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Reece Walsh hat-trick drives Australia past Samoa and into Rugby League World Cup final

Kangaroos beat Toa Samoa 44-12 at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium New Zealand await Australia in next weekend’s men’s final This was supposed to be Samoa’s chance to challenge the wilting Kangaroos, whose patchy recent performance made them appear vulnerable – to make up for the loss in the last World Cup final, when Australia kept Toa Samoa scoreless for much of that defeat at Old Trafford. So when the famed Siva Tau, Samoa’s pre-match ritual, brought the Samoans and the Australians close enough to kiss, the anticipation for this semi-final could not have been higher; the match seemed almost certain

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How the story of ‘the girl of 100 portraits’ inspired two books

Luc Corlouër made ‘deal’ with Prix Goncourt winner Philippe Jaenada over his research into model Louise Cansot, murdered in Paris in 1949 For almost eight decades the artists’ model Louise Cansot, the subject of the novel winning France’s most prestigious literary prize this year, was one of Paris’s forgotten murder victims. After her body was found near the Seine in September 1949, city police wrote off the young woman, immortalised as “the girl of 100 portraits”, as loose, libertine and – worse – an unmarried mother. They closed their investigation after just four months having made little e

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