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/ 26 February 2005
As United States coast-to-coast crime waves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity. A couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible.
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/ 26 February 2005
Plans by Kenyan MPs to award themselves a R111 000 bonus have outraged a country already reeling from a string of corruption allegations. A parliamentary committee has recommended that each of the 222 MPs should receive 1,5-million Kenyan shillings when the Parliament ends in 2007. The committee has also recommended new constituency offices.
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/ 26 February 2005
Michael Jackson faces further legal action, from the family of a woman who died after she was moved in hospital, apparently to make way for the singer when he took ill on the way to court last week. Manuela Gomez Ruiz (74) was in the main trauma room at the Marian medical centre in Santa Maria, California, when Jackson developed ”flu-like symptoms”.
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/ 26 February 2005
Forget the little gold statuette and all that guff about best supporting whatever. The big winners at Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony will walk away with cashmere pyjama bottoms, mink eyelashes and a coffee maker. Presenters and performers at this year’s Oscar ceremony will receive a ”gift basket” expected to have a value of about R870 000.
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/ 26 February 2005
Robbers have seized diamonds and other gems worth hundreds of millions of rands in an audacious ambush at one of Europe’s busiest airports. The gang hijacked a cargo vehicle at Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam. The van was loaded with precious stones, included a R13,3-million consignment from a London firm.
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/ 26 February 2005
Tentative hopes of reviving the Middle East peace process were jolted on Friday night when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a seafront karaoke nightclub in Tel Aviv, killing at least three people and wounding dozens. An air of palpable shock hung heavy over Israel’s second city after the first suicide bombing in Israel for almost four months.
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/ 26 February 2005
South Africa put on a ruthless and clinical display to beat Zimbabwe by 165 runs in the first Standard Bank match in front of a crowd of about 7 000 at the Wanderers on Friday. South Africa, sent in by Zimbabwe, made a formidable 301 for the loss of seven wickets in their 50 overs, with 104 runs coming off the last 10 overs.
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/ 25 February 2005
Barcelona fans may never get over their distress caused by Luis Figo’s treachery in moving to Real Madrid four seasons ago, but now they have the satisfaction of knowing that they have got their own back. Ask any Real fan whether he thinks that it was a good idea to let Samuel Eto’o join Barcelona last year and they will weep bitter tears.
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/ 25 February 2005
Like the theatre and the novel, English football is constantly in decline, someone once wrote. There are dire warnings that England are about to enter the international wilderness. Early last week, Arsenal became the first English club to name a team and five substitutes without one native-born player.
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/ 25 February 2005
The tender process for building schools is "a system designed for corruption", senior education officials say. But plans mooted by Minister of Education Naledi Pandor to short-circuit graft and waste by relieving provincial public works departments of responsibility for construction tenders have irritated national Minister of Public Works Stella Sigcau.