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/ 20 December 2005
Australians could soon be chucking a piece of "australus" on the barbecue if the new name for a slice of kangaroo makes it more appealing to diners sensitive about eating the national symbol. Australia’s kangaroo-meat industry backed a competition to find a similarly savoury name for cute kangaroos.
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/ 20 December 2005
New Bafana Bafana coach Ted Dumitru has insisted on Monday that his pronouncement that ”some players on the initial shortlist of 35 for the African Nations Cup will bow out — while others not in the 35 will be included in an abbreviated list of 26 on Thursday” is in line with the squad’s evolution.
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/ 20 December 2005
Police in London arrested a passenger on a flight from Ethiopia on Tuesday in connection with a failed bid to repeat the July 7 bombings in the British capital, the metropolitan police said. In a brief statement, it said the 23-year-man, who lives in Tottenham, north London, was apprehended at Gatwick airport.
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/ 20 December 2005
Arsenal’s complaint that they should never have had a goal disallowed before Chelsea opened the scoring in their 2-0 defeat on Sunday has been upheld by the English referees’ chief. Keith Hackett, head of the Professional Game Match Officials Board, said Robin van Persie’s disallowed effort should have stood as a goal.
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/ 20 December 2005
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has dismissed as false a news report that he had fallen out with party secretary general Musa Zondi. The report, in a KwaZulu-Natal newspaper, also said Buthelezi suspended Zondi at the weekend. ”Both claims are false,” Buthelezi said in a statement on Tuesday.
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/ 20 December 2005
The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) is to become a government agency with assigned powers, the Department of Labour said on Tuesday. ”The UIF will become an autonomous organisational component in the public service, but will still remain a statutory body of the department,” Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana said.
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/ 20 December 2005
John Spencer, who plays vice-presidential candidate Leo McGarry on NBC television’s <i>The West Wing</i>, died of a heart attack on Friday, his publicist said. Spencer’s work on the show earned him an Emmy Award for supporting actor in a drama series in 2002, as well as a Golden Globe nomination.
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/ 20 December 2005
A national lottery ticket worth R10 066 972 expired on Sunday after the winner didn’t claim the prize, said Uthingo spokesperson Shenanda Janse van Rensburg on Tuesday. The Quickpick ticket was bought in Gauteng for the draw that took place on Saturday December 18 last year.
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/ 20 December 2005
New York on Tuesday was facing a busy pre-Christmas shopping day with no subway or bus services after transit workers voted to go on strike, an action mayor Michael Bloomberg called ”illegal and morally reprehensible”. More than seven million residents of this sprawling city will have to find alternate means of transportation.
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/ 20 December 2005
Jacques Rudolph defied Australia’s attack with an unbeaten century to help South Africa salvage a draw in the opening cricket Test at the Waca ground in Perth on Tuesday. Rudolph batted throughout the day, glueing the Proteas’ second innings together with a masterful 102 not out from 283 balls in 431 minutes.