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Harry Redknapp is close to taking over at Queens Park Rangers and admits it will be his toughest job in management.

The west London club started talks with Redknapp on Friday afternoon, just hours after Mark Hughes was sacked.

"I want it to happen, so it shouldn't be that difficult a deal to do," Redknapp told BBC Sport.

"It's going to be a tough job but it's a challenge. When you've only got four points at this stage of the season it couldn't get any harder than that."

QPR are bottom of the Premier League table, without a win in their opening 12 games.

They are four points adrift of 19th place - the same position Tottenham were in when Redknapp took charge at White Hart Lane in October 2008.

“It's a very similar club (to Portsmouth) in many ways - small stadium and fantastic supporters who can make all the difference”

Harry Redknapp

The 65-year-old said he was eager to complete his move to QPR and attend their Premier League game against Manchester United at Old Trafford on Saturday.

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T-Rex having a wee bit of a snack during the Thanksgiving parade in Philadephia



Gang members suspected of a shooting at a shopping mall in San Salvador



The funeral of a victim in Pakistan of a Taliban suicide bombing which killed at least 23 people.

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Protests over Egypt president's decree

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Thousands of protesters gathered near parliament in Thailand's capital, Bangkok, on Saturday, demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

AP reported: The rally was mostly peaceful in its early stages. Police, however, fired tear gas to disperse between 50 to 100 people who tried to break through a line of concrete barricades erected on a street near the protest site.

The demonstration underscores the still-simmering political divisions that have split the country since the army toppled Yingluck's brother Thaksin Shinawatra in a 2006 military coup

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A member of the National Police stand guards during the incineration of illegal drugs in Panama City on Nov. 23.






Panama's anti-narcotics police destroyed thousands of pounds of cocaine, marijuana and heroin today seized as part of various police operations around the country. AP reports that Panama police say more than 10 tons of illegal drugs have been burned within the last four months

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Larry Hagman: a life in pictures

Recognised globally for his role as the dastardly JR Ewing in Dallas, Larry Hagman – who has died aged 81 – worked in showbusiness for his whole career



1952: Hagman entertains US troops stationed in England during the Korean war



1964: Hagman in Fail Safe



1966: With Elizabeth Hartman in Sidney Lumet's The Group



1969: With Barbara Eden in a wedding episode of I Dream of Jeannie



Hagman with Donna Mills in Good Life in the early 70s



1974: Hagman with Ines Des Longchamps and David Essex in Stardust



In The Eagle Has Landed (1976)



1976: With Harvey Keitel and Bill Cosby in Mother Juggs and Speed



1979 - Dallas



Hagman and his mother Mary Martin meet the Queen Mother in 1980



1981: Larry Hagman with his screen wife Linda Gray (as Sue Ellen Ewing)



Hagman as JR Ewing in the 2012 revival of Dallas

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UK hit by flooding



The vehicle in which a man died is removed from a river in Somerset



Evesham



Evesham again



Keynsham, Nr Bristol

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America's Black Friday sales

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Ricky Hatton has announced his retirement from boxing following his loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko in his comeback fight in Manchester.

Hatton, 34, had not fought since 2009, but his return to the ring on Saturday ended with a ninth-round stoppage.

"I needed one more fight to see if I had still got it - and I haven't," he said. "I couldn't have done any better.

"A fighter knows and I know it isn't there any more. I have got to be a man and say it is the end of Ricky Hatton."

Hatton announced his return to the ring in September, 14 months after initially calling time on his career.

His opponent Senchenko, while a year older, had only one defeat on his record and proved a difficult opponent in front of 20,000 fans at the Manchester Arena.

Hatton started brightly and fought aggressively, but tired as his defences weakened.

A body shot to his ribs in the ninth ended the fight, and Hatton left the ring in tears after the fight.

"I got in the best shape I possibly could but if I hadn't been hit with that body shot I would have just scraped over the line," he admitted.

"It's too many hard fights, I've burned the candle at both ends, I've put my body through the mire in and out of the ring."

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Ukrainians light candles next to a monument to victims of the Great Famine in Kiev on Nov. 24, 2012. The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization. More than five million Ukrainians were killed in the famine.

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Each year during Ashoura, Shiite Muslim men & boys whip their backs with chains and cut their heads with knives, drenching themselves in blood to mourn the loss of one of the faith's most revered figures, Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad, who was killed in the 7th century battle of Kerbala.












Looking at the lad, nothing really more needs to be said does it?

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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children headed back to school for the first time Saturday in 10 days, in another indication normal life was returning after cross-border violence in which 166 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed






Palestinian schoolboys look through a hole at their damaged school, run by the United Nations, in Gaza City, on Nov. 24.

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Protests in Egypt

Protests erupt across Egypt after Mohamed Morsi issues a decree granting himself extra powers. The decree orders the retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, officials and security force members accused of killings during the country's revolution. It also exempts all of Morsi's decisions from legal challenge until a new parliament is elected



Anti-Morsi protesters chant slogans in front of the Supreme Judicial Council building in Cairo






An injured protester is led away from clashes between riot police and demonstrators






Protesters pitch tents in Tahrir Square

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Toronto, Canada: Laval Rouge et Or's Philippe Gagnon knocks the helmet from the head of McMaster Marauders' Adam Dickson during their Vanier Cup University Championship football game



Amroha, India: A Shia Muslim stands with a bleeding back during a procession to mark part of Muharram, a month of mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad



Bangkok, Thailand: An anti-government protester wears swimming goggles and cotton bandana to protect him from teargas during a large anti-government protest



Havana, Cuba: Adiel Morales, a musician from Riverside Orchestra, rehearses before performing at the International Press Centre theatre. Cuban officials and musicians have refused to recognise the creation of an orchestra in Miami also named Riverside, and have warned that they will take civil action against the Miami orchestra, that plays the same traditional jazz music, for which the Cuban band is known



San Salvador, El Salvador: Handcuffs hang from at La Esperaza jail. La Esperanza was designed to hold 800 inmates but currently holds 4,700



Nantes, France: Riot gendarmes huddle together during an evacuation operation in an area that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. The new airport is scheduled to be constructed for 2017



Baghdad, Iraq: A Shia Muslim waves a green flag, the traditional colour of Islam, inside the holy shrine of Imam Hussein to mark the Muslim festival of Ashura

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The boxer above looks like he's in his 50's or 60's.

Ricky Hatton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Boxing: Ricky Hatton v Vyacheslav Senchenko

The best images from the fight as the Manchester boxer calls it a day after being knocked out in the ninth round of his comeback by the powerful Ukrainian





















Senchenko hits Hatton with the left hook to the body that wins him the fight












A dejected Hatton after losing the fight

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A driver crashed into railings on an overpass in Beavorton, Ore.

Traffic was stopped in both directions as crews worked to get the driver out of the truck. He did not appear to be hurt. The crash happened around 3:40 p.m.

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Flooding in Godmanchester, Cambs, England

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Brazil dismisses officials over corruption allegations

President Rousseff dismissed all those accused of taking part in the influence peddling ring

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has dismissed a number of senior officials accused of involvement in the latest corruption scandal to hit the government.

Among those sacked are Rosemary de Noronha, who heads the regional office of the presidency in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, and Deputy Attorney General, Jose Weber Holanda.

The officials are accused of influence peddling, fraud and corruption.
They have not yet commented.

The dismissals come as another set of former government officials is being sentenced in an even larger corruption scandal, known as "Mensalao", or Big Monthly Allowance.

The BBC's Gary Duffy in Sao Paulo says that this latest police investigation apparently began after an official who had received a substantial bribe had second thoughts and alerted the authorities

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Mexico arrests man on FBI 10 most wanted list

Joe Luis Saenz is believed to have been working for a Mexican drug cartel

Mexican police say they have captured one of the FBI's top 10 most wanted fugitives, sought on charges of murder, rape and kidnapping.

Joe Luis Saenz, a US national, was held in the western city of Guadalajara.

The 37-year-old is alleged to have shot dead two rival gang members in Los Angeles in 1998 and later that year raped and murdered his ex-girlfriend.

The FBI had been offering up to $100,000 (£62,400) for information leading to his arrest.

Born in California, Mr Saenz also suspected of murdering a fourth victim in Los Angeles County in 2008.

He is believed to have been working for a Mexican drug cartel and had a number of aliases.

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Child jockeys race their horses at a racetrack outside Bima, Indonesia, Nov. 17.


Dozens of child jockeys, some as young as eight-years-old take part in the races. Involving nearly 600 horses they take place around a dusty, oval track of 1,400 meters (nearly one mile). The reward for the winner is a handful of cash for his family and glory for the jockey. The grand prize is one million rupiah ($100).

Those who win their groups get two cows. The chairman of the races' organizing team, Hajji Sukri, denies that there is any danger to the children saying they are all skillful riders and none have been killed or seriously hurt.

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Storms and floods across the UK

More chaos expected across much of Britain after torrential rains and fierce winds created havoc in the south-west

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A sign is seen in front of homes destroyed by a fire during Hurricane Sandy, in the Breezy Point neighborhood in the Queens borough of New York November 24, 2012.



A French riot gendarme secures the area as evacuation operations continue on land that will become the new airport in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France, November 24, 2012.



Retired paramilitary policemen cry during their farewell ceremony in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, November 24, 2012.



People dressed in the historic uniforms of the Imperial Russian army take part in a re-enactment of the 1812 Battle of Berezina, to mark the 200th anniversary of the battle, near the village of Bryli, some 115 km (71 miles) east of Minsk November 24, 2012.

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Believers wait to pray in the Grotto, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus, in the Church of the Nativity at the beginning of the Christmas season in the West Bank city of Bethlehem November 24, 2012.



Grasshopper Club (GC) supporters light flares during his team's Swiss Super League soccer match against FC Sion in Sion November 24, 2012



Ethnic Miao women wearing their traditional gowns wait to perform before their new year's day in Leishan county, southeast Guizhou province November 23, 2012



A staff member watches as a toy train travels along the 2.888-kilometer plastic track during an event organized by toy manufacturer Mattel to set a Guinness World Record in Shanghai November 24, 2012.



A demonstrator taunts police as he is sprayed by a water cannon during an anti-airport protest march in Nantes, western France, November 24, 2012

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Bangladesh factory fire



More than 100 people were killed in the fire which swept through a clothes factory







A number of people died after jumping from the building to escape the inferno.















Friends and relatives gathered at the scene desperate for news on their loved ones