Ticket error left man behind as his wife boarded doomed flight
A ticket mix-up left a man in the airport terminal in Tehran while his wife boarded the flight that crashed soon after take-off on Wednesday, killing everyone on board.

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Man who lost family home in blaze wins $1m lottery jackpot
A bushfire victim whose uninsured family home was destroyed has become a millionaire after using his wife's lucky numbers in the Australian lottery.

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Governor plans to legalise cannabis across New York
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has pledged for the second year in a row to legalise recreational cannabis.

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Canada PM says Iranian missile may have brought down jetliner
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said evidence indicates an Iranian missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner and that the strike &may have been unintentional&.

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Unions rally in bid to defeat Macron on pension reforms
French trade unions disrupted rail services, shut schools and brought demonstrators on to the streets in cities across France yesterday in a make-or-break push to force President Emmanuel Macron to abandon his planned pension reform.

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DUP not yet ready to sign up to proposals for Stormont powersharing - Donaldson
The DUP is working towards a deal to restore Stormont powersharing - but cannot yet sign up to proposals to revive the institutions, a senior MP has said.

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