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/ 24 February 2006
Chelsea, who know something about persuading referees to send off opponents,
see the tables turned. Losing with grace is not nice. Particularly when the object of so much of the post-match abuse on Wednesday night at Stamford Bridge was Messi, who will not be 19 until June. The boy’s magic.
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/ 24 February 2006
With weekday coaching sessions for boys aged eight to 16, matches against other clubs at the weekends and plenty going on in the school holidays, Leeds Road playing fields Huddersfield Town is a brisk, professional place — and, like all of the Football League’s academies and centres of excellence, currently a worried one, too.
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/ 24 February 2006
Somehow this week, true football lovers need to shift gear from the magic of Madrid to the cacophony of Cardiff: from the glorious Gunners shooting down Real Madrid on Tuesday to the more mundane prospect of Manchester United winning the League Cup on Sunday.
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/ 24 February 2006
Gold miner DRDGold is looking to diversify into the rest of Africa and is examining the potential of two gold-mining properties in two different African countries, DRDGold strategic development officer Ilja Graulich said on Thursday. DRDGold started the process of diversifying into Africa in November last year, he said.
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/ 24 February 2006
Mike van Graan is back with the promise of fewer art attacks.
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/ 24 February 2006
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If the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) loses its eleventh hour bid to contest the city of Cape Town in next Wednesday’s election it will take out interdicts to prevent all other parties from contesting it too, the party’s lawyer told the Constitutional Court on Thursday.
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/ 24 February 2006
At least 51 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a fire swept through a textile factory in the Bangladeshi city of Chittagong, officials said on Friday. Up to 500 people were believed to be working in the factory when the fire broke out on Thursday, and several platoons of army troops took over the rescue operation after the firefighters struggled to contain the blaze.
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/ 24 February 2006
A former Enron vice-president of investor relations testified that in the months before the company failed in late 2001, she witnessed behavior by top company executives that concerned her but did not think crimes were being committed. ”I observed events that I thought were wrong, so I did make a conclusion. I didn’t make a conclusion that it was legal or illegal,” Paula Rieker said under cross-examination.
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/ 24 February 2006
Rescuers in Moscow dug through wreckage on Thursday night in a desperate search for survivors after the domed roof of a market collapsed, killing at least 56 people. The glass and steel structure covering Baumansky market in the east of the city caved in at about 5am, apparently under the weight of a heavy snowfall.
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/ 24 February 2006
Matsushita Electric Industrial’s newly appointed president on Friday expressed confidence that the company and its partners would win the battle for dominance in next-generation DVD players. Fumio Otsubo, named on Thursday as head of the Japanese electronics giant behind the Panasonic brand, said he would uphold his predecessor’s policy of promoting the Blu-ray standard.