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Hosts France kept their nerve and their hopes alive of landing their first World Cup title in Paris on Friday as they beat Ireland 25-3 in their crunch group-D clash at the Stade de France. Two second-half tries by winger Vincent Clerc and 15 points from man-of-the-match Jean-Baptiste Elissalde were enough to see the Irish off.
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/ 21 September 2007
Mamelodi Sundowns arrived in a ”scorching” Lubumbashi for Sunday’s crucial Confederation Cup game against the Democratic Republic of Congo’s TP Mazembe on Friday without injured stars Ezrom Nyandoro, Surprise Moriri and Brent Carelse.
”It is a hammer blow’ to be without players of their calibre, said coach Gordon Igesund.
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/ 21 September 2007
The Sharks secured themselves a home semifinal berth in the Currie Cup when they came back from behind to beat the Blue Bulls 26-18 at Loftus Versfeld on Friday evening. The Sharks almost let it slip in the first half when they found themselves trailing 18-9 and with only 14 men on the park.
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/ 21 September 2007
There are days when even the World’s Most Wanted Man looks in the mirror and just feels like the world’s most unwanted man. He stares at his grey beard, sighs wearily at a FedEx-ed package of cave-floor carpet samples Mullah Omar wants him to pick between, and thinks: is there some sharia law loophole that means I could hang out with Scarlett Johansson for a few days, as long we just laugh at funny little Japanese people together and don’t get it on?
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/ 21 September 2007
The ANC leadership in the North West has, as expected, nominated President Thabo Mbeki to continue for another term as party president. Although the formal nomination process starts only in October, the provincial executive committee has released a list of its top six preferences to its regions and branches for discussion.
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/ 21 September 2007
Severe weather, including a possible tornado, damaged about 50 homes in central Florida before the system became a subtropical depression on Friday and had parts of the Gulf Coast under tropical-storm warnings. Television news footage showed a boat overturned in a yard, a toppled mobile home and downed trees.
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/ 21 September 2007
A suicide bomber rammed a booby-trapped car into a convoy in Algeria on Friday, wounding two French engineers and an Italian, in an attack only hours after al-Qaeda called for an offensive against French targets. Six Algerians, five of them police, were also injured in the attack near the town of Lakhdaria.
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/ 21 September 2007
Darryl Accone reviews Michael Dibdin’s End Games, the last instalment of the Zen novels.
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/ 21 September 2007
September 11 has galvanised the West’s curiosity about that most misunderstood and demonised religion, writes Naseem Khan.
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/ 21 September 2007
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Judgement was reserved by the Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday in the appeal hearing of Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thint against efforts by the national director of public prosecutions to get original documents from Mauritius related to investigations against them.