Twenty-one friends from Belgian village win €123mn jackpot
A group of 21 friends from a Belgian village won a 123-million-euro ($145 million) EuroMillions jackpot on Friday, quickly becoming the talk of the town.
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Mateta move to Milan scuppered by medical concerns: source
Jean-Philippe Mateta's potential deadline-day move to AC Milan from Crystal Palace has fallen through for medical reasons, a source told AFP on Monday, confirming Italian media reports.
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Late-January US snowstorm wasn't historically exceptional: NOAA
Despite its deadly impacts, the recent winter storm that battered much of the United States was not historically exceptional, official data showed Monday.
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Punctuality at Germany's crisis-hit railway slumps
Punctuality at Germany's much-maligned state railway Deutsche Bahn slumped even further in January, the company said Monday, adding to the network's woes.
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Italian biathlete Passler suspended after pre-Olympics doping test
Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler has failed a doping test and was on Monday provisionally suspended from competing at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
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Europe observatory hails plan to abandon light-polluting Chile project
Europe's ESO star-gazing organisation on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the Chilean desert which threatened to spoil its telescopes' view of the darkest skies on Earth.
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Oil slides, gold loses lustre as Iran threat recedes
Oil and gold prices fell as concerns eased over US monetary policy and the chances of an American attack on Iran, while stock markets pushed higher.
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Russian captain found guilty in fatal North Sea crash
The Russian captain of a cargo ship that hit an anchored oil tanker in the North Sea last year was on Monday found guilty by a UK court of killing a crew member.
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Disney earnings boosted by theme parks, as CEO handover nears
The Walt Disney Company on Monday reported quarterly earnings showing that streaming services gained momentum and theme-park revenue hit record levels, but the company warned of a possible slowdown in the United States.
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Sri Lanka drop Test captain De Silva from T20 World Cup squad
Sri Lanka on Monday dropped Test captain Dhananjaya de Silva from their 15-man T20 World Cup squad led by Dasun Shanaka.
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