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/ 8 February 2005
The seven deadly sins — anger, gluttony, sloth, envy, pride, lust and greed — are out of date and should include cruelty, adultery and bigotry, the results of an opinion poll suggest. Greed is the only one of the seven that should remain a sin in today’s Britain, according to the poll by the Mori organisation for BBC television’s <i>Heaven and Earth</i>.
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/ 8 February 2005
South African government policies are forcing enterprises to move abroad because they do not want the government to dictate to them whom they should choose as business partners in South Africa, says the Freedom Front Plus. The minister of minerals and energy on Monday called on the marketing arm of De Beers to move to Southern Africa.
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/ 8 February 2005
A real-estate agent could lose his licence in Australia after allegedly being caught having sex with his assistant in a client’s bed, Australian radio reported on Tuesday. The homeowner, identified only as James, told ABC radio that his 28-year-old daughter caught the real-estate agent having sex in their master bedroom.
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/ 8 February 2005
A British great-grandfather said on Tuesday he has decided to boycott his local pub after being asked to remove his flat cap under rules designed to stop thugs hiding their faces from security cameras. John Lalor used to drop into the Jolly Falstaff pub just metres from his home in Warrington, north-west England, virtually every day.
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/ 8 February 2005
What is billed as one of the world’s largest free-standing stalactites is set to become a major tourist attraction in Ireland after authorities finally gave the go-ahead on Tuesday to develop the cave where it hangs. The long spike hanging in the cave in Ardeamish, County Clare, in the west of the country is more than 7m long.
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/ 8 February 2005
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas announced the end of four years of violence in Egypt on Tuesday, setting the stage for a full-scale revival of the peace process. ”We have agreed … to cease all acts of violence against Israelis and against Palestinians wherever they are,” Abbas said.
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/ 8 February 2005
Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik failed to make it back to the Durban High Court after lunch on Tuesday due to chest pains. Shaik’s lawyer, Francois van Zyl, said his client visited a specialist physician during the lunch break and was advised to stay in bed for the rest of Tuesday, as well as Wednesday.
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/ 8 February 2005
Western Cape education minister Cameron Dugmore and his officials had acted like schoolyard bullies in the Mikro primary-school affair, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday. Mikro’s governing body is asking the court to overturn the provincial department of education’s instruction to create an English-medium class at the school.
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/ 8 February 2005
After a flat start, the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was firmer at midday on Tuesday as the weaker currency gave dual-listed stocks a boost. By noon, the all-share index was up 0,43% and the all-share industrial index was up 0,52%. Resources added 0,50% and the platinum-mining index collected 1,99%.
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/ 8 February 2005
The share price of media and entertainment group Primedia surged by 7,27% on Tuesday following its trading update in which the company said it expects interim headline earnings per share and earnings per share to be between 30% and 50% higher than the previous comparable period.