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Real Madrid has topped Forbes’ 2014 annual list of World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams

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Real Madrid has topped Forbes’ 2014 annual list of World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams. The Spanish soccer club, which won the Champions League in...
Marvel’s Thor is becoming a woman

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Thor is becoming a woman, Marvel Comics has announced. The comic book superhero character first appeared in 1962 and is based on the Norse hammer-wielding...
Cher's latest tour, Dressed To Kill, is on course to become the highest-grossing tour, so far, of 2014

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Cher's latest tour, Dressed To Kill, is on course to become the highest-grossing tour, so far, of 2014. The tour has made a reported $54.9...
Bank of America has reported a 43 percent drop in its quarterly profits after a fall in mortgage revenue and a rise in legal costs

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Bank of America has reported a 43% drop in its quarterly profits after a fall in mortgage revenue and a rise in legal costs. The...
The Netherlands is liable over the killings of more than 300 Bosniak men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995

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The Netherlands is liable over the killings of more than 300 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslims) men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia-Hercegovina in July 1995,...
Manuel Noriega is suing Call of Duty's publisher after a character based on him featured in Black Ops II

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Former dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega is suing Call of Duty's video games publisher after a character based on him featured in Activision's 2012...
UNAIDS report said the number of new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were both falling

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According to a report by the United Nations AIDS agency, there is a chance the AIDS epidemic can be brought under control by 2030. It...
Time Warner has rejected an initial takeover approach from rival 21st Century Fox estimated at $80 billion

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Time Warner has rejected an initial takeover approach from rival 21st Century Fox estimated at $80 billion. The takeover approach by the Rupert Murdoch owned...
Harper Lee first distanced herself from The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee when Penguin announced its publication in 2011

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To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee has denied she approved the writing of a memoir about her life in Alabama by former neighbor...
California officials have approved fines of up to $500 a day for residents who waste water

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California officials have approved fines of up to $500 a day for residents who waste water, as the state faces its worst drought in...
Two Moscow metro workers have been arrested for safety breaches after a train derailed, killing 21 people

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Two Moscow metro workers have been arrested for safety breaches after a train derailed, killing 21 people, Russian investigators have announced. The track supervisor and...
Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow are accused of accepting cash or campaign contributions from people facing potential scrutiny by the attorney general's office

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Former attorneys general in Utah, John Swallow and Mark Shurtleff, have been arrested on bribery charges, authorities say. John Swallow, 51, and Mark Shurtleff, 56,...
Typhoon Rammasun hit the central Philippines forcing thousands of people to evacuate

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Typhoon Rammasun hit the central Philippines forcing thousands of people to evacuate. The typhoon, also known as Glenda, struck the main island of Luzon with...
JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have seen mixed results from their investment businesses

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JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have seen mixed results from their investment businesses. JPMorgan reported an 8% fall in Q2 2014 profits after declines in...
The BRICS countries have signed a deal to create a new $100 billion development bank and emergency reserve fund

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The BRICS countries have signed a deal to create a new $100 billion development bank and emergency reserve fund. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
The Mia Moo Fund is presenting the Jim Dillard Boat Giveaway, an amazing opportunity to generate awareness about cleft lip and palate

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The Mia Moo Fund is presenting the Jim Dillard Boat Giveaway, an amazing opportunity to generate awareness about cleft lip and palate. According to the...
Willie and Korie Robertson will talk about their family and their business at Columbus North Gym on August 23

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A Night with A&E’s Duck Dynasty: Willie, Korie, Si, and Alan Duck Dynasty’s Willie and Korie Robertson will talk about their family, their business and...
Unlocking The Truth have already appeared at major festivals and opened for Guns N' Roses

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New York’s school heavy metal band Unlocking The Truth featuring one 12-year-old and two 13-year-olds have signed a record deal with Sony Music. From Brooklyn,...
Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me features songs by late rapper Tupac Shakur

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Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, featuring songs by late rapper Tupac Shakur, is to close after less than two months. The curtains will...
Israel has restarted air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, after its brief truce was met with continuing rocket fire

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Israel has restarted air strikes on Hamas-controlled Gaza, after its brief truce was met with continuing rocket fire. Israel had earlier accepted an Egyptian ceasefire...
At least 89 people have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide attack at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province

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A car bomb attack at a busy market in eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province has killed at least 89 people and injured dozens others, local...
The death toll of this morning's Moscow metro crash has risen to 19

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The death toll of this morning's Moscow metro crash has risen to 19, the Russian emergency ministry has announced. Scores were injured, some seriously, when...
Oscar Pistorius had an altercation with businessman Jared Mortimer at a Johannesburg nightclub

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Oscar Pistorius was involved in an argument at a nightclub at the weekend, his spokesperson has said. The South African athlete had an altercation with...
Egypt launched an initiative to halt Israel-Palestinian conflict

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Egypt launched an initiative on Monday to halt Israel-Palestinian conflict. On Tuesday, Israel has accepted the truce proposal for the conflict with Gaza. Hamas, which controls...
The 2009 Black Saturday fires resulted in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire

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Victims of one of the worst bushfires in Australia have won a payout of almost A$500 million ($470 million), in the country's largest class...