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/ 9 September 2006
President Jed Bartlet? Captain Benjamin Willard? Or just plain Martin Sheen? Who is he? Fighting hangovers with large coffees, Che Guevara T-shirt-wearing students shot blank looks en route to their lectures. Walking unobtrusively among them in a traditional Irish peaked cap, Hollywood actor Martin Sheen began university this week.
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/ 9 September 2006
Space shuttle Atlantis roared off its seaside Florida launch pad on Saturday after two weeks of delays, setting the stage for Nasa to resume assembly of the International Space Station. The shuttle’s fuel tank appeared to shed at least two pieces of insulating foam during the climb into orbit, one of which may have struck Atlantis, but mission control said it was unlikely to have caused any damage.
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/ 9 September 2006
Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer has said next year’s World Cup in the West Indies will be the one of the most open in the competition’s history. Woolmer’s side have been widely tipped as one of the leading challengers to defending champions Australia, given the wide array of talent they have at their disposal in all areas.
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/ 9 September 2006
A powerful surge by the Springboks in the second half guaranteed them a 24-16 victory over Australia in their Tri-Nations encounter at Ellis Park on Saturday. After a subdued and slow start to the game with the teams deadlocked at three-all at the break, tries from Fourie du Preez and Breyton Paulse and a snap drop from Andre Pretorius ensured the Boks victory.
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/ 9 September 2006
Tim Cahill backed Andrew Johnson to get 20 goals this season after the England striker scored an opportunist double to fire his side to a 3-0 derby victory over Liverpool on Saturday. Johnson’s brace, after Cahill had opened the scoring, extended Everton’s unbeaten start to the season to four matches and Australian midfielder Cahill insisted there was no reason why the run should not continue.
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/ 9 September 2006
Ashley Cole has accused Arsenal of ”disrespecting” him in the wake of his controversial transfer to Chelsea. The England international completed his switch to Stamford Bridge last week after the Premiership champions agreed to give Arsenal £5-million and their French defender William Gallas in exchange.
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/ 9 September 2006
The number of people poisoned by highly toxic waste that was dumped on open-air sites in Abidjan by a foreign ship has risen from 1 500 to more than 5 000 people, the country’s health ministry said on Saturday, drastically increasing the toll of those affected.
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/ 9 September 2006
Zimbabwe on Saturday condemned as ”lies” an Amnesty International report that criticised the Harare government for failing to rebuild houses for thousands left homeless after a controversial slum clearance. Amnesty said on Friday that a Zimbabwe government housing construction programme meant to benefit victims of the slum demolitions was a public relations exercise to mask ”mass human rights violations”.
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/ 9 September 2006
Muttiah Muralitharan has said one of the reasons for his recent fine form has been the way he coped with the abuse he received from crowds during Sri Lanka’s tour of Australia earlier this year. The off-spinner, whose controversial action twice saw him no-balled for throwing in Australia during in the 1990s, has taken 46 wickets in his last five Test matches.
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/ 9 September 2006
Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami on Friday condemned the September 11 attacks against the United States as an atrocity and said suicide bombers did Islam an injustice and would not go to heaven. Three days before the fifth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3 000 people, the Shi’ite cleric urged Muslims to work against ”Islamaphobia”.