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Kentucky holds off hot-shooting Alabama 77-71

The Kentucky basketball team showed it could overcome truly foul shooting from the free-throw line, "merely" productive play from freshman star Anthony Davis and an opponent equipped to exacerbate Coach John Calipari's phobia about physical play.

Debt crisis: as it happened January 12, 2012

Think tank warns that UK economy barely grew in the final quarter of 2011, as ECB President says giving lenders access to cheap, three-year loans had eased "major funding constraints" among European ...

Manchester City 3 Tottenham Hotspur 2 – as it happened | Simon Burnton

Mario Balotelli miraculously avoids a red card and then scores a last-breath penalty winner for Manchester City Pre-preamble: Early arrivals were treated to Kevin McCarra's match preview. You can still read it, if you like: Manchester City are attempting to get closer to the Premier League title but in another sense they have been going backwards. Of late they have looked like last season's side ...

The Defence of the Book

To mark National Libraries Day, the novelist adds an extra scene to his 1998 satire England, England in which he imagines what happens when the 'National Coalition' closes every library down (As Sir Jack Pitman's project for a replica version of England on the Isle of Wight proves an enormous commercial success, the mainland, or "Old England" as it has come to be known, goes into sharp decline ...