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/ 16 October 2007
An Australian man dressed only in his underpants survived a fall from his ninth-storey apartment when an apparent incident of high jinks went badly wrong, police said on Tuesday. The 35-year-old was attempting to build planks across to a neighbour’s flat when he lost his footing and plummeted 30m to the ground, police said.
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/ 16 October 2007
A French rugby fan was so distraught at his team’s World Cup semifinal exit that he threw his television out of the window of his flat on to a car parked two floors below. Police said the man, who had been drinking as he watched Les Bleus slip to a 14-9 defeat to England on Saturday, also threw his video recorder and furniture from his second-floor apartment.
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/ 16 October 2007
South Africa has the worst white-collar crime rate in the world, according to a survey released on Tuesday. Companies reported an average of 23 cases of fraud during the past two years, with each organisation losing an average of over R7,4-million in that period, according to the survey.
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/ 16 October 2007
At least 100 people were feared drowned after a crowded ferry capsized on Tuesday in southern Bangladesh, officials said. The ferry — with about 250 people on board — was caught in a tropical storm in the Shariatpur district, nearly 85km south of the capital, Dhaka, officials said.
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/ 16 October 2007
A container truck ploughed into six vehicles in Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg, on Monday, leaving 18 people hurt. Among the vehicles were a Hi-Ace taxi carrying ten passengers and a police bakkie from the Hillbrow police station.
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/ 16 October 2007
Zimbabwe’s main opposition on Monday accused President Robert Mugabe’s party of treating with disdain key talks by mounting a crackdown on its supporters. ”We continue to receive disturbing reports from across the country of violence against our supporters,” said Nelson Chamisa, the spokesperson for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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/ 16 October 2007
Cambodian police said on Tuesday a suspected serial paedophile being hunted by Interpol across Asia was a Canadian national called Christopher Paul Neil, born in 1975. Keo Vanthan, deputy director of Interpol offices in the impoverished South-east Asian nation, said Neil had visited Cambodia before leaving for Vietnam.
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/ 16 October 2007
A South African-led consortium will invest -million (R178-million) in the 106-year-old Kenya-Uganda Railway by June next year to revitalise operations on the decrepit track. The Kenyan and Ugandan governments handed over the money-losing colonial-era railway to Rift Valley Railways Consortium under a 25-year concession last year.
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/ 16 October 2007
Only 60% of HIV/Aids patients in Africa still take the drugs they need to stay alive two years after starting treatment, researchers reported, noting a grim reason many stopped: death. Of the patients found no longer to be taking the drugs after two years, 40% died and the rest missed scheduled appointments.
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/ 16 October 2007
Give a dog a bad name … Gavin Foster looks at the car with the weirdest name in the world — the Nissan Qashqai. "In a year when there have been so many stunning new cars launched in South Africa, the Nissan with the funny name is, in my book, a shoo-in as a Car of the Year finalist."