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/ 18 September 2005
World number five Retief Goosen looked anything but his ranking as he crashed out seven and six against Michael Campbell in the semifinal of the World Match Play Championship in Wentworth on Saturday. It set the New Zealander up for a final showdown with Ireland’s Paul McGinley.
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/ 18 September 2005
A car bomb killed at least 30 and wounded 38 on Saturday on the outskirts of Baghdad in what appeared to be the latest attack on Iraq’s majority Shi’ite population, a security official said. More than 200 Iraqi Shi’ites have been killed this week in attacks by Sunni extremists linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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/ 18 September 2005
Hernan Crespo and Arjen Robben scored in five second-half minutes on Saturday to give Chelsea a 2-0 win over second-place Charlton and open up a six-point lead in the Premier League. Tottenham had a chance to go third but were held to a 1-1 draw by Aston Villa and had to hit back from going a goal down after four minutes.
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/ 18 September 2005
Tembisa Classic collected maximum points when they beat Ajax Cape Town 2-0 in a Castle Premiership encounter played at the Harry Gwala Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday night. In a poor display of soccer played at Cape Town’s Athlone Stadium, both Santos and Black Leopards failed to score.
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/ 18 September 2005
The Kaizer Chiefs appeal to the South African Football Association (Safa) regarding the sentence imposed by the Premier Soccer League (PSL) following the rioting and vandalism of Chiefs’ supporters at the recent Supa8 game against Bloemfontein Celtic at the FNB Stadium was on Saturday postponed until Tuesday.
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/ 18 September 2005
Palestinian forces fired warning shots and pushed back stone-throwing crowds on Saturday on the southern Gaza Strip’s Egyptian border, trying to reimpose order after a week of illegal crossings by thousands of people. About 1 500 soldiers and riot police warded off mobs along the 14km-long Rafah frontier.
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/ 18 September 2005
Three years into a conflict that has cut the once-prosperous Côte d’Ivoire in two and plunged the West African country into its deepest political crisis, no resolution is in sight. Even United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has admitted that presidential elections planned for October 30 will most likely be abandoned.
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/ 18 September 2005
One lap of Loch Ness was barely tolerable, but two more proved too much on Saturday for a group of nude swimmers who surrendered to bad weather. The four men and two women, taking turns of an hour each, began their charity stunt on Friday night and completed their first 37km lap on Saturday morning.
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/ 18 September 2005
Stanley Burnshaw, a publisher and literary critic who edited the works of his friend Robert Frost, died on Friday on Martha’s Vineyard in the United States. He was 99. Burnshaw, whose literary career spanned more than seven decades, also won critical acclaim for his own poems and books.
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/ 18 September 2005
A computer-savvy Australian MP wants the government to stop being the nation’s biggest junk-mailer and become its biggest spammer instead. Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull wants every Australian to be given an e-mail address that would last them from the cradle to the grave.