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The first British troops to arrive in southern Iraq in March 2003 may not have been sure what kind of reception awaited them, but they were left in no doubt as to how to treat the city’s residents. ”When you go in and sort out an urban area, you are not out to break the china,” said Air Marshal Brian Burridge.
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/ 13 February 2006
Tottenham let in an 89th-minute equaliser on Sunday to draw 1-1 at Sunderland, missing the chance to move further clear of local rivals Arsenal in the Premier League standings. In Sunday’s other game, Joey Barton scored one goal and set up two more in Manchester City’s 3-2 win against Charlton.
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/ 13 February 2006
Antoine Deneriaz won the marquee event of the Winter Olympics on Sunday with a surprising late run to upstage the Austrians and Americans in the men’s downhill. Unsurprisingly, Michelle Kwan withdrew from the Games, ending her decade-long quest for gold. Armin Zoeggeler gave Italy their first golden moment with victory in the luge.
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/ 13 February 2006
Banks in Zimbabwe must not enter into contracts with white commercial farmers without asking the government first, the official Sunday Mail reported. National Security Minister Didymus Mutasa said some financial institutions were ”denying new [black] farmers loans … on the basis that the white commercial farmers had title deeds of the farms as collateral,” the paper reported.
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Transvaal Judge President Bernard Ngoepe demanded to know what corruption and rape had in common as he heard an application for his own recusal from the rape trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Monday. Herman Broodryk, a member of the prosecution team, said Ngoepe had not made a credibility finding about Zuma when he granted the search warrants.
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/ 13 February 2006
Perhaps there won’t be so much controversy this time. The last Olympic pairs competition ended with a scoring scandal and gold medals awarded to two couples as officials scurried to make things right. This year, with a new scoring system, the short programme went off without a hitch ahead of Monday’s final.
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/ 13 February 2006
The Department of Minerals and Energy could implement a retail petrol-price cut of about 12 cents per litre (c/l) on March 1, given recent trends in both the rand exchange rate and oil prices. The retail petrol price is adjusted monthly on the first Wednesday of the month in accordance with the previous averaging period’s over- or under-recovery.
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/ 13 February 2006
Money doesn’t buy happiness, and now there’s a study to prove it. Australian researchers found that people in well-off Sydney are among the most miserable in the country, while those in some of the poorest areas are much more satisfied with their lives.
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/ 13 February 2006
Researchers scouring the remote forests of the African island nation of Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders, are more diverse than previously thought. Assassin spiders, which grow to less than 0,3cm long, are notorious for stabbing helpless spiders with their sharp, venom-filled fangs.
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/ 13 February 2006
Here lies the forgotten history of New York. And here. And over there. All across the city’s five boroughs, old cemeteries are tucked away, some visible but ignored by passers-by, some in the shadow of latter-day high-rises, some so remote as to be overlooked entirely.