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/ 16 January 2008
The award-winning Broadway musical Rent will end its 12-year-run in New York this June, according to an announcement on the production’s website. The musical, composed by Jonathan Larson, chronicles the struggles of a group of young artists in New York.
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/ 16 January 2008
The prankster who poured red dye into the waters of Rome’s landmark Trevi Fountain was at it again on Wednesday when he targeted another of the city’s landmarks — dropping thousands of coloured plastic balls down the Spanish Steps. Graziano Cecchini said he had released more than 500 000 balls down the steps.
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/ 16 January 2008
Placido Domingo says he’s always longed to lead his country in a national anthem that unites Spaniards — but acknowledged on Wednesday that he’ll have to wait a little while longer. The Spanish tenor was to premiere the new lyrics of his country’s anthem — a military march long performed without words — later this month.
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/ 16 January 2008
The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd scored a victory on Wednesday in its high-seas campaign to obstruct a Japanese whale hunt in the Antarctic, forcing the fleet to a standstill while officials tried to unload two protesters who had boarded a harpoon vessel from their rubber boat.
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/ 16 January 2008
Forget retail therapy for some relief from that winter cold — a study by Swiss scientists revealed on Wednesday that the flu virus can nestle and survive on banknotes for more than two weeks. Scientists from Geneva’s University Hospital were asked by a Swiss bank to carry out the study.
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/ 16 January 2008
Police defended their use of pepper spray on rowdy tennis fans and the sport’s big guns kept on blasting at Melbourne Park as the Australian Open got back on track on Wednesday. As the fall-out of Tuesday night’s crowd trouble settled, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova all blasted their way into the third round of the year’s opening Grand Slam.
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/ 16 January 2008
A Moroccan appeals court has upheld prison sentences for six men jailed for ”homosexuality”, lawyer Mohamed Sebbar said on Wednesday. The decision prompted Amnesty International to call for Morocco to decriminalise homosexuality — which carries a maximum three-year sentence.
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/ 16 January 2008
The South African competition watchdog the Competition Commission on Wednesday slammed bread price increases, saying the ”blatant profiteering is an insult to the nation”. Bread maker Tiger Brands on Monday implemented price increases on its Albany bread brand.
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/ 16 January 2008
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has proposed that police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi present himself to the Randburg Regional Court on January 30. ”We wrote to Selebi’s attorney proposing this,” NPA spokesperson Tlali Tlali said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 January 2008
Airbus confirmed 2007 as a record year for planemakers on Wednesday by posting orders for 1Â 341 aircraft while boosting cost savings aimed at catching arch-rival Boeing, which took top spot with 1Â 413 orders and has suffered less from a weakened dollar than Airbus.