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/ 22 February 2005
Airlines spend as much as ,6-billion (â,¬1,2-billion) a year on mishandled baggage, a company that provides computer-tracking technology to the industry said on Tuesday. The main factors causing a bag to fail to arrive with its owner at the intended destination are growing passenger numbers and tighter security.
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/ 22 February 2005
With her predilection for lumberjack shirts and love of golf, the revelation that Marge Simpson’s sister Patty is a lesbian didn’t come as much of a shock to United States fans of the series. But not for the first time the show provoked fevered debate as it took a satirical look at the issue of gay marriage, lampooning middle America’s stereotypical view of lesbians along the way.
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/ 22 February 2005
Food and furniture retailer Shoprite has reported a 55,4% rise in its headline earnings per share for the six months ended December 2004, to 60,6 cents from 39 cents a year earlier. The group said it envisages declaring an interim dividend of 22 cents per share, representing a 33,3% increase on the 16,5 cents declared at the interim stage in 2004.
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/ 22 February 2005
The recovery programme implemented by South African banking group Nedcor in 2004 is delivering tangible benefits as is evidenced by the vastly improved results for the past financial year, which saw headline earnings grow from R55-million to R1,45-billion. CEO Tom Boardman says the group has delivered on its commitment made to shareholders.
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/ 22 February 2005
More than 50 000 Khulisa investors are set to receive an estimated R98-million in loyalty bonuses for holding on to their shares in Telkom since its listing two years ago. The government will make good on its offer to investors that, for every five shares they bought during Telkom’s initial public offering, it will grant one free share as a loyalty bonus.
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/ 22 February 2005
It is the morning after Hunter S Thompson’s suicide, and I am reading loaded magazine’s recent interview with Iggy Pop. It begins: ”Iggy Pop! Shit man. I’m alone in a hotel room thinking I’ve overdosed on coke. Sweating. Thinking what the hell am I going to ask Iggy tomorrow afternoon. Two Valium and 14 hours later I am sitting in the lobby of the Chateau Marmont …”
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/ 22 February 2005
Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday continued sifting through tonnes of garbage and debris but hopes were faint of finding anyone alive after a devastating landslide that left 150 people feared dead. Jeje, a farmer, said his father, mother and younger brothers are among the missing. "I can’t think clearly any more. I just hope that their bodies are found," he said.
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/ 22 February 2005
Some say meat is murder, while others dismiss a meal without animal products as rabbit food. Now a leading United States nutritionist has given both sides something to chew on with a claim that parents who refuse to feed children meat are acting unethically.
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/ 22 February 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki criticised the United States for calling Zimbabwe an ”outpost of tyranny” saying, in an interview published on Tuesday, that it went against Washington’s efforts to promote democracy. South Africa has served as an important mediator with its troubled neighbour, trying to encourage reforms through a controversial ”quiet diplomacy”.
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/ 22 February 2005
A four-year-old boy escaped unscathed after falling from a fifth floor window in central China and landing in a lorry full of cushions, a news report said on Tuesday. The youngster crawled out of a window at his home in Jiaozuo, Henan province, and hit awnings as he plummetted towards the ground.