Check out our best bets for the Three Lions at the World Cup this summer

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What makes this year’s warning especially troubling is that the deterioration isn’t driven by a temporary downturn but by deeper demographic and policy changes

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Over two-thirds of graduates say loan repayments have a ‘material impact’ on their financial planning for the future

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Pair given prison sentences over dangerous crossing attempts in one of busiest shipping lanes in world

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Malian authorities have arrested two prominent journalists, marking the latest crackdown on freedom of expression by the country's military leadership

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Stephen Ogilvie lost an eye in Monday’s attack and is in a serious condition in hospital

As the ‘Devil Wears Prada’ star draws career-best reviews for her performance in Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi blockbuster ‘Disclosure Day’, Patrick Smith salutes a woman who’s unfussily and often quietly became one of our finest exports

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Claim from Delhi comes a year after India announced that it will suspend decades-old river-sharing treaty with Pakistan

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Social media user jokes that Diptyque ‘gentrified my mosquito coil’

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‘You kill an American, any American, we don’t come back with a proportionate response,’ the fictional president says in the scene

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Question marks linger over the 35-year-old’s future following his involvement in a nightclub incident which also involved team-mate Gus Atkinson

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As the FIFA World Cup gets underway on June 11, with Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia among the Arab nations set to compete, soccer remains both a passion and a struggle for many Palestinians in the Israeli- occupied West Bank.

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The mechanical engineer left his hotel to go for a walk and smoke some CBD before dying

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Official figures show that the number of young people neither working nor learning has jumped beyond one million for the first time since 2013.

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Soaring prices push consumers’ wallets to the brink

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South African police say multiple attackers killed 12 people and wounded at least nine in a late-night mass shooting in the city of Johannesburg

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From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors.

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A three-minute pause for hydration is in effect for each game of this summer’s World Cup

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