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/ 10 February 2006
Commercial passenger flights into space could be authorised in the United States by 2008, US Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told a group of space entrepreneurs on Thursday. ”The timeline isn’t based on science fiction,” he said in a statement released by the department.
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/ 10 February 2006
A new fuel scheme in place at London’s Heathrow airport was good news for South African Airways as it ended diversions via Milan, the airline said on Thursday. ”It is good news on one hand but, on the other, something they can withdraw at a day’s notice,” SAA flight operations general manager Colin Jordaan said.
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/ 10 February 2006
René Préval, who took an huge early lead in Haiti’s presidential elections, is a former ally of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, though he has distanced himself from the former president who fled in 2004. Préval took over 61% of the vote with 15% of the ballots counted, more than 48% ahead of his closest rival.
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/ 10 February 2006
The gut-wrenching stench of rotting flesh hangs in the air in this remote northeastern Kenyan village where the putrefying carcasses of cattle are a testament to a searing drought that threatens millions with starvation across east Africa.
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/ 10 February 2006
Researchers at Johannesburg’s Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital are homing in on the link between HIV and the genital herpes virus, which is thought to infect more than half of South Africa’s adults. HIV-positive people who have herpes are more likely to develop Aids more rapidly, and to transmit both viruses.
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/ 10 February 2006
Jill Carroll, the United States journalist kidnapped in Iraq a month ago, said in a video broadcast on Thursday night that time was running out for the authorities to meet her captors’ demands. In black-and-white footage that she said was shot last Thursday, Carroll was pictured wearing an Islamic veil and reading a short message in a calm voice.
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/ 10 February 2006
United States President George Bush, on the defensive over controversial measures in the war on terror, on Thursday gave new details of a foiled al-Qaeda plot to use Asian recruits and shoebombs to hijack an airliner and fly it into the tallest building on the US’s West Coast. Since September 11, Bush has issued periodic reminders to Americans of the continued threat of an al-Qaeda attack.
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/ 10 February 2006
<b>NOT QUITE THE CD OF THE WEEK</b>: The <i>Tsotsi</i> soundtrack is not the watershed moment in this country’s music export history, but it does come strapped with secret weapons aplenty, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
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/ 10 February 2006
Shaun de Waal looks at a wide range of books dealing with gender issues and how they affect the role of South Africans in society today.
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/ 10 February 2006
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK</b>: The film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> is scripted with great skill and would makes a great heterosexual date movie, writes Shaun de Waal.