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/ 18 September 2007

Hatton and Mayweather begin verbal jabs

Unbeaten fighters Floyd Mayweather and Ricky Hatton began the build-up to their December 8 duel in Las Vegas with some verbal sparring on Monday. At a press conference in the Hollywood tourist haven of Universal City England’s Hatton and American Mayweather took turns taking pot-shots at each other as they launched a promotional tour.

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/ 18 September 2007

Derby grab first win of the season

Kenny Miller scored the only goal of the game to earn Derby their first Premiership win of the season on Monday to put Newcastle’s Euro 2008 qualifying star Michael Owen out of the spotlight. Miller’s 39th-minute goal, from fully 33m, meant Derby had their first win in six matches to lift them off the bottom of the table ahead of Bolton.

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/ 18 September 2007

Rice apologises for US security firm shootings

The United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, apologised to the Iraqi government on Monday in an attempt to prevent the expulsion of all employees of the security firm Blackwater USA. The ministry of interior on Monday took the decision to expel Blackwater after eight Iraqi civilians were killed and 13 wounded in Baghdad.

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/ 18 September 2007

‘Dead’ man wakes up under autopsy knife

A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. Carlos Camejo (33) was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realise something was amiss when he started bleeding.

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/ 18 September 2007

Kiwi fans turn France black

Dan’s battered camper van dates back to 1985, two years before the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987. But the one-time cream coloured vehicle, which has more than 240 000km on the clock, has been pressed into service for a rugby odyssey in France as part of a European tour.

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/ 18 September 2007

DTI ‘not at odds with Sasol’ over BEE deal

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Tuesday reiterated that it was "not at odds" with petrochemical giant Sasol over its proposed R7-billion employment share-ownership scheme. "Media reports about the Sasol … black economic empowerment [BEE] deal would seem to indicate that there is some confusion about the department’s position," the DTI said in a statement.

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/ 18 September 2007

Crisis group says Zim close to collapse

Zimbabwe is ”closer than ever to complete collapse” under the weight of a deepening economic crisis that threatens to destabilise Southern Africa. The International Crisis Group (ICG) called on the Southern African Development Community group of nations to overcome internal divisions and focus on ways to persuade Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down.

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/ 18 September 2007

Runaway lion killed in Mpumalanga

One of the runaway Kruger National Park lions was killed on Monday night after it was found eating a cow, said the Mpumalanga Tourism and Parks Agency. Spokesperson Jimmy Masombuka said the agency received a tip-off on Monday evening about the whereabouts of the lion and surrounded the area.