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China's virus may have been lurking in animals for DECADES before adapting to infect humans

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Jeremy Farrar, a renowned specialist in infectious disease epidemics, said the virus in China isn't new but has likely adapted to infect humans.




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LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo named captains for NBA All-Star Game

James and Antetokounmpo won the most votes from each conference, making them the players who will choose the teams for the February 17 game in Charlotte.




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LeBron James’ LA Lakers lose against Toronto Raptors to leave play-off hopes in tatters

Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points, Norman Powell had 20 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Los Angeles Lakers 111-98 on Thursday night.




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Leicester City captain Wes Morgan is targeting domestic cup success after Premier League title glory

The Foxes, who caused a huge upset when they were crowned English champions in 2016, launch their Carabao Cup campaign with a second-round trip to top-flight rivals Newcastle.




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Tottenham captain Hugo Lloris to hand Jose Mourinho huge boost

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: The Spurs captain has been missing since sustaining a serious elbow injury in the 3-0 loss to Brighton in October but he has now returned to light training.




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'We've fought so many battles,' Captain Tom told me. 'We will win again'

Captain Tom Moore passed his 100 laps but vowed to keep going: 'I'll continue walking as long as people are generous enough to donate to the NHS.'




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Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande capture quarantine feelings with star-studded Stuck With U video

Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande dropped a sweet and rather on-the-nose duet on Thursday night called Stuck With U, which was paired with an adorable, group-effort music video.




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Khloe Kardashian captures daughter True enjoying a playful morning with her favorite Trolls dolls

Khloe Kardashian took to Instagram on Tuesday afternoon to share videos of her one-year-old daughter True enjoying some afternoon playtime with her favorite Trolls movie toys.




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Captain Tom overwhelmed as 'super' Prince William sends him message

The 99-year-old has walked 100 laps of his garden for the NHS and finished his 2,530-yard walk at his home in the Bedfordshire village of Marston Moretaine with a huge smile yesterday.




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Captain Tom to get a Spitfire flypast for his 100th birthday

Captain Tom Moore, 99, has vowed to keep walking laps of his garden in the Bedfordshire village of Marston Moretaine. A team of aircraft restorers is planning to fly a Spitfire past his home.




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Sarfaraz Ahmed axed as Pakistan Test and T20 captain

Babar Azam has replaced Sarfaraz Ahmed as Pakistan's Twenty20 captain and Azhar Ali has been appointed test captain for the 2019-20 season.




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Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell slams Steve Smith for 'white anting' captain Tim Paine

The 76-year-old took a swipe at Smith during day four of Australia's second Test against Pakistan at Adelaide Oval on Monday.




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Steve Smith fires back at Ian Chappell's claims he is 'white anting' captain Tim Paine

Chappell accused Smith of undermining Paine's authority by moving fieldsmen around during day four of Australia's second Test against Pakistan on Monday.




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Captain Tom Moore hails Lewis Hamilton and backs Brit to win record seventh Formula One world title 

Captain Tom Moore has backed Lewis Hamilton to win a record-equaling seventh Formula One world championship when the series resumes following the coronavirus-enforced shutdown.




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Captain Tom Moore says he is 'very proud' after being awarded a gold Blue Peter badge

The gold badge is Blue Peter's highest accolade and famous recipients include the Queen, Sir David Attenborough and Mary Berry. Moore, 100, raised over £30m for NHS charities.




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Captain Tom recalls fighting on the front lines in Burma in WWII and memories of VE Day

The former British Army Officer from Yorkshire fought on a motorbike and survived giant spiders and dengue fever during the Allied campaign in Burma, the 'Forgotten War' against Imperial Japan in 1942-45.




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BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials wasn't dark enough by JIM SHELLEY

His Dark Materials was disappointing: ironically, not really that dark, or not dark enough - at least so far.




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Harrison Ford set to take first-ever regular TV role with adaptation of docuseries The Staircase

The non-fiction saga followed the 2001 trial of writer Michael Peterson, who was accused of murdering his wife at their North Carolina mansion. He said she fell down the stairs by accident.




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Nobel prize winner calls for captured jihadists to be tried like the Nazis were at Nuremberg 

Yazidi activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad has called for all ISIS jihadists to be given Nuremberg-style trials in a series of tweets on Monday.




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Turkey warns it will send IS fighters captured in Syria back to their home countries

Interior minister Suleyman Soylu warned the nation 'is not a hotel' for captured terrorists and said it will repatriate any they capture while in Syria' in a televised address from Ankara on Saturday.




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Captured ISIS fighters in Syria could be brought back to UK for trial, says top security adviser

Captured British Islamic State fighters could be returned to the UK from Syria to face justice, according to top security adviser Sir Mark Sedwill who was speaking in Bahrain on Saturday.




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ISWAP kills 11 Christian captives in Nigeria on Christmas Day

The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) claim they killed the captives to avenge for the killing of their leaders Abu bakr al-Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir in Iraq and Syria.




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RUTH SUNDERLAND: A baptism of fire for Britain's financial big guns

As we enter one of the worst financial disasters this country has ever known, the two men in charge of saving the economy have been in their jobs for less than two months between them.




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Steve Smith free to captain Australia after serving two-year ban following ball tampering scandal

Following the ball-tampering scandal of March 2018, Cricket Australia handed Smith a 12-month suspension adding he would not be considered for captaincy for another year after that.




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England captain Joe Root plays role in helping reschedule abandoned Test series

Joe Root has been involved in talks to reschedule England's Test series amid news that the recently-abandoned tour of Sri Lanka is inked in for next January.




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Captain Eoin Morgan insists Alex Hales can win England recall if he can rebuild trust with players

Morgan insists 'the door is still open' for Hales to return to England's white-ball cricket - but says he has yet to rebuild the trust lost when he was dropped from last year's World Cup squad.




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BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Dame Judi Dench cheers us all up in new film adaption of Noel Coward's classic 

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Judi Dench (pictured) declared that we could all do with some 'levity' and 'cheering up'. The great dame enters that spirit with a deliciously comic masterclass in comedy Blithe Spirit.




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Wayne Rooney was pilloried for his 2010 World Cup attack on England fans... four years on the Manchester United and Three Lions captain has matured into a fine leader

PATRICK COLLINS, CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: One balmy evening in Cape Town, in the summer of 2010, a television camera followed Wayne Rooney from a football pitch.




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JAMIE REDKNAPP: Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson is becoming a serial winner

JAMIE REDKNAPP: To think Jordan Henderson's first official season as Liverpool captain ended with the club finishing eighth in the Premier League is quite remarkable.




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Gareth Southgate welcomes Cricket World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan into England training camp

Morgan skippered England to Cricket World Cup glory in stunning fashion and is understood to have visited St George's Park as preparations continue for matches against Czech Republic and Bulgaria.




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British Airways captain with coronavirus unwittingly flew plane to Saint Lucia

EXCLUSIVE The captain, who has not been named, had piloted a British Airways 777 jet flight from Gatwick last Tuesday.




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Egypt's plan to hand captain's armband to Salah foiled by current skipper

The Liverpool star, who finished fourth in the men's Best Player award, raised alarms of a possible withdrawal from Egypt's team after removing all references on his social media accounts.




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Prince Harry was 'devastated' at having to give up his post as Captain General of The Royal Marines

Prince Harry 'regretted' having to stand down from his role in the military, and felt 'forced into it' after stepping down from royal duties, a source has claimed.




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David Silva may be offered farewell game at Man City with the captain on his way out of the club

Silva, regarded as one of the greatest players in the club's history, announced he'll leave City at the end of this season. He has been linked with a move to David Beckham's Inter Miami




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David Beckham leads celebrity tributes to 'truly inspiring' WWII hero Captain Tom Moore, 99

David Beckham, Lewis Hamilton and Geri Horner led the celebrity tributes to WWII hero Captain Tom Moore on Thursday, as the veteran completed his charity walk,




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PIERS MORGAN on how Captain Tom shames the Beckhams

In stark contrast to Captain Tom Moore's attitude and commitment, the Coronavirus War has also brought out the very worst in far richer and more privileged people, writes PIERS MORGAN.




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South Africa triumph was Joe Root's greatest game as England captain... this should be his template

NASSER HUSSAIN IN CAPE TOWN: The way he led, the moves he made and the way his players responded in this second Test have provided him with the perfect template.




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A chaotic day for England captain Joe Root but he kept calm and carried on

NASSER HUSSAIN IN JOHANNESBURG: Joe Root endured a chaotic, frenetic morning ahead of the first day of this final Test but the England captain impressed me with his calm decision making.




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'We've fought so many battles,' Captain Tom told me. 'We will win again'

Captain Tom Moore passed his 100 laps but vowed to keep going: 'I'll continue walking as long as people are generous enough to donate to the NHS.'




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The Greatest Dancer: Cheryl CONFIRMS new role as dance captain

Cheryl confirmed she IS set to join BBC talent show, The Greatest Dancer with a rare social media post on Friday.  




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'The biggest picture show on Earth:' How Life Magazine captured history's most iconic moments

A new book, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, looks at the inner workings of the weekly and the staff that shaped the presentation of its pictures.




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Trump presses Merkel to accept captured ISIS fighters from Europe

Donald Trump urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G7 in Biarritz, France to take back captured ISIS fighters who journeyed to the conflict zone from Europe.




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Birmingham captain Harlee Dean takes 50% pay cut to help ease financial strain on club

Blues asked their top earners to consider the move for a period of four months - with the outstanding money to be paid back at a later date - to help ease the financial strain caused by Covid-19.




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Nature is captured in all its beauty in stunning animal pictures

These breathtaking photos spanning across every corner of the globe portray the unique and intimate relationship between the human race and the animal world.




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teacher arrives home after spending three years being held captive by the Taliban in the Middle East

Timothy Weeks, 50, and his American colleague, Kevin King, 63, were released as part of a prisoner swap deal last week.




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American captain Juli Inkster delivers big shock as Solheim Cup axe falls on stalwart Cristie Kerr

No surprise to see American Solheim Cup captain Juli Inkster go with experience for the match against Europe at Gleneagles next month.




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Ryder Cup captains Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker urge golfing world to fight coronavirus 

Ryder Cup captains Padraig Harrington and Steve Stricker have issued a joint letter stressing Europe and the US must remain united in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.




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Tour de France: Team Ineos captain Luke Rowe KICKED OFF Tour after lashing out at rival

MATT LAWTON IN GAP: Team Ineos go into three massive days in the Alps that will determine the outcome of the most mesmerising Tour de France in decades, without captain Luke Rowe.




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Captain Tom Moore, 99, gets VERY flirty with Amanda Holden, 49

Proving himself to be quite the charmer, the war veteran, 99, admitted he found the BGT host, 49, to be 'a charming creature' who he 'likes looking at'.




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Captain Tom Moore and Michael Ball 'set to perform at Britain's Got Talent final'

The 99-year-old war veteran, who has raised £27million for the NHS during the coronavirus crisis is thought to be 'in talks' with show bosses for a special live performance when this series wraps up.