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/ 15 December 2005
The free internet encyclopedia Wikipedia.org, recently embroiled in controversy over a fake entry, comes close in accuracy to the paid-for Encyclopaedia Britannica in its articles on science, the British journal Nature says in a report published in this Thursday’s issue.
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/ 15 December 2005
At least nine people were wounded and dozens arrested on Wednesday as police battled opposition supporters on Tanzania’s volatile Zanzibar archipelago during the country’s national elections. One man was shot when security forces fired live rounds over the heads of demonstrators.
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/ 15 December 2005
Iraqis voted on Thursday in a landmark poll to choose a four-year government that many hope will restore security to a nation wracked by violence and sectarian feuding since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Despite blanket security, one man was killed in a grenade attack in the northern city of Mosul.
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/ 15 December 2005
British entrepreneur Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic will set up its headquarters at a spaceport in New Mexico that will be built with state funds, Branson and the state’s governor announced on Wednesday. The spaceport could be under construction in 2007 and open in late 2009 or early 2010.
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/ 15 December 2005
The decision of the Council of Arbitration for Sport to suspend American sprinter Tim Montgomery along with Chryste Gaines for doping violations means that the South African men’s relay quartet of Morne Nagel, Corne du Plessis, Lee-Roy Newton and Matthew Quinn have now become the world champions.
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/ 15 December 2005
Wayne Rooney scored twice as Manchester United bounced back from a mini-slump to beat Wigan 4-0 and cut the gap to Premier League leaders Chelsea to nine points on Wednesday. Also, West Ham beat Everton 2-1 for only their third away win since they were promoted this season.
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/ 15 December 2005
The Eagles beat the Dolphins by eight runs with just four balls to spare in a nail-biting Standard Bank Cup cricket match in Bloemfontein on Wednesday night. Man-of-the-match Johan van der Wath and Roger Telemachus took three wickets apiece and helped the home team to defend their small score.
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/ 15 December 2005
It’s no wonder caretaker coach Clive Barker can ”hardly wait” to get away from Bush Bucks next week and back to his base in Durban after the Premier Soccer League wooden-spoonists slumped to another defeat against a rampant Silver Stars in East London on Wednesday night.
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/ 15 December 2005
American Lance Armstrong, the seven-times Tour de France winner who retired last July, will go on trial in Italy for defamation after losing a preliminary hearing against Italian Filippo Simeoni on Wednesday. Armstrong famously tarnished the Italian rider a ”liar” in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde in 2003.
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/ 15 December 2005
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday called on leaders and supporters of former soccer star George Weah’s party to respect results of the recent presidential election in Liberia and refrain from violence. The country’s transitional government met to discuss the latest upsurge in violence.