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/ 4 December 2005
Time Warner is girding for battle with Carl Icahn as the billionaire corporate raider steps up his offensive against the world’s biggest media-entertainment company. Icahn, a financier who is one of the wealthiest Americans and has a history of hostile takeover moves, controls only about 2,8% of the shares of Time Warner with his partners.
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/ 4 December 2005
”This is my day,” said Kenny Richey. ”My day is nothing. My cell is 10ft by 7ft, and I’m in it 23 hours a day. It does have a TV, but right now it’s bust, and they don’t seem in much of a hurry to get it fixed. The window is three inches wide, but I keep it covered. I can’t bear to see the outside and not be part of it.”
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/ 4 December 2005
The world scored an abysmal two out of 10 for its efforts in trying to save the planet from environmental mayhem this year. That is the stark view of the World Economic Form, which has blasted governments for failing to make progress on global warming and on the safeguarding of the world’s endangered environment.
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/ 4 December 2005
Rukia, aged 14, leaps forward excitedly at the books spread on the floor. She is orphaned, survives on a diet of tea, bread and maize and lives in the African bush in a home built of twigs and dried grass. Books give her a reason to hope. ”I want to be a doctor when I leave school,” she says in flawless English.
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Saturday lashed out at the media, accusing them of acting in bad faith, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported. Zuma, who has been indicted on corruption charges, believes there is a conspiracy against him.
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/ 4 December 2005
George Best’s son Calum thanked the ”amazing” people of Northern Ireland, returning the warmth shown to his football legend father during an emotionally-charged funeral for the province’s sporting idol. The 24-year-old said he had been greatly moved and strengthened by the tens of thousands of mourners who packed the rain-soaked streets of Belfast.
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/ 4 December 2005
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will inflame the transatlantic row over America’s alleged torture of terror suspects in secret jails by telling British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and other European officials to ”back off”. Human rights groups have alleged the CIA is flying terror suspects to secret jails in planes that have used airports throughout Europe.
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/ 3 December 2005
Speedster Brett Lee stepped up in the absence of Glenn McGrath to inspire Australia to an overwhelming 147-run win over New Zealand in a one-day cricket international at Eden Park on Saturday. Lee was simply too quick for the New Zealand top order, sending the ball down around 155kph, and his three for five off six overs broke the back of the innings.
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/ 3 December 2005
Britain on Friday joined a major food aid campaign for Zimbabwe to help three million people in the next six months, the United Nations World Food Programme said. Despite differences with the government of President Robert Mugabe, Britain donated £10-million (-million) to buy 40 000 tonnes of food.
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/ 3 December 2005
George Best was to be buried on Saturday following a grandiose funeral expected to bring his native Belfast to a unified, bittersweet standstill. Best’s body was kept overnight in Protestant east Belfast at his family home, where after a private religious service it will be transported to the Stormont Parliamentary Building.