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/ 25 December 2008
Armed police took a leading Zimbabwean rights campaigner and eight activists to a maximum security prison on Thursday, defying a High Court order.
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/ 25 December 2008
Harold Pinter, the British playwright and Nobel laureate famous for his brooding portrayals of domestic life and barbed politics, has died aged 78.
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/ 25 December 2008
Aston Villa have what could be their best chance to crash the title race with the opportunity to put one of their rivals out of the running.
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/ 25 December 2008
A third body from the Kingfisher — which capsized and sunk off Oyster Bay this week — was recovered on Thursday, Eastern Cape police said.
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/ 25 December 2008
SA had every reason to look back fondly on 2008, a year in which Allen Stanford became a name known to all fans and Australia came back to the pack.
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/ 25 December 2008
When the waters of the Asian tsunami smashed into this fishing village in Indonesia’s Aceh province four years ago, not one house was left standing.
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/ 25 December 2008
US authorities on Wednesday investigated the apparent suicide of a French investment manager who lost more than a billion dollars.
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/ 25 December 2008
An Israeli air strike killed a Hamas gunman in the Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fired dozens of rockets and mortars into southern Israel.
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/ 25 December 2008
From empty sun loungers at luxury hotels to vacant bar stools in dingy fleshpots, tourism in Thailand is going through its worst slump in decades.
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/ 25 December 2008
Pope Benedict led the world’s 1,1-billion Catholics into Christmas at a midnight mass on Thursday in which he appealed for an end to child abuse.