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Nineteen-year-old Dean Elgar recorded his highest first-class score and his maiden century for the Eagles on Saturday. His 155 not out helped them reach 336/5 on the third day of their match against the Titans. Rain and bad light interfered with play on the third day of the match between the Warriors and the Lions in East London.
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/ 11 February 2007
Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi has been banned for four one-day internationals (ODIs) after being found guilty of breaching the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) code of conduct during his side’s ODI against South Africa at Centurion. The charge was laid by ICC CEO Malcolm Speed.
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/ 11 February 2007
World finance leaders targeted China on Saturday, urging Beijing to allow greater flexibility in its exchange rate, but spared Japan, where a weakening has sparked growing unease in Europe. Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers and central bankers also said global economic growth is now ”more balanced”.
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/ 11 February 2007
A mother who lived with her dead son’s dead body for a week has been sent to a Singapore mental hospital, media reports said. Supainah Kasman, the mother, and her younger son, Hamzah (27), left the body where it had fallen, lying face up in a hallway with one leg propped up against a wall.
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/ 11 February 2007
It was an evening of utter decadence — a 10-course gourmet dinner concocted by world-renowned chefs at 000 (about R180 000) a head. Many of those who attended Saturday night’s culinary extravaganza in Bangkok hailed it as the meal of a lifetime.
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/ 11 February 2007
Australia’s Qantas Airways has grounded a flight attendant after fellow crew members alleged she had sex with British actor Ralph Fiennes aboard a flight to India, news reports said on Sunday. The woman, named by the Sunday Telegraph as Lisa Robertson (38), issued a statement denying the charge.
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/ 11 February 2007
A Japanese archaeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Egypt, including two from the little-known Middle Kingdom period dating back more than 4 000 years. The sarcophagi were found in tomb shafts in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo.
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/ 11 February 2007
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Saturday headed home after completing a 12-day, eight-nation tour of Africa where he spread China’s largesse with gifts and grants and a series of trade deals. The visit to the Seychelles, which began on Friday, was the last stop in Hu’s trip, his third visit to Africa since taking office in 2003.
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/ 11 February 2007
At least eight people were killed and several others wounded on Saturday in mortar and grenade attacks in an escalation of guerrilla-style attacks in the Somali capital, witnesses said. Assailants fired several mortar shells at a crowded market in the south of the city, killing three people and wounding several others.
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/ 11 February 2007
Six Egyptians were hospitalised on Saturday after showing symptoms of bird flu amid fears of a global surge in infections by the deadly virus, the official Mena news agency said. Egypt — the Arab world’s most populous state — is on a major route for migratory birds.