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Roberto Mancini says Manchester City would still be fighting for the title had he signed his leading targets last summer.

James Ward and Dan Evans both win to help Great Britain clinch a historic victory over Russia in the Davis Cup.

US Secretary of State John Kerry discusses Iran and ties with Israel on a visit to Turkey, before talks in the West Bank on Middle East peace.

Broadcasters will convene on Las Vegas this week to discuss the rapidly-growing demographic of people who don't subscribe to cable or satellite TV services. Revenues are falling fast as more viewers watch shows and movies online.

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One person is killed and more than 80 are injured in clashes outside Cairo's main cathedral following the funerals of four Coptic Christians killed in religious violence.

Paralyzed by a bullet in Iraq, Tomas Young has only seen his health deteriorate since he returned home. In February, Young announced he was going to remove his feeding tube and stop taking the nearly 100 pills a day. "I decided that I was no longer going to watch myself deteriorate," he says.

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Ryan Mania, who rode Auroras Encore to victory in the Grand National on Saturday, suffers neck and back injuries at Hexham.

Eleven children are reported to have been among those killed in a Nato air strike in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan.

Defending MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo wins the opening race of the season in Qatar, with Valentino Rossi second.

It's been a busy week in college basketball, complete with a Cinderella, a gruesome injury and a head coach's exit. We wonder: How do colleges spin the unpredictable news of sports?

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Police charge a 26-year-old man in connection with two burglaries and sexual assaults in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

TV hosts Ant and Dec are forced to relinquish the number one spot in the UK singles chart after just one week to Duke Dumont's club hit Need U (100%).

The Grand National winning jockey, Ryan Mania, was hurt today after a fall in a race at Hexham

Britain's first youth police and crime commissioner has made a tearful apology for what she accepts were "inappropriate language and views" that she posted on Twitter.

Shaun Maloney's 94th-minute free-kick denies 10-man QPR what would have been a vital win at the bottom of the table.

An Ellen White header in injury time sees England overcome Canada for the second time in less than a month.

Chancellor George Osborne says he is "in tune" with "the great majority of the country" on changes to welfare.

Jonny Wilkinson kicks Toulon into a Heineken Cup semi-final against Saracens as the French club hit back to see off Leicester.

Grand National-winning jockey Ryan Mania has been airlifted to hospital after suffering neck and back injuries in a fall at Hexham

A man dies after a head-on crash between a car and a lorry on the A75 Gretna to Stranraer road.