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Former South Africa batsman Gary Kirsten is being considered for the vacant India cricket coach job, the Indian board said on Tuesday. Kirsten (40) was interviewed by members of the board’s special coach committee on Monday, secretary Niranjan Shah said in a statement and a decision is expected within a week
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/ 27 November 2007
The keepers of Japan’s biggest lake have called on the public to join in one final push to eat the bluegill fish into extinction before it does the same to threatened native species. The bluegill’s destruction of indigenous freshwater fish, almost 50 years after it was touted as a vital source of protein for an undernourished population, is being treated as an ecological emergency.
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/ 27 November 2007
He denounces it as the ”Great Satan”, but the overtures of the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the United States seem to grow ever more extravagant. Having failed to win a response with a letter to President George Bush, Ahmadinejad has offered himself as an observer in next year’s presidential election.
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The African National Congress’s (ANC) Women’s League late on Monday nominated deputy leader Jacob Zuma as its candidate to head up the organisation, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. Their backing for Zuma for the top job comes after the ANC Youth League on Friday also nominated Zuma.
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/ 27 November 2007
Australian prospectors used to be grizzled old blokes who went off into the hills with their swag and a bottle of whisky, hoping to find a few nuggets of gold and strike it rich. But the astonishing resources boom in Australia’s vast outback, which has turned the once-dowdy western capital of Perth into a glitzy city of millionaires, has changed all that.
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/ 27 November 2007
The latest economic releases from the United States point to the growing twin threats of slowing economic growth and rising inflation. Some analysts are beginning to pencil in a US recession in the near future. The problem at home is similar: consumer inflation is above the South African Reserve Bank’s target range still, but the growth trends of leading economic indicators, like vehicle and retail sales, are declining.
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/ 27 November 2007
With oil nudging $100 a barrel this week, I did a set of test rides of vehicles that are so cheap to run you can travel 100km for as little as 40c. These vehicles — electric scooters or bikes — potentially solve two problems that characterise motorised travel in Johannesburg: rising energy costs and increasing gridlock.
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/ 27 November 2007
Just three listed companies — Sasol, BHP Billiton, and Anglo American — were responsible for 83% of disclosed emissions from JSE Top 40 companies. But the state-owned Eskom, an unlisted company, was the biggest single polluter, according to a survey on carbon emissions.
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/ 27 November 2007
Corporate South Africa is fast realising the benefit and importance of utilising sick-leave management as the basis for its integrated risk-management strategies. Sick-leave management is today being integrated with medical aid and insurance information to provide a holistic view of employee absenteeism.
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/ 27 November 2007
The news, for the terminally declining population of women who identify themselves as feminists, is good. A study by researchers at Rutgers University, New Jersey, finds the classic New Yorker cartoon of two women discussing relationships in a coffee shop — "sex brought us together but gender drove us apart" — is plain wrong. Feminists are happier in love and better in bed.