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A year and a half ago, Tom Ford returned. After a six-year hiatus from the fashion industry, the designer returned with a highly-anticipated womenswear collection in September 2010, which he presented to 100 buyers and editors in a highly glamorous and p
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In 2013, our Legislature will raise the stakes even further with standardized testing in schools. New laws will require students to take more of their classes online to subsidize a school choice effort. And with the 2012 elections behind them, Republican
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The Sun on Sunday will publish for the first time next weekend, News International has announced. An internal memo sent to all staff at Rupert's Murdoch's company said the media mogul will be in London for the launch. The email said: "Rupert Murdoch said
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Canada’s second largest pension fund has moved to accelerate its Asia investment strategy by naming ex-Goldman Sachs executive Mark Machin in a newly created role as regional president. Machin will take up his post with the Canada Pension Plan Investment
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LONDON – Don’t read anything into Michael Catenacci’s beard. “I’m just lazy and didn’t shave,” said the Kitchener Rangers captain after his team’s 5-1 loss to the London Knights at the John Labatt Centre Sunday afternoon. So the playoff growth hasn’t beg
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OTTAWA - While Finance Minister Jim Flaherty considers who and what to cut in next month's budget, a trip this week to London by Speaker Andrew Scheer and four others is bringing renewed attention to parliamentarian travel. Scheer is leading a delegation
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While the world’s major athletic brands gear up for participation in the 2012 Olympic Games, New Balance knows the ‘Road to London’ is paved by the M1 and M6 motorways you’d take from Flimby to the British capital. The New England running specialists who
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Researchers from King's College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician's theory of how biological patterns such as tiger stripes or leopard spots are formed. The study, funded by the Medical Research
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Caroline Pidgeon joined Brian Paddick and the London Lib Dem team in Wimbledon to launch the Lib Dem campaign on crime and policing for May's elections, with a strong focus on community-based policing. Brian was pleased to return to Merton, where as Boro
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Caroline Pidgeon joined Lib Dem mayoral candidate Brian Paddick and London Assembly candidate Munira Wilson in Richmond to talk to local residents about their concerns on crime, and campaign for the London Liberal Democrats' policy to build a community a
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Caroline Pidgeon, along with Brian Paddick, the Lib Dem candidate for Mayor of London, and local London Assembly candidate John Russell, joined members of the Sydenham Society to campaign against the planned closure of the local police station. The team
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Even as Dereck "Del Boy" Chisora was celebrating his freedom after seven hours in police custody, David "Hayemaker" Haye was still at large, possibly trudging the ice-slippery streets of Munich, darting from doorway to doorway, or maybe he was tucked up
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After qualifying with the quickest flying lap and disposing of Japan’s Seiichiro Nakagawa in the first knockout round, the key to everything was getting past his old adversary Grégory Baugé, a two-time world champion, in the quarter-finals. There was jus
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Zachary Nelson, 25, raged through “Nemico della patria” from Giordano’s “Andrea Chénier” with a rich, steady baritone that had more depth than most of the others in the competition. (It is easy to sound loud in the dry acoustic of the Morgan’s intimate G
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Here Chums the bride... viewers have seen a marriage as well as births as TV's Call The Midwife was given a joyous finale. The popular BBC1 series featured the wedding of aristocratic midwife Camilla "Chummy" Cholmondely-Browne, played by comic actress M
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Israel, under threat of war from its neighbors since being founded in 1948, produced better risk- adjusted returns than all other developed stock markets in the past decade as the technology-driven economy attracted global investors. The BLOOMBERG RISKLE
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BRONZED: The New Zealand men's pursuit team wear their bronze medals on the London World Cup podium - from left New Zealand crushed Belgium to pick up a men's team pursuit bronze at the track cycling World Cup event in London. Racing on the final day of
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Vitali Klitschko celebrates after his fight against British boxer Dereck Chisora in the WBC World Heavyweight Championship in Munich yesterday. Picture: AFP MUNICH, Germany - Vitali Klitschko unanimously out-pointed Dereck Chisora yesterday for a 10th su
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The three winners of the first U.S. Olympic team trials for women's boxing treated themselves to a spa day after earning trips to the world championships with unbeaten runs through their respective weight divisions. All three fighters plan to take a shor
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Scott Sunderland of Australia (L) and Miao Zhang (R) of China compete in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals B during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Sir Chris Hoy (rear) of Great Britain competes against Gregory Bauge (front) of France in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Jess Varnish (L) and Victoria Pendleton (C) of Great Britain compete in the Women's Keirin Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Katie Schofield of New Zealand leads the group in the Women's Keirin Quarter Finals Repechages during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Maximilian Levy of Germany competes in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Mo Farah poses as he takes part in a 5k run with local runners as part of Nike's Make It Count campaign at the Emirates Stadium on February 19, 2012 in London, England. To to sign up join us at: www.facebook.com/nikerunninguk.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Robert Forstemann (rear) of Germany rides against Edward Dawkins (front) of New Zealand in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Jason Kenny (R) of Great Britain competes against Scott Sunderland (L) of Australia in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London,...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Jason Kenny (R) of Great Britain prepares to compete in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Lyubov Shulika (centre left) of the Ukraine and Victoria Pendleton (centre right) compete on their way to progressing through in the Women's Keirin First Round Repechages during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: British Cycling Sprint Coach Jan van Eijden holds Victoria Pendleton as she prepares to compete on her way to progressing through in the Women's Keirin First Round Repechages during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Kevin Sireau (R) of France rides against Fabian Hernando Puerta Zapata (L) of Colombia in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Gregory Bauge (R) of France and Stefan Botticher (L) of Germany compete in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Jess Varnish of Great Britain reacts after competing in the Women's Keirin First Round during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London, England.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Sir Chris Hoy of Great Britain is held by British Cycling Sprint Coach Jan van Eijden as he prepares to compete in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 19: Sir Chris Hoy (L) of Great Britain competes against Seiichiro Nakagawa (R) of Japan in the Men's Sprint Quarter Finals during the UCI Track Cycling World Cup - LOCOG Test Event for London 2012 at the Olympic Velodrome on February 19, 2012 in London,...
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