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/ 24 January 2006

New Canadian leader pledges to deliver change

Canada’s next prime minister, Stephen Harper, promised on Tuesday to deliver change after voters swept his Conservatives to power, ending 12 years of Liberal rule. ”Tonight, friends, our great country has voted for change,” he told a cheering crowd in Calgary after his party emerged as the single largest grouping in the new Parliament.

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/ 24 January 2006

Bombs kill six in south-western Iran

Bombs killed six people and wounded several others in the south-western city of Ahvaz on Tuesday, Iranian state television reported. Fire engines and ambulances rushed to the site of the explosions, a state environmental agency building and a bank in Ahvaz, the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province.

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/ 24 January 2006

DA says it’s being ignored by the SABC

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/262374/vote-box_blue.gif" align=left>The public broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), has not covered the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in nine days, says its official spokesperson Douglas Gibson. "The DA has now held five election events in a row and SABC TV has refused to provide coverage for any of them on SABC 3," he said.

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/ 24 January 2006

Muralitharan reaches 400-wicket mark

Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan surpassed 400 wickets in one-day internationals as an unbeaten century by Boeta Dippenaar lifted South Africa to 263 for five in the first innings of a tri-series cricket match on Tuesday. Muralitharan took two wickets within two balls in his opening over.

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/ 24 January 2006

ANC ‘hoax e-mail’ man still missing

Police were on Tuesday continuing a search for the IT executive allegedly at the centre of the African National Congress’s spy and hoax e-mail saga. Durban-based Muziwendoda Kunene has not been seen since his wife dropped him off at a BP garage to board a taxi to Sandton City to attend to his business.

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/ 24 January 2006

Real-life Lassie saves injured master

In a case of life imitating fiction, a 13-month-old cattle dog named Lassie helped rescue its injured master after he fell from a horse in eastern Australia, the man’s son said on Tuesday. George Crowther, a 90-year-old farmer from Queensland state, broke his hip and pelvis when he was pitched from a bucking horse.

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/ 24 January 2006

Aussie couple find R1,7m whale vomit

A family on the south Australian coast found a piece of whale vomit on the beach that is tipped to be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, national radio reported on Tuesday. The chunk of ambergris, which is sought after by perfume manufacturers, weighed 14,75kg and is worth about per gram.