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/ 17 February 2006
The United States risks ”loss of leadership” is space exploration, if it fails to replace quickly its ailing shuttle fleet with a new reliable space vehicle, the head of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) has warned. And that will not be possible without sacrificing some valuable science programmes, Michael Griffin, head of the Nasa, told Congress on Thursday.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Department of Minerals and Energy could implement a retail petrol price cut of about 15 cents per litre (c/l) on March 1, given recent trends in both the rand exchange rate and oil prices, reversing the 14c/l increase implemented this month. The retail petrol price is adjusted monthly on the first Wednesday of the month.
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/ 17 February 2006
About 200 people were believed killed and 1 500 others were missing in the central Philippines on Friday when an entire village was buried in a landslide, the Red Cross said. The landslide hit the village of Guinsaugon in Saint Bernard town in the southern part of Leyte island at about 10.45am local time.
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/ 17 February 2006
An Eastern Cape policeman might be in hot water after an afternoon on the beach in full uniform in the company of a ”skimpily dressed colleague”, media reports said on Friday. Residents in the coastal village of Blue Horizon Bay near Port Elizabeth were fuming over the incident on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 17 February 2006
At least 20 new-born babies and foetuses are dumped in Harare’s sewer system every week, Zimbabwe’s Herald newspaper reported on Friday. Its website quoted the city council as saying this frequently led to the clogging of the sewerage network.
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/ 17 February 2006
Metal and mining giant Kumba Resources Limited on Friday reported revenue of R11,96-billion and a net operating profit of R3,7-billion for the 12 months ended 31 December last year. This had resulted in an improved operating margin of 31% for the year, it said.
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/ 17 February 2006
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Terrence Malick’s The New World, makes one feel like one has genuinely seen things afresh — not just landscape and mythic history, but cinema itself, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 17 February 2006
You can pick Jermaine Jenas out of a training ground cluster a long way off. His wiry frame sticks out like a coat hanger and, although not quite six foot, he has a way of looking like the tallest man on the pitch. There is definitely something about JJ. The move to Tottenham has invigorated the young England star, reports Anna Kessel.
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/ 17 February 2006
”Forget that we still don’t know if May’s FA Cup final is going to be the first at the new Wembley or the last at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Forget, too, that holders Arsenal and my pre-tournament favourites, Tottenham, are both out. The FA Cup remains the greatest knock-out competition of all,” writes Neal Collins.
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/ 17 February 2006
If the organisers of the Super 14 wanted a dramatic start to the new competition, then week one certainly provided it. There were five away wins and the only teams to break the sequence came, respectively, top and bottom of the log in the 2005 Super 12. Not many expected the much-maligned Sharks to beat the Chiefs in Durban.