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Time to book a holiday? Budget airline Scoot launches sale with $329 flights to Europe

The Singapore-based budget carrier has launched its 'Silly Season Sale' to mark the start of 2020 with international flights from Australia from as little as $135




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Girl arrives in Australia on board a Qantas flight from Singapore with measles 

The girl and her parents were unaware she had the highly contagious virus when they arrived in Australia on Qantas flight 52 early on January 17.




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Emergency flights carrying Australian seafood will fly to China - and return with medical supplies

Two hundred flights will leave for China, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates in the next six months under the deal as borders globally are shut to slow the spread of the virus.




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Britain's No 1 tipster Sam Turner highlights six home candidates for the 2,000 Guineas

Taking a serious view on the ante-post Classic markets is often a perilous enough exercise as it is without the current uncertainty on whether racing may or may not resume in the short term.




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Britain's No 1 tipster Sam Turner highlights six British-trained fillies for the 1,000 Guineas

SAM TURNER (Robin Goodfellow) runs the rule over half a dozen of the more interesting British-trained fillies which may possibly take their chance in the 1,000 Guineas.




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Britain's No 1 tipster Sam Turner highlights six home hopes for the Derby at Epsom

Britain's No 1 tipster, SAM TURNER (Robin Goodfellow) discusses half a dozen of the home contingent which could line up for the Derby that could be run some time during July.




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Sam Turner highlights six exciting fillies who could head to Epsom if the Oaks is rescheduled

SAM TURNER (Robin Goodfellow) highlights half a dozen exciting three-year-old fillies who appear likely types to contest a race of that nature in what remains of this season.




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Victor Ludorum, Earthlight and Sottsass among a stellar cast of entries at Longchamp

Victor Ludorum is the 5-6 favourite with Coral to maintain his unbeaten record in Monday's Prix De Fontainebleu at Longchamp.




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Judith Light wows in Badgley Mischka couture before being awarded for her LGBTQ+ activism

Light looked stunning in a couture dress by Badgley Mischka when she arrived, at the Tony Awards in New York City, Sunday night. The 70-year-old star of Transparent shined in silver on the red carpet.




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Joan As Police Woman album review: A light in the middle of the tunnel

Out of this strange suspended spring, patterns are emerging. If an album isn't postponed, it's quite likely to be special. Music, like the sky on a sunny day, seems brighter, sharper, deeper.




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Pregnant woman REFUSED refund for flights to a Zika-infested Caribbean island

Alice Rowland, 28, from Northampton, attempted to cancel her and 26-year-old partner Jefferson George’s flights to Dominica after her doctor advised her against travelling.




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Chicago home puts on amazing light tribute to Prince with a Purple Rain guitar 

The Grant-Grusecki family, of Park Ridge, spend all year preparing the special holiday decorations that cover their home, and collect donations that are then donated to different charities.




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MAGA Las Vegas! Donald Trump-loving Elvis impersonator delights crowds at president's Sin City rally

Donald Trump began his Las Vegas rally by parading 14 of the Miracle on Ice 1980 Winter Olympics ice hockey team on stage on the eve of the 40th anniversary of their shocking win.




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Amazon Prime Day donates $50,000 toys to the Starlight Children's Foundation across Australia

The online giant will drop the gifts to the 10 Starlight Express Rooms in children's hospitals across Australia from Monday - and donate $5 from every toys bought to the charity.




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MH370: French investigators discover 'mystery 200lb load' added to flight list

Ghyslain Wattrelos, who lost his wife and two children on the Malaysia Airlines flight, said the cargo was revealed in a new report. It could add evidence to the theory a stowaway hijacked the jet.




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Malaysia Airlines flight stops just seconds before take-off twice in two days

Travellers were boarding a Malaysia Airlines flight on New Year's Day from Kuala Lumpur to Auckland when their journey came to a sudden halt.




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Malaysia Airlines has apologised after giving 'gross' snacks to passengers on flight to Auckland

Flight MH145 from Kuala Lumpur to Auckland was cancelled about 8.45pm on New Year's Day after passengers sat in the plane on the tarmac for hours.




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Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims authorities knew MH370 flight was murder-suicide

Mr Abbott sensationally revealed he was told by the 'very top levels' of the Malaysian government just days after the tragedy Captain Zaharie Shah was a suicidal killer.




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Two black trans women are killed just months apart in a red light district in Maryland

Zoe Spears, 23, was found on Thursday on Eastern Avenue in Fairmont Heights. Spears is the second black trans woman to be killed in the state, this year. Ashanti Carmon died in March (right).




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Princess Charlotte delights fans with 'that hair flip' on her first day of school yesterday

Fans dubbed Princess Charlotte's 'hair flick' 'the cutest thing ever' as she arrived at Thomas's Battersea for her first day of school yesterday.




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Prince Charles and Camilla share their highlights of the past decade

The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have shared their highlights of the past decade as 2019 draws to a close.




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British traveller is blocked from boarding a flight to Thailand and left £1,000 out of pocket

Tina Sibley was stopped at the boarding gate in Madrid by Qatar Airways staff, which told her the stamps of Macchu Picchu made her passport invalid. The British Embassy rubbished the claims.




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Sixth title for Lewis Hamilton: Delight as British F1 ace wraps up drivers' championship in Texas

Just a finish of eighth place was needed to secure the four points to land Hamilton out of reach of his last remaining title rival - Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas. The Brit finished in second.




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Formula One gives green light for carbon-neutral future by 2030

JONATHAN McEVOY: Formula One's image of oil and engines, noise and smells, is to be cast off as owners Liberty Media promise to make grand prix racing net zero carbon by 2030.




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Lewis Hamilton is embroiled in planning row with artist neighbours who claim he will ruin lighting

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Lewis Hamilton's extension to his London mansion was rejected by artists who claimed it would 'disturb' their 'working and living conditions'.




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Pope Francis is 'slightly unwell' and cancels public appointments

The 83-year-old pontiff has scrapped an audience with tech chiefs including Microsoft and IBM executives today, a day after calling off an appearance at Mass in Rome.




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Paramotor drops into Walmart to get peanut butter and jelly to make a sandwich 'in-flight'

Pilot Anthony Vella 'craved' a peanut butter and jelly sandwich so flew his paramotor to El Paso's Walmart, Texas, to get ingredients and made the snack mid air, in clip posted on September 20.




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Bodycam footage reveals moment mom is arrested trying to light a nail bomb inside a Walmart

Bodycam footage shows the moment an officer approaches Emily Rae Stallard at a Tampa, Florida, Walmart while she is holding a lighter. She later denies the bomb-making materials are hers.




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Camila Cabello marks 23rd birthday with heartfelt message to shed light on Syrian civil war

Camila Cabello took some time on her birthday on Tuesday to think about those a lot less fortunate than her - namely, the youth of Syria.




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Tube map highlights the routes that aren't in tunnels

More than half of the Tube's 270 stations are above ground, with only the Victoria and Waterloo & City lines wholly underground. This design uses a grey overlay for sections underground.




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Two men are gunned down in broad daylight outside London Tube station

Police officers were called to Rayners Lane, in Harrow, northwest London this afternoon. Two people have been rushed to a major trauma centre 'as a priority'.




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Alice's Adventures Under Ground review: Gerald Barry's opera will delight audiences of all ages

Hats off to the little-known Irish composer Gerald Barry, whose late-flowering career (he's almost as old as me!) has produced a generally joyous take on Lewis Carroll's oeuvre to his own libretto.




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Herbert Von Karajan album review: Some of his most enjoyable recordings here are of lighter stuff

Herbert von Karajan, who died in 1989, shifted 200 million albums - an astonishing figure for a classical musician.




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Joanna Lumley delights her fellow pensioners as she queues outside Sainsbury's

The Absolutely Fabulous star, 74, was stocking up on supplies during the coronavirus lockdown and thrilled her fellow shoppers when they noticed her in the queue.




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Ashley Roberts cuts a stylish figure in a dazzling white jumpsuit to highlight her tiny waist

Ashley Roberts, 38, turned heads in a gorgeous white jumpsuit that she belted at the waist to highlight her trim figure as she strutted out of the central London studio on Tuesday morning.




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Brown rat takes on magpie in daylight battle before it is chased off by its sharp-beaked foe 

The chase was filmed by magician Shaun Ames, 37, as he took his daily walk past Marble Arch, outside Hyde Park. It is thought the animals may have been fighting in order to protect their young.




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Brit books flight to wrong San Jose 4000m from destination

Steven Roberts, 31, from Leeds, was mean to be flying out to San Jose in Costa Rica with his friends, but managed to book a flight to San Jose in California.




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40 terminally-ill children have annual Santa flight axed

Jet2 axed the trip for children and carers from Martin House Children's Hospice in Wetherby claiming they had not been told the level of medical care the children would need.




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Rape cases soar in Britain's first red light district

Figures released by police show complaints of rape almost trebled in the first year and have remained significantly higher than before after fear of arrest in Holbeck, Leeds, was removed.




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 A delightful Royal thriller. But would we really have hidden the wartime Princesses in Tipperary?

Over the past few years, an increasing number of novels have included real-life members of the Royal Family as characters. Now B W Black has written a novel involving the Royal princesses




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Anne Tyler is a magician. You finish her delightful new novel feeling closer to life

Anne Tyler's prose style is clear and unshowy. Her sentences have no flourishes. You could almost say that their only identifying feature is their lack of an identifying feature




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Boris Johnson's new-look Cabinet gives the green light to points-based immigration system

Boris Johnson's new-look Cabinet today agreed to the Prime Minister's plans to introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system at the start of 2021.




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Paddy McNair hopes Holland take Northern Ireland lightly ahead of Euro 2020 qualifier 

Paddy McNair is hoping Holland underestimate Northern Ireland in their Euro 2020 qualifier in Rotterdam. Northern Ireland need to win in order to keep their dreams of reaching the finals alive.




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Storm Ciara dawns: Hundreds of flights are cancelled with 'danger to life' 90mph gusts and

Storm Ciara first brought gusts of up to 70mph on the west coast of Scotland on Saturday and it is set to sweep across the rest of the country throughout Sunday.




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Manchester United's hope of a £4bn Saudi takeover are all but over in light of Newcastle deal

Manchester United's chances of being bought by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman appear to be all but over in light of his move to buy Newcastle.




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Newcastle's owners in waiting must heed warnings of Manchester City's plight

The prospective new owners - a consortium backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund - are on the cusp of tying up a £300m that would rocket the club to the top of the financial charts.




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Premier League lawyers 'investigating illegal broadcasting of top-flight matches by Saudi Arabia'

beIN Sports shone a light on Saudi Arabia's involvement in the piracy of matches, highlighting the Premier League's unsuccessful attempts to take legal action against satellite provider Arabsat.




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Premier League set to revamp owners' and directors' test in light of £300m Newcastle takeover

The £300m deal is awaiting the League's approval but that process is understood to have been held up given the complexity of broadcast piracy allegations against the Saudi state.




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How sexism blighted history of sex: The Romans entombed errant Virgins and Victorians feared cycling

Kate Lister, author of A History of Sex, makes plain people have always wanted to turn sex 'into a moral issue', with complex social structures and taboos.




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Ivanka Trump shows off her chunky blonde highlights at CPAC

Ivanka, 38, donned a white Victoria Beckham dress to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday.