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/ 13 January 2006
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu could be passing from person to person in Turkey even though health experts have no evidence that the virus is spreading that way, a senior World Health Organisation (WHO) expert said on Thursday. But he said such contact would not necessarily trigger a pandemic.
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/ 13 January 2006
A British national is assisting the South African police with an investigation into the alleged rape of a teenager in Johannesburg, the British high commission in Pretoria confirmed. A Friday-afternoon edition of a Johannesburg daily newspaper identified the man as a son of a British diplomat in South Africa.
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/ 13 January 2006
Justine Henin-Hardenne survived a three-hour dogfight with Italian Francesca Schiavone to win the Sydney International tennis tournament on Friday. The Belgian eighth seed fought back from dropping the opening set to win a titanic battle 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, her second Sydney title, in a see-sawing struggle.
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/ 13 January 2006
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: It has been clear for some time now that George Clooney had ambitions beyond being TV’s sexiest, best-loved doctor and his role in <i>Out of Sight</i> was a bit of a turning point, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 13 January 2006
<b>AUTHOR’S NOTES</b>: Writer Shaun Levin creates dream-like prose that takes readers into and out of a maze of personal relationships fraught with nostalgia. He speaks to ZA@Play about his writing process and what he is currently reading .
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/ 13 January 2006
Former fighters of Liberia’s brutal war have given their battered capital city a vigorous clean up in preparation for next week’s official installation ceremony of Africa’s first democratically elected female president. The West African country’s transitional government has signed up hundreds of of ex-combatants to spruce up the city.
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/ 13 January 2006
South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka went to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on holiday, her office said on Friday. ”She did not travel to the UAE on a fact-finding mission, nor did she go there on half business, half holiday, and she did not go there to study crane-building businesses,” an adviser said.
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/ 13 January 2006
Looking back at the Mail & Guardian Online‘s news stories of 2005, it was a year filled with high-profile events such as Oilgate and the Jacob Zuma scandal. But there was also a lot of lightweight news that was noticed by our national and international readers.
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/ 13 January 2006
South Africa needs to build on its highly positive brand image, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday in his first ANC Today online letter of the year. He said an international Gallup poll at the end of last year found that 60% of South Africans were optimistic about their future, believing this year would be better than the last one.
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/ 13 January 2006
World champions Australia, propelled by a whirlwind 106-run partnership from Damien Martyn and Andrew Symonds, overwhelmed Sri Lanka by 116 runs in the opening tri-series limited overs cricket match at Melbourne’s Telstra Dome on Friday.