Question: Context: The final major piece of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was to hit just after midnight, completing a ring of crater-like plumes of swirling superheated gas and debris thousands of miles across. "It hit Jupiter like a string of machine-gun bullets" said Eugene Shoemaker, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., who helped discover the comet last year.

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Answer: Hypothesis: The Shoemaker-Levy comet hit Jupiter.

Question: Context: Britain said, Friday, that it has barred cleric, Omar Bakri, from returning to the country from Lebanon, where he was released by police after being detained for 24 hours.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Bakri was briefly detained, but was released.

Question: Context: The BBC would like to apologise to both the Queen and Annie Leibovitz for any upset this may have caused. - BBC statement The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has apologised to Queen Elizabeth II and photographer, Annie Leibovitz, after a trailer for a documentary suggested she had walked out of a portrait sitting when the photographer asked her to remove her crown. The trailer shows a clip of the photographer telling the Queen, "I think it will look better without the crown because the garter robe is so..."

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Answer: Hypothesis: Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the Commonwealth.

Question: Context: The United States government has filed a civil lawsuit against BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. (BPXA) alleging that the company "violated federal clean air and water laws" by "illegally discharging" more than 200,000 gallons crude oil during two oil spills in 2006 on Alaska's North Slope in Prudhoe Bay. BPXA previously pleaded guilty to one count of criminal negligence in illegally discharging the oil and paid US$20 million in damages. As a result of the plea, the lawsuit was filed saying that they "failed" to prepare for such a disaster by implementing "certain [sic] spill prevention measures" as the law requires.

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Hypothesis: Prudhoe Bay is situated in North Slope.