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/ 24 October 2005
Cape Town-based television producer Adele Lorenzo was among those who died when a Boeing 737 crashed in Nigeria on Saturday, a colleague confirmed. A co-worker was still in Nigeria on Monday and would go to the crash site for identification and to see whether any belongings were retrieved.
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/ 24 October 2005
Former Abba group member Agnetha Faltskog has again been targeted by a stalker, a former boyfriend described as being obsessed with the 55-year-old singer, Stockholm newspaper Expressen reported on Monday. Faltskog has for years avoided the limelight, but last year released the album My Colouring Book.
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/ 24 October 2005
Hurricane Wilma made landfall early on Monday on the south-west coast of Florida, packing sustained winds of up to 201kph, a United States government weather service said. Wilma killed at least eight people when it struck Mexico. The storm also pounded western Cuba with heavy rain, floods and high winds.
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/ 24 October 2005
A man stunned shoppers in a British high street by handing out his savings to "make people happy", a newspaper said on Friday. Chris Aljaradat withdrew £10 000 (about R117 000) from his bank on Wednesday before dishing out the cash to gobsmacked passers-by in Worcester, central England.
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/ 24 October 2005
Living in the shadow of the Tyrol mountain range for nine centuries, inhabitants of the village of Rattenberg in western Austria now plan to beat their winter blues with the help of dozens of giant mirrors. The 910m Stadtberg mountain blocks low winter rays from reaching Rattenberg from November to February.
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/ 24 October 2005
A restaurant owner in the western Greek port of Patras on Monday began efforts to grill his way into the <i>Guinness World Records</i> book by making the world’s largest kebab. Costas Dasios early on Monday began roasting a pork kebab weighing about 1 850kg on a 1,73m steel skewer.
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/ 24 October 2005
Former England and Arsenal star Ian Wright was furious on Monday after being wrongly prosecuted for throwing a paper cup from his Bentley. The 41-year-old and his wife, Deborah, had been due to appear in court this week to deny the charges but both were cleared when a mystery person owned up to littering and was fined £50.
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/ 24 October 2005
Communications Users’ Association of South Africa (Cuasa) new chairperson Edwin Thompson says the organisation will continue to lobby for legislative and regulatory pressure to yield effective competition in the telecommunications and other information and communications technology (ICT) sectors.
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/ 24 October 2005
Thousands of workers belonging to the country’s largest union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), have embarked on strike action in the Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal provinces to protest against issues such as job losses, casualisation and racism in the workplace.
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/ 24 October 2005
Motorsport stalwart David Philip Clapham died aged 74 at the Sunninghill hospital on Saturday, the South African Guild of Motoring Journalists said. Clapham was a fellow of the guild and the founder organiser of its Car of the Year competition, which he ran for 18 years, the guild’s Robin Emslie said in a media statement on Monday.