Good week ... Bad week (25/07/10)
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Black & Desmond have more to smile about
Press barons have done well this week. One celebrated release from jail; another bought the right to inflict yet more reality TV shows on the British public. While disgraced former Daily Telegraph owner and peer Conrad Black enjoyed a taste of freedom after being released from prison on bail in the USA, tabloid and now TV baron Richard Desmond, near left, expanded his media empire by snapping up terrestrial TV channel Five for £103.5m. Kate Youde
France's football team suspended for World Cup bust-up
So va-va-voomless in the land of vuvuzelas, France's football squad was punished for strikes and sulks at the World Cup in South Africa with a mass guillotine. New manager Laurent Blanc, near right, says all 23 players, who were knocked out in the group stage, should be suspended. Oui, oui, Gallic shrug, the ban will apply to a friendly against Norway but is still a blow for a team often seen as a touch big-headed. Richard Osley
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- 4 Did Banksy's latest work bring misery to a homeless man?
- 5 Cambridge students' twin tragedy
- 6 Night in the cells accidentally became two years in solitary
- 7 Mona Lisa's 'twin sister' is discovered – 500 years late
- 8 The picture that shames Italy
- 9 Greece: 'There's no more left to cut'
- 10 Senior Tories begin to get cold feet as health Bill is defeated in Lords
- 1 Charlotte Church stands alone as hacking victims settle
- 2 Lightning kills an entire football team
- 3 I was born to be a killer. Every night I see the Devil in my dreams
- 4 Indian ministers quit after watching porn video clip
- 5 Cambridge students' twin tragedy
- 6 Greece: 'There's no more left to cut'
- 7 Assad's slaughter of the innocents
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