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Inspired by the absent Lleyton Hewitt, Australia booked their Davis Cup quarterfinal berth on Sunday with a 3-2 victory over Switzerland that came down to the final rubber. Heavy-hitting debutant Chris Guccione heroically wrapped up the weekend on the back of 39 aces, crushing George Bastl 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (9/7) to send the visitors into an April quarterfinal against Belarus.
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/ 13 February 2006
The widow of Hunter S Thompson said she would let fans download a rarely seen photo of the gonzo journalist to mark the anniversary of his death. Hunter Thompson was 67 when he shot himself to death on Febraury 20 in his home in Woody Creek, apparently despondent over health problems.
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The controversial song Msholozi — Jacob Zuma’s clan name — kicked off a carnival atmosphere at the former deputy president’s rape trial on Monday. The song, by the group Izinganizoma, called for charges against Zuma to be dropped.
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/ 13 February 2006
It was 1988, and the height of the presidential election campaign between George Bush Sr and Michael Dukakis. The Bush campaign had an image problem: Mr and Mrs Bush just didn’t seem to click on camera. So the candidate sent his wife a memo.
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/ 13 February 2006
The number of twin births is rising rapidly across China as more women take fertility drugs, often in order to circumvent the nation’s stern population policies, state media said on Monday. At the Maternal and Child Hygiene Hospital in east China’s Nanjing city, 90 sets of twins and triplets were born last year, compared with usually just 20 sets annually.
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The main instrument of the state to effect change was the Budget and the government needed to be bolder in redistributing resources, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Sunday. ”The last Budget was marginally expansive and we must continue with that trend, but we see no radical change … if we don’t put money aside it’s all just dreams,” said Tony Ehrenreich, Cosatu’s Western Cape provincial secretary.
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/ 13 February 2006
It has been dismissed as a propaganda video by its target but a new film threatens to cause the kind of public relations headache for supermarket giant Wal-Mart that Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me did for McDonald’s. Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price has captivated audiences and influential European distributors at the Berlin film festival, where it was screened over the weekend.
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/ 13 February 2006
Never sneak up behind Dick Cheney when he has a gun in his hand. That is the painful lesson learned by Texas lawyer Harry Whittington (78) in a hunting accident at the weekend. Whittington, the United States vice-president, and a third person went quail shooting on Saturday at one of the grandest ranches in Texas.
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The rape trial of former president Jacob Zuma gets under way in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday with Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe presiding over it. Zuma is accused of raping a close family friend and HIV positive Aids activist at his house in Forest Town in November last year — a charge he has repeatedly denied.
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/ 13 February 2006
South Africa is going Brazilian, joining a worldwide scramble to catch up with the South American country’s successful use of the green fuel ethanol as its primary source of liquid energy. Ethanol, which has benefited in recent years from dramatic technological advances, is now seen internationally as a key renewable energy source.