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/ 4 September 2006
Africa’s great crocodile hunter saluted his Australian counterpart on Monday, saying the death of Steve Irwin by a stingray barb was an ”unfitting” end for the fearless showman. ”I’m very upset to hear about it. I know that he led a dangerous life but it just doesn’t seem right that a fish should kill him… It is an unfitting death for him,” said Khalid Hassen.
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/ 4 September 2006
Iranian police have arrested a South African man on suspicion of drug smuggling, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday. Drug traffickers and dealers may receive a death sentence under Iranian law, depending on the kind and amount of drugs involved.
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/ 4 September 2006
South Africa had to become an advanced information-based society in which information and communication technology (ICT) tools were the drivers of economic and societal development,” President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. Although South Africa had a diverse and dynamic telecommunications market with world-class technology, there were still many untapped opportunities.
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/ 4 September 2006
A Japanese man was arrested after trying to steal a mannequin from a display window, claiming it was love at first sight, news reports said on Monday. Shoji Shibuzaki (33) was arrested at 3am in the southern city of Maebara for allegedly trying to remove the mannequin from display at a community centre.
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/ 4 September 2006
Rebels in Sudan’s ravaged Darfur region said that government forces backed by bombers were pursuing a week-old offensive and African Union peacekeepers reported continued fighting. The government significantly raised the stakes in Khartoum’s stand-off with the international community and called on Sunday for the AU to withdraw its troops from all of Darfur.
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/ 4 September 2006
The main factors that have recently led to the heightening of the inflationary risks, namely high levels of consumer spending, adverse movements in the exchange rate, a larger current-account deficit, higher food prices and high oil prices, serve as the backdrop to the tightening cycle in South Africa, Tito Mboweni, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, said on the weekend.
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/ 4 September 2006
Every morning a mild-mannered British servant catches his commuter train to London, whips open his laptop and helps change the way people travel around the world. Mark Smith is the man behind <i>The Man in Seat</i>, an independent website that’s riding a wave of global popularity as more and more travellers give up on chaotic air travel and embrace the romance of railways.
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/ 4 September 2006
Taipei 101, the world’s tallest skyscraper, stands as the pride of the modern Taiwanese capital, but it is around the lowlier blue-roofed Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall that hundreds of mainland Chinese tourists buzz daily. The tourists are all eager to get a glimpse of an island about which they could only read in censored textbooks during the Cold War period.
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/ 4 September 2006
Andre Agassi’s glittering career came to a tearful conclusion when he lost in four sets to German qualifier Benjamin Becker in the US Open third round on Sunday. Becker, the world number 112 who is playing just his second grand slam event, sent the 36-year-old Agassi into retirement with a 7-5 6-7 6-4 7-5 victory at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
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/ 4 September 2006
Top-seeded Roger Federer was not on the main stage at the US Open on Sunday but the world number one enjoyed the cosier surroundings and a quick trip into the fourth round. Playing a rare night match at Louis Armstrong Stadium, twice defending champion Federer rolled into the round of 16 with a crushing 6-3 6-3 6-0 victory over unseeded Vince Spadea.