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/ 10 October 2006
An Australian scholar in his 90s successfully capped off his law degree this week, winning a race against time he feared he might not live to finish. Having compressed the demanding course of legal study from six years into just four-and-a-half due to his advanced years, Allan Stewart graduated to a standing ovation on Saturday.
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/ 10 October 2006
An attempted hostage-taking by a South African police officer backfired on Monday when he shot himself in the leg inside his boss’s office at a station near Cape Town. The incident happened when the 24-year-old constable held up his station commander and two other senior officers while he was on duty, police spokesperson Captain Elliot Sinyangana said.
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/ 10 October 2006
The $20-billion initial public offer (IPO) of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the mainland’s largest lender, drew intense interest on the its opening day, reports said on Tuesday. The IPO — expected to be the largest to date — attracted a wave of international orders of up to $56-billion, according to reports in Hong Kong’s English-language press.
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/ 10 October 2006
The Congress of South African trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Reserve Bank have agreed that a new industrial strategy to combat cheap Chinese imports was needed. Governor Tito Mboweni and Cosatu general Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi met on Monday night following remarks by the governor that the proposed Chinese import quotas made "no economic sense".
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/ 10 October 2006
A Pretoria man who dragged his dog behind his luxury car with a nylon rope earlier this year is expected to be sentenced on Tuesday. Oupa Jan Seemo (32) of Faerie Glen was convicted of cruelty to animals by the Pretoria Magistrate’s court on Monday. After its ordeal, the dog did not have a single pad left under its paws.
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/ 10 October 2006
Louis Gallois, the newly appointed head of planemaker Airbus, warned on Tuesday that there would likely be ”painful” job losses at Airbus in the wake of delays to the A380 superjumbo and a profit warning at the company. Gallois was named late on Monday as the new head of Airbus after Christian Streiff resigned following a spell of just three months at the job.
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/ 10 October 2006
Japan is considering imposing more sanctions on North Korea in response to its announcement that it conducted a nuclear test, and lawmakers are set to vote later on Tuesday on a resolution criticising Pyongyang’s actions. North Korea said on Monday it had successfully carried out its first nuclear test earlier that day, and Washington has sought harsh United Nations sanctions.
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/ 10 October 2006
The world’s largest international Muslim body complained of shrinking tolerance in the West on Monday as a new row erupted over Danish cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad. Danish state television aired amateur video footage showing members of the anti-immigrant Danish Peoples’ party taking part in a contest to draw images ridiculing the prophet.
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/ 10 October 2006
Publishers of a popular Zimbabwean daily shut down by state authorities three years ago, on Monday asked a court to grant them the right to publish until the long-running dispute was resolved. A state-run media commission has twice refused to grant the Daily News a licence despite a Supreme Court ruling in March last year that threw out the ban on the newspaper.
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/ 10 October 2006
About 5Â 000 former employees of the Pelindaba nuclear facility may be suffering from diseases linked to chemical and radiation exposure, media reports said on Tuesday. This figure emerged from a survey of ex-employees of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa at Pelindaba, outside Pretoria.