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  • Andy Cole celebrates after netting five against Ipswich in 1995 (PA)Football's biggest thrashings

    Tottenham Hotspur smashed nine goals past a hapless Wigan side at White Hart Lane at the weekend, thanks largely to a five-star performance by striker Jermain Defoe.

  • The Calva Bridge in Workington, Cumbria, which has been inspected by structural engineers as fear grows that it may collapse (Anna Gowthorpe PA Wire Press Association Images)Flood clean-up continues

    Roads, bridges and schools remain closed across Cumbria as clean-up operations continue in the aftermath of last week's floods.

  • The USS Enterprise (PA)Getting around big style

    The world's biggest cruise ship - boasting its own open air park and amphitheatre - is due to be officially unveiled.

  • Ashton Kutcher shows off his webbed feet (PA)Awesome body phenomena

    The human body is a wonderful thing, everybody is different, but to play on the words of George Orwell - some are more different than others.

  • An mage of the Earth acquired with the OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard the European Space Agency's comet chaser Rosetta from a distance of 393,000 miles. This was Rosetta's fourth planetary swingby and the third and final swingby of Earth. (AP Photo European Space Agency)Week in pictures

    Welcome to our selection of the best images taken from around the world in the last seven days.

  • Thierry Henry cheats to set up France's winning goal (PA)Controversial football goals

    The subject of controversial football goals has risen again after Thierry Henry's double handball denied Ireland a fair chance to qualify for the World Cup.

  • Algeria celebrate after their win over Egypt (PA)The World Cup qualifiers

    The 32 teams who will battle it out for next year's World Cup in South Africa have all been decided; so who will come between England and glory?

  • A blue sky landscape (Getty Images)10 of life's mysteries solved

    Throughout history the world’s greatest thinkers have pondered the big questions in life: why are we here; is there a God; how can we know something; why does toast always land butter-side down?

  • A Chinese protestor blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Boulevard on June 5, 1989 in front of the Beijing Hotel Image © JEFF WIDENER AP Press Association Images (© JEFF WIDENER AP Press Association Images)1989: the year the world changed

    Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was the turn of Czechoslovakia where the Velvet Revolution took place 20 years ago today.

  • A tarantula (PA)The bizarre world of smuggling

    A man has been arrested at Rio de Janerio airport in Brazil after customs officials found 1,000 live tarantula spiders carefully packed in boxes within his suitcases.

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    Jermain Defoe's five-star performance was the highlight of the weekend's football action.

  • Sting makes Amazon plea to Brazilian governmentAmazon plea

    Sting has pleaded with Brazil's government to talk to locals about an Amazon dam project.

  • Skilled staff are needed to help the UK's green technologyClimate change

    The UK needs more skilled engineers and workers if it is to build up green technology sectors.

  • Thierry Henry was back in action for BarcelonaHenry back

    Thierry Henry returned to action for Barcelona after his controversial handball last week.

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    Check out the wonderful world of the human body with this awesome body gallery.

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