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Southampton footballer Sadio Mané scores fastest ever Premier League hat-trick in under 3 minutes-
Southampton winger Sadio Mane described the fastest hat-trick in Premier League history as his “best moment in football”. The Senegalese, 23, netted three goals in two minutes and 56 seconds in the 6-1 win against Aston Villa on Saturday. It surpasses Robbie Fowler’s hat-trick of four minutes and 32 seconds for Liverpool against Arsenal on Sunday, 28 August 1994, aged just 19. “In Senegal they will be happy for me. I have many fans there,” said Mane. The winger opened the scoring at St Mary’s in the 13th minute and completed his trio of goals by the 16th minute. [BBC] Mané’s trio are not the fastest ever – see List of the Day
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David Lynch rejoins Twin Peaks cult classic revival –
Film Director David Lynch has announced that he will direct the sequel of the cult classic Twin Peaks after a month-long deadlock over budget concerns. The surrealist filmmaker made the announcement on Twitter. The US television network Showtime said last year that the series, based on a small-town murder in Twin Peaks, would return as a limited series in 2016, 25 years after its last airing. Correspondents say that Mr Lynch’s apparent about-turn has been celebrated by diehard fans – and by Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan, – who played FBI Agent Dale Cooper in the original series and is tipped to reprise his role.
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American Pharoah wins Kentucky Derby for Espinoza & Baffert –
Favourite American Pharoah won the Kentucky Derby to give jockey Victor Espinoza back-to-back wins in the race before a record crowd of 170,513.
The Bob Baffert-trained horse had won four times on the trot coming into the ‘Run for the Roses’ at Churchill Downs. American Pharaoh went to the front just past the final turn and finished ahead of Firing Line, trained by Englishman Simon Callaghan. Another Baffert-trained horse, Dortmund, finished third.
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Armed conflicts and attacks

• The Unites States claims that senior ISIS commander Abu Sayyaf is killed in a United States special operations forces raid within what is officially Syrian territory. (CNN)

Law and crime

• An Egyptian court sentences the deposed President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi to death for his part in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. (CNN)
• Sinai insurgency: In response to Morsi’s sentence, gunmen fatally shoot three Egyptian judges in Sinai Peninsula. (AFP via Al Arabiya News)
• An Egyptian court bans hardcore football clubs over terrorism accusations. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• A passenger train collides with a tractor and trailer on a level crossing at Ibbenbüren, Germany. Two people are killed and twenty are injured.(Metro)

Health

• Preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units, particularly those with catheters and intravenous lines, are at high risk for bacteremia, a form ofsepsis, bloodstream infections that can cause lasting brain injury. A new study may change how people think about these infections. It suggests that inflammation is as important to address as the infection itself. Using a novel mouse model of bloodstream infections in newborns, infectious disease physician-researcher Ofer Levy demonstrated that bacteremia can damage the brain even when the bacteria don’t actually get into the central nervous system. The findings were published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. (Harvard Medical School) (Journal article)

Sports

• American Pharoah wins the 2015 Preakness Stakes, and, in the wake of the death of Freddie Gray, is described as a sporting event that “…could help start the healing process.”

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