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/ 18 November 2007
British visitors to America have grown used to the strange sensation of seeing bargains at every turn. They return from New York or Florida laden with jeans, designer shoes, CDs and iPods. Now they are buying homes, too. The United States property market, undergoing troubled times because of the credit crisis, has suddenly become great value for Britons.
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/ 18 November 2007
It is 50 years since Tony Ciarfello and his friends used the yard of a depleted uranium weapons factory as their playground in Colonie, a suburb of Albany in upstate New York state. ”There wasn’t no fence at the back of the plant,” remembers Ciarfello.
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/ 18 November 2007
Grieving survivors and rescuers picked through the rubble left in the wake of a cyclone that battered Bangladesh as the death toll reached over 2 200 on Sunday. Mohammad Abdur Rob, chairperson of the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, said the overall death toll from the cyclone could reach 10 000.
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/ 17 November 2007
New Zealand endured another bad day on the second day of the second Castle Lager Test against South Africa at Supersport Park on Saturday as Jacques Kallis notched up his fifth century in four Tests. When play was called off for bad light, South Africa were 272 for three, giving them a first innings lead of 89, with seven wickets in hand.
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/ 17 November 2007
World number one Roger Federer scored his best-ever win over arch-rival Rafael Nadal to reach his fifth Masters Cup final on Saturday. The defending champion edged a tight first set and destroyed the fading Spaniard in the second, winning 6-4, 6-1 in just 59 minutes.
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/ 17 November 2007
About 500 members of the South African Communist Party (SACP), and farm workers marched through the streets of Rustenburg on Saturday, protesting against the state of clinics and hospitals, as well as living conditions on farms. The march was part of the SACP’s Red October programme, which focused on public health institutions.
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/ 17 November 2007
Jacques Kallis scored his fifth century in four consecutive Tests after lunch on the second day of the second Castle Lager Test between South Africa and New Zealand at Supersport Park on Saturday as the dominant South Africans took total control of the match. At tea, South Africa had 251 for two for a first innings lead of 64.
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/ 17 November 2007
Stormy weather wrought havoc at OR Tambo International airport on Friday, delaying flights and inconveniencing passengers, the Airports Company of South Africa said on Saturday. The storm also knocked out electricity out in several areas of Johannesburg.
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/ 17 November 2007
Hashim Amla and Jacques Kallis anchored South Africa’s steady reply after the hosts had lost a pair of early wickets in the second test against New Zealand on Saturday. South Africa reached lunch on 103 for two on the second day in reply to New Zealand’s first innings total of 188 with both Amla and Kallis on 36 not out at the interval.
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/ 17 November 2007
Governments must do more to fight global warming, spurred by a new United Nations scientific report and damage to nature that is already as frightening as science fiction, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday. Ban said that he had just been on a trip to see ice shelves breaking up in Antarctica and the melting Torres del Paine glaciers in Chile.