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/ 25 December 2008
Aston Villa have what could be their best chance to crash the title race with the opportunity to put one of their rivals out of the running.
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/ 22 December 2008
Governments’ lack of fiscal stimulus to tackle the global slowdown may make a bad 2009 even worse, said the IMF chief in a recent interview.
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/ 22 December 2008
Liverpool stayed eight points clear of Arsenal in the race for the Premier League title after the two sides fought out an epic 1-1 draw on Sunday.
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/ 21 December 2008
Aston Villa took full advantage of the absence of the other Premier League top clubs on Saturday, winning 1-0 at West Ham United to climb to third.
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/ 21 December 2008
Britain commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing on Sunday.
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/ 18 December 2008
Oliver Twist wouldn’t have needed any more gruel in real life, scientists said on Thursday.
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/ 18 December 2008
UK will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing on Sunday, recalling with horror the night a US-bound jet was blown out of the sky.
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/ 17 December 2008
An Iraqi doctor was jailed for 32 years on Wednesday after being found guilty of planning car-bomb attacks in the United Kingdom.
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/ 16 December 2008
Formula one fears the departure of other major companies like Honda looking for ways to withstand the recession.
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/ 15 December 2008
Nicolas Anelka scored his 14th goal of the season on Sunday to save Chelsea from an embarrassing home defeat to West Ham and earned a 1-1 draw.
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/ 14 December 2008
Chelsea missed the chance to reclaim top spot in the Premier League when they were held to a 1-1 home draw by West Ham United on Sunday.
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/ 14 December 2008
Steven Gerrard performed yet another rescue act for Liverpool by twice scoring for the Premier League leaders as they came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2.
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/ 14 December 2008
"Scorpions", says Wikipedia, "are eight-legged venomous arachnids. They have a long body with an extended tail with a sting.
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/ 10 December 2008
Chris Lewis, the England Test cricketer once hailed as heir to Ian Botham, was on Tuesday charged with illegally importing cocaine.
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/ 9 December 2008
Tottenham Hotspur leapfrogged West Ham United in the Premier League with a 2-0 win on Monday as the club’s revival under Harry Redknapp continued.
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/ 8 December 2008
Ashley Young’s goal in the third minute of stoppage time secured a 3-2 victory for Aston Villa over Everton at Goodison Park in Liverpool on Saturday.
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/ 8 December 2008
The final three spots in the second round of the Champions League will be filled after this week, with Chelsea among those still trying to qualify.
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/ 4 December 2008
A fast court, plenty of fast serves and a straight-sets win. It was all vintage Pete Sampras.
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/ 4 December 2008
Jake White is to link up again with Eddie Jones in the new year after agreeing to take on a fresh consultancy role with English side Saracens.
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/ 4 December 2008
Australia ended their six-match tour with a hard-fought 18-11 win over the Barbarians in the Olympic Centenary match at Wembley on Wednesday.
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/ 4 December 2008
TV fashion expert Gok Wan is so ‘absolutely, massively’ committed to making women feel better about their bodies, writes Hadley Freeman.
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/ 3 December 2008
Burnley’s winning run against teams from London continued on Tuesday with a 2-0 defeat of Arsenal to reach the semi-finals of the English League Cup.
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/ 3 December 2008
All Blacks skipper Richie McCaw is relishing the prospect of playing alongside John Smit and Bryan Habana in his Barbarians debut on Wednesday.
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/ 2 December 2008
Liverpool went one point clear at the top of the Premier League table despite suffering a frustrating goalless draw at home to West Ham on Monday.
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/ 2 December 2008
Jake White believes that players who, like him, are new to being involved with the Barbarians will relish playing Australia at Wembley on Wednesday.
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/ 30 November 2008
Bolton rallied to beat Sunderland 4-1 on Saturday and heap more pressure on manager Roy Keane as he took charge of the team for the 100th time.
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/ 30 November 2008
On Saturday, the All Blacks completed their third Grand Slam of the home unions with their biggest win over England at Twickenham, by 32-6.
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/ 30 November 2008
England manager Martin Johnson bemoaned his team’s lack of composure for the third week running after they suffered a record 32-6 home mauling.
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/ 29 November 2008
Chasing a Grand Slam of victories on a European tour, New Zealand believes England will he hurting from last weekend’s record loss at home to SA.
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/ 24 November 2008
Danny Cipriani says he will improve after enduring a torrid match during England’s record-breaking loss to the Boks on Saturday.
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/ 22 November 2008
World champions South Africa rounded off their 2008 campaign in style with a record-breaking 42-6 thrashing of England at Twickenham on Saturday.
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/ 21 November 2008
Scholars at the British Library are at a loss to explain why Harvard-educated Farhad Hakimzadeh took a scalpel to the leaves of 150 books.