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Jonny Wilkinson will not look back in anger when the injury ravaged flyhalf pulls on an England shirt for the first time in more than three years on Saturday. Wlkinson’s return will be a poignant moment for a player who has spent more time on the treatment table than a rugby pitch since drop-kicking the winning goal in the 2003 World Cup final.

Flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson, who has not played for England since drop-kicking the winning goal in the 2003 Rugby World Cup final, was selected on Monday for Saturday’s Calcutta Cup match against Scotland at Twickenham. Wilkinson has been sidelined by a succession of unrelated injuries but made an immediate impression after taking the field for Newcastle on Saturday.

A report compiled by hundreds of the world’s top climate scientists will paint a bleak picture of climate change and say that evidence of the negative human impact on the environment is ”widespread”, the Independent reported on Monday.

Dedicated fans of English football club Plymouth Argyle can now literally die for their team after being given the opportunity to be buried in a coffin painted in the club’s green-and-white colours. A local undertaker is offering followers of the second-tier Championship team a new service where they can choose their own Argyle-themed funeral.

An opportunity to foster stability in Somalia after years of war is ”being squandered”, the deputy chairperson of the African Union said in an interview published in the Financial Times on Wednesday. Patrick Mazimhaka also told the paper that there had not yet been any clear commitment from a non-African country to help fund the mission.

Thierry Henry scored in injury time on Sunday to give Arsenal a 2-1 comeback win over Manchester United in the Premier League. Henry met a cross from defender Emmanuel Eboue and headed past diving goalkeeper Edwin van der Saar in the third minute of injury time.

Salvage teams on Sunday battled to secure a damaged container ship grounded off the English coast, as 200 tonnes of oil and other hazardous materials threatened the nearby coastline. The stricken MSC Napoli was deliberately run aground after it was damaged during a storm on Thursday.

David Beckham’s multimillion-pound contract with the LA Galaxy has sparked resentment amongst his new teammates according to midfielder Peter Vagenas. Former England captain Beckham, currently at Real Madrid, has signed a five-year deal with the Major Soccer League club worth £128-million and is due to arrive in the United States at the end of the current European season.

The United States could dramatically and quickly cut its troop presence in Iraq if it provided enough weapons to the country’s security forces, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said. Maliki called for greater US support for Iraqi troops in an interview with a group of foreign correspondents in Baghdad. Several newspapers reported his comments on Thursday.

Birmingham upset Newcastle 5-1 to advance to the fourth round of the English FA Cup on Wednesday, while in other third-round replays Fulham rallied to beat Leicester and Tottenham downed Cardiff. League Championship club Birmingham beat 10-man Newcastle, with five different players scoring.

Prime Minister Tony Blair denied on Wednesday having called his heir-apparent Chancellor Gordon Brown ”psychologically flawed.” The cautiously worded denial came after a former spokesperson suggested Blair himself may have used the infamous description of Brown, a long-time ally turned political foe of the British leader.

Television bosses launched an investigation on Tuesday after a newsreader flashed her tummy and exchanged risqué banter with a colleague, not realising she was live on air. Emma Baker of Anglia Television, which broadcasts to viewers in eastern England, also fiddled with her bra and apparently addressed a co-worker as "Mrs Shameless".