• Sports Bayern Munich wins the Champions League

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• Sports Ndovu power into Bamburi Super Series rugby final

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• Sports FKF summons Amrouche Logarusic

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• Sports Ochichi and Mutai return sterling results at Police meet

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• Sports Why cash incentives influence athletes behaviour output

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• Sports Favourites unbeaten in Manyatta Polo

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• Sports Airways flying start

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• Sports Cecafa Sudan here we come

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• Lifestyle Tribunal finds doctor guilty of patients death

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• Lifestyle Psychotherapy is the new frontier in weight management

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• Lifestyle Book traces Africas journey from Europe to China

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• Gillard to push for ban of betting odds during sports broadcasts

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• Editorial Politics wont cure the NHS

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• Ron Howard talks Bluth revival

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• Tom Sellers The French Laundry-trained chef on hot dogs jellyfish and floral desserts

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• How to get the look All white

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• Lets take it outside Bill Grangers Bank Holiday feast

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• Jamie Olivers Diner 23a Shaftesbury Avenue London

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• Style shrinks Our experts analyse Lily Allens caped entrance to the Ivor Novello awards

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• The Help Desk A reluctant prospective father

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• Fish-finger sandwiches with roasted tomato and black-olive relish

  2 tbsp plain flour 6 tbsp polenta tsp cayenne pepper 600g/1lb firm white skinless fish, cut into 5cm lengths 5 tbsp light-flavoured oilFor the relish300g/10oz baby plum tomatoes, halved 1 tbsp olive oil 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 1 red chilli, chopped 50g/2oz pitted Kalamata olives, tornTo serve6 crusty buns 100g/3oz rocket Good-quality mayonnaiseHeat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas6. Put the ...

• Agenda Pet Shop Boys Adam Driver The Shard festival fashion rising house prices

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• Damien Echols how I survived death row

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• Serrano ham and melon salad

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• Cap on number of GP visits being considered by Tories

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• At what cost Life-saving drug withheld

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• Sport on TV Not-so-fast Eddie sets a blistering pace in the Cape

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• Facebook phone launch put on hold

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• If theres any justice prisoners must get the vote | Kevin McKenna

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• The NHS dont pick on GPs Mr Hunt. Develop a vision | Observer editorial

  NHS .What Bevan would have found difficult to understand, however, is why modern-day ministers seem unable to pick the right fights. Bevan's bribe was surely a price worth paying: without the support of GPs, the NHS would never been more than a proposal on paper. Fifty years later, the Labour government again went to war with GPs over performance-based contracts. At least there was a point ...

• Payday lenders break pledges on reform

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• Revelers brave cold to fight AIDS at Vienna ball

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• Arrested Development Bluth boys

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• Northern Educate sports training school eyes national expansion

  Third grader Mason Johnson from Lakeville stopped and did some work on his laptop atop some hockey equipment bags--in between academic classes and ice hockey ice time at Northern Educate Hockey Academy, a K-12 school with three hours of ice time each day is a program is on the cusp of a massive expansion--at the Eagan Ice Arena Tuesday morning May 21, 2013. (Pioneer Press: John ...

• Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports Kilic gives unity message at Anitkabir…

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• Seattle Times sports readers sound off

  With the national sports media having a feeding frenzy on the number of drug-related suspensions given to Seahawks players, it's time for players to hear this message: We hold you and the coaches in high regard and appreciate your achievements to make the Seahawks a force to be reckoned with. You have made the winds and rain bearable in the long winter months, but with that comes a ...

• Fast Furious 6 Sung Kang says...

  franchise doesn’t engage in too much narrative trickery. The plots are straightforward — and by straightforward, I mean there are cars and people who drive those cars and those people use their cars to fight other people in cars. Carfight! But there’s a surprisingly complicated aspect of the films’ chronology, and that aspect is the character Han, played by actor Sung ...

• Blue Is the Warmest Color Cannes

  Cannes 2013: 'Blue Is the Warmest Color' is a seriously sexy three-hour French lesbian coming-of-age love story. Plus, Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix in 'The ...

• Food miles Work up an appetite for the food festival season

  Traditionally, food and drink festivals have celebrated a single ingredient at its seasonal best - and there are still numerous examples of the type around the ...

• Employers rank personality over degree when hiring Report

  Your personality and not that proverbial piece of paper, a degree, just might land you that job you're gunning for, a surprising report says. According to a BMO Bank of Montreal survey, personality traits outrank both credentials and education for many employers who are looking to hire new graduates. The report revealed that skill set lies second on the list, work experience ranks third, ...

• Sideline Champs Sport legend hit at sons high school rugby game

  Softball great Eddie Kohlhase was punched on the sideline of an Auckland schools rugby match last weekend, the latest in a line of shameful incidents officials are trying to stamp out. But neither principal of the two schools involved - Kelston Boys High School and St Peter's College - has been willing to talk about the scrap, despite it involving the first man to win world softball ...

• Austrian overcomes fear of heights to aim for slackline record

  FRANKFURT, May 25 - An Austrian man tip-toed along a line strung 185 meters (607 feet) off the ground in Frankfurt on Saturday, attempting to set a new world record for "highlining" despite his fear of ...

• 150 years after Gettysburg drummer to recreate reunion march

  Jim Smith (L), 70, of Hempfield, leads members of the Grand Army of the Republic Post 88, Pittsburgh, and the Armbrust Veterans and Civil War Re-enactors, including Luke Prohaska (C) in a Civil War uniform, for a ceremony at the graveside of Peter Guibert, a Union Civil War drummer boy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania May 24, ...

• 25 best songs of spring TV

  May 25, 2013 Music that really clicked on ''Girls,'' ''Vampire Diaries,'' ''HIMYM,'' ''Arrow,'' ''NCIS,'' and more; hear 'em all on our Spotify ...

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