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/ 15 May 2002

Nigerian airline industry set for a bumpy ride

As the Lagos-bound Boeing 727 drops through the thick cloud covering Nigeria’s swampy coastal lowlands, a nervous passenger crosses himself and says a brief prayer. The concerned business traveller is just hoping the flight touches down safely, but he might also find room in his prayers for Nigeria’s beleaguered private aviation sector. On May 4 […]

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/ 15 May 2002

More tests on mystery Venus injury

WTA medical staff were on Wednesday set to carry out more medical tests on the mystery injury that forced world number one Venus Williams to pull out of the 1,244-million-dollar Tennis Masters Series event at short notice. The American, seeded one here, told WTA officials just half an hour before her match with Russia’s Anna […]

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/ 15 May 2002

CBS TV shows tape of Pearl’s execution

A US television company has broadcast a video tape showing scenes directly preceding the execution of Daniel Pearl, the American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan earlier this year. The tape, shown by CBS News late on Tuesday, begins with Pearl giving his captors a brief description of his roots. ”My father’s Jewish. […]