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/ 14 February 2005
Bizet’s tragic opera Carmen has been translated for the first time into the South African language of Xhosa and turned into a stunning film shot in a Cape Town township. The film premiered on Sunday at the Berlinale film festival in Germany.
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/ 14 February 2005
Army-installed Togo President Faure Gnassingbe on Sunday brushed aside international condemnation of his rule and praised the actions of his police force during riots that left at least three protesters dead. Opposition leaders asked for a day of calm so the country’s faithful could attend church.
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/ 14 February 2005
Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons has joined other celebrities and activists who have criticised Kentucky Fried Chicken, saying he will call for a boycott if the company doesn’t reform its slaughter practices. Simmons called slaughter practices used by the fast-food chain’s suppliers ”grossly inhumane”.
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/ 14 February 2005
Rescue teams in helicopters searched for dozens of people missing as a result of floods and landslides that cut a trail of destruction through small Andean towns and killed at least 37 people in Venezuela over the past few days. In Colombia, similar flooding in the north-central part of the country, near Venezuela, has left at least 25 people dead.
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/ 14 February 2005
A feasibility study for the second phase of the multibillion-dollar Lesotho highlands water project will begin at the end of April, Lesotho’s natural resources minister said on Monday. The study — funded by the Lesotho and South African governments — is expected to take two years.
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/ 14 February 2005
There were some sterling performances in the second-day events for individuals at the 32nd Halfway Telkom Midmar Mile at the popular Midlands resort on Sunday. Keri-Anne Payne of the United Kingdom — who was the junior champion in 2001 before her family relocated to Sheffield, England — brilliantly defended the senior women’s title she won last year.
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/ 14 February 2005
Councillors in Alice Springs have offered to take Prince Charles on an Aussie-style stag night when he visits next month, while promising the heir to the throne will not end up chained naked to a lamp post. Charles will arrive in Australia for a five-day visit taking in the remote Northern Territory town on February 28.
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/ 14 February 2005
A Sydney shopping mall launched a "cereal dating" night at its supermarket on Monday, telling singles to come "get frisky at the fruit counter" for a Valentine’s night out. Singles eager to meet a kindred soul can cruise the supermarket aisles with message-sending breakfast-cereal boxes perched on their carts.
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/ 14 February 2005
A major Indonesian food manufacturer has secured a place in the <i>Guinness Book of Records</i> by producing the world’s largest packet and the largest serving of instant noodles. The giant packet, created by PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, was 3,4m long, 2,35m wide and 0,47m thick.
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/ 14 February 2005
A Swedish woman said on Sunday that she found a penis in a bottle of ketchup. However, Viktoria Ed said she was lucky enough to discover the organ before putting the sauce on her bread rolls, unlike her husband, Stefan, and their children, Madeleine and Simon.