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Hollywood superstar Leonardo Di Caprio helped save a man who had fallen off a yacht and was treading water for hours. Caprio was on his own luxury vessel in the area when he heard a panicked distress call from a nearby boat regarding a passenger that fell overboard. The man had been in the water for 11 hours when the actor found him.

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Driven Arts and Graffiti Games have announced that their World War 2 based first-person shooter game will come out of early access by the end of the month. Days of War is an online multiplayer game that aims to have a much higher skill ceiling than its competitors. The game has so far been poorly reviewed by critics, especially for having a low player base.

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Atletico Madrid has defeated Barcelona 3-2 in an action-packed match that went back and forth until the very end. This victory has pushed Atletico into the Spanish Super Cup final against Real Madrid. The Super Cup has a different format this season as it has also included the runners up from La Liga and Copa Del Ray, thus making it a four-team competition.

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Joe Franklin, a 17-year-old high school dropout recently sold a pair of sneakers for a whopping amount of $78,000. Joe is currently making $25,000 in an average week by buying and selling his exclusive collection shoes. The London-based teenager started his business at the age of 12 by using $400 Birthday savings to buy a pair of rare trainers. Joe sold Back to the Future Nike Air Mags for $78,000

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Royal couple Prince Harry and his wife, the former American TV show actress Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have announced that they will be withdrawing from their prominent roles in the British royal family, and instead seek to become financially independent while preferring to spend more time in the United States. The decision comes as a shock to both the royal family and British media.

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The Spanish Super Cup semi-final between Real Madrid and Valencia in Saudi Arabia ended in a comfortable win for Madrid at 3-1, with Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Isco scoring a goal each to give Madrid a 3-0 lead, with Valencia's Daniel Parejo scoring the only goal for his team off of a penalty. With the win, Real Madrid proceeds to the Super Cup finals.

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US President Donald Trump responded to Iran's attack yesterday on US bases in Iraq by stating that no US casualties were caused and that he would not be responding with more military action but with stricter sanctions. US sanctions on Iran's oil exports have crippled its currency, with Iran declaring that any new negotiations demanded by the US must be preempted by the lifting of these sanctions.

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Valve's recently conducted Steam Hardware and Software Survey for December 2019 has revealed that Simplified Chinese is now the most widely used language among users, with 37.8 percent of respondents reporting they used Chinese as a language of choice. However, experts say the methodology used by Steam is not scientific and may lead to biased market estimates.

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A decade-long study led by comparative physiologist Timothy Clark at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia has challenged the long-held notion among marine biologists that rising levels of ocean acidification will disturb fish behavior. The research analysed individuals belonging to six distinct reef species and found no change in behavior for levels of acidification consistent with climate models for this century.

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Following last year's landmark decision to present the Oscar's without a host, after comedian Kevin Hart left the role over a Twitter scandal, which was the first time the Oscars did not have a host since 1989, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the decision to proceed without a host this year too after last year's Oscars demonstrated a rating improvement of 12%.

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Canadian-born pop star Justin Bieber, 25 years old, recently revealed on his Instagram that he has been suffering from and being treated for Lyme disease for the past two years. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection most commonly carried by ticks, with 300,000 people in the US diagnosed with Lyme disease every year. Bieber just released his first song in nearly four years, titled "Yummy".

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German car manufacturer Daimler's Mercedes-Benz family of cars is expected to be this year's bestselling premium car brand, with record sales in Germany, China ,and the US totaling 2.34 million units. Rival company BMW sold more cars as a group than Daimler, with total sales of 2.52 million cars compared to Daimler's 2.46 million.

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For the first time in the company's history, billionaire inventor Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla's stock increased 5 percent to take the company's per-share price to 492.14 USD, with a total market capitalization of 89 billion USD, more than the combined value of General Motors and Ford at 50 and 37 billion USD respectively. GM and Ford still far outweigh Tesla in total numbers of sales.

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After electronics giant Samsung's chief Young Sohn incorrectly claimed last month that the company had sold over a million units of its new foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold, Samsung co-CEO DJ Koh has now stated that the company has sales figures between 400,000 to 500,000, which is close to Samsung's half-million target for the Galaxy Fold but still far short of its sales of flagship smartphones.

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The 34-year-old Bollywood star Deepika Padukone, while in New Delhi promoting her new movie Chhapaak, joined the students of India's elite institution Jawaharlal Nehru University in protests against the suspected involvement of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in an attack on a recent student demonstration in JNU. Students and teachers were protesting against a hike in hostel charges when they were assaulted and broken up by masked armed men.

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After Iranian forces attacked US bases in Iraq to avenge the US assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the S&P 500 fell by 1.7 percent in the span of a few hours, but with the United States' measured response, no US casualties and no further escalations from Iran, the market appears to have stabilized, and is on the upturn again.

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For its new set of postage stamps, Royal Mail announced that it would be commemorating the development and importance of UK video games, citing them as an important part of the country's cultural footprint in the world. The stamps will feature designs from classic British video games from the 1980s and 90s such as space simulator Elite, the iconic action adventure Tomb Raider, and Worms.

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Manchester City outclassed a stunned Manchester United 3-1 in their match up for the first leg of the Carabao Cup's semi-final, which Manchester City are defending. City players Bernardo Silva, Kevin De Bruyne and Riyad Mahrez scored a goal each before the second half, giving their team an insurmountable 3-0 lead, with United player Marcus Rashford's goal in the second half providing little in the way of consolation.

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The Iranian military attacked a number of US bases in Iraq, where the US still maintains a presence of more than 5,000 soldiers, to avenge last week's US assassination of top Iranian military official Major-General Qassem Soleimani in an airstrike in Baghdad. The attack occurred hours after Soleimani's funeral ceremony was concluded US President Donald Trump's initial response on Twitter were merely the words "All is well!"

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A newly released game by Chinese indie developers, called Sands of Salzaar, has soared to number 31 in Steam's most played games within merely weeks of its launch, even though the game is only available in Simplified Chinese. Sands of Salzaar is an open world RPG set in a vast desert, and currently has over 2,600 Mostly Positive reviews on Steam, with 21,000 concurrent players.

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A research team led by James Rhoads, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, studied a trio of galaxies in the northern sky which are so are away that the light reaching Earth from them is only 680 million years old. Observation of the ancient galaxies has uncovered new evidence for why the early universe's hydrogen underwent ionization: it was due to the galaxies' high energy UV radiation.

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With the departure of Dan Romer as composer from the new James Bond movie "No Time to Die" over creative disagreements, renowned Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer has been hired as a last-minute replacement, with the movie set to release in April 2020. Zimmer is widely known for putting iconic scores to movies such as Inception, Interstellar, Pirates of the Caribbean and Gladiator, among many others.

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Samsung, the South Korean smartphone and television giant and also the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world, is reporting a sharp decrease in quarterly profits for the second consecutive year. The company's fourth quarterly profits are expected to be 7.1 trillion KRW, a decrease of 34 percent from last year, when Samsung reported a decline of 29 percent in operating profits.

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A cyber crime group known as REvil and also Sodinokibi launched an attack against UK foreign exchange company Travelex on New Year's Eve, forcing Travelex to take its systems offline and conduct operations with pen and paper. The group claims to have downloaded 5 GB of user data from Travelex's servers over six months, and have demanded 6 million USD as ransom.

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After Iran vowed to avenge the US assassination of top military official Major-General Qassem Soleimani, US president Donald Trump stated on Twitter that the US armed forces had demarcated 52 cultural sites in Iran to assault in the event of a counterattack by Iran, a violation of international law, and the Pentagon has recently contradicted Trump's statement saying the US has developed no such plans.

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