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/ 11 October 2006
Tiger Woods has won six United States PGA Tour events in a row and is producing some of the best golf of his career, but coach Hank Haney says there is still room for improvement. Haney, who helped guide Woods through a swing change that has revitalised his game, said the world number one has been hitting his irons so accurately that his short game has been neglected.
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/ 11 October 2006
For some, it may be a sign that prison life has become too cushy. For others, it represents the ultimate humiliation as the final shred of dignity is stripped away. At a county jail in Texas — maximum capacity four males and one female — inmates are dressed in pink jumpsuits. They sleep on pink sheets and wear pink slippers. Even the walls and the bars of the cells are painted pink.
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/ 11 October 2006
Pop star Madonna has adopted a one-year-old African boy, his father claimed, saying he was happy his son would escape a life of poverty in Malawi, British tabloid newspapers reported on Wednesday. The Sun splashed a picture of the singer dressed in a safari hat and smiling, with a young child it said she had chosen at an orphanage strapped to her back.
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/ 11 October 2006
United Nations Security Council members were split on Tuesday over the sanctions to be imposed against North Korea in response to its claimed nuclear weapons test. The five permanent Security Council members held meetings to discuss how to force North Korea to abandon its nuclear ambitions.
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/ 11 October 2006
Madagascan police fired tear gas to break up an opposition rally and arrested six people on Tuesday as the party’s exiled leader vowed to return to the Indian Ocean island to run in upcoming elections. Officials in the eastern city of Toamasina said security forces were compelled to act when members of the Arema party left a compound where they were holding their annual convention.
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/ 11 October 2006
When entering Potchefstroom, on your way to Aardklop, one of South Africa’s biggest arts festivals, the concentration camp into which Afrikaans women and children were herded during the South African Anglo-Boer War is largely hidden from view. Cars speed past the gravesites without a glance, their mostly white, Afrikaans-speaking occupants intently focused on arriving on time for their favourite "shows".
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/ 11 October 2006
A new keyboard has been developed that will allow typing in all 11 official languages in South Africa, said Dwayne Bailey this week, director of <i><a href="http://www.translate.org.za/" target="_blank" class="standardtext">translate.org.za</a></i>, a non-governmental organisation focused on the localisation of open-source software into all 11 official languages. The keyboard will allow a person to type all characters needed by the Venda, Northern Sotho, Tswana and Afrikaans languages.
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/ 11 October 2006
Caroline Chileka has had to adapt her lifestyle to look after her four brothers and sisters following their parents’ death from HIV/Aids. The schoolgirl, who comes from the southern Mwanza province, is one of 700Â 000 youngsters in Malawi who have been left orphans by the disease which has ravaged so much of Southern Africa.
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/ 10 October 2006
Rescuers lugged heavy equipment underground for kilometres, abseiled, waded through flooded tunnels and finally gave up searching on Tuesday for a man who fell in an abandoned mine near Barberton. ”We went through hell the last three or four days,” said Inspector Danie Theron, of the White River police search-and-rescue unit.