Thirteen years after a young model's body was found at the bottom of a 180 foot cliff in Sydney, her British boyfriend has been convicted of her murder.
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Thirteen years after a young model's body was found at the bottom of a 180 foot cliff in Sydney, her British boyfriend has been convicted of her murder.
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A 19-year-old man in Florida committed suicide live on the internet as hundreds of web surfers watched - taunting him and offering encouragement.
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This weekend is a time for thick pullovers and woolly hats as a taste of winter spreads over much of Britain. Raw winds sweeping down from far inside the Arctic Circle, even from the North Pole, will send a collective shiver through the country today, with heavy snowfalls in Scotland and parts of East Anglia.
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The Pope is to be asked to consider four top English bishops as successor to the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.
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Supporters of Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr, the anti-American cleric, burnt an effigy of George Bush in Baghdad yesterday and gave warning of a return to armed resistance if parliament approves a deal that will allow US forces to remain in Iraq for three more years.
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Graphic: First signs of crowd trouble?
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Ricky Hatton says that he is in the closing stretch of his career, but there may be a few twists and turns ahead yet. In the early hours of tomorrow he faces Paulie Malignaggi at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here in another defining night in a career chock full of highlights. But Hatton is not ready to hang up his gloves, he is ready for a new beginning.
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Ricky Hatton says that he is in the closing stretch of his career, but there may be a few twists and turns ahead yet. In the early hours of tomorrow he faces Paulie Malignaggi at the MGM Grand Garden Arena here in another defining night in a career chock full of highlights. But Hatton is not ready to hang up his gloves, he is ready for a new beginning.
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Conservationists embarked yesterday on a campaign to get landowners to support the reintroduction of sea eagles to England after an absence of almost two centuries.
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Electric fencing, sonic guns and even armed mercenaries are being offered as the first line of defence for ships at risk in pirate-infested waters.
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William Gallas is likely to have played his last game for Arsenal after he was stripped of the club captaincy and dropped from the squad to play Manchester City today for criticising his team-mates in an interview while on international duty with France this week. The 31-year-old defender was also fined £180,000, two weeks' wages, by Arsène Wenger when he reported for what he thought would be clear-the-air talks with his manager.
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There are barely 48 hours to go before the release of perhaps the most widely anticipated album in rock music history. Yet its creator — Axl Rose — is nowhere to be found.
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Just as Aston Villa seek to follow up victory over Arsenal by establishing their top-four credibility against Manchester United today, Martin O'Neill has urged Gabriel Agbonlahor to back up his impressive England debut by confirming that he belongs among the elite as the Barclays Premier League champions visit Villa Park.
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Ever since freelance booty-hunters spotted the vulnerability of Homeric-age galleys forging trade routes in the Mediterranean, pirates have been a scourge of the high seas.
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As we arrive for our interview with Ken Clarke, he is groaning about having to squeeze into his black tie for a dinner. The Conservatives' man of the people is more comfortable in shirt sleeves and suede shoes. He prefers dingy jazz cellars to swanky yachts. He loves birdwatching on the moors but he would never go shooting in plus-fours - “the idea would be hilarious�, he says. For years, he played snooker every week with his son - “I should have been brilliant after a lifetime of dedication,� he says, “but I was never any good.�
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Rafael Benítez, the Liverpool manager, moved yesterday to draw a line under his dispute with Fabio Capello over Steven Gerrard's fitness, but he could not resist having the final word, claiming that “someone at the FA has made a massive mistake� in questioning the severity of an injury that has ruled the player out of this afternoon's Barclays Premier League match against Fulham.
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“I'm going to ask the three executives here to raise their hand if they flew here commercial,� said Congressman Brad Sherman. No one stirred at the table where the chiefs of America's big three carmakers had gathered to beg for another $25 billion ($£17 billion) bailout of their stricken firms.
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Players and coaches hate history. It has, they say, no relevance to what they are trying to achieve in the present - Robbie Deans disregards it altogether and look how well his Australia side fared at Twickenham a week ago - yet the bare statistics have their uses as motivational tools.
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Manchester City's wealthy Arab owners have launched a world-record £50million bid to sign Gianluigi Buffon, widely regarded as the best goalkeeper on the planet. A delegation from the Barclays Premier League club travelled to Turin this month to discuss a possible transfer and, despite the protestations of Juventus, City firmly expect to secure a deal by making an offer that neither the goalkeeper nor his club can refuse.
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I can't say I've given much thought to Tony Blair's domestic arrangements before, let alone envied him for them, but that's what I found myself doing when I read a column by Cherie Blair in Times 2 the other day.
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After a week of heated debate, Tibetan exiles have decided not to resume calls for independence despite growing frustration among the young at the failure of the Dalai Lama's efforts to achieve autonomy within China.
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Andrew Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen and any other England player must wait until plans for the start of next season are finalised before being told how long they can spend in the Indian Premier League (IPL). With the ECB yet to confirm opponents for Test and one-day series in May, players could be in a state of uncertainty for the duration of this tour.
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Armed men from different Somali factions are descending on the country's pirate coast, raising fears that a battle is looming over millions of pounds in ransom cash being demanded for the captured supertanker Sirius Star.
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A retired Marine general and former Nato commander is emerging as a leading contender to become Barack Obama’s national security adviser, the most important foreign policy post in the White House.
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