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/ 14 December 2005
President Olusegun Obasanjo has grounded two private domestic Nigerian airlines after two deadly plane crashes killed 224 people in seven weeks. He also announced a review of all aircraft flying in Nigeria and said two experts from the International Civil Aviation Organisation will be brought in ”to ensure the integrity of the inspection”.
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/ 14 December 2005
Money market accounts are ideal for shorter-term lump-sum investments because they offer a flexible savings vehicle at considerably higher interest rates than a normal savings account, but they do require fairly high minimum balances. Most money market accounts calculate their interest rates daily and are therefore not fixed.
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/ 14 December 2005
The South African Cricketers’ Association (Saca) believes that the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) recent warning directed at South African and Australian players regarding their conduct in the forthcoming series in Australia is unwarranted and demeaning to the players.
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/ 14 December 2005
Jose Mourinho is facing more Football Association (FA) sanctions over his use of the word ”cheat” in a post-match television interview following Chelsea’s victory over Wigan at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Meanwhile, his Manchester United counterpart Sir Alex Ferguson is also facing a less serious FA rap.
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/ 14 December 2005
The players comprising the squads of the African and European Legends who come face-to-face on a historic date at Ellis Park on Saturday January 7 are a who’s who of top players from the two continents over the past two decades. Some old stalwarts who were at their peak further back have managed to sneak in.
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/ 14 December 2005
Jean-Marc Bosman five-year court battle ended victoriously in 1995, allowing players to move without transfer fees and effectively ending European leagues from limiting players from other European countries. But now, he’s asking himself whether he really won anything.
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/ 14 December 2005
Tim Montgomery’s 100m world record was broken earlier this year. Now it’s been wiped completely from the books. The American sprinter was banned for two years on Tuesday in the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative steroid scandal, and all his results, medals and prize money over the past five years were annulled.
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/ 14 December 2005
Polling began in Tanzania on Wednesday for parliamentary and presidential elections widely expected to extend the mandate of the ruling Revolutionary Party, which has already spent 44 years at the helm of the East African nation. Voting stations across the country opened at 7am local time.
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/ 14 December 2005
In a campaign dominated by personalities rather than sharp policy differences, Michelle Bachelet remains favourite to win Chile’s presidency next month and become the first professional female politician to lead a major Latin-American country. But in a land of machismo, male opponents are joining forces to thwart her ambitions.
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/ 14 December 2005
Nine people, including three British tourists, sustained horrific injuries when they were killed at a Ugandan gorilla reserve in 1999, according to testimony on Tuesday at the trial, in Kampala, of one of the accused. Jean-Paul Bizimana is one of the Rwandan rebels accused of hacking and bludgeoning to death the nine people.