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/ 22 November 2005
Public living room, office, canteen, an escape, a place to chat, laugh or socialise, a venue for parties and wakes, the pub is still the heartbeat of British life. ”For lots of us it’s kind of a second home”, said social anthropologist Kate Fox, the director of the Social Issues Research Centre, based in Oxford, southern England.
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/ 22 November 2005
Europe’s illegal timber imports could speed up the disappearance of some forests within a decade, as well as increasing poverty in producer countries, the conservation organisation WWF warned on Tuesday. In a report, the WWF focused on trade between EU countries and timber regions in the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin, East Africa, Indonesia and the Russian Federation.
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/ 22 November 2005
The majority of the expansion in world number two platinum miner Impala Platinum’s platinum output from about 1,8-million ounces to 2,3-million ounces by 2010 would come from South Africa, Implats investor relations representative Bob Gilmour said on Tuesday.
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/ 22 November 2005
A Japanese café started serving up berries that make sour desserts taste sweet on Tuesday, offering dieters the chance to indulge in snacks without piling on the calories. ”You could eat a whole lemon and it would taste sweet,” a spokesperson for Namco, which runs the café, said of the berries.
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/ 22 November 2005
Heavy overnight rain and overcast skies delayed the start of the third one-day international between India and South Africa in Chennai on Tuesday. The incessant rain over the past two days soaked the Chidambaram Stadium and left the wicket and most of the outfield still covered 30 minutes before the scheduled start time.
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/ 22 November 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki, the chief mediator in war-torn Côte d’Ivoire, arrived in the country on Tuesday for talks on choosing a new prime minister to unblock the peace process. Mbeki will meet with Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo and Niger President Mamadou Tandja.
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/ 22 November 2005
Kenyan voters appear to have rejected a proposed new Constitution in a landmark referendum after a vitriolic campaign that deeply split the East African country, an election official said on Tuesday. In a major blow to President Mwai Kibaki, the official said near-complete results showed the ”no”-vote with an insurmountable lead.
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/ 22 November 2005
The JSE was slightly weaker just before noon on Tuesday as a stronger rand and continued profit taking offset the positive effect of higher commodity prices. By 11.53am, the all share and all share industrial indices shed 0,14% and 0,17% respectively. Financials fell 0,43% and the banks index was 0,72% in the red.
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/ 22 November 2005
Anyone who snagged one of Microsoft’s new Xbox 360s at its Tuesday debut will likely see the new video-game console as just that — a medium for spending hours playing the likes of Halo II and Project Gotham Racing III. But executives at Microsoft see video games as just the beginning.
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/ 22 November 2005
Closing nine plants and laying off thousands of workers will only exacerbate General Motors’ (GM) woes, the auto maker’s main union said Monday. The plant closures in Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Canada announced by the auto maker on Monday will result in the loss of 30 000 jobs.