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/ 20 October 2007
Mohammad Yousuf hit a brilliant century to lead Pakistan to a 25-run victory over South Africa in a day-night international in Lahore on Saturday and level the series 1-1. Yousuf’s 143-ball 117 ensured Pakistan posted a fighting 265-9 before the home team overcame poor fielding to restrict the SA to 240 in 49.3 overs.
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/ 20 October 2007
Coach Claude le Roy is convinced hosts Ghana will reach the 2008 African Nations Cup quarterfinals after being drawn in Group A with Guinea, Morocco and Namibia. ”I realise expectations are high among Ghanaians and we will surely go through to the knockout phase,” the widely travelled Frenchman told local journalists.
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/ 20 October 2007
A dozen main districts of the Zimbabwean capital were without power for the fifth straight day on Saturday. The state electricity company blamed technical faults for the massive power failure. A power surge after load-shedding on Monday blew a main high-voltage supply cable, the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority said.
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/ 20 October 2007
An alleged robber was run over by a taxi on Saturday while escaping a Durban crime scene. ER24 spokesperson Derrick Banks said the man sustained severe head injuries and was declared dead at the scene. It is alleged that the man had robbed a woman who had been walking with two men along Berea Road.
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/ 20 October 2007
Dejected All Blacks were reported on Saturday to be undergoing grief counselling to help them come to grips with their shock loss in the rugby World Cup quarterfinals. New Zealand Rugby Union chairperson Jock Hobbs said it was imperative steps were taken to ensure the players were able to move on mentally as soon as possible.
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/ 20 October 2007
Twenty-six Malawi opposition supporters died on Friday night when the vehicle they were travelling in to a party conference overturned, police said on Saturday. The Alliance for Democracy members were travelling to Lilongwe from Blantyre for a meeting to elect a new leadership ahead of Malawi’s 2009 presidential elections.
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/ 20 October 2007
British author JK Rowling has outed one of the main characters of her best-selling Harry Potter series, telling fans in New York that the wizard Albus Dumbledore, head of Hogwarts school, is gay. Speaking at Carnegie Hall on Friday night, Rowling confirmed what some fans had always suspected — that she ”always thought Dumbledore was gay”.
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/ 20 October 2007
A crack team of detectives was on Friday hunting for the killers of reggae star Lucky Dube as public outrage against violent crime mounted. Gauteng’s police commissioner Perumal Naidoo has hand-picked a team of investigators to track down Dube’s killers.
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/ 20 October 2007
The original was trailed by its creator, Alfred Hitchcock, with the promise that ”It could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.” Now, almost 45 years after the release of The Birds, a Hollywood remake is in the works. The new film will star Naomi Watts and be directed by Martin Campbell, who made Casino Royale.
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/ 20 October 2007
The military regime in Burma is still holding up to 2 500 people in prisons and labour camps around the country, and continues to arrest suspected dissidents, the British government claimed on Friday. The crackdown on the protest movement has only served to make Burma more unstable, a senior British diplomat said.