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/ 20 January 2007
The family of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty hailed on Saturday the eviction of her chief tormentor from Celebrity Big Brother as a triumph of ”good over evil,” amid a furore over racist bullying on the show. ”This vote has shown that goodness always prevails, like in Bollywood films,” a spokesperson for Shetty and her family said.
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/ 20 January 2007
A mortar attack on Somalia’s presidential palace has shown the need for peacekeepers to move quickly into the Horn of Africa nation, the African Union (AU) said after endorsing such a mission. The AU’s peace and security council approved a 7 650-strong force for Somalia late on Friday, just minutes before attackers struck Mogadishu’s hilltop Villa Somalia.
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/ 20 January 2007
First National Bank (FNB) is to spend R50-million on standby generators and uninterrupted power supply units at its branches nationwide in response to power failures, it said on Friday. FNB said about R15,5-million [of the total amount] had already gone towards generators at 63 branches.
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/ 20 January 2007
Amsterdam’s red-light district will soon get a new attraction: a statue to honour prostitutes around the world. The statue, designed by artist Els Rijerse, will likely be unveiled at the end of March. The statue is meant to give all those men and women strength,” said Mariska Majoor, a former prostitute who commissioned the statue.
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/ 20 January 2007
North Korea has agreed to resume six-country talks aimed at winding up its nuclear arms programme soon, the United States envoy to the thorny negotiations said on Friday. ”There was an agreement that we felt we can make progress and we should go ahead and try to schedule a six-party session,” Christopher Hill told reporters in Seoul.
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/ 20 January 2007
Police have confirmed the re-arrest of two treason-accused Boeremag members who escaped from custody May 3 last year, 702 radio reported on Saturday. Herman van Rooyen and Rudi Gouws were arrested shortly before 6am on Saturday at a townhouse complex in Littleton, Pretoria, the report said.
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/ 20 January 2007
Breaking news: Johannesburg radio station Talk 702 has reported this morning that two Boeremag escapees have been recaptured by police. The two accused, Herman van Rooyen (33) and Rudi Gouws (28), escaped in May last year while awaiting trial on 42 charges involving a right-wing plot to overthrow the South African government.
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/ 20 January 2007
Fast bowler Makhaya Ntini kept South Africa in the hunt on the first day of the second Test against Pakistan on Friday. Pakistan were 135 for six in reply to South Africa’s first innings of 124 at stumps in Port Elizabeth. A bristling bowling display by Ntini saw him take four for 18 from 10 overs.
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/ 20 January 2007
For the first time in the Open era there is no American female seeded at the Australian Open, but Serena Williams is doing her best ensure United States tennis doesn’t sink completely from view. With Lindsay Davenport pregnant and expected to retire and sister Venus Williams out injured, she is flying the Stars and Stripes with a watershed match on Sunday in her comeback from injury.
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/ 20 January 2007
Daydreaming seems to be the default setting of the human mind and certain brain regions are devoted to it, United States researchers reported on Friday. When people are given a specific task to do, they focus on that task but then other brain regions get busy during down time, the researchers report in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.