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/ 11 December 2005
John Terry’s second-half header saw reigning champions Chelsea extend their lead at the top of the Premiership to 12 points as the Blues beat Wigan 1-0 at Stamford Bridge in London on Saturday. European kings Liverpool moved up into second place with a 2-0 win over Middlesbrough.
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/ 11 December 2005
Dynamos earned three valuable points when they beat high-riding Ajax Cape Town one-nil at a windy Athlone Stadium on Saturday night. The only goal was scored in the 35th minute. Ajax were all over the visitors but poor passing and shooting saw them finish goalless.
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/ 11 December 2005
Cycling chief Pat McQuaid has described as ”obscene” the plan by the sport’s three biggest races to offer teams appearance money. The tours de France, Italy and Spain have moved to split from the International Cycling Federation’s official ProTour series introduced for the first time this year.
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/ 11 December 2005
Bush Bucks and Moroka Swallows shared the points with a one-all draw in their Premier Soccer League match in East London on Saturday. It was a game of two halves, with the first half belonging to the Birds, who raided the Bucks’ goal mouth but failed to finish, with Mamecheick Niang and Dennis Lotter the main culprits.
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/ 11 December 2005
A large explosion shook an area north of London, close to a fuel depot, early on Sunday. Residents in Hemel Hempstead, which is close to Luton airport, north of London, reported a loud boom and some felt their houses shake. The blast was so large it was felt throughout a large part of London and the surrounding area.
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/ 11 December 2005
There are 27 000 nuclear warheads in the world and that is ”27 000 too many”, said International Atomic Energy Agency director Mohamed ElBaradei after he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on Saturday. He said the world should work towards nuclear weapons being seen as immoral.
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/ 11 December 2005
It took Kim Peek just more than an hour to read Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October. Four months later, when asked to give the name of the book’s Russian radio operator, Peek quoted the entire relevant passage. Studies of Peek’s abilities are being used by scientists to shed intriguing light on the human mind.
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/ 11 December 2005
Scores of schoolchildren heading home for the Christmas holidays were among the 103 people killed on Saturday when a passenger jet crashed as it attempted to land in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt. Witnesses said the accident site was horrific, with the remains of those on board and pieces of wreckage strewn over a large area.
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/ 11 December 2005
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board member Noluthando Gosa has resigned amid allegations of corporate mismanagement and corruption within the board, the Sunday Times reports. Gosa was herself under investigation for possible violations of corporate governance, the report reads.
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/ 11 December 2005
The Shell Petroleum Company said industry members held a crisis meeting on Saturday afternoon to address jet-fuel and petrol shortages. Colin McClelland, director of the South African Petroleum Industry Association, said the fuel shortages had disrupted flights at Cape Town International airport on Friday night and Saturday.