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/ 23 February 2006
The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court has postponed the case against an IT consultant accused of withholding information about hoax e-mails mentioning senior African National Congress officials. The state and defence had agreed to postpone the case for both parties ”to discuss the status of the case”, chief prosecutor Matric Luphondo said.
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/ 23 February 2006
A little more than a decade after satellite television first beamed cartoons into India’s living rooms, the country is to get its first American-style amusement parks based on cartoon characters. At a cost of 5,5-billion rupees (-million), the two parks in Delhi will be based around children’s channels Cartoon Network and Pogo, which are operated by Turner International.
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/ 23 February 2006
Iraqi police recovered the bodies of dozens of people in Baghdad on Thursday as violence spread across the country following the bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra. The bodies were found riddled with bullets as fears grew that the country was sliding into civil war after the attack on Wednesday which destroyed the golden dome on the al-Askari shrine.
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/ 23 February 2006
If you want to start a rumour, how about that Google is going to build its own nuclear power station? The logic is easy. Larry Page, the company’s co-founder, reportedly sees ”running out of power” as the biggest potential threat to Google, and the electricity needed to run its ”server farms” — tens of thousands of power-hungry computers storing billions of internet pages — could soon cost more than the hardware.
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/ 23 February 2006
A Paris gang leader was arrested overnight in Abidjan and has confessed to the kidnap, torture and murder of a young French Jewish man, Ivorian investigators said on Thursday, in a case that has horrified France. Youssouf Fofana (25) who styled himself as the ”brain of the barbarians”, could be extradited back to France by the end of the day, according to French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin.
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/ 23 February 2006
Lara Croft is hitting the comeback trail. With the April 7 release of Tomb Raider: Legend, the seventh iteration of the game that is her main star vehicle, one of the best-known icons of the videogame world is to make her first outing since 2003’s disastrous Angel of Darkness. This year also marks the 10th anniversary of her first appearance. But can she still cut it in the 21st century?
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/ 23 February 2006
If it were up to the players, incumbent South African Rugby Union president Brian van Rooyen would be ousted from his position in favour of Kwazulu Natal’s Oregan Hoskins at Friday’s presidential election in Cape Town. A poll requested by the South African Rugby Players Association had 67,1% of its members voting in favour of Hoskens.
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/ 23 February 2006
The United States reacted coolly on Wednesday to prospects that former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide would return to Haiti after the election of his one-time protégé René Préval to lead the Caribbean nation. ”If we were asked, I think we would say it’s probably not a good idea. It doesn’t serve a useful purpose,” said deputy State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli.
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Mayors, like ministers, should not be named before an election, African National Congress President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday. Asked on Metro FM why the ANC was not making public its choice of mayoral candidates before the March 1 local government election, Mbeki said the party had taken the position that it was better for people to vote first.
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/ 23 February 2006
Police in the eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen have booked a man for his smelly feet, the Telegraaf newspaper reported on Thursday. The 56-year-old turned up at a shelter for the homeless in the city near the German border and took his shoes off before putting his feet up.