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/ 14 January 2007
Elizna Naude, the Commonwealth, African and South African discus champion, started her 2007 campaign on an exciting note at Sasolburg on Saturday when she won her event at the Vaal Triangle Masters Athletics Championships with a throw of 60,1m. It was her best winning throw since winning the Commonwealth gold medal last year.
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/ 14 January 2007
Manchester United remained six points clear at the top of the English Premiership after a 3-1 win against Aston Villa at Old Trafford on Saturday. Reigning champions Chelsea stayed second with a 4-0 home victory over Wigan, while Liverpool remained third after a 3-0 win away to basement club Watford.
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/ 14 January 2007
Before she celebrates her 13th birthday next month, and becomes a proper teenager, Hollywood starlet Dakota Fanning, has a controversy in store. A row is set to erupt at the Sundance Film Festival later this month over her latest film, Hound Dog, because she is featured in a graphic rape scene.
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/ 14 January 2007
Billions of dollars of aid spent in post-war reconstruction across the globe creates political instability and violence, according to a controversial new study. The research, carried out in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, will fuel the debate over whether established ways of delivering aid are failing.
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/ 14 January 2007
They are America’s lost children. Their faces stare from milk cartons or heart-wrenching handwritten posters. They are on websites set up by parents appealing for sightings. Too often they remain missing — or they are found dead. But on Saturday, something amazing happened.
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/ 14 January 2007
A crippling winter storm has lashed the central United States with another blast of freezing rain, sleet and snow, causing widespread power outages and tying up highways and airports. The storm was expected to continue through the weekend, laying down a coat of ice and snow from Texas to Illinois.
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/ 14 January 2007
A Hong Kong man is seeking a place in the Guinness World Records book for a 21,6cm piece of sunburn peel in the shape of China, a news report said on Sunday. Barry Kwok (43) claims the skin is the largest piece of skin peeled whole a living human, according to the Sunday Morning Post newspaper.
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/ 14 January 2007
United States President George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position on global warming when he makes his State of the Union speech later this month, say senior British government officials. British Prime Minister Tony Blair hopes that the new US stance will lead to a breakthrough in international talks on climate change.
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/ 14 January 2007
Pretoria residents are considering taking legal action against the African National Congress-led metro council following a high number of criminal incidents in their neighbourhoods, the Freedom Front Plus said on Saturday. ”The ANC forbids them to secure their neighbourhoods by fencing off their residential areas,” a spokesperson said.
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/ 14 January 2007
A 44-year-old man was arrested on Saturday in connection with the fatal shooting of his wife and the wounding of two of her colleagues at an Absa bank on Friday, said Gauteng police. Director Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said the man was arrested at a flat in Turffontein, south of Johannesburg, at 4.30pm.