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Bracketology: predict a path to World Cup victory

Click your way through the group stage and the knockouts to crown champion

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Rebekah Vardy gets a bad rap – but she’s my queen of the one-liner

We hear so much about Victoria Beckham being funny, but it’s Wagatha Christie villain Vardy who delivers the real quips and zingers

The first I knew of Rebekah Vardy was when she appeared after more dots than anybody has ever used before, in the whodunnit denouement of Wagatha Christie. “It’s .......... Rebekah Vardy’s account,” read Coleen Rooney’s bombshell statement, instantly transforming her frenemy into a household name.

Turns out no PR is bad PR though, because seven years and a long-running legal feud later, villain of the piece Vardy has a primetime TV show on ITV1. I probably wouldn’t hold your breath for flowers or chocolates though, Col, even if reviewers hadn’t given The Vardys such a kicking.

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‘To them a power line is a line of trees’: Costa Rica moves to protect howler monkeys from electrocution

Electric shock is one of the biggest causes of death among wildlife in the country but a court ruling is a first step to making power lines safe

Peque, a small black howler monkey, scratches her head as she sits on a thick wooden branch in a wired enclosure with seven other orphaned baby howler monkeys at a rescue centre in Nosara, on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.

Last year, Peque was one of more than 100 animals to arrive at International Animal Rescue Costa Rica (IARCR) as a result of electrocution on power lines, which primates such as monkeys frequently mistake for trees and vines.

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Mike voelde nog niet dat er dingen in zijn buik kwamen

Mike en zijn date leunden tegen elkaar aan op het Texelse strand en keken uit over de grijze golven van de Noordzee, wachtend op gevoelens waarvan ze niet wisten of die ooit zouden komen.

Every First Wednesday There Goes That Sound Again

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Every First Wednesday There Goes That Sound Again

I Broke Free on a Saturday Morning

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I Broke Free on a Saturday Morning

While I Was Dreaming of You

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While I Was Dreaming of You

Found Kodachrome Slide

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Found Kodachrome Slide

date stamped on slide, February 1969

The L. Rosario Collection

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The L. Rosario Collection

date stamped on slide August 1982

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