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(CNN) -- Alex Ferguson's decision to step down as Manchester United manager after more than a quarter of a century in charge leaves the club's hierarchy with the unenviable task of replacing the Scot, given his phenomenal success at Old Trafford. Ferguson has won more than 30 trophies, including 13 English league championships and two European Cups. It is a record that most managers might wilt under given the level of expectation that will inevitably accompany Ferguson's successor. "It's impossible to emulate Ferguson and deliver what he has done," according to former Monaco technical director and chief executive Tor-Kristian Karlsen.



Answer: Tor-Kristian Karlsen's verdict: "Moyes is the favorite, but I think he is the conservative option.


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Upset at President Barack Obama's policies on Iran and Syria, members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are threatening a rift with the United States that could take the alliance between Washington and the kingdom to its lowest point in years. Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief is vowing that the kingdom will make a 'major shift' in relations with the United States to protest perceived American inaction over Syria's civil war as well as recent U.S. overtures to Iran, a source close to Saudi policy said on Tuesday. Prince Bandar bin Sultan told European diplomats that the United States had failed to act effectively against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was growing closer to Tehran, and had failed to back Saudi support for Bahrain when it crushed an anti-government revolt in 2011, the source said.

The source declined to provide more details of

Answer: Bandar bin Sultan's talks with the diplomats, which took place in the past few days.


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The parents of a 21-year-old Australian jihadi bride who ran off to Syria to marry a playboy turned extremist claim she has been ‘brainwashed’. Zehra Duman, from Melbourne, reportedly married Mahmoud Abdullatif on December 11 with the pair announcing their marriage on social media with the hashtag #TheIslamicState, the Herald Sun reports. ‘She’s been brainwashed, she wasn’t like this three or four months ago,’ her father Davut Duman told the paper. Scroll down for video Zehra Duman, from Melbourne, was reportedly just a 'normal' Turkish girl from Melbourne four months ago The pair sickeningly showed of a gun as part of their mahr (dowry) for the bride and Duman is now believed to be living in the murderous Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa.

Mahmoud Abdullatif has continued to use his social media accounts since fleeing

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Melbourne to join the Islamic State in Syria