Paul Murray’s Blue Knights and Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy join forces to submit a new bid to take control of Rangers.

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Knights & Kennedy submit Gers bid

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond strongly denies claims he offered to lobby the UK government over News Corp’s plan to take control of BSkyB.

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Row over Salmond BSkyB ‘offer’

London 2012 organisers are to take control of the Olympic Village site in a ceremony to mark six months until the Games begin.

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Olympic Village site handed over

In effort to take control from drug goons.

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3,000 Cops Storm Rio Slum

TRIPOLI — Rebel forces say they are closing in on fugitive leader Moammar Gaddafi and trying to block a border crossing into Niger to prevent his escape. Anis Sharif, a spokesman for the nascent government’s Tripoli military command, says rebel leaders believe Gaddafi is trapped within an area in Libya that has a radius of about 40 miles, and is largely surrounded by rebel forces. But these leaders also believe Gaddafi has been plotting an escape route out of the country over the past few days, Sharif said. Rebel forces are working to take control of villages and checkpoints along Libya’s vast border to stop any attempt he might make to flee the country. Read full article > >

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Libyan rebels, trying to block escape routes, say they believe Gaddafi is surrounded

TEHRAN – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came under new pressure Sunday, as an influential cleric charged that he has been “bewitched” by a controversial senior aide and key lawmakers renewed their impeachment threat. Ahmadinejad is behaving “unnaturally” and needs to be “saved,” Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi, a former supporter of the president, told the weekly Shoma magazine. The cleric said Ahmadinejad’s top adviser , Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, has used has hypnotism, spells or charms to take control of Iran’s elected leader. “I am almost certain that he has been bewitched,” Yazdi said. Read full article > >

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Ivory Coast’s PM Guillaume Soro describes carnage in Abidjan’s Yopougon district, as government troops take control of the last pocket of Gbagbo resistance.

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Ivory Coast retakes Gbagbo area

Eddie Jordan says that a possible bid from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation to take control of Formula 1 would face major problems.

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Potential F1 bid ‘just posturing’

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and an Italian invesment firm linked to Ferrari are working on a possible bid to take control of Formula 1.

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News Corp and Exor reveal F1 plan

In an unusual move, investigators take control of the servers that control millions of zombie PCs.

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FBI closes in on zombie PC gang

Foreign Secretary William Hague says Nato will be able to take control of the entire military operation in Libya “within days”.

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Nato control on Libya ‘days away’

The Afghanistan government is to take control of women’s shelters.

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VIDEO: Afghan women’s lives ‘in danger’

Republicans take control of the US House of Representatives shortly, vowing battles over the size of government and how much it spends.

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Republicans taking over US House

Xavier Rush’s red card proves the turning point as Northampton take control of Heineken Cup Pool One and end the Blues’ ambitions.

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Blues 19-23 Northampton

The new Prince George’s County executive, Rushern L. Baker III, moved swiftly Monday to take control of the $2.6 billion county government, firing or accepting resignations from at least a dozen top officials in the administration of Jack B. Johnson.

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Fast start for Baker in Pr. George’s