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/ 26 December 2005
The yellow card that Irish referee Alan Lewis wielded to send three All Blacks to the sin bin in last month’s rugby Test against England has been given a final resting place in New Zealand. Lewis has agreed to donate both the card and his match whistle, as well as his referees’ jersey, to the New Zealand Rugby Museum.
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/ 26 December 2005
Everton boss David Moyes is hoping striker Duncan Ferguson will see out the rest of the season. Moyes recently admitted the 34-year-old striker is considering whether to hang up his boots early in the new year. Ferguson is contracted to stay at Goodison Park until the end of the season, but has been struggling with his fitness.
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/ 26 December 2005
Zambia shut down its biggest hydro-electric power station on Sunday after a major landslide caused by heavy rains, an official announced. Heavy rains swept through the Kafue Gorge Lower Hydroelectric Power Project and caused a landslide that could have destroyed the machinery at the project.
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/ 26 December 2005
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos expects a rocket-ship complex for his aerospace venture Blue Origin to open in the south Seattle suburb of Kent early next year, city records show. The records show that an office and warehouse the billionaire is revamping will be used to design and build spacecraft and engines.
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/ 26 December 2005
Here are the answers to the 101 questions. 1 SABMiller. Laugh It Off’s “Black Labour, White Guilt” T-shirt 2 South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) members, protesting against Cosatu’s distribution of 30Â 000 T-shirts imported from China 3 11 4 Patricia Arquette 5 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf 6 Valli Moosa 7 Pope Benedict XVI 8 Joseph […]
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/ 26 December 2005
The world’s grief and compassion returned to the tsunami-battered coastlines of the Indian Ocean on Monday, marking one year since giant waves crashed ashore in a dozen countries, laying waste to coastal communities and sweeping away at least 216Â 000 lives.
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/ 26 December 2005
Firefighters appear to be getting control of the brush fire that has been raging in the Melkbosstrand area north of Cape Town since Saturday, city fire chief Piet Smith said on Sunday evening. The four helicopters that had been water-bombing the blaze were called off at 8pm, but ground crews would stay on the job.
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/ 26 December 2005
South Africans lost a deputy president in a year marked by political intrigue and scandal, but the post-apartheid nation also added a significant feather to its democratic cap. Jacob Zuma’s fall from grace began with allegations of bribery and corruption stemming from the conviction of his financial adviser and friend Schabir Shaik.
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/ 26 December 2005
From Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born producer of the <i>Halloween</i> movies who was killed in a hotel bomb blast in Jordan, to Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese leader who attempted democratic reforms and was ousted during the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, we list the notable deaths of 2005.
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/ 25 December 2005
A powerful earthquake shook Pakistan’s capital on Sunday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Earlier on Sunday, Indonesia’s Nias island was hit by three strong tremors ahead of the arrival of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was to celebrate Christmas on the mainly Christian island.