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England to start Farrell at fly-half against Wales
England interim coach Stuart Lancaster has moved 20-year-old Owen Farrell to fly-half in one of four changes to his starting side to play Wales in a Six Nations international at Twickenham on Saturday.
A cut finger has sidelined Farrell's...
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RBS annual net loss widens to almost £2 bln
State-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland on Thursday said its net losses widened to almost £2.0 billion in 2011, hit by the Greek debt crisis and compensation costs linked to insurance mis-selling.
RBS, 82-percent owned by the British governm...
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Mancini ends Tevez feud as City march on in Europa
Roberto Mancini, the Manchester City manager, has drawn a line under his long-running dispute with Carlos Tevez and insisted the Argentina striker is now available for selection.
But Mancini, talking after his team reached the last 16 of ...
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US Republican rivals clash in crunch TV debate
Struggling Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney clashed repeatedly with his surging rival Rick Santorum on Wednesday, in a crucial TV debate as the pair battle for frontrunner status.
In the last televised debate before two key poll...
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30,000 march in Moscow to back Putin: police
Some 30,000 people marched through central Moscow on Thursday in support of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's bid for the Russian presidency, police in the capital said in a statement.
Under the slogan "Protect the Country", Putin's support...
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Obama signs payroll tax cut extension into law
US President Barack Obama signed into law a compromise bill extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits through 2012, after a bitter partisan fight over how to pay for it.
Congress approved the bill on Friday with broad bipartisan su...
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At least 32 killed in Iraq attacks
A wave of bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 32 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, security officials said.
Most of the violence was centred in Baghdad, where attacks killed 22 people, an interior ministry officia...
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Allianz says profits halved by Greece, natural disasters
German insurance giant Allianz said Thursday natural catastrophes and losses on its investments in Greece slashed its bottom-line in half in 2011.
Allianz said in a statement it had booked net profit of 2.545 billion euros ($3.4 billion) ...
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Swedish crown princess gives birth to baby girl
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria gave birth early Thursday to a baby girl second in line to the throne, the newborn's father Prince Daniel announced at a press conference at a Stockholm hospital.
"This morning at 4:26 am (0326 GMT), a 51-...
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Taliban urge attacks to avenge Koran burning
The Taliban exhorted Afghans Thursday to attack and kill foreign troops to avenge the burning of Korans at a US-run base, but stopped short of cutting off contacts with American officials in Qatar.
The militia urged Afghans to "not stop" ...
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