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/ 25 January 2007
A security guard responding to an alert was seriously injured in an explosion at an ATM in Meyerton around 2am on Thursday. Police spokesperson Captain William Mcera said a guard at the NTN shopping centre called for backup when he became suspicious of four men who had gathered around an ATM.
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/ 25 January 2007
The Two Tenors and a Baritone lacks the easy and familiar ring of the Three Tenors, but the operatic world had better get used to the new line-up: Placido Domingo has decided to make the jump from the tenor repertoire, which he has sung around the world to acclaim for more than 40 years, to become a baritone.
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/ 25 January 2007
Microsoft landed in the Wikipedia doghouse on Tuesday after it offered to pay a blogger to change technical articles on the community-produced web encyclopedia site. "We were very disappointed to hear that Microsoft was taking that approach," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said.
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/ 25 January 2007
A 21-year-old Nigerian man was spending his last day of life on Thursday without the comfort of a single relative or friend ahead of his execution in a Singapore prison. Despite a clemency plea by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, there was no word from the government of any change in the death sentence.
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/ 25 January 2007
Gidani is continuing its preparations to operate the national lottery despite a legal challenge from Uthingo. ”We continue to assert that we won the license to operate the national lottery from 1 April 2007 in a thorough, scrupulous and well-managed, fair contest,” Gidani chairperson Bongani Khumalo wrote in a statement.
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/ 25 January 2007
Maria Sharapova was fined 000 after her father coached her from the sidelines during her Australian Open quarterfinal win over Anna Chakvetadze, officials said on Thursday. The top seed received the fine after getting a code violation from Portuguese umpire Mariana Alves during Wednesday’s match because of her father’s behaviour.
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/ 25 January 2007
Batsman Herschelle Gibbs’s appeal hearing against a ban of two Test matches was tougher than expected, Proteas coach Mickey Arthur said on Wednesday. The proceedings, which were conducted by teleconference, lasted about two hours. Arthur said he could not give details of what prevailed.
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/ 25 January 2007
Would our roads be safer with fewer rules, or would chaos reign and the death toll rise? That’s an interesting question being subjected to research in seven cities and regions of Europe, where authorities, encouraged by the European Union, are removing thousands of road signs, traffic lights and barrier lines in an attempt to get motorists to interact in a "free and human way" with each other.
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/ 25 January 2007
A former United States envoy to Sudan on Wednesday complained that United States policy on the country was based on a ”fundamental flaw” and warned a new war could erupt without urgent action. Roger Winter also made a personal appeal to President George Bush, warning that the peace agreement that ended Sudan’s bloody, 21-year civil war was at risk and would darken his White House legacy if it failed.
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/ 25 January 2007
The invitations described it as an opportunity for the "notable people" of Gaza to meet their prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader who was elected as Palestinian prime minister a year ago. Dressed in a suit and tie and with a red and white keffiyeh draped over his head and shoulders, Haniyeh spoke for an hour to an audience of Palestinian newspaper editors and local figures in Gaza City this week.