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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.
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/ 8 December 2007
Springbok Sevens coach Paul Treu was quite happy with his side’s defence in their first match when they beat Argentina 24-7 in the International Rugby Board Sevens World Series in George on Friday — but the Boks needed hardly any defence when they overran Uganda 41-0 in their second match.
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/ 8 December 2007
South Africa’s Omar Sandys, a player little known on the international golf stage, carded a four-under-par 68 on Friday to open up a two-shot lead in the €1-million Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club. Tournament favourite and world number five Ernie Els of South Africa was in joint third place.
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/ 8 December 2007
The Titans commanded the second day’s play of their SuperSport Series match against the Eagles as they extended their lead to 359 runs at the close of play at the OUTsurance Oval in Bloemfontein on Friday. In Paarl, the Cobras reached 228/3 at stumps on day two in reply to the Warriors’ 346 all out earlier in the day.
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/ 8 December 2007
Three supporters of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto were killed on Saturday when gunmen attacked her party’s office in a town in south-western Pakistan, police said, in the first reported deaths in the current election campaign. Police had no immediate information about the motive for the attack.
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/ 8 December 2007
Karlheinz Stockhausen, a controversial giant of musical modernism whose works were seldom embraced by mainstream concert audiences, died on Wednesday at his home in Kuerten-Kettenberg, Germany, at the age of 79 , it was announced on Friday. Prolific, whether in fashion or out of it, he composed 362 works.
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/ 8 December 2007
Developing countries led by China squabbled with the West over mandatory emission cuts at the Bali climate-change conference, as activists accused Canada on Saturday of undermining the negotiations by insisting on targets for poor nations. Delegates from nearly 190 nations are attending the December 3 to 14 meeting.
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/ 8 December 2007
A series of six black-and-white prints on display in an unassuming corner of the New York Public Library have sparked controversy on the airwaves and blogosphere quite out of keeping with the dark, marble-lined corridor in which they are hung. The prints show the mugshots of main members of the Bush administration.