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/ 19 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma intensified into an ”extremely dangerous category-five hurricane” early on Wednesday, churning northward between western Cuba and Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, the United States National Hurricane Centre said. Winds at the centre of the storm were clocked at 281kph, the centre said.
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/ 19 October 2005
CD OF THE WEEK: Arno Carstens’s new album, The Hello Goodbye Boys, is doubtlessly a well-crafted sequel to Another Universe, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 19 October 2005
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said in Pretoria on Tuesday that many of the difficulties in Africa were caused by colonialism, as were those of Ireland. ”The difficulties faced by this country, as well as the African continent, were caused by colonialism and Ireland’s problems were caused by colonialism,” Adams said after meeting South African Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
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/ 19 October 2005
Swedish insurer Skandia, the target of a R38-billion takeover bid by South Africa- and United Kingdom-listed financial-services group Old Mutual, on Wednesday unveiled to shareholders details of a plan that would allow it to remain independent. It also gave hard-hitting reasons why shareholders should reject the Old Mutual offer.
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/ 19 October 2005
Annika Sorenstam must be wondering what she has to do to be noticed. All she did at the Samsung World Championship last weekend was remind anyone watching why she rules her world. Despite a double bogey on the last hole, she won by eight shots.
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/ 19 October 2005
Bayern Munich edged Juventus 2-1, while Thierry Henry returned after a six-week absence with two goals on Tuesday to push Arsenal closer to the second round of the Champions League with a 2-0 victory at Sparta Prague. Two more leading contenders failed to hit the target, however.
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/ 19 October 2005
Two men at the centre of one of the sporting world’s largest drug scandals were sentenced to prison terms on Tuesday by a United States federal court judge on Tuesday. Judge Susan Illston sentenced Victor Conte, founder of Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco), and Greg Anderson, who served as a personal trainer to Barry Bonds, to penalties of four months and three months in jail respectively.
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/ 19 October 2005
President Thabo Mbeki and former deputy president Jacob Zuma are to submit a joint report within a week on the rift threatening the African National Congress. ”It’s about the unity of the movement and dealing with current developments within the ANC,” party spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said on Tuesday.
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/ 19 October 2005
Honda unveiled a new hydrogen-powered fuel-cell concept car on Wednesday which runs on a refueling unit that also supplies electricity and hot water for the home. The FCX concept uses the home energy station, which generates hydrogen from natural gas supplied to households, Honda said as it unveiled the vehicle at a press preview at the Tokyo Motor Show east of the capital.
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/ 19 October 2005
Researchers are exploring the implications of allowing HIV-positive patients to take a break from their medications every weekend.