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/ 17 January 2007
As global sports icon Muhammad Ali celebrates his 65th birthday on Wednesday, the former heavyweight champion’s glory is undiminished by the ailment that has dimmed his flamboyant manner. At an age when most working Americans retire, Ali’s legend has been epic for decades and his absence from the ring for nearly a quarter of a century has not diminished his legacy.
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/ 17 January 2007
Ashwell Prince, who scored his sixth Test hundred in South Africa’s win over Pakistan in Centurion, is now within touching distance of a place in the top ten of the LG International Cricket Council player rankings for Test batsmen. The left-hander has risen three spots to eleventh position, his highest-ever placing on the list, and is now breathing down the neck of teammate Jacques Kallis.
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/ 17 January 2007
Two members of the Delicious Rugby Club in the Boland, who allegedly rendered an opposing player unconscious in an on-field brawl, appeared on Tuesday in the Worcester Regional Court on charges of culpable homicide. Ben Zimry and Wayne Matthee were not asked to plead when they appeared before magistrate PJ van Rensburg, who postponed the case to May 15.
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/ 17 January 2007
The JSE remained on the softer side at midday on Wednesday as some sectors fell prey to profit taking. However, there were pockets of strength, notably industrial counters. At 12.21pm, the all-share index was down 0,23%, with resources off 1,34%, the gold miners 1,28% softer and platinums 0,87% in the red.
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/ 17 January 2007
Television bosses launched an investigation on Tuesday after a newsreader flashed her tummy and exchanged risqué banter with a colleague, not realising she was live on air. Emma Baker of Anglia Television, which broadcasts to viewers in eastern England, also fiddled with her bra and apparently addressed a co-worker as "Mrs Shameless".
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/ 17 January 2007
A 46-year-old German motorist driving along a busy road suddenly veered to the left and ended up stuck on a railway track — because his satellite navigation system told him to, police said on Sunday. The motorist was heading into the north German city of Bremen ”when the friendly voice from his satnav told him to turn left,” a spokesperson said.
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/ 17 January 2007
A South Korean worker was shot and wounded in an armed robbery in Nigeria’s oil-rich delta region, but the injury was not life-threatening, officials said on Wednesday. The worker from Hyundai Heavy Industries was shot in the thigh when 16 gunmen approached the vessel he was traveling on with nine others.
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/ 17 January 2007
A Nigerian newspaper publisher faces up to 15 years in prison after being charged on Tuesday with belonging to the virtually unheard of terrorist group known as the ”Nigerian Taliban”. Mohammed Damagun (50) a director of Media Trust Limited, pleaded not guilty to three charges of terrorism.
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/ 17 January 2007
Police in northern Spain began questioning the entire population of a tiny mountain village on Tuesday after the mayor was shot dead in an ambush on a country road. All 37 inhabitants of Fago, in the Pyrenees near France, are suspects in a crime which police believe involved several of the many villagers who had argued with the mayor, Miguel Grima.
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/ 17 January 2007
Senator Barack Obama, the rising young star of the United States Democratic party, took his first step into the 2008 presidential contest on Tuesday, raising the temperature in an already heated race. Obama’s video address on his website was merely a dress rehearsal: the announcement of an exploratory committee to raise funds and build a campaign team.