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• EU foreign policy chief tells Trump not to interfere in Europe's politics

  10-02-2017 23:56
  
  Federica Mogherini, visiting Washington, says US president should ‘deal with America first’ as she hears administration voices criticizing European UnionThe EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has warned the Trump administration not to interfere in European politics, advising it to “deal with America first”.
  Speaking during a two-day visit to Washington, Mogherini did not make specific accusations but said that she sometimes heard voices in the new administration
  
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• This US book shop has really gone in on Trump

  10-02-2017 23:44
  
  That’s a lot of sass from a store that sells books.
  
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• Super League roundup: Leigh slump on return as Luke Gale shines for Castleford

  10-02-2017 23:41
  
  • Castleford 44-16 Leigh; Widnes 16-28 Huddersfield
  • Gale racks up 24 points for Castleford as Leigh struggleLeigh and Widnes slumped to defeats in their first fixtures of the new Super League season as Castleford and Huddersfield both hit the ground running. Related: Mark Percival edges St Helens to victory over Leeds in Super League openerContinue reading...
  
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• Sam Allardyce calls on psychologist to rid Crystal Palace of Selhurst fears

  10-02-2017 23:41
  
  • Manager appoints sports psychologist Lee Richardson
  • Allardyce determined to improve team’s mentality for run-inSam Allardyce has hired a sports psychologist to help his Crystal Palace players overcome the fear they experience when playing at Selhurst Park.Lee Richardson, a psychologist who was also a professional footballer and a former manager of Chesterfield, has been brought in to consult individually with the squad as they fight to avoid relegation from the Premier League
  
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• Mexican marines use helicopter gunship to kill alleged cartel leader and members

  10-02-2017 23:41
  
  Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez and 11 Beltran Leyva accomplices shot deadAttack used ‘minigun’ weapons, a rare occurrence in urban areasAn alleged regional leader of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel and 11 accomplices have been killed in clashes with Mexican marines who poured gunfire into a house from a helicopter-mounted machine gun. Continue reading...
  
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• More than a dozen fans killed in stampede at Angolan football match

  10-02-2017 23:39
  
  At least 17 killed after people try to push their way into the ground after failing to gain entry prior to kick off, a state news agency saidAt least 17 people have died in a stampede at an Angolan football match when hundreds of supporters stormed the stadium gates, a medical official said. The crowd in the northern city of Uíge pushed against barriers after failing to gain entry before the start of the match, state news agency Angop said. Many fell and were trampled, it added. Continue
  
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• Trump says he is considering 'brand new order' on immigration after travel ban blocked

  10-02-2017 23:37
  
  President says he believes he will win court fight but ‘we have other options’, including a new order that would change ‘very little’ from the firstDonald Trump has said he is considering signing a “brand new” executive order on immigration, following a court ruling blocking his travel ban on Thursday.The US president told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Florida that he was confident he would win his court battle over the hugely controversial exec
  
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• Trump says he is considering 'brand new' immigration order after setback

  10-02-2017 23:37
  
  President says he believes he will win court fight over travel ban as confusion reigns over whether he will appeal decision to supreme courtDonald Trump has said he is considering signing a “brand new” executive order on immigration, following the court ruling blocking his travel ban on Thursday.The US president told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Florida that he was confident he would win his court battle over the hugely controversial executive order suspending the cou
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino urges Spurs to improve record at top-six grounds

  10-02-2017 23:30
  
  • Tottenham look for first win at home of a top-six contender
  • Manager still wary of Liverpool despite their wretched runMauricio Pochettino has identified away wins in the lair of top opponents as an area he wants to see improvement as Tottenham Hotspur try to close the gap to Chelsea and stay ahead of their rivals for a top‑four place.Spurs travel to Anfield still searching for three points on the road at any of the clubs in the upper echelons of the Premier League. Continue r
  
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• Jürgen Klopp determined to lift Liverpool out of recent freefall

  10-02-2017 23:30
  
  • Manager says league title has gone but ‘everything else is still to go for’
  • Target is to win final 14 games of Premier League campaignJürgen Klopp has said he is responsible for Liverpool’s mid-season nose dive and has warned that neither infighting nor “bathing in self-pity” will put the team back on course for Champions League qualification.The Liverpool manager dreams of winning the final 14 matches of the season – starting with Tottenham
  
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• Everton’s Ronald Koeman says Roberto Martínez is ‘a really good talker’

  10-02-2017 23:30
  
  • Martínez highlighted defensive frailties during a TV appearance
  • Koeman also defends Ross Barkley’s ‘funny’ goal celebrationRonald Koeman has described Roberto Martínez as “a really good talker” who left him several problems to address at Everton this season.Martínez was a guest of Sky’s Goals on Sunday programme last weekend when he claimed to have witnessed the same defensive frailties in Everton’s 6-3 defeat of Bourne
  
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• Rangers announce Mark Warburton’s resignation – despite manager’s denial

  10-02-2017 23:09
  
  • Club release statement on their website announcing resignation
  • Manager linked to Nottingham Forest but denies stepping downMark Warburton’s time at Rangers has ended in confusion after the club released a statement on Friday claiming to have accepted the manager’s resignation – despite Warburton denying he had stepped down from his role.In a long statement on the Rangers website the club claim that Warburton had approached them seeking an agreement that any right
  
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• Confusion at Rangers as Mark Warburton denies resigning as manager

  10-02-2017 23:09
  
  • Club release statement on their website announcing resignation
  • Warburton denies stepping down or knowledge of statementRangers were embroiled in confusion after the club released a statement on Friday on their website claiming to have accepted the resignation of their manager, Mark Warburton – only for Warburton to deny he had stepped down or even knew of the statement.The 54-year-old is a little more than 18 months into the job with the team third in the Scottish Premiership
  
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• Highlights from Raf Simon's debut collection for Calvin Klein – in pictures

  10-02-2017 23:03
  
  Athletic stripes, slip dresses overlaid with vinyl, varsity knits and everything American: the highlights from Raf Simons debut collection at Calvin Klein Continue reading...
  
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• Klimt painting expected to fetch well over £45m at Sotheby's auction

  10-02-2017 23:00
  
  Bauerngarten, a 1907 landscape, is considered ‘one of the greatest works by the artist ever to appear at market’A gorgeously colourful and joyous garden painting by Gustav Klimt is to be a highlight of the next big London art sale season.
  The auction house Sotheby’s said the 1907 painting Bauerngarten was one of the greatest works by the artist ever to appear at market. Continue reading...
  
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• Jonathan Joseph: ‘I like the atmosphere, it spurs me on and gets me going’

  10-02-2017 23:00
  
  England centre is expecting ‘a little bit of stick’ from Wales fans on the way to the stadium in Cardiff but ‘it’s rugby, it’s competitive. Passionate fans will do whatever they can to give their team a little edge’A glance down the England team-sheet for Cardiff will offer Wales supporters some wry amusement. There is a Dylan and a Tom, not to mention an Owen, a Hughes and a “JJ”. Given the visitors are also coached by a man named Jones this may b
  
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• England’s Eddie Jones insists Cardiff holds no ‘shadows in the corner’

  10-02-2017 23:00
  
  • Jones was sacked by Australia after defeat to Wales in 2005
  • Coach does not expect any side to change their approach in Six NationsWin, lose or draw, it is a safe bet Eddie Jones will not suffer the same fate on Saturday as on his previous trip to Cardiff. Twelve years ago Australia’s narrow defeat by Wales was the eighth in nine matches and proved the final straw. Jones was sacked a week later and was effectively told of his plight by a journalist shortly after the match. &ld
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn lets off Labour's Brexit rebels with a written warning

  10-02-2017 22:55
  
  But frontbenchers will be sacked if they defy the whip again, say party sources as MPs Andrew Gwynne and Ian Lavery are picked to lead election campaignsJeremy Corbyn has let off the 10 frontbenchers and three party whips who defied the party line and voted against Brexit on Wednesday night with a formal written warning.The Labour leader had suggested he would be “lenient” in dealing with the 52 Labour MPs, many of them from strongly remain-voting constituencies, who refused to toe t
  
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• The Trump administration is delaying listing this bumblebee species as endangered

  10-02-2017 22:34
  
  The rusty patched bumblebee will have to wait longer for the decision about its federal protection.
  
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• Ian Wright: Arsène Wenger says he is ‘coming to the end’ of his Arsenal time

  10-02-2017 22:34
  
  • Former Arsenal striker says manager looks tired
  • Wenger has come under fire from fans after disappointing resultsArsène Wenger believes he is “coming to the end” of his time at Arsenal, according to Ian Wright.The radio and TV pundit was speaking on BBC Radio 5 live after meeting the manager on Thursday night and now believes Wenger is ready to end his 20-year Arsenal career. Wright, who scored 185 goals in 288 appearances for Arsenal, said: “He didn’t
  
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• Australia's heatwave continues with record temperatures forecast

  10-02-2017 22:21
  
  NSW and Queensland brace for hottest February day on record, putting paramedics on high alertNew South Wales is expected to experience its hottest February day on record this weekend with emergency services on high alert for catastrophic fire conditions.A state-wide total fire ban has been declared for Saturday as the mercury was set to soar past 40C. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia's heatwave continues with record temperatures expected

  10-02-2017 22:21
  
  NSW and Queensland brace for hottest February day on record, putting paramedics on high alertNew South Wales is expected to experience its hottest February day on record this weekend with emergency services on high alert for catastrophic fire conditions.A state-wide total fire ban has been declared for Saturday as the mercury was set to soar past 40C. Continue reading...
  
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• Shoplifting suspect dies after being tackled by store security guard

  10-02-2017 22:01
  
  Security guard arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after suspect suffers ‘significant injury’ from smashed bottlesA man has died after he was allegedly tackled by a security guard who suspected him of shoplifting, police have said.The security guard, who was working for Sainsbury’s in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, then bailed. Continue reading...
  
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• Martin Rowson on Jeremy Hunt and the NHS – cartoon

  10-02-2017 21:51
  
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• South China Sea: US reports 'unsafe encounter' with Chinese military aircraft

  10-02-2017 21:26
  
  Navy surveillance aircraft and Chinese military aircraft come within 1,000ft of each other near contested reef in apparently unintentional encounter, US saysA Chinese military aircraft had an “unsafe” encounter with a US navy surveillance aircraft near a contested reef in the South China Sea, according to the US Pacific command.The two planes came within 1,000ft (300 meters) of each other during Wednesday’s incident near the Scarborough shoal, which is claimed by both the Phili
  
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• £50m cocaine haul washed up on Norfolk beaches and now everyone's talking about Narcos

  10-02-2017 21:14
  
  The NCA says the loss of 360kg of the class A drug will deal a major blow to the organised criminals involved.
  
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• £50m cocaine haul washed up on Norfolk beaches and now everyone's talking about Narcos

  10-02-2017 21:14
  
  The NCA says the loss of 360kg of the class A drug will deal a major blow to the organised criminals involved.
  
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• Liverpool bans Sun journalists over Hillsborough coverage

  10-02-2017 21:03
  Liverpool FC have banned The Sun from their stadium and training ground over the newspaper's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster. Four days after the 1989 tragedy, the tabloid ran a front page story headlined "THE TRUTH", which claimed supporters attacked police officers tending to injured fans and stole from dead bodies. In 2012, The Sun issued an apology after a report found the allegations were false and had been part of a police cover-up.
  
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• Lawlessness on the streets of Brazil – in pictures

  10-02-2017 20:50
  
  Brazil’s south-eastern state of Espirito Santo is grappling with a strike by police that has resulted in a week of violence which has left more than 120 people dead – a toll six times the homicide rate in the state last year. Security duties have now been transferred to the military in an attempt to resolve the crisis.Continue reading...
  
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• Alfie Mawson: ‘I’ve got a football signed by Ranieri and the Chelsea players … but my dog chewed it’

  10-02-2017 20:30
  
  Swansea’s young defender on working at his dad’s fruit and veg stall, scoring from set pieces because of his ‘big head’ and playing like Bayern Munich under Paul ClementAlfie Mawson is thinking about the times when he would drive home from training and spend the afternoon working on his dad’s fruit and veg stall at Ealing market, happily swapping life as a professional footballer for a few hours as a greengrocer, back in the days when he was picking up apples and pe
  
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• Politologue enjoys Kempton romp en route to the Cheltenham Festival

  10-02-2017 20:29
  
  • Paul Nicholls’ grey is being aimed at the JLT Novice Chase
  • Sam Twiston-Davies achieves fastest century of his careerPaul Nicholls said he wanted Politologue to “chill out a bit” before his two-runner contest here on Friday afternoon and he certainly picked the right day to do it. On a raw, sub-zero afternoon Politologue galloped through a blizzard on the way to an easy defeat of his only rival in the card’s graduation chase and it was not just the snow that
  
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• UK's entire fleet of hunter-killer submarines out of action

  10-02-2017 20:26
  HMS Ambush is being mended after crashing into a tanker off the coast of Gibraltar last year. HMS Astute is currently on sea-trials after an upgrade, but is weeks away from being operational. It is an unwritten rule that there should always be at least three Royal Navy submarines at sea at any one time - one in the North Atlantic, one protecting UK waters and searching for Russian submarines, and a third 'east of Suez', normally in the Gulf.
  
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• 'Is it like Girls?' How I found recognition and relief in Brooklyn's TV daughters

  10-02-2017 20:24
  
  The polarizing show, which premieres its final season on Sunday, traced the contours of Jean Hannah Edelstein’s life as a messy post-college millennialIt’s very easy to walk down the street in New York and pass places that you think you’ve been to before, only to remember that you saw them in When Harry Met Sally or Home Alone 2. It’s not even uncommon to walk down the street in the West Village and wave to an old friend, only to realize that he’s not an old friend
  
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• The Guardian view on opposition to Trump: we can all do our bit | Editorial

  10-02-2017 20:22
  
  The courts are doing their job in restraining the president while Congress has failed for too long. Even the House of Commons has a role to playIn a recent article about the convulsive changes caused by Donald Trump’s presidency, the Yale professor David Bromwich draws a distinction between the meaning of resistance and opposition to Mr Trump and stresses the importance of the latter. According to the professor, resistance only comes into play when a previously legitimate government b
  
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• Boris Johnson urged UK to continue Saudi arms sales after funeral bombing

  10-02-2017 20:18
  
  Letters between foreign secretary and Liam Fox reveal UK weapons exports were under review following the bombing of a funeral in YemenBoris Johnson pressed Liam Fox to continue exports of weapons to Saudi Arabia after the bombing of a funeral in Yemen last October that killed more than 140 people and was condemned by UN monitors.Correspondence between the ministers shows that a month after the strike, Johnson, the foreign secretary, wrote: “I am aware you have deferred a decision on four e
  
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• Raf Simons bids to make Calvin Klein great again with cultural popcorn

  10-02-2017 20:13
  
  The firm’s design chief has staked a claim on its place at the heart of Americana with Fonz boots, flag colours and prairie quiltingRaf Simons’ mission at New York fashion week is simple: make Calvin Klein great again. In the cultural battlefield that is the contemporary US, a sleeping giant just woke up to stake a claim for what Americana looks like now.Calvin Klein is an American icon. Back in the glory days of the USA that Bruce Springsteen sang about in 1984, the name transcended
  
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• My trip home found a US that’s febrile and divided under Trump | Tracy Chevalier

  10-02-2017 20:10
  
  While others boycott the US over the travel ban, I decided to continue my book tour to bear witness. I found troubled heartlands and a widening gulfThe children’s author Malorie Blackman recently announced she would not accept invitations to US events until the Trump administration’s travel ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries is lifted. Members of the UK academic community are also considering whether to boycott conferences in America in solidarity with banned col
  
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• Ukip leader Paul Nuttall denies lying about being at Hillsborough disaster

  10-02-2017 20:09
  
  Campaign groups express surprise that he never assisted in their fight to get justice for the 96 who diedPaul Nuttall, the Ukip leader, has denied that he has lied about being a Hillsborough survivor after a number of people questioned his claim to have been present on the day of the disaster.He claims to have been present, along with his father and two uncles, when 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death, and has said only “scum of the earth” would suggest this was not true. Continu
  
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• Is Trump right that the media's terror coverage falls short?

  10-02-2017 20:03
  
  The president has asserted that the media overlooks acts of terror. In her new fact-checking column, Mona Chalabi looks at the data to bring you answersEvery sentence Donald Trump says seems to get ruthlessly picked apart to check its veracity with the assumption that he is spreading misinformation. So I tried to keep a very open mind when I looked at his most recent claim about the “crooked” media and I can tell you it’s mostly true.This Monday, during a visit to the US centra
  
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• Former RBS vice-chairman among investors seeking to join rights issue case

  10-02-2017 19:58
  By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - A group of senior businessmen are among investors seeking to join a lawsuit against Royal Bank of Scotland saying they were misled over its massive rights issue in 2008, according to sources and court documents. Angus Grossart, a former vice-chairman of the bank, and Brian Souter, the founder of transport firm Stagecoach, have applied to join the case seeking about 200,000 pounds ($249,920) in damages, the documents filed at a London court show. The civil l
  
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• Extremists with links to Anjem Choudary jailed after undercover operation

  10-02-2017 19:50
  One of the men spoke of "40 trucks driving down Oxford Street full of explosives", the Old Bailey was told. Each was jailed for between two-and-a-half years and six years for drumming up support for the Islamic State. During the operation, the police officer recorded hate-filled speeches over 20 months, delivered to up to 80 people, including young children.
  
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• Headteachers urge parents to lobby MPs over school funding cuts

  10-02-2017 19:47
  
  A letter sent to all parents of secondary students in Sutton, London, says cuts of up to 10% will have devastating impactHeadteachers of state secondary schools in a London borough have sent a “desperate” plea for parents to lobby MPs and councils to ward off budget cuts of 8-10% that they say will have a devastating impact on their children’s education.A letter sent to all parents of secondary schoolchildren in the Liberal Democrat-controlled borough of Sutton, south-west Lond
  
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• Brazil state of Espírito Santo charges 700 striking police with revolt

  10-02-2017 19:38
  
  State security official: ‘We will ensure that the rule of law is preserved’Death toll in police pay strike rises to 122Authorities in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo have indicted more than 700 striking military police officers as the federal government sent in more troops in an effort to end a week of violent anarchy that has left more than 120 people dead.The public safety director, André Garcia, said on Friday that 703 officers had been charged with the “
  
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• The Dinner review – soggy melodrama and indigestible ham all round

  10-02-2017 19:34
  
  Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall, Richard Gere and Steve Coogan star in a dull, shouty, unconvincing film about four people discussing their children over a fancy mealDirector Oren Moverman and actors Laura Linney, Rebecca Hall, Richard Gere and Steve Coogan are five very talented people. Gere gave a great performance in Moverman’s last film, Time Out of Mind, a clear-sighted and open hearted study of homelessness. But through some terrible non-chemistry and anti-alchemy, some awful misalignment
  
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• Hungary 'stoops to new low' over treatment of asylum seekers

  10-02-2017 19:32
  
  Plans to detain migrants in shipping container camps are in breach of EU law, says Amnesty InternationalHungary has been accused of “stooping to a new low” after it announced plans to detain all asylum seekers in shipping containers near the border with Serbia.The government of prime minister Viktor Orbán says the measure is necessary to secure the EU’s borders and deter migrants coming into the country from the Middle East via Serbia. It has already set up two razor fen
  
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• Staff at 'outstanding' London school suspended over alleged exam cheating

  10-02-2017 19:31
  
  Headteacher among those suspended as DfE launches investigation into GCSE results at Green Spring academyThe headteacher and several senior staff at an east London school praised for its outstanding GCSE results have been suspended, after a whistleblower alerted authorities to alleged exam cheating involving senior teachers.The investigation into results at Green Spring academy Shoreditch – which changed its name from the Bethnal Green academy after three pupils left to join Islamic State
  
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• Rupert Murdoch’s invisible presence shows his dark magic is back | Marina Hyde

  10-02-2017 19:29
  
  So Michael Gove’s interview with Donald Trump was overseen by the News Corp boss. Some thought him vanquished after the phone hacking scandal: no waySome people are surprised that Rupert Murdoch sat in secretly on Michael Gove’s interview with/colonoscopy of Donald Trump. But if you look closely at the photo at the end of The Shining, you’ll see Murdoch was sitting in at the Overlook Hotel’s July 4th Ball in 1921. Related: Michael Gove gorges on cheesy puff of a Donald Tr
  
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• David Moyes hopes sub-zero New York training will inspire Sunderland survival

  10-02-2017 19:21
  
  • Manager to take the Premier League’s bottom club to US
  • Moyes keen to build unity and ‘culturally educate’ teamFebruary is the month when Premier League clubs traditionally flock to the Middle East, typically flying to Dubai, Doha or Abu Dhabi for a dose of vitamin D-suffused Arabian sun but, in a counterintuitive move, Sunderland are scheduled for daily runs in snowy Central Park next week.With America’s east coast currently blanketed by heavy snow
  
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• Brexit transitional deal will lock UK into EU court, says Verhofstadt

  10-02-2017 19:02
  
  Exclusive: EU negotiator suggests Brussels does not plan to let Theresa May keep promises to leave ECJ’s jurisdiction in 2019Britain will remain under the jurisdiction of the European court of justice for years to come if it seeks a transition deal to cushion its withdrawal from the EU, the chief negotiator for the European parliament has said.In the clearest sign to date that Britain is on a collision course with Brussels over the court, Guy Verhofstadt said European negotiators were prim
  
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• Carl Frampton: 'My daughter asked, why are they saying well done if you got beat?'

  10-02-2017 19:00
  
  Two weeks ago in Las Vegas, Carl Frampton lost his belt and unbeaten record to old foe, Léo Santa Cruz. It was a bitter pill to swallow, but he is already focused on reclaiming his title against the Mexican in BelfastBy Paul Gibson for The Balls of Wrath, part of the Guardian Sport Network“And the new!”
  Just like that, Jimmy Lennon Jr. announced to the world that Carl Frampton’s WBA super world featherweight title was gone, snatched from around his waist in a classic Veg
  
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