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Tiny Tonga have realised two dreams and there’s one more still to come if they can defy the odds and knock aside England for a quarterfinal spot at the Rugby World Cup. The Tongan Sea Eagles shocked their fancied Pacific Island rivals Samoa 19-15 to remain unbeaten in the tournament after knocking over United States 25-15.
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/ 17 September 2007
Israel has enforced a news blackout on what may be its air force’s most audacious raid since its jets destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor in 1981. The Israeli government has made no comment about the raid on what is believed to be a nuclear installation in Syria.
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/ 17 September 2007
A European Union court upheld most of a landmark 2004 European Commission antitrust decision against Microsoft on Monday in a crucial victory for the European competition regulator against the United States software giant. The EU’s Court of First Instance dismissed Microsoft’s appeal on all substantive points.
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/ 17 September 2007
Heavy monsoon rain hampered the retrieval of five bodies trapped in the wreckage of a budget airliner that crashed while trying to land on the Thai resort island of Phuket, killing 88 people. The Indonesian captain and his Thai co-pilot were both killed, but 42 people survived the crash.
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/ 17 September 2007
The former commander of the failed United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda on Sunday warned the newly appointed head of a similar force in Darfur that he faced ”long odds” against success and predicted he would be betrayed by the very officials and governments meant to be backing the mission.
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/ 17 September 2007
Former football star OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week. Simpson (60) will be held without bail pending a court hearing on Thursday, Sergeant John Loretto said.
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/ 17 September 2007
When Ahmed Mursal was held up by a drug-desperate gunman in the tuckshop where he was working in the Cape Flats township of Delft, he offered to buy the gun for R250. He told the gunman he could pay only R30 then, but would speak to his Somali brothers, one of whom was sure to want to buy the gun. If the gunman brought the gun the next day, Mursal would pay the balance of R220. The gunman accepted.
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/ 17 September 2007
South Africa’s decision to invest in a nuclear power future has raised concerns about what will happen to the nuke waste generated. Last week it emerged that nuclear power would account for about half of Eskom’s planned new generating capacity. At present South Africa’s nuclear waste policy is vague and does not list a clear end-plan of what will happen to high-level nuclear waste.
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/ 17 September 2007
Even if most employed South Africans paid up to 15% of their salaries towards the new national social security system (NSSS), netting a whopping R54-billion, it would fall short of current flows into the pension fund industry by R18-billion. The problem with pension funds is not so much coverage of employed people, but rather that people are drawing on these savings before retirement.
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/ 17 September 2007
Although I work as an economist and portfolio manager in the finance sector, I live in a remote rural area where my husband has, together with the local community, built a backpackers’ lodge. This is in the most remote village in the poorest district in South Africa (according to Statistics SA), writes Rejane Woodroffe.