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“Today was a work day,” Thunder center Kendrick Perkins said as he ste
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DALLAS – Two high-powered teams entered the arena on Sunday night, and it produced a classic Thunder-Mavericks showdown
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Jon Moulton, the founder of the investment firm which owned collapsed UK parcel delivery service City Link, says it couldn’t have handled the firm’s administration any better.
BBC News – Business

The parents of one of the three al-Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt are optimistic they will be released, on the first anniversary of their arrest.
BBC News – Middle East

Mexican bullfighter Karla de los Angeles sustains cuts to her thigh and gluteal muscles as she is gored by a bull at a fight in Mexico City.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

The death toll following a fire on the Norman Atlantic ferry off Corfu rises to seven, as all remaining passengers and crew are evacuated.
BBC News – Europe

A Virgin Atlantic passenger plane “is preparing to implement a non-standard landing” at Gatwick airport because of “a technical issue with one of the landing gears”, the airline says.
BBC News – UK

Controversial Sony film The Interview becomes the studio’s most downloaded film ever, just four days after its release online.
BBC News – US & Canada

Cameroon has carried out air strikes against militant Islamist group Boko Haram for the first time, after it seized a military base, officials say.
BBC News – Africa

The Thunder has had a run of close games and come out on the high side and a little short, but is learning from each experience.
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UK house prices rose by an average of £16,000 – or 8.5% – in 2014, according to the mortgage lender Halifax.
BBC News – Business

A court in Egypt reduces to one year the three-year jail sentences given to eight men for appearing in a video alleged to show a gay marriage.
BBC News – Middle East

A Mexican priest who was kidnapped earlier this week is found shot dead in the south-western state of Guerrero.
BBC News – Latin America & Caribbean

Snow and ice strand 15,000 vehicles in the French Alps, snarling up holiday traffic to and from ski resorts.
BBC News – Europe

Reduced rail services are due to run from some London stations, after overrunning engineering works cause major disruption on Saturday.
BBC News – UK

Thousands of police officers from across America attend the funeral in New York of a fellow officer shot dead after weeks of anti-police unrest.
BBC News – US & Canada

Top al-Shabab militant Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, one of the US’s most wanted men, gives himself up, Somali officials say.
BBC News – Africa

Some nights in the NBA, it’s all about simply taking care of business.
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A union demands “urgent talks” with ministers and administrators about the collapse of the UK parcel delivery service City Link.
BBC News – Business

Syrian aircraft drop barrel bombs on Islamic State-held areas in the north-east, killing some 40 people, activists say.
BBC News – Middle East