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/ 3 September 2006
Coming off possibly their greatest victory in Test rugby, Springbok coach Jake White on Saturday evening watered down any thoughts that his team had completely turned the corner. However, he praised his charges’ tenacity at beating the All Blacks by the narrowest of margins in an epic Tri-Nations battle.
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/ 3 September 2006
Shoaib Akhtar set up Pakistan’s seven-wicket win over England in the second one-day international at Lord’s in London on Saturday as the tourists went 1-0 up in the five-match series. Akhtar finished with four for 28 from his permitted eight overs, while his miserly new-ball partner Mohammad Asif took two for 10, also in eight overs.
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/ 3 September 2006
Andre Agassi received another anti-inflammatory injection on Saturday and got an extra day to rest before playing in the third round of the United States Open, his match postponed because of intermittent rain. Matches involving Andy Roddick and Maria Sharapova also were pushed back to Sunday.
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/ 3 September 2006
In a few weeks, scientists from across the world will gather in the New Mexico desert to compete for one of the strangest — and most ambitious — technological competitions ever devised. All their different projects are united by one extraordinary goal: to build a stairway to heaven.
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/ 3 September 2006
Escaping mass unemployment at home in the Seventies and Eighties, the Irish came to pull pints and serve the punters of West Berlin’s bars and nightclubs. In the Nineties, they flocked to the building sites to help reconstruct a reunified city after the Wall came down. Now, in the 21st century, they have come back.
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/ 3 September 2006
United States President George Bush on Saturday denied that Iraq is plunging into civil war, just a day after the Pentagon painted a bloody picture of a nation caught in a spiral of increasing violence. Bush lashed out at critics of the war and portrayed the conflict in Iraq as an integral part of the war on terror.
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/ 3 September 2006
Europe’s first spacecraft to the moon ended its three-year mission on Sunday by crashing into the lunar surface in a volcanic plane called the Lake of Excellence, to a round of applause in the mission control room. Hitting at 2km per second, the impact of the Smart-1 spacecraft was expected to leave a 3m-by-10m crater.
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/ 3 September 2006
The British forces suffered their most deadly day since the war on terror began when a Nimrod surveillance aircraft from Royal Air Force Kinloss in Scotland crashed on Saturday while supporting Nato ground operations in Afghanistan, killing all 14 servicemen on board.
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/ 3 September 2006
A large group of South African women infected with HIV are among 150 delegates of last month’s International Aids Conference seeking refugee status in Canada, the Toronto Sun‘s website reported. The newspaper reported that the women did not return home after attending the Aids conference in Toronto last month.
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/ 3 September 2006
Woolworths on Saturday criticised a move by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to impose a quota on the number of Chinese clothing and textile exports to South Africa. The two-year restriction will begin on September 28, said Woolworths chief executive Simon Susman.