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Australian strike bowler Brett Lee has supported Ricky Ponting’s decision not to enforce the follow-on in the second Test against Sri Lanka despite the temptation of chasing a quick kill. The Australians had the option of making the Sri Lankans bat again after bowling them out for 246 — 296 runs behind the home side’s first innings total of 542.
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/ 18 November 2007
Spain’s Miguel Angel Jimenez won the UBS Hong Kong Open in a thrilling finish Sunday, firing a final round of 67 to push Sweden’s Robert Karlsson into a share of second place. Jimenez emerged victorious after Karlsson made a disastrous double bogey on the final hole which saw him finally surrender the lead in the ,25-million tournament.
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/ 18 November 2007
Local authorities in Gauteng have been urged to collect rates and taxes owed to them in order to function as viable entities. ”For municipalities to deliver services they should collect the debt owed to them and take care of its employees,” said South African Post Office CEO Totsie Memela-Khambule.
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/ 18 November 2007
Fighting between rival Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims in north-western Pakistan’s troubled tribal belt has claimed 70 lives, security officials and state media reported Sunday. State television said another 150 people were injured as heavily armed tribesmen clashed in the Kurram district bordering Afghanistan.
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/ 18 November 2007
Five people have died in a helicopter crash in Angola, BHP Billiton announced on Saturday. The crash occurred late on Friday, about 80km from the Alto Cuilo Camp diamond exploration facility in north eastern Angola, the company said in a statement.
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/ 18 November 2007
Robert Mugabe’s vice-president has endorsed the veteran Zimbabwean leader’s candidature for presidential elections next year and has suggested he should even rule until he dies, a report said on Sunday. Joseph Msika said no-one was so far challenging Mugabe’s bid to seek a sixth consecutive term and urged supporters to endorse him at a ruling party congress.
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/ 18 November 2007
Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has slammed the church for being ”obsessed” with homosexuality, in a BBC radio programme to be broadcast
Tuesday. The South African 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, 76, said he felt ashamed of his church for its attitude towards gays.
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The bruises suffered by Hassan Tariq, a senior barrister in Sindh province, extend in large purple patches from his hip to his rib cage. According to his own account, he was beaten with ”a hard object” and kicked and punched by officers for refusing to chant slogans in favour of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf.
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Former president Nelson Mandela has pulled a South African Broadcasting Corporation advert in which he appears with President Thabo Mbeki, fearing that he would be seen to be endorsing Mbeki in the ANC’s succession battle, a media report said on Sunday.
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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.