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/ 3 September 2006
Hurricane John ripped tin roofs off homes, knocked out power and sent billboards flying in the southern tip of Baja California before weakening to a tropical storm that could still bring flash floods and mudslides as it crosses the peninsula. No deaths were reported as the storm blew through the city of La Paz.
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/ 3 September 2006
A Zimbabwean law student claims to have talked his way into the Guinness World Records book by giving a lecture that lasted 99 hours and 30 minutes, state radio reported on Saturday. Errol Muzawazi (22) pipped the previous record holder by one hour.
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/ 3 September 2006
Political rivals in Côte d’Ivoire will meet in the country’s administrative capital, Yamoussoukro, on Monday to try to settle their differences against a background of growing United Nations impatience. Monday’s meeting is aimed at ”assessing the peace process and smoothing out differences”.
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/ 3 September 2006
If David Beckham was hoping for an early return to international football, the Real Madrid midfielder will have watched Steven Gerrard’s inspiring display in England’s 5-0 defeat of Andorra with a growing sense of gloom. Asked once again to fill the right-hand position that Beckham had for so long made his own, Gerrard responded in sterling fashion.
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/ 3 September 2006
Leading the Falcons 26-12 at half-time in the Currie Cup premier-division fixture played in very warm conditions at Absa Park, Kimberley, on Saturday afternoon, Griquas were made to fight all the way by Piet Krause’s team before coming from behind to win the match 36-27.
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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.