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/ 13 September 2005
Angela Merkel is bidding to become the first woman, and the first citizen of the former communist East, to lead a modern, reunified Germany. Her rise from being an obscure East Berlin physicist to leading Germany’s conservatives, her pledge for economic reform and her no-nonsense dress sense have led to comparisons with Margaret Thatcher.
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/ 13 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s young batsmen defied India in the first session of the first Test at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on Tuesday, making 75 for two. Brendan Taylor went for 13 and Hamilton Mazakadsa for 14, both victims of Zaheer Khan, who bowled with venom and pace. He ended the session with 2-26.
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/ 13 September 2005
Villarreal goalkeeper Sebastian Viera was keeping remarkably calm on Tuesday despite the imminent arrival of the Manchester United artillery in the shape of Wayne Rooney and Ruud van Nistelrooy. Manchester United return to the Mediterranean coast for the first time since they triumphed in the 1999 Champions League and now face Villarreal in a group D match on Wednesday.
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/ 13 September 2005
A Somali warlord, whose fighters over the weekend seized control of the United Nations premises in the country’s disputed capital of Jowhar, on Tuesday handed back offices to the organisation’s local staff. Mohamed Omar Habeb, who in June offered the Somali transitional leadership refuge in Jowhar, about 90km north of Mogadishu, returned the keys of the UN Children’s Fund offices to the staff.
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/ 13 September 2005
For more than half a century, historians have wondered what the Nazis would have done had they won World War II. Now the matter can be settled. A report, unread for 65 years, reveals the Nazis’ top priority once they had destroyed the allies, exterminated the Jews and occupied Europe. They were going to build a big, flash nightspot in Berlin.
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/ 13 September 2005
A drunk driver tried to avoid arrest by leaping into the back of his moving car during a chase in the Australian outback. Police in the Northern Territory town of Katherine were stunned when they realised the 24-year-old driver had abandoned the controls and jumped on to the back seat with his three passengers in an apparent attempt to fool officers.
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/ 13 September 2005
The promising market for internet telephony heated up on Monday as online auction giant eBay announced it was taking over the rapidly growing European firm Skype Technologies for more than ,6-billion. The deal will make Skype’s youthful founders, Niklas Zennstroem (39) of Sweden and 29-year-old Danish citizen Janus Friis, exceedingly rich men.
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/ 13 September 2005
A failure to find consensus on proposed reforms of the United Nations Security Council has snuffed Africa’s hopes to see its voice being heard louder within the international organisation, analysts said on Tuesday. "There are a lot of losers, there is Africa," said Tom Wheeler, of the South African Institute for International Affairs.
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/ 13 September 2005
Palestinian police on Tuesday blocked off abandoned Jewish settlements and chased after scavengers in a first attempt to impose law and order after chaotic celebrations of Israel’s pull-out from Gaza, but the overwhelmed forces were unable to halt looting of the area’s prized greenhouses.
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/ 13 September 2005
Colombia’s government questioned its own airline security measures and ordered an immediate review after a father in a wheelchair dodged a security check to sneak hand grenades on to a plane and hijacked it along with his son. The father and son finally surrendered five hours after commandeering the Aires airliner on Monday.