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/ 23 February 2006
England received a major scare on Thursday when captain Michael Vaughan was forced to miss a first-class match on the India tour due to a knee injury. Vaughan experienced pain and soreness in his right knee, which was operated on in December, and was rested for Thursday’s three-day match against the Indian Board President’s XI team.
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/ 23 February 2006
Defending champions Canada and 2002 runners-up United States were sent crashing out of the Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament on Wednesday. Their quarterfinal elimination set the stage for Russia and Finland to renew their long-time Olympic rivalry as they clash in the semifinals for the second time in three Winter Games.
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/ 23 February 2006
Four teams without a win after two rounds of rugby’s Super 14 have been drawn against each other in the third round starting on Friday, increasing pressure to lift their games. Australia’s Western Force play the Waikato Chiefs on Friday, and the Auckland Blues meet the Queensland Reds on Saturday in matches which may determine which of those teams remain competition contenders.
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/ 23 February 2006
A powerful earthquake struck Mozambique early on Thursday morning, shaking buildings and forcing people from hundreds of kilometres around to dash into the streets for safety. There were no immediate reports of injury. The United States Geological Survey said the magnitude 7,5 quake had an epicentre 224km southwest of Mozambique’s main port of Beira.
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/ 23 February 2006
As the Ugandan president and his challengers prepare for a showdown at the polls on Thursday, the country’s first lady is also running for election after a campaign which has seen women politicians making remarkable progress. Janet Museveni (57) is making her first foray into politics by running as a parliamentary candidate in rural Ruhama in western Uganda.
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/ 23 February 2006
A 62-year-old American woman who is a grandmother and great grandmother several times over has given birth to her 12th child, a son, in northern California. Janise Wulf gave birth to the boy, Adam Charles, after conceiving through in vitro fertilisation.
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/ 22 February 2006
The man shrugs his shoulders and stares blankly at the Society for Protection against Cruelty to Animals officer when asked if he has ever heard of bird flu. Beside him, row upon row of chickens, pigeons and guinea fowl languish in filthy, cramped cages at the informal Kliptown market in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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/ 22 February 2006
The current Transnet workers’ strike will accomplish nothing that the company has not already committed to, management said on Wednesday. ”The strike merely affects the economy which, as the past few days illustrate, hurts the most vulnerable members of our society,” Transnet spokesperson John Dludlu said.
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/ 22 February 2006
Business and commerce in the Western Cape need to be informed well in advance of potential power shortages to prevent future loss, which is running at ”hundreds of millions of rands”, the Cape Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 February 2006
A signalling failure caused the accident between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo near Beaufort West in October last year, according to a report released on Wednesday. The failure ”was as a result of a short circuit caused by a solder splatter in the relay unit”, said the chief executive of the Railway Safety Regulator.