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Scott Morrison is told he needs 'war plan' to deal with coronavirus pandemic at G20's 'Zoom' summit

Prime Minister Scott Morrison joined US President Donald Trump and other members of the G20 through a video link-up overnight.




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Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley ready to sell Newcastle United

EXCLUSIVE BY CRAIG HOPE: Mike Ashley will sell Newcastle United if the consortium fronted by Amanda Staveley produces the cash to do a deal, Sportsmail has been told.




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Saudi Arabia has doubled its use of the death penalty since King Salman came to the throne

800 people have been executed in the Kingdom since King Salman bin Abdulaziz ascended to the throne in January 23, 2015.




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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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The £300m takeover of Newcastle United is now in the hands of the Premier League

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN AND CRAIG HOPE: Sources have disclosed that all the necessary paperwork has been lodged, and that the potential deal now awaits their approval.




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Newcastle new owners will 'exploit' the deflated post-coronavirus transfer market, reveals Redknapp

A deal worth £300million from Saudi Arabia's Private Investment Fund, Amanda Staveley and the Reuben Brothers to take control of the club from current owner Mike Ashley is close to being finalised.




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Premier League 'unlikely to prevent Newcastle takeover'

Mike Ashley is close to sealing the £300million sale of the Premier League club to a consortium fronted by Amanda Staveley, which has been backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.




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The billionaires from Bombay: The Reuben brothers are ready to back a bold new era at Newcastle

Should the Reuben brothers play an integral part in Mike Ashley departing Newcastle United, Ant and Dec might suddenly find they have competition as the Toon's favourite double act.




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Amir Khan calls out Manny Pacquiao for huge post-coronavirus bout in the Middle East 

Khan, now 33, has not fought since beating Billy Dib in Saudi Arabia last summer and is now chasing his next pay-day against a far more difficult opponent in Filipino Pacquiao.




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Amnesty International warn Premier League over human rights surrounding Newcastle's £300m takeover

The north-east club are reportedly on the verge of being sold to a Saudi-backed consortium which involves Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for around £300million.




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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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Saudi Arabia ends death penalty for crimes committed by minors after abolishing flogging 

Minors will now receive a prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in a 'juvenile detention facility'. Pictured: Abdulkareem al-Hawaj was one of the minors executed in 2019.




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Saudi Arabia will look to secure Premier League TV rights if £300m Newcastle deal is approved

EXCLUSIVE: BeIN Sports have written to the Premier League urging chief executive Richard Masters to block the £300million deal for Newcastle, citing illegal streaming of matches in Saudi Arabia.




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Premier League warned US about Saudi piracy BEFORE beIN Sport sent letter over Newcastle takeover

The Premier League asked the United States government to keep Saudi Arabia on its piracy watch list before beginning checks on Newcastle United's Saudi-led takeover.




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An insider's guide to football club takeovers... and how Newcastle deal will be done

It is the news Newcastle fans have been dreaming about for years - a big-money takeover and the possible departure of Mike Ashley. But how does a deal actually happen? Our expert reveals all.




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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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Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund looks 'to buy $12.5 billion Warner Music'

A source said more deals with entertainment businesses in America are to be expected as the country tries to navigate the coronavirus pandemic and the fallout from plunging oil prices.




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The Block's Scott Cam reveals that even more drama goes on behind the scenes

Fans of The Block probably feel like they had seen it all after Sara Vale's many dramatic meltdowns and walk-offs on last year's season. 




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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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As we look back on our lives, most of us can recall moments of embarrassment that still make us cringe. Keggie Carew has a rich store of such misadventures.




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Neuroscientist Professor Gina Rippon suggests 'one of the oldest and apparently hardiest of moles is the myth of female and male brains'.




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Stone me! A house with a four-billion year-old boot scraper

Andrew Ziminski has devoted himself to preserving Britain's greatest structures. The stonemason of 30 years, examines wonders including Stonehenge in a new book.




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There is no shortage of female detectives in fiction, from Agatha Christie's Miss Marple to Dorothy L. Sayers' Harriet Vane




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QUICK READS 

We're all rushed for time these days, but even so, the fact that one in three people in the UK doesn't regularly read for pleasure is a shock.




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Was Orwell's 1984 his wife's idea? That's the suggestion in a new biography

Sylvia Topp recounts the relationship George Orwell had with his first wife Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy, in a new book. British author suggests Eileen's poem inspired a novel by Orwell.




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Ian McEwan's latest novel is set in 1982, but not that of historical record. Here, after a disastrous British defeat in the Falklands, Labour leader Tony Benn is demanding the resignation Mrs Thatcher.




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Growing petunias on the balcony healed my broken heart

Journalist Alice Vincent has written about finding peace in her plants after a breakup. Rootbound: Rewilding A Life described how her long-term boyfriend broke up with her over breakfast.




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Want to be happy? Learn something new and go for a walk

Richard Layard, an economist, has written a study into how society can be happier. He has long promoted happiness as a better measure of society's progress than GDP.




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Two ears are better than one mouth!

Kate Murphy shares advice for improving your listening skills in a new book. The author who lives in the U.S, claims we're encouraged to listen to our guts, but rarely to listen carefully to others.




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Leading therapist JULIA SAMUEL reveals how you need to take control of your life instead of sobbing

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel draws on love, grief, loneliness, fear, separation, anger, jealousy, frustration in This Too Shall Pass and the demands that each issue comes with.




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Mudlarking was once the desperate last resort of London's poorest inhabitants, who salvaged scraps from the muddy banks of the Thames.




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Hitler's greatest enemy? Himself! 

German historian Volker Ullrich, gives a new account of Hitler's life in a gripping sequel to his mammoth biography of the Fuhrer.




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'Their humility [is] their own enemy,' writes John Lewis-Stempel of that modest water feature, the pond.




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Rachel Johnson reveals in her new memoir how losing elections can be highly entertaining 

Rachel Johnson reveals the challenges of life in the public eye and behind the scenes of the 'Westminster bubble' in her book, Rake's Progress, My Political Midlife Crisis.




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A photograph in this book shows a grim-faced, elderly woman setting fire to a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover outside an Edinburgh bookshop.




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Locked in at home, now at least we have time to tackle those blockbuster novels we never got round to




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A photograph in Annabel Venning's account of her family in wartime shows the six Walker children in order of height




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In 1950 the Kaufman family - Ken, Sarah and daughters Jo and Bethie - have just moved into their new house in a pleasant Detroit suburb




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Pericles, by Shakespeare, inspires the latest novel by Mark Haddon, author of the award-winning bestseller, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time.




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Back in 2006, Thomas Harris published Hannibal Rising, the fourth of his Hannibal Lecter novels.




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With its commanding situation at the top of a hill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the Dutch House is a glittering prize




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Moggach's 2004 novel, These Foolish Things, which inspired the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, featured a cast of elderly characters




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Harrowing account of: Facing death in the desert 

Claire Nelson who shattered her pelvis when she fell 20ft while hiking in California, reveals how she survived in the desert until she was found in a new memoir.




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Agonising search for the lost fallen

Missing by Richard van Emden follows the story of Francis Mond who died on May 15, 1918, aged 23, when his RAF plane was shot from the skies and plummeted into no man's land in Northern France.




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Terrifying book reveals how half a billion people live close to active volcanoes

Marine scientist and science communicator Ellen Prager explores hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and also climate change in her book Dangerous Earth.




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Keep laughing and read on!  our pick of the most riotously funny stories ever written 

British writer Roger Lewis, rounded up a selection of the funniest stories ever written. Among his picks is the eccentric absurdity of the Starkadders in Cold Comfort Farm.




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Misfits floating on a sea of booze: It was the notorious Soho hangout

Darren Coffield has written an oral history of The Colony Room, a shabby and cluttered little space at the top of a dingy staircase in the heart of Soho.




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Swimming nose-to-nose with your greatest fear

Georgie Codd has written about her journey to overcome a fear of fish. She travels across the world from London to Thailand for a scuba diving course. She eventually swims with a shark.




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Make them think it was their idea! Marketing expert explores the art of persuasion

Jonah Berger who is a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has advised Apple and Nike. In a new book, he shares advice for changing people's minds.




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The home lives of the great and good can be just as unruly

New book Lives Of Houses, features a collection of essays and poems on the houses of an eclectic selection of people. Among them is WH Auden's 1950s apartment in New York