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Henrik Sedin (back) and his twin brother Daniel (front)

Henrik Sedin and his identical twin brother Daniel Sedin (born 1980) are Swedish professional ice hockey players with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Henrik (pictured rear) is the team's captain and all-time leading scorer, and Daniel (pictured front) serves as alternate captain in home games. Having played together throughout their careers, the pair are known for their effectiveness playing off one another. They began their professional careers in the Swedish Elite League with Modo Hockey in 1997 and were joint recipients of the 1999 Golden Puck as Swedish player of the year. Daniel was selected second overall by the Canucks in the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, and Henrik was picked third. Henrik was the team's leading points scorer from 2007–08 to 2009–10, and in 2009–10, he won the Hart Memorial and Art Ross Trophies as the NHL's most valuable player and leading point-scorer, respectively. Daniel won the Art Ross Trophy the following season. They were co-recipients of the Victoria Stipendium as Swedish athletes of the year in 2011. Internationally, they have helped Sweden to victory at the 2006 Winter Olympics and the 2013 World Championships. (Full articles: Henrik Sedin – Daniel Sedin)

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In the news

In sailing, Oracle Team USA (boat pictured) defeats Team New Zealand to win the America's Cup.
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 300 people.
Masked gunmen attack a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 67 people.
In the German federal election, the CDU party, led by Angela Merkel, wins a plurality of Bundestag seats.
In Gaelic football, Dublin defeat Mayo to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.
Former Chinese politician Bo Xilai is convicted of corruption and sentenced to life imprisonment.
At least 75 people are killed in a suicide bombing at a church in Peshawar, Pakistan.

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On this day...

September 26: European Day of Languages; Dominion Day in New Zealand (1907)

1087 – William II (pictured), son of William the Conqueror, was crowned King of England.
1493 – Pope Alexander VI issued the papal bull Dudum siquidem, the last of the Bulls of Donation, marking the beginning of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI, he supposedly shouted out, "Don't shoot, G-Men ('government men')!", which became a nickname for FBI agents.
1942 – The Holocaust: Nazi official August Frank issued a memorandum containing a great deal of operational detail in how Jews should be "evacuated".
1983 – Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a possible worldwide nuclear war by deliberately certifying what otherwise appeared to be an impending attack by the United States as a false alarm.

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Loch Torridon is a sea loch on the west coast of Scotland in the Northwest Highlands. The 15 mile- (25 km-) long body of water is home to several islets and a prominent prawn and shellfish fishery.

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