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/ 13 September 2006
Thirteen people — among them two alleged rapists and an alleged robber — were freed when a magistrate refused to work after 4pm, a media report said on Wednesday. It said Kimberley Magistrate K Padayachee scrapped 13 cases off the court roll on Monday and allowed the accused in custody to go free.
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/ 13 September 2006
Astronomers peering into deep space believe that the first big galaxies in the universe were forged around 700-million years after the Big Bang that initiated the cosmos. In a record-breaking scan of the skies, a team led by Japanese astronomer Masanori Iye found a galaxy whose light has taken 12,7-thousand million years to reach Earth.
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/ 13 September 2006
African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday called for the tripartite alliance to be strengthened to ensure that workers’ interests received greater attention. ”If are we are serious about developing the African National Congress and parliamentary oversight then a lot more energy and focus has to go into the tripartite alliance,” he said.
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/ 13 September 2006
Gang members in one of Colombia’s most violent cities face an ultimatum: give up guns or give up sex. In what is being called a ”strike of crossed legs”, supported by the Pereira mayor’s office, the wives and girlfriends of gang members have said they will not have sex with their partners until they vow to give up violence.
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/ 13 September 2006
Wearing just a small white towel and a smile, Bob prowls the dark halls of the East Side Club, looking into dozens of its closet-sized rooms and hoping eye contact with another man will lead to sex. ”It’s better than going to a bar and taking your chances,” said Bob, a 46-year-old garden supplies salesman from New Jersey who declined to give his last name.
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/ 13 September 2006
The natural injustice of the death of Steve Irwin, the daredevil conservationist who wrestled with crocodiles and dangled cobras but was killed by a relatively docile fish, has apparently motivated some of his most ardent supporters to wreak revenge. Two stingrays — typically placid creatures — were found dead on Tuesday with their tails sliced off at Deception Bay, north of Brisbane.
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/ 13 September 2006
It has already changed the music business — and amassed an army of fans sporting its trademark white earphones. But the next revolution, according to Apple, maker of the iPod, will be televised. The company on Tuesday night raised the curtain on its plans to take on the movie industry by selling full-length feature films over the internet.
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/ 13 September 2006
"In the name of my green and hairy testicles, would someone please answer Metro FM’s “What makes you black?” ad campaign! “Black” nowadays seems to be the epitome of cool, hip, interesting – the other. Ngempela kakhulu, my homeys" – an extract from <i>Laugh it Off Annual</i>.
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/ 13 September 2006
TV and theatre man Neil McCarthy spent nearly two months in the UK touring a show called The Wildebeest Lounge. The following are excerpts from his diary.
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