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/ 21 December 2007
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Friday revived a controversial plan to hand over a swathe of rainforest to a local company to be destroyed and replaced with a sugarcane plantation. Museveni called those who oppose his plan to give 7 100 hectares to the Mehta group’s sugar estate ”criminals and charlatans”.
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/ 21 December 2007
Sotheby’s recently sold a handwritten volume of five stories by JK Rowling for an eye-popping £1,95-million, writes Mark Brown.
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/ 21 December 2007
European pop music gets a taste of African influence, writes Dave Simpson.
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/ 21 December 2007
The New Year’s resolution is best understood as a direct backlash to the annual marathon of compulsory debauchery known as the New Year’s Eve party.
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/ 21 December 2007
After protracted talks, Hirst has donated four important pieces from his personal collection to the Tate Gallery in London. Mark Brown reports.
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/ 21 December 2007
As much as golf looked the same in 2007, some of the greatest triumphs were long overdue. Until a dramatic and calamitous Sunday on the cruel links of Carnoustie, the only time Padraig Harrington had reason to wave the Irish flag was during the Ryder Cup or perhaps a World Cup.
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/ 21 December 2007
Under a golden sun, Paolo Bettini capped a perfect day for cycling by outracing, outwitting and, finally, outsprinting everyone to win the world road race title. If ever there were a glorious highlight to a season, that was it. As the Italian crossed the line, though, there was little joy because he had been involved in a doping scandal.
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/ 21 December 2007
Arthur Zwane will play his 99th match for Kaizer Chiefs on Saturday, but before that he has some important business to take care of. On Friday evening, the team he owns — Galatasaray Football Club — meet Inter Milan in a Meadowlands derby at the Discovery Walter Sisulu Challenge.
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/ 21 December 2007
Your guide to the best the big screen has to offer this holiday season.
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/ 21 December 2007
A Super 14 expansion side of Australians, Argentinians and Pacific Islanders playing out of Melbourne could be key to getting the Pumas into the southern hemisphere’s elite competitions, the Australian Rugby Union deputy chief executive Matt Carroll said on Friday.