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/ 25 October 2006
Top seeds Marcos Baghdatis and Gaston Gaudio were packing their bags on Tuesday after being ousted in the first round of the €659 000 Lyon ATP tennis tournament. Home hope Arnaud Clement dispatched number one seeded Baghdatis 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 as lowly German Simon Greul hammered Argentine Gaudio.
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/ 25 October 2006
Kenya have been handed an indefinite ban from all international competitions by football’s world governing body Fifa on Tuesday, according to reports from Nairobi. Fifa’s disciplinary panel are reported to have suspended the country for failing to respect agreements to resolve recurrent problems in their football association.
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/ 25 October 2006
The African Leopards, the continent’s development rugby team, will play the British Army Senior XV at the Aldershot military stadium, near London, on November 23. ”The 2006 Leopards will represent the best of rugby in Africa,” said Abdelaziz Bougja, president of the Confederation of African Rugby.
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/ 25 October 2006
South African specialist banker Investec Bank was on Wednesday announced by the Australian Rugby Union as the new naming rights partner for the highly successful Super 14 tournament for the next four years, to the end of the current Sanzar broadcast deal. The tournament, which kicks off on Friday February 2 2007, will be known in Australia as the Investec Super 14.
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/ 25 October 2006
Japanese tourists feel so let down by Paris shop assistants that they need treatment for a type of depression known as ”Paris Syndrome”. ”There are around 20 cases a year of the syndrome and it has been happening for several years,” said Miyupi Kusama, an administrator at the Japanese embassy in Paris.
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/ 25 October 2006
Ailing Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang would probably spend the rest of the week in hospital, South African Broadcasting Corporation television news
reported on Tuesday. Although she had shown a remarkable improvement in the past few days, she would probably be discharged only at the end of the week.
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/ 25 October 2006
Niger said on Tuesday it planned to expel 150 000 Arabs, who fled conflict in neighbouring Chad two decades ago, because of tensions with indigenous rural communities in the West African nation. The nomadic Arabs sought refuge in Niger during the 1980s from a series of armed conflicts which shook Chad, as Libyan-backed forces tried to conquer the country.
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/ 25 October 2006
A hacker who as a teen cracked the encryption on DVDs has found a way to unlock the code that prevents iPod users from playing songs from download music stores other than Apple Computer’s iTunes. Jon Lech Johansen, a 22-year-old Norway native who lives in San Francisco, cracked Apple’s FairPlay copy-protection technology, said Monique Farantzos, managing director at DoubleTwist.
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/ 25 October 2006
The naked body of a 23-month-old baby boy was found in Bekkersdal in Westonaria on Tuesday afternoon, West Rand police said. The baby’s penis had been cut off. Captain Paula Terreblanche said Tekano Seleki’s body was found next to a stormwater drain at around 4pm.
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/ 25 October 2006
The South African Police Service has been hit with civil claims totalling R5,3-billion — which is equal to one-quarter of its annual salary bill, media reports said on Wednesday. The amount included R253-million in claims for shooting incidents, R1,67-million for alleged police assaults and R1,9-billion for undisclosed ”police actions”.