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/ 11 October 2005
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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/ 11 October 2005
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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/ 11 October 2005
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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/ 11 October 2005
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”.
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/ 11 October 2005
Sometimes DIY pays: drilling a hole in the wall of his home in south-west France, a builder stumbled across a hoard of rare gold and silver coins hidden there more than 500 years ago. ”I was making a hole for a new window when they just started to fall down around my head,” the man told local newspapers on Monday.
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/ 11 October 2005
Milton Obote, Uganda’s first prime minister and two-time president known for his brutal repression that led to the deaths of 500 000 people, died on Monday at a South African hospital, officials said. The Ugandan People’s Congress said Obote (80) died on Monday afternoon after being hospitalised for several weeks.
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/ 11 October 2005
The ex-wife of Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs Dirk du Toit is traumatised by strange things happening in her Bloemfontein flat, News24 reported on Tuesday. It said she has reported several ”scary” experiences to the police, such as having her eyebrows and hair shaved while she slept at night.