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Urgency: @placeholder skipped his planned political fundraising in order to chair a cabinet meeting about his administration's Ebola response | The Obama administration should ban all air travel to the United States from the three African countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic, say at least 41 members of Congress including three Democratic House members. Republican Senator Ted Cruz, whose home state is ground zero for Ebola in North America, wrote Wednesday in a Texas Tribune op-ed that 'we all very much hope the virus will not spread any further in Texas. But hope is not a strategy.' 'Given the gravity of the threat, common sense dictates that it’s time to ban flights from the countries afflicted by Ebola.' 'There's no reason to allow ongoing commercial air traffic out of those countries,' he told the Dallas Morning News.
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House speaker wants US airports closed to traffic from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
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35 other House members including three Democrats take the same position
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Five Republican senators demand travel bans to contain the Ebola virus
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Obama administration insists travel routes must stay open so planes can return to Africa with aid workers and relief supplies
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White House won't say why military aircraft can't be used instead | 64,900 | record_train |
Soon enough, @placeholder emerged as the new paramount leader. | BEIJING, China (CNN) -- Soon after I first came to visit China in the autumn of 1971, I saw a contingent of militia soldiers doing marching drills in Tiananmen Square. I was told they were rehearsing for the annual National Day parade on October 1, which people eagerly awaited. Mao Zedong proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 1949. Weeks later, however, I was informed that the civilian and military parade had been cancelled in the spirit of "simple-living and hard struggle," as Chairman Mao decreed. The real reason: Lin Biao, then defense minister and Mao's anointed successor, had reportedly died in a plane crash while attempting to flee the country after a failed coup attempt.
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Mao proved to be good at fighting but poor at governing
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Mao pushed sweeping socio-economic initiatives, strident ideological campaigns
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His successor Deng Xiaoping embarks upon reforming the economy, opening China
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China gains world prominence via 20-year economic boom, but has consequences | 64,901 | record_train |
@placeholder seemed to produce the strongest response, with people rating the drinks as more elegant and refined when watching the popular period drama. | By Ellie Zolfagharifard PUBLISHED: 09:30 EST, 18 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:37 EST, 18 December 2013 Forget pairing the right wine with the right meal - what you should be doing is pairing your tipple to the TV show you’re watching. This is according to latest research that suggests tuning into a certain programme this Christmas can change the way a festive drink tastes. According to the study, Cabernet Sauvignon should be paired with Downton Abbey while Chardonnay tastes better with the Eastenders Christmas special. Latest research suggests tuning into certain TV programmes this Christmas can change and enhance the way a festive drink tastes
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When watching Strictly Come Dancing, drinks were more often rated as fun
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During Only Fools and Horses, people were more likely to rate drinks as light
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Cognac should be paired with Downton and Chardonnay with Eastenders
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Earlier research found the room you're in can also change flavour of drinks | 64,902 | record_train |
By some estimates, "@placeholder" had the biggest five-day opening in revenue of any entertainment debut in history. | (CNN) -- Instant messaging, texting, Facebook, and ... "Call of Duty?" The "Call of Duty" games effectively adapt to changing communication habits, Bobby Kotick, the CEO of game publisher Activision, told CNN on Tuesday. And that could be the smoking gun in the franchise's takeover of the video-game industry. The latest entry in the console-game series, "Call of Duty: Black Ops," has netted more than $1 billion in sales worldwide since it came out on November 9, Activision announced on Tuesday. In that time, gamers have spent 600 million hours with the game, the company said. "More people play 'Black Ops' every day than watch Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jimmy Fallon, combined," Kotick boasted. "The audience of 'Call of Duty' is probably greater in terms of size ... than in any other interactive form of entertainment."
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"Call of Duty" effectively adapts to changing communication habits, says Activision's CEO
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The games can be as integral to social lives as Facebook and text messaging
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Activision hopes to adapt lessons from "World of Warcraft" into "Call of Duty" | 64,903 | record_train |
And @placeholder, headstrong though he can be, does not have a Machiavellian mind. | CLICK HERE to read how the German plans to pip Lewis Hamilton to the post in Abu Dhabi Nico Rosberg offered Lewis Hamilton his hand, and he stared at it as if it had come from Mars, not from the friend of his racing youth. At least boxers look each other in the eye at the weigh-in, even if they are chewing and snarling. But Hamilton found it hard even to meet Rosberg’s gaze when they came together for the traditional handshake of title contenders ahead of Thursday’s press conference. Rosberg was the more chipper of the pair. Shoulders back, a swagger in his step. He took the initiative in putting out his paw. He has nothing to lose. He is already second in the table, 17 points behind his Mercedes colleague going into Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
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F1 drivers' championship will be decided in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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Lewis Hamilton leads his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg by 17 points
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Brit must finish second if Rosberg wins due to double points on offer | 64,904 | record_train |
The Italian Job: Jay-Z is bringing @placeholder with him to Kim and Kanye's wedding - although a close family member at first said Beyoncé had reservations | Multi-millionaire rapper Jay Z WILL be by his best pal Kanye West's side when he says 'I Do' to Kim Kardashian on Saturday, MailOnline can reveal. A close family source has confirmed the star will stand up for his friend at the lavish ceremony to be held at Forte di Belvedere in Florence, Italy. Rumours that Jay Z would be the best man were originally dismissed, but the family member said he would be attending alongside his wife, superstar Beyoncé, adding: 'Beyoncé had to think about it at the last minute, she didn't really want to go, but I think Jay Z's the best man, so he's kind of making her go...
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Close family source says multi-millionaire rapper with be by Kanye's side at Italian extravaganza on Saturday
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Admits Beyoncé had to 'think about it', adding 'She didn't really want to go' | 64,905 | record_train |
they are led by the World Cup’s last superstar, @placeholder, and they | CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE STATS AND FACTS FROM THE QUARTER-FINAL USING OUR MATCH ZONE SERVICE At the end the National Stadium in Brasilia resounded with the sounds of the 20,000 Argentine fans goading their hosts with a chant to the tune of Bad Moon Rising as they waved their shirts above their head. It is an involved song, explaining how the Brazilians have been crying ever since Claudio Caniggia scored against them in 1990 and how Diego Maradona is better than Pele. ‘How does it feel?’ they sang ‘to be bossed about in your own backyard.’ It has become the anthem of this World Cup, heard everywhere Argentines gather, which is pretty much everywhere.
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Higuain nets early opener in Brasilia, volleying past Thibaut Courtois
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Messi stars in the game, but didn't add to four tournament goals
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Argentina will play Netherlands or Costa Rica in the semi-finals
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Higuain hit the bar in the second half, Messi missed one on one
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Eden Hazard was disappointing for Belgium, and was substituted | 64,906 | record_train |
week before the double murder-suicide, Valerie and @placeholder had | By Snejana Farberov Family man: Charles Davis, 41, who had served 15 years in prison for a murder, shot dead his estranged wife and her 20-year-old son before turning the gun on himself A Florida woman and her 20-year-old son have been gunned down by the mother's third husband, who then turned the gun on himself after sparing the life of his teenage stepdaughter. Police in northwest Miami-Dade believe that 41-year-old Charles Davis opened fire on 44-year-old Valerie Davis and her son, Jeffrey Eskridge Jr, at around 3am Tuesday inside their home on 55th Court Street. When officers arrived on the scene, they forced their way inside the residence and discovered the bodies of the parents and the son.
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Police in Miami-Dade County found the bodies of Charles Davis, 41, Valerie Davis, 44, and the woman's 20-year-old son, Jeffrey Eskridge Jr
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Valerie Davis' 16-year-old daughter, Tyria Poole, hid in the closet and was spared by her stepfather
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Mr Davis served 15 years in prison for second-degree murder and was released in 2006
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Valerie Davis split up with Charles last week after eight years of marriage | 64,907 | record_train |
@placeholder discovery app Highlight alerts you when other users or friends are nearby. | (CNN) -- The premise of social discovery seems simple: Uncover the people and events around you, in real time, based on user interests and/or locations. But many worry today's social apps define privacy in very different and sometimes concerning terms. In 2012, Instagram revamped its privacy policy to much protest, and Path settled a case with the FTC over its personal information collection practices. As more of these social discovery applications emerge, two concepts remain key: user discretion and transparency. SEE ALSO: 10 Free iPhone Apps You'll Use Every Day On the other hand, some users subsets are growing into the new social media landscape, when it comes to privacy. According to "Teens, Social Media and Privacy," a report issued last month by Pew Internet, teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they're also taking a variety steps to manage the privacy of that information.
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Many worry new apps define privacy too loosely
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Studies show people are sharing more on social media
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Social app creators say people are always wary of new technology
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Combining location and social posts can give away life info | 64,908 | record_train |
Prosecutors in @placeholder said the two alleged rapes occurred on September 23 in a New Orleans apartment. | (CNN) -- New Orleans police have issued arrest warrants for former NFL star Darren Sharper and another man in connection with the alleged rapes of two women. Sharper, 38, and Erik Nunez, 26, each face two counts of aggravated rape, the Orleans Parish district attorney's office said in a statement. Sharper and Nunez face the possibility of life without parole if convicted. CNN reached out to an attorney for Sharper and to Nunez, but neither immediately returned messages seeking comment. Sharper has also been charged in California with two counts of rape by use of drugs and other charges, according to Los Angeles County prosecutors.
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Darren Sharper now faces rape charges in two states
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The former NFL star faces two counts in New Orleans of aggravated rape
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A second man, Erik Nunez, also faces the same charges in Louisiana
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An attorney for Sharper previously has said his client engaged in "consensual contact" | 64,909 | record_train |
The opening of InSite was a major campaign issue in @placeholder's 2002 civic elections. | Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- Heroin, cocaine and amphetamines are the kind of street drugs you expect to find in the shady corners of any city, hiding away from the glare of law enforcement. But in one small space in downtown Vancouver addicts openly inject their fixes -- as medics watch on. This is InSite, North America's only legal safe drug injection center. A banner outside reads "InSite saves lives." It's a facility where drug addicts can bring and use their drugs and not risk arrest. Some of the addicts line up two or three times a day to use one of the 12 injection booths.
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Safe haven in Vancouver allows drug addicts to shoot up safely and without fear of arrest
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Controversially, InSite does not require addicts to try to kick their habits
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Supreme Court ruled it should stay open as it was giving access to medical care
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InSite is the only legal safe haven facility in North America | 64,910 | record_train |
Restoration: bishops survey the work in progress two centuries after revolutionaries took over @placeholder cathedral | By Ruth Whitehead PUBLISHED: 14:36 EST, 15 September 2012 | UPDATED: 15:09 EST, 15 September 2012 Dutch courage: workers at the foundry in Holland pour in the molten metal to create Notre Dame's new bell Emmanuel has been tolled to mark the end of the First and Second Wars, the liberation of the city in 1944, and major state occasions, as well as ringing on the hour. It was also rung on September 11, 2001 after the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York. Much loved: once sacked by revolutionaries, Notre Dame is a favourite with tourists and its bells mark some of the most solem moments of recent history including Paris' liberation and 9/11
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New bell cast yesterday in Dutch town of Asten for France's most famous cathedral
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Bell will be called Marie and chime next to 330-year-old Emmanuel in the cathedral's south tower
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Marie is largest of nine new bells
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Many original bells were melted down during French revolution | 64,911 | record_train |
'We can rout @placeholder on the ground and keep a lid on things temporarily, he insisted, referring to ISIS by the White House's preferred name. | Lawmakers are fuming over President Barack Obama's admission on Thursday that his White House lacks a strategy for dealing with the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in Syria, with one congressman comparing his performance to the bumbling sheriff's deputy Barney Fife from 'The Andy Griffith Show.' And as House and Senate members piled on with sharp criticism, a former senior aide to a retired defense secretary told MailOnline that the Joint Chiefs of Staff are 'seeing red' and 'spitting nails' following Obama's candid admission. 'They're losing confidence in their mission,' said the long-time Pentagon insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity. 'When the president doesn't know what direction to point people in, all his advisers can do is guess at what he wants. That's not good.'
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Texas congressman compares Obama to bumbling deputy Barney Fife from 'The Andy Griffith Show'
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Pentagon insider says Joint Chiefs of Staff are 'seeing red' and 'spitting nails' following Obama's candid admission
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Generals are 'losing confidence in their mission,' said a former senior aide to a retired defense secretary
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House Intel Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said Obama's performance was 'really shocking given the severity of the threat'
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White House press secretary said the administration isn't concerned about the comment, but about the 'way it was being reported' | 64,912 | record_train |
Fellow presenter @placeholder, who also appears in the eye-catching campaign, points out: | By Katy Winter We wouldn’t expect anyone even vaguely close to the Royal family to be sporting a tattoo, but Donna Air looks set to set pulses in the Palace skyrocketing when they see her posing with a large inking on her shoulder. However Ms Air, who has been with boyfriend, the Duchess of Cambridge's brother James Middleton, for about a year, has not actually paid a visit to the tattoo parlour. The 33-year-old has joined with a host of other celebrities including Jameela Jamil and Edith Bowman, to support Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life with powerful and defiant messages temporarily tattooed on their bodies.
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Presenter Donna Air in latest Cancer Research Race for Life campaign
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Stars alongside Jameela Jamil and Edith Bowman
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All sport temporary tattoos saying 'Cancer, we are coming to get you' | 64,913 | record_train |
'There was one thing I told you not to go into and that's exactly what you did,' @placeholder told her. | By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:59 EST, 15 August 2012 | UPDATED: 00:59 EST, 15 August 2012 Accused: Drew Peterson, 58, pictured in 2009, has been imprisoned for the past three years awaiting trial for the death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio The judge at Drew Peterson's murder trial on Tuesday lambasted prosecutors who for the third time in as many weeks broached a subject they were told not to mention in front of jurors -- again raising the possibility that the case could end with the judge letting the former police officer go free.
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Drew Peterson pleaded not guilty to murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004
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Only charged with Savio's murder after his fourth wife went missing
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Judge Edward Burmila told prosecutors not to ask witnesses about whether Savio sought an order of protection against Peterson
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Prosecution asked this question and defense have asked for 'mistrial with prejudice'
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If 'mistrial with prejudice' is granted Peterson cannot be charged with Savio's murder again
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Burmila could just issue a standard mistrial, allowing Peterson to be tried again | 64,914 | record_train |
Chelsea are backing @placeholder over his intense repeated criticisms of refereeing standards and have even taken to publicly supporting him through the club's official website. | Chelsea have prepared a dossier of incidents featuring Jan Vertonghen, Jack Wilshere and Joe Hart to present to the Football Association as part of their appeal against Nemanja Matic's three-game ban. The Serbian midfielder was sent off by Martin Atkinson on Saturday for his reaction to Burnley forward Ashley Barnes' challenge that was labelled an 'end of career' foul by Blues manager Jose Mourinho. Chelsea are appealing the length of Matic's suspension and hope that by flagging up other similar decisions that the FA will cut the sentence. Chelsea and Jose Mourinho have produced a dossier to present to the FA as part of Nemanja Matic's appeal
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Chelsea will present a dossier of previous incidents to the FA on Tuesday
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Jan Vertonghen, Jack Wilshere, Joe Hart and Wayne Routledge all feature
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The Blues hope to reduce Nemanja Matic's ban to less than three games
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An institution since the 1930s, the pub serves traditional fare (1264 @placeholder.). | (Southern Living) -- Here's what I see as I cross the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue: a sleek woman in to-die-for jeans speaking a language I can't pin down; an iPod-toting jogger with shopping bags from a tony store; a model (or she should be) in knee-high boots and a thigh-high skirt. It's like a well-cast movie -- all the elements fit like a study in big-city fashion. Fresh is among Georgetown's fashionable boutiques aimed at young professionals. Is this the South? You bet. It's Georgetown at its best, trendiest, most promising. And we're here to shop (and take you with us for the fun). Follow along as we go international with names you know and local -- only the best --popping into reinvented townhomes to sample the distinctive character you only find here. Join us on a tour of my favorites.
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Shops of Georgetown dress Presidential daughters, inaugural ball goddesses
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Annie Creamcheese is a vintage emporium featuring racks of designer dresses
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Choose the style, fabric and ribbons for your dream handbag at Fornash
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It's always the 1950s in Sixteen Fifty Nine, full of midcentury modern furnishings | 64,916 | record_train |
As for those who despise the @placeholder as much as the font, he has a reminder: Nothing is permanent. | (CNN) -- It's one of the most mocked fonts on the Internet, the target of numerous campaigns and websites that believe its "comical" design has no place in civilized society. Now, Comic Sans has gone analog with the "Sincerity Machine," a typewriter that types letters in Comic Sans. The idea came to Pittsburgh designer Jesse England one night in September, when he was lying in bed reading a comic that used a typewriter-style font in its lettering. "It just struck me there was nothing stopping me from making a typewriter that could use a different font," he said. Why do it? It's hard to say, exactly. But it's the kind of project that interests England, an artist and educator who leads classes in laser-cutting and engraving at a digital media studio for a living. Through his job he had access to tools to etch letters out of acrylic and glue them onto the strikers of an old Brother Charger 11 typewriter he found on the street years ago.
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"Sincerity Machine" types letters in Comic Sans
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Creator Jesse England hopes to make people think about how they consume media
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England says he wants people to use media "in a considered fashion," he said | 64,917 | record_train |
Next up for @placeholder is a meeting with Ben Woollaston. | Ronnie O’Sullivan made light of his broken ankle to clinch a 6-3 win over Peter Lines and book his place in the last 32 of the Coral UK Championship. Sullivan was far from his fluent best at the York Barbican Centre, but still knocked in a highest break of 106 as he proved too good for his 44-year-old opponent. His participation had been in doubt after he suggested after a first-round win over Daniel Wells that he might have to withdraw from the tournament. Ronnie O'Sullivan battled through an ankle injury to defeat Peter Lines 6-3 at the York Barbican Centre
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Ronnie O’Sullivan played through the game with a broken ankle
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O'Sullivan defeated Peter Lines 6-3 to reach last 32
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The Englishman will face Ben Woollaston in the next round | 64,918 | record_train |
Seems the toll of @placeholder and Obama's anemic approval ratings are proving insurmountable for both incumbents and candidates. | (CNN) -- A pen and a phone may not seem too dangerous, but in the hands of President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, they have proven to be devastating. Just four years ago, when Democrats controlled Congress, Obama called then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and turned over our country's health care policy to the Democrats. And then with his pen, he signed one of the most damaging pieces of health care legislation into law. Obama has promised us he'll use that pen and phone again to unilaterally drive his job-destroying agenda -- and he's expected to repeat that promise in Tuesday night's State of the Union.
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Rep. Greg Walden says Americans need jobs, not empty words
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Walden: Obamacare is not going away as a political issue
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Walden: The Republican House is the only check and balance on an unpopular president | 64,919 | record_train |
After one particularly violent episode where he repeatedly bashed her head against the floor, @placeholder ended up in hospital. | By Lucy Waterlow PUBLISHED: 10:36 EST, 11 March 2013 | UPDATED: 05:26 EST, 12 March 2013 Survivor: After becoming free of a violent relationship, Nikki Howes has trained to be a counsellor so she can help others When Nikki Howes attended art college when she was 18 with a black eye, her alarmed friends asked her what had happened. 'I was mugged,' she told them - one of the many lies she told during a terrifying two-and-a-half-year period when she was in fact being attacked by her boyfriend. Nikki had met her abusive ex, David, when she started at university in Brighton and had no idea how violent he would become.
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Nikki Howes started a relationship with 'charming' David when she was 18 and had no idea of the monster he would become
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He would drink excessively and violently attack her
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Abuse would be prompted by smallest thing such as what clothes she wore
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He would always beg for forgiveness and she had nobody to turn to
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After more than two years, she eventually escaped after calling her father when she feared David would kill her
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Now she works as a counsellor to help others | 64,920 | record_train |
But after a few weeks, @placeholder's bank notified him the checks he had deposited had actually been returned, and that he owed the bank all the money he had withdrawn. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Americans learn a painful lesson in banking every day: Waiting for a check to clear and then getting access to the money from a bank doesn't mean the check has really cleared. When Harry Smith, of New York, responded to an ad on Craigslist for an office assistant, a woman e-mailed him and said her British company was starting to sell its product in the United States, but was having trouble with dealing with checks from customers. Smith said the woman needed someone to collect the checks and then send the money to her company. It was a commission job -- deposit the checks, wait for the funds to become available at his bank, then send cash to her, minus 10 percent for Smith.
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More than 1 million Americans have been victim of fake check scams, study finds
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Experts warn not to accept checks from someone seeking money in return
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Survey: Most American consumers unfamiliar with time needed to process checks | 64,921 | record_train |
But @placeholder said she left after that and hadn't heard from her. | By Ashley Collman The high school friend of a missing Colorado teen who gave a television interview begging for help in the search, was arrested for the 19-year-old woman's murder on Thursday. Lea Chali Porter, 19, of Pueblo was reported missing by her mother on June 5 and was last seen driving to 23-year-old friend Christopher Waide's apartment after getting into a fight with her boyfriend. In the wake of her disappearance, Waide gave a television interview saying Porter left his house in the middle of the night and he hadn't seen her since, though her car never left his apartment's parking lot.
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Lea Chali Porter, 19, was reported missing June 5 by her mother
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She was last reported visiting high school acquaintance Christopher Waide, 23, at his apartment
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He says she left his apartment in the middle of the night after they got into a fight
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In the days after her disappearance, police interviewed Waide and searched his home but didn't find cause to make an arrest
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On Thursday, Porter's brother and boyfriend confronted Waide and he confessed to killing her and disposing her body
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He has since been arrested and charged with sexual assault and first-degree murder
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Police say Waide is cooperating and helping investigators find Porter's body | 64,922 | record_train |
Remembered: A memorial service was held in New Hampshire for @placeholder on Thursday afternoon | The mother of Sandy Hook Elementary gunman Adam Lanza has been remembered at a small family-only gathering at the Kingston, New Hampshire home where she grew up. Nancy Lanza, who was shot by her 20-year-old son as she lay in bed in their Connecticut home last Friday, lived in the 1760s-era home where her brother James Champion, a policeman, now lives. On Thursday, around two dozen relatives and friends in dark clothing attended the home for the service, but it is not known whether the memorial also served as a funeral or if she has been buried. While authorities said her body had been claimed and released to a funeral home - without providing further details - they have not said whether Adam's body has been claimed.
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Nancy Lanza, 52, mother of the Sandy Hook gunman Adam Lanza, was remembered in Kingston, New Hampshire, where her brother still lives
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Not clear whether there was also a funeral or if she has been buried
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Peter Lanza, Adam's father, is believed to be in hiding
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In one hamlet, villagers had captured a @placeholder man they believed had been living in the jungle for days. | BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Bedraggled, hungry and dazed, the refugees arrived on the shores of Thailand after fleeing one of the most repressive governments in the world -- the hard-line military regime in Myanmar, also known as Burma. This picture provided to CNN is said to show refugees being towed out to sea by the Thai army. But a CNN investigation has uncovered evidence that for hundreds of Rohingya refugees -- members of a Muslim minority group -- abuse and abandonment at sea were what awaited them in Thailand, at the hands of Thai authorities. Extraordinary photos obtained by CNN from someone directly involved in the Thai operation show refugees on their rickety boats being towed out to sea, cut loose and abandoned.
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CNN finds evidence hundreds of Rohingya refugees abandoned at sea by Thai army
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Photos show refugees on their rickety boats being towed out to sea, cut loose
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The army denies setting refugees adrift; Thai government has launched an inquiry
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Rohingya have been fleeing persecution of the hard-line military regime in Myanmar | 64,924 | record_train |
The bureau reports that @placeholder lost 11,700 jobs from May to June and unemployment rose to 9.7 percent. | (CNN) -- Despite everyone talking about Arizona's new immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, no one has asked if it was Arizona's best option. Was there no other approach to address immigration without undermining the state's economy or shredding our social fabric? Nobody had a better idea for balancing security with the draw and demand of American jobs? What about an offer to work with Congress? Was the only solution to blow up the place? It should concern everyone that no one asked these questions. If you watch the SB1070 hearings here, not a single legislator asks about or offers alternatives, although a few express "concerns." One legislator, Daniel Patterson, strongly challenged the law's sponsor, state Sen. Russell Pearce, on his immigration claims. Patterson's courage was rewarded with the loss of his committee assignment.
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Todd Landfried: Nobody considered an alternative to Arizona's SB1070
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Kicking 300,000 out, loss of businesses could cost $29 billion annually, he writes
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He says law has already created far more job, economic, social problems than it solves
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Landfried proposes Ellis Island-type centers on the borders that channel job seekers into U.S. | 64,925 | record_train |
It echoes through the years in the heartbeats of @placeholder. | (CNN) -- Politicians and historians love to use the word "crossroads." It's become as American, and cliched, as "Mom's apple pie." The historian Shelby Foote, wrote, "The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. ... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads." I have been thinking about the word, because this year's Black History Month theme is "At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington." Two pivotal events that shaped modern American history.
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Donna Brazile: Black History Month themed crossroads, "tied to two pivotal U.S. events
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Emancipation Proclamation, March on Washington were crossroads, she says
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She says crossroad decisions are threaded along U.S. road to post-racial society
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Brazile: We're not there yet, but re-election of Obama a harbinger | 64,926 | record_train |
@placeholder grabbed the banana from a catering cart, tossing it on the field, he said. | (CNN) -- A San Francisco Giants fan who threw a banana that landed near Baltimore Orioles centerfielder Adam Jones during a weekend game said the incident was not racially motivated, but an act of frustration at his team's poor performance. Alexander Poulides told the San Jose Mercury News that he's embarrassed and shocked, but most of all apologetic for his "indiscretion." Poulides said he was unaware of the uproar until Monday morning when he turned on the news. His heart sank when heard the outcry over an unidentified Giants fan who threw a banana at Jones, who is African-American. "Oh, my God,'' Poulides said. "I threw a banana on my way out."
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MLB to investigate incident at Orioles-Giants game Sunday
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Orioles centerfield Adam Jones angry after claiming a fan threw a banana at him
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Jones took to Twitter to voice his displeasure
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The Giants apologize for the incident | 64,927 | record_train |
@placeholder equalised with a 7-5 win in the second set after going 6-1 down in the first | Laura Robson cemented her status as the golden girl of British tennis yesterday by reaching the last 16 at Wimbledon. The 19-year-old produced a spirited fightback to defeat New Zealand’s Marina Erakovic in three sets. But she said afterwards that she wouldn’t have made it without her ‘amazing’ support from the crowd. Laura Robson celebrated an incredible comeback which saw her defeat New Zealand's Marina Erakovic in the third round of Wimbledon Robson looked to the skies with a big smile as the crowd got to their feet to cheer her win The crowd gave Robson, the British number one, a standing ovation as she wrapped up the three-set match
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Robson beat Marina Erakovic 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 to go through to fourth round
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She made a nervous start, going down 1-6 in the first set to the Kiwi
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Robson: 'The crowd was amazing. I couldn't have done it without them'
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4,000 fans packed the court to cheer on the 19-year-old British number one
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Andy Murray suited up for Royal Box alongside fellow London 2012 winners
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Centre Court crowd rose in a standing ovation for Armed Forces Day
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Reigning men's doubles champion Jonny Marray bags place in third round | 64,928 | record_train |
He is desperate for the disappointing @placeholder not to be his last tournament and there have been signs in recent weeks at Real Madrid that he is getting back to his best. | There were more questions than answers for Spain on Thursday night after an unbeaten qualifying run stretching back 36 games across eight years came to an end. It was not so much the defeat, as the symptoms of malaise that were so apparent at the World Cup and show no signs of lifting. No one quite knows why Diego Costa can score nine goals in nine matches for Chelsea and yet fail to score in any of his first six games for his adopted country. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Spain in training as they prepare for Luxembourg Spain's players Cesc Fabregas (centre) and Diego Costa (right) look dejected after Slovakia's late winer
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Vicente del Bosque's side last lost a qualifier in 2006 against Sweden
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Slovakia's Miroslav Stoch scored in the 87th minute to secure 2-1 win
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Real Madrid keeper Iker Casillas was at fault for Slovakia's opening goal
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"We're simply requesting under a very normal procedure for the transfer of somebody, just as we transferred to @placeholder seven people in the last two years that they requested, that we did without any clamor, without any rancor, without any argument and according to our sense of the appropriateness of meeting their request." | (CNN) -- Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who spilled U.S. surveillance secrets to the world, is a "free man" biding his time in a Moscow airport, Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Tuesday. Putin said Snowden -- who flew to Moscow from Hong Kong on Sunday -- is in the "transit area" of Sheremetyevo International Airport, the zone between arrival gates and Russia's passport control checkpoints. While he said Russia won't hand Snowden over to the United States, he seemed eager to have the focus of international intrigue off his hands. "The sooner he selects his final destination point, the better both for us and for himself," Putin said from Finland of Snowden, who is wanted by U.S. officials on espionage charges for disclosing classified details of U.S. surveillance programs.
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NEW: Snowden is safe and "possibly simply relaxing," WikiLeaks spokesman says
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NEW: Venezuela hasn't gotten asylum request but would consider it, leader says
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Vladimir Putin says Russia won't hand Snowden over to U.S. authorities
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Sometimes @placeholder is not happy [when he does not start], sometimes Sadio is not, but I like that in a player. | When the most decorated Argentinian footballer in history makes a beeline for you to praise your side’s performance, you are generally on to a good thing. Ronald Koeman was delighted to be congratulated by Esteban Cambiasso after Southampton extended their best ever start to a top-flight season by inflicting another defeat on struggling Leicester. ‘Cambiasso came to me after the game and said, “What a good team you have”. That’s a big compliment from a great player and it’s very important,’ said Koeman. VIDEO Scroll down for Sportsmail's Big Match Stats: Southampton vs Leicester City Shane Long (centre) proved Southampton's matchwinner against Leicester scoring both their goals in a 2-0 win
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Shane Long broke the deadlock on 75 minutes with a low left-footed strike at St Mary's
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Long doubled Southampton's advantage five minutes later scoring a low right-footed effort
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Sadio Mane thought he had given Southampton the lead earlier in the second half but saw his goal disallowed | 64,931 | record_train |
The AAIB confirmed: 'The AAIB has deployed a team to @placeholder to investigate an incident to an airliner.' | A passenger jet was today forced to return to Gatwick Airport part-way through its flight to Egypt after a part plunged to the ground. Thomas Cook Flight TCX1638 left the West Sussex airport at 9am with 237 passengers on board but had to turn back a short amount of time into its flight to Hurghada. The emergency slide unit is believed to have fallen from the plane near the Kent and East Sussex border, but it was not until the jet was over Belgium that the fault was reported. Gatwick Airport (pictured) where the plane was forced to return. None of the planes in this picture were involved in the incident
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Flight left the West Sussex airport at 9am with 237 passengers on board
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Plane was forced to turn back after emergency escape slide fell off
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Slide believed to have fallen near the Kent and East Sussex border
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No passengers were injured during the incident
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Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has launched an investigation | 64,932 | record_train |
‘The building is @placeholder I listed so you can’t do anything structural, but you can decorate as you like,’ says Helen. | By Cherry Maslen PUBLISHED: 16:00 EST, 14 September 2013 | UPDATED: 12:01 EST, 15 September 2013 It is hard to imagine a more impressive setting for an apartment. Wardour Castle is a very grand Palladian mansion surrounded by 40 emerald-green acres in a quiet corner of rural Wiltshire. Driving along country lanes from the nearby village of Tisbury, you could believe you have travelled back in time to a previous century. Wardour is one of the many country mansions that have been divided into apartments, but what’s unusual for a building of this size is that there are just ten apartments.
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Apartment in Wardour Castle is on the market for £695,000
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Designer Jasper Conran has two flats in the Grade II mansion
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A second @placeholder member of the security team was injured, he said. | A suicide attack in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday morning killed five people and wounded 33 others, including at least four children, said Hashmat Stanikzai, a police spokesman said. An explosive-laden car was detonated as a foreign embassy convoy was passing in the 9th District police zone, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi. The UK Foreign Office said two of those killed worked for the British Embassy. One of the dead was a British national, a civilian security team member, and the second was an Afghan national working for the embassy, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in a statement.
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In a separate incident, insurgents attacked a nonprofit organization in Kabul
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Security firm G4S says Briton killed in the blast was one of its staff
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Another victim was an Afghan national working at the British Embassy, UK says
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The Taliban claim responsibility for the suicide attack | 64,934 | record_train |
Ben Arfa played for @placeholder during an ill-fated loan spell earlier this season as well as Newcastle Under-21s | The French Football League (LFP) is yet to decide whether or not former Newcastle playmaker Hatem Ben Arfa can sign for Nice. The 27-year-old is keen to join the Ligue 1 club as a free agent after his Newcastle contract was cancelled earlier this month, but could be prevented by FIFA rules which state a player cannot play for more than two clubs in the same season. Ben Arfa's appearance for Newcastle Under-21s on August 25, before moving on loan to Hull, was considered an official match by FIFA. Hatem Ben Arfa remains in limbo over his Nice debut with the French Football League stalling on a decision
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Hatem Ben Arfa continues to wait for clearance to play for Nice
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The midfielder was released from his contract at Newastle United
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FIFA do not allow players to play for more than two clubs in a season
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Ben Arfa has played for Newcastle Under-21s and Hull City this term
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The French Football League are yet to approve Ben Arfa's Nice debut | 64,935 | record_train |
The custody agreement does not involve any financial payments to @placeholder "apart from the continuation of spousal support payments" that Michael Jackson personally agreed to make to Rowe after the divorce, their lawyers said in a joint statement. | LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Monday approved an agreement granting Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, permanent custody of his children. Katherine Jackson has accused the executors of her son Michael's estate of "keeping her in the dark." A hearing is scheduled for October to look at some remaining issues. An agreement between Katherine Jackson, 79, and Debbie Rowe, mother of Jackson's two eldest children, cleared the way for an uncontested custody hearing. Rowe, who was briefly married to Michael Jackson, agreed not to fight for custody in exchange for visits with the children.
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Katherine Jackson named permanent guardian of Michael Jackson's kids
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She will be given copies of Michael Jackson AEG contracts
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Lawyers' petition accuses executors of keeping singer's mother "in the dark" | 64,936 | record_train |
THE ODDS ON WINNING THE WORLD CUP AND @placeholder | By Joe Bernstein It’s the toughest and most exclusive Double in world football – winning the Champions League and World Cup in the same year. Since 1992 when the European Cup changed to its current format, only two players have achieved it out of thousands who have tried. Christian Karembeu (Real Madrid and France 1998) and Roberto Carlos (Real Madrid and Brazil, 2002) are the pair who made history, but others will try to take the first step to joining them when Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid play in the Champions League final in Lisbon on May 24. Path to glory: Christian Karembeu was part of the France side that beat Brazil 3-0 in the 1998 World Cup final
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Only two players have won the UEFA Champions League and World Cup in the same year
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The likes of Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Costa and Xabi Alonso will have the chance to do so this year
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Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid play in the Champions League final
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For example, at dinner @placeholder usually eats a spinach leaf salad with tuna or baked chicken with broccoli. | Duncan, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Justin Boyles lay in bed, exhausted and depressed. His 385-pound body sank into the mattress with each breath he took. I have diabetes, he thought in disbelief. His 6-year-old daughter, Autumn, crawled on top of the king-sized comforter and stared at him with bright blue eyes. "Daddy, will you get up and play?" "No, baby, I'm tired." She sat back to think. Her mom had tried to explain why Justin was so sad, but Autumn didn't really understand diabetes or its dangerous implications. "Daddy, are you ever going to be healthy enough to ride a bike with me?"
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Justin Boyles learned he had type 2 diabetes in March 2011
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Since making a promise to his daughter, Boyles has lost more than 65 pounds
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Boyles raised $7,500 for the American Diabetes Association's "Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes" | 64,938 | record_train |
It is strategically important because oil tankers carrying @placeholder oil travel through it. | Iran is prepared to expand military and security cooperation with neighboring Iraq, a top Iranian military official said -- a week after U.S. forces pulled out of Iraq. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to establish, boost and expand all types of military, defense and security cooperation with the friendly and brotherly nation of Iraq," Iran's armed forces chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi said, according to a report Sunday by the semi-official Fars news agency. The Middle East neighbors have enjoyed closer ties in recent years, especially as Iraq's Shia Muslim majority has solidified its power in the absence of former leader Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim. Iran's theocracy is Shia-led.
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Iran is conducting naval exercises in the region
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The nations fought a protracted military conflict between 1980 and 1988
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The Middle East neighbors have enjoyed closer ties in recent years
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Those skills can be used in business and certainly in running a football club.’ Certainly Brighton would not have been able to move into their @placeholder, which opened in 2011, were it not for his £93m investment when he took over in 2009. | He is known as 'The Lizard', has been likened to a swan and, within poker circles, labelled a phenomenon. There are many faces - if the myths are believed - to the mysterious Brighton owner Tony Bloom; a quiet, private man whose club are very much centre of attention today when Arsenal visit the Amex Stadium in the fourth round of the FA Cup. He was nicknamed The Lizard by an old friend who claimed he had alligator blood at the card tables, from where his career winnings are somewhere in excess of £2million. Fans of Brighton have likened him more to a swan; calm, sleek and elegant above the surface, but legs kicking fast below the waterline to get where he wants.
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Brighton host Arsenal in their FA Cup fourth round tie on Sunday
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Brighton owner Tony Bloom has invested £200m into his boyhood club
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The fourth goal completed Dortmund's easy win, and they will be confident of progressing in first place from @placeholder | Borussia Dortmund eased past Galatasaray to continue their 100% record in this season's Champions League group stages. A brace from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, followed by goals from Marco Reus and Adrian Ramos, secured the points and took Dortmund three clear of Arsenal in Group D. The Gunners came from behind in Brussels to steal a late, vital 2-1 win against Anderlecht, with goals from Kieran Gibbs and Lukas Podolski. Their victory means they stay relatively close to Dortmund, but it is the Germans who look the most fearful in this group. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang wheels away in celebration after scoring his side's first goal in Istanbul on Wednesday
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Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang opened the scoring for Borussia Dortmund in the sixth minute
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Aubameyang scored again shortly after to double both his personal tally and his side's lead
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Marco Reus grabbed Dortmund's third goal four minutes before the half-time break
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Substitute Adrian Ramos completed the simple win for the away side with a goal just a minute after coming on | 64,941 | record_train |
'We are pleased with the sentence which reflects the true nature of the danger that @placeholder poses. | By Steve Nolan PUBLISHED: 06:40 EST, 27 February 2013 | UPDATED: 08:33 EST, 27 February 2013 Thug: Timothy Hagar, 26, who has been jailed for six-and-a-half years at Teesside Crown Court after viciously attacking dad Sean Cole outside his home in Loftus, East Cleveland A father was beaten up so badly by a thug after asking a drunken gang to move away from his home that he had to quit his job because of his injuries. Timothy Hagar attacked oil worker Sean Cole and stamped on his head with 'full force' as he lay unconscious outside his home in Loftus, North Yorkshire, in April last year.
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Sean Cole was attacked outside his Loftus, North Yorkshire, home
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Mr Cole was so badly injured his own daughter didn't recognise him
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His family has been served with an eviction notice after he lost his job
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Timothy Hagar was jailed for six-and-a-half years for the attack | 64,942 | record_train |
The threat of more killings came as Yemen mourned the approximately 200 troops killed this week by al Qaeda in three @placeholder provinces. | Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is threatening to kill the 73 Yemeni troops it is holding hostage if the government does not release al Qaeda prisoners. In a statement issued late Thursday, the group advised family members of the hostages to push the government to cooperate, but a senior security official in the southern province of Abyan, where the troops are being held, said the government would not give in to the group's demands. "We will work on freeing the soldiers being held by the militants, but only by reasonable means. The government will not set free any militants. This will only make the terror crisis even worse," said the security official, who is not authorized to talk to media.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula vows to kill 73 Yemeni troops
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It wants the government to release al Qaeda prisoners
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Al Qaeda has killed around 200 troops in the past week | 64,943 | record_train |
Experts do not, however, expect @placeholder to place his son before the Beijing leadership, and suggested that a China trip is more likely to be economically motivated. | Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- A frenzy of diplomatic activity was underway around the tense Korean peninsula Thursday, with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly traveling through China, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter visiting Pyongyang, and the Chinese envoy to six-party denuclearization talks landing in Seoul. "We detected Kim Jong-il's train heading towards China, over the border, at midnight Wednesday," a source at South Korea's presidential office said. "We assume that Kim is aboard the train, and are trying to find out his destination and the purpose of his visit." As is common with the secretive state, the visit was unannounced and no agenda has been released. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not respond to questions regarding Kim Jong-il's visit. The North Korean Embassy in Beijing said it had no information regarding the visit.
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Kim Jong-il may be in China
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look up to @placeholder because he’s the best in the world. | Dundee United have accepted a £3million bid from Sporting Lisbon for superkid Ryan Gauld. The 18-year-old is set to fly out for talks with the Portuguese giants and the deal is expected to be concluded later this week. The teenage midfielder became known as “Baby Messi” for his dazzling dribbling and low centre of gravity as he tormented Scottish defences when he burst onto the scene last season as United finished fourth in the Scottish Premiership and reached the Scottish Cup Final. Moving abroad: Dundee United's Ryan Gauld, second left, was on great form last season Over the past year, Gauld, from Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, has been scouted by Real Madrid, Roma, Manchester United and Arsenal.
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18-year-old has been dubbed 'Baby Messi' for his dazzling dribbling
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He burst onto the scene last season as Dundee Utd finished 4th in Scottish Premiership
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Gauld will fly to Lisbon this week to complete the deal | 64,945 | record_train |
"We are all going to hell or Cuba," Potts said he told the pilot of the @placeholder-bound flight. | (CNN) -- William Potts, the "homesick hijacker" who returned from a life on the lam in Cuba to the United States in November, may soon plead guilty to commandeering a passenger plane to the island at gunpoint in 1984, according to U.S. federal court documents. After Potts' arrival and arrest in Miami, Potts' family said they feared he had made an error by handing himself over. "It's taking a toll on my family to think he might go to prison again," Mekoda Potts, his brother, told CNN. "They are trying to put him away for another 20 years? It's not right."
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William Potts, who hijacked a plane and forced it to Cuba in 1984, served time in Cuba
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He returned to the United States last month and seeks a plea deal in federal court
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Potts on his prison time: "15 years in prison in a communist country is 15 years" | 64,946 | record_train |
Now nine episodes in, the series began in a predictable fashion -- with @placeholder targeting and conquering one victim every week. | (CNN) -- Most of us haven't partied with the bunnies at "The Playboy Club," or fought crime like "Charlie's Angels." And with the NBC and ABC programs canceled after just a few episodes, we'll never have the chance. But in the time it took for one alphabet network drama to get the axe, another garnered 8 million viewers and a full season pickup. After all, "Revenge" is a language we all understand. The modern day "Count of Monte Cristo" reels audiences in with characters viewers seem to love -- and love to hate. Not to mention plot twists to die for. Still, the primetime soap doesn't venture into campy territory. Not even while playing with traded identities and crimes of passion.
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Modern day "Count of Monte Cristo" reels audiences in with love/hate characters
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Amanda Clarke, disguised as Emily Thorne, returns to the Hamptons to take revenge
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He painted "@placeholder" during the same period in which he produced "Sunflowers," Ruger said. | More than 120 years after Vincent van Gogh's death, a new painting by the Dutch master has come to light. The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the largest collection of the artist's work, announced Monday the discovery of the newly identified painting, a landscape titled "Sunset at Montmajour." "A discovery of this magnitude has never before occurred in the history of the Van Gogh Museum," the museum's director, Axel Ruger, said in a statement. Van Gogh is believed to have completed the relatively large painting in 1888, two years before his death and during "a period that is considered by many to be the culmination of his artistic achievement," Ruger said.
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The painting has been identified as a van Gogh after "extensive research," a museum says
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"A discovery of this magnitude has never before occurred," the Van Gogh Museum says
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The picture is from 1888, during a period considered by many to be the high point of his career
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But @placeholder authorities informed him he had been placed on the "no fly" list and could not travel there, according to the complaint. | (CNN) -- Authorities have charged a 21-year-old Hawaii man with "making false statements in a matter involving international terrorism," the U.S. Justice Department said. The charge centers around a one-way ticket that authorities allege Abdel Hameed Shehadeh purchased from New York City to Islamabad, Pakistan. Shehadeh originally told investigators that the purpose of his trip was to visit an Islamic university and attend a friend's engagement party. But he later admitted to FBI agents in Hawaii that he bought the ticket in order to join a fighting group such as the Taliban, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in New York.
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Authorities allege Abdel Shehadeh lied about a planned trip to Pakistan
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The FBI says he intended to join the Taliban there, but originally claimed otherwise
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Both Emwazi (pictured) and Bary left @placeholder in 2013, making it possible that they travelled together | Is this Jihadi George? Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary could be one of the so-called 'Beatles' alongside Mohammed Emwazi A London rapper who fled to Syria could be Jihadi George - the second of the ISIS hostage-taking cell known as 'The Beatles'. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary slipped out of Britain to join the barbaric extremists in 2013 and may have done so alongside Mohammed Emwazi, who was unmasked as Jihadi John earlier this week. Bary, dubbed the 'hip-hop jihadist', and Emwazi grew up just streets apart in west London and one expert last night claimed it made sense for both men to be part of the sick 'Beatles' kidnap group.
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Londoner Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary could be Jihadi George, expert says
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Bary believed to be part of ISIS hostage-taking cell known as the 'Beatles'
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He may have travelled to Syria with Jihadi John - Mohammed Emwazi
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The terrorists lived just streets away from each other in west London
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Bary was a rising talent in London's hip-hop scene before he fled country
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Previously thought to be Jihadi John because of his similar facial features | 64,950 | record_train |
Of course @placeholder was there to witness her daughter's proud moment | By Spencer Matthews You've always got to support your friends in life and last night was no exception - Binky Felstead, who is on the Made In Chelsea E4 TV show with me, had her book launch at top London nightclub Whisky Mist just off Park Lane. She's hugely popular on the show - and after over three years on MIC together we still get on really well (probably because she's always been sensible enough not to get romantically involved with me.) There were several of the cast in attendance, as well as friends, family, and the publishing team from Simon & Schuster to help celebrate the launch of Being Binky - 165 pages of the life and times (so far) of Alexandra 'Binky' Felstead.
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Spencer joined the MIC cast at Whisky Mist for Binky's book launch
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Spencer said that he and Binky are good friends because they never dated
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He describes her book as 'totes amaze' with lots of good advice
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She added 'My daughter Meghan has got the monkey version and @placeholder always wants to play with it, so we got the koala for her. | When Maria Brewer bought a battery powered koala bear for her daughter Willow she hoped it would make a perfect present for her first birthday. But the mother-of-two was shocked when her older three-year-old child noticed that as well as making 'koala gurgling noises' it also appeared to say 'motherf*****.' The cuddly grey toy, which costs £34.99 is meant to move its arms, make koala gurgling noises and move its ears. But Mrs Brewer, of Widley in Hampshire, has been forced to explain what the swearword means to her three-year-old Meghan after she started repeating what she had heard from the toy.
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Maria Brewer bought battery operated koala for daughter's first birthday
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But when her three-year-old tested it, koala appeared to say 'motherf*****'
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Emotion Pet Koala is available from numerous toy shops and costs £34.99
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It is meant to move its ears and make 'koala gurgling sounds' but not talk
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@placeholder's mother died in 2010 but her memory still lives on with the help of letters like this one. | When a woman purchased a record at her local thrift store in Colorado she never imagined she'd find a letter written from a soldier in 1944 during World War II to his love back at home to whom he was later married for 63 years. Ilene Ortiz of Westminster bought the old record, though she can't remember which one, six months ago and when she found the letter tucked inside she felt determined to find its rightful owner. 'We brought the album home and we were looking through it, and I said, 'There's a letter in here!'' Ortiz told ABC.
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Ilene Ortiz of Westminster, Colorado found the love letter in an old record but she can't remember which one
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'My darling, lovable, alluring, Bernadean,' said the letter, written on December 29, 1944 from Bill Moore to Bernadean whom he later married
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Ortiz tracked down the couple of 63 years' daughter who says she will show the letter to her 90-year-old father
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Gale theorized that the letter could be in a record of her mother and father's special song 'I'll be seeing you,' from the Broadway musical Right This Way | 64,953 | record_train |
"He was so proud when he became a U.S. citizen," @placeholder told CNN. | Patrick Sawyer had one stop to make before heading home to Minnesota to celebrate his daughters' birthdays: a conference in Lagos, Nigeria. But when he landed in Lagos, Sawyer, 40, collapsed getting off the plane. He had been infected with Ebola in Liberia, where he worked as a top government official in the Liberian Ministry of Finance. Sawyer was isolated at a local Nigerian hospital on July 20. He died five days later. Sawyer's wife Decontee Sawyer, lives in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, with the couple's three young daughters, 5-year-old Eva, 4-year-old Mia, and Bella, who is 1. The Sawyers are naturalized citizens; their daughters were born in the United States.
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Family: Infected American "very physically weak, but his spirit (is) determined"
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CNN's Gupta: Curbing Ebola almost "impossible," but it can be contained
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Patrick Sawyer's family lives Minnesota; he worked in Liberia and died in Nigeria
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Still, it remains unclear how Pichai would seek to merge Chrome and @placeholder, if at all. | By Beth Stebner and Reuters Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:29 EST, 13 March 2013 | UPDATED: 05:36 EST, 14 March 2013 The architect of Google’s Android’s operating system, Andy Rubin, is stepping down unexpectedly after a seven-year stint in the job. The surprise change was announced by Google on Wednesday and could raise new questions about Android’s direction as Google competes with Apple, Microsoft, and other tech companies rushing to gain ground in the lucrative mobile computing market. In his place, Google has appointed Sundar Pichai, the executive overseeing its Chrome web browser and applications like Google Drive and Gmail, to take over Rubin's spot.
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Rubin, 50, had been in the post for seven years
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Sundar Pichai the former Chrome, Drive, and Gmail boss will take over
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Samsung gearing up to unveil next-generation smartphone, the Galaxy S IV, in New York | 64,955 | record_train |
"This effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and @placeholder," Obama insisted during his address to the nation on Wednesday, noting no American troops were being sent in a combat role and a coalition of allied nations was joining the fight. | Like most Americans, President Barack Obama is tired of war. Unlike most Americans, he just started another one. In launching his new campaign against Islamic State terrorists inside Iraq and Syria, the Nobel peace laureate acknowledged the engagement wouldn't be another Iraq or Afghanistan. And a day after Secretary of State John Kerry insisted the campaign is not a war, press secretary Josh Earnest on Friday affirmed that the United States is indeed "at war" with ISIS. But semantics aside, Obama is embarking upon a sustained military operation without an end date, price tag or clear definition of victory -- threatening his legacy as a war-ender and almost certainly dashing his goal of leaving the next commander in chief with a clean slate.
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Despite broad public support, Obama's campaign against ISIS undercuts his image as a president opposed to war
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Obama hit the war in Iraq as "dumb" while running for president, but was never viewed as a true foreign policy dove
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Today, @placeholder argued that her beauty queen client had not challenged Trump, who owns the pageant, to prove that he was a naturally-born man or to display his genitals. | By Laura Pullman PUBLISHED: 19:01 EST, 3 April 2012 | UPDATED: 05:42 EST, 4 April 2012 Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred would be 'very impressed' with Donald Trump’s manhood according to....the man himself. He made the boast as part of the ongoing saga over the transsexual beauty queen Jenna Talackova, who was thrown out of Miss Universe Canada last month - before being allowed to compete again this week. The organization now argues that Talackova was disqualified for lying in her application form but initially - before the media backlash - they said she was kicked out because she was not born a woman.
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Jenna Talackova, 23, had been thrown out after organisers discovered she had surgery to become a woman
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For the past year Benedict has largely dedicated himself to prayer in a monastery in the @placeholder grounds. | One million worshippers from all over the world have gathered in Rome ahead of the ‘unprecedented’ double canonisation of two former popes. Over the last 24 hours, crowds have arrived and camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter’s Square. The ceremony, to be held later today, will be an unprecedented event in Catholic history, as two living Popes will be in attendance – the current Pope Francis I and Benedict XVI, who stood down last year and now holds the title Pope Emeritus. Crowds have camped out in Vatican City ahead of the canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII at St Peter¿s Square
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Canonisation of former Popes John Paul II and John XXIII will take place in St Peter's Square, Vatican City
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One million people have gathered in Rome ahead of the ceremony, which will be attended by current Pope Francis I
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Event will make history and former Pope Benedict XVI - who now holds title of Pope Emeritus - will also attend
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However, abuse victims of Catholic priests have called on the Catholic Church not to elevate John Paul II
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It's not always something that fits in broadcast, but there's a lot of value in seeing that continuing story in @placeholder. | (CNN) -- A twisted boardwalk, a glowing carousel flooded with water and a cresting river breaching its banks. These are among the memorable images from Superstorm Sandy, but they weren't taken with fancy cameras -- they were shot with smartphones and immediately seen around the world via photography app Instagram. On the day the storm came ashore, users shared 800,000 images tagged #Sandy on Instagram. At one point, Instagram reported people were posting 10 Sandy photos per second on October 29, 2012. "During Hurricane Sandy, we saw people along the Atlantic Coast using Instagram to document how the storm was affecting their communities, and to let loved ones know they were OK," Instagram founder Kevin Systrom told CNN this week.
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Despite renewed attempts by his family to persuade her, @placeholder would not budge. | By Matt Blake PUBLISHED: 14:07 EST, 19 December 2012 | UPDATED: 03:35 EST, 20 December 2012 A cuckolded husband has been living in a tree for the last nine months, refusing to come down until his wife apologises for cheating on him. But the apology never came and, nine months later, Sanjay, 25, is still there, wondering if wife Tara will ever take him back. Sanjay, whose surname is not known, married Tara last year in Baragaon, Varanasi, before moving to Mumbai. Protest: An Indian man who discovered his wife in bed with another man has taken to living in a tree in the village of Baragoan (pictured) until she apologises
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He found wife in bed with man at home in Mumbai
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He took her back to their Varanasi village for apology
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'The kids looked forward to it so would always cross the road with @placeholder, which is the safest place for them to cross.' | By Leon Watson PUBLISHED: 04:53 EST, 6 November 2013 | UPDATED: 08:29 EST, 6 November 2013 Council officials have banned a jolly lollipop man from giving children high fives after receiving a single complaint that he was holding up traffic. Parents in Warrington, Cheshire, say they are 'outraged' at the way 62-year-old grandfather Steve Allsopp - who recently suffered a stroke - has been treated. Mr Allsopp is so popular with children he has been nicknamed the 'jollyman' and has worked at the crossing on Bridge Lane in Stockton Heath for four years. Scroll down for video The 'jollyman': Parents from Cobbs Infants, Broomfields Juniors and St Monica's Primary schools say they are 'outraged' at the way Steve Allsopp (pictured) has been treated by Warrington Borough Council
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Steve Allsopp was told he had to stop by Warrington Borough Council
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Shortly after they met, she interviewed Bolt for a feature in a @placeholder newspaper and they began dating in mid-November. | By Chris Parsons PUBLISHED: 03:33 EST, 11 May 2012 | UPDATED: 06:31 EST, 11 May 2012 The world's fastest man Usain Bolt has split from blonde fashion designer girlfriend to concentrate on winning Olympic gold at London 2012, it was claimed today. The Jamaican sprint star has dumped Slovakian-born Lubica Slovak after six months so she won't 'distract' the 25-year-old from his Olympic training, it was reported. Bolt's split from Slovak, 28, with whom he was said to have a 'very serious' relationship, comes just days after a race row erupted in his native Jamaica over his choice of a white girlfriend.
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Bolt splits from girlfriend to concentrate on training
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Foster's lawyers had challenged that change, saying @placeholder foisted the new protocols so late, with little time for legal or medical review. | Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court for the third time this year has stopped the pending capital punishment of a Texas inmate, giving lawyers for the man more time to file their appeals. The justices on Tuesday issued an order granting a stay of execution for Cleve Foster, about 2 1/2 hours before his scheduled lethal injection. The Gulf War veteran was convicted along with another man of the 2002 murder of Nyanuer "Mary" Pal, a Sudanese immigrant he met at a Fort Worth bar. The court indicated it would need more time to rule on the inmate's claims of prior ineffective assistance of counsel, and related claims of innocence of the murder.
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Court grants Cleve Foster his third stay of execution
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Government representatives met with @placeholder family members on Monday and agreed on the basic terms of the sale, the reports said. | By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:08 EST, 5 September 2012 | UPDATED: 10:45 EST, 5 September 2012 Japan's government has agreed to buy the group of uninhabited islands whose sovereignty has been fiercely disputed with China, it was reported today. It is understood to have paid 2.05billion yen ($26million) to the Japanese Kurihara family for three of the five Senkaku islands, which are known as the Diaoyu group in Chinese. The move would effectively nationalise them and stop China from buying the chain, which lie 200 miles from the Chinese mainland and 200 miles from Japan's Okinawa. It follows months of rising diplomatic tension between the two countries over which has sovereignty over them.
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China-Japan tensions over the islands have rumbled on for months
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"Who knows what direction the match may have taken if I had won that point," @placeholder told reporters. | (CNN) -- Friday's French Open semifinal between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, billed by some as the real final, lived up to the hype. Nadal, ultimately, was the happier man after an epic match that lasted more than four and a half hours on a sweltering day in Paris. The defending champion moved within a match of making it a record extending eight French Open titles by defeating the world No. 1 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-7 9-7. "I was ready for the fight," Nadal told reporters. Nadal will now be the heavy favorite to beat fourth-seed David Ferrer in Sunday's all-Spanish final.
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Rafael Nadal rallies from a break down in the fifth set to beat Novak Djokovic
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The French Open semifinal goes to five sets after Nadal fails to serve it out in the fourth
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Djokovic was bidding to win his first French Open after topping Nadal in Monte Carlo
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It's already been a busy summer for @placeholder; and it's about to get busier. | Will Mauricio Pochettino lead Spurs into the Champions League next season? Will Mauricio Pochettino lead Spurs into the Champions League next season? Now share your opinion The hard work starts here for Mauricio Pochettino. Firing Tottenham into the Champions League positions next season will be no mean feat. But truth be told, the Argentine has already overcome a sizeable task in becoming Daniel Levy's latest managerial acquisition. The potential appointment of Ajax manager Frank de Boer was the prospect that really got Tottenham supporters' mouths watering. When the Dutchman publicly revealed Tottenham's interest in him last month, it seemed the start of the road towards De Boer's appointment.
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Mauricio Pochettino signed a five-year deal as Tottenham boss on Tuesday
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Pochettino resigned from Southampton to move to White Hart Lane
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Pochettino replaces Tim Sherwood who was sacked earlier in May
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Ajax manager Frank de Boer was the fans' favourite for the role
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De Boer's public revealing of Spurs' interest, irked the Tottenham board
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Daniel Levy's dream choice was Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti
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Adam Lallana and Jay Rodriguez are two possible targets for Pochettino
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Emmanuel Adebayor, Roberto Soldado and Michael Dawson could leave | 64,966 | record_train |
After the in-elevator video surfaced, he was released by the @placeholder and was suspended indefinitely by the NFL. | (CNN) -- Ray Rice is out of a job. An increasing number of critics think National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell, the man in charge of disciplining the star player, should be next. The commissioner told CBS News on Tuesday that he was sickened by what he saw on a newly released video that showed Rice knocking out his now-wife with a ferocious punch, but insisted that Monday was the first time he or anyone in NFL headquarters had seen the full scope of the February incident. He also deflected criticism of his handling of Rice's case and his initial lenient penalty for the Baltimore Ravens running back's act.
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Commissioner Roger Goodell tells CBS that the league was unable to obtain in-elevator video
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Current and ex-players slam NFL commissioner for how he handled Ray Rice case
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Rice was seen in a newly released video punching out his then-fiancée on an elevator
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'These analogies are giving planetary geologists tantalising glimpses of a past on the @placeholder not too dissimilar to events on our own world today.' | They are yet more proof of the red planet's wet past. The European Space Agency today released an astonishing series of pictures showing the remnants of a huge river than once ran across Mars. Taken by the ESA’s Mars Express, they show Reull Vallis, the 'river-like structure' is believed to have formed when running water flowed in the distant martian past. This computer-generated image of a river-like feature in the Reull Vallis region of Mars was created using data from the Mars Express spacecraft The images were taken from data collected in the Reull Vallis region of Mars, shown here
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Huge 'river-like structure' caputured by Mars Express spacecraft and is almost 1,000 feet (300m) deep
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The study confirms there is a ‘significant’ risk of suicide which will increase if he is forced to travel to the @placeholder. | EXCLUSIVE By James Slack and Michael Seamark PUBLISHED: 17:08 EST, 15 October 2012 | UPDATED: 03:06 EST, 16 October 2012 Theresa May will today unveil a major shake-up of Britain’s lopsided extradition laws. In a victory for the Mail’s Affront to British Justice campaign, the Home Secretary will introduce rules making it more likely a UK citizen will face trial at home rather than being bundled on a plane to the US. The implementation of the so-called ‘forum’ bar – so a court hearing has to be held to decide where a person should stand trial – satisfies one of the most vocal demands of campaigners appalled by Labour’s unfair Extradition Act.
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Major shake up is a victory for the Mail's Affront to British Justice campaign
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Home Secretary Theresa May has sanctioned introduction of the 'forum' bar
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Means a court hearing must be held to decide where a person stands trial
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Gary McKinnon faces being sent to US over hacking into military computers | 64,969 | record_train |
Snooks says he - as an @placeholder - doesn't consider the name offensive and cites the origin of the term as a sense of pride for Italian Americans. | Wandering Dago owners say the name honors Italian American culture The business' owners say they will lose loads of revenue because they turned down other opportunities when they signed on to work at the track for the summer Track officials claim they received several complaints from people offended by the name By Daily Mail Reporter and Ap PUBLISHED: 14:16 EST, 22 July 2013 | UPDATED: 15:33 EST, 22 July 2013 New York Racing Association officials say they've banned a food truck - which the organization previously lauded as 'one of the country’s top barbecue fusion trucks' - from Saratoga Race Course after customers complained that the name of the business was offensive.
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Wandering Dago owners say the name honors Italian American culture
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The @placeholder offer fishing, kayaking and snorkeling, as well as some fine beaches. | Multicultural, multilingual and multifaceted, there's more to Miami than meets the eye. Make the most of your stay with these tips. Miami Beach during Spring Break may not be to everyone's taste. Get around Miami is a sprawling city and exploring it on foot just isn't an option. Unless you're planning on spending all your time on the beach, you're probably going to want your own set of wheels. There are car hire places scattered throughout the city, but if you want to cruise Ocean Drive in style you can hire a Harley-Davidson from Peterson's (19400 NW 2nd Avenue), from $100 a day. But before you hop on that hog, a word of caution: Miami's motorists have been named the most aggressive in the U.S. for the last two years.
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Opponents, however, claim Sotomayor's prior work for @placeholder, and her off-the-bench comments reveal doubts about her fairness and impartiality as a judge. | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Newly released documents from Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's service on the board of a Puerto Rican civil rights organization show the group opposed Robert Bork's nomination to the high court more than two decades ago. Judge Sonia Sotomayor is set to face Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Sotomayor, a judge on the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, was nominated by President Obama in May to fill the vacancy of retiring Justice David Souter. Her confirmation hearings are set to begin July 13. She served as a board member of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1980-92, leaving when she became a federal judge.
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Sotomayor once served on the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
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Group opposed the 1987 nomination of Robert Bork to the high court
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@placeholder met with displaced residents over the weekend to explain how they can make claims for losses. | (CNN) -- The Arkansas attorney general is opening an investigation into what caused last week's pipeline rupture that allowed thousands of barrels of heavy crude oil to flow into a residential area. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Tuesday he asked Exxon Mobil, the owner of the 60-year-old Pegasus pipeline, to preserve all documents and information related to the spill and cleanup efforts. "This incident has damaged private property and Arkansas's natural resources. Homeowners have been forced from their homes as a result of this spill," McDaniel said in a news release Tuesday. "Requesting that Exxon secure these documents and data is the first step in determining what happened and preserving evidence for any future litigation."
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Arkansas tells pipeline owner Exxon Mobil to preserve documents on the spill
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Oil spilled into a Mayflower, Arkansas, subdivision from a gash in the pipeline last week
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Families evacuated about two dozen homes as oil crawled through yards and down streets
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About 10,000 @placeholder homes were without power Saturday morning, mostly in the Myrtle Beach area, Becker said. | MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) -- After earning a reputation as a killer in Haiti, Tropical Storm Hanna amounted to little more than a windy rainstorm along the Atlantic Coast on Saturday. Water almost covers the dock at the Marine Corps Air Station marina near the New River in North Carolina. No states have "expressed any damage that they couldn't handle," said Glenn Cannon, the Federal Emergency Management Agency's assistant administrator for disaster operations. He said there were some concerns about flooding near rivers and in low-lying areas. "We're monitoring Hanna, but it seems to be a heavy rain event," he said.
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Residents in Huntington, Virginia, voluntarily evacuating because of flooding
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immense amount of pain, Emma said, but @placeholder cried mostly only when nurses | A seven-month-old girl was taken to hospital Saturday by concerned parents after an area just below her jaw swelled up to the size of one and a half golf balls with a pimple on top. After initially diagnosing an infection, doctors were shocked when they discovered a two-inch-long black feather had got lodged underneath Mya Whittington's skin. Aaron and Emma Whittington first took their nearly seven-month-old daughter to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Kansas on Saturday after the area below her jaw swelled up. The marked area on Mya's neck shows the size of the original swollen infected area caused by a feather that she ingested from a pillow
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Mya Whittington's parents became concerned after an area below her jaw started to swell up
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"If they think the rule needs to be tightened up they can offer to change the rule," suggested a @placeholder leadership aide. | Washington (CNN) -- Frustrated Democrats went to the Senate floor Friday to seek Republican approval for a long list of administration nominees currently blocked by controversial secret holds placed by GOP senators. But a Republican senator objected to each of them as they came up. "Most of the people on the list, we don't know why they're sitting there. We don't even know who's making them sit there," complained Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, who is spearheading Democratic efforts to banish secret holds. "Enter stage left, the anonymous hold. Or as I like to call it, nobody can blame me cause they don't know who I am."
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Senate Democrats seek approval of nominees they say GOP is blocking
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The fire prompted anguish in the art and architecture community, which said it was @placeholder's finest work | Its smoke-blackened ceilings lit by builders' lamps, this is the charred Glasgow School of Art library nine months into a painstaking restoration. Opened in 1909, the Mackintosh Library's dark wood, high windows, ornate balcony and clusters of electric lamps helped it become known as a turning point in modern architecture and one of the finest buildings in Britain. But the much-loved centre of learning was gutted last year by a blaze sparked when canned spray foam, which a student was using for an art project, drifted into a projector fan and caught alight. Scroll down for video Phoenix from the ashes: Nine months after a fire ravaged the world-renowned Mackintosh Library at Glasgow School of Art, builders have almost finished the painstaking task of making the building structurally sound before a restoration which could cost up to £35million
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Century-old library at Glasgow School of Art designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh was destroyed last May
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Fire began after flammable spray foam for a student artwork was sucked into projector fan and caught alight
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New photos show charred interior of library as builders pave way for restoration which could cost £35million
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Blackened stones from the walls are numbered in the hope they can be returned to their original positions | 64,977 | record_train |
The move for the state to protect the country's natural resources and increased social programs have made @placeholder popular among the nation's large population of poor. | La Paz, Bolivia (CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales handily won re-election Sunday, unofficial preliminary results showed. With 91 percent of votes tallied, Morales' Movement for Socialism party won 62 percent of the vote, according to exit polls. The conservative Progress Plan for Bolivia party came in second with 23 percent, according to preliminary numbers. The resounding victory was not unexpected, as Morales, the country's first president of indigenous descent, was leading in pre-election polls and was widely expected to win. The victory "shows that it is possible to change Bolivia based on the vote of the Bolivian people," Morales said in a victory speech Sunday night.
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President Morales was widely expected to win re-election
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"The biggest plus [@placeholder] has over Romney are the social issues," said Dibinga. | (CNN) -- Call it the debate before the debates. In this corner: Alex Anderson, a college student in Hillsdale, Michigan, pulling for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. In that corner: Omekongo Dibinga, a longtime iReporter from Washington and a supporter of President Barack Obama. Both had a chance to see their candidates' political conventions, as winners of the Your Political Ticket iReport contest. With that experience behind them, we asked them to go head to head on Google+ previewing Wednesday's first presidential debate. They are two of hundreds of iReporters who have added their views to the iReport debate, an eight-month project that invites voters to make their voices heard this election season.
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Two iReporters who attended political conventions debated on Google Plus
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Omekonga Dibinga, for Obama, said the president and Americans agree on many issues
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It is still not clear how Nika traveled the 1,090 miles or so to @placeholder. | A puppy that went missing in New York more than two years ago has turned up alive and well some 1,000 miles away in Florida. Nika, a six-month-old toy fox terrier, vanished from the backyard of her home in Newburgh, New York, in May 2012, leaving owner Giuseppe DiBella heartbroken. 'It was one of the most horrible days of my life,' Mr DiBella said. He had been doing yard work in front of his home for only a few minutes when he believes someone snatched the three-pound dog from her leash. Nika, a six-month-old toy fox terrier, vanished from the backyard of her home in Newburgh, New York, in 2012
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Six-month-old toy fox terrier Nika vanished from her New York home in 2012
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Owner Giuseppe DiBella received a call last week saying she had been found
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In a press release headlined "Busting Myths about the FAA and Unmanned Aircraft," it stressed that @placeholder enthusiasts could not use drones for commercial purposes. | In a David vs. Goliath battle that pitted the Federal Aviation Administration against the operator of a small model airplane, a federal administrative judge has sided with the aircraft's pilot. The judge has dismissed a proposed $10,000 fine against businessman Raphael Pirker, who used a remotely operated 56-inch foam glider to take aerial video for an advertisement for the University of Virginia Medical Center. The FAA alleged that since Pirker was using the aircraft for profit, he ran afoul of regulations requiring commercial operators of "Unmanned Aircraft Systems" -- sometimes called UAS or drones -- to obtain FAA authorization. But a judge on Thursday agreed with Pirker that the FAA overreached by applying regulations for aircraft to model aircraft, and said no FAA rule prohibited Pirker's radio-controlled flight.
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Raphael Pirker remotely piloted model plane for commercial purposes
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How Bony scored @placeholder's equaliser - CLICK HERE for our brilliant match zone | Mauricio Pochettino might want to look up that old saying about houses built on sand. It might just ring a Christmas bell or two regarding a side who are reasonably capable of scoring but need some pointers on how to defend. That much was obvious here in a performance of numerous back-line errors that had to be redeemed by goals 85 minutes apart. Leading after four minutes through Harry Kane, Tottenham spent large swathes of what remained hanging on. Had Wilfried Bony made more of the space he was repeatedly afforded by Federico Fazio, this might have been a different result altogether.
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Harry Kane opens the scoring for Tottenham Hotspur with a header after only four minutes at the Liberty Stadium
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Wilfried Bony equalises for Swansea City (48mins) on his 50th Premier League appearance for the club
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Christian Eriksen scores late winner for Spurs with a shot from just inside the penalty area
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"We don't expect the people of China to agree with all of our policy positions at any given moment, but the more they understand the @placeholder, the more they understand the President and the first lady and their values and their priorities, we think the better it is for both of our countries," Rhodes added. | First lady Michelle Obama is in China for an official visit to expand Sino-American relations, but she will refrain from talking about political differences. Mrs. Obama, who flew Wednesday from Washington, D.C., is making a week-long trip to three Chinese cities and will speak with children at several schools about the importance of education and youth empowerment. The U.S. first lady has several activities and events scheduled Friday with Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan. "Her visit and her agenda sends a message that the relationship between the United States and China is not just between leaders, it's a relationship between peoples," said Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes.
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The U.S. first lady will meet with Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan on Friday
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Mrs. Obama won't be talking politics during her week-long visit to three Chinese cities
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Now it appears that Fellaini must show that form during the remainder of this tournament if he is to get a decent move ahead of the @placeholder season, which starts next month. | Marouane Fellaini’s World Cup campaign has essentially become one big Barclays Premier League audition after it emerged that new Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has instructed the club to sell him. Fellaini — an unmitigated disaster during his first season at Old Trafford last term — scored when coming on as a late substitute in Belgium’s opening game here in Brazil. He has played every minute of the three victories that have followed. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Fellaini saying he wants to be a Man Utd legend Audition: United hope Marouane Fellaini's displays in Brazil will help them recoup their £27m investment
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But @placeholder forces uncovered a "school" that he is said to have run for child suicide bombers, along with videos of classes. | (CNN) -- Pakistani Taliban leader Qari Hussain Mehsud, whose notoriety includes allegedly recruiting children as suicide bombers, is being targeted by the United States, the State Department announced Thursday. "Widely considered to be the deadliest of all TTP's commanders, Hussain and the TTP (Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan) have taken responsibility for many lethal suicide bombings throughout Pakistan," the State Department said in a news release on Qari Hussain. The released cited a string of such attacks, including a blast last September that killed at least 54 people at a rally in Quetta and a car bombing the same month that killed at least 17 people -- including four children -- in Lakki Marwat.
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Qari Hussain Mehsud's notoriety includes allegedly training children as suicide bombers
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A tape released after the Times Square bomb attempt purportedly featured his voice
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In 2003, the country temporarily shut its borders as the SARS epidemic swept eastern @placeholder. | North Korea is closing its borders to international tourists because of concerns about Ebola, tour agencies specializing in the country were told. Beijing-based Koryo Tours and Young Pioneers Tours issued statements Thursday saying they received news "from our partners in Pyongyang" that international tourists will not be allowed to enter North Korea, starting Friday. "It is presently unknown how long this closure will be in effect for but we are hopeful that our planned tours in November and December will take place," Koryo Tours said. KCNA, the country's state-run news agency, said North Korea is taking "preventive measures" Friday to "control the infection by Ebola."
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"@placeholder is now gearing up for the commercial service, finalizing cabin interiors, flight suits, training programs and the multiple other details required to offer hundreds of aspiring astronauts a safe and awe-inspiring journey," he said. | (CNN) -- Billionaire Richard Branson's planned commercial spacecraft had a successful test flight Thursday, rocketing into the skies over California after being dropped from its carrier plane, his company announced. Branson's Virgin Galactic said SpaceShipTwo broke the sound barrier, climbed from 42,000 feet to 69,000 feet over the Mojave Desert under rocket power and descended using its tilt-wing "feathering" maneuver. It's the second powered flight for SpaceShipTwo, which is designed to carry up to six passengers on what will be suborbital flights at first. "In addition to achieving the highest altitude and greatest speed to date, the test flight demonstrated the vehicle's full technical mission profile in a single flight for the first time ... All of the test objectives were successfully completed," the company said.
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SpaceShipTwo broke the sound barrier during Thursday's test
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‘@placeholder told me that she had a very difficult birth, she came out with a misshapen head and the midwife said “I do not think she will do much”. | She says she doesn’t feel a day over 70, but the oldest person in Britain celebrated her 112th birthday today. Gladys Hooper said the secret to her longevity is ‘living a straight life’ and keeping active. She has only just taken the title of Britain’s oldest person after the death of 114-year-old Ethel Lang on Thursday, who was who the last person in the UK born during the reign of Queen Victoria. On finding out the news, Mrs Hooper, who lives in the Isle of Wight, said: ‘I am very surprised, I thought I was just the oldest person on the island.’
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Gladys Hooper said the secret to her longevity is ‘living a straight life’
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The new oldest person in Britain celebrated her 112th birthday today
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Often venturing off the most obvious path rewards you with new weapons and modules you can use to upgrade your @placeholder. | By Ed Wilson and Talal Musa PUBLISHED: 11:20 EST, 26 February 2013 | UPDATED: 14:30 EST, 5 March 2013 Rating: Price: £39.99 / $63.00 (RRP) The Crysis games have always been known for their graphics and Crysis 3 is no different. Developed on the CryENGINE 3, Crysis 3 is visually stunning on the aging consoles, drawing every last drop of power from them. And thankfully, the beautiful settings and slick combat system are just about enough to distract gamers from the somewhat average storyline. Welcome to the jungle: Most of the levels look similar to the movie I Am Legend. Look closely enough, and you'll even see different animals running around
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Fantastic visuals squeeze every last drop of power from consoles
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The operator cancelled five flights from Heathrow to JFK, and one to Newark, but will send two planes to JFK this evening and one to @placeholder. | By Anna Edwards, Alex Ward and Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 05:13 EST, 31 October 2012 | UPDATED: 09:11 EST, 31 October 2012 Virgin Atlantic flights from London to New York are scheduled to fly today for the first time since the biggest storm in US history caused travel chaos across the East Coast. The first Virgin flight scheduled to leave Heathrow at 9.20am flew out at 11.30am but another five flights are due to fly on time as New York's JFK and Newark's airport reopened. All BA flights to Boston, Baltimore, Washington and Philadelphia are planned to operate as normal while the majority of the airline's flights to New York JFK and Newark were cancelled again today.
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Virgin Atlantic flights to New York were set to fly as normal today
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Newark and JFK airports both reopened this morning
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BA plans to fly to New York this evening after cancelling flights this morning
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Total number of flights grounded by Sandy worldwide soars past 18,000 | 64,990 | record_train |
But at the end of his life, @placeholder changed his views toward whites and discarded the Nation of Islam's ideology in favor of orthodox Islam. | (CNN) -- Thomas Hagan, the only man who admitted his role in the 1965 assassination of iconic black leader Malcolm X, was paroled Tuesday. Hagan was freed a day earlier than planned because his paperwork was processed more quickly than anticipated, according to the New York State Department of Correctional Services. Hagan, 69, walked out of the minimum-security Lincoln Correctional Facility at 11 a.m. The facility is located at the intersection of West 110th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. Hagan had been in a full-time work-release program since March 1992 that allowed him to live at home with his family in Brooklyn five days a week while reporting to the prison just two days.
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NEW: Thomas Hagan walks out of Lincoln Correctional Facility at 11 a.m.
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Hagan set free a day earlier than expected; he's the only confessed killer of Malcolm X
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Hagan, 69, has been in a work-release program the past two decades
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Hagan told parole board he killed Malcolm X over his split with Nation of Islam | 64,991 | record_train |
"There is a concern that they are becoming increasingly irrelevant, both Hamas and @placeholder. | (CNN) -- The politically divided Palestinian territories took a major step toward reconciliation Wednesday when the rival movements of Hamas and Fatah announced a deal to form a unity government, officials from both groups said. The move comes amid international efforts for statehood advanced by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah. It could portend unity in the fractious Palestinian territories. The two political factions have been close to civil war, culminating in 2007 when Hamas took control of Gaza after deadly fighting with Fatah partisans. Fatah retained control of the other Palestinian territory, the West Bank. One expert described the announcement as a significant development -- occurring against the larger backdrop of uprisings throughout the Arab world.
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NEW: A Palestinian protest last month sought Fatah-Hamas unity
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An expert says the announcement marks "a very big deal"
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But the two factions may be acting out of fear that the Arab world's uprisings could hit them, too
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Israel says Fatah must pick peace with Hamas or with Israel | 64,992 | record_train |
During such operations -- which Friedman and the @placeholder hospital are known for -- surgeons typically ask a patient to identify objects in pictures or make a certain movement, such as squeezing a hand to make sure areas of the brain involving speech and movement are not being impaired. | DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) -- An operation to remove a malignant tumor from Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain was successful, and the Democrat should suffer no permanent damage from the procedure, his surgeon reported Monday. Sen. Edward Kennedy, right, leaves a Boston hospital with his son Patrick on May 21. The patient himself expressed satisfaction. "I feel like a million bucks," Kennedy said after the surgery, according to a family spokesperson. "I think I'll do that again tomorrow." Kennedy's doctor's statement focused on the 3½-hour operation, which was performed at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. "I am pleased to report that Sen. Kennedy's surgery was successful and accomplished our goals," Dr. Allan Friedman said in a written statement issued after the procedure.
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NEW: Kennedy should not have any "permanent neurological effects" from surgery
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NEW: "I feel like a million bucks," senator reportedly says after surgery
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Chemotherapy and radiation will follow surgery in North Carolina, statement says
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Kennedy expected to stay at Duke hospital for about a week | 64,993 | record_train |
Modern @placeholder special operations have been founded on the work of this unit. | Two veterans, who survived in one of the deadliest commando units of World War Two, have died in their nineties within hours of each other. Mark Radcliffe, 94, and 92-year-old Joe Glass both passed away within 12 hours of each other on Sunday. They both lived in Helena, Montana and were among the last members of the First Special Service Force (FSSF) - an elite unit made up of American and Canadian soldiers who captured 27,000 enemy prisoners between 1942 and 1944. Friends til the end: Joe Glass (pictured left) and Mark Radcliffe (right) died within 12 hours of each other on Sunday in Montana. They were among the last surviving members of an elite Second World War unit
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Mark Radcliffe, 94, and Joe Glass, 92, passed away in Helena, Montana
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Served with the feared First Special Service Force
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Unit captured 27,000 Nazi prisoners | 64,994 | record_train |
My @placeholder entry is out of date and will be updated shortly.’ | By Miles Goslett PUBLISHED: 16:00 EST, 11 May 2013 | UPDATED: 16:00 EST, 11 May 2013 Old ties: James Purnell speaking as the Work and Pensions Secretary at the Labour Party conference in 2008 Former Cabinet Minister James Purnell is at the centre of claims that he ‘covered up’ his membership of a Labour Party social club in an attempt to defuse the controversy over his new high-powered job at the BBC. His appointment as the BBC’s £295,000-a-year director of strategy and digital has angered senior Conservatives because he was a Labour MP between 2001 and 2010 and served as Culture Secretary under Gordon Brown.
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James Purnell served as Culture Secretary under Gordon Brown
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In Who’s Who he is listed as a member of Stalybridge Labour Club
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Club regular claimed Purnell had been there as recently as last autumn | 64,995 | record_train |
The row over her appointment intensified last night after claims that a warning was ignored about ‘problems’ in Ms Mills’s record in Australia was ignored by the committee of @placeholder – headed by Bercow – that chose her. | Commons speaker John Bercow, right, with his wife Sally has been criticised over his plan to appoint Carol Mills as £200,000-a-year Commons Clerk The man who led John Bercow’s campaign to be Speaker has warned him he could lose his job over his controversial plan to give Parliament’s top job to an inexperienced Australian woman. Senior Conservative MP Charles Walker told Mr Bercow he must give in to demands for MPs to quiz Australian official Carol Mills about allegations of misconduct before she is given the £200,000-a-year job of Commons Clerk. The move is a serious blow to Mr Bercow’s hopes of surviving the row. Mr Walker is a close personal and political ally of Mr Bercow and performed the traditional role of ‘dragging’ him to the Speaker’s chair when he was elected in 2009.
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John Bercow has been threatened with losing his job unless he backs down
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Bercow wants to appoint Australian Carol Mills to a £200,000-a-year post
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MPs want to question Ms Mills before she can become Commons Clerk | 64,996 | record_train |
Google's @placeholder is expected to be an upgraded version of the Nexus 7 but no other specifications have been announced. | By Victoria Woollaston PUBLISHED: 07:24 EST, 4 November 2013 | UPDATED: 07:30 EST, 4 November 2013 Google is developing a reputation for ‘accidentally’ leaking images of its upcoming devices, and it appears to have done it again with what’s rumoured to be a new 8-inch tablet. Dubbed 'Nexus 8' by speculators, the tablet is shown in a promotional image on the firm’s Android Apps and Entertainment page and if the rumours are true, would make the tablet just 0.1 inches smaller than the iPad mini. It appears to be running Google’s latest Android 4.4 KitKat operating system and is a slightly different shape than the current 7-inch, Nexus 7.
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The so-called 'Nexus 8' is displayed on the company's promotional Android Apps and Entertainment page
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It has square edges and what appears to be a hard shell rear case
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The bezels are smaller than on the Nexus 7, suggesting it is a new device
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Leak comes less than a week since Google unveiled its Nexus 5 phone | 64,997 | record_train |
England will also lose some of its lustre as a marquee opponent for friendly internationals although, fortunately for the @placeholder, long-term broadcast agreements at home and abroad are in place. | The most remarkable aspect of England’s World Cup shambles is that all the FA top brass from chairman Greg Dyke downwards are united in wanting Roy Hodgson to remain as manager. Even those from the FA hierarchy who have witnessed the two successive defeats in Brazil are staunchly in support of Hodgson, despite England heading for humiliation at the World Cup on a par with the Ashes fiasco last winter. The same message that Hodgson should carry on regardless of England’s woeful showing came from FA chairman Greg Dyke and Ivan Gazidis, chairman of the International committee, as well as the other FA international delegates in Sao Paulo — Keith Lamb, Peter Barnes and Barry Taylor.
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FA top brass are in support of Roy Hodgson, despite the bungling in Brazil
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Greg Dyke and Ivan Gazidis gave Hodgson the nod to continue
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In Brazil Dyke has been very vocal in attacking FIFA president Sepp Blatter
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With over 80 people in England's official party, the impact of renowned psychiatrist Steve Peters has been negligible
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic was in Brazil and cheered on PSG team-mate Edinson Cavani as Uruguay beat England
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Brian Moore, useless on the BBC, hopeless on talkSPORT and unreadable in print, continues to attack Sports Agenda on Twitter
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The former England hooker should be first in the queue to see Peters on his return from Brazil | 64,998 | record_train |
Ten years later, she was earning $99,000, which included a 2009 stipend given to her by the board of directors for ‘added…duties,’ the @placeholder reported. | A Boston housing director who earned a hefty $360,000 salary and managed low-income housing only spent 15 days on the job this year. The rest of the year, Michael E. McLaughlin was travelling the country, doing business elsewhere, working remotely, or not putting in a full eight-hour workday. He served as one of the highest-paid public housing officials in the country, and yet took 47 days of vacation in 2011 alone, during a time of grim realities in the housing market. Cashing in: Michael McLaughlin earned $360,000 for 15 full days work, and cashed in for 'unused' vacation time The Boston Globe uncovered cellphone records of Mr McLaughlin and pointed out that while he had claimed over $80,000 in ‘unused’ vacation time and sick time.
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McLaughlin claimed over $80,000 in unused vacation
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Reported only 3.5 hours of sick leave and was reimbursed $114,000
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FBI investigating if he diverted federal funds | 64,999 | record_train |
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