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/ 14 October 2007
Ernie Els moved a step closer to the million-pound winner’s cheque and an unprecedented seventh world match-play title at Wentworth, following a hard-fought semifinal victory over Henrik Stenson of Sweden. The South African will now play United States Open champion Angel Cabrera.
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/ 14 October 2007
A total of six activists were rounded up by Burmese authorities in a raid on a safe house over the weekend, Amnesty International said on Sunday, as the junta continued to hunt for protest leaders. ”There is no information on where they are being detained,” the group said in a statement.
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/ 14 October 2007
Thirteen people were killed and 23 others injured in a natural-gas explosion at an apartment building in eastern Ukraine, the Emergency Situations Ministry said on Sunday, Interfax reported. The ministry earlier said that 11 people had died in Saturday’s incident in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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/ 14 October 2007
Abuse of drugs, principally cocaine, is fuelling an unprecedented upsurge in soccer hooliganism in the Irish Republic, according to a new study. A report to be published this week in the Garda Review highlights the use of drugs by hooligans who want to get ”fired up” before games.
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/ 14 October 2007
It’s one of the most fashionable ideas to save the planet from global warming: buying up tropical rainforest to save it from destruction. But like all big ideas it is controversial, and this week a leading Amazonian campaigner will visit Britain to protest that this latest trend is linked to a health and social crisis among indigenous people.
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/ 14 October 2007
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice turned down a chance on Saturday to show off her ice-skating talents and warm up frosty US-Russian relations during a visit to a rink in Russia. Rice, herself a former ice-skating champion, joked that it was 10 years since she last put on her skates.
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/ 14 October 2007
Visitors to London’s Tate Modern gallery are encouraged to engage actively with a divisive new work — and some, it seems, are taking the request too literally. The new exhibit, <i>Shibboleth</i> by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, consists of a 167m-long crack in the floor of the cavernous Turbine Hall.
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/ 14 October 2007
In a new book called Cool It, the global-warming sceptic Bjorn Lomborg has sparked fresh debate about the dangers of increasing temperatures with new claims that polar bears are not on the brink of collapse and are more threatened by hunting than by climate change.
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/ 14 October 2007
The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has launched a rare attack on Gordon Brown ahead of the crucial Lisbon summit on the European Union reform treaty this week, warning that the British Prime Minister is putting the international fight against terrorism at risk.
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/ 14 October 2007
”It’s not like we’re England,” said the old woman sharing a flask of coffee with her middle-aged daughter on the train from Geneva to Zurich. ”They had the colonies, and we didn’t,” she adds, to explain the nature of Britain’s racial mix and why Switzerland does not need one. ”I worry,” says her daughter, ”there will be a putsch against him.”