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/ 12 December 2004
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
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.
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/ 12 December 2004
A new Guinness world record was set when an electrical-engineering student solved the most Rubik’s cubes to date in one hour in Johannesburg on Saturday. Mitchell Brom (21) solved 42 cubes at Sandton City Camera Land, his sponsor, Prima Toys, said in a statement.
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/ 12 December 2004
Nine occupants of a minibus taxi burnt to death when the vehicle rolled and caught fire on the M1 South near the Corlett drive offramp on Saturday. Six other occupants of the vehicle were critically injured, another four seriously, Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said.
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/ 12 December 2004
For more than a decade, the Fifth Avenue hawks have brought a touch of the wild to Manhattan’s concrete canyons. The raptors that captured the hearts of a city inspired a documentary, a book and reams of newsprint. But now the residents who shared their building with the red-tailed hawks have destroyed their nest.
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/ 12 December 2004
The American religious right, emboldened by its spreading influence in the Republican party and an explosive growth in the number of evangelical Christians, has launched a major push to get an alternative to evolution — which they believe denies the biblical version of God’s creation of the world — into the classroom.
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/ 12 December 2004
It is possibly Europe’s most gruesome bridge. Its foundations, legend has it, are built on the bodies of murdered twins. For more than four centuries, it has been the scene of beheadings, of slow impalements on its low, stone balustrade, and massacres. Now the bridge is in danger of imminent collapse.
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/ 12 December 2004
Already 44 confirmed human cases of bird flu have been documented in Thailand and Vietnam. Of these, 32 have died, a fatality rate of 73%. No wonder the World Health Organisation and other international medical groups have become fixated about South-East Asian agriculture.
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/ 12 December 2004
For weeks, his face appeared on television screens and newspaper front pages across the world as he led Ukraine’s pro-democracy movement in its extraordinary campaign for fair elections. On Saturday, the truth was revealed about what transformed Viktor Yuschenko into the pockmarked and bloated figure he is today.
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/ 12 December 2004
Kaizer Chiefs’ Zambian striker Collins Mbesuma steered Amahkosi to a 3-0 win over Black Leopards at Thohoyandou Stadium on Saturday. There was no score at half-time. Chiefs achieved this win in spite of not playing some of their key players, who were rested for the Coca-Cola Cup final against Supersport United next Saturday.