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Kenny Dalglish has been sacked as manager of Liverpool just 16 months into his second spell in charge of the football club.
“After a careful and deliberative review of the season, the club came to the decision that a change was appropriate, the team’s US owners said in a statement.
An evil father-in-law who imprisoned his son’s Pakistani bride as a sex slave has been jailed – after his victim learned enough English to call police and beg for help.
The depraved 56-year-old stripped the bride of her jewellery and passport after she came to Britain following an arranged marriage, a court heard.
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SECRET German plans to force British taxpayers into a new multi-billion pound European Union bail-out provoked outrage last night.
Documents revealed that Germany’s finance ministry wants a new emergency fund to be set up if, as looks increasingly likely, debt-ridden Greece quits the European single currency system.
And officials in Berlin insist the costs of the new bail-out fund must be shared among all 27 EU members, including non-eurozone countries such as the UK.
The plot was exposed yesterday as markets across Europe were once again plunged into turmoil by the euro crisis.
Nervous traders wiped £28.5billion from the value of London’s leading shares index as fears intensified that Greece will crash out of the euro.
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Azah Miah “hounded and stalked” his victims
A Carlisle takeaway boss has been jailed for 15 years for attempting to recruit four girls aged between 12 and 16 into prostitution.
Azad Miah, 44, was also found guilty of running a brothel from his business and paying two teenagers for sex.
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SKY NEWS
Manchester City have apologised to Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson after striker Carlos Tevez held up a banner goading his former manager.
A City spokeswoman said: “The creation of the tasteless material is in itself reprehensible and in accepting and brandishing it, Carlos has made a significant error of judgement.
“The club wishes to express its sincerest apologies to Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United Football Club for any offence or distress caused.”
The sign may have been a reference to a remark by Ferguson three years ago when asked if United would ever be underdogs against City. “Not in my lifetime,” the Scot said.
City pipped arch rivals United to the title on goal difference after a dramatic last-gasp 3-2 win over QPR on the final day of the season.
The incident comes at the end of a controversial campaign for Tevez in which he spent more than three months on authorised leave in Argentina during an extraordinary dispute with the club.
He returned in February and went on to play an influential role in the title run-in although, despite making peace with manager Roberto Mancini, he continued to divide opinion among fans.
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(CNN) — U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan is weighing an invitation to meet with President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a senior U.N. source said Thursday, the same day that a deadly blast in Damascus drew widespread condemnation and finger-pointing in the volatile nation.
The invitation was extended by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem over the past few days, and thus wasn’t necessarily tied to Thursday’s attack.
The former U.N. secretary-general brokered a cease-fire deal, to which key parties had ostensibly agreed, that was to take effect April 12. Since then there have been some calmer days but violence has continued: The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, a network of opposition activists, reports at least 1,025 people have been killed — some of them executed and tortured to death — since that date.
Syria has been mired in unrest since March 2011, when al-Assad’s forces began cracking down on anti-government demonstrators. The United Nations has said more than 9,000 people have been killed nationwide since then, while opposition groups put the toll at more than 11,000.
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Nine bodies were found hanging from an overpass
“An organized crime group” is believed to be behind the killings, an official says
(CNN) — Residents of the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Friday morning, along with a message directed to a drug cartel.
The five men and four women were hanging from one of the busiest intersections in the city.
“We are investigating. We think it is related to an organized crime group, but we cannot speculate,” a military official told CNN. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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Osama bin Laden was told Ireland was ‘ready for Islam’
Osama bin Laden was urged by a fellow leading al-Qa’ida member to send a message to the Irish people to urge them to convert to Islam.
New files removed from Bin Laden’s compound reveal how Ireland was occupying the mind of top al-Qa’ida leaders.
Adam Gadahn, al-Qa’ida’s American-born spin doctor, proposed an ambitious new front in the global jihad in January of last year.
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Scotland’s most senior Roman Catholic, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, has accused the prime minister of acting immorally by favouring the rich ahead of ordinary citizens affected by the recession.
The cardinal also denounced David Cameron’s opposition to a “Robin Hood tax” on financial institutions.
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The Liberal Democrats have fallen into fourth place behind Ukip in a shock poll result which will cement a sense of crisis in the party.
Just a day after a poll found the Liberal Democrats would be all but wiped out if a general election were held now, a YouGov survey for the Sun put the party on eight per cent – one point behind Ukip.
The result comes as it emerged Liberal Democrat councillors in North Tyneside have wiped all mention of their party from election leaflets in a bid to cling onto their seats.
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