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/ 13 December 2004

Woods vaults past Montgomerie

Tiger Woods shot a bogey-free five-under-par 66 on Sunday to overtake a fading Colin Montgomerie and win the ,25-million World Challenge. ”It was so exciting that the things I was working on started to come together,” he said. ”It’s nice not to have a big laundry list out there [heading into next season].” Woods won in 2001 but had finished second the last two years.

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/ 12 December 2004

Rival DRC army factions clash

Rival factions in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) post-war army fought gunbattles in the vast nation’s restive east on Saturday, killing several people, a top military official said. ”There have been several deaths, but the number has not yet been established,” army Colonel Etienne Bindu said

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/ 12 December 2004

Christmas values flourish in slum

Life is anything but easy in Nairobi’s sprawling Kibera slum, which has been labelled one of the biggest and worst on the African continent, with HIV/Aids and unemployment hitting dwellers hard and indiscriminately. But when walking through the slum a little before Christmas, hardly anyone encountered complains.

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/ 12 December 2004

No more McBeer

The only McDonald’s with a licence to serve beer in Hong Kong is closing down because the sailors who patronise it are getting fewer in number, a news report said on Sunday. The harbour-side restaurant at Hong Kong’s Fleet Arcade had a special licence to serve beer because its customers included many thirsty, newly arrived sailors.

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/ 12 December 2004

Three die in Cape shack fire

Three people burnt to death in a shack fire that broke out in Nyanga, Cape Town, shortly after midnight on Saturday. Western Cape police spokesperson Inspector Elliot Sinyangana said 68 shacks burnt down before emergency services workers put out the fire.

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/ 12 December 2004

Brother of SA woman killed in Thailand speaks

The brother of Laura Walker, the South African found dead in a Thailand hotel this week, said his sister was ”a highly talented, intelligent, compassionate and loyal person”. Walker was working for the World Bank at the time of her death, and the bank’s security team is working with Thai authorities in the investigation.