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/ 10 November 2007
Etoile Sahel of Tunisia stunned title holders Al-Ahly of Egypt 3-1 on Friday to win a first African Champions League title. No one outside Tunisia gave Etoile a chance at Cairo Stadium after they were held 0-0 two weeks ago in the first leg of the African Football Confederation club showpiece.
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/ 10 November 2007
Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a student in the year above, came strolling along the corridor. The teenagers glanced at the familiar figure and carried on chatting. ”He walked towards us calmly and slowly … He lifted his arm. He pointed the gun at me and started shooting. The dude just pointed it at me and fired.”
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/ 10 November 2007
Damien Hirst’s latest art-installation-cum-marketing-stunt is a 3,6m-high tank that contains 10Â 000 litres of formaldehyde. Inside the fluid a diminutive white dove is suspended, its wings outstretched in a metal cage.
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/ 10 November 2007
”OJ’s in court today and I’m standing here. I don’t want to be here. I want to be in there, doing my job.” Joe Medeiros nods at the hulk of the NBC building in Burbank, Los Angeles, outside which he and a gaggle of fellow red-shirted pickets have been walking in circles for the best part of the morning.
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/ 10 November 2007
Rudy Giuliani’s bid to become Republican candidate for United States president faces months of questioning on the campaign trail, after his friend and protégé Bernard Kerik was on Friday charged with corruption and lying to cover up his misdeeds.
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/ 10 November 2007
Britain’s main opposition leader, David Cameron, was initially delighted that supermodel Kate Moss asked for his phone number — until he realised she thought he could help her with her drains. The Conservative Party leader said in an interview to be broadcast on Saturday that he met Moss at a charity bash recently.
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/ 10 November 2007
A senior member of Europe’s main human rights body launched an outspoken attack on the Russian Federation’s elections on Friday, three weeks before they take place, saying he had serious doubts that they would be free, fair, open, democratic or transparent. The Kremlin has indicated that world observers are not welcome at next month’s poll.
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/ 10 November 2007
Benazir Bhutto was going nowhere. A phalanx of riot police stood at the end of her leafy street, tapping their shields and manning a barbed-wire barricade. Armoured vehicles rolled in. Officers even prowled the neighbours’ gardens, just in case the opposition leader might vault her back wall.
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/ 10 November 2007
The retirement insurance industry needs to undergo a fundamental change, the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union said on Friday. ”In the recent past there have been numerous disastrous instances where workers’ savings have been wilfully misused and even squandered,” said the union in a statement.
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African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Jacob Zuma is the only man who can steer the ANC-led tripartite alliance back to its leftist tradition and worker bias, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sastu) said on Friday. Sadtu held a national general council meeting in Johannesburg.