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/ 6 September 2005
Glamorgan seamer Simon Jones has been left rueing an injured right ankle which, after a fitness test, ruled him out of selection for England’s deciding Ashes Test at The Oval on Thursday. Jones was put through his paces at Lord’s on Tuesday morning but his ankle was still painful and he was ruled out immediately.
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/ 6 September 2005
Mobile ”chop shops” may be one of the best ways to curb South Africa’s HIV/Aids epidemic, according to a major study carried out in Orange Farm, near Johannesburg. Not an outfit that dismembers cars, but one offering a more intimate service — circumcision.
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/ 6 September 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) hopes that the long-awaited second national operator (SNO) will be licenced as speedily as possible, Icasa councillor Lumko Mtimde said on Tuesday. Mtimde said the authority was now conducting the regulatory analysis ahead of the issuing of the licence.
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/ 6 September 2005
A Catholic religion teacher claims her good looks have cost her her job at a primary school in central Italy. Caterina Bonci, described in the local media as a sexy 38-year-old blonde who likes to wear miniskirts, was fired after 14 years spent teaching religion at a state-run school in Fano.
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/ 6 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa has called for the scrapping of state-administered price controls, launched in 2003 to rein in galloping inflation, a state-run daily said on Tuesday. ”We should move away from price controls. They do not help. It is some of these policies that are creating additional distortions,” said Murerwa.
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/ 6 September 2005
Indonesian police raiding the house of a man suspected of fraud discovered the mummified body of an infant girl hidden inside an unused aquarium, a report said on Tuesday. The dried-up body was found covered in lime powder inside a glass box hidden at the bottom of the empty aquarium in the house in Bandung.
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/ 6 September 2005
With the battle to keep his throne all but won, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s main struggle on the eve of Wednesday’s landmark election was to secure a strong enough turnout to legitimise his victory. Mubarak wrapped up his campaign for the country’s first contested presidential election with an appeal to Egypt’s 32-million voters to go the polls but observers predict many could stay at home.
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/ 6 September 2005
The original cloak worn by Alec Guinness in the blockbuster film Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back has turned up in a British fancy-dress shop, where it had been hired out as part of a monk’s outfit, the owner said on Tuesday. Estimates have put the cloak’s value at £25 000 (about R289 500).
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/ 6 September 2005
At least 32 people perished in a fire in an Egyptian theatre apparently set off by lighted candles used on stage, with the blaze provoking a deadly stampede as burning spectators tried to flee. The fire is the worst Egypt has witnessed in years and sent shockwaves through the country’s artistic community.
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/ 6 September 2005
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger guerrillas on Tuesday said three of their men were killed and five wounded when government troops launched an attack on a rebel sentry point in the island’s restive east. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said heavily armed troops attacked their Kattumurivu sentry point in the district of Batticaloa on Tuesday morning.