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/ 6 December 2005
A spectacular meteor shower turned night into day across a large swathe of Western Australia at the weekend, witnesses said. ”It lit up the countryside for hundreds of kilometres around the southwest of Western Australia,” astronomer Peter Birch told ABC radio of the meteor flare late on Saturday night.
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/ 6 December 2005
Simon Starling, an installation artist who dismantled a shed and rode its pieces down one of Europe’s main rivers before putting it back together again, was named on Monday as the winner of the Turner Prize, Britain’s most controversial art award. ”I don’t like to be thought of as eccentric because that’s not what my work is about,” he told the audience.
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/ 6 December 2005
Myanmar’s ruling generals on Monday opened a round of talks on drafting a new Constitution and steering the isolated country toward what the junta calls ”disciplined democracy”. ”This is the first step in the transition to democracy, and it is the most crucial step. Genuine and disciplined democracy — there is no other way, this is the way,” said Lieutenant General Thein Sein.
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/ 6 December 2005
Condoleezza Rice on Monday reacted to public anger over secret CIA prisons by saying that United States intelligence operations had saved European lives and had been conducted in cooperation with European governments. In the Bush administration’s first defence of its policy of rendition, the secretary of state admitted that the US had flown terror suspects abroad for interrogation.
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/ 6 December 2005
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St Petersburg, Florida-based website, said on Monday.
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/ 6 December 2005
The Proteas showed glimpses of their attacking potential but again failed to produce a killer punch against Western Australia by lunch on the second day of their three-day tour match at the WACA Ground in Perth on Tuesday. Half an hour before the interval the hosts declared their innings closed at 391 for 8 after losing three early wickets at the start the day.
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/ 6 December 2005
South African transport utility Transnet on Monday reported operating profit of R3,1-billion for the six months ended September 30 — almost the same level as the corresponding period a year ago. Revenues were 8% up at R24,2-billion, while capital and reserves have surged 70% to R23,7-billion.
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/ 6 December 2005
Pregs Govender, Fatima Hassan, Kaamilah Joseph, Rhoda Kadalie, Patricia Kumalo, Alice Kwaramba-Kanengoni, Jackie Loffell, Colleen Lowe Morna, Evangelina Shirley Mabusela, Nomkhosi Sylvia Mdluli, Sheila Meintjes, Shereen Mills, Janine Moolman, Siphokazi (Sipho) Mthathi, Marcella Naidoo, Farai Samhungu, Delphine Serumaga, Tammy Shefer, Carrie Shelver, Natalie Simons, Elinor Sisulu, Joan van Niekerk , Lisa Vetten
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/ 6 December 2005
The government is forging ahead with developing mini-reactor nuclear technology despite the fact that cost estimates have exploded, foreign and local investors have either quit or appear to be distancing themselves from the project and new investors are conspicuous by their absence.
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/ 6 December 2005
The government’s "Reds" revolution to fundamentally alter electricity distribution is being changed again. Instead of six regional electricity distributors (Reds), there will now be seven, as the government admitted recently that there were "weaknesses" in its initial blueprint.