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A millionaire Latin dance lover won a ,9-million lawsuit against her former salsa instructors in Hong Kong on Wednesday, ending a courtroom drama that has gripped the territory with its tales of graceful steps, obscene language and outrageous wealth.
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/ 7 September 2006
South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Governor Tito Mboweni said on Thursday that while he thought South Africa’s interest rates were too high, the sociology of the previous lower rate environment meant he had to raise rates to control inflation. He said the combination of household debt, loans and advances to the private sector and house-price growth meant that South Africa was beginning to have an unbalanced economy.
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/ 7 September 2006
The number of homicides in South Africa has declined since the late 1990s, a study by Statistics South Africa shows. However, it says homicide rates remain very high, especially for males in the 35-39 year age group. Homicide comprises the majority of unnatural deaths for males in this age group and male homicide rates are about six times higher than female homicide rates, the study found.
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/ 7 September 2006
A particularly drug-resistant tuberculosis discovered in eastern South Africa is likely to have spread beyond the rural area where 52 of the 53 people first diagnosed with the new strain have died, the doctor who discovered the super bug said.
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/ 7 September 2006
The Bush administration’s claim that Americans are now safer from terrorism has been undermined by a poll on Wednesday showing a significant jump in the number of Americans and Europeans concerned about Islamist extremism and other global threats.
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/ 7 September 2006
On a humid afternoon, an hour or two after lunch, Nadi al-Attar, 12, set off on a donkey-drawn cart with his grandmother Khariya and two of his young cousins to pick figs from a small orchard near their home in northern Gaza. Ahmed (17) one of the cousins, remembers the moment when the shell struck, but pauses as he tells his story to nervously rub the muscles at the top of his thighs.
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/ 7 September 2006
Four prisoners in an El Salvador jail hid cellphones, a phone charger and spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate crimes from their cells, prison officials said on Wednesday. The four men, all gang members, wrapped their phones and accessories in plastic and inserted them into their rectums "far enough to reach their intestines".
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Legal sparring continued in Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial on Wednesday, with his supporters thinking their side was winning. ”It is clear to anyone inside that court that the ship is sinking,” Congress of South African Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told the crowd outside the court.
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/ 7 September 2006
Natascha Kampusch, the Austrian teenager who lived through what was perhaps Europe’s worst kidnap ordeal, spoke on Wednesday night for the first time of her ”place of despair” confined to a tiny enclosed pit outside Vienna for more than eight years. In a 40-minute appearance on Austrian national television Kampusch painted a picture of terror, panic, starvation and fury.
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/ 7 September 2006
David Lynch’s latest opus is a Russian doll of a film with stories inside stories inside stories. But coming in at three hours long, made in Poland and Hollywood, the digitally-shot film is inspired and incomprehensible by turns. Laura Dern (who also co-produced) stars as an actress who has just landed a part in a new film.