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Yuvraj Singh and Sourav Ganguly hammered explosive centuries to lead India’s fightback in the third and final Test against Pakistan in Bangalore on Saturday. Yuvraj celebrated his comeback with a career-best 169 and Ganguly scored a fluent unbeaten 125 as an injury-hit India recovered from a horror morning session.
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Fiji won a semifinal of sheer quality against South Africa 21-12 to set up a replay of last weekend’s Dubai final against New Zealand in the International Rugby Board Sevens World Series in George on Saturday. In the other semifinal, Argentina tried to catch defending champions New Zealand off their guard.
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Countering revenge will triumph over unity as the key challenge after the African National Congress’s (ANC) national conference in Limpopo, the South African Communist Party said on Saturday. Meanwhile, a failed high court bid to stop the ANC conference will now be taken to the Supreme Court of Appeal.
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/ 8 December 2007
Heavy rains swept across Gauteng and the Free State on Saturday afternoon, turning roads into rivers. The roof of the Dion store in Alberton caved in during heavy rain, said Netcare 911 spokesperson Mark Stokoe. In the Free State, a 10-year-old girl drowned when she was swept down a sewerage trench, provincial police said.
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/ 8 December 2007
Banyana Banyana soccer coach Augustine Makalakalane believes his side will turn the tables on Ghana by beating them in their own backyard and increase their chances of making it to the Beijing Olympics next year. Banyana face Black Queens on Sunday at Accra Stadium. Kick-off is 6pm (South African time).
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/ 8 December 2007
United Nations peacekeepers expressed fears on Friday for tens of thousands of displaced people under threat in the latest conflict zone in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Goma, capital of the eastern province of Nord-Kivu, has been rocked by clashes between rebels led by renegade General Laurent Nkunda and army troops.
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/ 8 December 2007
Police in Niger have released two journalists held for allegedly defaming the country’s finance minister, but they still face prosecution, a press association said on Friday. ”The prosecutor has notified them that legal procedures will follow their normal course,” said Boubacar Diallo, of the Association of Independent Press Editors.
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/ 8 December 2007
A powerful cyclone packing winds of up to 250km/h pounded some small islands in northern Fiji, but missed heavily populated areas in the South Pacific nation as it swung away to the south-east, officials said on Saturday. Cyclone Daman remained a category-four storm, forecaster Daini Donu said, but it was weakening.
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/ 8 December 2007
A man who says he bit into a Burger King hamburger and found an unwrapped condom inside has sued the owner of the restaurant. Van Miguel Hartless (24), of Fair Haven, said on Friday he bought the Southwestern Whopper at a Burger King in Rutland on June 18 and made the discovery when he got home and started eating it.
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/ 8 December 2007
Australian coach John Dyson says he needs to sit down with the West Indian players and quickly discover why they are underachieving in world cricket, reports said on Saturday. The former Test opening batsman coach leaves Sydney for the Caribbean on Monday to take up his appointment as the new West Indies coach.