Riaan Wolmarans
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/ 20 July 2005

Star Trek’s Scotty dies

James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the starship Enterprise in the original Star Trek TV series and motion pictures who was famously associated with the command ”Beam me up, Scotty”, died early on Wednesday. He was 85. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, a friend said.

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/ 7 July 2005

Bus, railway blasts rock London

London’s entire underground railway network was closed down on Thursday after a series of explosions that caused a ”large number of casualties” and at least 33 deaths, police said. An explosion ripped through a double-decker bus just minutes after blasts rocked the underground. British Home Secretary Charles Clarke said there had been ”terrible injuries” in the attacks.

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/ 7 July 2005

World reels after London blasts

Explosions rocked the London subway and a double-decker bus on Thursday, causing at least two deaths, injuring scores of riders and sending victims fleeing from blast sites. British Prime Minister Tony Blair called the explosions a "series of terrorist attacks". A group calling itself "The Secret Organisation of al-Qaeda in Europe" has claimed responsibility for the blasts in a web statement, reports said.

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/ 7 June 2005

The story they wouldn’t let you read

”When Sandi Majali wrote cheques after getting a multimillion-rand advance from the state oil company, two of the first recipients were relatives of Cabinet ministers.” Thus starts the Mail & Guardian‘s follow-up to its ”Oilgate” exposé, which a Johannesburg High Court interdict kept out of print two weeks ago. On Tuesday, the court lifted the interdict.