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/ 12 December 2007
They are chalk and cheese — an all-action sport and a quiet board game — but both are part of the attraction at the South-East Asian Games in north-eastern Thailand. Sepak takraw is being held in a stadium at the top of a shopping mall in front of raucous fans, while Go, a demonstration sport here, is taking place in a quiet university conference room.
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/ 12 December 2007
Oscar Pistorius, the self-described ”fastest thing on no legs”, retains both his sense of humour and confidence when he mulls the possibility that his Olympics dream could be about to be shattered. ”It has been my dream to run with the able-bodied and in the Olympics,” the South African double amputee tells Agence France-Presse.
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/ 12 December 2007
Liverpool’s habit of leaving it to the last to qualify for the important stages of big tournaments was repeated on Tuesday as they inflicted a record 4-0 home defeat on Marseille to make the knockout stage of the Champions League. The 2005 Champions League winners’ victory probably also ensured that manager Rafael Benitez keeps his job.
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/ 12 December 2007
The JSE remained in the red at midday on Wednesday, but was off its earlier lows as it recouped some of its sharp losses in the morning session. By noon, the JSE all-share index had lost 0,78%. The gold- and platinum-mining indices fell 2,22% and 1,8% respectively, while resources gave up 1,33%. Banks dipped 1,03%, while financials were off 0,58% and industrials shed 0,18%.
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/ 12 December 2007
Citizen Kane is regularly cited as the greatest film of all time. But the Oscar its director, star and co-writer received for the epic didn’t prove so popular at an auction held in New York. The statuette presented to Orson Welles at the 1942 ceremony was expected to fetch up to ,2-million for the foundation that owns it.
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/ 12 December 2007
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, runs Sin City’s advertising slogan. Now a museum hopes to make sure that what happened in Las Vegas not only stays there but is displayed inside a glass case. The as yet unnamed mobster museum aims to tell the story of the ever-booming city’s murky past.
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/ 12 December 2007
Sixty people were killed or wounded by car bombs in the capital of mainly Shi’ite Maysan province in southern Iraq on Wednesday, hospital sources said. The bombs exploded in a car park and a market place in the city of Amara, the sources said.
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/ 12 December 2007
South Africa’s Solidarity union members have accepted an offer for a 9% wage increase from the world’s third ranked platinum producer Lonmin, the union said on Wednesday. The agreement will cover one year and is effective from October 1 2007, the union said in a statement.
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/ 12 December 2007
The fate of the United Nations human rights investigator for Sudan, who has reported war crimes in Darfur, hangs in the balance this week as African and Islamic countries seek to end her mandate. African and Islamic countries told the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday that conditions in Darfur had improved.
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/ 12 December 2007
Ernie Els, still smarting after his final hole collapse at Leopard Creek last weekend, and United States Open champion Angel Cabrera, are among four Major winners in the field for the South African Airways Open beginning on Thursday at Pearl Valley Golf Estate.