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Six months after hurricane Katrina flushed the life out of New Orleans, Mardi Gras has brought fun back to the Big Easy. The once-abandoned French Quarter was filled with rowdy revelers stumbling down the middle of the street, tripping over beer bombs and broken beads.
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/ 28 February 2006
At least 20 people died on Tuesday when Maoist rebels in central India blew up a truck packed with anti-Maoist activists. ”Until now, we know that 20 people have died. Around 35 to 40 people are injured. It was a landmine attack,” said police additional director general of intelligence SK Paswan in Raipur, capital of Chattisgarh state.
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/ 28 February 2006
The JSE was awash with red just after noon on Tuesday, dragged down by selling from offshore. With many local players absent due to the public holiday on Wednesday, thin volumes exacerbated the market’s weakness. By 12.14pm, the all share index slipped 1,14%.
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The Merafong municipality, which includes Khutsong, says it is pleased that elections will take place there and hopes law enforcers will protect voters during and after elections. Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi has urged voters in the Merafong municipality to vote for the party of their choice on Wednesday.
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/ 28 February 2006
Rio happily swapped a group of ageing British rockers for scantily clad dancers and the relentless beat of hundreds of drums on Monday as Brazil’s top-tier groups faced off in the yearly carnival’s annual samba parade. For two nights, 14 of the city’s top-tier samba groups present 80-minute parades costing about -million each.
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/ 28 February 2006
Dennis Weaver, an actor with a Midwestern twang who played stiff-legged Chester the deputy on the classic TV western Gunsmoke and the cowboy cop hero in McCloud, has died. He was 81. Weaver died on Friday from complications of cancer at his home in Ridgway, in south-western Colorado.
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/ 28 February 2006
Various United States interest groups have joined forces to fight a proposed bulk e-mailing fee they claim strikes at the heart of online communication — a level playing field for rich and poor. The service would charge businesses and other bulk e-mailers a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user’s mailbox.
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/ 28 February 2006
I don’t know of any law that says speedometers have to over-read, but there are a few that prohibit speedometers from reflecting a lower speed than the vehicle is actually travelling. In the United Kingdom, for instance, speedometers may legally be up to 10% optimistic, but there’s no leeway for under-reading.
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/ 28 February 2006
Nissan has introduced its first diesel passenger vehicle to South Africa, the Micra 1,5 dCi Tekna. It is the first three-door Micra on our market and the reduction in size does give it a certain agility that the other Micras lack. Then again, it also has a turbo-diesel engine and is surprisingly one of the most driveable turbo-powered cars.
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/ 28 February 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has made "a final appeal to all its members, to all workers and to the people as a whole" to vote for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Wednesday in the nationwide municipal poll.