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Championship play-off final: Reading 2-4 Swansea City
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Fireworks explode as both teams enter the field
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Royal Reading fans cheer before kick-off
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Swansea players huddle before kick-off
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Nathan Dyer is brought down by Zurab Khizanishvili for the first penalty
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Scott Sinclair (left) scores from the resulting penalty and celebrates the first goal of his hat-trick with Fabio Borini
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Sinclair celebrates his second goal
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Swans fans applaud their team as they leave the pitch at half-time 3-0 up
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Matt Mills scores Reading's second with a header from Jobi McAnuff's corner
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With ten minutes to go Scott Sinclair takes his second penalty...
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...and scores Swansea's fourth, securing victory over Reading and promotion to the Premier League
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Manager Brendan Rodgers is congratulated by his team with a celebratory round of the bumps
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Swansea lift their trophy wearing t-shirts for late striker Besian Idrizaj who died on 15 May
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Scott Sinclair and Brendan Rodgers share a moment after the win
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It's all too much for one Swans fan
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Fifa in crisis live blog: FA calls for Fifa elections to be postponed
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UEFA President Michael Platini today refused to back calls by the English Football Association to call off tomorrow's FIFA election and said he doubted there would be enough support to do so.
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Paul Scholes retires and takes Manchester United coaching role
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A merry-go-round turns inside the cooling tower of the former nuclear power plant in Kalkar, western Germany, on May 28. The plant was constructed from 1977 to 1986. Now it has been converted to a leisure park and receives some 600,000 visitors a year.
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Forest Service aircraft line up to drop fire retardant to create a fire break and stop an advancing wildfire before it roared into the West Cliff neighborhood of Amarillo, Texas on May 29.
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Amarillo Police officers navigate heavy smoke while making door-to-door evacuations in the West Cliff neighborhood of Amarillo, Texas on May 29.
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Chinese authorities inspect thousands of bottles of smuggled wine that were seized at a customs check point in south China's Shenzhen municipality on May 31.
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Bystanders look on as a crane lifts the wreckage of a bus which crashed in the village of Charabari, Kamrup District, some 60 km from Guwahati, Assam on May 31. Dozens of members of a wedding party were killed in India's northeastern state of Assam when their bus plunged into a gorge after hitting a wooden bridge, police said. Among the dead were the groom and his relatives, who were travelling to the bride's house to attend wedding rituals. Local people rushed to the scene and tried to save passengers trapped inside the vehicle, TV channels reported.
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Jessica Smith, a dog handler for owner Ryan Holman, checks the stance of a 6-month-old Weimaraner during a judging on May 30 at the Coeur d'Alene Dog Fanciers 2011 show in Idaho. Holman's dog, which won a best of winners in its category, was one of more than 1,200 dogs competing in the show.
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Sorry guys but as i am travelling back to LoS from the UK today, i will be offline for 48 hrs.
Members - Please feel free to keep the thread going during my absence. :)
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Is this:
1 a coalmine collapse in Barnsley
2 a Thai motorway pothole
3 a NATO bomb crater in Tripoli
4 a bridge being built in China
5 a WMD found in Iraq
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An Afghan girl whose family members were killed overnight after a raid by NATO and Afghan forces, covers her face as she weeps during a protest in Taloqan. Ten people have been killed and fifty wounded in violent protests against the killing of two men and two women in a night-time raid in north Afghanistan, a top local health official said
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Libyans attend the funeral of Saif al-Arab, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed after air strikes by coalition forces last Saturday, at the El hani cemetery in Tripoli
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People gather for a protest in Casablanca. Thousands took to the streets of Morocco on Sunday in peaceful demonstrations to demand sweeping reforms and an end to political detention, the third day of mass protests since they began in February
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Tia Ha, of Victorville, California, misses the spelling of a word in the preliminary round of the 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee contest at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland on June 1.
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A child plays with a bubble gun on a subway train in Shanghai on International Children's Day, June 1.
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Children play inside inflatable wheels floating on the water of a lake at a Beijing park as schoolchildren have the day off to celebrate International Children's Day on June 1 in Beijing. International Children's Day began in 1925 when the World Conference for the well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland, chose the date of June 1 to mark the occassion. China has the world's biggest population of 1.3 billion people but is battling a severe gender imbalance with the latest completed census in the country finding 118.06 males born to every 100 females over the past decade.
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Children of migrant workers look out from backstage as they wait for their performance during the International Children's Day celebration at a kindergarten in Kunming, Yunnan province on June 1.
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Cambodian schoolchildren living near the dam site of Steung Mean Chey participate in an Interntional Children's Day event in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Wednesday, June 1. More then 300 schoolchildren took part in the event sponsored by a social activists group and presented with some educational materials.
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Kosovo Albanian children's dressed as ballet dancers take part in activities marking the International Children's Day in Pristina, on June 1.
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A gust of wind lifts Pope Benedict XVI's mantle during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on June 1.
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A forensic expert from the International Commission for Missing Persons (ICMP) works on trying to identify the remains of a victim of the Srebrenica massacre, at the ICMP centre near Tuzla, Bosnia on June 1.
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Mourners stand around the flag draped body of Ezatollah Sahabi at his burial ceremony in Lavasan, near Tehran on June 1. Sahabi, a former member of parliament who was forced into opposition in the 1980s, died of a stroke in a Tehran hospital overnight at the age of 81. Seperately, Sahabi's daughter, Haleh Sahabi, 54, herself an opposition activist and women's rights campaigner, also died after being allowed out of prison to attend the funeral of her father Ezatollah Sahabi. It was reported that she fell to the ground during a scuffle and died of a cardiac arrest.
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FIFA President Sepp Blatter is seen before the 61st FIFA congess at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland on June 1. Blatter called on his federation's 208 members to help him solve soccer governing body's problems without external help as he opened the annual Congress on Wednesday
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US space shuttle Endeavour comes in to land at Kennedy Space Center on June 1. Endeavour landed safely at Kennedy Space Center, wrapping up its final mission to space before becoming the next to last US shuttle to retire. "It is sad to see her land for the last time, but she really has a great legacy," said shuttle commander Mark Kelly moments after landing the youngest ship in the US fleet, ending its 25th journey to space.
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Two baby Sumatran tiger cubs dose in their enclosure at the zoo in the central German city of Frankfurt on May 25, 2011.
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In this Sunday, May 29, 2011 photo, Aaron Fotheringham summersaults while flying through the air in his wheel chair, during practice for a Nitro Circus performance, in Pala, Calif. Fotheringham, who was born with spinal bifida, rides his chair on the "giganta ramp" during performances.
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Aaron Fotheringham descends the "giganta ramp" in his wheel chair, during practice for a Nitro Circus performance, in Pala, Calif
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Hattiesburg firefighters drag hoses in attempt to contain a debris fire near the city barn off James Street in Hattiesburg, Miss., Tuesday May 31.
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Solar panels of the Ain Beni Mathar power station are seen on May 31, 2011. The plant has a large array of 224 parabolic mirror collectors that concentrate solar energy. Two other plants with similar designs will soon be commissioned in Egypt and Algeria
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