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World Twenty20 2016: England hold on to reach semi-finals
England 171-4 (20 overs): Buttler 66* (37), Roy 42 (39) Sri Lanka 161-8 (20 overs): Mathews 73* (53), Jordan 4-28 England won by 10 runs England held on to reach the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 with a 10-run win over Sri Lanka in Delhi. Sri Lanka looked beaten after they were reduced to 15-4 in reply to England's...
Surrounded special forces hero blows up ISIS jihadis after calling in airstrike on HIMSELF
A HERO special forces officer took out a group of murderous Islamic State (ISIS) jihadis who had pinned him down by calling in an airstrike on HIMSELF, it emerged today. A HERO special forces officer took out a group of murderous Islamic State (ISIS) jihadis who had pinned him down by calling in an airstrike on HIMSELF, it...
Business leaders want out of EU: 250 top bosses back vote to break free from Brussels
CAMPAIGNERS for Britain to quit the EU were given another massive boost last night when 250 business leaders and entrepreneurs joined the anti-Brussels referendum surge. Tim Martin, chairman of the pub chain JD Wetherspoons, Carphone Warehouse founder David Ross and Martin Bellamy, chief executive of the Salamanca Group...
Netherlands 2-3 France
The Netherlands' home friendly against France was stopped after 14 minutes for a minute's applause to remember Dutch great Johan Cruyff. Former Ajax and Barcelona star Cruyff, who famously wore the number 14 shirt, died of cancer aged 68 on Thursday. A minute's silence for the former Dutch captain and coach was...
Brussels attacks: Paris attack suspect Abdeslam goes silent
Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam refused to speak when asked about Tuesday's attacks in Brussels, Belgian prosecutors say. They said that Abdeslam, arrested last week in Brussels and initially cooperative, had "exercised his right to silence" and said nothing when interviewed after Tuesday's bombings. He...
19 stars that have changed beyond recognition (Photo)
Whoever you may be: a celebrity or a common man, the years take their toll. Wrong mode of the day, harmful food, birth, lack of sleep — all this is fraught with overweight. Vince Vaughn in 1996 and in 2015 Mariah Carey in 1997 and in 2012 Laurence Fishburne in 1999 and 2012 Alec Baldwin in 1994 and in...
Former Big Brother contestant and Playboy model turns her attention to politics
Serbian TV host Soraja Vucelic, previously linked to footballer Neymar, wants to set up her own political party A former reality TV star and Playboy model has announced she wants to set up her own political party. Soraja Vucelic, 31, who hosts the Serbian version of Wheel of Fortune, says she wants to add some spice to the...
A young Joseph Stalin before the USSR
Soviet Communist leader Joseph Stalin (1879 — 1953), taken from a police file. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Stalin was not his name. Born in Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, in 1878, Ioseb Jughashvili was the son of a failing cobbler and a housemaid. His father Besarion was an alcoholic, and,...
NEUTRALISED: Police SHOOT ISIS goon with backpack who was ‘plotting France terror attack’
A TERROR suspect wielding a black backpack has been shot and arrested in dramatic raids across Belgium as police continue operations in THREE countries to crack a HUGE terror network. Police said they have ’neutralised’ a person in Schaarbeek during raids which have been taking place since last night. Prosecutors...
Teaching assistant SACKED after prying parents find ‘inappropriate’ modelling pictures
A SHOCKED teaching assistant was sacked after the primary school she worked for discovered pictures of her modelling. Gemma Laird was fired after a week at Bloemfontein Primary School in Craghead, County Durham when snooping parents discovered photographs of her modelling underwear. The 21-year-old, who has a four-year-old...
Ruthless Vladimir Putin helps Syrian forces SEIZE ancient Palmyra Castle from evil ISIS
RUSSIAN forces helped the Syrian army reclaim the ancient Palmyra Castle from the tentacles of the savage Islamic State. Just days after the vile Brussels attack, a joint military operation saw the ancient citadel liberated from ISIS militants – who were forced to retreat during the assault. The heinous jihadi cult was...
Cuba: Rolling Stones rock Havana with landmark gig
The Rolling Stones have rocked Havana, playing to tens of thousands in the Cuban capital, where foreign rock music was banned for several decades. Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups. Mick Jagger welcomed fans in Spanish before...