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Cheating accusations directed at Canada - what next in curling row? -- It's been quite the few days in the Cortina Curling Stadium during a Winter Olympics that has delivered intrigue and excitement both on and off the field of play.

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Winter Olympics: Follow today's curling, bobsleigh and figure skating events

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Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps

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Australian IS families in Syria camp turned back after leaving for home

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Six of Sarah Ferguson's companies winding down

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How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from years of harm

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'Extremely stupid' - ski jumper disqualified over boots -- Austrian ski jumper Daniel Tschofenig is disqualified from the men's large hill individual event for wearing oversized boots.

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A big day for GB's men's curling team - Tuesday's guide -- What's happening and who to look out for at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.

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Klaebo wins record ninth Winter Olympic gold -- Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Norway's king of cross-country skiing, becomes the Winter Olympics' outright most successful athlete with a record ninth gold medal.

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America's Next Top Model shaped reality TV, but should it ever have been made? -- A new Netflix documentary will finally see Tyra Banks and her fellow judges address some of the most controversial scandals from the reality show.

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The mystery of stolen champion racehorse Shergar - When armed men seized him in 1983, the BBC reported on a true-crime saga.

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Ex-church minister who admitted child sexual abuse to BBC still free years later -- Robert Corfield, who admitted abusing a child to the BBC, was a minister in a shadowy church known as The Truth.

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The myth that women are more naturally empathetic than men - Scientific research is upending age-old gender stereotypes – and revealing new ways of thinking about masculinity.

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'Dragged out and set on fire' - the Bangladesh mob killing that shocked the world -- In December, Hindu factory worker Dipu Das was lynched in Bangladesh, igniting global outrage.

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Ratcliffe, Man Utd and the immigration comments fallout -- Sports editor Dan Roan analyses the potential fallout of Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe's comments on immigration.

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Watch: Singles pray to a goddess for love in Bangkok

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Giant robot tribute to Brazil's President Lula leads start of Rio Carnival

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Flying oranges: Italian town celebrates carnival with historic street battle

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Gasps and disbelief in US as 'Quad God's' Olympic dream crumbles

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Watch: Huge landslide in Sicily after Storm Harry

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'It's never too late': Savannah Guthrie's new plea for mother's release as FBI analyses glove -- The FBI says it recovered a DNA sample from the glove, which was found in a field a few miles from Guthrie's home.

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Logan Paul's Pokémon card smashes record in $16m sale -- Venture capitalist AJ Scaramucci buys the card to kick off his plan for a "planetary treasure hunt".

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Five injured as Swiss train derails in heavy snow -- One passenger was taken to hospital after the derailment, which police say could have been caused by an avalanche.

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Female Israeli soldiers rescued after being chased by ultra-Orthodox men -- The two women were helped by police after being forced to run from a mob in the city of Bnei Brak.

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US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran

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Trump's new world order has become real and Europe is having to adjust fast

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Actor Robert Duvall, who starred in The Godfather, dies aged 95

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Obama clarifies views on aliens after saying 'they're real' on podcast

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Female athletes hit back at 'weird' and 'derogatory' comments about their appearance

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How Robert Duvall became a Hollywood great

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Italy's 'Lovers' Arch' collapses into sea on Valentine's Day

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Brentford edge past non-league Macclesfield after second-half own goal - Sixth-tier Macclesfield's FA Cup dream is cruelly dashed by a second-half own goal as Premier League Brentford scrape through to a fifth-round tie against West Ham.

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Wright hat-trick helps Coventry beat Boro to go top - Haji Wright scores a hat-trick as Coventry City beat Middlesbrough to go top of the Championship.

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Muir fourth in big air in another medal near-miss -- Freestyle skier Kirsty Muir once again comes heartbreakingly close to a Winter Olympic medal for Team GB with her second fourth-place finish of the Games. -- Winter Olympics

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England still confident despite unconvincing run - Jacks -- England remain just as confident they can win the T20 World Cup despite their unconvincing group stage, says batter Will Jacks. -- England

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Australia on brink as Nissanka sends Sri Lanka through -- Australia's hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the T20 World Cup are all but over after Sri Lanka's Pathum Nissanka hit a brilliant unbeaten 100 to condemn them to an eight-wicket defeat. -- Cricket

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'People shouldn't be dying just for existing' - Gauff on US issues -- Coco Gauff says it is "tough to wake up" and see what is happening back home in the United States amid the president's immigration crackdown. -- Tennis

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