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/ 12 November 2006
A relatively unknown South Korean golfer ended Tiger Woods’ streak in stroke events, winning the HSBC Champions tournament on Sunday. Yang Yong-eun, a regular on the Japanese tour who has played infrequently outside Asia, closed with a three-under 69 on Sunday at the Sheshan International Golf Club for a two-stroke win at 14-under 274.
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/ 12 November 2006
Judge Hilary Squires, who sentenced Schabir Shaik to 15 years in prison for corruption, says he never found a ”generally corrupt relationship” between the controversial businessman and former deputy president Jacob Zuma. The Supreme Court of Appeal attributed the phrase to Squires in its judgement upholding Shaik’s corruption and fraud convictions last week.
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/ 12 November 2006
AS Roma’s bid for the Serie A title gathered momentum when Francesco Totti scored twice to give them a 2-1 win at AC Milan on Saturday. The Roma captain struck first in the seventh minute when he volleyed crisply past Milan keeper Dida. Cristian Brocchi equalised early in the second half, but in the 83rd minute Totti grabbed the winner, heading in a cross by Brazilian winger Mancini.
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/ 12 November 2006
You can tell Bill Gates is a man used to counting in billions. Asked about Microsoft’s new multimillion-dollar deal with Universal Music for downloads to play on its new MP3 player, the company founder and chairperson looks blank, then says: ”I have to admit I don’t know our deal with Universal at all. It wasn’t even in the newspapers I read.”
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/ 12 November 2006
They are dubbed the ”climate canaries” — the people destined to become the first victims of world climate change. And as government ministers sit down in Nairobi at this weekend’s United Nations Climate Conference, the people most likely to be wiped out by devastating global warming will be only a few hundred miles away from their deliberations.
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/ 12 November 2006
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, the former military dictator better known as ”IBB” who ruled Nigeria with a rod of iron for eight years and who once dubbed himself ”the evil genius”, is determined to contest the 2007 elections and to win back the presidential seat he occupied from 1985 to 1993.
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/ 12 November 2006
Ireland’s talismanic captain Brian O’Driscoll pleaded for a reality check on Saturday after his team inflicted a record 32-15 defeat of 1995 world champions South Africa at Lansdowne Road. The 27-year-old centre said people needed to keep their feet on the ground with a testing match to come against two-time world champions Australia next Sunday.
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/ 12 November 2006
New Zealand completely outclassed France in the first of two autumn Tests in Lyon on Saturday, handing the home side an emphatic seven-try 47-3 drubbing. In an entralling display that combined ferocious defence with fearless attack, New Zealand made a mockery of the game’s billing as a contest between the world’s two leading rugby-playing nations.
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/ 12 November 2006
More than 8 000 people were evacuated from their homes as Typhoon Chebi departed from the Philippines on Sunday, moving further west into the South China Sea. The typhoon left two people injured and forced about 8 280 people in San Jose City in the northern Philippines to flee to evacuation centres due to flooding, the civil defence office said.
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/ 12 November 2006
Mohamed Aboutraika scored two minutes into stoppage time to give al-Ahly of Egypt a record-equalling fifth African Champions League title on Saturday. The dramatic 1-0 triumph before a sell-out 52 000 crowd at the November 7 Stadium left Ahly 2-1 winners on aggregate and they became only the third club to successfully the title.