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/ 12 December 2005
A man was arrested for driving at 219kph on the N3 highway in Linksfield on Sunday morning, metropolitan police said. Ekurhuleni metropolitan police spokesperson Kobeli Mokheseng said the man, driving a BMW, was arrested in an anti-speeding operation held between 6am and 10am.
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/ 12 December 2005
A prominent anti-Syrian journalist and MP and three other people were killed in a car bombing in a Beirut suburb on Monday, the latest in a string of similar attacks in Lebanon. One witness said the bomb blew up inside Christian MP Gibran Tueni’s vehicle, blasting it off the road and setting it ablaze. A fellow MP immediately pointed the finger at Syria over the bombing.
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/ 12 December 2005
Having carved a niche as South Africa’s first black showjumper in a sport traditionally reserved for rich whites, Enos Mafokate has now taken his love for horses to the heart of Soweto township. Mafokate is cultivating the hope that township children will one day too fly high the colours of South Africa’s rainbow nation.
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/ 12 December 2005
A lion bit off and apparently ate a woman’s finger at Melbourne Zoo, after she climbed over a barrier to pick flowers next to the animal’s enclosure, an official said on Monday.
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/ 12 December 2005
Newly elected Côte d’Ivoire Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny on Sunday said he is confident that the task of organising new elections as well as disarming fighters in the divided West African state will be met. Banny met South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday for talks.
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/ 12 December 2005
Nigerian accident investigators have found the ”black box” flight-data recorders of a commercial airliner that crashed killing 107 people on board, a spokesperson for the country’s Civil Aviation Authority said on Sunday. An estimated 71 of those who died were schoolchildren from the Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja.
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/ 12 December 2005
The share price of hotel and gaming group Sun International jumped as much as 4,6% or R3,50 on Monday morning after the company said it expects adjusted headline earnings per share for the half-year ending December 31 to be between 30% and 40% higher than those of a year earlier.
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/ 12 December 2005
Hospital patients, prison detainees and security forces were voting on Monday at the start of elections for a full-term Parliament set to restore full sovereignty to war-torn Iraq nearly three years after the United States-led invasion. Draconian security measures, similar to those enforced during two earlier elections this year, have been imposed.
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/ 12 December 2005
DreamWorks SKG, the studio co-owned by director-producer Steven Spielberg, will be bought by Paramount Pictures, in a deal announced on Sunday in Hollywood. The deal represents a failure by the studio’s founders to build a firm successfully integrated across the spectrum of popular arts and culture.
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/ 12 December 2005
Okkert Brits, the South African pole-vault champion and record holder, recorded his best height of 2005 at a special pole-vault contest in Bellville over the weekend when he cleared an excellent 5,65m. It was his first competition since winning the national title in Durban in April with a modest 5,2m.