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/ 24 January 2006
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
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
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.
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/ 24 January 2006
Some protesters briefly grabbed the Olympic torch from Italian track star Eleanora Berlanda as the relay passed through the Italian town of Trento on Monday. Four protesters known as ”the disobedient ones” — demonstrators associated with the anti-globalisation movement — nabbed the torch.
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/ 24 January 2006
Saudi Arabia was on Monday forced to pledge an increase in the supply of crude as threats to production around the globe pushed the price of oil to within of the all-time high reached after Hurricane Katrina last August. Prices surged to more than in Far East trading on Monday, but later slipped back.
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/ 24 January 2006
The favourites have not taken long to impress in the African Nations Cup with hosts Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria and Côte d’Ivoire winning first-round group matches. Defending champions Tunisia, dark horses Senegal and long shots the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea also triumphed in mixed eight-match fare.
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/ 24 January 2006
Sven-Goran Eriksson is to leave his post as England coach after the World Cup finals in Germany later this year, the Football Association announced. The Swede’s contract does not expire until 2008, but he has recently been at the centre of a series of embarrassing newspaper revelations.
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/ 24 January 2006
Anton Ferdinand and Yossi Benayoun scored first-half goals and West Ham beat Fulham 2-1 on Monday night, ending a four-match home losing streak. The victory moved West Ham past Manchester City into ninth place in the English Premier League with 32 points, two behind eighth-place Blackburn Rovers.
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/ 24 January 2006
A team of United States soldiers on Tuesday joined frantic efforts to rescue survivors from the ruins of a building in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where police said at least eight people were killed and some trapped in the rubble could still be heard nearly 18 hours after it collapsed.
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/ 24 January 2006
Sudan on Monday offered to withdraw its bid to head the African Union to avoid a split among leaders of the 53-nation body gathered in Khartoum for a summit. The bid from President Omar el-Beshir, who seized power in a 1989 coup, caused unease as the AU is mediating talks to end the bloodshed in Darfur.