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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.
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/ 15 December 2005
South African National Parks (SANParks) has appointed the Compass Group as an interim service provider for all restaurants in the Kruger National Park. The appointment is for a one-year period, with effect from December 15. This follows SANParks’s successful application back in November for the liquidation of Vilayet.
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/ 15 December 2005
Archaeologists have dug up the oldest known Mayan painting inside a ruined pyramid deep inside a Guatemalan jungle. Dated at about 100BC, the paint-on-plaster mural depicts the Mayas’ creation myth with an elegance and finesse suggesting the civilisation developed much earlier than previously accepted.
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/ 15 December 2005
Israel’s Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, was forced on to the defensive on Wednesday after Binyamin Netanyahu accused him and his new party, Kadima, of planning to give up part of Jerusalem in a future peace deal with the Palestinians. Sharon denied a report in Newsweek that said he was willing to give 90% of the West Bank to the Palestinians.