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Cook needs to find a way to fix his image problems quickly, or he will face a party challenge that threatens to convert him from an apparent sitting duck into a dead duck politically.

- Cook looks like a sitting duck - or maybe dead duck, By Lee Davidson, Deseret News, September 15, 1999.

2. Top seed Rafa Nadal pummelled Croatia’s Marin Cilic into submission with a brutish 6-2 6-4 6-3 victory to reach the Australian Open quarter-finals on Monday.

Nadal’s win under the Melbourne floodlight kept alive the world number one’s bid to become only the third man, and first since 1969, to hold all four grand slam titles at once.

The Spaniard looked far sharper than in his first three matches, hustling to chase down balls and rifling them back past 15th seed Cilic, before striking his trademark gunslinger’s pose with a bellowing cry of “Vamos!”

The first set was over in a blur for Cilic, a sitting duck for Nadal as he attempted to slug it out toe-to-toe, only to get passed time and again by the 2009 champion.

- Nadal nails Cilic to reach Australian Open quarter-finals, Reuters, January 24, 2011.

3. The sinking of the RMS Laconia marked a major turning point in World War II.

When war broke out, the ship was commandeered by the British Government for use as a troopship and fitted with eight six-inch guns.

However, on 12 December 1942, it was torpedoed by a German U-boat off the coast of West Africa.

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