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/ 21 January 2006
Springbok lock AJ Venter was at his enthusiastic best in Durban on Friday night when he led a rampaging Sharks side (a Raggies side on the night) to a 14-try romp against the Leopards who were savaged to the extent of 70-5. Furthermore, the Sharks’ second side (the Great Whites) got a five-to-two try account against the Leopards in a 25-10 win.
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/ 21 January 2006
Chad Campbell fired a third-round 68 in California on Friday to maintain his four-shot lead in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. Campbell had a 54-hole total of 19-under-par 197 in the five-round event, four strokes in front of fellow American Scott Verplank (65) and Australia’s John Senden (68).
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/ 21 January 2006
Triple champion Martina Hingis hurtled into the Australian Open fourth round on Saturday, overcoming extreme heat that helped Amelie Mauresmo secure an equally speedy victory. Anastasia Myskina became Russia’s fifth woman through, but sixth-seeded Guillermo Coria was knocked out by France’s Sebastien Grosjean.
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/ 21 January 2006
A distressed Michaella Krajicek became the first victim of furnace conditions at the Australian Open on Saturday when heat exhaustion forced the Dutch teenager to concede her third-round match. The sight of the 17-year-old breaking down in the heat has again raised questions about the safety of conditions at the grand slam.
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/ 21 January 2006
A handbag containing jewellery worth more than 000 has been returned to a woman who left it hanging on a shopping trolley in a car park, Australian police said on Saturday. The handbag contained gold bracelets, rings, earrings, chains and pendants — plus a large sum of cash.
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/ 21 January 2006
Freezing air from Siberia sent temperatures across much of northern and eastern Europe diving on Friday and the death toll from the cold rose to more than 70 in Russia, the hardest hit in the region. Temperatures fell to minus 33 degrees Celsius in the eastern part of Estonia.
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/ 21 January 2006
The embattled Tokyo Stock Exchange said on Friday it will expand its daily trading capacity to prevent a repeat of Wednesday’s debacle, when a high-profile investigation into the internet firm Livedoor prompted a flood of sell orders that forced the exchange to close early.
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/ 21 January 2006
Concern over four oil workers held hostage in Nigeria grew on Friday night after their captors warned that one was gravely ill and that fresh attacks on oil installations were imminent. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, a militant rebel group, seized the Royal Dutch Shell employees last week.
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/ 21 January 2006
He is not meek, he is not blond and he most definitely is not white. A new interpretation of the Bible has cast Jesus Christ as a revolutionary fighting oppression in contemporary Africa. Son of Man, made in South Africa, was shot in rural Eastern Cape and in Khayelitsha township outside Cape Town.
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/ 21 January 2006
The Iranian government has started moving billions of pounds in assets from Britain and the rest of Europe in case international sanctions are imposed over the nuclear crisis. Iran’s pre-emptive action marks a significant escalation in the stand-off between Iran and the West. It is the firmest sign yet that Tehran fears sanctions will be imposed.