truck was involved in a crash
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Emergency responders had to work for two and a half hours to free Mrs Smith from the passenger seat of their car, pinned under a semi-truck
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Mrs Smith and her unborn daughter were later pronounced dead at a local hospital; her husband was treated for non-life-threatening injuries
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She is survived by her husband and their two children, 3-year-old daughter Claire and 1-year-old son Sam | 60,605 | record_train |
And once an @placeholder that's a bit on the chubby side took note of his 6% body fat, he would be a goner. | (CNN) -- The American people should sue Washington's chattering class for whiplash. Just a few days ago, when Paul Ryan was selected by Mitt Romney to be his running mate, there was a burst of media euphoria. The nomination was a game changer. Ryan was an ideas guy. He would elevate what to date had been a lackluster campaign. He had killer abs. But within 48 hours, the so-called "narrative" had changed. The narrative is not actual facts. It is how those facts look after they've been run through the political spin cycle. Thanks to modern technology, the whole process of spinning narratives that once took weeks, now happens in the blinking of an eye. Twitter, in its manic frenzy, hopped up on bite-size bits of emotion-filled social interaction, condenses months into hours, news cycles into moments, but without any of the perspective that time or thought brings.
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David Rothkopf: Pundits whipsaw on Paul Ryan -- first he's game changer, then liability
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He says VP picks matter; historically VPs influential, sometimes become president
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He says Ryan pick could spur needed debate, clarify choice in election
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Rothkopf: Substantive debate great but must be followed by cooperation on action | 60,606 | record_train |
A great way of doing this is by using an integrated platform such as @placeholder. | Would you pay $21 for a BBQ chicken pizza or $20 for a butter chicken curry? If you live in Sydney or Brisbane, you may have come across these prices, as new data shows the two cities are among the most expensive places in Australia for takeaway food. Online takeaway site Menulog analysed their 2014 orders nationwide and compared the average prices customers pay in different states. The results revealed takeaway lovers in some Australian states are paying around $5 more for a single dish than people in other states. Scroll down for video New data has shown that Sydney and Brisbane city centres are among the most expensive places for takeaway food in the country
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Menulog analysed orders taken nationwide last year and compared prices
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People in some states are paying $5 more for the same dish than in others
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BBQ chicken pizza, butter chicken, supreme pizza, Pad Thai and Penang curry were analysed
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Queenslanders foot the biggest bill when it comes to ordering takeaway
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Victoria is the best-value state for takeaway food | 60,607 | record_train |
Following six consecutive quarters of recession and with unemployment at 11.2%, @placeholder is pursuing the euro area's latest fad to revive Italy's ailing economy; a pro-growth agenda. | Italy's electoral run-off between an ex-communist and a former cruise ship singer threatens to throw the country back into the spotlight of the European debt crisis. The enigmatic leader of the center-left Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani, goes head-to-head with scandal-laden former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi -- back from the political grave following his resignation in November 2011. Incumbent technocrat premier and eurozone darling Mario Monti, meanwhile, is lagging behind in the polls. The cigar-chomping Bersani is favorite for Italy's top job and proposes to steer the country's battered economy through a debt crisis that is still plaguing the eurozone three years on.
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Bersani wins he may be forced to form a coalition with incumbent PM Mario Monti
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Center-left leader Bersani says he plans to make the property tax "more progressive"
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Berlusconi is using his showman charm to mount a comeback for his PDL party | 60,608 | record_train |
Spectators pictured entering the court room for the @placeholder plea hearing yesterday | A woman charged in a deadly 2012 house explosion in Indianapolis agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and testify against her former boyfriend and his brother in the fiery natural gas blast that damaged dozens of homes. Monserrate Shirley, 49, would have to testify against ex boyfriend Mark Leonard and his brother, Bob Leonard, as well as 'any other individuals as yet uncharged' in the Nov. 10, 2012, explosion. Shirley, who had pleaded not guilty after she and the two men were charged in late 2012, appeared before a Marion County judge in a courtroom filled with current and former residents of the neighborhood marked by the blast.
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Monserrate Shirley, 49, would have to testify against former boyfriend Mark Leonard and his brother in the plea deal
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The deal would allow Shirley to avoid a possible sentence of life without parole
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She's alleged to have rigged the blast in a scheme to collect $300,000 in insurance
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The explosion killed Dion Longworth and his wife, Jennifer Longworth, and damaged more than 80 homes | 60,609 | record_train |
Photographer Ms @placeholder said Mburri was very patient with his children, but added: 'If they weren't his, I think it would have been a different story' | Being woken up early by excited children is a feeling that every parent will know all too well. So spare a thought for this male lion in South Africa who was given a very early wake-up call by his two eager cubs. Mburri may be the king of the beasts, but that didn't stop his children Impi and Dela from treating him like just another plaything. This is the moment two lion cubs called Impi and Dela gave their sleepy father Mburri an early-wake up call Aspiring wildlife photographer Zoe Cole, 24, captured dad's very unimpressed look as he was woken up
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Mburri the lion and his pride began sleeping after a night on the prowl
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However his cubs Impi and Dela had other ideas and pounced on him
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Pictures capture the moment a grumpy father is woken from his sleep
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Zoe Cole, 24, took the images while volunteering in South Africa | 60,610 | record_train |
But while many of the letters would decrease in value under the system devised by Mr @placeholder, some letters would go up in value. | By Nick Mcdermott Scrabble purists watch out, the word is that someone wants to change the rules. A U.S. academic and Scrabble fan has proposed altering the value of some letters to reflect changes in the dictionary and how easy they are to play with other letters. Dr Joshua Lewis, who created a computer programme to recalculate the values, is likely to outrage purists by awarding just six points for a Z, which is the highest scoring tile alongside Q, with both worth ten points. He says only Q should remain a ten-point tile, with X relegated from eight to five. The game was invented 1938 by Alfred Butts, who calculated the scores based on how frequently letters appeared on the front page of the New York Times.
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Board game was invented 75 years ago by American architect Alfred Butts
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He scored letters depending on their level of use in the New York Times
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Some claim values are outdated because of changes to the English language
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American researcher Joshua Lewis has created new 'fairer' letter scores
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But Scrabble maker Mattel says it has no plans to make changes to the game | 60,611 | record_train |
In it, @placeholder approaches a woman at a bar and uses his profession to impress a female patron. | (CNN) -- Almost 20 years ago, Bill Watterson walked away from "Calvin & Hobbes" -- the wildly popular comic strip he created and illustrated from 1985 until 1995. Fans of the mischievous 6-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger have been left wanting more ever since. For the time being, they can at least take comfort in some cameo work released this week. Stephan Pastis writes "Pearls Before Swine," which chronicles the lives of its main characters -- Pig, Rat, Zebra and Goat, and the dreaded Crocs. He's also a big Watterson fan. Last spring he attempted to reach the notoriously reclusive comics legend via e-mail, to no avail.
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Bill Watterson contributed to the comic "Pearls Before Swine"
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Watterson contributed three strips
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The series of strips ran nationally this week | 60,612 | record_train |
Pressing the flesh: Mr @placeholder danced with one of the diners at the restaurant as the 2012 campaign trail heats up | By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:29 PM on 29th June 2011 Barack Obama's re-election bid has come under fire after a campaigner hinted he may include dinner cooked by White House chef Sam Kass as a way of raising money. The idea was suggested as a possible fund-raising measure by Noah Shaw - a junior campaign manager - who hoped to arrange a food tasting that would feature a number of local chefs. The controversy comes after a video for an upcoming fund raiser was allegedly shot at the White House, leading commentators to criticise the President for his 'poor taste' in choosing the venue to serve as a campaign backdrop.
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Row after 'Dinner with Obama' video filmed at White House
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Tax payer funded White House chef mooted as possible raffle prize
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President talked up economic plans at aluminium plant | 60,613 | record_train |
The French government has urged the 30,000 women in @placeholder with PIP implants to have them removed - and offered to pay for the surgery. | By Lee Moran Last updated at 7:57 AM on 28th December 2011 France's health secretary has appealed for calm in an attempt to quell growing fears over breast implants that have been sold to countries including Britain. Xavier Bertrand admitted conflicting information about the products made by the now bankrupt Poly Implant Prothese was having a devastating effect. Last week France said it would pay for women to have the industrial silicone-filled implants removed because they were liable to split open. Burst: Plastic surgeon Denis Boucq holding defective silicone gel breast implants, which were removed from a patient Mr Bertrand said: ‘It’s true this is not of an urgent nature,’ but he added: ‘We recommend that the breast implants are removed to avoid a rupture.’
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PIP's saline devices described as 'adulterated'
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U.S. health authorities issued warning in 2000
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Firm's silicone implants already under investigation
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Thousands more women could be affected | 60,614 | record_train |
After the six week course at NYU, Bacani hopes to find another fellowship that will allow her to extend her stay in @placeholder and continue her goal of becoming a photojournalist. | Hong Kong (CNN)A domestic worker from the Philippines who moonlights as a photographer in Hong Kong will be leaving her job in May to pursue a dream career in New York. Xyza Cruz Bacani, 27, has been selected as one of seven Human Rights Fellows by the Magnum Foundation. This summer, she will spend six weeks studying at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The fellowship aims to give aspiring documentary photographers the skills and support to pursue socially conscious photography in their home countries. "My family was overjoyed when the news came in," Bacani wrote in an email while taking a quick break from babysitting. "My parents cried. Having their eldest to reach a dream is a big deal for people like us who have nothing."
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Filipino maid Xyza Cruz Bacani has won a photography fellowship in New York
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Attracted international attention with moving black and white street shots
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Bacani moved to Hong Kong to work as a domestic helper when she was 19 | 60,615 | record_train |
'Shows like Monty Python and @placeholder will be watched by the nation for years to come, and the recent Monty Python live show proves how successful and popular it really is. | John Cleese, who starred in the iconic series Fawlty Towers, has been named as the most influential British comic of all time. The 75-year-old actor, part of the Monty Python group, beat legendary comics David Jason, Rowan Atkinson and Ronnie Barker to claim the accolade. Jason, 74, who famously played Delboy Trotter in the cult series Only Fools and Horses, came second in the public poll, just ahead of Mr Bean and Blackadder star, Rowan Atkinson. John Cleese, pictured here as Basil Fawlty, has been named as the most influential British comic of all time The 75-year-old is known for his roles in Fawlty Towers (left) and Monty Python, particularly his Ministry of Silly Walks (right)
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The 75-year-old pipped David Jason to clinch the top spot in the public poll
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Atkinson, who played Mr Bean, and Ronnie Barker came third and fourth
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Others in list include Ricky Gervais, Dawn French and the late Rik Mayall
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Steve Coogan, James Corden, Peter Kay and Miranda Hart also featured | 60,616 | record_train |
It's hard to accuse @placeholder of any such anxiety, given the "Deathly Hallows" bloodbath. | (EW.com) -- "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" features one of the more soul-destroying death orgies in Fantasy-lit history, with a whole cavalcade of Potter supporting players winding up as casualties in the climactic wizard battle. The series never shrank from death -- Books 4 through 6 each end with a major character dying, and the whole saga begins with Harry as a newly orphaned baby. But in a new special feature on the "Deathly Hallows 2" DVD, author J. K. Rowling notes that she'd planned one fatality that would have probably scarred a generation of young readers. As reported by the Guardian, Rowling says, "I did seriously consider killing Ron." Apparently, she briefly thought about killing off Harry's red-headed sidekick around the middle of the series, when she "wasn't in a very happy place."
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"I did seriously consider killing Ron," Rowling said
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It's easy to imagine that he might have bit the dust relatively early
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How much freakier the latter Potters would have felt without good ol' Ron around | 60,617 | record_train |
As the cranes - hopefully - head south on their own, jokes were flying round the @placeholder web today as one former Putin spin doctor branded this a stunt too far. | By Will Stewart PUBLISHED: 18:34 EST, 5 September 2012 | UPDATED: 08:00 EST, 6 September 2012 No mission is too much for former KGB spy turned strongman leader Vladimir Putin as he sets off on his latest bid to put right the wrongs of nature by teaching birds to fly. Hang-gliding over Arctic Siberia this week, the all-Russian action man guided white cranes which seem to have lost the instinct to migrate south to a warmer climate for the winter. The aim was to set the endangered birds on course for Asia and as with his previous action-man ventures - which included sedating a tiger, tagging a white whale, and offering tender loving care and a tracking collar to a polar bear - the Kremlin announced total success.
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Vladimir Putin pulls audacious stunt to help Siberian white cranes to Asia using hang-glider
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Cranes born in captivity did not know how to fly south, so environmentalists devised an imitation lead bird to guide the way
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It follows other escapades by Mr Putin, including posing bare-chested with rifles and petting a polar bear in the wild
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But the latest event has ruffled some feathers in Russia, with one journalist claiming she was fired for not covering it | 60,618 | record_train |
The spoke to independent and swing voters who were @placeholder supporters in 2008, but are now undecided. | The First Lady's whirlwind tour of Spain in 2010 better have been a once in a lifetime trip, because her getaway cost taxpayers nearly half a million dollars. The highly controversial and lavish trip drew ire at the time, but the White House assured the public that the Obamas picked up the tab on their own. But new information from Judicial Watch, a public interest group that investigates government corruption, detailed the extensive security costs to the United States Air Force and Secret Service. The Obamas' highly publicized and polarizing vacations may cost the First Family even more, as voters appear to be disheartened by their extravagance.
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New documents disclose $500,000 tab Michelle Obama left for taxpayers
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Voters sour on Obamas' lifestyle that critics call 'tone-deaf' and 'hypocritical'
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New video reveals First Lady's 'fantasy' to sneak way from Secret Service
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Mrs Obama mulls political future and possibility of Presidential run | 60,619 | record_train |
hostages were killed after @placeholder warplanes were reported to have been | By Nick Fagge Tributes have been paid to a British construction worker apparently killed by terrorists in Nigeria. Brendan Vaughan was named by Foreign Secretary William Hague as the British national believed to have been murdered - along with six other foreigners - at the hands of captors. Mr Hague condemned the likely killing as 'cold-blooded murder' and said he would work with the Nigerian government to bring those behind the attack to account. Shot dead: British engineer Brendan Vaughan, pictured with girlfriend Orasa Arpornkaew, was murdered 'in cold blood' in Nigeria by Al Qaeda kidnappers No further details about Mr Vaughan have been released but tributes have begun to be posted on Facebook by friends of construction worker Brendan Vaughan, who is originally from Leeds but now lives in Thailand.
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William Hague describes killings as 'act of cold-blooded murder'
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Video released by radical Islamist group Ansaru emerged yesterday
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His name has been confirmed as Brendan Vaughan
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Blamed execution on fears Britain was about to stage rescue operation
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Hostages were seized on February 16 from a construction company | 60,620 | record_train |
SD: I think the project explores and reveals the contemporary art scene in @placeholder as viewed by local artists and protagonists. | (CNN) -- When art expert Safia Dickersbach cast a dart at a map of Africa, she had no idea it would spark an eight-year love affair with a country she had never seen before. "It landed in Ghana," Dickersbach recalled, "it was just a playful planning method." After taking aim at the world's second-largest continent, the dart randomly struck Ghana's Volta Region, in the east of the country bordering neighboring Togo. The exercise was the beginning of Dickersbach's extensive research into Ghana's contemporary art culture and her mission to push Africa onto the global art scene. Read more: Africa's most exciting new photographers
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'The Black Stars of Ghana - Art District' interviews some of Ghana's biggest artists
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The series is the work of art expert Safia Dickersbach
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She says contemporary art is dominated by a Eurocentric attitude
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Project includes interviews with artists Wiz Kudowor and Marigold Akufo-Addo | 60,621 | record_train |
When Berahino knocked in his fourth goal — and @placeholder’s seventh — in the dying seconds, Pulis was obliging the Albion fans with gracious waves and heady optimism was in the air. | Tony Pulis will spend Sunday considering a fascinating dilemma: how does a new manager convincingly rant and rave at a team which has just won a cup tie by scoring seven unanswered goals? As one of the game’s renowned ranters, Pulis will presumably find a way and he will do so in the knowledge that his criticism will be amply deserved. For more than 40 minutes of this extraordinary match, Albion were frequently outclassed by Gateshead’s neat, thoughtful passing game. Pulis, untypically clad in executive suit, spent a frustrating opening quarter of an hour in the stands and had then taken to the touchline to bawl at his new troops. Saido Berahino’s performance had matched that of his team in its listless lack of energy and concern.
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Saido Berahino scored four times as West Brom saw off non-league Gateshead at the Hawthorns
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Victor Anichebe, Chris Brunt and James Morrison also on target for the Baggies
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Tony Pulis enjoys victory in his first game in charge since taking over from Alan Irvine | 60,622 | record_train |
@placeholder has long been an advocate of arming rebel groups, arguing even before ISIS became a regional menace that they should have U.S. support to fight dictator Bashar al-Assad. | Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul was walloped on Thursday by a series of media reports that concluded he was wrong to claim fellow GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona unwittingly met with ISIS terrorists when he held a secret 2013 meeting with rebel leaders in Syria. 'Here’s the problem,' Paul told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. 'He [McCain] did meet with ISIS, and had his picture taken, and didn't know it was happening at the time.' Paul contends that the Obama administration's effort to 'train and equip' moderate Syrian rebels against ISIS, the self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, is foolhardy because the U.S. could wind up arming radical jihadis if alliances shift in the future.
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McCain snuck into Syria in May 2013 to meet with Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels and encourage them in their fight against dictator Bashar al-Assad
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Photo shows him with leaders of an FSA ally called the Northern Storm Brigade
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Unconfirmed online claims suggested ISIS fought alongside Northern Storm three months later when they captured an airport
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Rand Paul said McCain 'did meet with ISIS, and had his picture taken, and didn't know it was happening at the time'
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McCain favors arming Syrian rebel groups, while Paul contends it's impossible to know which groups are moderate and which are jihadists | 60,623 | record_train |
While he notes that @placeholder has "a strong demand," he says what it lacks is supply, as currently the bugs are harvested by hand. | (CNN) -- Palm weevils. To look at, these tiny bugs are relatively unassuming, perhaps even slightly creepy to the insect-adverse. To Mohammed Ashour, however, they are the solution to many of the ills facing the developing world. The humble palm weevil could potentially eradicate world hunger and malnutrition, it could lift whole communities out of poverty, and bring down global C02 levels. For a creature measuring just a few inches in length, that's a lot of power. "If anything, our business model is too disruptive," says Ashour, who launched Aspire with four fellow MBA students from McGill University. Their aim is to introduce insect farming to countries with an affinity for insect consumption and a lack of access to nutritional sustenance.
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Two billion people eat insects in 162 countries around the world
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Insects need less food, water and land to rear than beef and chicken
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Social enterprise Aspire is trying to increase insect consumption globally
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It thinks its Ghana pilot program will revitalize the economy | 60,624 | record_train |
The code of conduct for members of Congress calls for them to conduct themselves "at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the @placeholder." | Washington (CNN) -- Rep. Anthony Weiner has said he has no plans to resign over a "sexting" scandal, and that his wife wants him to stay in Congress, a Democratic source told CNN Thursday. Weiner made the remarks to a House Democratic colleague from New York on Wednesday afternoon, rejecting growing calls from fellow legislators -- including key Democrats -- for him to step down, said the source, who was familiar with the conversation. Weiner also cited polling data showing a majority of New York City voters want him to remain in office, the source said, describing Weiner as "dug in."
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NEW: New poll shows majority in Weiner's district want him to stay on
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Weiner told a colleague he does not intend to resign, a source tells CNN
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Sen. Leahy is the most senior Democrat to date to call for Weiner to leave
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An explicit photo claimed to be of Weiner is posted online | 60,625 | record_train |
Although @placeholder has toppled a longtime ruler and held historic elections since Bouazizi's death, the country is still mired in political unrest. | (CNN) -- A 27-year-old Tunisian man who set himself on fire to protest unemployment has died, officials said Wednesday. Adel Khodri succumbed to his wounds early Wednesday morning, a day after he set himself ablaze, Tunisia's national civil protection and defense authorities said. His fate parallels the iconic death of Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor who set himself on fire in December 2010. Bouazizi's death was widely credited for spurring Arab Spring uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East. The fruit vendor's fatal protest unleashed a wave of regional dissent against oppression, government corruption and stifled freedoms. Self-immolation has since become more common in the Arab world, with people setting themselves on fire in Tunisia, Jordan, Bahrain and Morocco.
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The self-immolation of Adel Khodri, 27, is similar to that of Mohamed Bouazizi
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Bouazizi was credited for launching the Arab Spring protests with his fatal protest
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Khodri's death comes as the National Constituent Assembly votes on a new government | 60,626 | record_train |
Lookalike: Before Tina Fey took on the role as Sarah Palin, her family said she looked similar to the Vice Presidential nominee @placeholder but she ignored them | By Belinda Robinson A revealing new book will lift the lid on the secrets behind America’s most beloved comedy show –SNL- and the battles that raged between politicians over its most famous political satire sketches. The book: 'Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales will include 200 extra pages of material which did not appear in the original 2002 book. According to excerpts from The Hollywood Reporter, Hillary Clinton's 'entitled attitude' could have indirectly helped then Senator Barack Obama to win the Democratic nomination to run in 2008. Appearance: In 2007, then senator Barack Obama, right, appeared on SNL with Darrell Hammond, left, as Bill Clinton, Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton during the 'Clinton Halloween Party' skit
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The book entitled: 'Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live' contains juicy behind-the-scenes details of politicians on SNL
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It details how Hillary Clinton cancelled her appearance in 2007 which led the way for a little known Senator Barack Obama to be on instead
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SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels described Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign as 'entitled'
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Sarah Palin revealed that she thought Tina Fey's impersonation of her made her look like 'an idiot'
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She decided to go on the show and appear alongside Fey to change people's perceptions of her | 60,627 | record_train |
Speaking to Vanity Fair, Malone recounted her childhood and revealed that even the sight of a fellow student at school wearing a @placeholder T-shirt had once left her in a 'fit of vomiting'. | With a happy grin on her face, Malone Farrow nestles into her husband - the man whom she credits for helping to put the troubling memories of her childhood behind her. At the age of 28, the adopted daughter of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow has settled down and is a college graduate, writer and artist, married to an information-technology specialist. Malone - who changed her name from Dylan - says he helped her recover from a childhood which she claims was marred when she was molested by award-winning director Allen when she was seven. Breaking her silence last year, she told Maureen Orth in November's Vanity Fair: 'He’s the best thing that ever happened to me. I would not be functioning without him.'
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Malone Farrow - whose birth name was Dylan - is now 28 and happily maried to a man whom she says: 'I would not be functioning without'
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She broke her silence last year and told Vanity Fair 'If I could talk to the seven-year-old Dylan, I would tell her to be brave, to testify'
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She recounted her subsequent depression and suicide bid in her teenage years to writer Maureen Orth
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@placeholder, Apple's head of retail, is also leaving, according to the release. | (CNN) -- Scott Forstall, one of the most visible faces of Apple in the wake of Steve Jobs' death, is leaving the company in a surprise shakeup at the head of Apple' ranks. Forstall, a senior vice president in charge of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS, will act as an adviser to CEO Tim Cook until departing some time next year, according to a news release from the company. As the man behind the system that ran Apple's industry-changing iPhone and iPad, Forstall had been considered a favorite to replace Jobs as CEO after Jobs' death last October. More recently, Apple observers pegged Forstall, 43, as the next in line behind Cook.
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Apple's Forstall out in shakeup at the top
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Forstall, head of Apple's mobile iOS operating system, will advise until next year
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System was dinged after Maps update failed to impress
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Mr. @placeholder, you, and your friends and others are in a position to provide that help." | Los Angeles (CNN) -- A homeless man included in a mock video produced by a friend of Justin Timberlake's for the actor-singer's wedding celebration wants Timberlake to visit him on Skid Row. Lawyer Gloria Allred, known for representing clients with high-profile complaints, held a news conference on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles Monday to publicize the demands of the man, identified only as Eddie. "I just want Justin Timberlake to come and talk to me about the things he can do to help us people that's down and out and that's lost things in our lives and not back on track," said "Eddie," who appeared at the news conference with Allred.
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"I just want Justin Timberlake to come and talk to me," homeless man tells reporters
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Lawyer Gloria Allred challenges Timberlake to help Eddie and other homeless get jobs
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Timberlake apologized for the "silly, unsavory" video, which a "knucklehead" friend made
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Shock: A picture of @placeholder performing the same move emerged as did one of basketball star Parker | By Erik Bielderman PUBLISHED: 20:18 EST, 30 December 2013 | UPDATED: 05:40 EST, 31 December 2013 Erik Bielderman is a French football writer, columnist and TV pundit. Nicolas Anelka could have chosen to pay respect to Nelson Mandela. Instead, he chose Dieudonne M'bala M'bala. To celebrate his first goal in England since August 20, 2011, West Brom’s French striker decided to express his support and friendship for a French so-called humorist by doing the provocative hand gesture, la quenelle. Anelka has tried to portray his actions as an innocent anti-establishment action but just think about the timing.
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Anelka facing minimum five-match ban over gesture
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West Brom striker performed act after scoring against West Ham
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Nasri picture appeared on Twitter the following day
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City midfielder knew nothing of anti-Semitic or political connotations
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A @placeholder foreign ministry spokesman on Tuesday dismissed the U.S. suggestion of talks as "nothing but a crafty ploy" to deflect blame for the rising tensions. | (CNN) -- President Barack Obama has said he doesn't believe North Korea can fit a nuclear warhead on a missile, casting strong doubt on an alarming assessment disclosed last week by the Pentagon's intelligence arm. And he warned the young North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that weeks of threats against the United States and South Korea had only served to isolate the regime further. CNN's full coverage on North Korea Asked in an NBC News interview whether North Korea could put a nuclear weapon on a ballistic missile, Obama said, "Based on our current intelligence assessments, we do not think that they have that capacity."
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Obama says Kim Jong Un is following familiar pattern of provocation
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Any changes made by the new Government will not affect the cost of package holidays that are currently being advertised by @placeholder tour operators as the contracts and prices have already been agreed. | Greece's new left-wing prime minister has declared war on the country’s all-inclusive resorts, which are visited by thousands of British families every year. All-you-can-eat buffets and unlimited drinks by the pool are under threat even though that sector of tourism brings in £1.5billion a year for the Greek economy. Alexis Tsipras, leader of the triumphant anti-austerity party Syriza, believes such deals ‘alienate tourists from the local economy’ by keeping them in resorts and away from small businesses. Scroll down for video Victorious: 'Our priority above all will be to restore the country's lost dignity,' Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, 40, told a rally of thousands of supporters
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PM Alexis Tsipras said all-in deals 'alienate tourists from local economy'
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He warned that contracts with large resort chains will be reviewed
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Estimated two million Brits who visit Greece a year already face a doubling of VAT on hotel rooms under previous government’s plans | 60,633 | record_train |
When India refused the @placeholder request to waive the immunity so that she could face the charges against her, she had to leave the country, the officials said. | Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat at the heart of a dispute that has strained ties between New Delhi and Washington, is on her way back to India from the United States, officials said. American authorities' arrest and strip-search of Khobragade, the former Indian deputy consul general in New York, set off a storm of anger in India last month. U.S. prosecutors accuse her of lying in a visa application about how much she paid her housekeeper. She was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on one count of visa fraud and one count of making false statements. But the Indian government denied a request by the State Department to waive Khobragade's diplomatic immunity so she can answer the charges, U.S. and Indian officials said.
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Devyani Khobragade reiterated her innocence as she left the U.S., India says
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She is "pleased to be returning to her country," her attorney says
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She has been indicted on federal counts of visa fraud and making false statements
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Australian media have reported that she will have to remain in @placeholder on parole until 2017. | (CNN) -- Australian woman Schapelle Corby has walked out of a prison in Bali, Indonesia, after being convicted almost nine years ago of drug smuggling. The 36-year-old was surrounded by a swarm of cameras and Australian network reporters to see her released on bail in a case that supporters say was a setup. Covered in a hat and rushed into a waiting bus by security forces, she will be taken to a parole office for further processing. Indonesian Justice Minister Amir Syamsuddin said Friday that Corby had been granted parole. He said Corby's parole review was one of more than 1,000 that had been completed.
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Australian Schapelle Corby, 36, is set free from prison in Bali, Indonesia
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She was convicted in 2005 for smuggling 9 pounds of marijuana
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Corby and her lawyers maintain she was the victim of a setup | 60,635 | record_train |
It is highly unusual for the @placeholder to openly express an opinion on such issues. | By Rebecca English Queen Elizabeth is set to get an inflation-busting pay rise of 22 per cent for 2014/2015 The Queen is set to receive an inflation-busting 22 per cent ‘pay rise’ over two years, according to new official figures. The monarch is said to be ‘down to her last £1 million’, leaving her vulnerable to ‘unexpected costs’, a report has said. She is now expected to be given £37.9 million in 2014-15 to run her Household and conduct official engagements, up from £31 million in 2012-13. The figures were released yesterday by the National Audit Office which has, for the first time, been allowed to examine all aspects of the Queen’s funding as Head of State.
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Monarch set to be given £37.9million next year, up from £31million this year
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@placeholder wrote a bestselling account of his adventure, then became an MP and was knighted in 1899. | By Sarah Johnson and Nick Enoch PUBLISHED: 15:42 EST, 22 November 2012 | UPDATED: 13:37 EST, 23 November 2012 He was one of Scotland's most famous explorers and a national hero. And to mark the 200th anniversary of Dr Livingstone's birth, an exhibition has opened today to commemorate his life and legacy and will run until April next year. Among the objects going on display at the National Museum of Scotland are the hats reputedly worn by David Livingstone and journalist Henry Morton Stanley when they met in Africa in 1871, leading to the famous line: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume? '.
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100 artefacts brought together to mark 200th anniversary of his birth
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Objects also include Livingstone's gun and casts of his bones
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In fact, Monday's telecast felt at times like an elaborate commercial for network TV, interrupted ever so briefly by an actual commercial that @placeholder paid to air during the first of the three hours. | (CNN) -- With one of his first jokes at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards, host Seth Meyers cut to the chase: "MTV aired the Video Music Awards last night. That's right, MTV still has an award for music videos even though they no longer show music videos," he said. "That's like network TV holding an awards show and giving all the trophies to cable and Netflix. That would be crazy. Why would they do that?" There was loud laughter in the auditorium -- knowing laughter, because that's what the Emmys have resembled in recent years: an awards show on network TV celebrating cable TV.
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Host Seth Meyers joked about network TV celebrating cable shows
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Netflix nominees and other edgy cable shows were shut out this year | 60,638 | record_train |
The event kicks off @placeholder, which officially opens tomorrow, with a fundraising showcase that teams famous faces with renowned designers. | As London Fashion Week kicks off in the UK tomorrow, models will be stalking the catwalks with unsmiling faces and serious expressions. Not so, Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, who made sure to grin, grimace and mug her way down the runway for Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief show at Somerset House on Thursday night. Wearing a long black dress with her hair falling loose around her shoulders, Sarah, 55, gave something of a performance, spreading her arms wide as she joined a range of celebrities to raise money for the war against Ebola. Sarah, Duchess of York, announces her presence on Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief catwalk
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Sarah, Duchess of York, 55, walked on catwalk for Naomi Campbell's event
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Fashion For Relief is annual benefit raising money for good causes
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She joined Katie Price, Pixie Lott, Vivienne Westwood on the runway | 60,639 | record_train |
The @placeholder has also won a number of design awards, as well as setting a number of records and firsts. | (CNN) -- The Boeing 777 is the mainstay of many airlines' long-haul fleets and has never been involved in a fatal accident during its service history. British Airways aircrew fly the Royal Standard from the flight deck of the Boeing 777 aircraft. The aircraft first entered service on June 7, 1995, with more than 900 suppliers from 17 countries coming together to provide the more than three million parts needed in its construction, according to the Boeing Web site. Since its inaugural flight, Boeing has extended the 777 family to five commercial passenger models and a freighter version, collectively making more than two million flights.
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The Boeing 777 aircraft first entered service on June 7, 1995
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First airplane U.S. (FAA) approved for extended-range twin-engine operations
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Engineers designed, electronically pre-assembled the 777 using computers
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Still, @placeholder reviews all of BioWare's concepts and designs, and occasionally overrules them, Muzyka said. | New York (CNN) -- A long time ago, by technology standards, in this very galaxy, the founders of video game developer BioWare received a phone call. It was from Simon Jeffery, then the president of George Lucas' LucasArts. In the early 2000s, BioWare happened to be looking for its next big adventure when Jeffery proposed they work on the first-ever "Star Wars" role-playing game. BioWare jumped at the opportunity, and it led to a pair of the most celebrated "Star Wars" console games, called "Knights of the Old Republic." On Tuesday, the studio released "Star Wars: The Old Republic," the latest and most ambitious product of this so-far decade-long partnership. In this sprawling, much-anticipated computer game, millions of Jedi Knights, bounty hunters and other familiar warriors from the movies can roam and battle on their home planets, and then hop in spaceships to travel the galaxy.
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BioWare says "The Old Republic" is the biggest game it's ever built
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The "Star Wars" game has 260,000 lines of dialogue
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Watch @placeholder call for "dramatic action" on the economy » | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House committees will begin action on President-elect Barack Obama's proposed economic recovery package in the next couple of weeks, with a vote in the full House slated for the week after Obama's inauguration. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will not go on a break until an economic recovery package is passed. Obama will take office January 20. If that schedule slips, Pelosi, D-California, pledged to cancel the House's planned weeklong break in mid-February for Presidents Day. "We are not going home without an economic recovery package," Pelosi said. Pelosi said Obama's plan has broad public support "almost sight unseen," citing a poll from Politico that says 79 percent of Americans support the president-elect's plan.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi sets full House vote on stimulus for week of January 25
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While militant attacks have caused by far the greatest number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan, many @placeholder and coalition members have expressed concern about civilian deaths caused by air operations. | Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The coalition commander in Afghanistan went to the site of a recent airstrike and apologized for civilian deaths, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Friday. ISAF Commander Gen. John Allen paid his condolences to survivors of victims in Logar province, southeast of the capital, Kabul. Sahib Khan, a member of the Afghan parliament from Logar, said Wednesday's airstrike killed 18 people, including women and children, near the volatile Pakistan border. NATO forces said the strike occurred when soldiers returned fire during a mission targeting a Taliban leader. An ISAF spokesman said insurgents were killed and security forces seized weapons and explosives.
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ISAF commander visited Logar province
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Goldberg would serve 22 years in prison, @placeholder would serve 26 years as the apartheid government became more isolated and weakened economically. | Johannesburg (CNN) -- From inside a small thatched roof cottage, Ahmed Kathrada watched with horror as a laundry van approaching the main house of Liliesleaf Farm exploded with teams of police officers. He and other anti-apartheid activists hiding out at the farm attempted to jump out of a back window. But they were surrounded, their hopes dashed and their plans for an overthrow of South Africa's apartheid government were extinguished. "The vehicles pulled up that way, and there was nothing I could do," says Kathrada, recalling July 11, 1963, from the same cottage he once called home. Kathrada and close friend Denis Goldberg have returned to Liliesleaf Farm, which has now been turned in to a museum to commemorate 50 years since that fateful day.
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Liliesleaf Farm is located in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, South Africa.
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It was bought as a safehouse for anti-apartheid activists in the 1960s and is now a museum.
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'@placeholder is the perfect example of a stylish mother', said a spokesperson. | Coleen Rooney has taken a trip back in time for her latest fashion campaign. The WAG and designer has unveiled her SS15 range for Littlewoods.com and exudes vintage glamour in a new Sixties-inspired shoot. Coleen clearly took notes at the fashion shows in September; her new range is full of ban- on trend short hem lines, Peter Pan collars and mellow yellow hues. Scroll down for video Coleen Rooney, wife of footballer Wanye, has unveiled her SS15 range for Littlewoods.com and it's full of Sixties-inspired pieces designed for busy mothers Speaking about her 14-piece range, which is priced between £32-£100, the mother-of-two explains she designed her collection with yummy mummies in mind.
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That both played a significant leadership role in helping Ireland see out their end-game reflected well on @placeholder’s pluck to select them, and he was be even more pleased that his out-half walked off with only a bit of blood spilt following some head-punishing collisions with Mathieu Bastareaud. | Another day of reckoning. Another examination with a positive outcome. This, though, was possibly Joe Schmidt’s most valuable result yet. He clinched the title last year away to the French, but that was with a settled side going full tilt at the end of a campaign. Here, going in with rust in the names of Johnny Sexton and Sean O’Brien, he’d gambled on quality ahead of game time and the ambitious punt ultimately paid dividend, Ireland taking a deserved victory despite late French desperation. Johnny Sexton gets treatment on the pitch following his collision with Mathieu Bastareaud Ireland fly-half Sexton was in the wars again after 12-week concussion lay-off
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Johnny Sexton fired 15 points in Ireland's ninth consecutive victory
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The Ireland fly-half was making his return from a 12-week concussion lay-off
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Murray told investigators that he tried for nine hours to get Jackson to sleep the day he died, starting at 1:30 a.m. By 10:40 a.m., after giving Jackson several other sleep aids, @placeholder said he gave Jackson 25 milligrams of propofol through an intravenous tube attached to Jackson's leg. | Houston, Texas (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's last physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, wasn't the one who gave the pop star a fatal overdose of propofol, according to Murray's attorney, hinting at the defense strategy in the involuntary manslaughter case against his client. "The fact (of the way) that he died was a mystery a year ago, and still is," Houston attorney Ed Chernoff told CNN in an exclusive interview recently. The Los Angeles County coroner ruled that Jackson's June 25, 2009, death was from an overdose of propofol, a powerful anesthesia used to put surgical patients to sleep. Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death. His preliminary hearing is expected this fall.
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A fiscal conservative became an unsung hero in helping the @placeholder pass | (CNN)The Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- hailed by some as the most important legislation in American history -- was signed into law 50 years ago Wednesday. It was known as the "bill of the century." But many Americans today probably couldn't say exactly what the legislation accomplished. "It's really the law that created modern America," said Todd S. Purdum, author of "An Idea Whose Time Has Come." "Its goal was to help finish the work of the Civil War, 100 years after the war had ended, and to make the promise of legal equality for blacks and whites, even though actual equality is elusive to this day."
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"It changed everything about ordinary life for black Americans," says Todd Purdum
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However, despite the ongoing challenges the country faces, Obasanjo said he does not foresee @placeholder ever splitting in two, into north and south. | Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has said more could be done to reach out to the militant Islamist group Boko Haram to find out what leads it to carry out acts of violence. In an interview with CNN, Obasanjo suggested the current government should adopt a dual-track approach rather than just cracking down on the group. Read more: Gunmen attack Nigerian police station, kill 4 "To deal with a group like that, you need a carrot and stick. The carrot is finding out how to reach out to them," he said. "When you try to reach out to them and they are not amenable to being reached out to, you have to use the stick."
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"To deal with a group like that, you need a carrot and stick," Olusegun Obasanjo says
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The militants, who've attacked churches and mosques, operate chiefly in Nigeria's restive north
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Mr Burulea, 30, said: 'I had agreed with my wife that there was little chance of getting a decent job to provide for her and our daughter in Romania, so I went to @placeholder where I managed to get work as a labourer and send money back every month and my family. | By Darren Boyle A Romanian mother lost custody of her two-year-old daughter after she taught the youngster to smoke an e-cigarette and drink coffee. The child's father went to court after he saw a video of his daughter puffing on the electronic device and drinking coffee. Gabriel Burulea was working in Austria trying to support his family when he discovered the abuse. Scroll down for video Elena Burulea videoed her daugter Magdalena smoking a cigarette, left and drinking coffee, right He said he now fears for the future of his daughter as he has returned from working abroad to take care of his daughter.
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Magdalena Burulea was handed the cigarette by her mother Elena
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Gabriel Burulea returned to Romania to take care of his young daughter
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@placeholder fell asleep after the storm but his wife Beth was wide awake and about to give birth in less than ideal circumstances. | One pregnant woman in labor from Illinois knew she wasn't going to be able to make it in the hospital in time so she delivered the baby all by herself as her husband drove them to the nearest hospital. Beth Farina was on her way with her husband Trevor to Sherman Hospital on Tuesday when she started going into labor. She said she could feel the baby coming when they were at least a mile away from the emergency room. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Beth Farina delivered her own baby while her husband drove her to the hospital Baby Tobias is in great health and Beth says she'll have a story to tell him once he gets older
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Beth Farina was on her way with her husband Trevor to Sherman Hospital on Tuesday when she started going into labor just a mile away
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Beth, who is studying to be a nurse and midwife, was able to successfully deliver her third child Tobias
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The U.S. Hispanic population grew 43 percent in 10 years between 2000 and 2010 -- four times faster than the total @placeholder population -- according to figures from the 2010 census. | (CNN) -- By now, people in the United States and elsewhere in the world are familiar with the Tea Party, but there's a new social movement on the political block -- it's called the "Tequila Party," and its leaders say the group is serving as a wake-up call to the Latino voting bloc. Tequila Party organizers describe their movement as a nonpartisan group that launched this year on May 5 -- Cinco de Mayo, to mark the Mexican holiday. It has enlisted both Democrats and Republicans to get the more than 20 million eligible Latino voters to become "consistent primary and general election voters," the movement's website says.
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Organizers are calling an effort to increase the Latino voting bloc the "Tequila Party"
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Scott Kelly will be a guest of @placeholder tomorrow night, as well | First Lady Michelle Obama will fill nearly two dozen of the seats in her State of the Union box with individuals representing key initiatives being promoted by her husband during the annual address to Congress. Among the first lady's guests are Alan Gross, the American aid worker recently released from a Cuban prison after a five-year detention, and his wife, Judy; Nicole Hernandez Hammer, a Guatemalan immigrant who raises awareness within the Latino community about climate change, and astronaut Scott Kelly, the brother-in-law of former Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, the victim of a 2011 shooting, is married to Kelly's twin brother, Mark. She resigned three years ago in January, a day after being recognized at Obama's 2012 State of the Union.
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The First Lady will fill nearly two dozen of the seats in her box with individuals representing key initiatives being promoted by her husband
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Among the first lady's guests: Alan Gross, the aid worker recently released from a Cuban prison after a five-year detention, and his wife, Judy
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Nicole Hernandez Hammer, a Guatemalan immigrant who raises awareness within the Latino community about climate change
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Astronaut Scott Kelly, the brother-in-law of former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords; Giffords is married to Kelly's twin brother, Mark
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Anthony Mendez, a freshman in college who spent part of his formative years in a homeless shelter after his family was evicted from their home | 60,653 | record_train |
Dani Alves has already made it clear that he won't be staying at @placeholder beyond his current deal | The transfer window may have slammed shut after a month of activity, but Premier League clubs will still be in a position to speak to a select group of Europe's elite before the end of the season. There are a raft of players, including Real Madrid's Sami Khedira, Dani Alves of Barcelona, and the Shakhtar Donetsk forward Luiz Adriano, who has scored nine times in the Champions League this season, available to sign ahead of the 2015-16 season on a pre-contract agreement. Sportsmail takes a look at the players who are available on a bosman transfer- firstly in an XI format - and then with a collection of notable others.
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The transfer window has closed, but clubs are allowed to speak to players whose contracts will expire in the summer
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Fourteen aircraft -- 12 Brazilian and two French -- were participating, along with five @placeholder ships and one French frigate. | RECIFE, Brazil (CNN) -- Eight more bodies have been recovered from last week's crash of an Air France jetliner in the Atlantic Ocean, bringing the total to 24, Brazil's military announced Monday. Recovery efforts have found several items confirmed to have come from Air France Flight 447. The bodies were found floating about 440 kilometers (273 miles) northeast of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago northeast of the Brazilian coast on Monday, military officials said Monday evening. Air France 447 disappeared over the Atlantic early June 1. The jet was en route to Paris, France, from the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro with 228 passengers and crew aboard.
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The couple are over the moon at all @placeholder has done for them so far and have been bowled over by people’s kindness. | By Katy Winter PUBLISHED: 09:45 EST, 21 August 2013 | UPDATED: 03:43 EST, 22 August 2013 What started out as a joke to organise a wedding on just £10 has now become a reality for one thrifty couple. Kelsey Courtney and Alice Flannigan believed their longed-for wedding was something they would have to save years for, but now they have just 10 weeks to prepare. The North Tyneside pair, who have been together for almost four years, were chatting and joking with family members when the topic of marriage came up. Kelsey Courtney and her partner Alice Flannigan who with the help of Kelsey's sister Lynn are planning a £10 wedding
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Kelsey Courtney and Alice Flannigan have been engaged for 2 years
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Lynn took to Facebook and in just 4 days has received hundreds of gifts
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This juror could more easily relate to @placeholder as the neighborhood watch volunteer trying to protect his neighborhood. | Editor's note: Richard Gabriel is the president of the American Society of Trial Consultants Foundation and president of Decision Analysis, a national trial consulting company. He has worked on the Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson cases and is the author of the upcoming book, "Acquittal", to be published by Berkley Publishing, Penguin Group USA. In the courts and in society, we tend to think of racial bias as overt bigotry and imagine that the George Zimmermans and the Paula Deens of the world hold negative stereotypes of other races and intentionally think less of them as people. Actual bias, however, operates in the brain in a much different way.
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But @placeholder say the shortages are very real, as staples such as rice and cooking oil are scarce. | (CNN) -- To avoid getting caught with their pants down, Venezuelan officials say they will confront a toilet paper shortage by importing 50 million rolls to meet demand. Toilet paper is just one of the basic goods and foodstuffs that have been disappearing from store shelves over the past few months, as the government and private companies blame each other for the scarcity. Venezuelan Minister of Commerce Alejandro Fleming announced the toilet paper measure on Tuesday, the state-run AVN news agency reported. Repeating the government's stance, he blamed the media for provoking fear in consumers, who in turn begin hoarding items.
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Venezuela is facing a shortage of a number of basic goods
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In @placeholder, at least eight people are dead and dozens wounded in protests. | (CNN) -- Location, location, location: It matters greatly to the success of democracy. Last week, for the second time in a decade, a popular uprising in Ukraine chased away a corrupt, authoritarian leader. (The same leader both times, as it happens.) The Orange Revolution of 2005 ended badly -- and the same adverse conditions overshadow Ukraine's hopes today. Yet in Ukraine, neighbors Poland and Germany have supported and defended that nation's dissidents and democrats. But Ukraine is not the only authoritarian regime facing protests. And it's not the only nation where democratic neighbors could make a positive difference. Unfortunately, in the other case -- Venezuela -- too many of those neighbors are silent.
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Ukraine and Venezuela experience deadly uprisings against authoritarian regimes
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David Frum: Ukraine's neighbors support the activists, but many of Venezuela's don't
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Chile and Colombia condemn regime, he says, but they're right wing and thus suspect
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Some of the scams have earned the name "419" after the clause in the @placeholder criminal code that deals with obtaining property under false pretense. | (CNN) -- A college student in Nigeria has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for scamming an Australian woman out of $47,000 online by pretending to be a widowed white businessman desperately in love with her. A court in Ikeja in southwest Nigeria ruled that Lawal Adekunie Nurudeen will also have to pay back the 56-year-old woman, even if it meant selling the two plots of land and the Honda Prelude he bought with her money. Nurudeen was an engineering student when he met the woman online in 2007, said the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Nigeria's anti-corruption police.
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Police: Nurudeen was engineering student when he met the woman online in 2007
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Nurudeen pretended to be a British engineer working in Nigeria
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To make matters worse, arch rivals @placeholder recorded their fourth straight win of the season on Saturday -- running out 4-1 winners against Getafe -- to open up a gap of eight points over Real. | (CNN) -- Real Madrid's dismal start to the La Liga season continued on Saturday as the reigning champions slumped to a 1-0 against Sevilla at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan. German international Piotr Trochowski scored the only goal of the game in the second minute to lift Sevilla to third in the table with eight points and leave Madrid languishing in 10th with four -- their worst start to a season since 2001-02. Cristiano Ronaldo's attempts to get Madrid back in level terms were thwarted by Andres Palop in Sevilla's goal before the break and Jose Mourinho's double substitution at halftime -- new signing Luka Modric and Karim Benzema replacing Angel Di Maria and Mesut Ozil -- made little impact.
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Real Madrid record worst start to La Liga season in over a decade
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A 1-0 defeat at Sevilla leaves them with four points from as many matches
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Jose Mourinho's team now eight points behind leaders Barcelona
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Tito Vilanova's side maintain 100% start to season with 4-1 over Getafe | 60,661 | record_train |
‘Alastair is announced as captain of our @placeholder team. | Peter Moores has insisted Alastair Cook is the right man to take England to the World Cup in February, while admitting it is ‘ridiculous’ to suggest no one is ‘unsackable’. As the tourists left Kandy’s hill-country this morning for Colombo and, on Tuesday, their final game of cricket in 2014, it was sobering to reflect that the same questions were swirling around Cook’s leadership when they played their first game of the year at Sydney back in January. The questions then concerned the Test job; now it is about the one-day position. Alastair Cook remains under pressure after another disappointing performance for England
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England captain Alastair Cook dropped Kumar Sangakkara on 41
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The Sri Lanka left-hander went on to make a run-a-ball 112
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Sri Lanka beat England by 90 runs in their sixth ODI in Pallekele
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England coach Peter Moores admitted no-one is unsackable | 60,662 | record_train |
He was not quite as exact in how he got into the pit box as he could have been, whereas @placeholder is maxing out on his potential, in his in-lap, his out-lap, pit stop. | By Jonathan McEvoy Two very different men in two very similar cars will contest the 50th grand prix to be staged at Silverstone – the race that could go a long way to defining the lives and careers of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Hamilton is largely a public figure, a result of his craving for fame and the modern media’s insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. This week he told his 2.17million Twitter followers that he spent a romantic break in Venice with his Pussycat Dolls girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger to celebrate six years (mostly) together and had a lunch on a yacht in Monaco with A-listers Samuel L Jackson and Magic Johnson.
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Mercedes pair will compete at the 50th grand prix to be held at Silverstone
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Rosberg's win in Austria last week put him 29 points ahead of Hamilton
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Former winner Watson says it is 'make or break time' for the Brit
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Sir Jackie Stewart thinks Hamilton might rely too much on his natural skill | 60,663 | record_train |
But this independent monitoring has provoked an angry response in @placeholder. | Hong Kong (CNN) -- Several Chinese cities have shown improvements with air quality information -- a politically-sensitive issue in China -- but improvements are still needed, according to a Beijing-based non-profit environmental group. The report by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs assessed air quality monitoring in 113 cities across China. The cities with the most transparency in air quality data included Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Beijing, with the most improved cities being Guangzhou, Nanjing and Nanning. Compared with the organization's last report based on 2010 data, Chinese cities have made significant progress, said Ma Jun, the founding director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs.
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Environmental group examines air quality monitoring in 113 Chinese cities
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Report by environmental nonprofit examined openness of Chinese air quality data
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The anger was such that, even in a country often caricatured for its deification of soccer, the World Cup, its surrogate cousin the Confederations Cup and the game's global governing body @placeholder, have all become symbolic of corruption and waste. | Belo Horizonte, Brazil (CNN) -- At 11 pm, the tired and the injured gathered in Belo Horizonte for one last expression of discontent. More than a thousand sat in Praca Sete de Setembro, a square in the center of the city, chanting against the government and the police. But they weren't the crowd's only enemy. A sign hung from a nearby balcony. It read: "Anti Copa." On the pavement the words "A FIFA é Foda" had been painted: "F*** You, FIFA," in Portuguese. The roads had been blocked off by the military police, who watched the protesters from afar. A bank of police horses chewed on piles of hay left for them on the road.
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Protesters and police have battled each other in some Brazilian cities
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Some protesters say they are unhappy at the cost of next year's World Cup
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FIFA president Sepp Blatter booed by crowd at opening ceremony for Confederations Cup | 60,665 | record_train |
"It hasn't been an easy thing to do," adds @placeholder. | (CNN Traveller) -- When the Roman Emperor Hadrian came to power in 117AD he inherited an empire that was overstretched militarily and creaking at the seams. A massive bust of Hadrian's head unearthed only last year is part of the exhibition at the British Museum. One of his first acts was to pull the troops out of Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, a fact that is sure to resonate with visitors to the British Museum"s superb exhibition "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict" which opens on 24 July under the imposing classical dome of the Reading Room. Curator Torsten Opper says: "No matter what our take is on the conflict in Iraq today, we can relate to Hadrian's decision. Maybe 10 or 15 years ago, it wouldn't have mattered so much. Now it does."
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London exhibition based on Roman Emperor Hadrian features new treasures
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Huge bust of Hadrian's head discovered only last year a feature
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‘@placeholder’, the man who emailed Mr Jobs, lost his 24-year-old girlfriend in April 2008 to melanoma skin cancer that spread to her liver. | By Mark Duell Last updated at 5:07 PM on 28th November 2011 Steve Jobs used three sentences to console a man who lost his girlfriend to cancer - and in doing so he revealed a poetic thought on existence. ‘Your (sic) most welcome, James,’ he wrote in an email to another native of Cupertino, California. ‘I'm sorry about your girlfriend. Life is fragile.’ The late Apple CEO was responded to a grateful fan's email in April 2010 thanking him for supporting an organ donation programme. Email insight: Steve Jobs, who underwent a liver transplant in 2009, died last month aged 56 after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer
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Jobs was thanked by fan for supporting organ donation
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Fan's girlfriend had died from skin cancer in April 2008
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Jobs's reply one of many emails revealed in new book | 60,667 | record_train |
Its debt burden was 41 per cent of output, less than the 60 per cent requirement and far less than the @placeholder average of 91 per cent. | By Becky Evans PUBLISHED: 10:47 EST, 5 June 2013 | UPDATED: 10:52 EST, 5 June 2013 Latvia has won approval today to become the 18th state to join the Euro after approval by the European Commission. European Union officials granted approval despite concerns about its banking system and Latvia is expected to replace its national currency, the lat, on January 1, 2014. EU leaders said the Baltic state's willingness to join next year is a vote of confidence for the shared currency. Latvia is expected to replace its currency, the Lat, with the Euro by January 1, 2014
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European Commission granted approval for Latvia to join the Euro
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Final checks: Artful will now undergo a series of tests to prove the safety and operability of her systems before she departs @placeholder' site for sea trials | By Damien Gayle Edging slowly out of her dry dock at Barrow-in-Furness, this is the third of the Astute class submarines that will take the Royal Navy's fighting capabilities into the 21st Century. The 97m long, 7,400 tonne nuclear-powered attack submarine Artful has cost taxpayers more than £1billion but, along with its sisters, sets a new standard in weapons load and stealth. Armed with both Spearfish heavy torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles, Artful's design marks a shift away from a Cold War focus on anti-submarine warfare to a concept of 'Maritime Contributions to Joint Operations'. Scroll down for video Artful, the third highly-complex Astute class submarine designed and built by BAE Systems for the Royal Navy, appears outside her construction hall for the first time
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Artful and her sisters in the Astute class set a new standard in weapons load and stealth
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She will be armed with both Spearfish heavy torpedoes and Tomahawk cruise missiles
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The new submarine is covered with anti-acoustic tiles which make her 'quieter than a baby dolphin' | 60,669 | record_train |
@placeholder will stand for progressive change: an increase in the minimum wage, universal prekindergarten, tax fairness, rebuilding our roads and bridges and more. | (CNN) -- I suppose Republicans are to be congratulated for nominating a Latino Navy SEAL as their Senate candidate in Massachusetts. I recall when GOP lowlifes mocked and lied about the war heroism of John Kerry, and just last year Mitt Romney was saying the DREAM Act was a "handout" and Latinos voted for President Obama because they wanted "gifts." But if you're looking for a "new kind of Republican," Gabriel Gomez is not your candidate. He has called himself that. But in a recent debate, he admitted he would vote for Supreme Court nominees who would repeal Roe v. Wade. Nothing new there. He opposes the assault weapon ban, which even George W. Bush supported. So to the extent that's new, it's moving in the wrong direction in the eyes of most Bay State voters.
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GOP Gabriel Gomez is running against Democrat Ed Markey for Massachusetts Senate seat
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Paul Begala: Gomez is styled as a "new kind of Republican," but that's far from true
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Begala: His military record is impressive, but his politics are standard old GOP
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That six-minute video, which has been viewed over 27 million times, caused traffic to increase to healthcare.gov by 40% within 24 hours of its release, and caused a spike in people signing up for @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Ted Cruz is in for the fight of his political career. I'm not talking his possible run for president in 2016. I mean his fight with two far more formidable opponents: comedy and porn stars. This battle started last week after President Obama called for the FCC to back "net neutrality" for the Internet. As Obama said, at its core net neutrality means that Internet providers cannot act as "a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online." Cruz responded, via Twitter, that "net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet." This is nonsense, of course, but you have to give Cruz points for trying to conflate the unpopular Obamacare -- which, by the way is so loathed that it has exceeded its goal and has signed up 7.3 million people for health insurance -- with net neutrality. Although on the other hand, I'm surprised Cruz didn't claim that net neutrality is something supported by ISIS.
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Dean Obeidallah: Video with porn stars mocks Ted Cruz's position on net neutrality
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It makes point that Cruz got donations from Comcast. It opposes Obama regulation plan
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He says pols should use comedy to reach voters. Obama did with "Between Two Ferns"
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Obeidallah: Young people made big difference in 2008, 2012. Cruz, you should try comedy | 60,671 | record_train |
"I think it's unacceptable if you've got drug gangs crossing our borders and killing @placeholder | (CNN) -- A House subcommittee is expected to grill Department of Homeland Security officials about concerns that violence in Mexico may spill over the border into the United States. Mexican federal police patrol last week on the streets of Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, Texas. Mexico's military and police have been embroiled in increasingly violent clashes with drug cartels, which are battling among themselves for control over an ever-growing market in the United States. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, chairwoman of the House committee holding the hearing, said Thursday that what's happening in Mexico is becoming a growing problem for the United States.
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Mexican officials embroiled in increasingly violent clashes with drug cartels
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Cartels getting some weapons from stores along the border, congresswoman says
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House hearing focuses on security on the border, preventing spread of violence
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Asked if Obama tipped his hand by rejecting a U.S. ground invasion against ISIS three years after bringing home combat forces from @placeholder, Hagel said, "We're not going to go back into Iraq the same way we came out of Iraq a few years ago." | (CNN) -- A good soldier never publicly contradicts the commander in chief, at least not intentionally, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is a good soldier. A Vietnam War veteran, Hagel provided a robust defense of President Barack Obama's approach to ISIS jihadists in Iraq and Syria when interviewed Wednesday by CNN National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto. With Obama facing criticism over what even a fellow Democrat called too much caution, Hagel sought to make clear that the President wants to eliminate any ISIS threat to the United States and its interests -- both abroad and at home. 'Degrade and destroy'
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Defense Secretary Hagel tells CNN's Jim Sciutto that ISIS must be stopped
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"It's exactly what the President said," Hagel says of ISIS strategy
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No ground invasion of Iraq or war with Russia over Ukraine, he insists
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What @placeholder is trying to do is not invest in those things and invest much more in the things that matter to customers and putting a lot of money into materials and into craftsmanship and into American-made products, so it really is looking at trying to be a part of this whole new wave of e-commerce. | "Made in America" is a phrase rarely seen in the apparel industry. And while many clothing companies rely on retailers to distribute their products, one apparel company is steering clear of store fronts and selling their American-made clothing direct to consumers. Smart Business meets Bayard Winthrop, founder of San Francisco-based American Giant. CNN: American Giant has no stores or marketing campaigns, and is sold strictly online. How do you compete with other manufacturers? Bayard Winthrop: One of the big, dirty secrets in the apparel industry is that so much of the cost of what we pay for in our shirts and our pants is chewed up in distribution costs and big traditional marketing budgets. We're entering into a time where consumers are caring less and less about the corner store, the mall store and big traditional marketing budgets.
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Manufacturers American Giant produce all of their clothing in the United States
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Founder Bayard Winthrop believes that having an American-based manufacturing force is key to product quality
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But where this @placeholder tablet fits in -- between those devices and the TV -- I'm not sure. | (Wired) -- When Toshiba announced its 13-inch Excite tablet Tuesday, the company made an argument that one size does not fit all when it comes to touchscreen devices. But who will actually use such a large slab of mobile computing? "The Excite 13 is what we see as a home tablet," Jared Leavitt, a Toshiba spokesman, told Wired. "The larger size makes it an ideal kitchen tablet. You can watch how-to videos while you're cooking, or look up recipes. And then later, you can bring it into the living room to watch videos with the kids, or to look at family photos with friends."
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Toshiba's 13-inch Excite tablet runs on Google's Android 4.0 operating system
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The tablet sports a 1,600×900 screen resolution, a micro-USB port and a micro-HDMI port | 60,675 | record_train |
Last week - much to the ire of the airlines, pilots unions and Congress - the @placeholder removed pocket knives from its list of prohibited items. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 22:20 EST, 11 June 2013 | UPDATED: 22:20 EST, 11 June 2013 Too soon? As outrage continues to build over the National Security Administration's controversial Prism program, in which the federal government collects the electronic communications (email, text messages, phone calls, etc.) of average citizens, the nation's highest intelligence official is yucking it up about what many consider to be an unconstitutional violation of the U.S. citizenry's right to privacy. Foot-in-mouth-prone Director of National Intelligence James Clapper spoke at a black-tie dinner honoring former CIA and National Security Agency chief Michael Hayden on Friday night and - just days after admitting that he'd provided false testimony to Congress in regards to the Prism program - started cracking jokes about reading people's emails.
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James Clapper jokes he was busy reading emails and almost didn't make it to the dinner
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The car bombs followed a wave of attacks Wednesday that targeted pilgrims headed to @placeholder and killed at least 93 people. | Baghdad (CNN) -- Two car bombs targeted Shiite pilgrims Saturday in Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and injuring 68 others, police said. The bombs detonated as a religious commemoration for Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, one of the 12 revered Shiite imams, was winding down in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of Kadhimiya. One bomb exploded near a bus station in the Shulaa neighborhood, where dozens of pilgrims were waiting for buses home after attending the commemoration. At least 14 people were killed and another 32 were wounded. A second bomb went off in Sanaa Square killing 18 more people and wounding 36
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Two car bombs exploded as a commemoration for a Shiite imam was winding down
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One bomb targeted pilgrims waiting at a bus station to go home
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An al Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility for attacks a few days ago
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He is @placeholder's sixth employee and joined after the bosses took notice of the themes he designed for Tumblr blogs and in an interview with The Industry he told things had not changed that much, adding: 'The product itself hasn't changed much for the past four years...The challenge that we face now is to accommodate our enormous growth in users and new technology while still keeping the product really small.' | By Sara Nathan PUBLISHED: 13:18 EST, 23 May 2013 | UPDATED: 01:50 EST, 24 May 2013 They are the team who helped David Karp turn Tumblr into Yahoo's billion dollar baby. And while the 26-year-old founder will receive an estimated $253 million in cash as well as a small amount of Yahoo stock from the deal, his loyal colleagues certainly won't go away empty-handed. Most of the core team have been with David since the early days of Tumblr and the first 30 employees stand to make an average of $3.6 million each, according to PrivCo, a New York-based research firm that tracks private companies and the venture capital industry.
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Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp, 26, WON'T be a billionaire - but WILL scoop an estimated $190 million after his blogging site was bought for $1.1 billion.
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Company's former President says: 'Just bought some Yahoo! stock,' as another employee jokes: 'I will dab your tears with hundred dollar bills.'
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Loyal staff there at the beginning stand to make $3.6 million each
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I told him I was glad an @placeholder played me -- swear words and all. | Rome (CNN) -- James Gandolfini probably died of a heart attack, according to the head of a Rome hospital's emergency department where the actor was taken after falling ill at a hotel in the Italian capital. The body of the actor was transferred to the morgue at the Policlinico Umberto I hospital in Rome early Thursday, where it awaited an autopsy. By law, medical examiners in Italy are required to carry out the postmortem 24 hours after the body's arrival in the morgue, a hospital spokesman said. Professor Claudio Modini, head of the emergency department where the actor was taken, said he could not be certain of the cause of death until after the autopsy -- but it was "probably a natural cause of death, myocardial infarction," or heart attack.
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Friend Michael Kobold says family found Gandolfini in his room, raised the alarm
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Head of a Rome hospital's emergency department: Death likely from "a natural cause"
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Gandolfini was dead when he arrived by ambulance at a Rome hospital, official says
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Commercial pressures notwithstanding, the @placeholder have been careful to protect the deep emotional ties and sense of identity that are unique to football. | The numbers are in and the result is a draw. Well, nearly. Not everybody will be swayed by the evidence. The Premier League’s PR department will be quick to insist that the biggest, most important figure of all still points to a very substantial revenue gap between the Premier League and Bundesliga; a gap of £1billion a year. But here’s the thing. Some things are more important than money. German supports, like the ones in Borussia Dortmund, feel part of their clubs The atmosphere in Bundesliga stadiums isn’t just more exciting because the tickets are cheap, beer is freely available and fans can stand. It’s because supporters feel that it is still their club they’re cheering on.
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German teams are well supported because fans feel part of the club
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Blue revolution: Diego Costa (right) looks set to join Fabregas at @placeholder this summer | Click here to read Jon Dolan's assessment of whether former Arsenal man Fabregas will be welcomed to Stamford Bridge. Cesc Fabregas completed his shock £30million switch to Chelsea yesterday and confirmed Arsenal snubbed the chance to re-sign him. However, the blow of seeing Fabregas in a Chelsea shirt has been softened by a hefty £5.6million windfall as part of the Spaniard's move to Stamford Bridge. In what is one of the most unexpected moves of the summer so far, the Spain international has signed a five-year deal at Stamford Bridge, understood to be worth in the region of £150,000-per-week. Blue: Cesc Fabregas signed for Chelsea from Barcelona for £30million on a five-year deal
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Cesc Fabregas has signed for Chelsea in a five-year deal
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Former Arsenal midfielder reveals Gunners turned down buy-back option
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Spanish star will wear the No 4 shirt at Stamford Bridge
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Fabregas believes he has 'unfinished business' with the Premier League
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Del Bosque's side bidding to win their fourth straight major tournament | 60,681 | record_train |
In 2014, @placeholder would have turned 85 years old and festivities, marches, and speeches honored the occasion nationwide on Monday | By Ap Reporter President Barack Obama spent Martin Luther King Day alongside his family honoring the civil rights leader by helping a soup kitchen prepare its daily meals as Americans and their leaders nationwide celebrated King's legacy. The president, first lady, and daughters Malia and Sasha joined an assembly line at DC Central Kitchen where they helped stuff burritos. Obama said he came to help the facility mark its 25th anniversary on Monday. Elsewhere in Washington and across America, people remembered the assassinated leader by marching in the streets, convening at churches and attending speeches in recognition of a man whose powerful messages about poverty, violence and voting right continue to resonate with people today.
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Obama was joined by the first lady and their daughters Sasha and Malia at DC Central Kitchen as they doled out burritos to the city's hungry
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While it was also the facility's 25th anniversary, the day marked the 28th Martin Luther King Day celebration, became a U.S. federal holiday in 1986
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In King's birthplace of Atlanta thousands marched in the slain leader's honor to commemorate would have been his 85th birthday last week
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In @placeholder, the standard business-related introduction involves reverently receiving and returning a business card, bowing and shaking hands, somehow all at the same time. | For the third straight year, Seoul has ranked fifth in the world for number of international conferences hosted. Its airport is the busiest in Asia. Hotels are bursting to capacity. An increasing number of business travelers is arriving each month to South Korea's capital, many not knowing what to expect. Despite the cutting-edge technology the city is known for these days, there remain challenges for a first-timer in Seoul. Here's help. 1. Traveling from the airport/around the city takes lots of time Seoul is vast -- far greater than many expect. As the largest proper city in the developed world, it's approximately 10 times the size of Manhattan, and much more crowded.
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Business travelers should factor in plenty of buffer time for getting to meetings in Seoul
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@placeholder noted that Washington politicians have "been at each other's throats for a long time" over budget issues, and Republicans must first win some elections in order to get all the deficit reduction and spending cuts they want. | A compromise federal budget plan that would remove the threat of a government shutdown for two years won easy approval Thursday from the Republican-controlled U.S. House. The deal worked out by House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray passed on a 332-94 vote and now goes to the Democratic-led Senate, which is expected to approve it next week in a very close vote. It represented rare convergence between the two parties on government spending after two years of bitter debate and political brinksmanship that included the 16-day shutdown in October. A White House statement said the measure does not include everything President Barack Obama called for, but "it marks an important moment of bipartisan cooperation and shows Washington can and should stop governing by crisis and both sides can work together to get things done."
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The House approves a compromise budget plan on a 332-94 vote
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House Speaker Boehner criticizes conservative groups that oppose the deal
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The strength of their squad and experience of their new boss Benitez will make it extremely difficult for the likes of @placeholder and Milan -- their only genuine rivals for the championship. | London, England (CNN) -- The new Italian Serie A season kicks off this weekend -- Fanzone details what to expect from the forthcoming campaign where reigning Italian and European champions Inter Milan will be gunning for their sixth consecutive title: So what's new? The cast may have changed but the script is expected to remain the same. Inter Milan may have swapped coach Jose Mourinho for Spain's Rafa Benitez but the club is still expected to win its sixth straight title. Inter's 3-1 win over nearest rivals Roma in the Super Cup only served to underline the club's superiority over its Serie A rivals. The season's curtain raiser is usually played between the Serie A and Italian Cup winners but with Inter winning both, Roma took part simply because they were runners-up in both competitions. The fact that Ranieri's charges were dispatched again meant that Nerazzurri picked up their fourth trophy of 2010. Number five could well be a formality.
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New Inter boss Benitez under pressure to win clubs fifth straight title.
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Ailing clubs Milan and Juventus hire new managers.
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The court heard that 10 family members traced @placeholder, called him 'sister-f*****' and demanded to know where Paveet was hiding. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 14:21 EST, 23 January 2013 | UPDATED: 15:43 EST, 23 January 2013 One of Paveet Landa's relatives, Chamkh Singh, appears at Isleworth Crown Court charged with kidnapping A Sikh family 'kidnapped and imprisoned' their female relative's secret boyfriend to stop them marrying, a court heard. Paveet Landa's fled her home to escape an arranged marriage so she could elope with her partner Ramanjit Singh, a builder who is of a lower caste than her. But the 20-year-old's father, mother, older brother and other relatives traced him to a Southall Sikh Temple, where he was trying to book them a marriage ceremony, and allegedly imprisoned him.
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Nursery nurse, 20, planned to elope with her secret boyfriend who was of a lower caste than her, court heard
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Some of Paveet Landa's relatives allegedly briefly imprisoned her boyfriend to try and stop the marriage | 60,686 | record_train |
@placeholder is adjacent to Saudi Arabia, and chaos in Yemen could disrupt oil supplies and upset world energy markets. | (CNN) -- A U.S. drone strike on a vehicle just outside the capital of Sanaa killed six suspected al-Qaeda militants Wednesday night, three Yemeni Defense Ministry officials told CNN. The strike took place in Al-Masna'a village of Khawlan district, 35 kilometers southeast of the capital. Three of the killed were senior members of al Qaeda, two of whom were Saudi nationals, the officials said. Security teams were deployed to the scene, one of the officials said. "Yemen needs stability and these militants must be killed if Yemen has a chance to stabilize, " said a Defense Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to media.
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Drone strike hits vehicle
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But, Priebus said, the party's huge wins in 2014 will help wipe out the bitter taste that was left in many @placeholder donors' mouths after the 2012 election. | Washington (CNN) -- Reince Priebus says he's leaning toward running for a third two-year term as chairman of the Republican National Committee so that he can helm what needs to be an "about perfect" campaign to defeat Democrats in a presidential election. Priebus told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Friday that he'd remain focused on the "mechanics" of politics -- including improving Republicans' collection of data targeting individual voters and its field operation in presidential battleground states. His comments came with an eye on 2016, when Republicans fear the favorable electorate they found in this year's midterm elections will be drowned out by a much larger turnout among left-leaning voters.
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Reince Priebus says he'll likely seek a third term as RNC chairman
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He says the GOP will need to be "about perfect" in order to win the White House in 2016
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Priebus says the GOP will keep their field offices already in place in presidential battleground states | 60,688 | record_train |
The girl's mother, who wore a dress embroidered with @placeholder's name and photos attached to it, said she hopes Morgan suffers in prison. | By Daily Mail Reporter A homeless New Jersey dad complained that his designer wardrobe of Gucci suits and Prada accessories influenced a jury into finding him guilty last month of drowning his two-year-old girl in 2011. Speaking before he was sentenced to life behind bars for tossing his daughter into a stream still strapped to her car seat, Arthur E. Morgan III said he wouldn't have worn his expensive suits if he knew he would be criticized by the media for it. He also said that the media insisted on publishing photographs of him that portrayed him in a bad light - including the moment last month when a suited Morgan , 29, winked to cameras after a jury ruled he murdered Tierra Morgan-Glover.
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Arthur Morgan III was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for murder of his daughter, Tierra Morgan-Glover in November 2011
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Apologized in court - but not for murdering the child - instead he said he was sorry he was no longer with his daughter's mother
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Morgan complained in court that the media published photos of him winking
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Claimed he would not have worn designer clothing to court if he knew he would be criticized for it
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Morgan was found guilty last month of murdering Tierra Morgan-Glover by tossing her into a creek, strapped into a car seat and weighed down by a tire jack
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Before his arrest, Morgan lived in the back of 1995 Cadillac Deville | 60,689 | record_train |
Forty percent of Liberians are under the age of 14 and many believe that, at 72, President Johnson-Sirleaf is out of touch with the needs of the average @placeholder. | Liberia (CNN) -- Thousands of young men shouting, driving in pick-up trucks and taking control of the streets of Monrovia was, only a few years ago, a reason to flee. They are scenes reminiscent of the 14-year civil war that devastated Liberia and left an estimated 250,000 people dead. But today, these young men and women are thronging the streets of the capital in excitement - supporting their preferred candidates in the last day of campaigning in the nation's elections. The front-runner : the first African female president, grandmother of three and newly-awarded winner of the Nobel Peace prize.
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Liberians head to polls Tuesday amid excitement
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Front-runner is Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf the first African female president and Nobel Peace prize winner
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Main opposition party's VP candidate is international football star George Weah | 60,690 | record_train |
Carroll tweeted his excitement at being involved with @placeholder again... and he could play next weekend | West Ham striker Andy Carroll arrived back in London on Monday night with his new fiancee Billi Mucklow after proposing to the TV star during a trip to Rome. Carroll, who has been dating the former TOWIE star since last summer, popped the question on Sunday before touching back down in the capital the following evening. The 25-year-old, who could make his long-awaited return to the West Ham squad for this weekend's match against Aston Villa, was pictured with his new fiancee as the pair set off from the airport in the Italian capital. The newly engaged couple pose for a picture inside the plane at the airport in Rome before arriving in London
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Andy Carroll could return to the West Ham squad for the first time this season when the Hammers play Aston Villa on Saturday
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Carroll got engaged to TV star Billi Mucklow after proposing in Rome
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Mucklow announced her engagement to Carroll on Instagram
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The pair arrived back in London on Monday evening | 60,691 | record_train |
Both airlines, and @placeholder, admitted that they had discovered cracks, but maintained that the aircraft were safe. | Airbus may stop making its super-jumbo, the A380, because sales figures have been so poor, the company's finance director revealed. Making its first commercial flight in 2007 to great fanfare, the A380 is the world's largest and most glamorous passenger airliner, with two decks that run the entire length of the fuselage. The A380 has entered service in the fleets of several major airlines, including Emirates, Singapore Airlines, British Airways and Qantas, but the future of the plane was thrown into doubt amid a slump in orders. Scroll down for video Airbus may stop making its super-jumbo, the A380, because sales figures have been so poor
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The A380, the world's largest airliner, was launched in 2007 to great fanfare
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It entered service in the fleets of several major airlines, including BA
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The company's finance director, however, hinted it may be discontinued
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His comment came amid a slump in sales of the double-decker aircraft
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The CEO of major customer Emirates said he was 'miffed' at the news
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Airbus has 318 firm orders for the aircraft, with 147 having been delivered | 60,692 | record_train |
‘Clearing that pond was one of my least favourite jobs,’ admits @placeholder. | When they first set eyes on the rundown old farmhouse and derelict outbuildings, all Graham and Susan James wanted to know from a local surveyor was: Will the property fall down before we buy it? Most people would have baulked at taking on four-and-a-half acres of untamed land, a silted-up pond and crumbling Grade II listed house, but the Jameses were certain the property ‘had our name on it’. That was 1976. And for the next 38 years, they spent every weekend painstakingly restoring Luxford Farm, near Crowborough in East Sussex, and creating the most beautiful gardens. Hard work: Graham, 76, and Susan, 74, bought derelict Luxford Farm near Crowborough in East Sussex, in 1976, and after doing it up, are now selling it
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Graham and Susan James bought derelict Luxford Farm in 1976
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The couple spent the next 38 years doing up the East Sussex farm
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The six-bedroom house is now on the market for £1.995million | 60,693 | record_train |
Now that he's released, @placeholder is considering whether to stay or withdraw from the race for mayor. | One of the many disturbing aspects of the NSA spying revelations is how much joy they have brought to the world's chronic violators of human rights and political freedoms. On Thursday in Moscow, where former NSA contractor Edward Snowden awaits his asylum papers, a Russian court removed a major critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin's list of worries, sentencing the charismatic opposition leader Alexei Navalny to five years in jail on theft charges. Amid intense anger at the verdict and fears that it would raise Navalny's profile, the court agreed on Friday to release him pending appeal.
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Frida Ghitis: NSA spying revelations have brought joy to world's violators of human rights
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Ghitis: While Russia convicts corruption-fighter Alexei Navalny, it defends Snowden
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She says Navatny is the most prominent of a long series of politically-motivated prosecutions
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Ghitis: Putin is basking in moral relativism, feeling his abuses are OK by criticizing U.S. spying | 60,694 | record_train |
Devastated: Mrs Powell said: 'My world just crashed to pieces when I thought I might not be able to see @placeholder growing up. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:05 EST, 27 December 2013 | UPDATED: 01:47 EST, 28 December 2013 A mother spent three weeks in turmoil after doctors told her she had terminal cancer - only to discover there was nothing wrong with her. Evelina Powell, 32, was rushed to hospital after collapsing at work and given blood tests and a CT scan. Doctors thought she had suffered a mini-stroke which was later ruled out. An MRI scan then detected a possible tumour, instead. Misdiagnosis: Evelina Powell (with daughter Sophie, four) spent three weeks believing she had terminal cancer after doctors said cancer had eaten away a 50 pence-sized hole in her skull
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Evelina Powell, 32, was rushed to hospital in Kent after collapsing at work
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She was given blood tests and scans which detected a possible tumour
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Claims doctors at her local hospital in Kent said cancer had eaten away a 50 pence size hole in her skull
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Terrified she was going to die, she began to get her affairs in order to ensure her two-year-old daughter Sophie would be cared for
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But three weeks later, London doctors said there was nothing wrong at all
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They suggested she may have a lesion on her brain from childhood illness
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Says she she is still piecing her life back together after the incident | 60,695 | record_train |
the way for @placeholder’s daring feat, ensuring there was no traffic around | By Mark Duell PUBLISHED: 08:04 EST, 25 June 2013 | UPDATED: 10:28 EST, 25 June 2013 He left many of us scratching our heads as to how he did it - but we may now have the answer. With a beaming smile on his face, celebrity illusionist Dynamo was pictured floating across Westminster Bridge on Sunday while ‘levitating’ from the side of a double-decker bus. But photographs have emerged of artist Johan Lorbeer performing a similar act on walls - and one taken after he got down shows a metal pole, which appears to have supported his weight. Scroll down for video
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Photographs emerge of artist Johan Lorbeer performing similar act
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One shows a metal pole which appears to have supported his weight
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Dynamo, 30, could have been using fake right arm for 'levitating' trick
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Magician shocked London onlookers on Sunday by appearing to float | 60,696 | record_train |
The Obama administration has stressed repeatedly that it is committed to maintaining a strong relationship with @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Throughout his campaign, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has cast himself as an ardent backer of Israel -- and, either directly or indirectly, suggested that President Barack Obama hasn't been similarly supportive. The former Massachusetts governor lashed out again Monday in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute, criticizing Obama on several points. Among them was Israel, with Romney stating the relationship between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "has suffered great strains" in recent years. "The president explicitly stated that his goal was to put 'daylight' between the United States and Israel. And he has succeeded," said Romney. "This is a dangerous situation that has set back the hope of peace in the Middle East and emboldened our mutual adversaries, especially Iran."
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A report says Obama told Jewish leaders the risks of "no daylight" between U.S., Israel
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Romney cites that remark, and claims "great strains" between Obama and Netanyahu
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Context of Obama's comments is unclear, and he never said "daylight" was his goal | 60,697 | record_train |
'We cannot interfere in the judicial process of another country and must respect their systems just as we expect them to respect the @placeholder’s laws and legal processes.' | A British mother who is accused of kidnapping her four-year-old son for a year after Dubai court handed custody to her ex-husband has claimed she went on the run because he threatened to kill her. Afsana Lachaux, 46, from London, is facing charges of kidnapping in the United Arab Emirates this week after taking her son when custody was awarded to her French ex-husband by a Dubai court. Mrs Lachaux, was a senior civil servant in east London before moving to the UAE in 2010. Afsana Lachaux, 46, from London, is facing charges of kidnapping in the United Arab Emirates this week after taking her son when custody was awarded to her French ex-husband by a Dubai court
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Afsana Lachaux, 46, from London, is facing charges of kidnapping
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Custody was awarded to her French ex-husband by a Dubai court
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The 46-year-old mother claims her husband was violent towards her | 60,698 | record_train |
"We have to have a nominee that can excite our base and I don't know if @placeholder can do that," Jones said. | Washington (CNN) -- If presumptive Democratic 2016 front-runner Hillary Clinton decides not to run, at least one party strategist and CNN contributor thinks the Democrats' presidential bench isn't that deep. "No one," said Paul Begala, a longtime Clinton ally, when asked by CNN's Jake Tapper if there were other party leaders who could lead the party in 2016. "No one." While Republicans have a full bench of presidential hopefuls, Begala, who worked for President Bill Clinton and was an early Hillary Clinton supporter in 2008, said Clinton is the Democrats' best and perhaps only hope to capture the White House in 2016.
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Paul Begala is a Democratic strategist who worked for Bill Clinton during his administration
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Hillary Clinton is the presumptive front-runner for the Democrats in 2016
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Begala argued other Democratic hopefuls don't have the 'electoral prospects' Clinton has | 60,699 | record_train |
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