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/ 27 January 2005
In just six days, four huge flawless diamonds have been discovered at Lesotho’s Letseng diamond mine high in the Maluti mountains. The four stones together weigh in at 366 carats and mine chief executive Keith Whitelock says he expects them to fetch a minimum of $6-million (R36-million).
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/ 27 January 2005
Across the low-lying plains in this eastern Bolivia city, green and white flags hang from storefronts and drape from cars — symbols of a growing push for greater political autonomy in the country’s most prosperous region. Handwritten signs near the city’s plaza read ”Autonomy now!”
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/ 27 January 2005
World leaders were on Thursday to stand side-by-side with about 1Â 000 survivors of the Auschwitz death camp for an emotional ceremony under a blanket of snow to mark the camp’s liberation 60 years ago. Ten thousand people were expected to pay tribute to the at least 1,1-million people who died at Auschwitz.
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/ 27 January 2005
Zimbabwe’s central bank chief Gideon Gono on Wednesday said inflation, which peaked to more than 600% a year ago, would fall to between 20 and 35% this year and to a single digit in 2006. Gono was appointed in 2003 to nurse the once-model economy, now plagued by high unemployment, poverty and crippling inflation, back to health.
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/ 27 January 2005
Mining group Harmony was in a position last year to ”materially influence” key strategy of hostile takeover target Gold Fields, the Competition Appeal Court has found. Judge Dennis Davis on Thursday gave the court’s reasons for its decision in November to interdict Harmony from exercising voting rights attached to shares it had acquired in Gold Fields.
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/ 27 January 2005
Serena Williams and Lindsay Davenport set up an Australian Open showdown in Melbourne on Thursday after fighting back from the brink of defeat in two epic semifinal duels. Former world number one Williams pulled off an extraordinary escape to defeat fourth-seeded Russian teenager Maria Sharapova.
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/ 27 January 2005
Ted Purdy was aware of the extremely low scores the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic produced. It didn’t take him long to get into the swing of things. Purdy shot an eight-under 64 on Wednesday, and that was only good for a share of the lead — a fifth of it, to be precise. Duffy Waldorf, Fred Funk, Robert Damron and Joe Ogilvie also came in with 64s.
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/ 27 January 2005
The 2005 African Champions League campaign begins this weekend, with Kaizer Chiefs and Ajax Cape Town carrying the South African hopes. AmaKhosi welcome AS Port Louis of Mauritius at Olympia Park in Rustenburg on Saturday night. Ajax host Mhlabanyatsi Rovers, the Swaziland league champions, in Cape Town on Sunday.
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/ 27 January 2005
A Florida man paid $17Â 000 (R100Â 000) for a full-page newspaper ad imploring his wife to return, two weeks after she had left him. "Life without you is empty and meaningless. Please, please call me," Larry urged Marianne in the <i>Florida Times-Union</i> ad, which uses only the couple’s first names.
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/ 27 January 2005
A Florida judge issued his own version of a gag order when he had officers duct-tape the mouth of an angry murderer who had been hurling abuse at him, the <i>Saint Petersburg Times</i> reported on Wednesday. It took six prison officers clad in body armour and helmets to place the duct tape on the mouth of the defendant.