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PORTLAND – On Thursday night, the Thunder rolled into Phoenix on a run of seven consecutive victories, but couldn’t stri
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Lloyds Banking Group confirms that it will resume paying dividends to shareholders for the first time since the financial crisis in 2008.
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The widow of a UK aid worker killed by “Jihadi John”, the masked IS militant identified as a man from London, tells the BBC she wants him caught alive.
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A federal judge in Argentina dismisses accusations that President Cristina Fernandez had covered up alleged Iranian involvement in 1994 a bomb attack.
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German MPs vote overwhelmingly to extend financial aid to Greece by another four months, despite public scepticism.
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Former pop star Gary Glitter is jailed for 16 years for sexually abusing three young girls between 1975 and 1980.
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Eight people are dead after a series of shootings in south-central Missouri.
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe admits failures in the country’s controversial land reform programme, saying some farms were “too big”.
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PHOENIX – Thunder Head Coach Scott Brooks sat on the scorer’s table at US Airways Arena in Phoenix after shootaround, ga
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NUMBER OF SEASONS ON TEAM: Second YearHOMETOWN: N. Richland Hills, TX
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The chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which is largely owned by the UK government, is to forgo a shares allowance worth £1m.
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There is growing concern over the fate of dozens of Christians abducted by Islamic State militants, amid continuing fighting in north-east Syria.
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Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is released from jail in the United States after serving a sentence for taking $ 2.5m in bribes.
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Parliament in Austria passes a controversial new bill that reforms a century-old law on Islam, despite claims it will treat Muslims unequally.
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A report into sexual abuse by Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital is to say staff were told of 10 complaints at the time, the BBC understands.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses world powers of “giving up” on Iran’s nuclear programme, amid a row over his planned speech to the US Congress.
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A Sierra Leonean who worked with children orphaned by Ebola in the West African state dies of the disease himself.
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The Thunder starters heated things up on Tuesday night.
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The FTSE 100 share index closes at a new high, surpassing the previous record set in December 1999.
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Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted dozens of Assyrian Christians from several villages in north-eastern Syria, activists say.
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