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    Russia in bid to shoot anti-Putin tycoon in London

    Hitman at the Hilton hotel Sworn enemies ... Berezovsky, who wants president Putin, right, to be overthrown, was target of Russian assassination plot. Berezovsky now lives in Britain. Picture, right: REUTERS By ONLINE REPORTERS July 18, 2007 The Sun A RUSSIAN hitman planned to execute...
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    Urawa give Man United tough workout in tour opener

    English champions Manchester United are taking part in a pre-season tour of the Far East where they are very popular. They have millions of fans throughout Japan and China and, thanks to the buying of Manchester United merchandise, such as shirts, in those countries the region is very lucrative...
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    The new arms race is deadly because Russia is so fragile

    The Cold War is back The new arms race is deadly because Russia is so fragile Fraser Nelson The Spectator The front cover of the current issue of Spectator A little over a week ago, Vladimir Putin tested a weapon deadlier than anything developed by the Soviet Union. A missile...
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    Camilla: "I don't want to become Queen."

    Camilla stuns Prince Charles with knife threat 17th July 2007 Daily Mail When a knife-wielding Camilla says she doesn't want to be Queen, Prince Charles better listen - or else. Onlookers were stunned today when the Duchess menacingly waved a blade under Prince Charles's nose as she...
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    Saddam's pal Galloway suspended from the Commons over illicit Iraq cash

    Saddam's friend George Galloway (who once praised the dictator for his "courage and indefatigability") has been suspended from the House of Commons over illicit Iraq cash. Scotsman Galloway, a member of Left-wing political party Respect, is Member of Parliament for London borough Bethnal Green...
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    Russia preparing 'targeted response very soon' in diplomat crisis

    Russia preparing 'targeted response very soon' in diplomat crisis 17th July 2007 Daily Mail Alexander Litvinenko died last November from a fatal dose of the radioactive isotope polonium 210. The murder has sparked a diplomatic rift between Britain and Russia The Russian government...
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    Enemy destroy all in their path

    Enemy destroy all in their path Keep your Enemy closer ... band storms the charts, their debut album at No1 July 16, 2007 The Sun BRILLIANT Coventry band THE ENEMY deservedly stormed to No1 yesterday with their debut album We’ll Live And Die In These Towns. The band — TOM CLARKE...
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    600 hurt as earthquake hits Japan, including world's largest nuclear plant

    New earthquake hits Japan as death toll rises Seven dead and 600 injured in quakes 16th July 2007 Daily Mail A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the Japanese coast today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, hours after another quake of similar strength killed at least seven people in...
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    Man astounds world by becoming first person to swim to freezing North Pole

    Meet the Brit, Lewis Pugh, who has the astonishing ability to increase his body temperature allowing him to swim in icy cold water. He has just become the first person to swim to the North Pole. He now has several swimming "firsts" to his name...... Briton astounds the world by becoming the...
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    Britain expels four Russian diplomats as Russia refuses to extradite murder suspect

    British-Russians relations fall furthern into the mire as the British expel four Russian diplomats in response to the refusal by the Russians to extradite the chief suspect of the murder of British citizen Alexander Litvinenko last year Many are now asking: Is this the start of a new Cold War...
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    Robot air attack squadron bound for Iraq

    Robot Air Attack Squadron Bound for Iraq Sunday July 15, 2007 7:01 PM By CHARLES J. HANLEY AP Special Correspondent The MQ-9 Reaper (originally the RQ-9 Predator B) is outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles. They...
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    British death rate in Iraq surpasses that of the US

    It looks like the British are being engaged in more dangerous fighting than the Americans in Iraq. The British death rate is higher than that for the US Army. British death rate in Iraq higher than US By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph 15/07/2007 Daily Mail Deaths...
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    Men compete for gold, silver and bronze cravats in the Chap Olympics

    Only the eccentric (and class-obsessed) British can invent Chap Olympics take place. In these games, a groups of chaps (gentlemen) take part in crazy games such as Hop, Skip and Gin & Tonic (G&T), which is like the normal Olympics Hop, Skip and Jump but the athlete carries a G&T and isn't...
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    Beckham brand set to expand with new chain of nightclubs

    Beckham brand set to expand with new chain of nightclubs By KATIE NICHOLL 14th July 2007 Daily Mail Settled in Los Angeles for only a matter of days, David and Victoria Beckham are already hatching a business venture to conquer America. They are planning to establish a chain of elite...
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    SAS members stage revolt as 'PC Plod' joins their secret club

    SAS members stage revolt as 'PC Plod' joins their secret club By CHRISTOPHER LEAKE 14th July 2007 Daily Mail SAS soldiers A bitter row has erupted at Britain's most secretive private club – over an influx of members from the police force. Entrance to the Special Forces Club has...
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    The Enemy - "We'll Live and Die in These Towns."

    British indie band The Enemy, from the city of Coventry, released their debut album - "We'll Live and Die in These Towns" - on 9th July. Tom Clarke (lead vocals, guitar) Liam Watts (drums) Andy Hopkins (bass guitar, backing vocals) The Enemy are an English rock band from Coventry...
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    What if the Campbell diaries were released in an illustrated edition?

    Alistair Campbell was Tony Blair's Director of Communications and Strategy between 1997 and 2003. Throughout his time in Downing Street, Campbell kept a diary which reportedly totalled some two million words giving us a behind-the-scenes look at the Blairs. The diary has just been published and...
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    The Special Relationship will survive - as before

    Special relationship will survive - as before By John O'Sullivan 14/07/2007 Daily Mail 'It's déjà vu all over again," Yogi Berra, the American baseball star, is alleged to have said in a famous malapropism. But it is the literal truth of my response to the reports that the infant...
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    Behaving badly... the BBC and Fincham

    Behaving badly... the BBC and Fincham By Simon Heffer 14/07/2007 The Telegraph The BBC should show the Queen more respect Let us suppose, for a moment, that our beloved Queen had behaved in the way that a BBC trailer originally showed her to have done: that she had stormed out of...
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    Forget the Queen, it's the BBC's love of the Blairs that's the problem

    An interesting article about the lefty Beeb's obsession with former Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie, probably the most controversial Prime Minister's consort since Caroline Lamb, the famously unfaithful wife of Prime Minister Melbourne in the 1830s..... Forget the Queen fiasco...