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• Mohamed Salah brace gives Fiorentina advantage over Juventus in Italian Cup

  05-03-2015 23:58
  
  • Juventus 1-2 Fiorentina (Llorente 24; Salah 11, 56)
  • Juve fall to first home defeat in two years, in semi-final first leg
  • As it happened: read Jacob Steinberg’s MBM reportJuventus suffered their first home defeat in two years on Thursday night when Mohamed Salah scored twice to give Fiorentina a 2-1 Italian Cup win in Turin.The Egyptian, on loan from Chelsea, opened the scoring in the semi-final first leg when he collected the ball inside his own half, burst clear of the defence and
  
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• Roy Hodgson keen to remain England manager until 2018 World Cup

  05-03-2015 23:53
  
  • Hodgson’s extended tenure dependent on Euro 2016
  • Manager eager to keep working at highest level into his 70s
  • Hodgson believes Harry Kane’s U21 benefits outweigh burnout riskRoy Hodgson wants to remain as manager until the next World Cup if England do enough in next year’s European Championship to demonstrate to his employers at the Football Association that he should be kept on for a fourth tournament.Hodgson’s contract expires after Euro 2016 in France and he will be alm
  
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• '3D printer made my new knees': Opera singer dancing for joy after operation

  05-03-2015 23:52 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Paula Anglin is performing once again and has also been coaching other singers in Spain and Finland
  
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• Argentina prosecutor WAS murdered before testifying against President Kirchner

  05-03-2015 23:51 via
  
  Forensic tests on the body of Argentine state prosecutor Alberto Nisman (pictured) who accused the President of a cover-up with Iran indicate that he was murdered, his ex-wife said today.
  
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• Spurned lover smashed up home in wild 'rampage' after seeing graphic texts girlfriend sent other man

  05-03-2015 23:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Stephen Kiely broke two televisions, a microwave, a bathtub, shower doors, a chest of drawers, mirrors, bannisters on the stairs and the legs of two dining room chairs
  
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• Chinese premier cuts country's growth target

  05-03-2015 23:39
  
  Li Keqiang warns ‘the difficulties we are to encounter in the year ahead may be even more formidable than those of last year’China’s premier Li Keqiang cut the nation’s growth target to “around” 7% on Thursday, reiterating the need to pursue reform as development slows and the likelihood of tougher times ahead for the world’s second largest economy.
  Systemic, institutional and structural problems have become ‘tigers in the road’ holding up development. Continue reading...
  
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• Shock 20-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor people

  05-03-2015 23:35 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Experts said the gulf is the same as between Canada and Botswana and shows the shocking inequality that blights modern Britain
  
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• Thugs who kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured victim with hammers have sentences cut

  05-03-2015 23:30 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The victim was held captive for almost 28 hours, stripped naked, beaten and stabbed by Tariq Mahmood, Paul Che Murray and Tehery Mahmood
  
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• Why fifty is the most expensive age of our lives: Care costs hit 'sandwich generation'

  05-03-2015 23:30 via
  
  People in their 50s spend more money than at any other time in their lives, as they are still funding children, paying off mortgages and could be looking after elderly relatives.
  
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• Bafétimbi Gomis collapse had us fearing the worst, says Brad Friedel

  05-03-2015 23:30
  
  • Spurs keeper admits scare brought back memories of Fabrice Muamba incident
  • ‘My first thought was: Please no, not again’
  • Relief for Bafétimbi Gomis dominates Tottenham’s victory over Swansea Brad Friedel has articulated the sense of fear that he and his fellow players felt on Wednesday night when Bafétimbi Gomis collapsed to the White Hart Lane turf – just as Fabrice Muamba had done, in almost fatal circumstances, in March 2012.It would emerge that the Swansea City
  
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• Chelsea Manning: court order bans US military from referring to soldier as 'he'

  05-03-2015 23:29
  
  Court order banning military from referring to Manning using masculine pronouns marks another advance towards army soldier’s gender transition goalChelsea Manning, the US army soldier serving 35 years in prison for leaking a huge stash of state secrets, has won a small but significant victory in her bid to transition to living as a woman.
  Manning has taken on the might of the US military, challenging its ongoing refusal to refer to her as a woman, and won. A court order from the US army cour
  
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• Boston Marathon victim's father testifies at trial: 'We were unlucky that day'

  05-03-2015 23:28
  
  Bill Richard describes day with his family before the blast that left him half-deaf, his wife half-blind, his daughter maimed and his youngest son deadBill and Denise Richard loved going to the Boston Marathon, even before they had children.In emotional testimony that brought tears to the eyes of several jurors in the ongoing trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – the survivor of two brothers accused of perpetrating the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing – Richard described the day he and his family shared,
  
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• Big Issue seller foils city centre mugger with well-aimed karate kick

  05-03-2015 23:22 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Brave Andy King was commended by police for springing into action
  
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• Majority of UK adults wasting £3,000 a year

  05-03-2015 23:20
  
  The majority of adults in the UK waste a staggering £3,000 a year according to a new study which reveals attitudes towards saving.
  
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• Wealthy Tory MP skipped Commons for free Middle East trip and returned with £25k job

  05-03-2015 23:20 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Ex-Minister Crispin Blunt's flights and a hotel were paid for by Jordanian foreign exchange firm Kamal Exchange Company
  
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• Becky Watts: Outraged public hurls abuse after stepbrother accused of her murder appears in court

  05-03-2015 23:19 via mirror.co.uk
  
  After Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare - the latter charged with perverting the course of justice - left court, Linda Dobson said: “She was a young girl with so much to live for”
  
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• Rory McIlroy has rollercoaster round in WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral

  05-03-2015 23:17
  
  • Northern Irishman recovers from poor first nine with three birdies and an eagle
  • Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn withdraws from tournament after only eight holes
  • McIlroy is happy to take Masters hype in his strideIt may not be a huge leap of faith to suggest Rory McIlroy endures something of a love-hate relationship with Doral’s Blue Monster course.A year ago, McIlroy was a smiling diplomat when asked if he would choose to play in this event were it not, as is the case, of the World Golf C
  
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• Upper crust: Writer scoffs his way to a winner in search for Britain's favourite pie

  05-03-2015 23:16 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Martin Tarbuck spent two years munching hundreds of pies and pasties and has published a new book called Life of Pies
  
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• Karen Danczuk's brother rearrested after two more women accuse him of sexual abuse

  05-03-2015 23:15 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Michael Burke was initially arrested last month after a complaint from Mrs Danczuk, who is married to Simon Danczuk MP
  
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• How Welsh A&Es are delaying 999 crews

  05-03-2015 23:10 via
  
  The Welsh Ambulance Service said almost 40,000 hours were 'lost' in 2014 because of delays in transferring patients from emergency vehicles to hospital - five times more than in 2008.
  
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• History will judge David Cameron if he chickens out of TV debates

  05-03-2015 23:07 via mirror.co.uk
  
  By wriggling out of every proposal put forward by the broadcasters, the Prime Minister has shown his true colours, claims the former Lib Dem leader
  
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• Jewish children dress up to celebrate Purim festival

  05-03-2015 23:06 via
  
  Children and their families transformed the streets of Stamford Hill, north London into a carnival today as they marked Purim by dressing up in a series of colourful costumes.
  
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• Conman who scammed £750,000 to fund lavish lifestyle goes on the run after conviction

  05-03-2015 23:02 via mirror.co.uk
  
  John Davies claimed he could help businesses in financial turmoil escape their difficulties but in reality he was swiping cash
  
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• Ed Miliband pledges pensioners' perks will be safe under Labour

  05-03-2015 23:00
  
  Ed Miliband will today move to reassure Britain’s 11 million pensioners that Labour would not launch a further raid on their winter fuel payments and free bus passes and TV licences.
  
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• Emergency plans drawn up amid fears of Easter NHS crisis

  05-03-2015 23:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  GPs ordered to work Easter Saturday, and hospitals told to discharge as many medically fit patients as possible, amid fears that hospitals could be overwhelmed by pressures on the four-day weekend
  
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• Labour proposes 10-year age limit on public service transport tyres

  05-03-2015 23:00
  
  The use of old tyres would be banned on buses and coaches by an incoming Labour government after they were blamed for a crash that killed three people.
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about control

  05-03-2015 23:00
  
  Whether losing, gaining, maintaining or fighting it, let the music take over and name songs about all emotional, physical or practical ways we take on turmoil
  Chaos. Where isn’t it? The world is a mess of entropy, energy, waste, injustice, and emotion. Chaos thrives equally in war, in corruption, in our hearts, in a pencil case, in ideas mangled or cables tangled. “I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me,” said Bob Dylan, with a shrug. “Darling – in chaos there is fertilit
  
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• 28,000 Sunnis escape Tikrit amid ISIS and Shia militias conflict

  05-03-2015 22:59 via
  
  Citizens of the strategically important city, which lies midway between regime-capital Baghdad and the ISIS stronghold of Mosul, are making desperate efforts to escape the fighting, the UN says.
  
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• Linda McCartney photographs capture the Beatles, Mick Jagger and Steve McQueen

  05-03-2015 22:55 via
  
  Paul McCartney says that his wife Linda, who died tragically of breast cancer at 56, was the most important photographer covering the sixties' rock and roll music scene.Here are some of her works.
  
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• Watch tiniest puppy in a NAPPY cured of dislocated knees and broken paws by the Supervet

  05-03-2015 22:49 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Supervet returns with the cutest, tiniest little Pomeranian puppy
  
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• Palestinian leaders announce they are stopping all security co-ordination with Israel 

  05-03-2015 22:47 via
  
  Leaders of Palestine Liberation Organisation decided to stop all forms of security coordination with Israel. It's unclear if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (pictured) will implement resolution
  
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• Bus passenger left with broken nose after sickening unprovoked attack on top deck

  05-03-2015 22:41 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Police have released CCTV images of the suspect after the 36-year-old victim was set upon from behind
  
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• 'Cherry King of New York' killed himself when cops found cannabis farm in factory basement

  05-03-2015 22:38 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Millionaire Arthur Mondella's reaction when cops found the operation was drastic - he pulled out a .357-calibre Magnum and shot himself in the head
  
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• Fenton Hogan: Serious case review launched into tragic toddler's death

  05-03-2015 22:37 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The review will identify if any warning signs were missed and if lessons can be learned after the conviction of the tot's drug addict mum Kelly Emery
  
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• Frenchman kicked off Facebook for naked woman profile picture sues social network for £16,000

  05-03-2015 22:34 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Unnamed father-of-three used an image of an explicit 19th century oil by Gustave Coubet called The Origin of the World
  
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• ''Scum'' robbers fractured skull of pregnant woman who was 15 hours into labour

  05-03-2015 22:32 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Thugs armed with baseball bats and a crowbar smashed into her house and slashed her face while her boyfriend prepared a maternity bag upstairs
  
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• England Ashes cricket stars 'face tax bills after investing in film funds'

  05-03-2015 22:28 via
  
  International players including some members of the Ashes-winning team of 2005 are said to have been among those who invested in partnerships set up by Ingenious Media.
  
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• Ripley ram raiders steal £120k Ford Escort Mexico with Land Rover

  05-03-2015 22:27 via
  
  The gang were filmed smashing through the Surrey showroom window in a Land Rover Defender before using chains to tow away the classic Ford Escort Mexico.
  
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• Children discuss Nelson Mandela in Amnesty International video

  05-03-2015 22:25 via
  
  Amnesty International has released a heart-warming video called Human Rights Heroes Of The Future, which poses such questions to children ranging in age from five to nine.
  
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• Fifty Shades of Grey: Mum of Christian Grey pupil speaks after school's World Book Day 'ban'

  05-03-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Liam Scholes was told his outfit was inappropriate and he was pulled form appearing in any photos from the day
  
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• Dating website for 'beautiful people' kicks out 3,000 members for letting themselves go

  05-03-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  The most often cited reason for members being removed from the site were piling on the pounds and “graceless” ageing
  
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• Painting by Rolling Stones legend Ronnie Wood stolen by thief riding a bike

  05-03-2015 22:24 via mirror.co.uk
  
  Nigel Dennis Cooper was jailed for eight weeks for stealing the £8,750 piece of art but has had his appeal thrown out by judges
  
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• Boko Haram kills at least 68 people attending morning prayers

  05-03-2015 22:23 via
  
  Gunmen 'armed to the teeth' with weapons and explosives stormed Njaba in eastern Nigeria before dawn and shot dead at least 68 people before using petrol bombs to burn the village down.
  
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• CPS confirm no one will face charges over deaths of SAS soldiers

  05-03-2015 22:21 via
  
  Edward Maher, Craig Roberts and James Dunsby died of heat exhaustion on the Brecon Beacons after a 40-mile hike as part of a gruelling training exercise in July 2013.
  
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• Mob breaks into Indian prison, drags out rapist and beats him to death

  05-03-2015 22:18 via
  
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Taking justice into their own hands, the gang overpowered security at the jail in the Indian city of Dimapur and grabbed the man, who allegedly raped a student last month.
  
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• Jihadi John: first video of Mohammed Emwazi unmasked

  05-03-2015 22:18 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New footage shows a 15-year-old Emwazi having a kick around with fellow pupils in the school playground
  
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• Palestine Liberation Organisation calls for end to security co-ordination with Israel

  05-03-2015 22:16
  
  A top body in the Palestine Liberation Organisation on Thursday called for ending security coordination with Israel — a step that could further escalate tensions.
  
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• Canoeist with heart condition pronounced clinically DEAD 36 times in one year

  05-03-2015 22:15 via
  
  Sarah Brautigam, 21, of Doncaster, has been close to death dozens of times due to an affliction which makes her heart stop beating - and said each time that her hearing is the last thing to go.
  
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• "Older, overweight women need to present the news", says Dame Jenni Murray

  05-03-2015 22:03 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Dame Jenni Murray is urging broadcasters to employ ordinary-looking older women to present the news instead of an an older man and his pretty sidekick
  
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• Chelsea fans in new race storm after League Cup final against Tottenham

  05-03-2015 21:57 via
  
  After the club’s victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, a man was heard to say on the London to Manchester service: ‘Paris, Paris, Paris, that’s the way I like it, a n***** on the door’.
  
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