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/ 31 January 2005
A 20-month-old baby boy burnt to death on Monday morning when his mother’s shack caught fire in Orlando West, Soweto, police said. Police spokesperson Sergeant Richard Munyai said the 20-year-old mother was outside doing her laundry when the fire started.
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/ 31 January 2005
The number of weddings performed at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport increased by more than 30% last year compared with 2003, an airport spokesperson said on Monday. ”It’s mostly couples on their way to their honeymoon that take the opportunity to exchange rings at the airport,” spokesperson Niclas Haerenstam said.
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/ 31 January 2005
Tired of pushing all those buttons on your cellphone? Japanese handsets slated to hit stores next month are designed to solve that problem: they respond to shakes, tilts and jiggles. The cellphones come equipped with a tiny motion-control sensor, a computer chip that recognises and responds to movement.
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/ 31 January 2005
The government has officially given SA Rugby its support for the union’s bid for the 2011 World Cup tournament. Beeld newspaper reported on Monday that Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile has handed an official letter, in which the government’s support is stated, to bid committee chairperson Francois Pienaar.
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/ 31 January 2005
A police officer had to cut the skin off a finger found in a lions’ den in Hoedspruit in order to get a fingerprint, the Phalaborwa Circuit Court heard on Monday. The court is trying three men accused of murdering Nelson Chisale by feeding him to lions in January 2004.
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/ 31 January 2005
Global tourism arrivals enjoyed a huge rebound of 10% in 2004 after prolonged stagnation, the World Tourism Organisation said in its winter barometer report released on Monday. The WTO’s chief of market intelligence, Augusto Huescar, unveiled the report at talks on the Thai island of Phuket about reviving tourism following the December 26 tsunami.
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/ 31 January 2005
While basking in the apparent success of Iraq’s national elections, the United States still faces some tough hurdles in fashioning an exit strategy from the country it invaded nearly two years ago. US President George Bush has made it clear Iraq has a long and bloody road ahead of it.
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/ 31 January 2005
Israel’s usually indefatigable Deputy Prime Shimon Peres dozed off for a full 15 minutes during the weekly Cabinet meeting, some of his less than discreet colleagues said on Monday. ”His eyes were well and truly closed and he went to sleep for a quarter of an hour,” one minister told the Yediot Aharonot daily on condition of anonymity.
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/ 31 January 2005
The Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial resumed in the Durban High Court on Monday without the hype that signalled the start of the case last October. Forensic auditor Johan van der Walt told the court that Deputy President Jacob Zuma owed fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik R2,2-million in capital and interest.
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/ 31 January 2005
Volkswagen South Africa intends to expand its commercial vehicle interests and invest more than R1,2-billion in South Africa over the next three years, the company said in Johannesburg on Monday. The company intends exporting buses and trucks to right-hand-drive countries in Africa and, later, to Asia.