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/ 15 December 2005
He may be revered by some and reviled by others, but Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s skills as an orator are rarely in doubt, prompting a local record company to put his speeches on tape for ”good home entertainment”, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The compilation is entitled Mugabe Speaks.
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/ 15 December 2005
An ambitious Japanese-led project to dig deeper into the Earth’s surface than ever before will be a breakthrough in detecting earthquakes, including Tokyo’s dreaded ”Big One”, officials said on Thursday. The drilling vessel Chikyu is scheduled to collect the first samples of the Earth’s mantle in human history.
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/ 15 December 2005
How appropriate. Moroka Swallows and Orlando Pirates will perform the last rites over one of the first temples of local football, Orlando Stadium, on Sunday. After this match, the stadium will be reduced to rubble in preparation for the building of a modern facility. Orlando Stadium is no ordinary ground, which is why the Swallows-Pirates match is the perfect choice, because this is no ordinary fixture.
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/ 15 December 2005
”At the Waca, full-stops and capitals removed by decades of hard-bitten gladiatorial action, spinning is what helmets do on the pitch once they’ve been knocked off batsmen’s heads.” Tom Eaton looks ahead to South Africa’s three-Test series against Australia starting on Friday.
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/ 15 December 2005
When you think Subaru, you automatically think of phenomenal cars such as the amazingly powerful Impreza WRX. You think speed, you think performance and you think of the sort of power that has made Subaru a force to be reckoned with. But you don’t think family saloon. However, the new Legacy range is about to change all that.
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/ 15 December 2005
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) rose by 4,5% year-on-year in November from a 4,2% increase in October, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. The month-on-month change was a 0,5% increase in November after a 0,1% increase in October. Commented Mike Schussler, economist at T-Sec: "It’s a bit of a shock."
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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
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
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
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.