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Crude oil prices edged up on Tuesday as weather watchers predicted a colder-than-normal winter in the north-eastern United States, raising concerns that supplies will be inadequate due to hurricane damage to refineries. A colder winter would result in increased consumption of home heating fuels.
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/ 11 October 2005
Fraudsters are growing increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to beat identification systems, but Japanese electronics maker Hitachi thinks it has the answer — technology to read your finger veins. Hitachi said on Tuesday it is launching a global sales push for the system.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma arrived at the Durban Magistrate’s Court shortly before 9am on Tuesday for his second appearance on charges of corruption. Zuma arrived in a black Mercedes 4×4 with tinted windows. He was greeted with shouts of ”viva” and ululations from the few supporters who were allowed inside the court premises.
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Irish author John Banville beat higher-profile favourites Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro and Zadie Smith to become the surprise winner of Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for fiction late on Monday. Banville’s The Sea was described by the judges as ”a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected”.
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Four Brazilian cities in the Amazon jungle state of Amazonas have been declared disaster areas as the worst drought in 60 years dries up rivers that thousands of families depend on to receive food and medicine, authorities said on Monday. In Manaquiri, the hardest hit of the four cities, small rivers have all but disappeared.
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/ 11 October 2005
Fears rose on Tuesday that the death toll from devastating mudslides in Guatemala could reach 2 000, as rescuers suspended their search for hundreds of people buried for six days under solidifying mud near a volcano west of Guatemala City. More than 650 are confirmed dead, but 1 400 still are listed as missing.
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England striker Wayne Rooney said on Monday the ill-tempered behaviour that has landed him in trouble will be long gone by the time he arrives in Germany for next year’s Word Cup finals. Rooney is expected to become a target for opposition defences when England embark on yet another hopeful World Cup campaign.
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/ 11 October 2005
Not known for an ability to organise its affairs well in advance — if at all — the South African Football Association (Safa) has belatedly woken up to the reality of finding opponents for Bafana Bafana in next month’s pre-African Nations Cup Nelson Mandela Challenge.
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/ 11 October 2005
Championships were created to bring together the best players from around the globe. They have turned into an annuity for the world’s top-ranked player. In the year Tiger Woods won his 10th major championship, his play-off victory on Sunday over John Daly in the American Express Championship was his 10th world title since this series began in 1999.
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An Australian bank clerk who kept quiet about cash he found in the street was told by a Sydney court on Tuesday he might have got to keep the Aus 000 (R1,3-million) if he had been honest and reported his find to police. Sean Clifford (23) was instead found guilty of ”larceny by finding”.