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Ilhan Omar's ex-husband marries pediatric nurse just 37 days after congresswoman divorced him

DailyMail.com has acquired exclusive video of Ilhan Omar's ex Ahmed Hirsi's marriage ceremony that took place in an apartment in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on December 12.




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US is 39th in the world when it comes to children 'flourishing' and eighth WORST for sustainability

The new global index showed the US ranked lower than 38 other nations on the geometric mean of surviving and thriving. Children in Norway and South Korea came out top.




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UK ranks 10th in the world when it comes to children 'flourishing', UN report says

The new global index showed children in Norway, South Korea and the Netherlands had the best chance at survival and well-being thanks to good healthcare, education and nutrition.




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Saudi officials call for the arrest of a female rapper

The 'insulting' music video - which was uploaded to YouTube by rapper Asayel Slay (pictured) - calls the women from the holy city 'powerful and beautiful' and goes on to describe them as 'sugar candy'.




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AHEAD OF THE GAME: Super agents Mino Raiola and Jorge Mendes refuse to meet with FIFA

MATT HUGHES - AHEAD OF THE GAME: The prospects for Saudi Arabia's proposed £340million takeover of Newcastle have not been helped by Mike Ashley receiving financial advice.




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Saudi Arabia temporarily BANS religious pilgrims from visiting Mecca to prevent the coronavirus

Saudi Arabia has temporarily banned religious pilgrims from visiting Mecca or Medina to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the Kingdom




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Zinedine Zidane and Quique Setien fighting for their jobs and La Liga title in El Claisco

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Victory for either man will, not only condemn the other to a desperate attempt at catch-up between now and the end of the season, it could also mean the axe this summer.




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Coronavirus: Courtyard at Mecca's Great Mosque is closed for disinfecting

The central courtyard at Mecca's Great Mosque was left deserted except for cleaners on Thursday in near-unprecedented scenes as it was disinfected to stop the spread of coronavirus.




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Dubai's Sheikh Al Maktoum ordered kidnap, torture of daughters

Billionaire Sheikh Maktoum - a friend of the Queen - had Princess Shamsa abducted from Cambridge after she went on the run in 2000 and her sister Princess Latifa snatched from her yacht.




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Princess lined up for forced marriage to crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, court hears

Princess Jalila (pictured with mother Princess Haya) was allegedly being lined up by her father Sheikh Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, for a arranged marriage to Bin Salman in February 2019.




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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 imposes full lockdown on holy cities of Mecca and Medina to combat coronavirus

Saudi Arabia, which has recorded 1,885 infections and 21 deaths, imposed a 24-hour curfew today in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, an extension of measures to combat coronavirus.




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Refugee doctor Tamer Antakly unable to work after qualification test cancelled due to coronavirus

Tamer Antakly, 58, moved to Australia with his wife and two daughters in 2015 but is unable to work as a doctor because his final qualification test has been delayed due to coronavirus




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Coronavirus UK: Amir Khan admits he could QUIT boxing as he is unable to organise another fight

Amir Khan is considering retirement after the coronavirus has put boxing on lockdown. The 33-year-old recently welcomed his newborn baby into the world and donated his building to the NHS.




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Saudi Arabia kills protester who refused to make way for megacity

Abdul-Rahim al-Howeiti (pictured) was shot dead by security forces in Al-Khuraybah, near the Saudi border with Jordan, the government confirmed.




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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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Human rights campaigners urge Newcastle United to REJECT 'immoral' £300m takeover

The bid to take over the club is being chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, who is the defence minister. He oversaw the devastating Yemen attacks that caused a humanitarian crisis.




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Newcastle owner Mike Ashley to bank £17m even if sale of the club to Saudi Arabian consortium fails

EXCLUSIVE BY MARTIN SAMUEL: The deposit paid by the Saudi Arabian consortium is non-refundable, meaning Newcastle owner Ashley gets richer even if the takeover is not ratified.




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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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Newcastle's £300m Saudi-led takeover faces more opposition from beIN Sports

English football's biggest overseas broadcast partner beIN Sports have reportedly urged the Premier League to block Newcastle's proposed takeover from the Saudi Arabian-led consortium.




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Three Argentine footballers have been sleeping on the floor of Frankfurt Airport for FIVE days

The trio had arranged to return to Buenos Aires via Sao Paulo in Brazil. But given there is a travel ban between Brazil and Argentina, a permit was needed to allow their private flight.




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UK government members call for scrutiny of Newcastle's Saudi takeover amid concerns over piracy

The UK government have been urged by its own members to take an active role in scrutinising the Saudi-led takeover of Newcastle United following calls for the deal to be blocked.




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Decision for Newcastle takeover is looming amid Saudi regime concerns

A year has passed since the beheading of 37 Saudi men and still the families wait to receive the bodies. At the time, they did not even know their loved ones had been executed.




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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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Worshippers observe social distancing as they pray in virtually empty Grand Mosque in Mecca

Mecca's Grand Mosque - which is typically crowded during Ramadan as Muslims break their fast each night - was all-but deserted Monday as a few prayed while observing social distancing.




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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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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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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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CONTEMPORARY  

I am a long-time fan of Keyes's hilarious, alternately heart-warming and heartbreaking, novels.




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HISTORICAL 

In starkly beautiful sentences Kiran Millwood Hargrave, up until now a bestselling children's author, unspools the terrifying story of a real witch-hunt.




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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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Martini and the recipe for an age-gap friendship: Isabel Vincent's charming tale of platonic love

Isabel Vincent, 55, an investigative journalist for the New York Post, recalls her fond friendship with a 92-year-old man who used to cook her delicious meals in her memoir, Dinner with Edward.




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'Sing me a song or I'll slit your throat': Former inmate has written about his time in prisons

Chris Atkins was sentenced to a five-year 'stretch' in jail. He wrote about his seven months in HMP Wandsworth in A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner.




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Twitcher at No. 10: Played for a fool by Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain's staff worried

Nicholas Milton, author of Neville Chamberlain's Legacy, reveals the many sides to the famous British war-time leader. From his boyhood in Birmingham he was a lover of nature.




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'I was thrashed by a ruthless emperor - at ping pong': Susanna Johnston collates her diary entries

Susanna Johnston has collated a charming and witty selection of vignettes and diaries from her well-connected life. From bring her dementia-ridden father home from Cape Town, to losing at ping-pong.




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Why Boris should study an ant colony

Gene Stone and PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk explore nature in fascinating new book AnimalKind. British authors reveal that an ant colony displays more calm than a bunch of politicians.




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CONTEMPORARY  

This is a fascinating character study in which we catch up with our protagonist at various points in her life.




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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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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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Am Dram - The world's most lethal hobby

Michael Coveney celebrates amateur theatricals in a fascinating new book. The theatre critic estimates that there are around 2,500 amateur dramatic societies in Britain.




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HISTORY 

The utterly beguiling characters from Pulley's debut The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street make a much-anticipated reappearance here.




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How does my garden grow? With broken fingernails, chilblains, rampant slugs and damned hard work

Tamsin Westhorpe is the head gardener at Stockton Bury in Hertfordshire. The former journalist has penned a diary account of the four-acre garden that has been in her family for five generations.




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WORLD FICTION 

Written in just two months by South Korean TV scriptwriter Cho Nam-Joo, this has sold more than a million copies worldwide




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CONTEMPORARY 

Hilarious and horrifying in equal measure, this compulsive revenge novel is set in America in 2026,




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Why things go VIRAL and why the world goes mad when they do

Associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Adam Kucharski reveals why outbreaks and misinformation spread in his book The Rules of Contagion.




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CONTEMPORARY  

Bourne won multiple plaudits for her Young Adult books but moved into grown-up territory in 2018 with How Do You Like Me Now?




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When Coleridge found Wordsworth in bed with the love of his life the poets fell out bitterly

Jonathan Bate has penned a biography about the life of poet William Wordsworth. Author says William who was born in Cumberland did his best work after meeting Samuel Taylor Coleridge.




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SHORT STORIES

The title of this dark, dangerously funny collection comes from the Voyager satellite.




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CONTEMPORARY  

I loved Hulse's hilarious, skilful debut The Adults, which was stuffed with believable characters, and this second book is just as witty, warm and brilliantly realised