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A man in Germany received a tax bill for the equivalent of -million after filing a tax return for income of just 000 dollars, a court heard on Tuesday. The bill was the result of a simple typographical error by the Federal Tax Office in the Bonn suburb of Sankt Augustin, a judge at Bonn State Court heard.
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/ 9 November 2004
”Molecular gastronomy” — the act of transforming the kitchen into a scientific tasting cauldron — has made its mark in Britain with a young English chef who has taken the top restaurant honours in the country. The technique results in such foods as ”liquid ravioli” and snail porridge.
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/ 9 November 2004
A man in Germany might have escaped with murdering his wife had it not been for a telemarketer’s call, police said on Tuesday. The husband had just stabbed his wife when the phone rang and she grabbed the phone and stammered, ”Please help me, my husband’s killing me,” before he wrenched the receiver out of her hand.
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/ 9 November 2004
An official of the Department of Correctional Services has been arrested in connection with the deaths of Pretoria’s C-Max prison head, a warder and two inmates in a failed escape bid on Sunday. The official, who was employed at the maximum-security jail, was arrested on Monday.
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/ 9 November 2004
Escalating violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region has hindered food deliveries to several parts of the region, where displaced people are in urgent need of help, the United Nations World Food Programme said on Tuesday. Nearly 200 000 needy people have been cut off from UN assistance during the past weeks.
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/ 9 November 2004
Copper mines in mineral-rich Zambia appear to have recovered from a slump two years ago and are expected to reach record levels of about 400 000 tonnes this year, the Central Bank governor said on Tuesday. Caleb Fundanga said production figures for the first nine months of 2004 have surpassed those for the same period in 2003.
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/ 9 November 2004
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is still alive and efforts are being made by his French doctors to stop the haemorrhaging of his brain, Negotiations Minister Saeb Erakat told reporters on Tuesday. A Palestinian Cabinet minister had earlier said that Arafat had passed away at the Percy military hospital on the outskirts of Paris.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125273">Agreement reached over Arafat funeral</a>
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<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=125192">Wife locks horns with leadership</a>
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/ 9 November 2004
The Vatican restated the Catholic Church’s prohibition of euthanasia on Tuesday, as officials promoted use of painkilling drugs to help dying patients live out their days to a ”natural end”. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan — the pope’s leading official on health care — was responding to a question about living wills at a news conference.
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/ 9 November 2004
Gauteng still has a housing backlog of more than 440 000 people, provincial housing minister Nomvula Mokonyane said on Tuesday. Mokonyane said Gauteng’s housing goals fall within the Breaking New Ground housing-plan document introduced by Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu earlier this year.
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/ 9 November 2004
United States army and marine units pushed through the centre of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Tuesday, fighting bands of guerrillas in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches. Iraq’s official Sunni Muslim political party quit the US-backed government on Tuesday in protest over the assault on Fallujah.