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The Wallabies claimed top spot in group B with a fitful 55-12 win over Fiji to lock up a quarterfinal place at the Rugby World Cup at Stade de la Mosson in Montpellier on Sunday. The Australians always had the game under control, but it was an unsatisfying, error-strewn performance against the second-string Fijians.
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/ 23 September 2007
The world’s best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon’s office said on September 23. For decades, Marceau epitomised his silent art, eliciting laughter and tears from audiences around the globe. His comic and tragic sketches appeal on a universal level.
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/ 23 September 2007
The world’s best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon’s office said on Sunday. For decades, Marceau epitomised his silent art, eliciting laughter and tears from audiences around the globe. His comic and tragic sketches appeal on a universal level.
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/ 23 September 2007
The controversial Sandi Majali — known for his central role in the Oilgate and Iraq oil-for-food scandals — has been named in a forensic audit into the disappearance of more than R100-million meant for starving children in the Eastern Cape, the Sunday Times reported.
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/ 23 September 2007
Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice on Designing Women, has died. She was 81. Ghostley died on September 21 at her home in Studio City after a long battle with colon cancer and a series of strokes.
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/ 23 September 2007
A day trader and aspiring pizza chef known as ”Eater X” munched through 10-and-three-quarter burritos in a dozen minutes on Saturday to win what was billed as the world burrito-eating championship. Tim Janus (30), of New York City, said he prepared by just eating candy for a day, which he claimed helped clear his system.
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/ 23 September 2007
The United Nations’s new envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, held his first talks in Mogadishu on Saturday with the embattled transitional government’s top leaders, the UN said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s special representative discussed the results of a recent national reconciliation congress.
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/ 23 September 2007
The victims of flooding in northern Ghana are still crying out for help, three weeks after the water started rising, sweeping away their crops and homes. The torrential rains and floods that have ravaged sub-Saharan Africa from the Atlantic coast to the Indian Ocean are believed to be the worst in three decades.
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/ 23 September 2007
Zimbabwe’s divided opposition was pressured by international mediators into accepting the framework for next year’s elections in a move that will likely condemn it to defeat, according to analysts. The Movement for Democratic Change made a surprise U-turn last week and voted for the legislation.
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/ 23 September 2007
It is a story of madeleines, macaroons, petit fours and, if the police are right, murder. It is a story of a patisserie chef, a nightclub owner, a body found in a wood, Paris’s finest investigators and one of the city’s most fashionable districts. It is a story that is gripping France.