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News on the 20th of August 2013 in history

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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Postcard from... Madrid
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Postcard from... Porto
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World 'The pecking dead': Panicked Russians contact authorities to report eerie behaviour of 'zombie pigeons'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Angela Merkel ignites furious political row by becoming first post-war German leader to visit former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World From Anders Breivik’s bullets to the ballot box: Thirty-three survivors of the Utoya massacre are standing for election
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World On your bikes! Turkmenistan president orders entire nation to saddle up for national cycling day
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World 'God told me to do it': Is this a clue to why Pope Benedict XVI resigned?
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World ECB officials arrive in Greece amid talk of third bailout
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Swiss girl loses two-year legal battle against 90 minute after-school detention
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Go ahead: Bring back East Germany’s little traffic light man, say researchers
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Alleged ‘Pink Panther’ arrested in the South of France
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Spanish judge to question safety officials over rail crash that killed 79 people
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World ‘Euthanize him and donate any non-retarded body parts’: Grandmother receives anonymous hate letter after allowing autistic grandson Max Begley to play outside
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Bradley Manning's lawyers to petition Barack Obama over 35-year sentence for passing US secrets to WikiLeaks
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Christie's auction house sued for 'failures' over Hurricane Sandy art damage
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Road rage incident blamed for New York taxi crash that severed Briton’s leg
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Three teenagers shoot and kill Australian college baseball player in Oklahoma 'because they were bored'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Romanian princess accused of running illegal cockfighting operation from Oregon ranch
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Suspect arrested at US school after reports of gunfire
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev 'was shot in the face before capture'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World In pictures: Manila floods cause chaos in the Philippines
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World And they called it puppy love: The Obamas release video of new pet dog Sunny
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Arsonist professor faces prison in US
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World California court rules prisoners on hunger strike can be force-fed
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World New York mayor announces the city's largest ever gun bust by NYPD
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Wikileaks soldier Bradley Manning to learn fate as he faces sentencing
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World A life of torture, starvation and executions: Inside North Korea’s horrifyingly cruel prison camps
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Video: Unverified footage shows Syria 'chemical gas attack'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Flood of Syrian Kurds flows over border into Iraq as battle rages for control of oil wells
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah sends aircraft to take 96-stone man to hospital
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Sixty years on, CIA finally admits role in Iran coup
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Benazir Bhutto death: Pakistan ex-military leader Pervez Musharraf charged with 2007 murder of prime minister
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World China’s trial of the century... but the fate of Bo Xilai is likely to have already been decided
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Nuclear crisis: Fukushima threat level raised to 'serious' as plant leaks 300 tonnes of radioactive water from storage tank
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Malaysia death toll rises: 37 killed as bus plunges into ravine
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Radiation crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant deepens as threat level raised to 'serious'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Black magic murder: Fury in India over killing of anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World 106 rescued after asylum seeker boat sinks north of Christmas Island
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World South Korea's army carries out terrorism training exercise on subway
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World ‘Everything is back to where it started’ as Egyptian court orders Hosni Mubarak’s release
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Hosni Mubarak to be freed as Army tightens its grip on Egypt
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Egypt crisis: Now Mohamed ElBaradei faces wrath of army after resigning from cabinet
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Egypt crisis: Police arrest Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader Mohamed Badie in Cairo
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Egypt crisis: Two more prominent Muslim Brotherhood figures arrested as court meets to consider Mubarak release
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Egyptian activists in search of middle way for their country demand to be heard
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Olympian Oscar Pistorius 'tries for cash settlement' with family of dead girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Tunisian activist quits Femen protest group as she believes it is Islamophobic
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT World Dog donates blood to save life of cat that had eaten rat poison
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Glencore hit for $8bn but boss takes $59m dividend
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business £500m deals raise hope of early Lloyds' sell-off
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business City bonuses soar as bankers profit from 45p tax
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business ‘We’re the only real bidder’ for RBS branches, says W&G Investments
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Persimmon on growth path: housebuilder set to open another 85 sites as demand soars
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Broadgate sale to net £600m profit for Blackstone
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Lindt sweet as chocolate as profits jump
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Men's bonuses more than twice size of women's: Male managers take home £140,000 more in a lifetime
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Briton arrested in Chinese GlaxoSmithKline bribery probe
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Warming up nicely: sales rising at Aga in home sales upturn
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Running out of fizz: sales drop at Heineken and Carlsberg
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business After M&S and Asos, Kate Bostock heads to the Coast
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business BHP invests in fertiliser to lay the ground for profits
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Energy manipulation inquiry piles pressure on JP Morgan
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business BAE to lose Washington veteran Linda Hudson
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Drive profits by giving workers a cut, businesses told
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Coup for Yahoo as it lures former Channel 5 boss to European arm
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Falcone agrees to 5-year industry ban
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business LinkedIn lowers age limit to 13 to  recruit career-minded youngsters
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Hi-tech UK manufacturer sucks up new foreign owner
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Rival offers spark £820m bid battle  over Kentz
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Bovis sales performance goes through roof
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Tourists head back to ailing Greece
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business City firms race to beat pay-out cap
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Last reel: Cineworld told to sell three cinemas
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Europe’s flood disasters dent profits at Amlin
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Business Rupee slumps amid capital outflow fears
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT People Have celebrity endorsements finally gone too far? Maria Sharapova’s sweet idea is smashed by tennis commentators’ boycott
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science ‘I might lose consciousness... but it would be better than drowning in the helmet’: Italian astronaut almost lost in space
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science Blame your mum if the years have not been kind: study says mothers pass on 'ageing gene'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science Birds observe speed limits on the roads even if motorists choose to ignore them
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science Denmark’s historic claim to the Faroes in doubt as archaeologists find proof that islands were inhabited before arrival of first Norse colonists
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science Scientists discover protein that helps trigger allergic asthma
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science A blood test for suicide? US study raises controversial prospect to identify people at risk
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science Scientists link copper in diet and progression in Alzheimer’s
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science Feet stand still in evolution
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Science Poole wreck: Wooden head raised from seabed heightens 17th-century mystery
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport UCI president Pat McQuaid sees hopes of re-election suffer fatal blow
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: England’s ‘clever’ team move outsmarted by gutsy Shane Watson
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: Australia coach Darren Lehmann accuses Stuart Broad of 'blatant cheating' in extraordinary radio rant
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: The Oval, Day One - the best bits
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: Fifth Test, day one in pictures
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: Alastair Cook admits chance to take series 4-0 is motivating England
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: Is mercurial Monty Panesar's number up?
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: England v Australia 5th Test - as it happened
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport The Ashes: Australia should have hung on to their senior pros, says Mark Ramprakash
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Women's Ashes: Tourists show fighting spirit as England collapse
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Ashes 2013: Michael Clarke appears to be on the brink as it's all change for Australia... again
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport The Light Roller: Forget the footie, there is still plenty of cricket to enjoy
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport New Zealand batsman 'devastated' after being given doping ban
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Positive tests expected in cricket drug survey
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Cheer up Arsenal fans... The Gunners have won all 10 of their Champions League qualifying matches
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport F1: Lewis Hamilton eager to build on success and challenge for title
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Patient approach takes Al Kazeem to new peaks
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport US Open 2013: Defending champion Andy Murray seeded third
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport Revealed: The diet that saved Novak Djokovic
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Sport US Open 2013: British number one Laura Robson seeded
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT More Sports Coach Alberto Salazar rejects Mo Farah doping slurs
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT More Sports Finally, damage free racing: Emirates Team NZ take 4-1 lead in Louis Vuitton Cup eliminators
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT More Sports Diver jumps out of helicopter in front of Statue of Liberty in New York
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football John Herdman open to approach from FA to replace Hope Powell
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football FA turn attention to finding replacement for Hope Powell - but it might not be an Englishwoman
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football 2014 World Cup tickets go on sale...so how much will it cost you if England go all the way?
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football England women's manager Hope Powell sacked after European Championship failure
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Hope Powell sacked as England women's manager after Euros failure
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Manchester City 4 Newcastle United 0 match report: Stroll for Manuel Pellegrini as City hammer 10-man Magpies in opening match
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Have Paul Lambert's Aston Villa boys come of age since 8-0 Chelsea bashing at Stamford Bridge?
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 'out for a while' admits Arsene Wenger amid fears of six month lay-off for Arsenal midfielder
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Wayne Rooney and Manchester United enjoy 'civilised' evening at team-bonding meal
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Confusion over extent of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain injury with Arsene Wenger hopeful of swift return for the Arsenal midfielder
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Premier League: Chelsea v Aston Villa match preview
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Gael Clichy promises Manchester City will play attractive football 'from today to the last game'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Paul Lambert reveals support of Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner never wavered - despite 8-0 defeat to Chelsea
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Blow for Arsenal and England as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain ruled out for six weeks
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Newcastle midfielder Jonas Gutierrez apologises to the fans after Manchester City mauling
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Ian Holloway charged by the FA for criticising referee in aftermath of Crystal Palace loss to Tottenham
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Tony Adams says he will only replace Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager if he could build a whole new team, admitting that 'no one' could win with the current side
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Chelsea v Hull: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Swansea City v Manchester United: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football West Ham v Cardiff: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Liverpool v Stoke: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Arsenal v Aston Villa: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Norwich v Everton: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football West Brom v Southampton: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Sunderland v Fulham: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Manchester City v Newcastle: Player ratings aggregator
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Arsenal revealed to be paying Southampton £10,000 every time Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain plays 20 minutes or more
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Manchester City 4 Newcastle 0: Steven Taylor has apologised to Newcastle for red card, reveals Alan Pardew
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Jordan Henderson admits competition for midfield places at Liverpool is increasing
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Darren Bent hits out at Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert, claiming he was 'alienated'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany hopeful of making swift return after being forced out of 4-0 victory over Newcastle
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Vincent Kompany adds to Manchester City injury woes after suffering problem against Newcastle United
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Manchester City 4 Newcastle United 0: Wide-eyed despondency replaces blind faith among the Toon army
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain out for six weeks according to Arsene Wenger
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Shakhter Karagandy 2 Celtic 0 match report: Celtic stunned by minnows from Kazakhstan in Champions League play-off
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Champions League play-off: Fenerbahce v Arsenal - as it happened
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Real Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso out for up to three months after breaking his foot in training
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski receives a £3m wage hike ahead of final year with the club before anticipated free transfer to Bayern Munich
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Champions League: Fenerbahce v Arsenal match preview
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Shakhter Karagandy 2 Celtic 0: Neil Lennon fires warning over Parkhead return in Champions League play-off
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Fenerbahce v Arsenal: Why Arsenal could lose play-off and still advance in Champions League
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Champions League: Fenerbahce determined to secure first-leg lead against Arsenal
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Football Intrigue in Spain after Real Madrid captain Iker Casillas starts season on bench
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Fashion Make a splash like Hockney
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Fashion Frump up the volume
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Fashion iStyle: Midi marvellous
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Google Helpouts: face-to-face video advice from experts
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Silk Road owner claims the site is worth '10 figures, maybe 11'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Mozilla's Firefox OS-powered ZTE Open sells out in US and UK
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg's hunt for five billion new friends
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Gamescom 2013: PS4 UK launch date and PS Vita price-drop announced by Sony
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Silk Road website's secretive owners says drugs market ‘worth 10 or 11 figures’
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Nokia Bandit rumours: a 6-inch, quad-core 1080p Lumia phablet
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Gamescom 2013: Microsoft launches new Xbox One scheme for indie developers
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech New iPhone will be gold, but 'think champagne, not ingot'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Iran to teach 'drone hunting' lessons to schoolchildren
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech The 10 Best sat navs
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech A week with: The HP Slatebook X2
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Is Google's Chromecast the future of television?
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Gamescom 2013: Xbox One pre-orders come with free copy of Fifa 14
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Gadgets and Tech Video: Microsoft announce Xbox One-exclusive Fable Legends
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music One Direction's Zayn Malik engaged to Little Mix's Perrie Edwards
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music Tears For Fears cover Arcade Fire's 'Ready To Start'
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music 'Grateful to be alive': The Calling singer Alex Band speaks after abduction and beating in Michigan
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music 'Proud' Simon Cowell (finally) admits to impending fatherhood at One Direction premiere
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music Justin Timberlake and *NSync set to reunite at VMAs, say reports
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music Video: Interview with One Direction on This Is Us
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music One Direction premiere: Is this it? Hysteria falls short as the Directioners put on a rather polite performance
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music Lady Gaga warns ‘little monsters’ to stop sending abusive tweets after Perez Hilton row
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music The Calling singer Alex Band abducted and beaten after festival show in Michigan
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music One Direction's Liam Payne: It is hard to see our parents so upset in new documentary
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music Man found shot dead inside Olivia Newton-John's house
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20 Aug 2013 INDEPENDENT Music Music review: Franz Ferdinand deliver polished dance-rock, but don't exactly shake things up
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