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The Duchess of Cambridge tries a sailing winch simulator while on a visit to the Spinnaker Tower, Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth, Hampshire. (credit:Christopher Pledger/Daily Telegraph/PA Wire)
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PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 12: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge visits the new home of Ben Ainslie Racing and the 1851 Trust to view an art project by the local community on February 12, 2015 in Portsmouth, England. (Photo by Samir Hussein/WireImage) (credit:Samir Hussein via Getty Images)
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PORTSMOUTH, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 12: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge laughs as she visits the home of Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) in Portsmouth Old Town on February 12, 2015 in Portsmouth, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) (credit:Chris Jackson via Getty Images)
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Britain's UKIP party leader Nigel Farage eats popcorn at the Movie Starr Cinema in Canvey Island, east of London, on February 12, 2015, before addressing delegates in his first major speech of the 2015 General Election campaign. AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JUSTIN TALLIS via Getty Images)
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Britain's UKIP party leader Nigel Farage eats popcorn in the Movie Starr Cinema in Canvey Island, east of London on February 12, 2015, before addressing delegates in his first major speech of the 2015 General Election campaign. AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:JUSTIN TALLIS via Getty Images)
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Mohamed Fahmy, journalists from Qatar's Al Jazeera television network, unfurls Egyptian flag during the hearing at police academy in Cario, Egypt on February 12, 2015. The Cairo Criminal Court ordered that Egyptian-Canadian dual national Mohamed Fahmy be released on bail set at $33,000. (Photo by Ahmed Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Prime Minister David Cameron (right) test drives a new sub-surface District line tube train, as Chancellor George Osborne looks on, at the Bombardier Transportation site in Derby, where Mr Osborne announced £5.2 billion investment in road and rail projects in the Midlands as part of a plan he said could create 300,000 new jobs in the region by 2020. (credit:Joe Giddens/PA Wire)
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Starry sky in Sichuan province, China - 12 Feb 2015 (credit:Rex)
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A nominee for Queen of the Carnival of Santa Cruz shows off her outfit on the main stage in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the Spanish Canary island of Tenerife on February 11, 2014. The dresses are more than five meters high and over 80 kilos in weight. The over one-month-long event began on January 21 and finishes on March 8 with orchestras playing Caribbean and Brazilian rhythms throughout the festivities that range from elections for the Carnival Queen, the Junior Queen and the Senior Queen, children and adult murgas (satirical street bands), comparsas (dance groups) to performances on the streets. AFP PHOTO / DESIREE MARTIN (Photo credit should read DESIREE MARTIN/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:DESIREE MARTIN via Getty Images)
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Margot Robbie and Will Smith attend a special screening of 'Focus' at Vue West End on February 11, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) (credit:Karwai Tang via Getty Images)
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Fans will soon be swooning as Olly Murs is the latest singer-songwriter to join the wax figure hall of fame at Madame Tussauds Blackpool. Olly recently attended a sitting to capture his likeness. Appearing with microphone in hand, dressed in a crisp white shirt and skinny denim jeans, his wax figure will sport facial hair, a quiff and his trademark cheeky grin and visitors will be able to stand beside him to sing their favourite Olly Murs song. The British chart topper will be unveiled at Madame Tussauds Blackpool at the end of March, where his wax figure will be in the company of an array of stars from the world of music, comedy, sport and entertainment.
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Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves his hotel on his way to the Lille courthouse to attend a trial where he is charged alongside 13 others for 'aggravated pimping' on February 12, 2015. Strauss-Kahn steadfastly denies knowing that the women with whom he engaged in 'free and friendly' libertinism were prostitutes, saying paying for sex would be too great a risk for a man at the head of the International Monetary Fund, which was busy 'saving the world from an unprecedented' financial crisis. (credit:PHILIPPE HUGUEN via Getty Images)
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A Saudi man runs in front of a big wave as high winds batter the coast on February 11, 2015 in the Saudi Red Sea port city of Dhuba, located in Tabuk Province, northwest of the Saudi capital Riyadh. (credit:MOHAMMED ALBUHAISI via Getty Images)
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Actress Dakota Johnson, actor Jamie Dornan and director Sam Taylor-Johnson attends the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' premiere during the 65th Berlinale International Film Festival at Zoo Palast on February 11, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images) (credit:Pascal Le Segretain via Getty Images)
Chapel Hill police arrest man in triple homicide(15 of24)
Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, enters the courtroom for his first appearance Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 at the Durham County Detention Center in Durham, N.C. He is accused of shooting his Finley Forest neighbors, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and his wife Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Abu-Salhav's sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19, of Raleigh. Hicks is being held in the Durham County jail with no bond. (Chuck Liddy/News & Observer/TNS via Getty Images) (credit:Raleigh News & Observer via Getty Images)
Memorial for Muslim students Deah, Yusor, and Razan in Chapel Hill(16 of24)
CHAPEL HILL, USA - FEBRUARY 11: A makeshift memorial is seen during a vigil at the University of North Carolina for Deah Shaddy Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad, and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha who were killed in their home the night before in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, on February 11, 2015. A 46-year-old man was charged with the murder of three Muslim students who were fatally shot Tuesday at the University of North Carolinas residential complex in Chapel Hill, police said Wednesday. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) (credit:Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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watch the first exciting footage of SPECTRE from Austria on www.007.com. Featuring behind the scenes action with Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista and Director Sam Mendes.Associate Producer, Gregg Wilson says “We have to deliver an amazing sequence and this is going to be one of the major action sequences of the movie, a jewel in the crown so to speak. It’s going to be spectacular and Austria seemed to offer everything that we needed to pull it off.”Production Designer Dennis Gassner adds, “The thing that Sam and I talked about was how we are going to top SKYFALL, it’s going to be SPECTRE and so far it’s a great start. I think that we are going to continue the history of the Bond films, making things that are exciting for the audience to look at and what could be more exciting than to be on top of the world.”SYNOPSIS:A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Giant filament on the SunNASA's SDO sees giant filament on the Sun (credit:NASA/Goddard/SDO/REX)
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People enjoy Bavarian curling during cold weather on the frozen canal in front of the baroque castle Nymphenburg in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. (credit:Matthias Schrader/AP)
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Former Marine Cpl. Eddie Ray Routh arrives in court on opening day of his capital murder trial at the Erath County Donald R. Jones Justice Center, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015 in Stephenville, Texas. Routh, 27, of Lancaster, Texas, is charged with the 2013 deaths of former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Texas. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Taya Kyle, wife of slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, arrives at the Erath County Donald R. Jones Justice Center Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, in Stephenville, Texas, for the opening day of the capital murder trial of former Marine Cpl. Eddie Ray Routh. Routh, 27, of Lancaster, Texas, is charged with the 2013 deaths of Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Texas. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Pakistani female police commandos attend a training session in Nowshera, near Peshawar Pakistan, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Authorities formed a Special Combat Unit after Taliban militants stormed a Peshawar school on Dec. 16, 2014 and massacred 150 children and teachers. (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Deputy Labour leader, Harriet Harman, stands next a pink van launched during a Labour campaign aimed at women voters before a speech on February 11, 2015 in Stevenage, England. Harman has come under fire from a number of commentators who have claimed the pink colour-work is sexist and patronising. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) (credit:Carl Court via Getty Images)
Chelsea v Everton - Premier League(24 of24)
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 11: Tempers flare between James McCarthy of Everton and Branislav Ivanovic of Chelsea during the Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and Everton at Stamford Bridge on February 11, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) (credit:Mike Hewitt via Getty Images)