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/ 26 October 2007
Grumpy Australian coal miners are getting lessons on "exploring their wives" to revive their sex lives and boost production at work. Men working at the Bulga mine near Sydney attend classes on issues such as menopause and foreplay because, a manager told the <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>, a miner not having sex at home "can get mighty grumpy at work".
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/ 26 October 2007
South African rugby chiefs said on Friday that the Springboks would tour Soweto on their nationwide World Cup victory parade after an outcry over a decision to bypass the country’s biggest township. ”Tomorrow morning [Saturday] our team, the coach, the manager, the captain, early in the morning, are going to Soweto,” said SA Rugby president Oregan Hoskins.
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/ 26 October 2007
Nine French citizens have been arrested in Chad after being accused of attempting to take 103 orphaned children from Darfur out of the country to be adopted by French families, French media reported on Friday. The nine suspects were taken into custody at the airport of Abeche, in eastern Chad, as they were preparing to leave the country with the children.
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/ 26 October 2007
A judge on Thursday blocked a British decision to deport a South African former police officer who claims he would face violence from gang members if he returned to his homeland. Former sergeant David Andreason, who stopped working as a police officer in 2001 due to stress, fled Durban for Britain after an attempt on his life in 2005.
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/ 26 October 2007
A 16-year-old girl was murdered by her family for staying overnight with her boyfriend, Mpumalanga police said on Thursday. Spokesperson Abi Khoabane said the girl from Mayflower in Ermelo spent the night with her boyfriend and when she returned home she was attacked by her brother, mother and father.
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/ 26 October 2007
Sri Lanka has ordered a high-level probe into a public display of the naked bodies of Tamil Tiger rebels who devastated a key air force base earlier this week, officials said on Friday. Two tractors pulled trailers loaded with the stripped corpses and mutilated body parts from the base to Anuradhapura Hospital, 210km north of Colombo.
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/ 26 October 2007
The African Union on Friday urged all Sudanese parties involved in the Darfur conflict to take part in peace talks due to kick off in the Libyan city of Sirte. In a statement issued by the pan-African body’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, AU Commission chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare appealed to ”all the Sudanese parties to constructively participate”.
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/ 26 October 2007
Solid gains in bank stocks pushed the JSE further into the black at midday on Friday, while platinum stocks added some extra light. At noon on the JSE, the all-share index was 0,62% higher as banks collected 2,01% and financials added 1,08%. The platinum mining index added 1,24% and resources edged up 0,29%.
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/ 26 October 2007
Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami has fuelled speculation of a possible comeback by bluntly accusing his successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of peddling false statistics to hide rising inflation and unemployment. Khatami said Iran’s economic woes did not tally with the rosy picture painted by the government.
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/ 26 October 2007
Power failures hit parts of the country on Friday morning after ”unplanned” failures at Eskom. ”Eskom started implementing load shedding this morning [Friday] after losing electricity imports from the Cahora Bassa [hydroelectric project in Mozambique],” said the company.