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/ 27 January 2006
A ”brutally honest” review of the Wallabies disastrous 2005 season has highlighted a raft of shortcomings that must be overcome by a new coach if Australia is to have a chance in the 2007 World Cup. Australian Rugby Union chief Gary Flowers said the review had already influenced selectors tasked with picking a replacement for sacked coach Eddie Jones.
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/ 27 January 2006
Mark Fish says he and other former South Africa stars should choose the next coach of the disgraced national football team. He was reacting to a 2-0 defeat by Tunisia on Thursday which eliminated Bafana Bafana from the 2006 African Nations Cup in Egypt in the first round without securing a point or scoring a goal.
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/ 27 January 2006
In a move to whip electoral dissidents back into line, the African National Congress is planning to expel 33 members registered as independents.
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/ 27 January 2006
A Hungarian hang glider who spent an uncomfortable night dangling from the branches of a 12-metre tree was on Friday rescued unharmed by emergency services, police said. The 42-year-old had been competing in an international hang gliding competition in the southeastern state of Victoria when he crashed into trees on Thursday.
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/ 27 January 2006
Winds of up to 60 knots continued to pound Table Mountain on Friday morning — but Thursday’s inferno was under control by daybreak. Parts of the city remained engulfed in smoke, according to Clarence van Roodt, station commander at Cape Town Regional Control.
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/ 27 January 2006
Avian flu has the potential to develop into a global pandemic that would be as devastating as the Black Death of the 14th century, the World Economic Forum warned on Thursday in its assessment of the risks threatening stability and prosperity.
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/ 27 January 2006
It does not exactly have blockbuster written all over it. The film is a documentary about Al Gore, the famously wooden vice-president and failed presidential candidate, wheeling his suitcases from town to town and presenting a slideshow about climate change.
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/ 27 January 2006
The United Nations is preparing to intervene in the Darfur crisis in Sudan after admitting that an African Union (AU) mission has failed to curb the violence that has seen two million people displaced and thousands killed. With violence increasing over the past few months, Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said the replacing of the AU force with a UN one is ”now inevitable”.
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/ 27 January 2006
The Travelgate scandal is growing. Investigators are working through a new list of 100 names that could implicate senior MPs, including two Cabinet members, members of the whippery and parliamentary office-bearers. New information gleaned by the legislature’s axed finance chief, Harry Charlton, and liquidators indicates that Parliament may be owed as much as R36-million by travel agents and MPs for fraudulent travel claims.
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/ 27 January 2006
They do not always work, and when they do motorists tend to ignore them. But for Liberia, the arrival of the first traffic lights in 16 years is reason to celebrate. After almost two decades of war and anarchy the West African nation is savouring a fragile peace and with it the promise of normality.