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/ 22 November 2005
Torquay, on the south coast of England (and a prime British holiday resort), is surely one of the most inhospitable places on the planet. Not if you’re a penguin, though. For the black and white inhabitants of Living Coasts, Torquay’s harbourside zoo, the term "English riviera" holds no bleak tinge of irony even during the so-called "shoulder season".
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/ 22 November 2005
Parktown Girls’ High School, north of Johannesburg, this month says goodbye to five out-of-the-ordinary Grade 12s. The school enrolled five deaf learners in 2001, but has been forced to decline any further applications from disabled learners because the cost of teaching them is prohibitive.
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/ 22 November 2005
United States media organisations are now skewering President George Bush over his case for ousting Saddam Hussein, but few questioned the pro-war juggernaut in the run-up to battle. Now, with the White House’s once-feared public-relations machine misfiring, Bush’s approval ratings plumbing their lowest depths, many commentators and journalists are piling on.
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/ 22 November 2005
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former financial adviser Addy Moolman is to finally start serving his four-year jail sentence, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday. Judge M Legodi on Monday dismissed with costs Moolman’s urgent application for bail, pending an application to the Constitutional Court about the constitutionality of his sentence.
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/ 21 November 2005
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former financial adviser Addy Moolman is finally to start serving his four-year jail sentence, the Pretoria High Court heard on Monday. Judge MF Legodi on Monday dismissed Moolman’s urgent application for bail, pending an application to the Constitutional Court about the constitutionality of his sentence.
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/ 21 November 2005
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Monday declared a national disaster and appealed to the international community for food aid after government estimates showed that 1,2-million people face famine. Zambia became the second country in drought-hit Southern Africa to declare a national disaster following Malawi.
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/ 21 November 2005
Alfred Anderson, the last surviving person to have heard the guns fall silent along the Western Front during the spontaneous ”Christmas Truce” of World War I, died on Monday at the age of 109. Anderson’s parish priest, the Reverend Neil Gardner, said he died in his sleep early on Monday at a nursing home in Newtyle, Scotland.
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/ 21 November 2005
The death toll in Honduras from Tropical Storm Gamma increased on Monday to at least 15, with 13 people missing, officials said. In neighbouring Belize, five fishermen were missing at sea because of the record 27th storm of the Atlantic season, Belize media said.
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/ 21 November 2005
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah launched an intense bombardment of Israeli positions on the volatile border on Monday, triggering retaliatory Israeli air strikes, with one person reportedly killed. The flare-up came amid political turmoil in Israel following Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s call for early elections he plans to contest at the head of a new centrist party.