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Chelsea start life after Villas-Boas with FA Cup win

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Chelsea secured their place in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with a 2-0 win away to Birmingham on Tuesday as they triumphed in their first match since manager Andre Villas-Boas was sacked.

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Uzbek man pleads guilty in plot to kill Obama

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A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty on Friday to plotting to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home coun

Britain plans to introduce same-sex marriage

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The British government has drawn up plans to introduce same-sex civil marriages before the next election in 2015, Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone said.

"I am delighted to announce today that i

Funeral home accused of losing woman's body

The daughters of an Alabama woman who died in 2010 sued the funeral home on Tuesday that handled her burial, saying it lost the body and couldn't find it even after digging up several graves. .

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Worrying times for skipper Dhoni: Lloyd

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Former England cricketer David Lloyd has said that Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni seems to have run out of luck and these are testing times for the World Cup-winning skipper.

Let us accept we were very ordinary: Ganguly

Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has said the world no.1 , side have looked pretty ordinary against England in the ongoing four-match series. India suffered a 196-run loss at Lord's and crashed to a 319-run defeat in the second Test at Trent Bridge.

England’s dominance has been unrestrained, total

After three days of rioting and unrest, peace returned to the city of Birmingham but there was mayhem at the Edgbaston ground. England plundered runs at will on the second day against a haggard Indian attack supported by fielders whose shoulders sagged seem to sag at ankle level.

England wants to bat India out of contest: Cook

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After putting England in a commanding position, opener Alastair Cook said his side was determined to bat India out of the ongoing third cricket Test here.

We are under a lot of pressure: Gambhir

Indian opener Gautam Gambhir has admitted that England with their superlative performance have put the visitors ‘under a lot of pressure’ in the ongoing cricket Test series and said the team takes a c

Rain stops play in third England-India Test

England were 468 for three against India, a lead of 244 runs, when rain stopped play just 13 minutes into the third day of the third Test at Edgbaston here on Friday.

Alastair Cook was 188 not out an

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