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/ 21 November 2005
Test cricket’s leading wicket-taker Shane Warne was ”stiff and sore” after bowling a long stint in the second Test with a sore back but was likely to play in the third Test against the West Indies, skipper Ricky Ponting said on Monday. Warne was in doubt to play on the eve of the Test match, but satisfied Ponting he would be able to stand up to five days of the game.
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/ 21 November 2005
The upset of the year in the season’s most gripping final came to the rescue of a troubled ATP Masters Cup which was rocked by high-profile withdrawals and complaints over the playing surface. David Nalbandian’s shock, come-from-behind win over hot favourite Roger Federer in a pulsating five-setter drew a line under the farcical early days when five big names dropped out.
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/ 21 November 2005
A French woman with a fear of flying and a history of sleepwalking appeared in an Australian court on Monday after she attempted to open a jet airplane’s door in mid-flight so she could light a cigarette. Sadrine Helene Sellies had taken sleeping tablets and alcohol ahead of the Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to Australia on Saturday, Brisbane’s Magistrates Court heard.
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/ 21 November 2005
What began as a whisper on Wall Street became a deafening roar at the end of last week. Could General Motors, the largest carmaker in the world and the backbone of American industry, be preparing to file for bankruptcy? Shares in the company skidded to their lowest level since 1987 amid fears for its future.
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/ 21 November 2005
Shareholders in South African construction group Murray & Roberts on Monday voted in favour of the company proceeding with the implementation of its broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction. Group chief executive Brian Bruce said: "We are pleased that shareholders have supported our empowerment strategy."
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/ 21 November 2005
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If the rape claims against Jacob Zuma turn out to be ”serious allegations” and go to court, the party will take action, African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday at a media briefing on the party’s national executive committee meeting at the past weekend.
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/ 21 November 2005
More than a year after Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko ingested a massive dose of dioxin, mystery still shrouds the poisoning that covered his movie-star handsome face with scars and blisters. ”I am a man like any other. I’d like to wake up with a different face,” Yushchenko told reporters recently.
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/ 21 November 2005
Legendary Liverpool striker Ian Rush believes England can win the World Cup, backing the deadly partnership of Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney to take them all the way. Bookmakers in Britain have elevated England to joint second-favourites behind Brazil to win the World Cup next summer and Rush is not about to disagree.
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/ 21 November 2005
South African Airways and SA Airlink will extend their existing partnership until October next year, the two airlines announced on Monday. They were to have ended their current commercial agreement at the end of this year, they said in a joint statement.
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/ 21 November 2005
South Africa’s second-largest gold-mining group, Gold Fields, on Monday announced that it will acquire Canadian-listed Bolivar Gold for $330-million (R2,2-billion) and merge the company with its international assets in Ghana and Australia. The board of directors of each company has resolved to approve the transaction.