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UK - The Independent

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  1. The boxing icons will meet in a professional bout, 11 years after they contested the biggest fight in the history of their sport

  2. Michael Carrick’s side come into the match knowing a win would send them back into the Champions League positions

  3. A public inquiry into failures by NHS and police forces leading up to Valdo Calocane’s triple-killing has opened

  4. Allen Osborne, a 32-year-old from Owensboro, was charged with sexual crimes against an animal

  5. New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts
  6. Residents and visitors in the Greek seaside town of Galaxidi joyfully throw bags of dyed flour at each other, erupting into a chaotic “flour war.” The event marks the end of carnival festivities and the start of Lent.

  7. The president joked to the men’s team that he would be ‘impeached’ if he didn’t also invite the gold-winning women’s team as well, a remark that prompted laughter

  8. Four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Alex Croft looks at the human cost and how it has transformed the future of warfare