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Domestic/Home news

A man was stabbed and killed outside his home when he tried to stop two youths who were trying to steal his car.

The Prime Minister has been voted one of the best-dressed people in Britain.

Interest rates are to come down by 1% tomorrow.

4    800 empLoyees at Ford have been madę redundant.

5    A famous Arsenał soccer player has been caught shoplifting in a department storę in West London earlier today.

6    The historical town of York has been devastated by floods.

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A member of the royalfamily has been linked romanticalLy with a famous Hollywood megastar.

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International news

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Sports news

England have been beaten 2-1 by Malta in their first ąualifying match for the European Cup.

The world record for the 100 metres has been broken by an unknown North Korean athlete.

The next Winter Olympic Games are to be held in Greenland.

Manchester United have sacked their manager after a string of recent defeats both at home and in Europę.

A Spanish football referee has been found guilty of taking bribes in a match between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Showbiz gossip

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Rumour has it that a completely unknown Russian actor has been approached to play James Bond in the new film due to go into production at the end of the yean^_£X

The proposed ABBA comebacki concerfr for the King and Queen of Sweden has been cancelled. No reasons have been given, but according to a reliable source, it is due to one of the band having cold feet at the last minutę.

Rock legend, Bob Dylan, is planning to record a new album with two other legends - Elton John and Tom Jones.

A relatively unknown Lithuanian boy band, BaiticBoys, haye stormed the charts all over Europę with their hit single I do, I don't, I did.

Rumours are rife in Hollywood that Michael Douglas and his wife, Catherine Zeta Jones, are to star in a remake of the classic film Gone with the Wind where Michael will play Rhett Butler and Catherine Scarlett 0'Hara.

Peace talks between Israel and Palestine have broken down again after a bomb exploded in the middle of Jerusalem, killing five and maiming and injuring thirty-seven others.

500 people were killed in the early hours of this morning in a piane crash just outside Frankfurt in Germany.

Several paintings have been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

A fairly unknown Latyian poet has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Litbrature. _v

Nearly 2,000 people in Florida have been madę home less by the worst hurricane in that State for over'20 years>

A flying saucer was seen last night by hundreds of people at a soccer match in Milan, Italy. It hovered above the stadium for at least five minutes before shooting off and disappearing.

The first successful cloning of a chimpanzee has been carrięd out by scientists in Cambridge.

The mobile phone company, Nokia, is ready to launch the next generation of mobile phones.

9/An explosion‘has been reported from a nuclear power station in the Ukrainę.

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'Lighter' news items

A giant panda was bom early this morning at London zoo. It has been christened 'Molly' after the panda keeper's granddaughter.

A woman who was rushed to hospital with severe stornach pains last night gave birth to twins early this morning. She was in a slight State of shock as she didn't even know she was pregnant.

A man missed his wedding in Manchester when he was put on the wrong train by his friends and ended up in Scotland.

A gang of thieves yesterday stole 200 Nike trainers from a sports shop in central London. But they're unlikely to find any buyers because they are all for left feet.

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