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Large Hadron Collider restarts after two-year rebuild –
The Large Hadron Collider has restarted, with protons circling the machine’s 27km tunnel for the first time since 2013. Particle beams have now travelled in both directions, inside parallel pipes, at a whisker below the speed of light. Actual collisions will not begin for at least another month, but they will take place with nearly double the energy the LHC reached during its first run. Scientists hope to glimpse a “new physics” beyond the Standard Model. [BBC]
Cristiano Ronaldo scores five as Real Madrid thrash Granada 9-1 in Easter morning La Liga clash –
Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo struck the quickest hat-trick of his career on his way to netting five goals in a 9-1 drubbing of second-from-bottom Granada on Sunday, lifting Real to within a point of La Liga leaders Barcelona. Portugal forward Ronaldo struck three times in eight minutes in the first half and added two headers after the break on a festive, sun-drenched afternoon at the Bernabeu to help fire Real to their biggest victory in almost half a century. [Daily Telegraph]
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Real Madrid highest transfer fees paid –
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Gareth Bale | Tottenham | 78–85.3 | Sep-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cristiano Ronaldo | Manchester United | 80 | Jun-09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | James Rodríguez | Monaco | 63 | Jul-14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Kaká | Milan | 56 | Jul-09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Zinedine Zidane | Juventus | 45 | Jul-01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Luís Figo | Barcelona | 37 | Jul-00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Asier Illarramendi | Real Sociedad | 34 | Jul-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Karim Benzema | Lyon | 30 | Aug-09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Xabi Alonso | Liverpool | 30 | Aug-09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Luka Modrić | Tottenham | 30 | Sep-12 |
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- Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven says that neither he nor any other of his cabinet-level ministers will be attending the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Moscow due to “Russia’s actions in Ukraine”. In this Sweden joins a large group of European countries unofficially boycotting the May-day parade. (The Local)
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- Dozens of Chinese taxi drivers attempt a mass suicide in Beijing to protest the way taxi companies renewed their vehicle leases. (The New York Times) (The Telegraph)
- Rolling Stone magazine retracts a discredited story claiming an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. (The Independent)
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- Giant pandas Xi Mei and Lu Lu break the record for the longest mating session ever recorded at the Sichuan Giant Panda Research Center, lasting 18 minutes and three seconds. (The Telegraph) (The Strait Times)
- The Large Hadron Collider at CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland has been restarted after a two-year conversion. (The Guardian)
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