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Yahoo! said on Wednesday it will bar chat rooms that promote sex between minors and adults and restrict all chat rooms to users 18 and older. The internet portal also will pre-screen the names of all user-created chat rooms if and when it restores the ability to create them.
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/ 12 October 2005
The theft of several University of South Africa (Unisa) exam papers from the University of Namibia (Unam) will affect about 13Â 500 Unisa students worldwide, officials from Unisa said on Wednesday. The Namibian reported that the police in Namibia are probing the theft of several Unisa exam papers from Unam.
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/ 12 October 2005
Hackers can bring a cellular network to a standstill by flooding it with SMSs equivalent to spam, say computer researchers in the United States. However, a local mobile messaging expert told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> that such messages would only congest the network for a "couple of seconds".
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/ 12 October 2005
Relief teams raced food and supplies into earthquake-hit areas of northern Pakistan on Wednesday as desperate survivors readied for a fifth straight night of cold and hunger. A child, a mother-of-three and an elderly man came out of different areas of devastated Pakistani-held Kashmir alive after being buried by the quake.
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Anastasia Aspeling, mother of 10-year-old Liam who was found on Wednesday after his kidnapping in Ennerdale south of Johannesburg on Tuesday, said she is not someone who seeks revenge. ”I just want my son back. The law can deal with the people who took him [if they are arrested] as it sees fit,” she said.
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Axed deputy president Jacob Zuma has promised to reveal the reasons for his implication in corruption charges after his court battle that starts next year, but his remarks could test the tempers of African National Congress seniors who have ordered leaders to put up a united front.
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/ 12 October 2005
Iraq’s top leaders formally announced on Wednesday a last-ditch political deal aimed at securing the adoption of a post-Saddam Hussein Constitution in a national referendum just three days away. Despite the political accord, violence continued on the ground.
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/ 12 October 2005
For a nation that is already two years into its manned space programme, China displays a remarkable lack of consensus on what to call its men in orbit. This is no trifling matter since space travellers are probably the only profession in the world with different names in different countries, reflecting their status as belonging to a tiny elite.
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/ 12 October 2005
Ten-year-old Liam Aspeling, who was kidnapped in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg, on Tuesday, has been found, a friend of the family said on Wednesday. The multimillion-rand hijacking trial in which Aspeling’s father is to testify for the state is scheduled to start in the Cape High Court on Monday.
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A Japanese government committee is mulling a copyright-law revision to charge royalties on digital music players, but the opinion is so divided on the so-called ”iPod tax” that it isn’t likely to be charged, officials said on Wednesday. The panel is made up of academics, consumer-rights activists and other experts.