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Rock legends Led Zeppelin were set to announce a one-off comeback concert on Wednesday, nearly three decades after disbanding. The group split in 1980 after the death of drummer John Bonham and have performed only a handful of reunion gigs, last taking the stage 12 years ago at their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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/ 12 September 2007
In the latest twist in the current floor-crossing saga the African National Congress (ANC), despite all its previous protestations about taking firm action against members of Parliament convicted of fraud, on Wednesday accepted into their ranks Craig Morkel, who was convicted of fraud and theft in the Travelgate debacle.
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/ 12 September 2007
A senior Darfur rebel leader accused the Sudanese government on Wednesday of trying to grab land ahead of October peace talks, and threatened to pull out of the talks unless attacks stopped. Justice and Equality Movement leader Khalil Ibrahim said the violence in the remote west would make it impossible for him to travel to negotiations with Khartoum.
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/ 12 September 2007
A powerful earthquake struck near Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, and the shock was felt across South-East Asia. A tsunami warning was issued by several Indian Ocean countries. Several buildings in Padang, the provincial capital of Indonesia’s West Sumatra, collapsed, Global TV reported.
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/ 12 September 2007
Britain found a suspected case of foot-and-mouth disease on a farm in southern England on Wednesday and immediately imposed an exclusion zone and had the herd in question culled. A statement on the Agriculture Ministry’s website said an exclusion zone had been placed around the suspect farm in Egham, Surrey, about 50km from the scene of the last outbreak in August.
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/ 12 September 2007
South Africans spend most of their time on news and weather internet sites when they are online, a study done in August by global internet media and market researcher NetRatings has revealed. News and weather sites account for 23% of the time that South Africans spend online, which translates into about 1,1-million hours.
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/ 12 September 2007
India’s most famous monument, the Taj Mahal, is turning yellow, and the Archaeological Survey of India has decided to give it a mud-pack beauty treatment to restore its pristine white beauty, news reports said on Wednesday. The mud packs will be left to dry for a couple of days and then be washed off.
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/ 12 September 2007
Flood waters began to recede on Wednesday in north-eastern India after heavy rains and floods inundated much of the region, displacing about three million people, authorities said. But large portions of the state of Assam were still inaccessible and rescue workers continued to try to reach marooned villagers.
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/ 12 September 2007
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe abruptly announced his resignation on Wednesday after a year in power dogged by scandals, an election rout and a crisis over Japan’s support for United States-led operations in Afghanistan. The hawkish Abe, who took office promising to boost Japan’s global security profile, had seen his clout dwindle.
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/ 12 September 2007
Three men accused of raping three Durban women at a Pennington beach house on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast were found guilty in the Scottburgh High Court on Wednesday. The three were found guilty of five counts of rape. They were also found guilty of indecent assault and robbery with aggravating circumstances.