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“We’ve been doubted since Day One,” said Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz, who caught what proved to be the game-winning touchdown that wrested the Super Bowl title away from the New England Patriots yesterday. The Eagles were underdogs throughout the NFL playoffs, and just as most expected little from fictional Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa, few onlookers outside the City of Brotherly Love expected them to beat the defending Super Bowl champions.

Stock markets were routed around the globe today, with European indexes opening lower and bond yields rising as resurgent U.S. inflation raised the possibility central banks would tighten policy more aggressively than had been expected.

The kind of pay raises for which American workers have waited years are now here for a broadening swath of the country, according to a Reuters analysis of state-by-state data that suggests falling unemployment has finally begun boosting wages.

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Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee left a South Korean jail a free man after a panel of judges suspended his sentence, a surprise decision that sent shockwaves through a country that is a mere four days away from hosting the Winter Olympics. On Friday, when the Games will be officially launched at the opening ceremony, spectators fortunate enough to have got a ticket will have to wrap up at the outdoor stadium at the Olympic Plaza where sub-zero temperatures will be hard for spectators to sustain.

Iraqis who have come home to Mosul’s Old City knew it would be hard living in the rubble left by the battle against Islamic State, but there is one aspect of their surroundings they are finding unbearable seven months on. “We can live without electricity, but we need the government to clear the corpses," said Abdelrazaq Abdullah, back with his wife and three children in the quarter where the militants made their last stand in July against Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces.

Commentary: A bill passed by Poland’s senate that would establish prison terms for anyone who suggests that Poles were culpable during the Holocaust, has backfired badly, writes Alex Storozynski, president emeritus of The Kosciuszko Foundation. "Giving archivists authority to defend a country’s reputation will not suppress painful realities or opposing views. It will do the opposite. It already has."

The bullet-ridden corpses are found everywhere in the sprawling portside shanty town in Manila. "We can't really count them because there's been so many," a woman tells @donditawatao http://reut.rs/2DVQaYM @reuterspictures

11:57 AM - FEB 5, 2018