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/ 10 December 2007
The fourth season of South African <i>Idols</i>, which ended on Sunday night, saw the youngest winner yet scoop the title. Jody Williams (17) from Cape Town out-sang her home girl Andriette Norman in a two-hour special, broadcast live on pay-TV channel M-Net.
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/ 10 December 2007
Bloemfontein Celtic were held to a 1-1 draw by Thanda Royal Zulu in an exciting Premier Soccer League clash at the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium on Sunday. Celtic netted in the seventh minute through Lebohang Kukane, and three minutes later Bernard Parker equalised for the struggling Royals team and earned them a valuable point.
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/ 10 December 2007
Middlesbrough inflicted Arsenal’s first Premier League defeat of the season with a 2-1 win on Sunday to cut the Gunners’ lead over Manchester United at the top of the table to just one point. Also, Bolton heaped more misery on second-from-bottom Wigan, and Tottenham secured a win against Manchester City.
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/ 10 December 2007
The SuperSport Series match between the Cape Cobras and the Warriors ended in a fairly tame draw at Boland Bank Park in Paarl on Sunday. In Durban, unfavourable weather meant the match between the Dolphins and the Highveld Lions at the Sahara Stadium was always destined to be a tame draw.
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/ 10 December 2007
Ernie Els blew a two-stroke lead by hitting two balls into the water on the final hole of the Alfred Dunhill Championship, handing the win to John Bickerton. Els (73) took a triple-bogey on the par-five 18th, leaving Bickerton to win at 13-under 275 after a four-under 68 in the final round.
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/ 10 December 2007
European and African leaders were seeking to open a new era of closer relations, but their summit closed on Sunday with squabbling over trade and human rights. Old divisions surfaced at the first summit in seven years between the continents as leaders swapped accusations over the crises in Zimbabwe and Darfur.
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/ 10 December 2007
A Canadian pig farmer was convicted on Sunday of the serial killings of six women whose bodies were butchered like animals in his farm’s slaughterhouse. But the jury convicted Robert ”Willie” Pickton of a lesser charge of second-degree murder, not the first-degree murder charge he originally faced.
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/ 10 December 2007
Rich and poor nations wrangled over the need for mandatory caps on greenhouse gases and ways to help the most vulnerable adapt to rising temperatures as a United Nations climate conference entered its crucial final week. Delegates and environmentalists said on Monday they were satisfied so far with the progress.
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/ 10 December 2007
A gunman on Sunday shot four staff members at a missionary training centre near Denver, Colorado, killing two, after being told he could not spend the night. About 12 hours later and 105km away, a gunman fatally shot a parishioner at a megachurch and wounded four other people before a guard killed him, police said.
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/ 10 December 2007
Three men, of whom two were armed, robbed a Nando’s takeaway outlet in Rivonia of an undisclosed amount of money and cellphones, Johannesburg police said on Sunday. Captain Julia Claassen said the incident happened at the Nando’s outlet on the corner of Calvin and Rivonia roads at about 9.50pm on Saturday.