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/ 25 January 2006
Twenty years ago, the loss of the United States shuttle Challenger dealt an enduring blow to confidence in manned space flight yet also helped open up a golden era of exploration by machine. As Nasa this Saturday mourns the 1986 disaster, the contrast in fortunes between human and unmanned missions in space has never seemed more acute.
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/ 25 January 2006
The wave of freezing weather claimed three more lives in Romania by Wednesday, bringing the death toll in that country to 18, while three people died in Serbia and Bulgaria. Fifty-three people have died in Ukraine during the past 24 hours as a result of extreme cold, the health ministry said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 January 2006
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>Inkatha Freedom Party Ingwe municipality mayor Innocent Miya and three councillors from nearby Ubuhlebezwe municipality have defected to Ziba Jiyane’s National Democratic Convention (Nadeco). Miya, according to Nadeco spokesperson Linda Hlongwa MPL, has been mayor of Ingwe since 2000.
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/ 25 January 2006
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono on Tuesday forecast the country’s inflation to hit 800% in March, but said the key rate would drop to 230% by year-end. Gono said inflationary pressures are expected to remain high in the crisis-hit Southern African nation.
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/ 25 January 2006
In one of France’s most exciting artistic discoveries of recent years, two paintings by the 16th century Italian artist Caravaggio have been found in a church in the central town of Loches. <i>Pilgrimage of Our Lord to Emmaus</i> and <i>Saint Thomas putting his finger on Christ’s wound</i> were discovered in 1999 under the organ loft in the church of Saint Anthony.
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The African National Congress has published its national consolidated list of candidates for all municipalities for the 2006 local government elections due to take place on March 1. Nelson Mandela metro mayor Nceba Faku does not appear at all on the list while Tshwane Mayor Smangaliso Mkhathswa appears at number four slot.
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/ 25 January 2006
The chief executive of the South African Football Association, Raymond Hack, said on Wednesday that he would like to believe that the current pay dispute with the Bafana Bafana players had no effect on the 2-0 loss to Guinea in their opening match of the African Nations Cup on Monday night.
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/ 25 January 2006
There was no sign of the missing IT salesperson allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail saga on Wednesday, police said. The search was continuing, ”however, there have been no new developments,” said Director Sally de Beer, spokesperson for National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi.
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/ 25 January 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will consider the personal circumstances of individuals it plans to prosecute for not applying for, or being refused, amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said this is normal procedure when prosecutions are taking place.
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/ 25 January 2006
The Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) has denied that it plans to retrench hundreds of workers, as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa feared. ”[At present] there are no plans to retrench any employees [in South Africa],” FMCSA spokesperson Ben Pillay said on Wednesday.