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  St Leger winner Encke tests positive for steroids

  20 May 2013 : The 2012 St Leger winner Encke is among seven horses to test positive for anabolic steroids as the investigation widened into doping involving Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin operation.

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  US drugmaker Actavis buys Irish rival for $8.5 bn

  20 May 2013 : US pharmaceutical company Actavis on Monday agreed to buy Irish rival Warner Chilcott for $8.5 billion (6.6 billion euros) in an all-stock takeover, creating a global giant focused on women's health, gastroenterology, urology and dermatology.

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  Cannes Festival rocked as Chopard jewels are stolen

  17 May 2013 : Jewellery worth $1.4 million due to be loaned to stars at the Cannes Film Festival was stolen from a local hotel in a pre-dawn heist on Friday but the coveted Palme d'Or trophy was safe, officials said.

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  Facebook outlook still muddled one year after IPO

  17 May 2013 : A year after a nightmarish share offering, Facebook still has its ardent backers and detractors.

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  UN, Russia call for urgent Syria conference

  17 May 2013 : UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Russia agreed Friday that a peace conference on Syria should be held "as soon as possible", even as Moscow defied growing global pressure over its arms supplies to the Damascus regime.

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  Tunis to decide 'by Saturday' on Salafist rally ban

  17 May 2013 : Tunisia's government will decide by Saturday whether to allow or ban Salafists from holding their annual congress, the interior minister said on Friday, warning however that "death threats" from radical Islamists will not be tolerated.

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  Australian MP injured in kangaroo attack

  17 May 2013 : An Australian politician was left hopping after he was attacked by a kangaroo while on a morning jog in the national capital Canberra.

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  Australia's deadly lyssavirus infects first horse

  17 May 2013 : Australia reported its first ever case of the deadly bat-borne lyssavirus in a horse Friday, warning that transmission to humans was possible as it quarantined a property.

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  Ill Bradley Wiggins pulls out of Italy's Giro race

  17 May 2013 : Bradley Wiggins, winner of last year's Tour de France, has pulled out of the Giro d'Italia due to illness, his team announced on Friday, ending a torrid race for the popular Briton.

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  N. Korea leader removes high-profile military figure

  17 May 2013 : North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has pushed out a high-profile military figure who once played a key role under his late father -- the latest in a series of top-level personnel changes.

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  Rio Tinto puts largest 'red' diamond on market

  17 May 2013 : Rio Tinto said Friday it was putting up for sale the biggest "red" diamond ever produced by its Australian mine amid an "explosion" in demand from Asia for the rare pink-hued stones.

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  Bangladesh cleans up after killer cyclone

  17 May 2013 : Bangladesh and Myanmar cleaned up on Friday after a killer cyclone wrecked thousands of homes, relieved that the damage was not much worse after the storm weakened as it made landfall.

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