22/11/2008,
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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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22/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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Rafael BenĂtez, 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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21/11/2008,
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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 $25 billion ($ÂŁ17 billion) bailout of their stricken firms.
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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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Manchester City's wealthy Arab owners have launched a world-record ÂŁ50million
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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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21/11/2008,
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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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