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  • England to tour West Indies in February

    England and the West Indies will play three Twenty20 matches and three One-Day Internationals in the Caribbean early next year, the West Indies Cricket Board announced. The three One-Day Internationals will be played at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Grounds in Antigua while Kensington Oval in Barbados will host the T20 games, the WICB said Saturday, reports CMC. The Twenty20 matches will be ...

  • Kirani James outpaces rivals to win in Shanghai

    World and Olympic champion Kirani James powered to victory against his main rivals from London 2012 Olympics in the 400 metres at Shanghai's Diamond League meet. The Grenadian quarter miler raced ahead on the final bend to edge 2008 Olympic champion, the USA's Lashawn Merritt, into second place Saturday, reports Xinhua. Luguelin Santos of the Dominican Republic, the silver medallist from last ...

  • Asteroid 9 times larger than Queen Elizabeth 2 ship to sail past Earth on May 31

    Asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail past Earth on May 31, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. While QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) - or larger-radar ...

  • Lamborghini seized after driver catches cops attention while speeding

    Speedy way to get caught: The seized Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder A rare Lamborghini, worth 157,000, has been seized for having no insurance after its speeding driver caught officers attention. Officers from Richmond's Safer Transport Team were on covert patrol in an unmarked police car when they spotted a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder driving at speed up and down Sheen Road in ...

  • Lord Feldman loons and press hypocrisy

    mad, swivel-eyed loons " remark about Tory activists, attributed to one of David Cameron's closest advisers - the one with "strong social connections to the PM", hint, hint - has taken on a life of its own in the Tory press. What the press doesn't spot, as usual, is how the incident also exposes the hypocrisy of the newspapers involved.Lord Feldman, top-drawer barrister ...


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Return of the Fly [DVD]

Return of the Fly [DVD]

Although no one really expected it, The Fly (1958), a thriller in which a scientist accidentally mixes his atoms with those of a housefly, became a significant box office success during its theatrical release despite the already overwhelming number of horror and sci-fi flicks ... ...

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  • Sutton school celebrates glowing report

    Students hard at work A report into Homefield School in Sutton has described pupils as "confident, highly motivated, enthusiastic, with high self-esteem, excellent personal development and maturity." The school recevied the report from the independent schools' inspectorate (isi), which said good teaching was at the heart of the school's success. Little ones also ...

  • Bank of Englands King sends message to successor Carney

    Sun May 19, 2013 7:27am EDT * Says decisions must still be taken month-by-month * Carney expected to introduce long-term guidance * King warns housing plan must be temporary * Recovery still needs help, banks on the mend By William Schomberg LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has urged successor Mark Carney not to bring to Britain his trademark policy of spelling out ...

  • Eurosceptics running protection racket in Tory party says Lord Mandelson

    Lord Mandelson, a former Northern Ireland secretary, appeared to liken the Eurosceptics to the provisional wing of the Irish republican movement. Photograph: Rex ...

  • Southee Polishes Off England NZ Need 239 for Victory

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  • Mum panics after bus driver drives away with child on board

    By Rachel Bishop A frantic mum was seen screaming after a bus as the driver drove away with her child on board last night. The driver pulled away from the bus stop outside Centre Court shopping centre in Wimbledon unaware of the little lone passenger. @daysofspeed said "I just heard her in obvious distress calling out about the bus, looked like member of public consoling her. ...

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