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/ 13 October 2004
South African transport utility Transnet is not a job creation agent and the best contribution it can make is not to grow its number of jobs, says Transnet CEO Mario Ramos. She was addressing the National Assembly public enterprises portfolio committee on Wednesday.
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/ 13 October 2004
Information technology group Dimension Data (Didata) said on Wednesday it is not planning to shed jobs in its Johannesburg global services centre (GSC) in favour of India, or relocating its local call centres to India. Singapore-listed subsidiary Datacraft Asia has launched a GSC in Bangalore.
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/ 13 October 2004
More than 60-million viewers saw the first United States presidential debate; the second also drew a mammoth audience, up 50% on the debates of 2000. But this election’s most intense political communication has bypassed the vast majority of the American public.
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/ 13 October 2004
When United States magician David Blaine starved himself for 44 days last year inside a perspex box suspended over London, many condemned the stunt as pointless. Not so, say doctors specialising in malnutrition. The medics gained valuable insights into how to treat hunger strikers and others who have starved themselves.
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/ 13 October 2004
The only male elephant in Armenia’s zoo will get an Indian female companion this week, a news report said on Wednesday. Armenian officials had asked the Indian government for a female pachyderm in 1999, for its sole male elephant originally from Moscow. Indian premier Atal Behari Vajpayee promised them an elephant during a visit to Armenia last year.
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/ 13 October 2004
A former British soccer player raising money for a leukemia charity set off on Wednesday on a coast-to-coast ride across Australia on a Victorian-era bicycle that is older than the country. Lloyd Scott dressed up as fictional British supersleuth Sherlock Holmes, complete with tweed coat, deerstalker hat and a fake mustache for the 4Â 350km trip from Perth to Sydney.
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/ 13 October 2004
A furious Michael Jackson hit out on Tuesday at United States rapper Eminem over what he branded a ”demeaning and disrespectful” video that mocks the ”king of pop” and shows him cavorting with children. The rapper’s Just Lose It video shows a Jackson lookalike on a bed surrounded by children.
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/ 13 October 2004
Famine in Africa could worsen unless action is taken to tackle the continent’s HIV/Aids pandemic, according to a senior United Nations official.
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/ 13 October 2004
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said he doubted the United States’s strategies in Iraq, but he supported the war that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein blindly, Ugandan Information Minister Nsaba Buturo said on Wednesday. Buturo said Museveni feared weapons of mass destruction would find their way to Uganda.
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/ 13 October 2004
A fossil of an apparently sleeping dinosaur found in north-eastern China may provide new evidence that dinosaurs had similar behaviour patterns to those later evolved in birds, the British-based magazine Nature reports. The Mei Long fossil is a young dinosaur curled up in what appears to be a sleeping position typical of birds.